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I use a $60 logitech mouse for everyday use. I love the sensitivity (5000 dpi laser mouse) and find it awkward do use other peoples mice. Of course, I'm no pro gamer, so your statement is probably backed up by this.
>To me, the most shocking about SOPA has been the way it is portrayed in the media......The media is minimizing the issue to corporate laziness....I think an outlet like CBS has an obligation to do better than that.

The media are the ones that are lobbying for this bill, did you really expect them to cover it with anything approaching impartiality?

CBS is owned by Viacom. Getting the media to join the fight against SOPA is not very likely.
> Anyone who disagrees, frankly, can go fuck themselves.

I really don't think it's the recording industry that's making you look like an asshole.
Congratulations, and very well done!
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Yes, anoncvs was developed specifically to make openbsd open.
If you're trying to win over rational people, and refutations are out there to be had, they need to be included. Anyone who thinks "everyone says this argument has the same glaring flaws, and that illustrates how awesome the argument is!" is at risk of reaching conspiracy-theory levels of crazy.
Well I brought up the Array literals in the context of modern Smalltalk; it makes little sense to respond to that by criticizing a decades old version of Smalltalk. Dolphin is a virtually dead Smalltalk, died officially a while back and was then resurrected, but it's hardly the model of a modern Smalltalk anymore. Visual Works, Pharo, Squeak, and Gemstone are modern Smalltalk's and all have a fully functional array literal syntax.
Back when I had a boyish appearance (20s, early 30s), parents would smile when their kids tried to play with me. After the gray hair showed up, I could see them pull their kids away, no longer smiling.

In pure economic terms, what price do we put on "forced to feel like a moral leper"?
I make video games, so I'm in exactly the same boat as musicians with respect to piracy. It sucks, sure.

But it is not worth destroying the internet to try to fix it. I would rather go bankrupt than live in the world this bill is pushing us towards.

A free and open internet is on track to do more to progress humanity than any other invention in history. Trying to derail it because musicians are finding it hard to sell CDs is selfish at best and borderline psychopathic at worst.
the world will be a better place when the humanity stop putting lots of effort and interest on snow scripts.
I've noticed that a lot in this current stream. Instead of stopping to think and plan out how to do something, he keeps reiterating until he's satisfied.

He's satisficing. He's producing something quickly, rather than some optimal solution that takes much longer.
What tech do you propose to take away? HTTP? Because a big part of sharing is done through generic servers and browsers, possibly with generic SSL encryption to avoid detection by middle men. How do you take that away without destroying the web?
Our founding fathers believed that you should be very careful what powers you give to any authority because, even though they may be nice now, you have no idea who will be in charge in the future.

This is why any student of history is against SOPA. We believe that it does not protect the rights espoused in the Constitution. We believe that it may be abused in the future.

Some people, such as yourself, seem to believe that this would never happen. You seem to think that because there is a need (in your view) for copyright holders to remove "owned" content, that we need a law like this. And further you seem to believe that its ok to have such a broad law, even though it may be open to such abuse.

UMG is just demonstrating why the founding fathers were right and why you are naive and short-sighted.

Here's the thing: if UMG wasn't actively doing it, you'd still be naive and short-sighted. You'd still be an "asshole", in your words, and the founding fathers would still be right.
This is a stab in the dark by a stats company.
I never had a problem using cvs for what I considered large binaries. Certainly we kept using cvs long after mostly switching to bk because cvs worked better for binaries. Perforce never seemed like a big deal, just cvs with a little more.
Thanks. Our tech and focus were different initially. Our main differentiators now are that we take a smaller cut (not that we want to compete on that) and we funnel traffic to the best performing pages. We're moving to a different ad model too that I'll be able to talk about in a couple of months.

As far as tips, I'm writing a post on that now actually!
Corruption Perceptions Index 2011 (Map)
http://cpi.transparency.org/cpi2011/results/#CountryResults (Tabular)
That doesn't mean he didn't have a lot of prepared material. For example, when I was in school, I would have an essay planned out days in advance of an english exam, despite not knowing what topics were available until actually sitting the exam. With practice, its possible to bend and twist the given topics so your prepared material fits nicely. I imagine you could do the same with LD - plan the gameplay and art style and how different aspects should be coded in advance and then tweak it to suit the theme/topic once its been announced.
It isn't the job of government to ensure that a business model is profitable where it otherwise wouldn't be. The concept that creating music or film (or any other kind of intellectual property) would be predictably profitable enough to merit investing so much in its production is a rather recent phenomenon.

Consider, when musicians and performance artists play on the street, they determine based on the donations they get whether or not their efforts are worth their time, and adjust their future investments accordingly - they don't use law enforcement to force every viewer/listener to pay, claiming entitlement to compensation. On the internet, the sound reaches further, and the street is larger - as are opportunities for donations, and the cost of using law enforcement to extort payment.

