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>Computers doesn't understand beauty or emotion, so you need fine grained human control every step of the way.

That's were your wrong. Computers don't understand beauty, but given enough processing power, and sample data they can recreate it.

There's already a program that can listen to Beethoven and reproduce something that even experts can't tell he didn't write.

A movie example: In your movie creator you set up a scene with 2 people talking in a room. The computer has been trained with thousands of such scenes, so it automatically selects the best camera angles and allows the operator some manual control. That will happen at some point.
Isn't this more "blackmale" than "bribery" (quotes intentional...)

Unfortunately, either way, I don't think anything serious will come of this!
Why does H'Wood have to be killed? All they have to do is change their business models a bit.

I've been wondering if an apps-like model would work for TV shows and movies. EG, if you like The Daily Show, you have a Daily Show app, instead of having to subscribe to a whole slew of channels you'll never watch. Or for sports: Like Formula 1? Get the F1 app. Need some news? Daily News app, done. After you've got all your apps, you can mix & match, set whether you want to be interrupted (watching the daily show and some F1 qualifying is starting, switch to that app y/n?), heck, even set the number of ads and length of ads (longer ads means less ads, and vice-versa).

Similar for movies. There, you could split up the apps either by genre, franchise, favorite star. Like Leo DiCaprio movies? D/L the Leo app. Like the Batman franchise? Get the app, and have everything from the 60s TV show (yes, I know, mixing TV and movies, here) to The Dark Knight.
Where do I find a list of HN supported mark-up?
The title says it all: I am looking for the canonical list of mark-up supported by Hacker News for comments and submissions.
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> My workflow right now includes:

What you described looks exactly like the "zero inbox" approach, which incidentally builds off the "your email is your to-do list" idea.

What am I missing? Why do you say yours is an exact opposite?
True but often you need to present your design in a more professional environment and throwing together a sample UI in a matter of minutes can come quite handy.
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My company is ready to hire our first employee. We have the candidate who has done work for us in a freelance capacity, and we know we can afford them. Any words of wisdom from those of you who have been in the trenches and done this? My company has been founder-run for the last 6 years and this is kind of exciting to hire a real employee.
I'm making my app to be a greedy psychopath with perfect memory
The EFF make it their job to look for issues like this. They were the first place I heard about SOPA and PIPA, and I doubt I'm the only one. I certainly wasn't spending time monitoring congress and reading proposed legislation, and even if I was I'm not sufficiently versed in US law to know what the bills might imply.

Obviously it's difficult to measure, but I would be surprised if the EFF weren't critically instrumental in the earliest stages of awareness about the implications of these bills, which led to people taking action.

How would you propose they could have made a more significant contribution?
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Honestly, I would LOVE to see the MPAA and RIAA stop writing checks to politicians.

Many folks think that there is already way too much money in politics, particularly to those politicians who are incumbent. Consequently, if the MPAA/RIAA stop buying our politicians out from under us, maybe we'll get them to pay attention to us again.

That's really where the MPAA should be spending its money anyhow: convincing individual voters that piracy is hurting their business and what the effects will be. Honestly, I do think we need some modifications to the copyright regime in this country (US). I just want the MPAA/RIAA to stop bypassing the voters and appealing to the folks we elected to represent our interests.

If the MPAA/RIAA stop funding elections, that means victory for the rest of us.
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> This was two-wave flare and first CME wave was overtaken by the 2nd wave due to its higher speed velocity.

"higher speed velocity"? Is this just bad writing, or is there a distinction here I'm not aware of? Higher speed, higher velocity, sure; but "higher speed velocity"?
The exact URLs are all different, but the lunk-to graphicis pretty much identical. Also, the duplication isn't necessarily detected if the older item isn't in the cache.
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There is not a one-to-one correspondence between items in my inbox and items on my todo list, and items in inbox don't necessarily say what I need to do.

e.g. an e-mail in my inbox asking me to clean the frobulator might translate to one of the following todo lists:

a) 1. clean the frobulator

b) 1. buy frobulator cleaning fluid 2. empty the frobulator 3. clean the frobulator 4. refill the frobulator 5. reply to sender informing them that the frobulator is now clean

c) 1. reply to sender telling them why I can't/won't clean the frobulator

d) (no action necessary)

But my inbox won't help me remember which of these is the case. And that's ok, because that's not what it's for. That's what my todo list is for.
I haven't used it, but BMT Micro seems to offer the same kind of service.
We, the people, stopped SOPA/PIPA -- Let's remember that
More realistically, reddit continued to cultivate their community while digg struggled through redesign after redesign, usually putting users second or third (when they introduced RSS importing).
I believe that this is a very good idea. Actors right now are products, and they might go into some kind of startups where they can have a better share of what they worth.

