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The simple creation of a thing doesn't entitle the creator to payment. The music/movie/IP industry has an opportunity/problem. While they could limit supply, they could sustain a monopoly business model with high prices.

Now that there's a new, unlimited supply, the business model has to change. It's not that people won't pay for good content, it's that they won't pay for the same product anymore.

A quick thought experiment: People paid for CDs because they wanted access to music in their own homes. They paid for _access_. A new business model could continue to charge for the same product.

Access could include live streamed concerts, studio recordings, first-access downloads of new tracks, notifications of new bands similar to what you like, small, local, live performances, etc…

Scroll to the bottom here for a quick idea of what they _can_ charge for: http://newsosaur.blogspot.com/2009/10/how-to-sell-news-on-we...

TL;DR It's not the consumer's fault that the industry can't make money on their product.
While this may be true, the EB-5 is reserved for those who create jobs - not simply 'invest'.
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Looks like they were at the Black Rock Playa. Hope they take all their moop with them, since the Burning Man people just got done cleaning it up...
Got a few minutes and wanted to make some more comments...

I've had several ugly situations while entering the US. Last time I visited (March this year) I went through LAX. I was greeted very nicely by the officer, had all my paperwork done and off I went. Then I went to Baja California (MX) where I would stay at a friends/client house.

Then I had to cross the border (through Tijuana) to go to a marketing expo at AZ. The experience was nerve-wrecking. The border patrol officer started telling me I was hiding something because of my body language (apparently he saw too much "Lie to me") and started questioning why I had friends in the US, how had I met them and so on. After about 20 minutes we were let go.
Like I said, I've worked at immigration in my home country, so I know how it works and stuff, but there are more professional ways to handle matters than just accuse people, push and see if they bite.

Also, what I missed to add to my comment above... In (most) mainstream US movies, you see that no matter what your job is you can lead a pretty nice life. Even if you work as a bartender, you can have your small apartment and be in charge of your life.
I don't think it works like that. I met a client that was a school teacher and he was broke. Some of my clients have declared for bankruptcy, and some very, very rich clients have lost a lot of RE and have to downsize their homes by an order of magnitude.

I know it works like that pretty much everywhere, but for some reason all this things I imagined as a kid, stuck with me until I visited the US. It's like deep down we hope there's a place were things are better, and the US could be that place; so we buy into the dream (until we realize it was a dream and there's no such place).
Great startups can and do raise money in Atlanta. It's only harder for the stupid ideas to raise money. Have to got to the Valley for that. :-)
Went higher than the GPS satellites could see?
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One of the most awesomest things I've seen in a while.
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Not entirely true. While there was a lot of skepticism on AdSense and Gmail within Google, Brin was really enthusiastic about both products. If I recall correctly, Brin was even the promotor and driver of AdSense ("Let's get this puppy launched", a famous quote by Brin on the launch of AdSense). Both Page and Brin were also the first users of Gmail and tested the product intensively within the company after Buchheit got approval for launching Gmail internally.
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Well, it could easily be that they hit the CoCom limit on the GPS units they were using: http://blog.jgc.org/2010/11/gaga-1-cocom-limit-for-gps.html

Perhaps the GPS devices were disabled by speed, or altitude, and didn't have time to reset while at apogee to get the reading.
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His columns are almost always written about Apple's actions either in hindsight or in the very near term future, but he makes very few predictions or longer-term insights.
I might be foolish, but being able to say that you were in intense negotiations to have IBM acquire your app is still a HUGE deal.

Even if it was not successful, it is a great story and demonstrates great potential. Congrats on your failure!
Hi. I'm doing some research into security practices on public cloud infrastructures (e.g. AWS, Linode, Heroku). Specifically, I'm interested if and how people deploy credentials and handle sensitive data.

Please take a minute to fill it out if you use public cloud services. I will post the results to HN. Thanks.
You could cheaply reach the same altitude using a helium balloon. 121,000 ft is only 37km. Plenty of home grown helium balloons have reached that height (and higher).

My project reached 32km: http://blog.jgc.org/2011/04/gaga-1-flight.html
What search algorithm are you using for the list searching?

I tried [monkey game] and would have expected Monkey Island to show up.

