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That's not how security works. FreeBSD has more exposure than OpenBSD, but OpenBSD is more secure. Security isn't a measure of how many people have heard of your project, it is a question of whether or not you have carefully designed your project to be secure. Haskell helps prevent a ton of errors that can cause security holes. On top of that, yesod at least has been very carefully designed to both be secure itself, and to make applications developed in yesod be secure by default.

Security holes don't just magically go away when software gets popular. You should be striving to not create security holes in the first place.
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I started www.pokertablestats.com while working in day job and now i'm working on 2 other startup's after work hours.
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... unless you need killer graphics, write code, run Linux, have concerns about security, ... I can accept that the PC is dead FOR CONSUMERS, as they've been buying way more than they need for years.
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Wait.. what is this? A Government talking sense! Wow!

Most of my friends 'acquire' digital content. All spend money on cinema, entertainment events, video games and legit DVD's and box sets of things they really like.

In all cases the decision to go pirate is convenience + cost. A DVD at £14 is seen as too expensive. Similarly 79p for a single audio track file which you only need to play on your iPod seems a little pricy. Since Spotify came about everyone I know has cut back on music downloaded. Apart from iPod tracks there is no reason to get the actual file.

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.

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.

The music industry likes to believe that every track downloaded is 79p they could have had. That isn't the case at all. If you took away all pirated material you would restrict discovery of new entertainment. Film / Music people may get slightly more money from certain people but the majority of this money would come at the expensive of other things.

I am not saying piracy is good but it certainly isn't the devil which many law and policy makers make out it is and its nice to see this acknowledged by an EU state.
No, you own the phone the day you sign the contract. The remedy for terminating the contract early is spelled out in that contract -- an early termination fee to cover that subsidy you didn't pay back by staying a subscriber.
Thanks a lot, I agree there is still some usability issues that need to be ironed out, I'll try my best to continue work and make it the best user experience as possible.

As far as more features with the playlist. You can currently create an account(top left links) and save videos as favorites. I've thought about adding in a feature that allows you to prevent certain videos from ever playing again if your logged in. Also, currently every time you do a search the results are shuffled, so you're playlist should be a little fresh every time.

Thanks for the feedback and suggestions!
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If you are quick enough and project is small and everyone is in the same room (or it's just you with an iMac and laptop), it's very-very convenient. People who start using Git and/or using it as a sole committers value such convenience a lot.
Funny thing here. The probability of Prion Disease is very small. VERY small. Statistically speaking, the barring of blood donation costs us significantly more lives than the contamination possibility. Yes its unfortunate some people will develop prion disease, but... you get it.
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As far as copyright is concerned, it has nothing to do with "reasonable and open to progress". The main differences are:

* The powerful copyright-industry mostly resides in the US. European countries that have somewhat of a copyright industry of their own (France, UK) are considerable less "reasonable".

* Success in European elections is way less dependent on corporate financing. Lobbying is way less effective if the politicians you target don't need your money. It's not less corrupt, but more about influence and favors, and the US copyright lobby has relatively little to offer in that respect.

In other words: the copyright mafia has less politicians in their pockets, and therefor less influence on public policy.
then you probably just started...I don't mean the first few weeks after you launch...there is plenty of things to do then.

I mean that period for all sites after the launch coverage, the time where your traffic goes down to almost 0.

Who to meet/who to talk to...should have been done prior to launch.

optimizing text? it takes a while to do a/b testing if your traffic is tiny...same goes for seeing results from marketing campaigns.

updating the blog? that takes a few hours each week.

I mean sure, there is plenty of things to keep you busy, but most of it is just busy work you assign yourself because you are thinking "hey, I'm doing a startup, I should be doing something"
So is Ballmer starting to throw tables out of the windows ?
I started a couple of profitable small businesses while working a ton of hours management consulting, including a headphone website where I used all my vacation to travel to China to get my products manufactured cheaper. I was hoping to do a few things on the side until it made sense to quit my day job, but I found it never made sense to quit my day job.

More incredibly to me is FeeFighters (http://feefighters.com) CEO Sean was

1) Raising a VC round

2) Having his first kid

and 3) Working full-time at BCG

All at the same time (May 2010)
Any one of those are enough to make you go crazy, but he managed all 3. (note: FeeFighters is not profitable)

He also previously started http://tss-radio.com and bootstrapped it to a spot on the inc 500 list, all on the side while working at a VC firm (Longworth) and then while at BCG (management consulting).
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Thanks a lot! This is useful information!
Hey Marcia,

I just sent this in for an internship position earlier this week: http://davidchouinard.com/khanacademy/

Thoughts? I'd love to hear your comments.
As someone who's learning Haskell, I read the post because I'm interested in the language's capabilities in the web arena. But your site itself is brilliant! You are really on to something with vocabulink.com. I've formally studied 10 human languages, of which I can speak/write/read 3 fluently, and have passive understanding of another 2-3. People often ask me how I learn languages, and a good part of my answer is very similar to what you are doing with vocabulink. As you've discovered, the key is to use vivid, even silly, mnemonic devices. Building up a large vocabulary is key to learning a language. Don't waste your money on flashy tools like Rosetta Stone -- they don't work for most people above the age of 8 or 10. Adults learn differently than children.

