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There are some movies and TV shows being funded now without the 'majors', but the funding model hasn't really figured itself out yet.

See Pioneer One for a self/crowd funded 'TV' show which was released under the Creative Commons licence (and distributed legally via pirate bay, etc.). Sure the quality isn't 100% top notch, but the point is that it's starting. It's slow, but the ball is rolling now.
I assume Shakespeare made his money from ticket sales to his shows.

There were no cameras in those days if there was somebody would simply record the show and distribute it, I would imagine Shakespeare would want some of that action himself.
ocaml is multiparadigm and eager. in practical terms it has excellent support for just hammering out a solution in an imperative fashion and then refactoring it once it works. i personally find it second only to ruby in terms of getting work done.
For fun, I attempted to analyze a function with a friend who's a total Pokemon geek and came up with the following, which I figure I'll post here (no guarantee on accuracy):

DecrementPP:
; after using a move, decrement pp in battle and (if not transformed?) in party
ld a,[de] ; load some variable?
cp a,STRUGGLE ; Check to see if the move we used was "struggle".
ret z ; If the pokemon is using "struggle", there's nothing to do, so return,
; since we don't decrement PP for "struggle".
ld hl,$D062
ld a,[hli] ; load the D062 Pokemon status flags and increment hl to load the
; D063 status flags later.
and a,7 ; check to see if bits 0, 1, or 2 are set.
ret nz ; If any of these statuses are true, don't decrement PP.
bit 6,[hl] ; check bit 6 of the D063 status flags too.
ret nz ; And return if it's set.
; bit 2 of D062: multiple-hit moves, like Wrap?
; bit 1 of D062: Thrashing about, I think?
; bit 0 of D062: paralyzed?
; bit 6 of D063: ?
ld hl,$D02D ; load the address of the first move of the current pokemon
call .DecrementPP\@ ; call the function (below) to actually decrement the PP

ld a,[$D064] ; load Pokemon status bits?
bit 3,a ; Is the pokemon transformed?
ret nz ; If it is, return. Pokemon Red stores the "current pokemon's" PP
; separately from the "Pokemon in your party's" PP. This is
; duplication -- in all cases *other* than Pokemon with Transform.
; Normally, this means we have to go on and make the same
; modification to the "party's pokemon" PP that we made to the
; "current pokemon's" PP. But, if we're dealing with a Transformed
; Pokemon, it has separate PP for the move set that it copied from
; its opponent, which is *not* the same as its real PP as part of your
; party. So we return, and don't do that part.

ld hl,$D188 ; load the address of the first move of the first pokemon in the party
ld a,[$CC2F] ; which pokemon in party is active
ld bc,$2C ; $2C is the size of one Pokemon's data structure, I assume?
call AddNTimes ; calculate the address of the mon to modify
; fall through into DecrementPP\@, to avoid calling it again.
.DecrementPP\@
ld a,[$CC2E] ; which move (0, 1, 2, 3) did we use?
ld c,a
ld b,0
add hl,bc ; calculate the address in memory of the PP we need to decrement,
; based on the move chosen.
dec [hl] ; Decrement PP
ret
Worse, with a 2 party system you can't necessarily vote for your preferred candidate. In most cases, elections are so skewed toward Democrat/Republican candidates and often are so close between the two that you have no short-term effect unless you vote for the Democratic or Republican you hate the least.
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Correct. I use OS X 90% of the time. The other 10% of the time, I'm running Windows-only software. I'd much rather be able to run that stuff on my Mac.
Probably because I'd find the appropriated information used somewhere.

It's been at least 5 years with not a hint of fraudulent use of my ID or payment info.

I have, however, been victimized multiple times by corporations being negligent with my data in the same time period. Sony and whatnot.

Kind of interesting that it's safer to download random untrusted OS code from the internet than to give my information to a "safe" corporation...

In any case, it's an interesting thought experiment but it gets absurd quickly when realized. How do you know you're not infected right now by a "really good rootkit"? Unless you wrote the compiler by hand, compiled every bit of the OS by yourself, wrote the firmware for your hardware using the same compiler, etc etc etc, you can't be 100% sure.

You can be reasonably sure, of course. 99% with a few juicy trailing 9's for good measure, but not 100%.

It's the same way you can't objectively prove you're not dreaming right now.
All right, you're the one who finally got me. Each time Amit's story has come up on HN someone has posted a link how to join, and each time I'm closer to deciding to do so, but always got a little scared before I pulled the trigger.

Now that I see Amit found a donor and the system works (my eyes teared up a little reading his post), I finally decided I need to join.

