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Apple has been pushing for less DRM, not more, and would rather people bought into their platform without being held hostage.

It is not an easy thing to convince publishers that no DRM is the way to go, yet the music companies reluctantly agreed. Considering Apple is the number one retailer of music, ahead of Wal-Mart, this seems to have worked out quite well.

Rentals are hard to market because in the digital domain you have the same media file as you would if you had "purchased it", only the licensing is different. Charging hotel-room prices for movie rentals will not translate to many sales. Netflix has the right idea for rentals. Low-quality streaming, flat rate pricing.
Fascinating. This explains why I hate so much these kind of newspaper, and would hate Facebook timeline if I used Facebook.

However, both are wrong in trying to artificially catch user attention and time. It is like blackhat SEO, may work for a while, but it not sustainable. while but it is
It strangely skips to lesson 20, where you get a taste of some esoteric features and syntactic conveniences from the latest release.
As a layperson, I think Kahneman's work is brilliant and I can't wait to read the book, but do understand that to the actual evil scientists - research psychologists - he is Donald Knuth, not, um, whoever's hot in CS these days. They think his ideas revolutionized the field a few decades ago, and it's great that he finally got his book published, but meanwhile, we've learned a lot and that whole dual-system thing is kinda quaint.

So lucky for us, if Facebook were really basing their designs around what is more Poor Richard's Almanac than the Bible, we can build far more compelling experiences than Facebook using actual cutting-edge psychology - and I feel kinda lucky to get paid to do just that.
Sal, hope you are on HN because I have to say, you f-ing rule. I don't think anyone could have done a better job explaining it.
Not yet, been at work all day. But, I saved the numbers in my cell, and will call as soon as I'm out. :)

On a side note: should I leave a voicemail after hours or is it more effective to send a fax? Never had to do this, but since this law would affect our collective lifebloods even for those outside of USA, it's time for action.
If we need a law, let's put a law in place with clearly limited authority, not one where reasonable people can wholly disagree about what it says.

I've never understood why lawyers tolerate ambiguity in the law. But maybe I'm wrong: how can abuse be prevented if this is passed? If abuse starts, how can it be stopped without court action? I'm still reeling from the '90s when Microsoft considered court battles just another field of play for their business. Be illegal. Drive competition out of business. Fight in court. Lose sometimes and pay fine. Net win.

Let me ask you this; it may seem unrelated, but it's not: When I bought my iphone, I was required to enter a contractual agreement with ATT at the same time. Then Apple changed its TOS for the iphone. I could accept or lose its functionality. If I refused, would I be let out of the contract with ATT? Would I have to go to court to find out?

Unfortunately the business climate today is "do what you can until somebody stops you."
> WebSockets do that for us?

Nope. However, it will allow you to contact any connected client at will from the server-side. Try doing that with XHR without constantly polling the server.
Thank you for the update. My mood has lifted 100 fold.
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>Only many days later did I learn, If Microsoft wanted they could stop piracy easily.

Microsoft spends millions fighting piracy. What is this magical way that Microsoft could "easily" stop piracy?
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welcome to internet. It's available since mid 2009.
ØMQ?

How does one pronounce that? Yur-m-k?

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:zsS5aXX...
The post title grabbed my attention.
I don't know of any that conform to what you said. There are plenty that fall under the scope of the wording of the law, however. The second use of the word "pirating" is you interpretation. I have no guarantee that others will make that same interpretation.
This should be about telecommunication in general, rather than just the internet. Imagine if they passed a constitutional amendment that only regulated telegraph machines.
Disaster recovery is much easier with a legitimate windows licence. Both in terms of having the original recovery disk, and support.

There are subtle issues with pirated installations that can cause serious issues when things start to go wrong. (Speaking from experience)
By "access to copyrighted works" they may be talking about going to the club's library and reading the copy they already have (which may occasionally conflict with other members' use) rather than making more copies.
I also found it interesting that the storage media is specified and it's SSDs. Solid state will be hugely disruptive for hosted services, I've been hoping for an instance-by-the-hour service backed by SSDs and I'll surmise from this announcement that it won't be long before that shows up on the EC2 menu. Gimme :)
I dont know why they do this for their client OS but for server OS you can get a free evaluation download of any server product and activate it with a purchased key, no muss no fuss. Also using the provided download manager I have never seen speed issues with these downloads. As far as phone activation, which we have to do for several sites without internet access, the process is a bit long but not nearly as tedious as described. I am admittedly against DRM but if anyone comes close to doing it right its Microsoft on their OS software.
It damages credibility if you say categorically that no American company could be targeted by SOPA, when in fact they could be. It erodes the sense that viewers should believe the rest of what you say. Richard Cotton also mentioned that due process will be respected, and only sites that are wholesale engaged in piracy will be affected. When people are loose with language, you wonder what the precise situation actually is, and it muddies the debate.