Also, clicking 'edit' I would expect the table row being edited to be edited inline (it's confusing that the focus jumps down to the input boxes)

Potentially really useful but needs a bit of polishing I think - great work though.
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My problem with current music distribution platforms is that they don't cater to a lot of the music I listen to.

Spotify may have 15 million songs, but if half of the albums I want to listen to aren't on there, what's the point in using it at all?

Pandora may be nice for digging deeper if you listen to mainstream indie rock, but if they don't have 90% of the artists you want to make a station of in their database, and the other 10% give you more terrible/mainstream music, it's just a waste of time.

Last.fm radio is great, except when multiple artists use the same name, and you get a track nothing like what you expect every few songs and have to babysit it.
iTunes and other mp3 album purchasing sites suffer from poor quality of files, and no way to check if there is terrible transcoding.

CDs and records are the best way to get what you want, but the price is steep, and if the album you want doesn't have a local distributor, a full length album can cost $45+ to import.

And that's just music.
Memphian here. Bootstrapping (mostly) a startup here in town and working through the funding struggles. I think pg alluded to a lot of this in a recent post:

Here, if you're trying to start a company--and especially a tech company--the general feedback is the quintessentially southern "Oh, that's really nice. So are you going to put it on "Shark Tank" or something?" In other words, the support is minimal from everyday citizens. This is not a town filled with early adopters. There's very little chance of meeting another founder at the local coffee house.

I think Memphis is trying to change this, and they're doing a fine job, but these things take time. There's Emerge Memphis, which right now is just a building. But that building is our little coffee house in the valley. Every time I walk in, without fail, I have an engaging conversation with someone who's completely interested in what I'm doing. It's on a smaller scale, but it's there.

And I think the key is that the building, and its support organization Launch Memphis, are themselves run like a startup. They try something and if it doesn't work out they scrap it and try something else. Minimal bureaucracy, and minimal bs.

And for what it's worth, I don't completely agree that squelchers make that much of a difference. What's missing are champions, all the way up the chain. Champions at the grassroots supporting education and entrepreneurship, champions who commit to funding home grown companies, and champions who support those companies with guidance and advice. I'll take one of those folks for every 100 squelchers. Luckily, Memphis has a few. Not enough though. Not yet.
A look through history of Google’s Doodles.
I'm not sure you're right. There are at least two reasons for expecting people to read long forms:

1) Sometimes you need to tell a story to get people to see a point. Merely stating the facts won't do it. You need to slowly lead them somewhere, while drawing a landscape, pointing out some of the pitfalls they would have pointed out, telling them how you avoided them. You need time to draw people into your line of thinking let something sink in

It's much like with security issues: if you report them, nothing happens. If you extract the details of a thousand customers and present those, people get upset and take action. The first approach is short and to the point, but does not achieve the goal, but the goal is inherently inachievable by short-and-to-the-point approaches.

I know I've been persuaded by stories where short factual statements didn't succeed, because I didn't take the time to turn the facts into the story for myself.

2) If short reports are good enough for the CTO, any manager between you and the CTO will think short reports are good enough for him as well. You will never get the chance to make a subtle point that requires some paragraphs, because nobody will read it.

There is a general complaints about a cultural change in this direction that the internet supposedly induced, but I believe it started much earlier, with the growth of megacorporations where people were expected to consume more information than they could possibly handle.

To cope, they started to consume summaries by supposedly smart advisors that they trusted. However, they also get to randomly disregard such summaries when they feel like it (out of intuition if we're being generous), because they can always say "well, it's actually complex" and they get to excuse themselves in the same way. Short reports often actually aren't good enough at all, but we've learned to live with it, because some wrong decisions are better than no decisions at all.

There is a way in between, where you sometimes, when the issue is important enough, do read the long form. Even top-level CEO's may be interested in an 800 page book on 'The better angels of our nature'. Yegge may be important enough, and his subject matter may be important enough, that Brin should actually read it entirely.
Unfortunately G+ circles are not a good fit for the use case you describe, because whether you are permitted to see a post (which certainly should be at the author's discretion) is different from whether you are interested enough to see it in your stream (which should be at yours, but G+ can't handle that).
Could be the Bubba Gump Shrimp Company. But they're in Greenbow, AL, not Greensboro.
Well of course that's just the substrate. A lot of what you do comes from what you've learned and continue to learn from your environment.
Writing letters isn't high-prestige either, which is why lawyers don't describe their job as writing letters all day. Learn from their example.
Does "fiancee" even have any legal defintion in the US? Nobody signs anything when they propose and I'm pretty sure that states don't recognise it as a legal status, at least not until various common-law cohabitation conditions comes into play.
> I am the thing making decisions.

