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The problem with this argument :

xxxx - middle ages : rampant piracy to the point that the only authors are those that successfully beg rich people or organisations to patron them
1709 - copyright in the English commonwealth. Becoming a piano composer and later author becomes a job. Someone who is not independantly wealthy, politically empowered or has patronage can actually survive
....
1841 (or some time before): copyright switches from "honorable protection of authors" to something people "feel obliged to violate").
1841 ~ 1990 copyright is mostly respected
1990 "the scene" starts up. It's hard to explain what exactly happened -you had to have been there- but it comes down to ftp sites with pirated material coming online
1999 large scale piracy becomes possible for the first time with the release of napster

Piracy levels :
xxxx - 1709 (english commonwealth law) : 100% piracy
1709 - 1990 : tiny amounts of piracy
1990 - 1999 : very slow rampup of piracy on the internet, filling internet capacity, on ftp and usenet
1999 - ???? : massive online piracy, still ramping upwards

Let's run a correlation algorithm on these 2 time series, shall we ? What do you think the result will be ?

Massive scale copyright piracy is here because the masses have the option to violate copyright without consequences. I don't get, given the history of the problem/phenomenon how you can claim this to be anything else with a straight face.

This of course also means that changes to copyright law will not have any effect of piracy levels. Changes in enforcement, of course, will.

Unless you're argument is "I'm a copyright pirate, and I'm not a horrible human being". I fully agree with that, but I would like to make the point that every married drunk I've ever spoken to thinks that way.
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I went into that video thinking "Big deal; it's a helicopter inside a ball", but the way it moved in the air was actually very impressive -- especially the way it responded to being pushed by the demonstrator about a minute in.
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I don't understand why anyone would think they should model themselves after Steve Jobs.

Only Steve Jobs could live the life of Steve Jobs, for better or worse. We can learn volumes from his life and work, but wisdom is learning how these lessons apply differently to each of us.
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My brother, a university student, got trapped in the overdraft scheme. This bank, TCF Bank, encourages students to sign up during orientation. My brother decided to sign up and deposited a small sum of money. Not realizing there exists an overdraft fee, he continues to buy things thinking the bank will prevent a transaction if his balance hits 0. He didn't realize his until letters from debt collectors came in the mail asking for $300! He tried with multiple TCF branches to try and reduce this amount, but no one budged. He got screwed!

What did he purchase to have to owe $300? He frequently buys $0.50 candy and $1 chips... at $30 per overdraft... yeah
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Move on with your life. You gave up on this years ago. Trying to extract a 20% stake for some flailing around in the early years is ridiculous. You were happy to let others do the hard work building a company, now you want to cash in.
I hope this style of funding takes off. I'll be the first to admit that I buy into the hype around social, mobile, realtime, and all those buzzwords for consumer apps but the future I dream about involves taking on the bigger challenges, basically the ones outlined in the Grand Challenges for Engineering: http://www.engineeringchallenges.org/
That's exactly what the parent said he doesn't want to do.
Hi Jori and Karri.

Kippt does look promising. I have a little bit of a meta-question for you.

Do you have any tips or advice you could share about getting covered on RWW with an early stage app?

Based on a cursory look I think you'll agree that Kippt is an MVP right now. A well polished MVP, but still an MVP, and one that isn't markedly different than (and in some ways you've already called out, somewhat lacking in features compared to) a host of Delicious- and Instapaper-type apps. (I don't intend that to be negative, so I hope you don't take it that way.)

How did you manage to get RWW to cover Kippt at such an early stage?
People often get carried away thinking about linear progression from the current state when the general problem is NP-hard.

With Siri, however, I'm not interested in it being a person, but something that can help set reminders, timers, appointments, and dictate text messages while I drive. That's huge for me. Rather than breadth, if Apple focuses on depth then the problem is more tractable because you have more context with which to reduce complexity.

Apple's R&D is applied, so it will have a product focus and get to market quicker. If they can make Siri really good at a specific number of tasks then people will understand what it is good for, rather than be disappointed, and it will improve faster.
As an Australian who left some time ago for all the experience SF startups bring, this almost has me considering coming back to Melbourne. Great to see but hedging bets for now. Good luck :)
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Faster than Vista? High praise indeed.