Few people have a subtle understanding of what SOPA actually entails (I still don't understand all the details), and this is because the proponents say 'We're targeting thieves' and the opponents say 'This will break the internet', and sometimes a reader gets the sense that no-one is communicating the precise, un-dramatized, facts. If the reader doesn't feel they have these facts, it's difficult to draw your own conclusions.
Don't think of them in terms the full function. You can approximate a strait line by a small part of a long sine wave. http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Sin%28x%29++from+.01+to...

But, for a real world example look at jpeg.

Next, each 8×8 block of each component (Y, Cb, Cr) is converted to a frequency-domain representation, using a normalized, two-dimensional type-II discrete cosine transform (DCT). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG
Just got word that the segment was canceled. Sad days :(
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It's called building up a precedent. It's like when a patent troll goes after a bunch of small fish (possibly setting favorable legal precedent along the way), then tries to use that momentum to go after a big fish, using the failure of all the small fish to adequately defend themselves as 'proof' that the big fish are should just give them a bunch of money.

If you go after the big fish first, then a large, competent legal team may just blow you out of the water. Not only that, they may set a legal precedent (that is damaging to you) in the process.
I think this is more of a credibility issue - i.e. can you trust that this person is giving you the precise facts, allowing you to draw your own conclusions, or are they given you a spun version, with certain facts bent, to greater or lesser degrees, to their advantage?
Sometimes there is a voicemail box for after hours calls. Fax works. Phone call works. Email works. Make sure to let them know you are a constituent. It helps to tell them your address.
I'm trying to word it for the Internet + other stuffs :)
If anyone wants the 2000+ .zip file, I can host on S3 if there is a demand for it.
nah man, the author is actually pretty correct in terms of what constitutes actual blackhat seo. Blackhats hack sites and cloak and clickjack. Link spammers are just a shade of grey.

The problem is that link spammers like to sound tougher than they are so they say they do blackhat seo instead of what they're really doing, which is grey. Link spam won't send you to jail. Hacking a site can send you to jail.

I've spammed millions of links in the last few years, and I am most definitely not a real blackhat.
On one hand, you have tcp, which already allows you to multiplex multiple streams, every bit of software understands it, and your back office web application servers fully support it. Yes, it has limitations (slow start applying to individual streams instead of all the streams between two computers seems to be the primary one), but instead of trying to fix it (which admittedly would take a lot of work and would be a slow process), you take a single tcp stream and implement multiplexing all over again, now you have to work support into all your applications from top to bottom. Not surprisingly, this also takes a lot of work and is slow process.
Capitalism doesn't create permanent monopolies, government does. Capitalism tends to destroy monopolies. Just ask Kodak or AT&T or any other monopoly disrupted by innovative technology.

Anyway, Notch is making tens of millions of dollars on Minecraft, a video game sold directly to consumers.
I did the same but around 2pm. His aide told me that Sen. Cornyn was drafting a letter of some sort to the Judiciary committee in opposition to the bill.
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Sunk: How Hollywood Lost the PR Battle Over SOPA
It's no longer blacked out, but you can see his post about it (with a screenshot) here: http://blumenauer.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&...
Thanks so much for the lengthy response - really cleared a lot of things up, but I had a few things to ask about:

1) So the main issue that we all have with these big production companies is that they make it difficult for small guys to get in on the movie game? But isn't that what things like Youtube and Vimeo are for? Distribution systems for the little guy?

I don't really think it's practical to want to put a significant amount independent developers into theaters. The reason the production companies are really oligopolists (few in number, but relatively great in power) in the industry is that is the best way to actually make the industry work. For example, it's not a very good idea to have 100 different power companies where you live because it is much more efficient and therefore better for society to have only one company. Similarly, it really isn't a great idea to have hundreds if not thousands of movies playing across the country at the same time - it brings up huge issues with coordination, advertising, movie quality, etc. These big production firms don't have the problems that you would have with having hundreds of smaller independent firms.