Maybe I didn't understood it very well but look what Johnny Depp says:
~"after beeing turned in a product by a very huge corporation, that the hands over me"~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v...

Hence I believe that here is a problem that can be solved by startups.
One of the best services out there is http://www.braintreepayments.com/ but you can also look at http://www.2checkout.com. Both of them have great solutions depending on what you need. We are migrating from PayPal to BrainTree this spring.
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The Internet is our playground. We are its users.
its actually called Dwolla https://www.dwolla.com/
> But before that happens, the content industry, as represented by the MPAA and the RIAA, needs to understand that a litigation heavy invasive approach will not fly and they need to forget about that framework and come ready to come up with an entirely new one. I hope they can do that.

The problem is that it is not actually about piracy. It is about control. The MPAA and RIAA want the absolute ability to control your every move so that they, and they alone, are your sole suppliers of content. Because without that control, they can't attach themselves to your wallet and extract money from you for the content you consume.

Watch this (only 14 minutes long). It will make it all clear:
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/defend_our_freedom_to_share...
While this is an interesting snapshot of the state of HTML5 video support today, we should keep in mind that not all formats give the same results and that many browsers support multiple formats. Which percentage figure is higher in that table doesn't help to make many useful decisions.

For example, in testing for a new video-based service, we're finding that H.264 gets similar quality with about half the bit-rate of Theora. The MP4 files therefore come out about half the size of the OGVs. That is very significant for bandwidth that the host is paying for, and for people using mobile devices, who typically have much lower data caps in their prepaid plans than a landline broadband connection.

Another consideration is the processing to create the videos in the first place. We do lots of fairly basic video manipulation using automated tools within our workflow, processing lots of video files on not a lot of hardware. H.264 is noticeably faster than all other formats for all of the manipulations we have benchmarked so far, and usually Theora is in last place again. That means supporting H.264 vs. supporting H.264+Theora is a days vs. weeks issue every time we process a new set of videos.

I do appreciate the desire to use more open/royalty-free formats as a general principle. However, until something like WebM/VP8 catches up in terms of compression/quality and just as importantly in terms of performance and availability of tools, I don't see H.264 going anywhere. Browsers that support it will give their users a better experience, and browsers that won't or can't support it will be at a disadvantage.
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mixed reactions to this.

admirable to want to tackle a big problem, and 'make your own dream job'.

'if email actually worked'.

"worked" for whom? The fundamental problem as I see it with approaches like this is that email is a multiparty system, and it won't "work" for your life because other people don't share your views of how email should "work".

"For example, send all messages you've been CC'd in to be reviewed when you have more time"

You're assuming that someone who cc'ed me on something doesn't want a response right now.

"automatically have responses to a job opening put into a specific review list"

Assuming people email in with appropriate subject headings or specific text.

There's as many different ways people use email as there are people just about, and email is almost always a two-or-more-way street. Modifying how I consume and use email on my end can be helpful, but only to the extent that it doesn't violate the process on the other end.

I didn't see anything about an API in there. Having an API to program against would be useful, and an API that would be able to work against the multiple aggregated providers would be really useful. Scriptable incoming email processing (not necessarily realtime, but close) that could move your mail around and integrate with other services would be really useful too.

"Email requires action"

If that's your fundamental premise, I can see how that would shape your thinking and design. It might not actually be wrong, but I'm not sure it's necessarily right, or at least right for a lot of people. Unless you count "reading" and "delete" as actions too.

Subscription software - not necessarily against that, but I'm presuming this will be 'on the web' hosted? Not local to my desktop? Hrm...

Something I'd like to see is good search and ability to search through related messages while I'm reading a specific message already. This is broken in every mail client I've tried. I can read, or I can search, but not both (without multiple tabs in web-based mail clients). Reading a message and not being able to get more context and info from previous conversations is frustrating.

Good luck!
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I'm pretty sure this isn't actual rejection notices for these papers, but made up ones in jest.
We're using Stripe - it's out already.

Also check out Dwolla - http://dwolla.com
Do you consider PayPal to be invisible to the end user?
I think the issue with the system as it is now runs a little deeper than "bribery" by one organization but perhaps this is a good way to get some thinking about it.
What is the purpose of diplomatic immunity? I suppose there is some overriding principle over the laws of the land, but I've never been shown what it is. Why do countries allow this?
How many computers do you have? I'm starting my career as a small business and already have 3 + Smartphone. I would be happy to pay for a subscription rather than 3 licenses + Phone App. It helps to have my account available on the net, so I can check my email from any computer with an Internet connection.