Vista is what drove me to Mac OS, Windows 7 does not seem like much of an improvement in my limited testing. I hated the fact that Microsoft would just move everything around for no good reason, so I had to relearn to do everything I could do in XP. I managed with Dos v3.3 -> XP.
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more powerful than the corporate culture as a whole

My experience has been the opposite, that a deviant subculture can't survive for long and is eventually rejected by the host.
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Not worthless, still a very interesting statistic.

There is not just one good statistic, and all the rest are useless. Different statistics tell different things.
so you can simply have a maximum delay, of say 10 minutes.
Congrats on releasing your app.

Sure it's a stupid app, but you learned so much and had fun. When you have an idea for your next stupid app the whole process will seem so much easier.
You don't need a cashiers check, you can write an ordinary check.

If you have bill pay setup then you have to copy all those accounts to the new account.

You have to keep track of which checks you have outstanding, and especially if you have some people who take their time to cash them you may have to wait 6 months before you can close the account.
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The wordle seems to be loading weird stuff that's not related. Other than that this is awesome and I'm sharing with everyone!
I'd love to see a new Jobs movie, but damn they'd have to be very selective with casting.

Having read the Facebook Effect and then watched the adaptation, I can see that Sorkin has a knack for twisting the story to create drama, and I'm not sure that would fly with Apple, but who knows. Is this something where Jobs' family would have to give permission?
This is from the computer-science-as-childrens-story-book (http://www.laurenipsum.org/) which has me intrigued. Though I'm still not sold on the idea, personally.
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So... the headlines refer to things that you don't know, but want to know after you read the headline. In other words, things that interest you, phrased to be interesting. Is that a surprising tactic?
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I've heard it mentioned as 'largest payment first', with the stated argument that it's most likely to be a loan or some other important payment, but has the practical effect of triggering charges on way more items.

It's For Your Benefit, citizen.

(Also, the cash advance interest differential for credit-cards, which is higher, and only paid off after all other charges are covered, rather than any sort of temporal ordering)
Banks don't close accounts. So you can have a reoccurring charge on a canceled debit card show up on a canceled bank account get charged for it get an over draft, have a negative balance which you get charged for every day. Then once the balance is negative enough they sell your 'debt' to a third party debt collector.

PS: The first half of this happened to me costing me close to 300$ in 2 weeks and it's only me double checking that everything was fine that I got informed. At no point in this process did they attempt to contact me and they would have gladly let this grow into the thousands before contacting me for payment etc. O and the debt card had been canceled for over 3 months before that transaction happened.
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They do many things that are consumer facing right, but there are somethings that are developer facing that are just wrong. You don't know how much pain and confusion iOS provisioning profiles and signing give to my coworkers and myself initially. It's the majority of the questions I get asked about in relation to iOS.
If you wonder where those downvotes are coming from, it's the hordes of HN-libertarians who smelled a quasi-sort-of-but-not-really-socialist sentiment in your post from the front page and were instinctively, even mindlessly, drawn here.

Heaven forfend we have a single post anywhere that doesn't jive with the bootstraps, fuck-you-got-mine, randroid hivemind mentality.
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Bill pay, direct deposit, automatic savings withdrawal, subscription services, saved billing info (iTunes, Amazon) to name a few.
I don't mean to sound critical but why do you think networks get sports right? I actually feel like this is one of the worst offenders. Say I want to watch every Chicago Blackhawks game this season (or any other hockey team). Well, then I need to sign up for Versus. In order to get that I need to sign up for a Cable/satellite service. But I don't want all the channels, I watch what I want on broadcast or rent/stream. I just want to be able to watch a game when I have the time. I don't like watching normal shows TV on cable (can't stand commercials), so I rent DVDs or stream it on Netflix. Now there really aren't any options for me to just get sports, without paying way extra for a bunch of crap I don't want.

I can sign up for NHL Center Ice (Internet streaming), but then I don't really get to watch every game online, most are subject to blackouts, playoff games are spotty, Stanley Cup games are nonexistent. And since I don't have cable, I miss local games because it's subject to black out in my team's region.

Maybe it's better with other sports, but I really wish there was an easier way to select a team I want to follow or pay to watch games as I watch them, and only pay for that. The only station that I thought got things right was Telemundo during the world cup, even though I don't know any more spanish than "no hablo espanol". I watched all the games there since I didn't want to sign up for cable to get ESPN for two months.