So if someone out there is looking to learn a foreign language, my recommendation is to combine vocabulink's approach to build up a large vocabulary, and find the best concise grammar available for your target language. If you don't remember grammar fundamentals (e.g., what's a prepositional phrase, direct object, relative pronoun, etc.), then you need to find a good book in your native language to review those concepts.

In any case, cool concept for a web site. Sorry for the off-topic post. Thanks for telling us about your experiences with Haskell. I do think that Haskell web capabilities have come a long way since 2009, particularly Yesod (I'm not familiar with Snap).
I assume you are citizen of USA.

Would you like USA to join countries like Brazil, Canada, Mexico, Kuba, Wenezuela, Peru, and others to form one huge country with common political system (mix of current political systems of these countries), new official language (let's say it won't be English), common currency, etc? For this analogy to hold don't assume USA will dominate this union (even thought it would in reality), because for most countries in EU - they won't dominate.

Think about this - more people in this new country would live outside of USA than inside, so when some hard decision comes, there's big chance former USA will lose the voting. There's big chance that people from USA will be minority in government of that new country.

That's how many people in EU think about EU becoming one state.
I live in a van down by the river.
That's what I understood too (in Italy it is like in Germany). So I would need to have a front man in the UK to be absolutely sure, but I don't like that.

This is exactly the kind of worries that I would the EU to abolish. Not easy of course, and not something I would expect in a few months, but it there isn't anybody pushing in the right direction, we could wait forever...
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QEMU is excellent. It makes a very difficult task very easy. Simulating microprocessors, that is.

It's very cool to be able to test some cool feature in the latest Linux kernel easily or tinker with your own mini Linux distro.

QEMU also makes writing hobby operating systems (everyone's gotta have one, right?) nicer, it would be a pain to have to boot your system every time you make a change. It's easy to attach a debugger to QEMU to do debugging at CPU level, no need to implement GDB stubs and a serial driver to your kernel before you can get anything done.

I guess QEMU can be used for real work, too.

Thanks and congrats to the QEMU team for a milestone release!

(/me wonders if they fixed CPU-level debugging on amd64 yet, the last time I tried, I had to revert one commit to get it done. Otherwise I got a "remote 'g' packet is too long" error or something)
This could have been a great chance for Blackberry to get some good press - the CarrierIQ story has been picked up by a huge number of news sites, instead it's buried in a support forum thread.
> A mix of Wikipedia, the EFF and Project Gutenberg.

Don't forget http://archive.org.
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And let's not forget the economy..
This is totally irrelevant... but some of those reminded me of the interior of a Borg cube.

This is a little more relevant... how would you (could you?) filter out the camera itself?
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Same in the Netherlands, although currently the government is trying to push through legislation that will change all that.

However, the majority of parliament is still against. Hopefully the minority government will think better of forcing the issue.
That's interesting. I work with many PhDs and always refer to them as Dr so-and-so in formal settings or introductions. Most of the doctors I know aren't MDs.

I do see your point though. There are quite a few doctorate degrees, and even in the professional field they aren't all referred to as Doctor (take a DDS for instance, Doctor of Dental Surgery).
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No problem with that, I just think "project" is a better term as long as it's an after 6PM affair. To me a "startup" implies additional commitment and risk due to the absence of a cushy day job.
I have built Pluggio.com that has $3500/month profit on the side. It's been built in approx. 2 hours a day during the past two years.
Forking isn't always a good option. Imagine that your have a lot of state, and serializing it is inefficient. All of a sudden shared memory becomes a very attractive way to communicate between different modules of your program, as compared to serializing and pushing data over a pipe.

As for the GIL, while it may be convenient for organizing the codebase of the language, it is awful when it comes to using it for a heavily parallel workload. Yes, it prevents programmers from having to write code like:

with obj.lock:
obj.counter += 1

But it means that code that should by all means be lock free is now always blocking all threads. In other words, it helps really novice programmers write really simple single-user single use prototype-level code, but prevents concurrency in real-world production environments.

Locks should be exposed in most languages (except environments like JavaScript which are inherently single-threaded). It's just that (1) other models such as STM should be exposes as well and (2) other abstractions built on top of or related to locks (queues, events, conditions, etc). should be available as well.
I've been thinking about a user interface for a long time. One that, leverages the graphical capabilities of the browser and the linguistic capabilities of the command line.

The two enhancements over the command line that I envision are the discoverability of commands and the ability to select the output of commands. So what you'd is an Enso/Vimperator like command interface where the output would be rendered as an 'object' or list of 'objects'. Each output object would be selectable and able to be used as input for other commands able to digest them.

You can sort of do this now with the command line but there are a few issues. The first is the inability to render graphical results in a terminal. The second is having to now something about the output of a command apriori before piping to the next command. Finally, it is difficult to know the commands available to your fingertips on the $PATH.

