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While I do believe the film industry needs "disrupting", I do not believe this was the point of the article, nor does it make any good arguments to back up a thesis of "disruption".

"6. Tricky Hollywood Accounting" - this is purely a contract negotiation issue, and it is is no way a hollywood-specific problem - in all lines of businesses you will find companies which try to setup "royalty fee" or similar buyer-controlled expenses to dry up profit to ensure as little is paid out as possible to the seller. A good negotiation team will prevent this, both in Hollywood and elsewhere.

"5. Extorting Theaters" - this is bullshit for 95% of theatres. The large movie theatre chains in North America have leverage over the studios, as while there is a large number of movies available at any given time, there are only a relatively small (fixed) number of theatre screens. The price and revenue split of a film in a theatre is based on supply and demand; movie theatres do not cut the exact same deal with studios for every single film, instead they negotiate based on the expected results of the film. In the cases where movie theatres don't think the film will do well, the studios basically get screwed into subsidizing the movie theatre to show the film. In cases where the movie is expected to do very well, the theatres end up giving up more for the right to have it on their screen. I'm sure small independent theatres are a different story, but in all businesses small players have less negotiation power, and therefore get worse deals.

"4. Fake Reviews" - this is just the work of dishonest marketers - I don't understand how it is a reason to justify disrupting the movie business.

"3. Copyright Bullshit" - this is a US specific problem, not a film business wide problem, as copyright laws change by country. It could also be viewed as a good thing for producers in the film business, as they can profit off their films longer.

"2. Strangling Consumer choice" - again, its a contract issue and has much in common with 6, Extorting Theaters, and the resulting supply and demand struggle. Theaters don't want to pay as high a price for a film if its available in other channels, as that means attendance/viewership will be lower. Same with TV stations, Pay-per-view, and so on. Therefore, if studios want to be able to actually pay for the film they produced, they have to be very careful as to where and in what order they show their content.

"1. Stealing Scripts" - This is just not a film business problem. People steal ideas everywhere, all the time. Stealing ideas is easy, creating a good product is hard.

(Edited after my morning coffee to clarify submitter's thesis versus articles thesis)
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The concept of 'RESTful URIs' is common, but it doesn't appear in the original dissertation, and it doesn't make much sense; because of HATEOAS¹, you shouldn't ever need to know what the URIs are.

> I'm not sure about the hypertext part, because I don't understand what hypertext means here. Is Bitcoinica's interface considered hypertext-driven?

It means that the docs should only have to document a single URI (the entrypoint) and the formats, which should have links to the various parts of the API.

For example, you could have an URI, say 'bitcoinica.com/api'. Then you GET that, and it returns a JSON file with the following key/value:

"ticker": "http://bitcoinica.com/api/ticker"

Now the client knows how to get to the Ticker. Then you GET that, and you receive a new list:

{ "btc-dlr" : "http://.../api/ticker/btc-dlr", "btc-eur": "http://.../apu/ticker/btc-eur", ...

Now the client knows how to request a certain currency pair.

This means the URLs can change without breaking all the existing clients.

In general, I'd say this is "kind-of" RESTful. It doesn't follow HATEOAS and it uses custom formats² (it's inevitable, since there's no standard for this). Having URLs for each concept and reusing HTTP methods and auth is RESTful, though.

¹ Hypermedia as the Engine of Application State
² JSON and XML aren't really formats, they're more like transport mechanisms. Formats are KML, MathML, atom, etc.
The point is that knowing it's XML or JSON tells you nothing, your clients are still completely tied to their API. It's just nice not having to write a parser, but it's not a standard format.
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Ok, so I get that a film studio would be willing to charge expenses like Lucas' promotion of Return of the Jedi 3D to their accounts, because its an investment for future gross profits (but the 'investment' doesn't cost anything, because if they didn't make that 'investment' the money would go to paying net-profit-share actors instead).

But how is it advantageous to them to completely waste money on destroying the freeway? The only way I can see this benefiting them is that lie in their accounting and write down the freeway expense as much more than it actually cost.
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How can a cartel be disrupted? While this article makes me angry (especially as a consumer, where the limiting of choice has a definite impact) I don't see a way for anyone to 'disrupt' this behavior.

Tech- and entrepreneurial-minded folk like to look for disruption opportunities and while they may exist in theory, these are industries supported by mind-boggling displays of corruption. In this case, you couldn't touch any of the six points on that list without offering a billion dollars in campaign contributions to Congress yourself.

It makes me extremely sad about that state of affairs.
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Much of your difficulty/effort is due to lack of familiarity. The rule is basically if you see an identifier followed by a space, it's a function call that ends with the line, outdent, or postfix control flow statement. An identifier followed by a colon means an object literal.

