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I buy lots of electronic music where I would neither bother to see a live show, nor wear their merchandise. What are those bands supposed to do? Be more controversial to make t-shirts attractive? Change their business model by becoming rock bands?

It's like saying that authors can still make money through public readings when pirated ebooks are everywhere, <cue famous example here>. Or that games can just have unpiratable multiplayer. That's all true, but it kills off whole genres.
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It is meant to be a bit painful in all circumstances. It isn't a pleasant way to die, but it doesn't look all that bad to watch, which is why it is used. Pain and trauma free measures like nitrogen asphyxiation aren't used for that reason; pro-death penalty advocates want to keep it painful.
or even better, have some type of in song currency that is used to purchase the new songs, that can be acquired either through sending the old songs to your friends, playing the old songs well, or just outright buying the in game currency.

I think the new bjork album started going in this direction, but could have done it a bit more.
Ha, and I am so accustomed to the illogically worded gold/glitter aphorism that I mentally remembered the wanderlost line incorrectly, even though the correct version sounds better.
Yep. The cost of waiting (up to a month for imports) and buying an optical drive especially for this is prohibitively high. I will not pay that high a price.

I also take moral issue to calling piracy stealing.
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Yes I know how it works. I was commenting that I find the current system of being able to trademark English words like "orange" a pretty silly system.
After that Square Enix sues someone for making game called "Fantasy"

Actually I'll make a short list of some words which are latter part of two word name, do not use these or you may get sued!

Tournament, Agenda, Commander, Conquer, Creed, Company, Bowl, Protocol, Edge, Carnage, Zone, Fortress, Hazard, Effect, War, Wars, Blade, Nights, Sight, Agent, Ruler, Boy, Cell, Asylum, Reloaded, World.

In essence Bethseda is doing exactly the same what any owner of names/words I mentioned would do if they would sue anyone for using the words. Bonus points for recognizing the games where they came from.

P.S
Remember that Scrolls in "The Elder Scrolls" is not like Warcraft in "World of Warcraft" but it's more like Tournament in Unreal Tournament, word which by itself does not invoke the brand at all.
Any tool in the wrong hands, is dangerous. So anyone trying to prove that fib makes node slow, is stupid. Node.js was made to make memory requests unblocking; not to generate the fib series for you.

Trying to nail a hammer with a drilling machine, is not to take yo anywhere.

Peace.
Can't wait for the sequel: "I Think My Patents Should Never Expire"
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This game seems loaded as in the message behind it. That's fine but I think its slightly misleading. I paid off registration but later I still got charged 1.5k for my car not being registered. Also is it me or for the maths question no matter what you choose does it say you got it wrong? Despite having a college degree.
I build a startup alone in the same country and thus same environment as you (Singapore), and I know how it can feel running a startup and not having anyone understanding what you do. Sometimes it even feels like you get less credit than you really deserve for getting this far by yourself, while some so-called fresh university graduate gets a job at, say, GIC or Intel and receives congratulatory praises from everyone he meets (even though it's barely a feat).

The good thing about such external pressure is that it keeps you in track -- they will not respect you until you have something real to show. Use that as your motivation. Get your first revenue ASAP; that in itself produces an awesome feeling and would probably keep you going for some time.

Figure out how you checkpoint app is going to make money. Work part-time at the moment to pay the bills (this is Singapore, go teach tuition at $30-40/hour). But keep focusing on making your app a revenue-generating machine. Start charging very early.

Your parents, friends, and society in general will not get off your back unless you produce real results, and rightfully so. Go make money, that's all I can say!
I don't think Railscasts is a great introduction to Rails, but certainly a resource that beginners can use. What I did was to work my way through the first parts of "Agile Web Development with Rails" to understand the structure of rails, then just try to build stuff.

Whenever I had a question or felt somebody should have automated whatever I was doing, I would search Railscasts. I needed PDF generation, so I would search for PDF and compare my options.

