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"The trouble with law makers is the influence the music and film industry have on them. The facts are there to be seen. Someone who goes out of their way to get a pirate copy of something will typically spend more on entertainment than those who don't."

I have yet to see any concrete evidence of this.

"The music industry likes to believe that every track downloaded is 79p they could have had. That isn't the case at all. "

It's funny. The excuses as to why people download pirated content changes every couple of years. Maybe it has to do with different age groups.

Remember when albums where $20 and everyone complained that the reason they were downloading rather than buying was because it was too expensive and they couldn't buy an individual song?

It put many stores out of business and many people lost their jobs. Nobody seem to talk about this though.

It's ridiculous to me that with so many legal services and songs at .99, people still pirate music. But it does show that it was all just an excuse. People that pirate just want free stuff.

"certainly isn't the devil which many law and policy makers make out it is"

Piracy isn't 1-to-1 theft. However, if companies don't do anything about it, people will just expect their content to be free and in the future, they won't be able to charge anything for it.

"If pirated content disappeared overnight I personally would mostly live without. If I did buy a DVD for a silly price, that would mean I wouldn't be visiting the cinema that week. I think the majority of my friends would do the same."

You think the price is silly, yet you still download it. You are getting enjoyment out of listening or watching the content and you aren't compensating the artists and many people that went into creating it.

How is this in any way honest?
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It's surely a highly practical issue for women negotiating pay. And negotiating pay doesn't seem to be regarded as off-topic here.
Still not working for me in .at :/
As an Android developer who's been struggling to get OAuth 1.x working for the past few weeks in his spare time, I wish I could say it's any better on this side of the pond. We have some marginal improvements since we can register our own app to be the receiver of the OAuth callback (using Intents). But it's still excessively complicated.
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I work in a typical IT services company in India. 1Hr commute one way, have teleconference calls till 11pm. then eat and sleep. But should be in office by 10AM. The problem is my wife also works in the same project. :-(
Fortunately we are in a joint family. food, my sweet baby, cleaning, washing etc.. are all taken care.
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I don't think the facts are that easy to see. I'm not dogmatic about this issue at all but the constant entertainment spending assumption in this study seems rather questionable to me for two reasons:

1) People could behave very differently if the conclusions of this study became law everywhere, hence the conclusion may be self negating.

2) Even if entertainment budgets remain constant, the cost of providing the services doesn't. If someone downloads music for free and uses the money saved to go to a concert, they are consuming more in terms of other people's labor for the same price.
Ask HN: Who are the most successful non-technical founders of tech companies?
After learning that Dennis Crowley started both Foursquare and Dodgeball as a non-technical founder, I am curious to know if there are any others.
"I buy the music of bands I really like. I buy their albums as a conscious choice to support them."

This argument is made a lot, but it's weird. Music isn't CHARITY! It's a manufactured good. I don't give KitchenAid $150 for a stand mixer to "support them and the great things they create." I do it to buy their stand mixer.

Just to be clear, I'm not a copyright advocate. Just think it's a twisted frame of mind to think about music as above.
It doesn't really feel like it was the best start-up, in fact it seemed doomed to fail sooner than later.

This quote gives it all: "I hired guys who were cheap because I wasn't sure if my hypotheses were right"

When the reality around here seems to be that you create a great team first, and then figure out what product to make.
Thansk for that!

This is linked there too: http://graphics.stanford.edu/~seander/bithacks.html which is particularly useful
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Be that SEO or creating valuable content - creativity goes long way.
Create something unique - and your post might as well go viral and you'll get tons of backlinks and traffic and hence ranking from Google.
Having said that - and being in SEO field myself - if you build tons of backlinks to not-that-great page - you'll get ranked higher than others who are trying to content their way to the top.
It's like creative fistfighter will likely lose to creative machine gun owner :)
I've created 1 page website and attracted about 50,000 backlinks to it targeting highly competitive computer security keywords in about 80,000,000 pages competition. That got me to #1 page, while IBM, RSA and similars had to use Adwords to be seen.
It was fun for me to do it. I guess the bottom line - do what you love - and you'll succeed no matter what.
Iconfinder is great, I use it every times I need to get icons. Icons are very well picked. Do you manually select each one ?
Im a finalist for Intel Innovators - "Invest in me"
ok Hacker News I need your help.

