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Eight years ago, people from diverse backgrounds turned out in the thousands with a definitive message: don't invade Iraq. I guess that was pretty impotent too, considering Iraq was invaded anyway, but at least there was a combination of popular mass and an actual agenda, not just a few discontented slackers with a vague sense of dissatisfaction with the world and a convenient yet eternal scapegoat to blame it on.
Completely accurate tokenadult. The official Chinese curriculum still uses the "Fun With English" Oxford books, but American English (as in Korea) is fast becoming the prestige variant. The British version is fading like a vestige of the Opium Wars.
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It sounds like the latter, which is really bad if it's the case. My sister is involved in public health in Zambia and I have a message out to her for clarification. I hope she can offer some more information on the matter, but it's 6:45AM there right now.
Hey, thanks for submitting this. I subscribed to the Wanderplayer mailing list a couple weeks back and have been meaning to ask you something: do you really live in the apartments at 220 E 24th? I only ask because that is where I used to live when Todd and I started working on Joypad. Apparently there is something in the air there that makes people think "iphone game controller" :)
I bet if Rage Against The Machine turned up for an impromptu show the protest would explode in size.
Agreed. I am still in a bit of shock. I think I saw that chair on HBO Real Sex when I was 16 or so...
If you're working somewhere good, this won't be true, or at worst it won't be true after the first year when new employees prove their value. If you're working somewhere bad, then you might see this, but the real problem then is that you work somewhere bad.

Do good work, and work somewhere good, and don't worry about whether the average for MIS is better or worse than CS. Don't worry about averages or what degrees your peers have. Worry about what you make, and what your peers make, and how much value you add vs your peers. I'd take an English major who does builds awesome software oven a mediocre CS major any day, and anyone who wouldn't is an idiot.
> A lot of them seem to be playing "reporter" in front of their friends' very expensive video setups. (...) Also, they were packed into the local McDonalds, presumably for the WiFi and corporate cow meat.

So should they use cheap second hand gear, eat organic and communicate with others via push-to-talk?

Do you need to avoid any possible contradiction before you protest against Government corruption?
They already did, it's called the BSA‡

And they solicit informants to report piracy (with lucrative rewards).

‡ http://www.bsa.org/country.aspx?sc_lang=en
This is the wrong approach. The right approach is to write your computationally-intensive code so that it runs in another process, and then to talk to that process over the network. Network servers must only talk to the network.
This is definitely worth 15 minutes of your time. http://philip.greenspun.com/materialism/money

tl;dr if you don't know where to start, start with an index fund.
Finally! Another bitcoin story makes it to the front page of HN again! It's been a long time. I was beginning to think the HN community has moved on to more important things. When will this Bitcoin nonsense fade away? I think the dollar/yuan situation is far more relevant than some fairy coins nobody uses outside of the World of Warcraft crowd.
Fib is designed to be a piece of code that runs really slowly but doesn't require typing in many lines of code. This makes it a reasonable benchmark for things like "how fast can a function be called", and also a good example of "something that takes a long time".
Oberon - The Overlooked Jewel: http://www.ics.uci.edu/~franz/Site/pubs-pdf/BC03.pdf
Yes it would and in fact most language platforms have async io. It's just harder to keep your yourself from introducing blocking calls in your event loop as they come with mostly blocking libs :)
> I want fewer people sleeping in parks and playing in drum circles

What's wrong about playing the drum in a park?

> pretending to be reporters

They're probably reporting in their blogs and social networks.

> and more people working inside the system to right its course.

So the Government bails out Wall Street repeatedly, with our money, and we are supposed to work harder "inside the system" and shut up?
check this out: https://github.com/phonegap/phonegap-mac
Oracle is purposely hijacking the NoSQL term. Anyone who Googles for NoSQL will now find that it's an actual Oracle product, giving the appearance that every other 'NoSQL' DB is simply a knock-off. Pretty evil, IMHO.
I really don't care if teenagers with no money run a free copy of my stuff. They weren't going to buy it anyway - and now they're out there increasing its penetration. From a business perspective, it's often a win if you stop fallaciously calculating every illegitimate copy as a loss of the sticker price. From a strictly personal standpoint, I take it as a compliment that they like it enough to go to the trouble.
Ah I think Stormfront.org (which is essentially the web front of the KKK) has a rating of A- in the better business beureu.

They don't mind dealing with racists, so long as those racists live up to their business obligations and leave happy customers.
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Ask HN: Best Place To Outsource for PHP FORM
Hello Guys,

I have the documentation and basic design for a form that I need created to capture leads, I don't know enough php to make it work. Where is the best place to outsource it? Or is there anyone on here who can do it for me please let me know and we can discuss pricing.

Thanks,
Africa isn't the only source of black people. Also, as your source points out, there were basically no controls on African immigration until the 1920s.

