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I think it's worth trying to tease apart the several issues you raise regarding copyright in general. That copyright has been extended again and again is indeed kind of ridiculous, supposedly all to prevent people from remixing Steamboat Willie or Mickey Mouse, but isn't that fundamentally a different thing that is commonly described as "piracy"? Yes, we all have minds filled with cultural information and it should be part of the public commons that we can draw upon to create new works. But let's not confuse that with downloading copies of new work created this year, by some creative person somewhere, who may wish you would compensate them for what they invested in their work.

> So, in this space, who do you see as a disruptive or interesting player, and why? Who will you support with your wallet? Because I'm done. I'm tired of it.

There's a lot of interesting disruption that may have been caused by pirates and outrage over DRM and other heavy handed approaches to control. Beyond Netflix, Spotify, Amazon and Apple selling DRM free files, many record companies will now happily directly sell you DRM free files, sometimes even in awesome formats like FLAC. You can often go to a band's site and find a crappy little Paypal storefront with files like this. It works pretty well. Not always, and maybe not on some of the bigger record company's sites. But their music is crap anyway ;)
A fine question
I disagree. When one "addresses" a long-standing, well-thought out argument with off-the-cuff snap statement or something only slightly more thought-out, it is perfectly permissible to call them out as not being serious. It's like going into a serious religion debate with "Evil exists, therefore God does not. Ah-ha, you are defeated!", or "God must exist because something must have started it all, so there!" as if in the thousands of years of years the debate has been raging on nobody has ever thought of those things, or addressed them at length, in both directions.

If you're going to debate the singularity here, maybe you can get by with just stating "I don't believe it's possible" without citing any logic, which as of this writing there's at least two people in this comment set already who have simply stated that without defense, but if you're going to debate one of the leaders of the field it would help if you would at least grant your opponent the courtesy of thinking that just maybe over the course of the decades he's been thinking about this, the obvious objections that you thought up in five seconds just might have been addressed at some point. You may not think they've been adequately or correctly addressed, but don't pretend they haven't been addressed at all.

Personally I'm not completely sold on the matter for a variety of reasons myself, but the usual logic given for why you should be skeptical about it is terrible. The interesting questions are a great deal more complicated than something that can be dismissed with something that generally boils down to "Look, I just can't imagine the world changing that much, so it won't".
Because the quality of the source code and the quality of the resultant binaries are two completely different things.
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This is exactly the premise behind Michael Gerber's E-Myth series of books: That loving something /= running a business that sells or does that thing.
This immediately made me think of a quote about folks wanting to get into the games business:

"Thinking that 'Hey, I like playing games, so maybe I'd like making them' is sort of like saying, 'Hey, I really like taking baths, maybe I'd like to be a plumber." -- Jesse Schell

To be a successful game developer, you not only have to love games, you really have to love MAKING games, too.
>As for not releasing honeycomb, look at releasing the kludged code from their perspective. They probably didn't want phones released from HC that wasn't ready for phone use, thus giving them a bad name when awful "Android Honeycomb Phones" hit the market.

Wasn't Honeycomb supposed to be a tablet-only OS? In which case, Google could have removed all cellular voice functionality, stated in the readme and release notes that this is intended for non-cellular phone devices only, and released it to the wild. Heck, they also could have refused to grant any usage of the Android trademarks to any manufacturer that used 3.1 source in a phone.
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Why did they even bother, then? That info makes this whole thing less understandable to me, not more.

Edit: Actually, that's beside the point. I think the reason they made Honeycomb is because they thought a lot of people would buy Android tablets, because a lot of people were buying iPads. But they were wrong about that.

I'm just saying, if they did it this way one time, there's no guarantee they won't do it again. How "open" it is, is really subject to Google's whim.
The E-2 also involves a catch-22 : To show that you're serious about building a business, they require you to show that you have (for instance) a commercial rental lined up. Other things (such as potential employees, letters of intent, bank accounts, LLC incorporation and other strong indications that the business will be viable) are also important.

However, prior to getting the visa, you can't do business in the USA : So it's pretty tough to get all this done and stay strictly within the law (a B-2 visa should be for a business outside the States, for instance).

What's more, when it comes to renew the E-2, you are forced to have an interview (after submitting a whole lot of documentation) in the Embassy in your home nation : And the Embassies won't give any firm guidelines about the visa turn-around period, so that you're left in limbo (away from the US) until the magic envelope with your visa'd Passport inside drops through the letterbox.