The inaugural Intel Innovators program has just launched and our new startup is a finalist to win 100k.

here's the problem. It is basically a popularity contest to get in the top 5 from the 20 finalists. So I need your "investments"

The facebook app gives you "Social Capital" and asks you to invest in the idea of your choice.

Our idea is Medmonk, and we are changing healthcare for the better. We plan on driving down the cost of healthcare by piecing together existing sources of funding (Foundations, Manufacturer Coupons, Co-Pay Assistance programs and even insurance company funds) to drive down the cost of prescription medications.

Please go check out the Intel Innovators link and vote for Medmonk

http://apps.facebook.com/intelinnovators/pitch
Lower the price by 40% and all the problems will be resolved.
Yeah Greg, I must say, do you really think David's (or any web-savy developers) passwords are "password" or "root"? Highly unlikely bro. Anywho, CSS Tricks and a few others were jacked too, so there goes the simple password explanation eh?
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He's right. OAuth does suck. Thankfully OAuth2 sucks less... a lot less. We're working on an API now, and only plan to support OAuth2.

As far as the iOS side of things, the OAuth2Client library by nxtbgthng has worked amazingly well for us: https://github.com/nxtbgthng/OAuth2Client
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clickable link

http://apps.facebook.com/intelinnovators/pitch
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FWIW, in the US JDs do not use the title of Doctor.
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If you're hashing the password (like you're supposed to do), then all password hashes will get stored with a fixed length, so the actual passwords that people use could be an entire novel of 600 pages, as long as bandwidth for uploading it or the server's processing power doesn't become a problem.

The result of a hash function you would use will be something like 64 chars for SHA256, 128 chars for SHA512 and 60 chars for bcrypt - and that's the only permanent storage you need for storing a password. 20 chars is not reasonable. A reasonable size would be at least something like 128 chars, to allow people to give hashed passwords managed by external software, instead of real passwords. And you can trim hashes to 20 chars, but 20 chars can be brute-forced much more easily.

For instance, if you find the password for one of my websites (I use 32 chars, which seems reasonable even when copy/pasting doesn't work), it would take you years and years of processing to find my master key for generating the passwords to my other websites - so basically I have the same password all over the place, HMAC-ed with a salt specific to each service/website. The password itself is long but easy to remember. The algorithm for hashing is very sound, for now at least. Brute forcing it to find my key for all websites is for all practical purposes unfeasible.
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Ya lower prices. Make it like 99 dollars or something and it will sell like hotcakes. Or hell even cheaper.
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I agree. Still I was hoping to get at least a couple of those by the end year... I have a couple cool ideas I wanted to use it for.

But I do agree. It is understandable. It doesn't make me feel better though.
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Wikileaks: Security vendors help governments spy on their citizens
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Excellent weasel words there"

"We XYZ manufacturer DO NOT fit CarrierIQ" "CarrierIQ is required by the carrier - blame them"

Of course pretty soon it will be required by the government, - to protect children and cute puppies from terrorists you understand.
RIM's primary distribution channel is now proving to be more a barrier than once thought. The sell-through approach using the Carriers as primary is horrible. Carriers will promote and sell what is profitable and buzzing. In recent weeks RIM has alllowed employees to purchase Playbook internally at a discounted price (discount becomes taxable income). I know employees who have purchased upwards of 20 devices for friends and families. It makes me wonder, what if they were to open this up for all their devices? What if they'd done this 3 years ago? Sure it would eat into their profit margins but it would definitely increase market share and create stickiness (aka Crackberry).
I'm pretty sure that only solves one of the problems, actually.
If you click on the question mark in the top right corner you will get the definitions. More documentation is in the source code.