So, for everyone else like me who has needed just a bit more motivation; go on and join the registry. I just filled out the forms and requested the cheek swab kit. It takes about 15 minutes to fill out the forms, and then in two weeks they'll send you a cheek swab kit with instructions and a return envelope. Not too bad, so far...
I think these companies view the users as the purpose and the advertising as the means - not the other way around. Both Google and Facebook were born out of an interest to improve the world and solve a problem. This idealism along with thinking long term about the product is what puts users first. I think the conflicts always tend to resolve on the side of benefiting users (ads that are relevant to a user's interest, or sponsored search results that are likely what the user is looking for anyway). The goal is to make a profit in a way that also adds utility to the user and doesn't distract from the main 'mission' of the company whatever that may be - and I don't think it is to make money.

Companies that become entirely about perpetuating their own existence, where the means of profiting becomes their purpose, seem to use nasty business practices and power to ruin competition rather than compete on product quality. They usually stagnate, alienate their users and only maintain market share by ensuring users have no other choice. I don't think this method is a good long term solution and from my perspective I don't think Facebook or Google are acting in this way (at least for now).
The better way to support third parties is to vote for them in a system where votes for smaller third parties actually make some form of difference, like a proportional representation system.
(The phrase is toeing the line, as in to put one's toe upon the line)
At least all the photos on the first page of the photostream are darkened for me. Here's a screenshot of the first picture: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/24903613/ss/flickr-whitehouse-sopa.p...

Are you located outside the U.S.? It could also be possible that it changed in the last few hours.
>Granting the creator such rights takes them away from everyone else. Why is that justified? Why should one person, the creator, be able to tell other people what they can and cannot do?

Where does this argument end? Why can't I drive your car whenever I want? Is your "ownership" of your car really more valid than my ownership of something that I invested significant time and effort (maybe even money) to create, and if so, why?
I have to imagine in the tangled web of politics there may have been many initially 'for' it who really weren't for it in spirit - their position was tantamount to monetary contributions and towing the line.

In the end what truly matters is that that they represent the wishes of their constituents. I find this protest and its results a glorious thing. But we're only getting started. Unfortunately no position changes for CA (at this moment :)).
I would like to see something like this in Eclipse.
Earlier discussion:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3000305
That's a sad story. Keep at it!
I always use the competition to the extent that it's available. My main point is that sometimes, there simply are no good non-Windows substitutes.

Secondly, I'm pointing out that a lot of people have spent money on licenses for Windows software that has a Mac/*nix equivalent. (I haven't personally, but this applies to a lot of people.) If you have hundreds or thousands of dollars invested in those licenses, switching away might not be financially viable.

If either of these situations applies to you, I sympathize with your complaints about Windows and its licensing system.
Interesting issue. I wonder if it would be possible for a country to set up an extremely long copyright term (with a huge administrative fee) that would have to be respected under US law (and other adopters of the treaty).

I'm sure many music/movie studios and authors would gladly pay $100K to copyright each of their works internationally for 500 years...
Not sure why I'm being downvoted here. It's an absolute fact. Piracy isn't theft.
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> I don't understand -- aren't patents federally enforced?

I can only assume they were not federal back then.
Wildcat BBS - I ran 8, 1200 baud modems - 9 phone lines - Earth Station 1 BBS...

Simpler days indeed. Anyone else attend the 1BBSConn in Denver hosted by Boardwatch magazine? Those were the days, oh yeah baby!

And of course I did this on a 40mb ST251- RLL encoded seagate hard drive, on 2 Tandy 286's running 1 full mb of memory using QEMM to get that pesky extra 384k of memory to load instances of Wildcat.

Brings a tear to my eye just thinking about it. Thank you DWTF for a lovely memory lane flashback!
I found it confusing too. Edison built the Kinetograph in 1891, back when traveling across the country was quite difficult, and I'm going to assume that it was slightly easier to get ignored in California than in New York, and that is probably what they mean.
I see nothing wrong with it. "Avoid Ghetto" was never a branding term issued by Microsoft. Avoiding areas known to have higher than average crime rates is a great feature, one that many people have thought of before.
It must be so ________* to have your life expectancy over the next few years calculated like that.

*Jarring, frightening, emotional, scary, disconcerting? What's the right word. Maybe all of them.
pg's comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3478522
Congrats on your great news, all the best wishes for you Amit! Stay strong and positive during your operations and treatments!
not that far fetched. think you being mostly downvoted for language and emoticon.

this is a /. comment about the case, mentioning jobs "resigned after 9 years. Sold all his stock. Apple III had failed. Mac was fine, but the board wanted an "adult" in charge. Steve returned in 12 years"
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Ask HN: What business value is derived from posting anonymous job ads on HN?
As the title suggests I haven't been able to come up with any particularly compelling justifications. Perhaps being a non-founder comes in to play, but more specifically the following job ad piqued my interest:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3481790