The smaller guys should be going for the distribution channels made for the smaller guys because that's how those channels were designed. The whole construction of the network of theaters around the world wasn't designed to have thousands of movies playing at the same time - it was designed to have a few big movies playing at the same time. And the only way you're going to get a few big movies is if you have only a few firms that are able to make these big movies.

2) Just as a quick point on economics, capitalism doesn't create monopolies. It's the part of our economy that isn't capitalistic that creates monopolies. We obviously don't live in a purely capitalistic society as a whole - it's more monopolistically competitive and in some parts, oligopolistic. It is oligopolistic in those parts where it is most efficient to do so (like in the big name movie production and distribution industry).
Hitler's stance on SOPA (epigrammatic joke)
> Does payment depend, necessarily, on restriction of copying? No, it does not.

The only other way I can think of is patronage; I produce a work for a patron according to their wishes, and hand it over for a fee, at which point I relinquish any further control.

Are there other models?
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There's nothing wrong with the original link. (I'm KA intern/part-time and the submitter is a full-time KA dev.)
Ironically, I read your comment and though I agree completely I tried to consider the opposite argument.. that lobbying is effectively a natural democratic condition since it's done with money that comes from consumers.... BUYING FUCKING MOVIES AND MUSIC.

[Edit: presumably downvotes are for cursing. Sorry, I adore naughty words... To be clear though, the point I'm making is that I'm infuriated at the fact that money I've spent doing exactly what the MPAA/RIAA wants me to (pay for legal content) is being used to limit my freedom. For some reason it's a realization I've only just arrived at, and it certainly makes me want to think twice before feeding the beast anymore. Effectively, this legislation is the best argument for stealing content that I've come across.]
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I personally have 5 invites if you are really struggling...
Ask HN: The Viability of PaaS Providers (EY, Heroku etc.)
I'm sure many of us have used PaaS cloud providers such as Engine Yard or Heroku as I certainly have - if you're using Rails that is. Now that they've been around for a few years and they can be evaluated better I can't help but wonder about the future of some of them and their long-term viability.

Starting off with Engine Yard, while what they provide is certainly useful and there are goodness knows how many man hours in that system, when it boils down to it all they're providing is an interface around Amazon EC2 (their web UI is really quite poor) and an integration framework. Although they provide private hosting as well, did this really need close to $40 million worth of funding? Seriously? Investors don't put that in out of the goodness of their hearts and one wonders how long they will wait to get it back.

When you hear of companies like this supposedly being sold to VMware, which didn't happen it, and at least one of the founders jumping ship, sorry, leaving, it has all the hallmarks of investors wanting to cash out. My opinion hardened further when I saw EY stopping you from using single instances for single servers, you have to use the medium instances now. No micro instances either. They're trying to seemingly expand into PHP hosting as well. I stopped using them when it became clear it was going to take them forever to get EU and Postgres support, which they now finally have. I had a rep from them 'reach out' to me literally every five minutes and I asked him over and over when this stuff would be ready.

On to Heroku, and the great thing about them is that it's very easy and fast to start running an application, and very cheap if it's small and useless. The downsides? It gets expensive very quickly and you are very limited with the applications you can run. Really? You're going to charge me all that money for me to squeeze my app into a read-only filesystem, extra for background jobs, no Varnish(?!), regimented software and no MySQL (not that I like it)? Then there's the add-ons............. Again, it's still only a platform built on EC2, so was it really worth the $212 million Salesforce.com paid? Their investors cashed out, and they only invested $13 million, I think, which I think is still way too much. Don't expect any price decreases any time soon, certainly not with SFDC.