When you have some experience with current Rails (say, 3.1), actively following new Railscasts is interesting to see what changed in 3.2, 3.3, 4.0, ...
Deploy from git sounds like a nice touch.
I'm sympathetic to the thrust of your argument, but you might like to rethink the airplane, the car, and the Web.
How about run dropbox, put your network interface down whilst you set your excludes, cycle dropbox, bring network up.
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According to an alternative energy researcher's presentation about his research there isn't even enough lithium to make batteries for all the cars, so it's an imaginary scenario.

Napkin calculuation:

A Tesla Roadster has a 53 kwh battery. Assuming 1kg lithium per kwh (a Chevy Volt uses 1.4kg of lithium per kwh [1]) that's 50kg of lithium per car. Assuming that we need around 1 billion cars in the world [2], that's 50 million tonnes of lithium. The total lithium reserve of the world is less that 10 million tonnes [3].

Note that this is not even counting trucks, buses, motorcycles, scooters and all the cars that people in developing countries are going to want, and assuming that we can perfectly recover lithium from old cars.

The researcher recommended power lines on all big roads, and bicycles for the rest.

[1] http://gigaom.com/cleantech/what-the-looming-lithium-squeeze...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automobile

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium
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Just a quick warning for those of you who consider using this service. The scala version they use is extremely old and the new version has been greatly refactored as has an excellent new parallel collection system.

I urge you to find another host if possible.
So I signed up, but I have no clue what to do...
I find that I live a much more active life in this game than I ever have in real life. Back when I was making $9/hr, I can't remember a single week where my dog died, I got injured at work, the neighbor kid broke my window, I decided to see a therapist and one of my co-workers came down with a terminal condition.

I only made it to day 13, but already I've spent more in that game than I did in real life over the last month. I realize it's trying to make a point, but all it's really doing is making me suspect that it's fibbing a bit. More realism might turn out to be more convincing.
I'll bet there's a plugin to use markdown as the default in WP?
This would be a lot better if it were more realistic, it banks on you not being able to make smart decisions to ram the various factoids down your throat. It would be a much better experience if the basics were spread out over multiple months with the occasional clustering of events.

This 'perfect storm' of trouble is just setting you up for failure, the deck is stacked against you much further than it is in real life. You are also not given the full picture up front, nor are you given the option on which services you subscribe to.

Also, if you can't afford a mobile phone you probably shouldn't have one, and if your landlord does something illegal an alternative option is to tell him to go f*ck off rather than to pay or move out. Good luck evicting me if I'm up to date on payments and the contract stipulates terms that I've lived up to.

That said, it's probably a useful tool to get people to put themselves in the shoes of someone that has it worse than they themselves do.
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Ask HN: Where Are HackerNews Readers Based?
I think I've read a while ago that HN hit 90'000 uniques a day (is that still acurate?) but where do these people come from? Is there some sort of reliable public knowledge about HN's popularity based on regions? I can tell that in Berlin for example people are reading HN, but I'm guessing that the HN US is far ahead in popularity. What about Israel, Eastern Europe, the UK, Australia, maybe even China?
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Was your blog hosting free up until the moment HN showed up?
Extremely clever use of the illegal opcodes in the original 6502, check out the way he fakes the output of the databus to the processor by pretending a different opcode was read than the one that was actually read.

Hacking at its finest.
Oh right! The info page might help http://www.ilikeilive.com/about/

We put it together after we finished Uni and realised that moving to new areas made it difficult to meet/find people with similar interests.

The goal was to try and make it easier. It's not a dating site, it's not a swap site - it just shows where (roughly) people are and what they like.

Hopefully it would encourage a bit of pedagogy if people were open enough ala "Ooh horse riding, what's that like - can you tell me more".
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It has nothing to do with not being able to innovate. Coming up with new music that people want is itself innovation, and people should be compensated if you would like them to keep innovating in that way. You can argue otherwise, but all it leads to is people not being able to afford to create those works anymore, or only being able to do them outside of their normal job, and therefore never achieving their full potential, despite creating something that has mass appeal. If you think defending a world where great creative minds are compensated enough to bring more, great art to the masses is increasingly annoying, I suspect you'll get what you deserve in the form of more Rebecca Blacks.
All content producers face the same problem: if their product gains traction, it will be pirated; if it does not gain traction, there will be no revenue.