From the ad they say that their company has a user to employee ratio of 10.5 million. Bringing on an additional hire(s?) would lower the user/employee ratio to about 7.5 million. So the question is then, if you have that many users already, what is the point of an anonymous job posting? If you are already that big then surely your competitors know who you are. What value do you get from all of this seemingly arbitrary secrecy?
Could you link to that decision or do you perhaps know the name of the case so I could search for it? The deprivation idea doesn't seem to be intuitive to most people I've talked with and it would be great to know the actual case law.
seems down, google cache :
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:7Ikgs4E...
I can't believe how far my template has spread. I'm just really happy to help fight against SOPA.
Who do you think would be interested in it? Do you have someone specific in mind?
Leave Portland for Smug-n-Con Alley? Why on Earth would he want to do that?
Yes they apply federally. However, back in the day the sheer distance from Hollywood to Edison on the east cost made it infeasible for him to bring court action needed to enforce the patents.
It sounds like the problem stems from the 2 things:
1.) the media you installed from was not legit
2.) Windows gives you notices that it needs to be activated, which you ignored.

You won't be able to fix that without reinstalling or using a crack. The phone activation will work but you need to change product key. There is an article of Microsoft support site on how to do that actaully.

However, it's a problem with your XP Media... are you 100% sure that is a legit copy of windows? Where did you get it from?
There's not a single thing I've downloaded over a torrent I'd have ever paid for without first getting it via the torrent.
"The word SOPA means "trash" in Swedish. The word PIPA means "a pipe" in Swedish. This is of course not a coincidence."

An interesting statement overall, but sentences like the one above have to make you wonder how seriously TPB is thinking about the issue.
Let's assume we are discussing modern music not Bach or something.

There are of course good musicians who distribute their music monetarily free but how much of it is explicitly copyright free (i.e libre not gratis)?

I know a number of aspiring musicians who if a large media company took their music and redistributed it under a different name with different people lip syncing to their vocals then boy would they be pissed.
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Even responds properly to touch gestures in iOS. Now that's impressive.
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Can you please explain your math? AFAIK Azure txns are not paid by the hour - they are a flat cost of $.01 per 10000 storage txns. If you do batched GETs and PUTs you make only 550 txns (55000/100 entites/batch).

http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/home/tour/storage/

I agree that Dynamo's provisioned throughput capacity is a very useful feature though. Azure does not provide any such performance guarantee; the throughput limit is also a guideline as far as i know, not an absolute barrier.
Anywhere to read about what happened?
You imply that everyone that pirates doesn't buy. And you imply that people who pirate would instead buy if they couldn't pirate. I never seen proof to any of those two assertions.
it's called "identity theft" when someone does it to your identity though :P

Your SSN and details are all intellectual property too!
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That may be true, but one way to guarantee we never move to such a system is to keep voting Democrat or Republican.
$3k/month = $36k/year

Consider this cost relative to the cost of a trustworthy ops person, plus the capex & opex of running your own reliable & scalable DB.
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Python is driving the program, and the threading library you're using provides its own abstractions on top of Pthreads itself. Pthreads has no concept of work pools - although many people end up implementing them when using Pthreads. Pthreads is a relatively low-level library that specifies how to create and join threads, and then provides mutexes and condition variables to synchronize across them. The threading library you're using hides all of that from you (which is a good thing!).

Where the code spends most of its time isn't the important thing for classification. What's important is what decided the structure of your code? And that was the threading library as provided by Python, not Pthreads. In fact, the threading library you're using only incidentally uses Pthreads as their implementation mechanism, similar to how gcc's implementation of OpenMP only incidentally uses Pthreads.
http://cufp.org/ is held every year, and has many interesting stories.

http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Haskell_in_industry has experience reports for Haskell.

Galois and Standard Chartered both have large Haskell teams, for example (I've worked for both).
About 35 Senators have not committed to a position, perhaps reluctant to do so for fear of angering either deep-pocketed Hollywood campaign contributors or their constituents back home.

To me this illustrates the problem with lobbying.
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> Brings me back to the fall of 1998,

Bah. I took it in 1983, on a TOPS-20 machine iirc with vt100's. We might as well have submitted our work in crayon.

Now get off my lawn.

(Sussman's book was still notes at that point. I wouldn't have guessed it would turn into the institution that it has turned into.)
His point is that there are no good non-Windows substitutes precisely because the non-Windows market for that software is too small and that by using the Windows version you are removing yourself from the already-too-small market that you should have been part of, which continues the cycle. Your points are definitely valid, but they only reinforce the argument that pirating Windows only harms the competition. Put another way, if you were completely unwilling to either pay for or pirate Windows, the market for the hypothetical non-Windows substitute for a program you need would is guaranteed to be one person larger than it currently is, whereas with the willingness to pirate Windows, that market may be one person smaller.
I, too, am getting really tired of this. It's not just Microsoft though. It's a lot of different companies.