I have no more trouble recognizing these patterns than distinguishing between function calls and parens being used for grouping. Part of that is due to my own enthusiastic syntax highlighting for vim [1] that leaves identifiers as pretty much the only piece of text not highlighted. If you take a look at that file, the syntax in it is very old and comes from when : was the assignment operator which was dropped when implicit object literals were introduced.

[1] http://gr.ayre.st/s/vim/coffeescript_example.html
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> How do we fix this?

Somebody said it. Swiss-style combination of direct and representative democracy. So you can let political parties do their jobs, but there is a corrective measure if they try to sneak in a lwa against the people. In a pure representative democracy, there is absolutely no (practical) way to prevent politiciens to lie during elections but to make an U turn after the elections and to let influential stakeholders literaly purchase laws. There are no "checks and balances" between politicians and people, to a extent that allows the ruling parties literaly team up and form a cartel against the same people who vote them in.

Partial direct democracy. If people think they should have a direct say on something, even if its a swiss style mosque ban, nobody has the right to deny it to them, under no possible justification.
FLSA also isn't a "class action" statute -- it's "collective action." The distinction is that you have to opt-in to be a plaintiff under the FLSA, while most class actions are opt-out.
Here is another look at the inner workings of that marvel of technology:

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2008/05/leaked-cisco-do/

and

http://www.nytimes.com/cfr/international/slot1_021606.html

If China got their gear through shell companies in the West that would be one thing but to find outright proof that Cisco (and Juniper Networks) knew the destination of the hardware they sold and were cooperating with the Chinese authorities on this is unforgivable.

Their excuse is that 'other companies would do the same thing if they didn't do it'.

Selling hardware with deep packet inspection capabilities to repressive regimes should be against the law.

And maybe DPI should have never been added as a feature to begin with, the downsides of a feature like that are much larger than the upsides.
As pointed out in the comments BASE and HEAD (latest in repo) are what he's looking for.

Now waiting for the author to say "Of COURSE Subversion diffs against the repository ..."
that is what I meant as having a better syntax for anonymous functions. I agree it's bad (even with nonlocal in python 3) but that is not a matter of different scoping rules, it's only syntax.
My problem with Bitcoin is that it is skewed to favor early adopters, but every two weeks or so one hears about a huge Bitcoin site being cracked, a State Department investigation, or a possible vulnerability, or something like that.

So, while the concept sounds interesting, it's very likely that if I get in early I will lose all of my Bitcoins to some exploit, and that if I get in late I will not be able to rack up enough Bitcoins to buy anything.
If I had $100k, I'd help bootstrapping 5 startups.

I'll wait for 2-5 years for them to grow,and in the mean time the jetpack will become safer!
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and as a followup, I think there are a few stronger arguments available to support their thesis:

- Bloated production costs due to a slow migration to newly available production techniques

- Lack of adoption of alternative distribution / pricing models

- Bloated production costs due to unionization / inefficient use of labour

- Lack of interest in non-traditional formats for storytelling (i.e. produce "commute length" content for distribution to smartphones/tablets, versus 1.5hr long form content?
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I'm not sure what curl is doing here. I set the variable

MAILTO=me@example.com

in my crontab and the stdout/stderr are emailed to me everyday.

from man cron (FreeBSD 8.2)

"When executing commands, any output is mailed to the owner of the crontab (or to the user named in the MAILTO environment variable in the crontab, if such exists)."
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Roberto Ierusalimschy has an interesting perspective on the zero vs. one concept:

"Because people count from one, not zero.

We do that in kindergarten, in music, when starting a race, when drawing up an agenda, everywhere. One, two, three, etc have their counterparts in every known language on earth.

Zero, on the other hand, is an advanced concept. Humanity could prove that sqrt(2) is not a rational number centuries before anybody thought that a symbol for zero might be useful.

A harder question would be "why do arrays in some other languages count from zero not one?" The answer for C is a good one: "so that * (A+k) and A[k] mean the same". For Python, the answer seems to be "because it's that way in C"."

And:

"Currently, many languages are 0-based due to influence from C. Ironically, none of them share the reason that made C 0-based (where a[e] means * (a+e))."

(EDIT: I had to add spaces after the stars to prevent HN from italicizing a huge block of text.
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I think you missed his point; the title says it all: Same way people argue political matters, tools discussions (politics) can go out of hand with arguments created in the moment to save you own argument - thought it's a created thruth. People do it all days; basically people in general don't want to be wrong so they create a reasoning/world of assumptions were their argument holds.
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I'm actually quite serious about security. But I still feel that the security-related discussions are too overwhelming. Of course I know that nothing is 100% secure, but I can make my bottom-line high.

