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> the idea that you'd proceed to download an unknown sequence off the internet, express it, and eat it is ridiculous.

While I find it just as ridiculous as you do, I am also looking in disbelief as people trust for-profit corporations with everything from their complete financial data (Mint), correspondence (Gmail) social life (Facebook) -- and furthermore, often publicly give enough info through e.g. Facebook to every burglar so that they know when it is a good time to come burgle.

So we might both wake up in ten years to people downloading sequences off the net, printing and eating them.
You're not most people. I don't think you fully realize just how 'not-geeky' everyone else is. Almost every single internet user does NOT know how to torrent something at all. A lot of the people who are going to watch his performance would, basically, stop at trying to email a video to someone or copy it right to a DVD. If they can't do that, then they don't bother trying to distribute illegally at all.

Having a DRM-free version basically means that the grandmas and middleschoolers and casual internet users of the world (almost everyone) are going to inevitably "pirate" it when they simply put it on a DVD or email it to a friend.
A quick Google search does seem to confirm this and at reputable sources such as Psychology Today and the Mayo Clinic. However that should not be a reason to dismiss increased awareness especially as an outreach to those experiencing depression and suicidal thoughts. In other words, it's always a good time to talk about it and to try to help. If the holidays increase awareness and get people talking about it I don't see that as a bad thing even if there isn't a statistical increase in suicide.

Edit: typo and formatting
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What about the Chocolat editor? I hate the name but it seems to be an awesome editor.
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Posts like these are dangerous. If someone feels horrible, seeing "You may feel like you are alone and nobody is as bad a person as you are" just makes the person feel worse.

You can't shove detached, inexperienced logic in the face of someone with temporarily broken brain chemistry.

For a more thorough understanding see http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb4345/is_7_32/ai_n291...
Eh. My first job was a remote (cross-country, even) internship when I was 16 for a 2-man bootstrapped startup that didn't have an office anyway. Since they were already setup to do most work conversations through Campfire, it worked great.

There's nothing keeping you from "pointing out the basics" via email, chat, or Skype and being available on chat if they hit walls just as you would be in person.

Sure, if you're not communicating well, maybe your full-timers can get stuff done despite that and your interns can't. But I'd say that means that having a remote intern is one of the most important things you can do from time to time. It will be a test of whether you're actually doing the distributed team thing right, instead of your team just being competent enough to work around it.
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Non-technical users are almost every single user in the world. So, if DRM prevents just those people from being able to simply email a video to a friend, then it actually is preventing most "pirating".
so train them
Author here. To be honest I posted it in the first place to hopefully generate some discussion about whether there might be a better way to do this(!). I think memorising 26 mnemonics is possible (and i disagree with the below commenter who says 124 individual words might be easier...) but perhaps the information can be further compressed.
Can you elaborate on how your method works a little? How are the two lists derived?
No, your problem is that you governments borrowed too much to spend on unsustainable social programs, and reality is finally rearing its ugly head. Printing money will certainly paper over this problem, while screwing over savers and others who were prudent enough not to blow up the bubble.
Yeah, for me it seemed that if someone needs to see his words that the headline might not be the best motivator.
Skype has a pretty awful UI for chats. If you get people set up using a bouncer then it's pretty easy to get persistent conversations over IRC, and then people get to use the client of their choice. Plus it's a lot easier to automate with bots.
Preaching to the choir :) I'm in the UK so I don't have a great deal of choice, but I am looking to change from PayPal.

I've got my eye on http://saasy.com but I'm waiting to see if Stripe will come to the UK any time soon before investing time in switching to Saasy.

In the mean time, the BugMuncher MVP was built around PayPal subscriptions, so it makes sense to build upon that for now.
You really have to hire mostly experienced folks to make things work on a distributed team. You can hire juniors and let them pair with senior devs, but they still need to come with some previous experience.

If you want to hire interns, you really need to get some office space and pair them with experienced devs.
Minor typo: "hard one by" => "hard done by". Great post though, on a very important topic. Thanks raganwald.
I wouldn't consider doing this -- nor could I easily get a job there, anyway, not being from the US and all -- but I still found the comments very interesting. Contains posts by people who worked as contractors in Iraq or Afghanistan. Lots of practical advice¹, as well as cautionary tales².

1: "Find the lightest, coolest shirts you can, cargo pants, good sturdy boots, and a good pair of sunglasses. I also found a large, floppy hat to be useful."
2: "I still jump when I hear a dumpster lid shut (it sounds spookily like a mortar hitting)"
The thing about Sunset (at least Outer Sunset) is that it's still a 45 minute muni ride to downtown. Yeah, there's a lot of "city stuff" (the park is right there), but man if you're going to spend 45 minutes on public transit, live in walnut creek and take bart or something.
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"From everything I've seen in corporate spy guides, it seems unlikely that the government is watching your every move if you're not doing something wrong or at least suspicious."