BTW, a significant number of fleeing slaves went to Canada....
I feel a bit out of my depth answering these. What did I get into?
In fact, I'm working on a Rails app right now facing this choice. We're a small site, barely a thousand users, but we have some complex queries for relevancy ranking that are just too slow in ActiveRecord - it ends up creating lots of expensive objects which kill you on GC. Whether this code turns into a SQL-based view or a full-on PL/pgSQL procedure is largely dependent on my mood tomorrow morning, but the fact remains that ActiveRecord can't solve all your problems. In fact, putting this logic in the database will help us make other application logic cleaner and more ActiveRecord-y; all of a sudden, we'll be able to do Content.order(:relevance).paginate, instead of having to pass around unwieldy arrays of content.
I would say take statistic's classes and read some econ books on the side. Also from my personal experience I found micro to be much more engaging and applicable. This is all my personal opinion of course.
Profundity. Can't hire a VC now, huh?
From the tone, it seems that this is sarcasm and the author's point is against music piracy. Despite the seething tone of a few sentences, the points he make sarcastically are actually decent points. From sentence to sentence, I go from being convinced that he's trying to be against music piracy to being convinced of the opposite. When he says

> They tell you your business model is broken. You should make money some other way. Maybe you should sell t-shirts with your company’s name on them, or put on events of some kind and charge for tickets. That’s where the real money is. Paid apps are a thing of the past, they say.

I can't help but think, Yeah, I actually do think that. Like it or not, distribution of quality media was a big part of the value provided by the music industry before the digital age and the internet. I'm not making an argument for or against the ethics of the piracy itself, but I think music producers (both big studios and "little guys") are unwise to rely on legislation and lawsuits to protect their business.
What is the moral of this story? "I'm an App Developer, therefore I shouldn't pirate music"?

Ultimately, piracy breaks down to "people want your stuff, but you've priced it too highly". In the case of apps, that's all it is. In the case of music, it's a little different. Music is cheap, but it's rare that you can get it in a good format: everything is lossy, and for people with good audio kit and good hearing, that makes the music unusable. Therefore, people that both Want It Now and want full quality are going to download the FLAC torrent rather than buy lossy MP3s. (They won't buy the CD because it takes too long for the mailman to deliver it.)

The same goes for movies and TV. Nobody will sell you those things without DRM, so if you use Linux exclusively, you have no option but to pirate the content. Make every TV show a standard non-DRM'd HTTP download for a buck, and piracy (among people with money) evaporates instantly. But the content producers want a bogeyman to blame for all their problems, so they intentionally keep piracy alive.

(If there were no such thing as the ability to pirate movies, people still wouldn't have bought the 88th redo of Star Wars. We liked it the first time. But it's easier for Lucas to blame the evil greedy pirates than his evil greedy self.)
Android Market is kind of a walled garden
HoneyBar is an app that allows rooted users on Honeycomb devices to hide their system status bar.

Numerous users have asked Google to implement this feature, yet they refuse to do so, saying that it "works as intended" (http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=15408)

A third-party developer, me, submitted a program to Android Market that allows users to hide their status bar by tapping on an area on their screen. It does nothing malicious or unexpected. Just exactly what it is advertised to do.

Within a week of publishing on Android Market and gathering over a hundred paying users (albeit at only $0.99 USD) Google removed the application from Market with nothing but a form letter indicating that it somehow violates the "Content Policy"

Perusal of the "Content Policy" (http://www.android.com/us/developer-content-policy.html#showlanguages) shows absolutely no obvious violations.

Damnit Google! Be more forthcoming and/or restore the app to Market! I've contacted and responded to the form letter email a number of times, contacted Market support and tried to find internal Google people to help. No luck; sending mail to Google regarding any issue of support is like being sucked into a blackhole--there is no hope.

For now, it's on Amazon's AppStore garnering a tiny fraction of the sales it was receiving before :-/
they definitely are and I'm excited to be a part of it:)
For all the potential parallels with the music industry, I think there are quite a few significant differences.

Firstly, what are the current equivalents of a mobile App Store for (pirated) music? There are definitely a bunch of places you can find it if you look, but few of them are as "one-stop-shop" as current app stores.

Secondly, does pirated music often outrank the artists/album name/track titles in general internet searches? Most of the time you'll get the artist, maybe some unofficial fan sites, and some dodgy-SEO lyrics/"free if you pay for our questionable rapidshare style hosting" that probably doesn't even have the content.

If you consider piracy-specific search engines, like TPB or whatever napster/gnutella mutated into, then you're more likely to find real content, but that requires knowing where to look in the first place.

If you consider 'your VC' as an artists music label, then they've probably already got some kind of enforcement system going on. You probably won't have to do all the 'policing' yourself - it's their loss just as much as yours (if not more, due to some of the interesting accounting) if copies aren't getting paid for.