FWIW, once at the Embassy, the official there was pretty understanding of the hustle required of an entrepreneur, and was pretty friendly once they saw that the reality matched the intent of the visa. The documentation exists mainly for rejection purposes, IMHO.
Official: Memory aid.

Unofficial: I love listening to me as much as you do.
Pfffffff, it's not piracy, no one is getting thrown into the sea, burned alive, hanged from a mast, flogged, ransomed or separated from his limbs. :-(
I've seen cool renderings like this done with Flare: http://flare.prefuse.org/

I agree. More detail on visualization technique would be great.
Memristors are the silicon equivalent of neurons -- a time-dependent function with state. In mammals, the connectivity of millions of neurons enable the emergence of intelligence. I don't see any reason why a silicon-based neuron network of sufficient size isn't capable of the same.

Now, that's entirely different from purposeful design of an AI such that it speaks English and knows what I like for breakfast. I don't think we'll ever know how to sit down and write one in Notepad.

Instead, memristor-based AIs will be evolved using genetic algorithms or other evolutionary approaches. Yeah, maybe that's wishful thinking too, but that's how I see it playing out.
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> Piracy represents the voice of the consumer in the market right now.

That is a good simple way to put it.

> But it's a voice that cries, "I will cut off my nose to spite my face." ... By pirating the material, we end up hurting the creators

But hold on. Hurt? There is a hidden assumption here: that current 'protections' of copyright stuff are at the right level. But what sets that level? (It could be made law that everyone must pay not just for a copy, but for every use: would you then say creators are hurt by someone who did not pay that?) The level is set according to an overall aim: whether sufficient new stuff is created -- it is not about whether creators are 'hurt', it is about whether consumers are satisfied.

Is there any evidence that creative product is diminishing? (doubtful) Just casually, anyone can look around and see plenty of new books, music, film, TV is being made. That means producers are getting enough, and it is the consumers being 'hurt' (more like ripped-off and annoyed).
Also useful to remember that A15 and A7 are binary compatible and that these are the only cores which support LPAE.
Interesting take on the "status updates"... I would label this as Twitter with emotion.

The embed feature is pretty cool. I can see bloggers and other social profiles including the mood slider to gauge people's mood towards a certain topic... Have you thought about approaching big media outlets?

Still some opportunity for improvement, but looks like a good start
SPDY isn't really intended to replace HTTP I don't think, it's just speeding it up quite a bit. All the messages exchanged between client and server are still HTTP when using SPDY.
" Drive more visitors to your website"
Having worked in Quality Control in a major multinational, and studied and lecture statistics, I have seen that significant decreases in quality are accepted in exchange for increased consistency.
People here arguing that the US should accept more immigrants from all over the world because "the US has been built on immigrants" need to get their facts straight:

The "National Origins Formula" was only abolished in 1965. Before 1965, US immigrants were 90+% white.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Origins_Formula
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_and_Nationality_Act...

This is fact, not opinion.

I'm not arguing a certain side here, but want to point out that those who say "the US has been built on immigrants" might be nostalgic to a past that never existed.
"I now ask better questions of my advisors and explicitly welcome their roughest criticisms. I gravitate towards those advisers that rip into me with skepticism and challenging questions. "

Just as you used to do, most people do not listen when criticized harshly.

You can try to blame your advisers for not telling you to avoid IBM, but in the end, it's still your fault and not theirs. In fact, they probably tried to tell you that, but you didn't want to hear negatives.

It's good that you can hear them now, but that still doesn't help most other people, and those advisors still have to deal with those people.
Thunderbird hits every one of wccrawford's items, except it's not itself web based.

I use Thunderbird with a cheap fastmail.fm account. You can access your fastmail account from anywhere with their web interface. You can access it from any imap client.

It all works good enough for me. Not fantastic, but good enough.
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I've started two LLCs in Virginia. It's very straightforward, although maybe I've just been lucky. Both were fairly low-risk ventures. I'm pretty sure I just went to the VA Small Business Administration page, downloaded the application PDFs, and mailed them in with a $100 check. I think that was the extent of it. No lawyers.

You'll have to jump through some more hoops to get your EIN from the IRS (which you'll need to open up a company bank account), but, again, it's not too bad. From what I gather, Virginia's one of the easier states, especially if it's just you as the owner.
X-HTTP-Method-Override: http://cambiatablog.wordpress.com/2010/08/10/287/
Another funny thing about US immigration law is, that if you are an international student in the USA (on an F1 visa) you are entitled to work only for the university that has issued you this visa. For everything else, you have to use your OPT (Optional Practical Training), which is a pool of twelve months, that you can use to work for somebody else, while holding an F1. I will not dig into details such as the fact that it costs about $400, and it takes ~ 2 months to apply and be allowed to use a chunk of your OPT.