Ah, the old "if you've done nothing wrong, you have nothing to fear" argument...
Right, that's the "Amazon may not need the business" part.
>nobody wants to ban.

Except for the industries. They absolutely do want to ban this kind. Almost every single person on the internet is non-technical and doesn't even know how to torrent. If DRM prevents them from emailing a friend a copy, then DRM is doing exactly what the inventors want it to. That's the largest market share.

Also, emailing a song or video to a friend is far easier than handing a person a DVD, CD, or even a casette tape used to be. The old kind of sharing was tolerated because it still used to be easier to go buy an album than to get a copy. Today, that's not the case.
Off-topic: I see in your screenshots that Dock icons of applications that are not started are on their side. How did you do this?
I think it all comes down to marketing and advertising. In the end you may not make as much with an HBO/Comedy Central special, but would anyone know who Louis CK is without these?

It's more of a branding thing with the specials and getting your name out there. It may not payoff up front, but the deals that come after it (such as Louie, the TV show) make it well worth it in exchange for the money lost.

The trick isn't really building a platform for smaller indie people to do these sort of things, that's easy and already available widely. The trick is building a service where these smaller indie people can make it big without having to go through the big players like HBO/Comedy Central first. YouTube is on the right track and Pandora/Spotify seems to be doing this for music, they just need time to growth, because as big as YouTube is, it still doesn't have the weight and advertising ability that a channel like HBO/Comedy Central has. As the ability to sift through the junk becomes better and better via analysis of social cues/demographics, it will be easier for these sort of simple "I don't care if you pirate because it's cheap enough" models to take off for smaller people. But at that point YouTube or whoever fills that gap just becomes the next HBO/Comedy Central and the cycle repeats.

Bottom line is there's always going to be a "big wig" who owns almost all the eggs. For standup comedy it's Comedy Central and HBO. If you can make it there you're set. Maybe someday it will be the YouTube comedy channel, but someones going to always come out ahead and being the leader means you can set your own price on what you wish to pay (as HBO/Comedy Central has done here).
I suppose the core of my objection is the focus on technology being the solution to the problem of students not learning. It feels like it is really easy to fall into the trap of "Students who clicked 5 times instead of 4 when navigating to the back button were found to have performed marginally better within the 5th percentile, but significantly better overall."

The tools are all there and I agree that some good will come out of it. But without a motivation to learn something, I don't see these technologies as being a solution. More of an amplifier of a solution than anything else. Start ups focused around creating technology to measure students seem like a good way to make the above "quadruple click back button for success" scenario play out somehow.
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I refuse to be described as a 'Rabid' fan. Mangy? Yes. Creepy? Certainly. But Rabid? No sir, that I am not.
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http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3292885
Nice summary. Thanks!
this is great because illegal downloading seems like such a victimless crime, but here we have a specific victim and so the 'crime' all of the sudden has drastically changed in scope.
Can anyone post a list for those of us behind a firewall? Thanks!
Also, "felling" => "feeling".
I honestly don't know why so many people care where a company starts. For example, Microsoft started in Redmond. Rovio isn't even in the US. Notch is a Swede.

For what it's worth, people should really look at their product and build it wherever they can. Screen sharing and remote chatting for 4-5 hours a day anywhere has helped. As long as most everyone is within reach of 3 hours (basically, anywhere in the continental US), it's possible. I'm not bold enough to try international borders merely to keep payroll compliance, legal liability, and agreements effective, but I'm sure it can work. Just ask free software projects how that's working over Github.

In fact, I find it beneficial not to have my employees in a startup hub so that companies like Google can't poach them.

After all, a location is just a location. If you're an Internet business, you don't actually meet up with your customers when you have a problem.
Does anyone know how to adjust the line height?

In 1.x I could do

defaults write com.macromates.TextMate OakLineHeightDelta n

but 2.x doesn't respect that (or com.macromates.Avian OakLineHeightDelta).
It really doesn't matter if it's a myth if you feel like that. The pressures that you can feel when depressed and surrounded by family create bad situations that might result in an attempt later, once everyone is gone, or simply a really sad holiday. Frankly, neither of these is an acceptable outcome. This is the 21st century and a human being shouldn't need to feel scared and alone anymore.
It's pretty tough to compete with the excellent free CMS's. But you can make good money on theme or plugin development for CMS's...
Hi,
Some questions:

Wasn't it kind of a waste of time do develop a static compiler plus an interpreter (while ending up writing a jit anyway)? Why did you not start out with a JIT? The problem of static compilation of dynamic languages (spezially PHP) was well known (phc!). The kind of JIT that is discribed in the post does (as far as I can see) nothing in it that was not already known when HipHop was originally developed.