EDIT: As I say in the "warning" section of the readme file: usually it's not a good idea to show the raw data because it will confuse the end user. And if you add more explanation you will cause clutter and cognitive overload. I show the raw data mostly for people that want to dig into the source code.
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This article doesn't say anything about whether OAuth, the authentication protocol, sucks or not. It's referring to current OAuth libraries for iOS.
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"...we believe the PlayBook, which will be further enhanced with the upcoming PlayBook OS 2.0 software, is a compelling tablet for consumers that also offers unique security and manageability features for the enterprise."

The device is named a "PlayBook" yet they're targeting the enterprise market. That seems wrong. Did they start by targeting general consumers then shift their target market without changing the device's name?

At least RIM is sticking to their guns and forging ahead with the device, unlike the wishy-washy maybe-we-will-maybe-we-won't emanating from HP regarding webOS.
By the way, if anyone has any ideas for caches, please do let me know.
Moved abroad, traveled a lot, now in a PhD program.
The actual article is published in Science, which I think means there's a moratorium (of a few months?) on releasing the full text. That's apparently why the article's not available on the ArXiv.

The article is here: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/334/6060/1253.abstract

Entangling Macroscopic Diamonds at Room Temperature

K. C. Lee, M. R. Sprague, B. J. Sussman, J. Nunn, N. K. Langford, X.-M. Jin, T. Champion, P. Michelberger, K. F. Reim, D. England, D. Jaksch, and I. A. Walmsley

ABSTRACT: Quantum entanglement in the motion of macroscopic solid bodies has implications both for quantum technologies and foundational studies of the boundary between the quantum and classical worlds. Entanglement is usually fragile in room-temperature solids, owing to strong interactions both internally and with the noisy environment. We generated motional entanglement between vibrational states of two spatially separated, millimeter-sized diamonds at room temperature. By measuring strong nonclassical correlations between Raman-scattered photons, we showed that the quantum state of the diamonds has positive concurrence with 98% probability. Our results show that entanglement can persist in the classical context of moving macroscopic solids in ambient conditions.
My understanding is that it's common for PhDs to feel they worked harder to get their degree than MDs, and MDs laugh at this.

Don't forget that earning the degree only gets you half way to being a practicing doctor. It's a little like the difference between the police and the military, maybe.
I'm surprised. The article was pretty informative and the comments page was actually pretty good, so the usual reasons for flagging stories like that do not apply.
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Well, if you're not a copyright advocate then you pretty much believe that the cost of music ought to be the marginal cost of duplicating it (i.e. as close to zero as makes no difference).

If you think it should be higher then you _do_ support the right of the owners of the music to forbid others from copying it (i.e. copyright).
That is a very different aspect of intellectual property. While related in the broad scope, as far as the constraints of this report and the subject of downloading copy-written materiel go it is irrelevant.
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Hey, this is a great site. I hope it continues to gather a following.

I had an issue with the slider button (to help other hackers) it wouldn't let me move it to Yes. Tried on several machines/devices..hmm. I'll test it again at home.

It would be good to see a "live feed" of what people are searching for. It may help people to realise they have important skills they wouldn't have otherwise listed!
Free distributed crawling and scraping with multiple Tor circuits
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Maybe think of it as two different graphs with the same x-axis, superimposed?
Got married, moved temporarily from Oregon to Georgia with my wife. Got a dog, walking him a lot. Meditating a lot. Writing a lot. Working on three startup ideas. Loving life. Clarified what is important to me: being creative, learning, writing, freedom. Looking at building a new type of startup that has a structure that is additive to life and building fun things. I believe it is possible.
I am struggling with three-year-old http://hockeybias.com

It is more or less a 'Drudge report' for hockey news. The home page also has a quote of the day and a featured 'Off The Ice' link daily.

If you are a hockey fan please visit the site early and often!:) Please tell your hockey-loving friends about it as I would love for it to become something more than the 'labor of love' it currently is!
I can't help but think of this scene from Cool Runnings after reading this article: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVrcnyn5ZZ4
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Time to get a Swiss proxy account. ;o)
You have to cut that commute. It's not possible losing 1.5 hours a day.