It's time we move forward, I think. I used not to like the idea of subscription, but I'm finding it cheaper now.
Stripe looks good, but its not available for canadian companies. Dwolla doesn't seem to have a way to do invisible recurring payments.
Offtopic but, I'd love to see a site where any downvote MUST have a comment associated with it, that way one has to validate their downvotes. A downvote can be agreed with (increasing the downvote) without comment though, like saying "Yes I agree with what this person says is wrong with this".
What do you think of Google's Artist Hub? Is that the kind of thing you'd like to see more?

http://music.google.com/artists/

From what you said the labels are already killing themselves by raising their own commissions and by demanding an artist already has a big fanbase. If a lot of artists have to get to that point, some of them might realize they don't even need a big label to make them more popular, and will just look for tools and services for self-publishing like Youtube and the Google Artist Hub.
They don't seem to provide an all-in-one service for non-US customers.
"Corrupt Politician" is an oxymoron.
Ditto. We're with PayPal now, but we'd like to change. The UI for tracking down payments is horrible, plus, it seems like they could just take our money at any point, and we'd need a million people on the Internet to cry out to get it back.
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It won't strip existing lines, but will prevent them from being recorded in the future.
It would be VERY interesting to know if that's the case.

The meme of what seems to be a brilliant idea being pooh-pooh'ed by the then-current intelligentsia is almost as common as funny cat pictures with silly quotes.

"In 1962, Smith entered Yale University. While attending Yale, he wrote a paper for an economics class, outlining overnight delivery service in a computer information age. Folklore suggests that he received a C for this paper, although in a later interview he claims that he told a reporter, "I don't know what grade, probably made my usual C", while other tales suggest that his professor told him that, in order for him to get a C, the idea had to be feasible. The paper became the idea of FedEx (for years, the sample package displayed in the company's print advertisements featured a return address at Yale)."

--http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_W._Smith
PayPal standard is not, but PayPal Pro is. With Pro, the user doesn't need a Paypal account, would never get redirected to paypal site, and their credit card doesn't show paypal.
hm.
this only means that css has overgrown its own idea (but still without bringing real gutenberg typography into web pages - columns, gutters, flows .. u name it).

at certain point c++ templates became turing complete, so one could calculate pi's digits in it. After which all other languages started to spawn... away from it.
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Yeah, a few of them are a bit too un-subtle on the satire, referencing future events in a wink-wink sort of way, which gives it away imo.
It is in a slightly odd place. Click on your name in the top right corner. Then click on help(it is to the right of the about box in very light letters.)
Here is a copy that is even easier to find:

Blank lines separate paragraphs.
Text after a blank line that is indented by two or more spaces is reproduced verbatim. (This is intended for code.)

Text surrounded by asterisks is italicized, if the character after the first asterisk isn't whitespace.

Urls become links, except in the text field of a submission.
Aside: There is a lot of very cool stuff on Reddit at this point and it would be a shame to lose it through some random act of nature/massive admin error/other non predictable event...

Has Reddit considered providing a public backup functionality ala Wikipedia? Anyone have thoughts on this?
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They did fantastically well growing a community. Still not convinced it's monetizable though.
I'm glad there are other film/tv people on the board sharing their perspective. Before I started writing code for a living, I used to work in post production in NYC on reality tv shows and also in the past on films, docs, and also at more artistic-minded places like Sundance (which is a great place but very much tied to Hollywood, btw, if it wasn't already obvious). A lot of my friends (and myself) are hustling to get their films made here in the city so I must agree that the amount of money required to get a film made is a lot less than it once was.

The real difficulty, and what needs to change, in my opinion, is creating an avenue for independent producers to show their content and STILL have it be considered worth watching. In a way YouTube and Vimeo lets you put your work online which immediately makes it available to a billion people. The problem, though, is that having your work shown on youtube means nothing. Having your work screened on TV means something. Being screen in a theatre means something. Getting into Cannes means something. Having Ebert review your film means something. You can argue that Eberts opinion doesn't mean much, but the fact that he is reviewing your work is meaningful in and of itself.

Hollywood has this huge system to help itself legitimize the work that comes out of it, regardless of the actual quality. There's no real system that helps individuals who want to cut out the middle man effectively convince strangers to watch their content (afaik). There has been an insane amount of growth in the number of film festivals that exist in the last 5 years, but all that does is lessen the value of screening your film in a festival. (Wanna see? Just check out withoutabox.com). Also it's just growth that in my opinion tries to emulate and validate the current system.