This is not my first project. I have been coding in Rails for almost 3 years, with some failed projects. I also know some security basics because I have hacked websites before (non-destructive).

There is always relative security. Ruby on Rails itself is a relatively secure framework. Rails sites have been much less frequently hacked than PHP sites. (Because everything is well wrapped.) I'm also very conservative about using Rails (rarely override methods myself, not even toughing find_by_sql even when it's the easy way).

Passwords are stored hashed and salted using BCrypt. Although no explicit security auditing has been done, all the Rails app logs (including requests and IP addresses) are extracted and backed up nightly. Soft-deleting is enabled for all operations, etc.

I'm not distracting myself from the real problem, but I have to say that I'm not that kind of random kids who write crappy apps for fun.

My use of Heroku is also partly because of security. I use Mac and know a bit of Linux, but I know I can't really set up a Linux box and be sure about the security. Instead I have chosen Heroku's integrated, read-only and cloud-based platform.

Sorry for not replying most of the security-related comments. Not because I can't face opposing arguments, but instead, I think they are valuable.

However, I hope everyone can be a little bit more reasonable and realistic. Since nothing is secure, security is everyone's problem. Although I don't have anything to prove my security experience, at least this is not the first time I deal with money. I once developed a mini payment gateway (PayPal and credit card) for my friend who used it to process transactions totaling more than $50,000. There're a lot of fraudulent orders, which means that people have an incentive to steal, but the payment system itself has been safe.

I can understand that people are skeptical considering my age (or even my Chinese name). But will the Bitcoin community be better off if I shut down the project now? I have chosen Bitcoin because its low barrier to entry and open community, not because I have no bottom-line or security concerns.

What I really want to disagree is the view that I must end this project now. There are basically too many people emailing me just to thank me for delivering the features that the big guys (Mt. Gox and TradeHill) can't finish in months.

I have taken the extreme minimalistic approach in development of Bitcoinica - no Bitcoin wallets and no unusable features. I make it a pure trading platform - you can't even do money laundering on Bitcoinica. System wise, I don't have to SSH the server to configure anything, and I don't have to even see the database credentials myself.

Anyway, I completely accept all the negative viewpoints about Bitcoinica, but I just want to explain clearly that I may not be the person everyone's thinking about.
foo = myfunction

Considering the higher-order nature of Javascript programming having quick access to refs is important.

The Coco dialect of Coffee suggests that a bang could be used to denote a call:

foo = myfunction!
I can't figure out what you're implying. Why would the two organizations that are "more or less nothing without their position of power over Web standards" be opposed to making the Web better able to compete with native apps? After all, if the Web loses to iOS and Android, then Opera and Mozilla become irrelevant.

The reason why Opera and Mozilla oppose bytecode standards is that they genuinely think they're a bad idea. I mean, we tried that once; it was called Java. It lost to JavaScript.
Typo:

WHERE: University of Lincoln
WHEN: Friday 11 November, 18:30
UNTIL Tuesday 13 September, 17:30

That can't be right - I think "September" should be "November".
Actually, he pointed out that even if it turns out that the tool (or political party) doesn't in fact endorse said position, the person will still think the position is valid.

> people can be convinced that a view is correct by being told that their political party endorses it, even if their party actually opposes it
I'm English, and I don't think risk is anything to do with it. We have a culture in which success is almost considered something to be ashamed of. If someone does make a fortune in high-tech, they'll be lambasted as the hated "rich" who are apparently responsible for all the country's problems.

You know, the BBC calculated that only the top 30% of taxpayers are net contributors. There are 30M income tax payers in the UK, so that means 85% of the population get more out of the system than they put in. Rather than being grateful, they resent the 15% who give them everything for not giving even more. That is why in the UK, people keep their heads down.
> The request is not transmitted in JSON. So it's not JSON-RPC at least.

I don't count that as a positive, since it would at least prevent them from calling it restful.

> The URI is RESTful. (Explicit collection and member actions, with common namespace.)

URIs can not be RESTful, this does not even make sense.

> Supports both JSON and XML. (Internet media types)

Supporting "JSON" and "XML" is completely useless: they're meta-format, in and of itself outputting "JSON" is completely meaningless as it does not tell the client anything.

Defining the exact media types returned (which this API description barely does) is the vast majority of a RESTful application's documentation. In fact, it should be all of the documentation save for a single URL, which is the API's root entry point.

> Bitcoinica API utilizes three of the four RESTful Web Services methods - GET, POST and DELETE. (HTTP methods)

Better, but still not sufficient to make an API restful. Plus orders are created via a POST, that's not correct, the semantics of POST are updating (creation is PUT)

> But I'm not sure about the hypertext part, because I don't understand what hypertext means here.