Right now, I'm in the middle of an epic battle with Adobe to get a refund. I bought an educational version of the CS3 master collection back in 2007 when I was in college. I tried to upgrade it because a chat representative said I could, but they were wrong.

After calling their support line 10 times, spending 2-3 hours of my life either on hold or talking to them, being told twice they would call me in X hours and them not calling, they have still refused to honor the deal. It has been the worst customer service experience of my life.

At this point, it's up to some committee at Adobe to decide whether I should get my refund. Like, really? It's that hard of a decision? You told me X when X wasn't true. Give me my money back! Quit being tools.

Anyways, I'm hoping I get it. It's a lost opportunity for them though. They could have said, "Hey, we screwed up. Here are three licenses. We value your business and hope you'll stay a loyal customer." Then, they could have kept my money, and kept me as a customer. But that's not what they did.

Going forward, I really don't think I'll be buying Adobe products anymore. Not because their products are bad. It's that they're over-priced and their customer service sucks.
I agree you can read it that way, but it doesn't change much to me. Any site that accepts user content as its main function still has a primary purpose that enables / facilitates the infringement.
The rhetoric about SOPA and PIPA has always been centered around foreign piracy. The reasoning is very simple: domestic piracy can already be stopped through the DMCA. "Overseas piracy" is basically just defined as any piracy the DMCA can't stop, because it's not within the United States' legal jurisdiction to do so.

Unlike the DMCA, which seeks to stop domestic IP abuse, the point of SOPA and PIPA are to create barriers between foreign IP pirates and domestic consumers, by requiring domestic gateways (which are under US jurisdiction) to police and filter them out.
Given that there's no smugness in Portland, that makes sense.
I've heard that's true in other countries, but I'm pretty sure the US allows you to place something in public domain.
I agree with the headline but I think the real purposes is to drive more people to the news feed instead of browsing profiles. The ads are inserted into the news streams.
Youtube and Google+ are owned by google, so I'm not sure if they count. Definitely they should post a notice or two, but...
This is true but as a sort of counterpoint I think that sometimes once an artist gets well established they lose some of their connection to the normal world.

For example a lot of rock music comes from anger and frustration of having to work a shitty job, behave in a prescribed way and having little money.

As soon as you have released a few albums and have free reign to fill your nose with coke , cover yourself in tattoos and can afford to live wherever you like you may lose some of initial meaning behind the art and start to become pretentious and contrived.
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I'm sure the economic analyses are well thought out, but isn't it just common sense that some proportion of those people who download content for free would have purchased that content had they not been able to download it for free? That would obviously mean decreased revenues for the content creators...

The main reason I brought up the end game stuff was because the article gave me the feeling the TPB doesn't want Hollywood to exist any longer. They are talking about the people that allow Hollywood to make money as if those people are criminal scum that are just selling plush toys and anorexia. Just thought it was an interesting scenario to consider given the apparently largely negative feelings toward Hollywood's existence.
The more effort it takes to produce a protest, the more meaningful the protest is.
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No worries, nicholas. This is the second time the link has hit the ycomb news homepage, so I've gotten plenty of attention already. Today is about stopping SOPA!
I dont understand this. if the hollywood corporations are unable to make something that anyone wants to pay for, why should they be in business?

if they die out, its because their business model is broken. if their business model is broken, they deserve to die out. why should the government protect them?

separately, if movies stop getting made that will because nobody is willing to fund them. surely that means that they should die out? if enough of us who like our movies (I am one) continue to fund movies, then they will not die out.

again, why should the government have an opinion on any of this?
Congratulations! My life was just extended going through the same exact thing your going to go through. I am 7 months out and life is grand. Be thankful for the small things like popsicles, laughing, and cold wash-clothes when you start throwing up.

Everything will be wonderful. Best of luck to you Amit!
Yes, but the Ninth Circuit Court, which has federal jurisdiction over California, was not too bullish on patent enforcement at the time.
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The Pirate Bay is held up as the ultimate example of what SOPA aims to kill. However, isn't it hosted out of Swedish Parliament (http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-party-to-run-tpb-from-parliam...)? Aren't we in essence attacking a friendly government, and consequently afraid of pissing them off politically?
I disagree. Not voting for a major party is little better than not voting, when it comes to effecting change.

If there's ever to be hope of voting reform in this country, it has to be done by getting a major party to adopt it, presumably by convincing them that they'll gain a lot of supporters by doing so.
Here's a very simple soundbite that will get anyone's attention: "the government is trying to seize the Internet"

It need not be technically accurate. What matters is that you want the listener to think: "stop - say what? How is that possible?"

Then you can explain what is really going on.