All in all, it seems like a fairly weak metaphor, although I can see how it could become more of a problem in the future.

Edit: I forgot to mention "They’re doing the best they can, they say. Most of all, they’re complying with the law, they say." - I can't imagine many people who download pirated music do so without realising that it's illegal and/or immoral. Legitimate looking services like streaming sites are harder to judge - they might have a license for the content, or they might not. Compare this to an official platform App Store, where consumers can reasonably expect some level of dilligence in ensuring ownership. And if it becomes necessary, there's some sort of accountability back to the person who uploaded the pirated content.

I imagine the author here chose android because it has a less tightly controlled app store, and it may be possible to create anonymous accounts if you're only dealing with free apps (compared to iOS where you need to have bought a dev license to get any signing keys, even for free apps, as I understand it).
Ask HN: Something weird with accessing through a node.js proxy?
I'm experimenting with the nodejitsu node-http-proxy (https://github.com/nodejitsu/node-http-proxy), and my super simple proxy seems to be working well. I've just tried surfing around to a bunch of sites I normally visit, and they've loaded fine.

Unfortunately, when I try to load HN with the proxy running, I just get a blank screen that says "Unknown." Does anyone know anything about that? Experienced it before?
well I'd look at the community building around PhoneGap Plugins for your answer there. I do agree that many of the standard APIs (which we lead/follow W3C on) will be in most mobile browsers in the coming years.
I wouldn't say it's ridiculous, given that:

- It may not possible to produce an LTE iPhone 5 for either Verizon or AT&T right how (or for any other country), as the LTE chipsets are not ready and LTE deployments are limited. However, it may be possible in six to nine months.

- WiMAX chipsets may be more mature than LTE, and Sprint's LTE deployment may be widespread, making it possible to produce such a phone for Sprint.

- Sprint has promised to buy 7.5 million iPhones a year, which is a whopping 31% of US iPhone sales

- The depth of the Sprint commitment effectively means there is no room for Android on that carrier.

So, if Apple's choices are:

a) Produce non-LTE phone for AT&T and Verizon, only to obsolete it six months later in order to compete with LTE phones running Android.

b) Give Sprint temporary six to nine month "exclusivity" to a phone that they could not produce for anyone else anyway in return for 30% more U.S. sales and killing Android on Sprint

... then it's plausible for them to choose b.
This is my feeling. These protesters complain about how globalization has shunted money and jobs away from them, as if those in the 3rd world have no right to a good life.
Further, what is the message of the allegory supposed to be?

The analogy between music and tech suggests that the two hits-based industries selling digital goods are not so different after all. But why would our morality in one case be so different from the other case?

If anything, this allegory seems to suggest to me that the recording industry has committed one of the biggest public relations bungles of our lifetimes. People who wouldn't think to pirate a mobile app would pirate music without a second thought thanks to widespread lawsuits, pay-for-play, price fixing, and of course, ease.
interesting read, though it wont change anyones mind on piracy one way or the other
I way overpay for my phone plan. I pay for it because i have to, not because the pricing is fair.

If you charge $400 to update your client's web site, you're just price gouging because they don't know any better. Pathetic.
Music or software, it's an interesting point. SaaS is one fix.

Bill Gates had problems with copying way back in 1976. It seems to have worked out OK for him. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Letter_to_Hobbyists
Do you not see the irony of linking to some blog with the same Photoshopped image that this post is talking about?
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In my previous job at VMware I've found code reviews to be very useful.
Apart from finding bugs at early stage as pointed by this article:

- Code reviews are an effective means of knowledge transfer among engineers.

- It makes engineer more conscious while writing code since the patch will be read by others and hence less likely to cut corners/put hacks.

- Since the patch should be understood by others, author needs to ensure the code and the change/commit description are well documented.

- It lets your co-workers/manager know about the amount of progress made on a task.
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I am from the East. We rely on common sense and what has _actually_ worked for us in our life, and what has worked for generations. I take studies done in the West (esp wrt health) with a pinch of salt. (Which reminds me of the fad about low-salt for which their are many authoratative studies and research but its still not true)
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Also, people can support an musician by buying concert tickets and merchandise. Software doesn't let people "morally offset" piracy in other ways.
I really appreciate the feedback. Whilst I can't comment on future releases, I want to assure you that we are aware of the items you mention. Stay tuned :)
The application for me forced me to grasp a clear picture of my vision from the fuzzy direction that my prototype has been heading in.The intro video process really helped me arrive at a concrete and concise pitch that doesn't rely on me demo-ing the app on a screen, which is what I usually do.
The reality is that you do pay for stolen music, it just happens over a much longer period of time. The cost is the money you could have made in a society that supports paying for digital content or software.
e. I think some of these people have valid reasons to be upset with how the bailouts were handled, and at least they are trying to take some action and care about their future. But what are they trying to accomplish with their protests. I'm the 99% doesn't give the 1% who you are trying to affect the opportunity to understand what you want them to do.

the gov't gave you $4 trillion when you screwed up, and we're paying for that with our lack of jobs, income, and loosing our houses. We want you (banks) to x,y,z and we will do a,b,c...