The more I meditate on a system like this the more I think it would be wildly productive because a wide host of problems can be solved with this single workflow.

COMMAND -> RENDER OBJECT(S) -> SELECT OBJECT(S) -> COMMAND -> ...
I like what it's trying to accomplish, but I don't see this as becoming a success.

1. I have no reason to join

2. I will never have a majority of site owners (issue 1 is subordinate to this)

3. Site owners change

4. Who do you really want to get in touch with? The owner? The programmer? Tech support?

5. The barrier to entry stops me.

Personally I'm a bigger fan of humans.txt:

http://humanstxt.org/

Even google uses it:
http://www.google.com/humans.txt

It's a 0-friction way to find out who's behind a site, entirely un-obtrusive, requires the requester give up 0 information.

As a hacker, I have no reason to connect with other website owners. I have lots of reasons to connect with professionals who know what they're talking about.
Chrome has already overtake even IE in South America: http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-sa-monthly-201011-201111
I started my present company first while recovering from Cancer and then while working full-time at a start-up. I wrote about it on my blog at http://blogs.windwardreports.com/davidt/2010/11/windward-rep...

So yes it can be done.
Siri can be hacked to control your home via voice
You could make cooler routes like:

hackerbuddy.com/:user

or

/user/:user

Instead of using their user ID's.

But I god damn love this.
wow, more than i was expecting.

Some of the figures take longer to load than desired, but the presentation is really nice.
You said it: "consulting roles", "side gigs". Why overload "startup" with something that can be better described by calling it what it is.
Some people have actually turned leeching to a whole new level by creating torrent clients which only download. As long as you're not using private trackers with ratio limits, you're able to download all you want without ever committing copyright infringement, at least in countries where downloading isn't illegal.
Agreed, I thought that was the intention of the "Other" field.
Switzerland is not an EU state.
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Thanks to a wave of new mobile technology, I can store my calendar, car keys, credit cards, music and notes all on my smartphone. That kind of convergence is convenient, but my phone has an Achilles' heel. The battery doesn't last forever.
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around how much was Stylefeeder acquired for? I always thought fashion search/bookmarking was a commodity...
Ostensibly, they are looking at keystrokes to see if a particular key sequence is pressed while talking to customer support, thus indicating that it should send the diagnostics data to the operator. Ostensibly.
> Of course, I don't hear a lot of negatives about Switzerland. Except from the IRS, of course :)

That's your opinion because you're not an "Ausländer" (foreigner) living in Switzerland. See:

* http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/politics/Council_of_Europe_attac...

* http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/Specials/Parliamentary_elections...

* http://www.humanrights.ch/en/Switzerland/Human-Rights-in-Int...

I was thinking of moving to Switzerland, but in the end I had the feeling that there's a significant portion of the population who would like to keep it "Swiss." Also, immigration laws are rather harsh.
Wait... what is this? A Government doing research? Weighing solutions?

We should all print this article and mail it to our government
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Germany doesn't really have freedom of speech

What do you mean? (I am German)
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No, but you could rent a VPN connection located there and permanently avoid EU harassment.
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Ask HN: Is affiliate marketing mainly about SEO
I worked at a company that did affiliate marketing about a year ago. I quit because I was burned out but I was also in disagreement about the focus the company had which was more about SEO than building an innovative product. I did a lot of research at the time and it seemed that for most websites (that was in the insurance industry so there is a ton of competition) the most important goal was appearing on Google first, the actual content of the website is of secondary importance. The reality was that for the end user clicking on result number 5 and result number 50 didn't matter much because the main difference between them was their SEO budget or strategy.

I have contemplated coming back into this field now with an attitude of "if I build something good, they will come" but I am faced with the doubt that I might have gotten it all wrong.

So my question is, in your experience is it possible to build a profitable affiliate marketing business without the pressure that you'll have to dump money on SEO or be left behind?
> ...the Swiss government has been conducting a study into the impact downloading has on society, and this week their findings were presented.

This is where I stopped and took a moment. The government did research. Proactively. For the good of its people.

To the Swiss government, the people of the country (or, the impact to the people of the country) are/is considered before an external interest. That isn't to say the external interest isn't important, just not as important as the people.

That's the difference. In North America, we concern ourselves with jobs so much that it actually makes them go away. If you sympathize with the industry, the industry takes advantage and cements itself to a position of necessity.

Artists will continue making movies and music because that's what artists do – with or without the entertainment industry.

The entertainment industry needs us, we don't need them.
I am just getting started indeed. However, I talked to a lot of potential users and did the research before I started. Checked out the legal stuff, negotiated with lawyers and developers.
But I don't stop talking / researching now I'm actually running it. I'm asking (potential) users for feedback all the time. I'm planning a new price-strategy, meeting a former competitor, talking to models and to commercial photographers the next two weeks. It's amazing how one talk leads to the other. Also because I'm on a tight budget I try to help other people so they can help me out.

Blogging about it as well: http://royfreemod.tumblr.com/
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I get that. But it's also sending me red flashing lights, because people with GUIs sometimes not only 'value such convenience a lot', sometimes they don't know better.