And you don't think that might be an issue in your judgment?

> Is Bitcoinica's interface considered hypertext-driven?

No, and being hypertext-driven is the most important criteria of a RESTful application.
Is your batting average sufficiently high that 5 start-ups would be enough to get one 'winner' at the percentage you'd invest to make back your 100K?

Especially if you've never done this before I'd expect that you might need a bit more runway than just 100K. YC pulled it off to have reddit and loopt in their first batch but it did take the combined efforts of Robert Morris, Paul Graham, Trevor Blackwell and Jessica Livingston to decide on those five.

It may have helped that for none of them it was the only money they had.

I applaud you for being daring but typically the failure rate of start-ups is such that you'd need pretty deep pockets as an inexperienced and relatively unknown investor to make a go of it.

On top of that you'll be in competition with other incubators with more visibility which likely will attract the 'hot' ones first.
1 reason why the film industry needs disrupting : Internet
Well, that's because it's wrong.
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Quick wrapper for the programs that won't shut up when everything is going ok:

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Fellini used to cleverly make use of sets from other productions, thus reducing his costs. This strategy points out that the 6 reasons mentioned in the article are simply damage. Be like Fellini and rout around the damage.
I've been involved in conversations with ISPs in different countries who are required by law to intercept their customers traffic. On one particular occasion I remember being told by an ISP in Germany that they wouldn't buy from us unless we developed a feature that allowed them to snoop on their users. It's called 'lawful interception'.

We developed this feature and sold them equipment. Am I a bad person? Where do you draw the line?

ISPs all over the world are looking at their users' traffic. Some of them are doing it nefariously while others are being required by law to do so against their will. It's shouldn't be the job of a vendor to determine right from wrong.

Before you go condemning networking vendors think about weapons manufacturers. American companies routinely sell guns to countries that use them against their own citizens. And nothing comes of it.
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> "It's rather simple that the researchers will find ways(shortcuts) to maximize that."

I agree with the issue about how academics are measured but I find this leap to be grossly unfair (and from experience, completely untrue).

There is an issue that academics may not fully understand statistical methods. I think this is likely due to the more sophisticated experiments being developed that necessitate more mathematical rigour during analysis.

Suggesting that academics are simply trying to 'game' the system is ludicrous.

Also, I wanted to point to this comment on the OP. It talks about how a psychologist would have dealt with the experiment described. http://www.guardian.co.uk/discussion/comment-permalink/12344...
Exactly, this is what I do. His solutions seems like a bit too much duct tape and not enough RTFM ;)
What do you care what other people think?

Segways, as well as water jetpacks, are lots of fun. Care less.

Pairing of money and mouth: Me falling off a Segway like a 'tard. ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0Zk5eFAHJU )
It doesn't end there; look up encrypted binaries and Dont Steal Mac OS X.kext for more fun examples of DRM built into the kernel.
Suppose you use the same freeway set for exactly two films:
(1) the big expensive sequel _Matrix Reloaded_
(2) some cheap indie zombie film (being on an entirely empty freeway in the middle of the day is kind of creepy all by itself)
...and then the set has to be destroyed - a storm knocks it down or the land owners decide they want the space back for some other use.

One rational accounting method would be to split the cost evenly between films (or perhaps you could divide it based on how many hours/days of filming was done in that location.) But film #1 (a) made a profit, (b) owes percentages of the profit to people who made the first film. Film #2 lost money and was made by people with less negotiating power than Keanu Reeves, so having it lose more money doesn't benefit the studio. Given this simple case, you'd want to allocate as much of the expense as possible to the first film, leading to court battles over exactly how the cost should be allocated. Was this set used for more hours for film #1? Was it more crucial to the plot for that film?

And okay, that might still be manageable. But what doesn't work is to leave the number of films to be shot there open-ended. If the freeway set stays up, the lawyers representing Keanu Reeves can reasonably argue that you intend to make one hundred films there, so the _Matrix Reloaded_ production should only get dinged for 1% of the cost rather than all of it or half of it.
I would guess most of the damage done by economic inequality is at the low end.

Yes, I would imagine so. At least, up until the point the rioting and looting starts, followed closely by the guillotines.
I think a sportscar will impress the ladies more..... or angel invest into YC Start Ups. Both allow you to be up in the clouds as well. (positive sense)
Language is meant to communicate. If you need to know several, you have a communication problem.

As to the rest of the stuff, I retort "Battle of Waterloo".

I'm sure any history buffs of their European country could provide many, many more examples of their people "love to declare war or otherwise bully anyone they can while shouting rah rah patriot freedom?"

Your anti-Americanism is fit for a child.