What kind of optimization are you guess doing? Since the scope of your optimization is only one basic block (did I understand that right?) how much do these optimizations acctully help compaired to unoptimized translation to assembly?

Have you tought about using the pypy toolchain. The pypy jit allready does quite a lot of optimizations (not to mention the much wider scope for optimization for "real" traces) and it would be much less work to implment.
UPDATE: Amazon just reinstated my account (with an equally impersonal email). I updated the post to reflect this.

A partial victory, but it's still not really satisfying. Had I not taken the effort to blog about this, and gotten lucky by hitting the top spot on Hacker News, I don't think Amazon would have reinstated my account.
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Suicide and mental illness need to been seen as conditions for which people need care and support rather than marginalization. Thank you for posting this.
Ive associated suicide as correlated with too much logic. It takes a litle bit of delusion deep in the core of your being to assign value, meaning and purpose to the process of moving molecules from a high energy state to lower energy states. Which is all we are doing. Convincing a logical person that delusion is needed is a tough sell.
Ive had the experience of trying to talk some normality into a suicidal person. Its like two kids on a carnival ride and one is queasy and hates it and wants to get off. Every turn and moment is filled with a desire to get off. what does the kid having fun on the ride say to the one who wants off? It comes down to "stop feeling the way you do". the misrable one has to figure out the source of the pain and hijack a feedback loop happening in the subconscious mind.
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Would something like this work for you?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/95072/what-are-your-favor...
Gratuitous Space Battles (if pay more than average)

Gave Story+ (if pay more than average)

Jamestown

Bit.Trip Runner

Super Meat Boy

Shank

NightSky HD
This again? As mentioned in those HN threads, it has been rebutted:

http://www.puredoxyk.com/index.php/2006/11/01/an-attack-on-p...

Fact is there's not a ton of evidence for it not working out. There has been virtually zero research on it, despite plenty of polyphasic people volunteering for research.
I agree. I used to get really excited about the humble bundle. They had a few noteworthy games per bundle (All the games they have are good, but some are less known than others).

Now that it's a monthly affair I get the initial perception that the bundles have less noteworthy games and that I'm getting tired of so many of them. After a bit of thought I realize I /am/ paying just a few bucks for a lot of games and helping charity and I end up buying them, even if I already own al lthe games. but I fear there's a lot of people who won't make that leap and just say "meh, been there done that". It's sad because the bundle is great for devs and great for gamers.
Assuming the story is correct (and based on how others have vouched for the OP here I have every reason to believe that it is) the crime that Amazon has appeared to commit here (I like to reduce things down this way) is that according to the story there is no reasonable appeal process.

We regularly get fraud orders and we follow a certain procedure to yank those but you can call us or email us and you will get a response.

We are actually very interested in knowing whether we've made a mistake so we can refine the process further. (As PG said he wants to know the future success of companies YC rejected for the same reason.)
Within the particle physics community, that bump is widely believed to be the result of a poorly understood background subtraction. None of the other experiments (D0, CMS, ATLAS) have been able to reproduce that result.
37Signals acquires domain Basecamp.com, now redirects to Basecamphq.com
Probably related and to be announced with the latest updates to Basecamp.
When I read things like that, it remember me the times I had a job i disliked. There is sometimes lot of pain when working with customers, some of them really want their music playing on that webpage. You have to remember who you work for and who are your customers. If these people are your customers, maybe you can change the message your giving to be more constructive. If they aren't, well i'm wondering why you hate those people so much.
You hit the cause in your third paragraph.

Suicidal ideation is a process starting with falling short of expectations then blaming yourself for the shortfall. You start incorrectly rationalizing reasons why everything is your fault and how nothing can get better. Negativity permeates every thought. Your world breaks down into tiny logical blocks and you rationalize why everything is hopeless.

The only way out is to break the chain of elevating mental isolation and negativity. It's easier to stop it in the nascent stages. Try not to blame yourself. The world is a big place and we have so much to do.
Thank you. What do you suggest?
I agree; I use Linux infrequently, and I've always found the man pages to be chock-full of details on how to use particular switches, but lacking in examples. I usually have to read them very closely just to get to the point of "look, I just want the basic usage on this tool so I can do X, the thing the tool is made for, rather than X -q -m -p."
wow. I didn't even know about git grep. Very useful
Microsoft actually started in Albuquerque, NM, but moved to Redmond 4 or 5 years later.
I would prefer juvenile and brilliant (but productive) programmers to boring men in suits sitting in dark cubicles, lifelessly writing code day after day, and who have no sense of humor or fun whatsoever.
I've always felt that when two torrent clients start talking, they should require each other to say something to the effect: "I am an agent of the copyright holder of this material, and I hereby authorize you to use and distribute this material freely" before sending any data. Try to sue someone in court when you have your investigator on record telling them they can use and distribute your works.
It's not that hard to memorize the 2-letter words. Most of them do have a meaning that makes sense. So it's easier to remember