My commute is 100 foot walk, I still strugle with not having enough time.

Sell the house and rent closer to the office. If its the midpoint between two jobs, either you or your wife needs find a new job to shorten the distance between them. If it is because of the school districts for your kids, you are going to have to decide your priorities.

But realize that the long commute is a choice entirely within your families control and you need to change it.
Seems rather unfair then for people (especially Britains, Americans and French) to criticise Germany for these laws when they were actually imposed on the country!
A tip: if you rename README.txt to README.markdown and change the headers to look like:

# Section Header

Paragraph text.

then GitHub will render it nicely.
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What you’ll do:
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What we’ll do for you:
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You will bring:
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This story’s link is to the general Gitbox blog. The actual post with that title is at http://blog.oleganza.com/post/13630966174/gitbox-is-1-year-o....
Of course; any kind of peer-to-peer service that actually uploads data you don't have a license to distribute is illegal.
But fear not --- the Swiss have a solution for that, too:
http://bitthief.ethz.ch/
"BitThief is a free riding BitTorrent client, that is, it downloads from BitTorrent swarms without contributing any resources itself."
That's not how MIDI works. For the most part, it just carries Note On / Note Off / Velocity messages. There's provision for system-defined data. But MIDI's bandwidth, if I remember correctly, is only 31kbps, so it's not enough to carry sampled audio with any fidelity.
I started a Ruby on Rails consulting business with another dev while at my day job, I was an aerospace engineer. His day job was freelance Rails consulting.

After 2.5 months of 80 hour weeks, we quit our day jobs and went full time with the consulting business: Bendyworks. Now, almost 3 years into the biz, we're at 10 people and having a freaking blast.
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Interesting. I wonder if this also works on the Android - the Transformer Prime might be a handy devel box.
Except that popularity doesn't generate extensive testing. IE was one of the most insecure pieces of software ever created, and was incredibly popular. People using software don't find security holes, people looking for security holes do. Has anyone with any credibility done an extensive security audit of ruby on rails? Not that I am aware of. So that puts it at the same level of confidence as snap or yesod. So then we have to judge by things like the track record, the underlying design, and the confidence we have in the developers behind the projects. None of those things are in rails or django's favor.
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Although I live in Dallas, TX, USA... still good to see my fellow Pakistanis here! As I write this I am actually visiting in Pakistan for a few days.
RIM's devices always had the enterprise, work-only feel to them. They'd already cornered the market as THE CORPORATE device, so it was time to target the consumer (late to the party). They wanted to create an enterprise class device that consumers would also enjoy 'playing' with. Work first, play later.
This is way worse:

- copyright protection agency uses music without permission.

- author of the music discovers this.

- author complains at protection agency.

- nothing happens.

- author tries harder.

- board member of agency suggests he can make things move, on the condition that he will get a 1/3 cut of the money.

- the phone call in which this suggestion is made is taped and broadcast on national T.V.

Also, the agency apparently has stated they cannot rule out that other board members behave similarly. That probably was just a not-so-smart statement made in the spur of the moment, but who knows?

This will be discussed in parliament next week.
Nice idea, don't love the UI. I don't want to click on just thumbnails - some kind of one line pitch under each thumbnail would be nice.
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Thanks for the tip, I will try it out when I get some time my OS development project again.

It may be a bug in GDB, but reverting a change in QEMU made it work for me.
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Free and practical solution to fetch web pages from different IPs.
This is nothing new, there are plenty of tutorials on how to get bookmarklets onto iOS devices.

Souders created a nice bookmarklet a while back with I bunch of the top debugging / testing bookmarklets:

http://stevesouders.com/mobileperf/mobileperfbkm.php
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Thanks for sharing. One followup question: given your schedule, how much time did it take for you to launch?
Going from needing to work to not needing to work is a major readjustment, and not always a positive one. A dream fulfilled means there is no more dream and a need to come up with a new one.
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