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> It has little to do with convenience.

This is discounting how much it has to do with convenience. People love Netflix's streaming service, but it's plagued by the fact that the studios are reluctant to give them access to a wider catalog (as I understand it, not a Netflix subscriber).

There are tons of examples where the MPAA/RIAA members could have switched distribution methods, but chose not to for a very long time because they are too conservative. Once they shuttered Napster, they could have paid a team to develop something similar to the iTunes music store, and organized a set of standards to govern music players with electronics companies. They could have owned the new distribution medium by ushering it in themselves. Instead they spent time on legal teams playing wack-a-mole with the pirates and lobbying various legislative bodies across the globe to try and prevent the Internet from happening. The only investment that they want to make in the future is attempting to extend the ecosystem of the past into the future as far as possible.
How was the talk?
That's pretty close to my pattern as well. I get my best work done late at night, so there's a chronic temptation to stay up late... but when I was working the $dayjob, I had to be at the office by 9:30am, so I went sleep-deprived all week, then would crash hard late Friday night or early Saturday morning and sleep like 12 hours.

Left entirely to my own devices, I'd sleep about 8 hours a night, but I'd wind up gravitating to a pattern of staying up until 6 or 7 am, and then sleeping until 2 or 3 pm.
Too late for a primary challenge and there doesn't even seem to be a credible Republican challenger.
Yes (which I find mildly surprising given how long the Ruby library took to support batch ops on SQS)

https://github.com/amazonwebservices/aws-sdk-for-ruby
Archived for future dissection.
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Ask HN: Recommend a website screenshot API?
I'm working on a bookmark organizer site to teach myself some new libraries/techniques, and I'd like to show ~200px screenshots of the bookmarked pages. Can anyone recommend a service to provide those screenshots? I did a search first and most of the years-old recommendations are no longer in business.
Ask HN: Is piracy actually a problem? (SOPA)
In all the media coverage, it seems to be taken as fact that foreign piracy is something that must be solved.

However, looking at year-over-year profits for media companies, it doesn't look like they're doing poorly. In fact (excepting a blip due to our economic foibles) they're doing better than ever.

Is this assessment correct? If so, why isn't the media picking apart these claims?
I beg to differ, the Constitution clearly specifies why copyright should exist: "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries."

How does retroactively adding copyright to public domain works in anyway "promote" it's already been accomplished. This the same argument that was used Eldred vs. Ashcroft where this argument also failed. It was a bad ruling then and it's a bad ruling now.

If we want to have this decided by the lawmakers then we should amend the Constitution to grant this power.
Sooner than you think

https://github.com/boto/boto/commit/8ef550ec028b379bcd85e550...
This brings up several questions. How much tech industry lobbying dollars are there, and how does it stack compared to the Entertainment industry? More importantly, how much non-monetary sway do they have on Washington?
But I bet Congress' approval rate among lobbyists and corporate campaign donors is much higher. After all we have the best Congress money can buy.
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Can the BIOS be reverse-engineered to hack out the UEFI code, sort of similar to how crackers just NOP the DRM part a game? You could even return the correct response to any kernel interrogation of the BIOS to check keys.

Seems to me that solves most of the problem, even for dual-booters.
Though it meant a bit of server setup, I had a good experience using self-hosted PhantomJS. I have a mini how-to here, in the "Rendering the screenshot" section:
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I am talking about one movie. If a pirate pirates a movie, it is incredibly unlikely that he/she is going to then go buy the movie.

And yes, I do imply (and even say outright) that people who pirate would buy if they couldn't pirate, but not all of them. Probably only a very small proportion of them would buy a movie if they couldn't pirate it. However, if only one person would buy the movie out of the hundreds that pirate it, it would net the producing and distributing companies a loss, which is all that would need to happen for my argument to have sound backing.
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Indeed. It's convenient for me. I'll certainly freeze my ass off, but I am looking forward to experiencing some intense winter. Plus, I'll be doing some consulting work for a long time client of mine on site, which will be refreshing.

I'm primarily excited for a taste of new culture, a break from the shitstorm that I feel like my life is right now, and hopefully a new outlook on life.
> there would be no more movies which the pirate
> bay could distribute

That's not the case. I remember someone once mentioning the Nigerian film industry as an example. Everything there is pirated, but they make their movies with the expectation that they have ~2 weeks to make their money before piracy becomes rampant.