It could just be cynical me, but I just think that these platforms built on top of IaaS environments like Amazon are very overvalued, expensive as a result for what they actually are and are focusing on the wrong things. What I'd be looking for is a cross between Heroku and EY with some really useful services such as proper monitoring, done on a budget without any financial silliness that acts like an elephant on its back. I'm still looking...........
Admittedly this is just a guess, but might the Carson velodrome explain Orange County's dominance in this index? There's precious little overlap in the Venn diagram of people who race track bikes (on tracks) and people who ride track bikes because bike messengers ride track bikes.
> So congrats! You just had lunch with the historical equivalent of Einstein.

kamens is the lead dev at Khan Academy, so such lunches are not a rare thing for him. :)
Not that I know of, but since Wikipedia is down today I can't figure out who he is and say for sure :-)
Alon is ~3.7g/cc which is about twice what ordinary glass weighs. Not sure how it compares to laminated glass. They probably use a denser glass than I'm used to for armored glass, but it's layered with other, presumably less-dense material.
Who do you have running PR? As an entrepreneur, I'd love to know how you do it.
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Looks like the white house have put a stop to this now...
We're splitting hairs over wording and possible implicit meanings, and I'm pretty sure we agree on the real issue, so yeah.

One last thing, not only do they have to be in their peak earning years, they also need to max out the points from additional education. I don't know how many teachers do that.
While this might be frustrating on the surface, this is exactly the sort of thing that should be decided by the lawmakers. You might personally dislike what the US legislative branch has become, but if you follow that it is acting in the interests of the citizens who elected them, this is the correct decision.
Not only did it work for him, but this well-publicized screening campaign will help other people find donors as well.
wow, and you were the one who got me! i "was" in the same boat..passed it up, but after reading your post and the follow up, i just had to signed up.

good luck; eat healthy.

update: just finished signing up and it took a whole 7 mins. thanks for the nudge :)
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/103326/Slingshot/Pictures/Screen%20S...
Pretty amusing how so many sites shut down functionality today, but Pirate Bay couldn't be bothered. Torrenting went on uninterrupted. Kind of self-serving, to be honest.
Linking most definitely is already a crime in the US. The time to protest it was eleven years ago: http://www.2600.com/news/view/article/299

Every move in defense of liberty on the Web since then has been a rear-guard action.
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This position is our second technical hire, with a significant equity stake and a ton of room to influence the strategic direction of the company. The best fit will probably be someone hoping to be a technical founder some day. This isn't an easy role, but it's an amazing opportunity for the right person.

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YouTube fails to fall under the first because it is not primarily designed to engage in, enable, or facilitate infringing

In whose opinion? Viacom's?
The Nobel Prize has a famous chilling effect on actual productivity. It's good to give people recognition for their work but I would be wary of giving them too much.
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The amusing part of this is that scaling data is really cheap. You just don't do anything. It's not like voice where you need to allocate a certain amount of throughput to have a conversation work - when any part of the network is congested, packets get dropped and your email takes longer to load. This is just a monopolist pushing up prices because they can.
And the badge itself is an icon of someone running with scissors.
The conflation of gay as being both homosexual and stupid is a result of homophobia and continuing to use it as such is a conscious decision that marginalizes a group of people. Whether or not they outright intend it that way, they are using homophobic speech.
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Yeah, that's a great point about Notch. I think it goes along well with my point that theater-type production and distribution systems are reserved for the big guys. The smaller guys like Notch have their own channels and it has worked out very well for the most successful of them.
CNN's biased video explanation of SOPA
I would like that, but it's a lot of work to write a book. There is, however, a Scheme version in the works (Realm of Racket it'll be called)

I'll be curious to see what Apple is doing tomorrow- It might be tempting for a different take for a book project.
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available on YouTube videos since 2009? Never seen them before. I am a regular youtube user.
> To prevent disengagement, all creative media ( magazines, newspapers, movies, comics, TV etc. ) will assault you on multiple fronts.

I don't think that works for everyone. I can read an issue of The Economist -- which primarily has a clean, linear layout of two or three columns per page -- basically cover to cover. But take something garishly laid out like Esquire, and my brain and eyes start to revolt after a couple of pages.
look up doc - edit - compile - test - repeat is pretty close to interpreted language repl cycles. But then I started on punch cards, so maybe my perspective is different. [one to three compile & test cycles/day makes anything interactive look good]

Appreciate the comment though. Gives me food for thought.
I hope Feinstein gets primaried. Her support for PIPA is sick.
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Those messages would have come through tomorrow. And what is better: a few million tweets most of which are inarticulate or a single well presented page that EVERY TWITTER USER would read?
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The influence of money is not naturally democratic. If there were a ban on corporate money in politics this would not be occurring.
Ideally, yes. However, Congress' approval rate is 13% right now. That's not anywhere near "acting in the interests of the citizens who elected them."