Well if that's your premise, then I think we're already done.

If someone makes a decision, but doesn't tell you about it, is it your decision? What if they make a decision and then inform you about it later, is it yours now? Finally, what if they make a decision, tell you about it, and then you actually enact it? Can we even call this yours?
That's an awful website too. White text on dark background is a complete readability failure, no matter how much contrast it provides.
For now I am going to keep the name anon. We surely did not have our ducks in a row as we were very young in our partnership and product dev (1.5 months). Now several months later, we feel we are on the right track and should be well prepared for the next time. No sweat about your comments; I appreciate them.
If you look at the cut open V2 rocket in the Imperial War museum in London you can see about 1/3 of the innards is the control system; gyro's, inertial guidance etc. Today you can buy that on a chips from digi-key, farnell, sparkfun or wherever for say $50 or even just root your smartphone and use it as the control system. It always surprises me that there is very little precision rocketry or ROV proliferation amongst the countries and political/religious movements with extreme agendas out there.
Yes. Marry over-seas then apply for the visa at over-seas consulate --should take about 3-months or so.

I know a handful of couples like that. It was pretty painless --so long as they married prior to coming to the US. So they were legally married overseas, then applied at overseas consulate and green card was granted --citizenship can be applied for a year after arrival, and (I'm under the impression) most have been granted citizenship within one to two years. No fuss, that I've heard of.

Now, (you) working overseas (not in the US) as a non citizen can get tricky for US citizens --you have to be sponsored, of course, but in some countries, like Argentina, you (or employer most likely) would have to prove there was no local available to fulfill the job requirement. That can be a tough hurdle.
It's a bad example in the article, I think. Substituting challenge for problem may have shifted the sentiment of a sentence from negativity to possibility in the past, but that particular example has been used so much that when I hear people talking of their challenges I immediately have a feeling that not only is there a problem - but that the speaker is evading that fact.
I don't have anywhere near the smarts to pull something like this off (maybe one day, one day), but I'm always so excited when people try these and they work.

Awesome job
You should try again.

You see, it can be very difficult to fire high level bureaucrats. If you don't have faith in them it can be more dangerous to leave them in place.

Transferring them to South America is a popular solution. It's nice enough that they won't fight the transfer, and safe enough that they can't mess things up too badly.

Try talking to a consulate in a different city.
Thanks so much. I had the same thought on ショーケースサイト but ultimately left it up to the translator. (He'll see the feedback here.) I'll update the pricing to be the rough equivalent and address the other concerns, too. Please do follow us on Twitter, we'll be posting there in the future. (I've just added a Tweet now.)
Richard Feynman's Messenger Lectures can be viewed here (Silverlight required):

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It's relatively easy for us to be in the top 10-5% of earners. We don't get doctor-respect, nor lawyer-money but… I'd say medium-high prestige.
Is there a similar library that can be used with tables? I like the function and this looks easy to use but my site uses tables over lists.
Watch the video! It's one of the coolest things I've seen in awhile.
I generally agree with the first point, with the difference that the economy growth in Europe has been several times higher during the past decade and that trend will continue. Also the debt problems in Europe are less serious than the ones in the US. Also, EU is not going to grow only within - Croatia is joining in 2013 and after that other countries will follow. So Europe has a much greater potential.

2) Well, i18n is nothing hard these days, at least from a technical perspective, also you could reach certain market types using only English quite well in Europe.

3) Yes, this is true, however these problems are visible only in small parts of certain tiers of society. Shortly, the chances of meeting people who openly display negative sentiments against foreigners are smaller if you run a company consulting about GIS, than if you are a plumber/gas station clerk or whatever.

Also, by "'you dirty outsider' attitude" I meant that attitude being displayed by the government, which is very typical in the US.