Basically I'd just like a way to pay for season passes (and actually get all the games) or get a decent sports channel without paying for a bunch I don't want.

Edit: Sorry if this seemed nonsensical, my frustration with finding an easy way to watch certain sports has gone on for a couple years now.
There are some payments which can only (or which otherwise charge some non-trivial surcharge) be made via direct-debit/automated payments. Power bills are the obvious one here, I think they couch it as a discount for online payments, and bump the baseline prices if you want to pay by cheque (by post - which you hope then arrives, and clears, and ...)
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It seems like a reasonably good description of bipolar II. Rest assured, it can be tamed (either with medication, a therapy - such as CBT or even just a humanistic therapy - or both) but the first step is in finding the right help rather than ignoring it. Good luck.
I think OS X does this right.

Every Windows upgrade feels like a brand new operating system. In contrast, every new OS X release feels more like an iterative update.

In a sense, OS X has been your ten year operating system, just with rolling updates.
Not surprising, just fascinating how good they are at it. Each headline begs a simple "who, what, how, why" question. Often I click on things I don't even care about because I...just...have...to...scratch...that...itch!!! :)
That 50% number seems high to me. Seems chicken-and-egg. Do they buy a Kindle then subscribe to Amazon Prime or do they use Amazon a lot and thus get both a Kindle and Amazon Prime?

And like most chicken-and-egg questions, the answer is both and neither.

As someone who has spent far too much time puttering around brick-and-mortar stores recently, before walking away in disgust and just buying it on Amazon, I can't help but think Amazon is just spending to widen an already vast competitive edge.

This isn't apples versus oranges. This is sailboat versus steamboat.
The way around this is to hover over the links to see the real headline from the url.
Just looking for opportunities and ideas. Transplant your idea to another market, another industry ... and make 6 millions myself :)
This only prevents brute-force password guessing, it doesn't solve the problem of the timing attack. Especially on passwords, which don't change very often. A patient attacker would try only a few attempts at a time, get timing info, then wait out the cooling period until the penalty is back down to 1 second of sleep, then repeat. Each time they gain more information which can all be put together to complete the attack.
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i'm confused. Do you get those three services together listed in the blog. If so why are they all separate when you go to buy the onDemand package?

Also I like the 10$ a month for 10 users. Will there be anything like 5$ a month for 1-5 Developers?
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If you had to wait 10 minutes to login to a website every time, you'd very quickly stop bothering to log in.
What font did you use for "& I'm raising money to buy a mac"?
to be totally blunt, it sounds like you're at about the stage of most of those people who post ads on craigslist that we all laugh at: "i've got a great idea, all i need is somebody to implement it"

don't kid yourself - implementation is everything, and implementing properly is harder than you will ever imagine. if you don't even know how to code, you are nowhere near at a stage to quit your job unless you have savings to keep you afloat for at least a year. 10-15k to create your startup for you in a month or two is not a reasonable estimate.
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It's very interesting hearing about young kids trying to interact with "old media" like they would an iPhone or iPad. Swiping a billboard, tapping a magazine cover. To me, these aren't obvious ways to interact with the things I've gotten used to all my life.
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With the 1 second sleep (for the first attempt) I was thinking of something along the lines of this:

t1 = time();

/* Perform login credentials check, if okay return */

loginattempt = n;

sleep(n^2 - time() + t1);

In other words, the sleep time includes the time it took to process the login info.
10 minutes +1ms vs 10minutes +2ms can still leak information.

Ideally you want something like 3 seconds per password per IP starting the timer before you look up the password.
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Aha! I misread the parent's "she" as referring to Siri, not as to the person using the phone. Apologies.
What about it gives you pause? The goal isn't to teach programming per se, but to have fun with some of the really interesting ideas and habits of mind that go along with programming. And to sneak in a lot of bad jokes.

Do you have or know kids? I'd be glad to send you a copy to show to them.
I'm 24.

In regards to "where" for outsourcing. That is something I have not looked into in detail, but potentially anywhere as long I received quality code.

But anyway, to your other question directed at me (and no need to think your trying to smackdown because I agree entirely with your sentiment), what do you offer...