aa = lava

ab = your abs

ad = tv ads

ae = scottish "one"

ag = agricultural

ah = ah that feels good

ai = a sloth

al = a tree

am = i am happy

an = an apple

ar = arrr i'm a pirate

as = as you were

at = where you at

aw = aww that's cute

ax = the weapon

ay = ay caramba

than it is to memorize "abdeghilmnrstwxy".
A location could have unique attributes that might make it more favorable to a start-up company, e.g. proximity to tech schools (particularly one you've graduated from), tax breaks, amenities to attract talent, etc.
It sort of reminds me of Kevin Kelly's 1000 True Fans ( http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2008/03/1000_true_fan... )
The thing that has kept me with Textmate has been its particular style of autocompletion, and a few bundles that I really love, namely the jQuery bundle, Javascript Tools, and the CodeIgniter bundle.

I use it nearly every day, so it's hard to adjust to anything else.
The article doesn't state when it's from, but it does mention a 2001 Georgetown study, which means that it's probably from around 2001-2002.

It looks like the health care reform of 2010 prevents insurance companies from denying you coverage due to pre-existing conditions (starting in 2014): http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2010/0324/Health-care-...
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Agreed. I don't like what Facebook is doing with the social network portion of its business whatsoever, but their engineering is brilliant and it's awesome for them to release something as amazing as this software.
I've noticed a lot of people feeling rather dysphoric lately. Myself, I always feel very strange around mid Oct-mid Dec, I think due to the change in seasons and my natural cycle of brain chemistry (which isn't ideal). I'm not concerned about the holidays in particular, but when you do have a drab family or social life, it's hard not to feel confronted by that at Christmas and the New Year.

The economic situation as affected many people negatively, especially trying at a time that one hopes to have extra money for their family. I'd believe that we have more than an average share of despondence these days.
Usually for any torrent case just being on the tracker is not enough for conviction, they have to record the user sending copyrighted data to the investigator.
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It prevents person-to-person sharing for non-technical users of the original content. The real question is: How hard is it for a non-technical user to find and download a pirated version from the Internet?

It's the difference between:

Hey! This track is awesome lemme email it to you.

and

Hey! This track is awesome. Google for a pirated version
of it!
I was feeling disconnected from everyone else, and then it dawned on me: well, duh!

So, I closed HN and went to talk to ACTUAL physically present people.
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Agreed, Super Meat Boy alone is worth whatever you may pay, in my opinion :)
You know what I want? A really awesome todo webapp. One that supports priorities, nested todo's with dependencies and due dates, templated actions or projects, sms email or ios push notificastions, and is really easy to use. I'd pay a couple bucks a month for that, especially if it had an iPhone companion app. Team integration would be great and time tracking too.
Basically, think project management tool, with a heavy "todo item" focus.
> Convincing a logical person that delusion is needed is a tough sell.

Hence the large number of densely written words needed by existentialist philosophy and its associates, to attempt to justify it...
(Disclaimer: I'm the "accidental scientist" profiled in this article.)

Yes I've noticed this as well. People are often asking me for my opinion about Big Data, treating it as a synonym for Data Science. Since the journalist at Wired had recently written a couple of articles about Hadoop, I took this opportunity to explain to him how data size and data value are not necessarily directly related. I think he did a great job in the piece of getting this point across.
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No question about that.

After all they did say:

"Further correspondence regarding the closure of your selling account may not be answered. The closure of this account is a permanent action. Any subsequent accounts that are opened will be closed as well."

I would still consider doing the PR angle with this ending as the story hook. You went to all the effort of doing a blog post and you got everyone talking about it here. It would be unfortunate if this wasn't able to result in some reasonable systemic change to the Amazon practice.
Nitpick: I agree with much of what you've said here, but as it pertains to Spotify, the majors have them by the balls, and the financial predicament that puts them in likely has some influence on their outrageously low payout rates which are steadily alienating musicians, independent and "signed" alike. (As an independent/amateur electronic musician, one of the qualities I look for in a distributor to get my music on iTunes, etc. is "does not submit songs to Spotify.")

I suspect that the type of solution you've described may work, but in its current incarnation, Spotify aint it.
Counterpoint: it takes a little bit of delusion to seek some kind of "ultimate justification" to the naturally pleasuable and fulfilling experience that is life.

My point is only: you can't break the symmetry with logic alone. Ultimately your priors/axioms/experiences come into play.