If you are an international student and not on OPT, you cannot legally work full time/part time/do an internship with the startup your friend just launched (or any other company, on this note). You may want to risk spending your months, or doing some other jazz, and then try to figure things out, but as we can see from the case at hand these maneuvers do not work out well for everybody.

As for sponsorship, from the employer's perspective, the whole visa sponsorship application process costs about $10k, which is not little money for a small company.
Yeah, a company that's just starting to build brand awareness should really just up and change their name. Brilliant.
We needed a solution for recurring payments and we chose Stripe, which has turned out to be awesome. If you haven't already looked at them, they have a really cool solution - http://www.stripe.com
Nice list, but it is only me that see a problem with the fact that only 2/3 names here are not from English-speaking world?
TechStars benefits from the notoriety of the show, at the expense of the founders.
No really, all pronobozo's music is available from torrents that he puts on his website. People who want to give him money can buy the exact same music on Amazon or iTunes.

http://www.pronobozo.com/music *If you download the music for free, at least do me a favor of telling a few of your friends to come to the site as well. If you can afford it please make the 5 minute effort to purchase the album, it’s very much appreciated and lets me know you want to fuel the art. -pronobozo"

http://www.pronobozo.com/cred
Cool, so Brin will read Yegge's blog at Christmas. A week after the big post, it's reasonable for him to have dismissed it based on length.
Many immigrants tell me that they came to the US because of all the wonderful movies they watched. TV probably plays a large role as well, now.
Awesome stuff. My only gripe is that the other day I ran into one of these CSS-powered animation on an item I was debugging. I thought it was JS, so I was inspecting the DOM looking for the usual yellow highlighting when JS executes on a DOM. It never happened. It made me scratch my head for a while. Maybe they/we/I should put something in the webkit inspector to indicate a css animation action.
Bootstrapping is awesome in the South. For example in Melbourne, Florida you can live at the beach for $500/mo. Internet is goodly fast, and the Orlando airport is an hour away. There's enough high-tech activity from KSC and the defense industry to provide services you might need (office space, tech-savvy lawyers).

But besides access to funding and influence, there's another overlooked drawback to living in certain small towns: You'd be advised to bring your own boyfriend/girlfriend/spouse.
> Thunderbird good enough?

Oh man. As a longtime Thunderbird user, I have to say, that's a loaded question. :)
What about making an actual screencasting site where someone can turn the live video on and off in JS?
Dude, slap some Google ads on this, is great idea
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For some time I've ran a box with PF forwarding all TCP ports to an SSH server. That plus a simple nmap connect scan has proved handy for countless annoying networks that try to block "common" ports, poorly configured captive portal networks, etc. It's amazing how many "restricted" networks allow TCP 1, 53, 1723, 8080, and a few others out to the open net.
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I've had good success with Blekko. Not crazy about the slash syntax, but it certainly seems to work for me.

Btw, I'm a fan on DDG. It's slick and fun to use (although I still habitually go to Google still). Bad habit to break!
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When I was a child I could not understand why every adult did not become a Good Humor man- my absolute dream job at the time.
Good thoughts - we definitely see the embed feature being used for bloggers/media to get people's feedback
This was already posted to HN a few days ago.
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Friction is the only shield we have ever had to protect against invasion of privacy.

YES!!

Far from downplaying it, I was wondering if anyone would pick up on that! It's a really important point - many "privacy invasions" are things that were possible before, but inconvenient.

The truth is, though, that complaining about it is roughly as useful as the RIAA suing Napster. The internet reduces friction, and aren't privacy controls just another form of censorship that the internet will route around?
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Indeed. Gerber went even further and says that it may be counterproductive to own a business that matches your technical expertise. That's because of the temptation to jump in and do the technical work... instead of focusing on the strategic aspects of owning the biz.
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Great! Anything you think could be improved?
KA plus One Laptop per Child would be an incredibly powerful combination for third-world schools. OLPC should make it the homepage on the XO.
My understanding also is that its way way way way better to get married overseas and then try to get into the US. Sorry, I don't have any links for you.

It will still probably take a few months to a year. Which is probably going to make it difficult to have a job lined up in advance.