So what I think is needed is something like Netflix, or a bunch Netflix-type sites, that serve curated and independently produced shows and films. Each site would serve a specific audience, and each site must be careful in what it chooses to show. It must legitimize itself to "normals" as a valid mode of entertainment, and also to artists and filmmakers as a valid mode of distribution. This, I believe, would allow for more diversity and more democracy in content creation, and is a viable way to legitimize quality content that would otherwise get lost in a sea of Internet junk.

Edit: grammar and some messed up sentences that didn't make sense :)
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Contact William Ready, he is the CEO of BrainTree and very accessible. There are many Global companies using their service so it might be worth dropping him a message just to clarify. http://www.linkedin.com/pub/william-ready/b/203/1b1
Animation, especially CG is a wide field. As you may know animators are hardest bunch to find. Modelers are easiest to find, texture/shading guys and gals a little bit harder, lighting/environment artists a little bit harder than that and TDs hardest to find... with animators hardest to find. There is a slow production cycle (4-5 seconds of animation only per animator per week for feature quality and 15sec per week for TV quality), there is a ton of hardware for rendering and lieensing cost for software, and then there is audio. Some productions even require extensive r&d and custom tools development.

Animation can be cheaper, but sometimes it can be more expensive, it all depends on a project.

Even if you neglect all of the story editing and layout departement you still have a sizable production crew which require high salaries in order to produce content of reasonable standard. South Park is an exception since they have opted for subpar animation.
They aren't going to stop writing checks, they are going to write checks to different politicians (or people trying to get elected).

While the electorate are apathetic, moneyed interests will get their way.
Although this is satire, let's not confuse the quality of the idea or it's implementation, with how well the paper is written. Those are very different criteria.
I'm not sure I understand why these anti-poaching agreements are or should be illegal. I understand the argument to be that, with no where else to go, they can lower the salaries of highly-skilled employees. But isn't there always somewhere else to go? If Apple employees can't go to Adobe, there's always Microsoft, Facebook, Google, Amazon, and a sea of startups.

Apologies for my ignorance on the matter, but I'm just not seeing what the big deal is.
> For the Valley to do that, it’s going to have to get out of the mindset that eyeballs equal quality.

It's not about quality. It is about building a monster revenue (and profit!) stream.

To quote from the dead trees: "No one in this world, so far as I know_and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me_has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people." HL Mencken

To quote from Hollywood itself: "Show me the money!"
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You mean a tautology.
When writing checks with ROI expectations to politicians happens in (for example) eastern europe it's called corruption and hopefully penalized (and I agree with it). when it happens in "developed" democracies it's called "that's how the gov. works"?
Removed the bills SOPA and PIPA, victory for the Internet
What company did you start?
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Thanks! That is and odd place.

So, there is no way to enter a list (either numbered or bulleted)? Or bold text? Or inline typewriter text? Or the ability to mark text as stricken through because a reply invalidated your position?
With only 4 comments, no one is winking back.

With respect to the RSA "rejection," I would add the impracticality in hindsight is known to be, why the hell would you want pretty good signatures on your email? A few moments thought, provides examples where one would rather that the bits at the end were not present.
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This is probably an Indication of one thing. Some people go in the search of elusive perfection. Which never seems to be achievable. No pure perfection exists.

So please don't deny the good for the perfect.

Reddit, has been ridiculed enough for being bad for X reasons. But hey, that's the only thing existing out there. And it works well for vast majority of the people. People who are out there just for chat or a serious discussion on a sub reddit.

I have seen that this thing works in many cases. If you have some good idea that can solve problems. Work on it and get an implementation out. Even if for the moment the working quality of that thing or the implementation quality of that thing isn't upto the mark.

This can be seen manifest in things like programming languages too! People criticize Php/Perl for all sort of reasons. But hey, remember they are so much useful and practical in the real world the elusive perfect that is supposed to replace never comes into existence. Because the elusive perfect is always in never ending path of ideation and implementation, in form of some abstract concept.

People call bash scripts and solutions hacked together using sed/bash/Unix text processing utilities crud, non readable, not elegant or whatever. But remember they often serve as the fastest way to solve some very difficult problems in seconds/minutes. While an equivalent verbose elegant language would take hours of effort writing and testing the program.

Sometimes an existing ugly solution survives in the real world, it wins and persists and nothing really replaces it. For many reasons, it was first to arrive. It convinces people that it can be useful to them. It is practical, it can survive and maintain the niche for a long time.

Meanwhile the elusive perfection, never arrives.

Reddit works and wins on the same principles.