I'm sure that large $100-million movies won't be made in such a world, but I've never really heard anyone respond to whether or not that is a good or bad thing. Do we really need huge blockbusters like that to truly tell a compelling story?
As I understand it (and happy to be educated otherwise), the major record labels can not build an iTunes competitor together, as it would require discussions that lead to price fixing, etc. There is a good interview with the head of digital for Warner Bros Music on This Week in Music that talks about how they can only hope the other labels negotiate with people like Spotify because they have to make forward progress, but they can't know for sure and coordinate efforts to move the industry forward, because it's actually illegal to have most of those discussions with each other. Again, I don't know if that's true, but it could be.
Could you say a little bit to justify your use of the term eigenvector in that sentence?
I can't speak to the legal issues, but I do know the TV guys tried it with Hulu and got scared of it competing with their core business when it started to become successful. So I kind of doubt it's concern over antitrust suits at work here.
These are all valid points, aligned with many of the views being upvoted today. However, I'd just like to point something out.

According to this article and many others, we all "pirate stuff" because it's "easier than the paid model"... well, the same goes for driving a car.

I would much rather just walk into my underground parking lot, hotwire a car, and ditch it once I got to my destination. But, I have morals.

I am not likening stealing a car to copyright infringement, only pointing out the reasoning that "I pirate because it's easier to do so" isn't really a moral/valid point.

It's easier for me to kill you instantly with my gun than it is for me to reason with you about a topic I don't care to reason about, too.
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Wouldn't that be more aptly named 'Nightmare mode?'
MIT didn't have color monitors standard in 1998??
Or local area networking connecting the labs to the dorms?
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Your argument would make a lot of sense if all the movie stars, directors, producers, composers, etc were as poor as the rest of America.
> looked up the key for my existing OEM install

I think your machine has to have a Windows sticker with the key if it shipped with an OEM license.
The most interesting part of this article is that PIPA is now effectively a Democratic (capital D) bill with almost twice the number of co-sponsors, in part due to the Heritage Foundation's opposition.

I wish the Democrats would give similar weight to the ACLU or similar organizations. Maybe this is why people say organizing Democrats is like herding cats.
It's true that some pirates would have paid if they hadn't been able to pirate. But that's not the whole story: sometimes getting media for free makes people more inclined to buy it or related media later. I've heard on Hacker News that free music distributions can create an audience for live concerts. Another example is "freemium" software and services. At least one study (that I'm too lazy to look up) found that some people will pirate music to try it and then buy it if they like it. So you can't determine from theory whether piracy leads to less or more revenue; you need real data.
Killing only easy in the absence of social and legal pressure, and in our instincts to not harm members of our "tribe"
Could you please explain exactly why copyright infringement isn't stealing? I really don't understand any of the past arguments. Someone places a price on something that they paid money to create. Instead of paying that price (fair or not), you choose to obtain that something for free. That is, by definition, stealing. You are taking something that belongs to the creator of that something without the right to do so. -- http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/steal

I am not saying that Hollywood is going to be completely killed - I was just speculating as to a possible (albeit unlikely) future scenario. The reason for my doing this is that TPB's statement gave me the feeling that they didn't want the traditional Hollywood to exist anymore.

Sorry - what exactly are you getting at with the comment about them being so hypocritical about everything?
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Do you know how many actors, directors producers and composers there are that are as poor or poorer than most Americans? The people you watch on TMZ are an anomaly. Most creatives struggle as much as the next guy.
Apple is only anti DRM for the rights of music and movies and phone companies. They love DRM when they own the rights. Cf App Store.

Amazon broke through with DRM free MP3 originally.
Wow, not surprised about the ruling. Kind of surprised about this quote though:

Justice Ruth Ginsburg said “some restriction on expression is the inherent and intended effect of every grant of copyright.”
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Justice Elena Kagan recused, said Congress’ move to re-copyright the works to comport with an international treaty was more important

I am really tired of the arguments that sacrifice sovereignty for globalist endeavors. Our laws are supposed to provide a framework of government for American people and businesses, not ensure the rights of foreign works. The rights of US citizens should be the foremost concern of a US legislator and when it comes to satisfying a treaty compromising those rights the treaty or international precedence should be thrown out the window. I feel like I am now living in bizarro world where no right is safe. I mean the fact that public domain, the resting place for IP is no longer the end of the line is about as strange an interpretation of public domain as one could come up with. They are laying the same groundwork for this international treaty argument on gun rights as well.
Do you have to compile different binaries for different platforms on native client? Would you need to compile x86, x64, and ARM binaries separately?