The things I offer:

1. Vision - I know, to some this (like an idea) means very little

2. Design - I am competent with UI/UX, as well as designing using photoshop and illustrator.

3. Sales/Marketing - I can sell. I'm a good orator and I'm passionate and persuasive (or so I've been told and experienced). In regards to marketing, I've read and learned plenty about it and am always learning more, although I won't claim to be an expert.

4. Accounting/Business - I'm an accountant (well, auditor with CPA) so I do bring that to the table as well. Ultimately, along with accounting, I have a good deal of knowledge on finance and general business issues as well.

Now, perhaps I'm naive to think the above is enough to offer a potential future tech co-founder. However, it's what I've got and, above all, I am incredibly passionate and hardworking. I know that would matter a lot to me in choosing someone to work with (perhaps more so than raw talent/skills), so I can only hope the same can be said the other way around.

Anyway, you also bring up a good point about the problem about the "tech co-founder" in that they have far more opportunity (a good one anyway) than I might offer, so why me? It's the reason I have made this post and offer up the decision to code things myself or outsource. I know where I have a weakness, even if I learn to code, I still won't be as proficient as I need to be. So, I will need someone.

I guess my hope is that by actually creating something and having customers, that traction (along with the list of things I believe I have to offer) will entice a "tech co-founder" to come join up with me.
I think you're missing out on a lot of things. The bank definitely has costs that go into supporting its customers: branches and employees to staff them (most banks, not all of course), phone support people, the very computer systems you talk about, and people to keep them running and add new features to them. Most mainstream banks' free checking accounts make these things available to account holders, so I don't know how you can say they don't cost anything.
Sure. Most of what you lose is opportunity cost, time, bureaucratic overhead, and the possibility that they just take your code and go.

Yes, you could sue them. This is harder than it sounds, especially if they're optimizing to be sued -- companies that are out to screw people often optimize to be sued, roughly speaking.

Again, not saying "OMG! This must be pure evil!". Just, y'know, you sound awfully confident that nothing can go wrong and I don't think that's justified in this case.

For starters, be prepared to walk away like that.
I can definitely relate to the death of linear TV. I don't often watch TV. But now I can't bare normal TV because of all the damn breaks that completely destroy the atmosphere or the show I was watching to sell me stuff I don't want.
I was actually somewhat happily surprised to hear you say that. I had kind of suspected that I had bipolar II for a while, but I sort of put the thought out of my head for fear that I was falling into a self-diagnosis trap. I'd wanted to go to a professional and be told I had it, but I never got around to really going.
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The title of the post is ironic.
Well it's not beyond the realm of imagination for pirates to create a platform like Steam but offer all games for free. Torrents are somewhat inaccessible to the average user and they they lack content management support.
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Jesus, man. You shouldn't sell yourself short with a title like that; makes it sound like some random MySpace post when it's one of the best personal blog posts I've read.

I'm 18, and this pretty much describes the last four months of my life (since starting at a soul-crushing community college). That depression -> realization -> joy -> productivity -> slipping -> depression cycle is something I've become intimately familiar with. I've considered therapy, of course, but I keep hoping it's short-term, and I don't necessarily want to spend the money if I have the ability to tame it myself.

edit: glad to see you changed the title :)
This is especially nasty with charges made at the gas pump where places like Holiday will authorize $75 and take their sweet time removing the auth after the actual charge.
> thought I read this article about how between 2005 and 2008 investment into grain futures pushed the price of real grain high enough that hundreds of millions of people across the world starved

Starved? Exaggerate much?

What, exactly, kept them from buying something else instead?

> which still have not returned to what they should be

What is this price "that should be"?

If you think that wheat should be sold at a given price, what is stopping you from providing it at that price?

You're claiming that "investors" are buying grain for less and waiting for the price to go up. What stops you from buying at the same price that they buy and selling at a lower price than they demand?
The article pretty much admits that the "new Jobs" (ie, the one most know) could be an excellent role model. Why is it so hung up on actions from 20 or 30 years ago?
I'm not convinced on its supposed use case though. What makes it any better at search than a smaller UAV?
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I'm rather of the opinion they simply do not realize how important the fundamentals are. Fundamentals are not glamorous and easy to miss for the untrained eye, so when your enemy comes knocking with twice as many troops you are inclined to think they must be doing something special.