For example I am a software developer, who comes from one of the 'new' countries and currently lives in another 'new' one, but I have spent significant time in an Western European country and so far I haven't had a single problem with bureaucracy (and with drugged-out undereducated unemployed youths with too fragile minds as well) at any of these places, which compared to Entchev's case of 'they got my entire family under arrest and ruined the life I have been building for the past 20 years' is a whole world of difference.
> Technology advancing so fast that we no longer can control or understand it? ... Yeah, that already happened to my parent's generation with AOL

That's not the singularity, else we'd have had several singularities across several generations as certain groups of people fail to grasp the utility or value of printing presses, steam engines or atomic bombs.

The notion of the singularity suggests a point past which it is impossible to predict the future.

Global networking, in its basic form, was entirely predictable to certain technologists for decades before its existence. In fact, the original Spaceship Earth ride at Epcot nailed many peaces of later commonplace technologies – even multiplayer gaming. Hell, I read of a B'ahai priest who predicted the world wide web in the 30's.

Meanwhile, a singularity posits a confluence of technologies, connectedness and social change that renders all events past its arrival entirely impossible to predict.
But yet, they still take the content. It's a half-hearted and disingenuous form of boycott. If the goal were really to send Hollywood a message, and to take an absolute moral high ground in doing so, then wouldn't a more effective message be sent in not consuming the product whatsoever? Not buying it and not pirating it?

Not participating in a societies culture is a very high price to pay for not wanting to support how companies distribute said culture.

If libraries were to disappear, would you still claim people should stop reading if they won't want to or can't afford to support the publication of certain books?
Ask HN: Why not go after the passionate users?
Whenever I see VCs talking about the potential market for a startup, they always want a market with a lot of people. I mean, it seems obvious. More people means more money and more room to grow, but why not focus on the passionate users? The users that have a significant pain that needs to be solved and will pay out their ass for it. Aren't these the people that we should be focusing on?
Ugh, not this again.

That would mean that the design of the brain would require hundreds of trillions of bytes of information. Yet the design of the brain (like the rest of the body) is contained in the genome.

I believe it was on HN that this discussion came up before, but that's a short sighted way of looking at it. Basically, it doesn't take into account all the interactions of the environment required to turn that "source code" into a person. Sure, the DNA would be sufficient if you were able to accurately simulate cellular actions, protein folding, and physics in general, but we just can't do that yet, and it doesn't look like we'll be able to any time soon.
I have a Tier 1 in the UK (btw- it no longer exists) and basically allowed me to make the UK my home with no job here. (I have a job) The major prerequisites were basically that English was my mother tongue, I made a certain amount of money, and/or had an advanced degree. It's more or less a way of saying "Are you going to create jobs here?" turns out I am, but doesn't necessarily mean that anyone with the prereqs checked off has the same intentions. I could theoretically have moved here and become an independent contracter.

As I understand it, its much easier in many countries to be part of their "skilled worker" areas than the US. It usually takes working for a large corporation to get a H-1B visa.

As an American citizen I feel like I can move to any country in the world. I mean any country should want me to move to theirs right? /snark
I read that as "dude sends epic homegrown into space." I pictured an enormous plant in a hydroponics research facility, with growth unfettered by gravity...
They could have done that but chances are a few of the less reputable OEMs would have ported code from Froyo or GB to get the dialer working again. The open nature of it means there is no restriction that could not be unrestricted.

But in all honesty HC was a rush job (as was most of the hardware) to keep Android in the game against Apple. I'm really looking forward to it getting "there". With 2x the resources (CPU and RAM) of an iPad it should absolutely kill it, but when the applications hesitate for a split-second I really have to contemplate what the hell is going on?
Build something else. Whatever it is that you build you end up with that awesome "I built that" feeling. Last night I hacked to 0230 on turning a set of 50 GE Color Effects Christmas lights into a 7x7 color display. No one around me really understands why this was worth staying up half the night for, but when I finally got control of the serial bus protocol for programming the lights and saw my display work under my control it was awesome.

What they looked like before I started hacking them: http://www.costco.com/Browse/Product.aspx?Prodid=11630618

Short video of the first full glitch free run of the lights under my control: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9SOI9EnjTg
Reminds me of this amazing story of the undocumented journalist:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/26/magazine/my-life-as-an-und...
Nice work! have you tried using Sass & Compass for doing it more configurable, with it you can use variables and "functions"
Many countries have this asset requirement -New Zeeland, for example, Canada. It's nothing new or extra-ordinary. It's sort of insurance against draining the state in the event one were to become non-productive.