Perhaps a better solution hasn't been offered because, for things that travel and are reproduced more like sound waves than physical objects, this model of business/enforcement just isn't scalable, at least without infringing on people's rights.
It's not that the recording industry is, just coincidentally, a bunch of jerks.

Copyright is not about money, not directly. Copyright is about power. In the case of the content industries, honking great amounts of government backed power to grant or withhold access to what is basically the shared culture of the planet. Enough to, eg: strong arm a company that would prefer not to be evil into accepting at-whim takedown - that's what power does. And that's what by-design amoral money-grubbing organizations do when you hand them that much power, they turn into thugs, because their only way to make money is to hold things hostage. Even those around them who would be moral are pulled into the amoral system, because of that power.

Regardless of whether you agree that artists and labels should be paid, copyright is a bad way to implement it.

Thus, defending copyright but saying "you make me look bad" - no, this is inevitable. If you shook the dice again and re-implemented copyright with different starting people, personalities and companies, this would happen again. it's what copyright does.
There have been fun pieces of malware for printers too. People who do not learn from history....

In fact there was an old virus that infected C64 disk drives..... These are still not new problems.
Ask HN: When Using Ruby + CoffeeScript, what syntax hiccups do you have?
I've programmed in JS before and have used Backbone and Underscore...however, when using JS and Ruby together (i.e. in every RoR project), I'll lose a little time when switching between the two languages.

For those who have learned/are learning CS, do you find the switch-shock to be lessened thanks to CS's more Ruby-like conventions (e.g. the last value of a function being automatically returned)? And how would you weigh that against any new syntax-hiccups that the CS syntax might introduce (I guess this includes trying to unlearn some of the JS conventions)?
In which case it would appear to be an antitrust issue if there is a magic switch that only some rightsholders have access.
In somewhat related news, searching for "Chanukah" results in a nice decorative border.
Thought it would be interesting to share my Ask HN: Rate my startup thread I posted 2 years ago, esp. for those that didn't have nice things to say :-) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1511198
Some kind of audio/video fingerprint registry that allowed copyright holders to once and for all register their copyrights seems like it could be a good balance.
this isn't a big deal. just study project management and get really good at it. you'll learn how to execute well on projects and find yourself getting things completed
It's all bits.
Show HN: a twitter app to poll your followers (a weekend project using Clojure)
Comments and critics are welcome!
Nice, great user interface. Need to be able to browse by location though. Also would be cool to post an update like: 'Need #coffescript wizard near @San Francisco' and it posts to all people in San Francisco with coffeescript skills.
I don't get it, both on my iPad 2 (iOS 5.0.1) and my MacBook (Firefox 8.0.1) == is several times faster than === which is completely the opposite of what I would be expecting. Perhaps someone who's familiar with the internals of JavaScript JIT compilers could shed some light on it?
doesn't seem to work on my 2011 air
I can think of a bunch of examples on iPads and iPhones as well. It amazes me how utterly broken some web sites become once they figure out that I'm using an iPad. Guess what, web developers: I don't want you to force one font size and layout on me just because I have a portable device. It is actually really frustrating when spread-zoom doesn't work at all.
Technology behind Rackspace Cloud Monitoring
Yes, I am a developer. I'm also a photographer. I shoot in raw. Therefore this argument is invalid. When Macbooks can have dual hard drives, then this will make sense.
Lets break it down.

mseebach: "You're writing that as if SOPA was one side of an argument where good people could reasonably be on either one side or the other, and HN and Google just happens to be on the same. But it's not, SOPA has a right and a wrong side. We're on the right side..."

parody: "My opinion is right because I say it is."

mseebach: "Google is on the right side and good people are either uninformed or on the right side."

parody: "Anyone who doesn't hold the same opinion is either bad, or needs educating."

mseebach: "It's not unreasonable to wish for Google to employ some of their considerable clout in evangelising the right side."

I was wrong. This part has value. The "right side" part of it is overreaching though. In my opinion.

Also, I didn't call him stupid, I called the downvoters stupid. I meant it in the way people usually do: I don't like it. The people who can downvote are supposed to be the pillars of our community. Yet they seem more interested in policing opinions than quality. More interested in SOPA than HN. Then they turn around and complain that it's all going to shit. Come on... lets promote the strongest arguments and promptly refute the lousy ones.
Perfect! I've been looking for something like this a long time. Thanks so much for mentioning it.
Including GHC 7.2.1 with its great DPH support would have been nice.
"unless you’re willing to spend beaucoup dollars on buying and operating physical infrastructure"

This is the biggest misconception out there about cloud computing.