We just finished a no budget feature film and knew we had to come up with a disruptive distribution strategy to get traction and avoid piracy. Our solution:

everyone who registers to download the movie will get to display a picture, logo or text of their choosing on a billboard in New York's Times Square.

Prices start from only $10 upwards. So for as little as $10 you can get any message / image / logo (as long as it's not obscene and you own the rights) up on a Times Square billboard.

Our strategy seems to be working.

I know this has been mentioned before but filmmakers, programmers, musicians, artists etc all need to think about how to engage an audience as a hook to the content. So by buying the content from the actual producers, they get much more value than just pirating it.

More info on our strategy: http://bit.ly/pgyGaR and on the movie http://bit.ly/n4XQG0 and http://on.fb.me/qcoACw
Political propaganda disguised as a 'flash game' tops hacker news...

I'll bet the people behind it are laughing at their clever social engineering.
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You need to get better at the administration side of your business pronto. What's getting you down is that you are apparently unable to control the relationship with your customers, both financially and with respect to the scope and definition of the work and that can become a real drag.

Once you have that under control I think you're ready for a re-evaluation of being burnt out or not. When I work real hard and don't get paid I feel miserable, when I work real hard and money flows in to my bank account I feel a lot better. Ditto for working really hard and seeing the work discarded or re-done several times. Inefficiencies like that can really get you down as well.

Being burnt out goes quite a bit deeper than this.
It seems to me that if there's no right answer, then whatever you do you can't possibly be wrong. That's pretty easy code to write (and make really fast at the same time).

I'm guessing there is a right answer, it just might be poorly specified. And automated or unit testing doesn't guarantee that even simple things are correct. It's just a trade-off of how much time you put into the automation versus the time you spend chasing bugs you could have caught with automation (which isn't all of them). I'd think in most real world code (for all the usual real world reasons) that people err on the too-little automated-testing side of things.

What do see as the problems with checking the md5sums? I'm guessing they're brittle if the answer isn't supposed to be exactly the same, but that reduces down to the same as checking a number is 5 when it might be between 4.8 and 5.2. It's not rocket science and getting it wrong doesn't invalidate all automated testing. At the very least the first time it throws an error the developer who wrote the bad test is going to learn something new about his system and you might sensibly use such cheaply written tests to locate errors when running code on a different OS (or version) or after minor cosmetic changes where you would expect the exact same result.
Ask HN: How did you conduct your market research on the cheap?
I've been trying to do some market research on, in my case, internet sales from large online retailers. I'm particularly looking to try and calculate a Total Area Market (TAM) and Serviceable Area Market (SAM). Any searches I've run on google returned either very expensive market research papers on very specific topics or some older publicized research data not applicable to our market.

Realistically, how hard should it be to find this information for free? If it's not going to be free, how much would you anticipate spending for such information? How important to investors is this kind of information?

If you work for one of the big boys in online retail, perhaps you could shoot me some numbers for your particular company. It'd be greatly helpful.

Any and all help on this subject would be greatly appreciated.
Any recent updates? This thing was pretty terrible last time i tried.

RockMongo is the best tool I've found. It's webbased but its simple, fast, and works. I'd welcome a decent native app admin tool though if it worked.
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I think this is a brilliant solution. Seems like a lot of guys here are too geeky to see what is considered easy & frictionless by the masses.
Deploy from git sounds like a simple "git pull" being run by cron every minute. Am I missing something?
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The toughest problems in large enterprises are not solvable by one or two guys. And these are the problems that interest me. Where implementation of OK software can save $100k+ a year, and implementing a good software solution: millions.

They can be solvable by a small team who raise capital, innovate, build a team, win some smaller customers, grow their sales... but by that point they are approaching 100 people and have been around 5 years.