Also, I think the question is how to get performance for dynamic runtimes. Native client isn't inherently dynamic. I guess you could compile Lua into native client and build your app ontop of Lua but then you still have the issue of how to get a performant dynamic runtime.
Do they have to pay the lobbyists back? (serious question)
Why would you do that to yourself? You're illegally downloading content. It's really cool and good and all that you're making up for your illegally downloaded content by actually purchasing the movie afterwards because that is what matters, but you could still have to pay huge fines for doing that if anyone wanted to make you.

The other thing is that I think good natured people like you who want to pay for movies after watching them are very rare. The majority of pirates don't follow by your way of thinking, I would guess.
You are honestly arguing that deprivation is not an intuitive aspect of theft?
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Many major metropolitan cities produce publicly available crime stats and I'm sure MS could tap into private sources as well to build this feature into their GPS business. You can also use census data and combine that with perhaps density of certain types of businesses (vice/liquor/gun-store) and things like traffic patterns (avoid walking down low-traffic unlit streets after midnight) to determine optimal areas to travel through or places to avoid.

What got me about that interview was that Juanita from the NAACP had some seriously flawed logic. She said she couldn't imagine not being able to go to MLK street because her GPS said it as dangerous. As far as I know, you are the driver and the GPS doesn't dictate where your car goes, YOU DO.

I absolutely understand how this could reinforce negative stereotypes but as a driver, I would like to know if I'm at a higher risk of getting carjacked or shot.
I'm sorry but tetris isn't exactly state of the art in game design these days. We already have tons of games that javascript/html simply cannot even come close to handling. Naturally people are starting to think about how we can get there, while maintaining all the benefits of a dynamic runtime. So the point is that what javascript is today is not good enough, thus the exploration into how to make it faster.
This just pushed me into signing up too. I thought it would be a long complicated process. It wasn't. Definitely worth it.
If it's more efficient, how come they are complaining so much about how they're struggling to make money? P2p is way more efficient than what they want (build+power+staff theatres, rental stores, retail stores, manage supply chains, etc.)

The Internet wins and will always win.
It's too bad that this is just a compressed sampler course and that they are not reinstating the original class. I took the equivalent course at Berkeley, which also taught SICP with Scheme, and I can't possibly imagine a better introductory Computer Science class, for 2 reasons:

First, as is stated everywhere else, SICP is a beautiful book and it does an amazingly fun and efficient job teaching you many, many fundamental topics in CS, and more than that it teaches you how to think and develop good intuitions for it.

Second, and maybe an opinion you haven't heard, teaching the class in Scheme is a huge benefit, and anyone who says the opposite just plain sucks. Pardon my coarseness, but so many kids who start out their college career are little shits who think they know everything about programming and that taking an introductory class is beneath them. I've heard that sentiment expressed almost verbatim, along with people listing off all the projects they've done in python and java and whatnot. When the professor (no longer Brian Harvey unfortunately!) starts teaching the class in Scheme they all shut their grubby little mouths and actually listen and try to learn something. The naysayers don't understand that the class isn't about programming, it's about computer science, and just the beauty of seeing that this weird functional language you've never seen before can be used to do everything from taking derivatives elegantly to implementing it's own interpreter to developing a query language or an OO language, etc, goes a long way in illustrating the malleability, openness, and sheer potential of Computer Science to new students who should be learning just that.
You can't think that you are paying for a no-cost digital copy. You are paying for a copy of a production that took over a year and millions of dollars to create! You wouldn't argue that you should only have to pay half-price for milk because half of the milk company revenues were spent on advertising, right?
This answers deserves a good article on its own.
I'm a conservative, so I normally vote Republican, but it's not hard to recognize the corruption this represents. Everybody on that list, regardless of party, needs to be run out of office. The more tar and feathers involved the happier I'll be.
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What's wrong with long polling and keep-alive connections, handled with evented socket code on the server side? Is it mainly because of the HTTP request overhead?
Yes, and I don't see many of them supporting destructive legislation.
I created the spotlight with a CSS3 radial gradient. I used pointer-events: none; on the element with the gradient so that mouse events would "go through" that element to the content below (the links). The lighting shadow casting effect is created via a box shadow and a text shadow. I'm adjusting the offset of the shadows based on the mouse position, and I'm also adjusting the blur on the shadows based on the distance of the "light source" for the content that is "casting" a shadow.
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Seriously, you should start to support free Operating Systems instead of loose your time with Microsoft, pirating it or not.
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For the third time: you are incorrect about the history. Test-first development was created by working programmers as part of Extreme Programming before the term "Agile" even existed.
Those first couple weeks I was pretty sad and felt sorry for myself a lot. When friends started organizing drives I got totally immersed in helping to organize those and forgot about everything else. When that trailed off, I guess I'd come to terms with it. I wish I knew exactly how long I had, but nobody ever does.