Cloud computing has nothing to do with saving money. It is usually MORE expensive than comparable--and even more powerful--physical hardware. The advantage of cloud computing is the ability to spin up and shut down instances when you want.
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You don't need to do something unbelievable to be great. Don't let yourself get into this mindset that you need to keep up with the Joneses. Do something that makes you happy, that is the real measure of success.

The reality is that no matter what you do, even if you do it great there will always be someone better. So you have to do something because you get enjoyment out of it not because your peers approve or because it might garner some praise for a few minutes.

You're young. Yes you are. 30 is a great place to be and for most people the real beginning of their careers.

If you have your heart set on building something cool/useful/etc then you just need to focus (don't beat yourself up), just focus. Look at the list of things you have and pick 1. Don't do any other projects (other than work of course) until you finish. You'll find that in a year from now you'll have plenty to be proud of and that's not bad for a 31 year old.

Good luck.

PS. I found this article very helpful when I've had these same thoughts: http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/03/how-entrepreneurs-can-incre...
amazing what wikiHow has done to tackle the problem of creating quality content at scale. go jack and team!!
I was very close to giving you an upvote, and then you resorted to calling the author a "dumb fuck" after he posted one of the most thoughtful, poignant essays I've recently read on the subject.

Because someone doesn't agree with you doesn't necessarily invalidate their opinions. If anything, in perhaps a better time, it would open the invitation for frank, but ideally _civil_ discussion.
You could tell it was CGI right away.
> The problem with living inside your own head is that unlike everyone else, you judge yourself by what you think you could be rather than what you are. It's a sort of self deception at play.

I really like what you said here. When I think about my more "well-adjusted" friends, I see that they have a solid set of criteria to compare their achievements against: a decent job, an apartment, having friends. It amounts to a basic societal checklist that they can succeed against.

Living in your own head is like extending the goal every time you reach it. It's like having a carrot attached to a stick that moves with you.
Nor mine, I suspect its because the accelerometer is designed to halt the disk if it detects sudden movement. There is no hard disk in the airs thus it has no need for an accelerometer.
Robots are harder than computers or printers.
I'm guessing they left out the motion detector, since the air is fitted with an SSD, and there's no hard drive that needs protection.
This. A million times this. Thank you.

The customer's desire to give you money is the product. This is inherent in the nature of near zero cost replication.

Loius CK gets it, Reznor gets it, Yorke gets it, kickstarter gets it. OP doesn't, the RIAA doesn't.
It's too hard to protect the interests of artists, fuck 'em.

On some level I would agree with that. If the rights of party A can be protected only by draconian laws that trample the rights of parties B, C, and D, then we shouldn't pass those laws even if it really is unfair to A. And in the real world that formulation is overly generous to the record labels, who do have means to enforce their rights, just not as conveniently as they'd like because they have to deal with annoyances like evidence and due process.
This might help you - http://www.schillmania.com/projects/snowstorm/
I'm okay with it as the default, but I'm baffled why Google seems to (at least sometimes) do it even when I'm logged in and have English as my preference. Just because I'm in Denmark doesn't mean I want the Google Books interface to override my settings and become Danish!

It'd also be nicer if more sites supported changing languages (in any direction) without logging in. If it's possible to do on Blogger or MySpace, for example, I have no idea how.
PHP: Cracks in the foundation
Ask HN: How many of you are Facebook-ed?
I suspect those > 30, by and large, agree strongly with you

I wish to register myself as a counterexample in the strongest possible terms.
"Take away the tech that made it easy (or technically add in repercussions like a virus/trojan) and they'll stop."

Just admit it. You have no idea what you are talking about.

There is no "the tech". There is no head to cut off. If one group of people stop distributing the knowledge to share files, the another will take its place.
Yield problems hurt superlinearly as you scale up the size of a chip. That's why the fastest graphics cards have two GPUs on board, and why two mid-range cards will usually offer a better price/performance ratio than the biggest, fastest single-GPU card. Besides, the biggest GPUs out there are already little more than arrays of hundreds or thousands of vector processors: AMD's current biggest is 2.6B transistors divided among 1536 shader processors running at 800-900 Mhz, and NVidia's biggest is 3B transistors divided among 512 shader processors running at 1.5Ghz.