That sort of success is around. I used to work for a company, started in 1996, which was acquired around its 10th birthday. That's exactly what they did - now part of a 20,000ish person company, they are now considered the incumbent (and all of their peers from the late 90's have also been aquired!).
You need to give people something very specific to do or look at, otherwise it's not even interesting or useful once, forget coming back to use it again.
Given Sun's welcome to Android, I wouldn't assume a warm welcome is a reliable indicator of whether motives are benign, or legally binding if they later change.

I don't particularly think that Google are popping champagne about the Kindle Fire, but if they had to choose I'm guessing they'd rather a Kindle Fire than a Windows 8 tablet or an iPad every time. Or indeed a hypothetical Kindle Fire from Amazon that ran iPhone Apps on a Windows kernel rather than being Android-based. (I was going to write WebOS there, but I think that's fairly positive for Google too)
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> "I believe having IM support may be important for Chromium as IM is one of the important activities that could not be performed yet on the browser."

FWIW, ebuddy and meebo amongst others, have been around for years.
It's smooth till you try start typing JSON queries, and has parse errors and won't tell you what the problem is, etc. Fairly annoying if you do inserts/updates of any sort of complexity (nesting, etc).
But these particular musicians making as much or more music is only part of the puzzle.

The same digital technology that makes piracy easier is what made it possible for baddox to find them in the first place. It is hard to imagine solutions to the problem of music piracy that wouldn't also make it harder to find these musicians. After all, music piracy has become easy because music is easy to copy and distribute... which is also why it has become easier to find the niche musicians you like.

Suppose you're right (though I don't think you are) and we successfully clamp down on music piracy so that these musicians can more easily monetize their small fan bases and spend more time making music. Does baddox care about this music if, in this alternate world, he never discovers them?
It easily can be. Consider a twenty-four year old fresh out of college with an animal science degree, school loan debt, dependent parents, no car, no openings in her field, forced to take fast food job. The job usually gives her forty hours a week, but scheduled so she works 10-20 days before a single day off. Rent started lower, but has been slowly jacked up to $800+ before utilities. This describes my best friend for the past year. Paying bills is tremendously difficult, much less saving any money.
> So its an architecture thats end-to-end that handles natural language modeling all the way through the service flows in a declarative way.

Can anyone elaborate on this?
Yeah - well ultimately it would be better defined but in the first instance we wanted to release something.

We can iteratively add features when we have any requests. As it stands it's quite nice to be able to message people and find others around you who like similar things.
You sound like a moron. There I said it.

"It has nothing to do with not being able to innovate. Coming up with new music that people want is itself innovation, and people should be compensated if you would like them to keep innovating in that way."

I'm talking about the old-guard. I.e. the recording industry - not people who make music. People who make music have been doing so for tens of centuries or more. They do not need to be dependent on the music industry.

Sorry I was a bit blunt at the beginning of this reply, but I really am sick of listening to the same old shite repeated ad nauseum. The tide has turned .. it's impossible to push it back.
In the US we have community colleges, which offer a range of "adult ed" courses outside the degree program. Many universities also have Continuing/Night non-degree programs.
Hence my comment "optimize it for what it will be used for". Verizon wrecked the RAZR by putting their stupid OS/UI on it.
StoryWall - cards on a wall. But, like, totally digital.
Ask HN: Books on creativity?
can you suggest me any good books on creativity? I saw some books on doodling, drawing (drawing on the right side of the brain by betty edwards etc) - what are your favorites?

Specifically those books that have exercises, not just theory. And preferably that can be done with paper/pen, or on a computer
If it's not capable of dynamic scaling, they've missed a trick.
> The parasites will walk around happily listening to their free music in their makerbot printed mp3 player (from pirated plans) and collect their social security checks from the government, while software developers and musicians slave away in $200 basement apartments 10 hours per day

Piracy stopped them from collecting the social security check and live the wealthy life of the unemployed pirate.
I don't see why it would be so hard to compete.

Isn't dropbox a pretty simple thing? It's just storing your stuff, with some sync things etc.

Seems like the barrier to entry is "Stores my files and doesn't lose them"?