I'm looking forward to using this as an excuse to do a lot of things I'd been putting off and living the life today that I always figured I'd love someday.
tl;dr; There are some foreign works that are still copyrighted overseas, but the copyright has expired in the US. This ruling allows the Congress to reinstate the copyrights for particular works so that the copyrights apply for the full length of their term in the local country that they were originally created/copyrighted in.
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Here at Berkeley we have the same thing. For example, I had a computer-oriented discrete math course where the professor decided a fun time to have homework due would be 8:00 AM. Naturally, you could pop by the lab next to the turn-in box at obscene times in the morning and see a bunch of people working.

One benefit of this is that sometimes great discussions about completely random--although usually technical--subjects emerge as everybody is procrastinating. It really makes even the most annoying homework assignment bearable.
Embarrassing that more Democrats haven't come out in opposition, especially given the amount of money they traditionally raise from Silicon Valley.
If you don't mind me asking, how old are you? (a broad range will do fine if you like). What's remarkable is that the word gay actually used to mean 'carefree' or 'happy'. Asserting that it's being used as homophobic speech is incorrect. Once again, the word is experiencing another semantic shift.
Me too. Officially the NMDP doesn't release any details to either party until a year has gone by and they both ascent to it. Been trying to gather all the clues I can from the doctors (who have limited info as well).
No it's not stealing users. It's copying users. You see, stealing implies....
Please don’t lobby. Disrupt.
That's awesome. Congratulations! (And jeez yeah not looking forward to the nausea in the coming week but I'll get through it.)
Yes, and also Windows Security Essentials. A family member has a legit retail copy which failed to activate, and just lives with the degraded experience. Quite a contrast with other OS's.
It's only a 'better experience' if they're not caught.

Bank robbers have a 'better experience' of a bank if they're not caught too.
SICP was killed--well, is in the process of being killed--at Berkeley just this year. However, largely at the prodding of the old (and really awesome) SICP professor, it has also reemerged, now as a self-paced course. I know some of the people working on administering the self-paced version, and I am very impressed with where it is going. So there is hope yet ;)
> ... sacrifice sovereignty for globalist endeavors.

Can anyone from the US really make this point with a straight face.

A little hypocritical to say the least.
Commerce is legal jargon which doesn't carry the same meaning as regular English. You're misinterpreting it because you're not treating it in its legal context.
Of course not - that would be evidence of bribery. These campaign contributions are "gifts" with "no strings attached" - but good luck getting the money next time!
I really like that argument and actually hope it would prove to be true - would completely change a significant part of the industry.

However, it is by definition of US law illegal to pirate copyrighted content, so regardless of whether or not we think it is a benefit to content production and distribution companies for us to pirate their content, it is always going to be illegal.
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The key word here is not "stealing" but "right" as in "the right to do so".

See also: "makes a copy" vs "removes original"

Creators need to be paid, and I see lots of passionate creators being paid despite, or even with the help of this "stealing" (SEO guys and gals call it "free PR".)
Perhaps, because the world doesn't begin and end with the US east and west coast.

If you ignore the fact this is still under copyright overseas, you are setting the precedent that they can do the same in return. No?
I'm not sure game streaming would be any better, it may require less copyright but then what happens when the company decides it is no longer economically feasible to stream the game that you like to play?

I'm not sure how 3d models would make a difference in movies? Many movies are already basically 3d renders.
For no good reason -

This post reminds me of John Carpenter's They Live, and that maybe what we really need to take care of SOPA is Rowdy Roddy Piper - whose website is, fortuitously, not blacked out today. http://www.rowdyroddypiper.com/