That NVidia monster has a die size of about 520 mm^2. At that size, there's already a lot of waste due to the fact that wafers are round and the chips are rectangular, and that can only be reduced by making physically smaller chips. (Rumor has it that by the time NVidia's 529mm^2 GF100 chip was originally supposed to launch, yields were bad enough that they were getting only about 2 usable chips per 300mm wafer. The cost of chip production has a pretty much linear relationship with the number of wafers processed, so that really hurt.)
Places like youtube already use methods like that to keep track of copyrights. But that still doesn't deal with the problem of convincing every website to use a registry. Places like TPB definitely wouldn't. And I doubt some file locker services like MegaUpload would willingly go along with it. And if you still have websites that ignore the regulation, it basically becomes useless. So what is the benefit?
You can also draw doodles in the fog and then send them around to your friends or post them on websites:

https://www.google.com/search?q=let+it+snow&frostwriting...
A human's birthright is to learn from and improve their tools. Making software proprietary demotes a tool to an appliance we can only interact with in prescribed ways as mere consumers, a role which is beneath us. It severely limits the benefits society derives from your work, and I believe it also harms the customers through learned helplessness. Our incentive should be getting paid for writing the code as a work for hire, not coding on spec and then rent-seeking against people for finding it useful.

Before software, this was much less feasible and generally nobody bothered (e.g., this is why they still sell cars without the hood welded shut, and why simpler computers used to come with schematics).
"Anyone who disagrees, frankly, can go fuck themselves."

"the most thoughtful, poignant essays I've recently read on the subject."

You might want to read more...
Alan watts has something important to say about this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERbvKrH-GC4

You haven't been failing, you've been dancing. This is the point. Enjoy it and stop waiting for the payoff.
What event was it?
Sekolah manajemen perhotelan IHS
sekilas tentang sekolah manajemen perhotelan IHS

IHS (International Hotel management School) adalah sebuah sekolah manajemen perhotelan yang telah berdiri 11 tahun lamanya yang
_Wait a minute now. Are those really a user's basic rights? Who is Stallmam to decide for both users and developers what our rights are? If users get those rights then developers have theirs taken from them._

He didn't decide anything, he simply presents his view on such matters and backs it up with solid logic.
Anyone is free to disagree with him and to make oneself heard.
with webOS poised to be be released, and its most modern framework done in HTML/JS/CSS, that seems as good a platform as any
Perhaps you should judge replies by the standard of civil disagreement set by the essay itself.

The first paragraph of the essay says anyone who disagrees that copyright is a natural right "can go fuck themselves".
Everything on the internet must be downloaded before it gets to you. Even if you suppose there's some censor out there looking for anything with the "copyright bit" set, it still wouldn't work, because so long as you could send two different messages that would pass some censor, you could encode one of them as a 0, the other as a 1, then do a horribly inefficient data transfer that bypasses whatever controls are in place.

You may think that's ridiculous, but things of that sort already exist. For example, there's a way to use DNS as a tunnel for other data. Yes, doing that is crazy.

If I'm incredibly pessimistic about this, it's because I've watched the long history of failure as many smart people attempted, then utterly failed, at doing this. One side must be perfect. The other needs just one opening. Games like that are so massively unfair that the only winning move is not to play. And you don't have to play: I've already pointed out how some artists have adapted and are doing good business. People want to support them. That's the way forward.

Maybe I'm wrong and someone will invent some magic technology that stops piracy. But anyone who is holding their breath waiting for it is very likely to suffocate. There are people looking for the way forward. It's just not a technical solution.
So you're saying that we only REALLY want the products to which we would chritably throw cash? so when I buy coke at the grocery store, it's because I want to charitably contribute to the coca-cola company's artful soda recipe? And when I don't feel like appreciating it, I should just take them?

OBVIOUSLY NOT. If you don't appreciate the music, or even the artists work, then don't download it. If you don't want it, dont steal and insist that your "just getting it for the right price." I can't even begin to explain how entitled it sounds o hear people saying that they wil pay for the things that they "really should be paying for because they want to be." This is a justification for piracy and is in no way a solution to the curent issues. You buy a product, you donate to charities which you like. Charities ask you to contribute, firms tell you what you need to to pay for their product. Louis CK is in no way an indication that people will pay for things they 'really appreciate,' lots of people really wanted the experiment to work. But what of Kanye's album? I see hundreds saying "Oh this guy is a jerk, I'm just gonna take his album." Is that how natural markets work?

Don't like it? Good, that's your NATURAL INCLINATION to go for lowest price possible which will in no way just 'go away' when you really appreciate your products, nor should it.

And this is not zero cost replication. There are people that put a ton of time and effort into piracy to make it work. We'll know when we've reached a solution that works when the enormous online filesharing infrastructure necessary for the current levels of piracy dissolves, and people simply start to pay for the products like they would any other.
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In context, he's saying that to anyone justifying theft from the artists who are producing work.

I _did_ read more.
Particularly considering that, before computers and printers came along, you couldn't buy the equivalent for minimum wage.
The probability of success (ie: creating a startup and selling it for 100 millions) is conditioned by two major factors: (a) a good idea (and the right implementation) and (b) the preparation of yourself.

So rather than trying to get the next big idea instead work on solving interesting problems and improve your skills and capacities. And take some risk!