I just want to see one place where a coherent message of demands is, so I can pick a side. I think the way the bailouts was handled was shameful, and I'd like to see main st. Get back on it's feet, but it is difficult to do that because I don't know what they are really asking for.

in contrast to Vietnam war protesters, they got it. They knew what they wanted, nobody questioned what the protesters really stood for. Same with anti-nuke, immigration protests, civil rights, etc etc.

I'm assuming that they are possed about the bailouts and the financial issues only because they are trying to disrupt wall st. They could be the 99% who can't afford healthcare, 99% who thinks there are too many Starbucks outlets, 99% who have to watch their weight and exercises to stay thin while the 1% can eat whatever they want and never gain a oz.

how they haven't realized that they don't have a single cause yet is very surprising, or maybe I'm just missing it.
Yeah, some of those blog posts don't make much sense. The queues article, for example. RabitMQ and ActiveMQ are big Java things to keep your sysadmins up at night. ZeroMQ is just a networking library. Yes, they all end in "MQ", but at the end of the day, everything in computing as a message queue. If you don't like it, go back to typewriters :)
Another video from the event: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NltAGcvubA4
Ha, knew you were gonna say glasses, same problem. The eyes slowly get weaker, glasses helped.
> The golden path involves preemptive multitasking with little-to-no shared state.
Erlang (and probably some other languages) seems to have taken this approach.
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love it, I think this has great potential in SMB arena, I know several companies using that combination of services individually.
Yep. Me too. Thanks for all your work on Railscasts, Ryan! Wonderful service!
I believe DropBox was a single founder applicant
How often do cars break down now compared to 30, 50 or 80 years ago? I am pretty sure most of the early drivers were quite good mechanics, these days? Not so much. I'm sure Mr. Ford would find modern cars very foreign.

A chair, clothing and even houses haven't changed much over the years either. Most designs only change bits at a time, slowly morphing into unrecognisable things.
I'm not cwilson, but... all of those. The Bay Area has more hype for new startups, more investors, more software engineers, more acquiring companies, and more early adopters who will try your new site (and quite possibly pay for same).
Just curious if he moved forward as a solo founder of if you guys arranged for him to find a cofounder.
This has caused them to gain the "jrockway certified excellence" accreditation, which is, in my opinion, infinitely more valuable than the BBB's accreditation. So, I think, it's a net win.

(What's that you say? The limit of 0 * x as x goes to infinity is still zero? Hmm...)
I really enjoy the ease at which I can buy things on an app store (The music industry has/had problems because they try/tried to control the sales process).

The development community has a great solution: app stores. But these only work if the people who run the app stores are willing to help protect the products of those who sell in that store. I think this is what the post is mostly about (and has little to do with the music industry).

To pirate work on the net... Whatever.

To pirate work by placing it in the same app store that your product is sold. That is just messed up.
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YC funds a number of single-founder efforts. I know Notifo and Greplin made it to demo day as one-man shows.
From a business/industry perspective (ignoring for now the ethics of piracy or the wisdom of combating it with mass lawsuits), the biggest difference between digital software and digital music is that lots of software providers are still providing value from distribution.

Especially with database-driven apps and SaaS products, distribution (hosting) is still most of what you're paying for. If someone leaked the back end source code for Github or Dropbox, of course there would be people who would host them for themselves and avoid paying, but I can't imagine it would cut into their revenues at all.

But with music, as soon as it's released in a digital format, anyone with an internet connection has near-frictionless access—the music creators are no longer offering any value from distribution other than the convenience of online stores like iTunes or the artwork and collectibility of a physical CD. The music industry and smaller musical groups/labels are certainly figuring this out, and experimenting with ways of offering something of value. Removing DRM was a big win because DRM did nothing except ruin the supposed convenience of online purchases. Cloud and subscription services (both pay and ad-supported) offer convenience and even better immediate availability than piracy.
RAGE, which showcases the new id Tech 5 engine, gets a terrible review by Ars
This shows which DVCS is winning.

There is no war. hence, no winners, no losers.

Why on earth, in the software world, taste / choice diversity is immediately considered as a war?

There is the editors war, DVCS war, OS war, Browsers war.

Let's give peace a chance!
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There was anonymity before there was an internet.
The shroud of secrecy hardens my conspiracy theory that bitcoin was created by the FBI to track illegal payments.