In any case its better because it doesn't require you and your spouse to be separated.
Allen attacks Kurzweil rather directly in his essay and the essay title is even "The Singularity Isn't Near". So in that case I think it's fair game if Kurzweil calls him out for not even regarding the arguments he made in "The Singularity is near".
Software to manage/run a lean startup venture?
I'm looking for the following:

It would be great to visually walk through the process chronologically to force the entrepreneur to adhere to "Lean Startup" best practices. No question lean startup methodology is miss-understood by many entrepreneurs thinking its just about testing and pivoting. Software that facilitates managing the direction of a venture based on lean methodology leaves no room for error. Yes, I have seen the lean startup canvas or even advanced versions of it...but thats just a glimpse of what needs to be done.
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Those are certainly some of the reasons, yes. But my point was more that Google is doing a poor job of managing the conflict between the business interests of its hardware partners and the health of the Android Open Source Project. Basically, AOSP isn't a "project" anymore (if it ever was), and that's sad.

And it's not like this is an impossibility. Red Hat manages to sell RHEL licenses without killing Fedora, for example.
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Is your Android device hacker friendly?
There's peer production vs. firm production. More recently, the term organic open source has caught on in some circles.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commons-based_peer_production
"Although the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich software development kit has been released, the source code is not yet out."

I believe this is called "closed source." When I go to http://source.android.com/, the latest release is Android 2.3 ("Gingerbread").

Am I missing a repository somewhere, or is Google "happy claiming the kudos and moral high ground that comes with OSS without really delivering on it", as it's put later in this thread?

(Edited to be less inflammatory)
Marvelous? It is an interesting idea, yes, but if even Landes & Posner express clear doubt over whether it does any good overall, one ought not overdo it.

> It has allowed value to accrue to things that were actually valuable while also being intangible.

It allowed price to be given to them, but since that detracts from the value we can immediately see it is not such a clearly good proposition -- it is very questionable.

Copyright gets by to a large degree on a conservative mind-set. It is almost impossible to see alternative ideas, but very easy to appreciate what actually exists. Caution is not all wrong, but when the greatest information tech in history has recently been invented, one would think the situation is more about turning the clock forward not back.
You're just repeating the obvious part of what he said; I already know this, I'm interested in the details of what differed between what the movies told them vs their actual experiences.
He makes money by selling his music on Amazon or iTunes, then.

He generates buzz and advertises his product by giving it out for free.
http://inbox2.com

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3083935
Which technologies does this use that are not ubiquitous? Without seeing the examples, I can't think of anything that couldn't be done with canvas + js and would work in practically every browser. Of course that wouldn't be 'pure' CSS but I can't see a reason to insist on that either.

I'm stuck with Firefox 3.6 on this workstation but it does most of HTML5 just fine so being 'unsupported' for some animation is a surprise.
Just one condition. H1B's would be given out only in areas where there's a skill shortage in US. IT jobs are always on the list and that's why H1B's are easily given out for IT. However for other industries, say agriculture, or most factory work, it's impossible to take the H1B route.
Couldn't agree more, the business started off with general theme sales and finally zoned in on this restaurant niche. I think once the proof of concept is functioning (i.e. 500+ paying customers), it'll be definitely something to invest in.
Every investor fancies himself a job creator.
http://samurai.feefighters.com
Doesn't have recurring billing built in (we didnt need it) but I think they might connect to chargify. We ended up choosing Samurai for the lower fees.
Bootstrapping is great in the south......until you need funding.
I admit that this is personal experience. However, a quick google of "fiancee visa vs spousal visa" seems to back me up.
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The article talks about $9.1 bn invested in SV in 2010 vs $1.2 bn in the South and then goes on to say that approximately 1 out of 10 raises are in the South.

Unfortunately this overlooks the power of having 4x as much money concentrated in a drivable radius vs multiple neighboring states. It's not linear. Same thing can be said of the expertise of the investors themselves. In the Valley you can actually find an entire firm that focuses on B2B SaaS because the volume makes it possible. In other cities, investors can't be as focused because the volume simply isn't there. This makes a big difference when you are pitching. If your startup fits their niche, it's going to click much easier.

Stormpulse is a startup that the South should invest in (yes, I'm completely biased), but when we started to pitch aggressively we found ourselves getting the most traction in Austin and the Valley.
Yes, we changed the way the app functions (making it easier for first time visitors to understand the app) and wanted to receive feedback. We felt it was a bit confusing before.