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It's not about whether the work is harder or not. That will vary with each student's abilities. Many who could graduate engineering with honours would flunk out of an arts program, and vice versa. A small subset of well-rounded high achievers have the raw intelligence to succeed in nearly all fields.

What differs drastically, and objectively, (and FYI, I'm an engineering grad) is the QUANTITY of work.

I had a very enlightening conversation with the professor who taught my 2nd year differential equations course (who was a math, not engineering, professor, and also the chair of undergraduate studies for that department, meaning that he was responsible for pretty well all undergraduate curriculum matters) where he told me that the entire BSc in mathematics program was designed to contain no more than 15 lecture hours per week, and to require a capable student to spend approximately 20-30 hours per week in addition to that in home study to master the material. A course would be considered well taught and well balanced if capable students were getting As while putting in this level of work. He went on to say that the Faculty of Applied Science had forced him to add 3 hours per week (one additional 1hr lecture and 2hr lab/tutorial) to his ODEs course for engineering science majors even though the content was identical to course offered for math majors. This is because the Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board uses one and only one metric to determine a student's level of learning in a particular top - number of instructional hours. That is, if you teach people to solve y = y' for 6 hours a week for one semester (13 weeks), that is entirely equivalent to having taken ODEs for math majors (2 hrs / week), PDEs for math majors (2 hrs / week), and advanced PDEs for math majors (also 2 hrs / week).

I was of course appalled by this and went on to discuss the topic with the Undergraduate Chairs of as many departments as I could - physics, chemistry, economics, philosophy, biology, and of course, my home department, engineering science.

Without fail, the chairs of the non-engineering departments described a similar ideal schedule to what the math prof had said - and all of them emphasized that they felt students should have at least one day a week to devote to entirely extracurricular interests, while still having enough time to attend all scheduled lectures and tutorials, mastering the material and generally achieving 80% or better in all courses. In other words, you shouldn't need to be a slacker in order to have fun.

What did the chair of my department tell me? "We expect students to spend 30-40 hours per week in class, in order to meet accreditation board requirements for instructional hours, and further, to spend about 30-40 additional hours per week to complete their assignments and master the material. Also, when I was an undergraduate I had it just as bad so STFU and get on with it."

In sum, engineering educators have a fundamentally different view on what a full-time student's life should be like. And it is a view that necessarily compels a lower quality of life for the student.
If one wants to nest links in JSON, one has to tell the client how those links will appear. On has to define the structure beyond merely syntaxical correctness. This is where REST falls down, IMHO.

Then use HTML. Or some other representation with known link semantics.

I don't see how failures or shortcomings of JSON indicate a problem with REST. They are orthogonal; JSON has nothing to do with REST, it's just a serialization format some people like.
You can redownload: music, apps, books, TV shows. Movies aren't in that list. Also, you might not be able to redownload something if it's been taken off the store.

http://www.apple.com/icloud/features/
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You'd be down voted to oblivion because you make baseless statements without any factual backing.

Are we really being fed a message in this article?

Perhaps. The message I got from this article? Straight communism doesn't work. (Which is fairly well established from past "communist" governments – they're either not communist or they quickly transmute into some other form of government.) But this article also doesn't espouse the benefits of pure capitalism. Instead, it highlights how a mix of communism and capitalism – a mix of group and personal interests – was actually quite successful.

Individuals have incentives to help the group, because after helping the group they help themselves. That's definitely not pure capitalism. Nor is it pure communism. It's something much more rich and powerful.

I think that's something from which we all could derive a very powerful message: absolute black/white polarizations are rarely correct or beneficial. Instead what's often required is a blending of opinions and ideas.
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For a reasonable but not specifically informed consumer, I think it's likely they expect to be able to re-download movies from iTunes, particularly since music, apps, etc. can be re-downloaded.

In the US, tends to err on the side of consumer protection, even in the face of a click-through license to the contrary. While Apple will let you re-download if you call (apparently), if I'd lost >$100 in iTunes movies and they wouldn't, I'd call AmEx and charge back the purchase. Or go to small claims, just for the novelty of winning against Apple.

However, I just pirate music, tv, and movies shamelessly (and buy Blu-Ray physical media, since I like 1080p, and rip). MPAA and RIAA declared war on everyone else about 15 years ago, so fuck them. The only reason I pay is for convenience.
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These posts are nothing short of slimy and the authors should be called out for their scumbag moment. I am tempted to call them outright scumbags but I'll give them the benefit of doubt for now.

Personally, I have no problem if they believe that more of their talent should stick around and not do startups of their own. But if that is your position, just state it. Don't wrap it around a seemingly noble message like "do great" when in fact your real message is "fuck I hate these programmers who just wanna do their own thing and not work for me."
Ask HN: Someone ripped off my app, is there any recourse with Apple? 
I built a simple Android app:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.tenromans.birthdaycake.free

And I discovered today that a developer has taken the graphics and rebuilt it for iPhone:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/make-birthday-cake/id469010303?mt=8

Frankly, that's the nature of the business. Things get copied all the time. But it also kinda sticks because the graphics and whatnot are my IP.

Is there any recourse with Apple to have them remove the app from the iTunes store?
One obvious, if nontrivial to implement, idea: simple, low-cost, distributed authoring tools to enable collaboration of geographically distributed production teams in creating YouTube-like content, including "one-click publishing" to YouTube and similar sites and strong integration with consumer-level capture devices such as mobile phones (e.g., flexible iPhone and Android recording apps).

Perhaps a less-ambitious place to start, at least bandwidth-wise, would be music — some sort of "GarageBand in the cloud" to enable easy yet powerful "spacetime distributed multitrack recording", again with strong device support and easy publishing of the results, possibly even including track sales, or at least an "e-tip jar", and possibly even an "instant compulsory license" tool for cover songs.

In both cases, I'd focus on tools to create "entry-level" original content rather than "mash ups" or "remixes", though the latter would, of course, not be actively discouraged (modulo "unfair use," of course).
Wow, just listened to it. He really nailed the subject in those 5 minutes. He said a lot of the things it seemed like Alexis Ohanian wanted to say in his debates.
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Yes, but it's absurd to claim that just because Hollywood goes down and your local cinema closes that these kids will be permanently unemployed because of it. (Note: getting laid off would be a great life lesson for a majority of the youth)

These kids earn disposable income and dispose of it. It's safe to assume that a fair portion of this demographics disposable income is disposed of at their local theatre, whilst simultaneously providing most of the staff there too.

If these kids can no longer dispose of their income at the theatre, then it's safe to assume they'll quickly find somewhere else to dispose of their money. These other locals will receive a boost in business and require hiring more staff, possibly extending shifts into the times when young adults are more prevalent rather than closing at 8pm.
"We expect students to spend 30-40 hours per week in class, in order to meet accreditation board requirements for instructional hours, and further, to spend about 30-40 additional hours per week to complete their assignments and master the material. Also, when I was an undergraduate I had it just as bad so STFU and get on with it."

Sounds vaguely like the notion abusive parents use when they hit their kids, "well my parents did it to me and I turned out alright"
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What this misses is that the 'attack' is really just code for 'vigorously outcompete', so all of his points reduce to 'please think of the buggy whip makers'.

This makes it extra silly to talk about aspiring actors and the Art. It's unlikely that Y Combinator will fund anything that really replaces cinema, but if it does it will be amazing.
What's the timeline for killing Hollywood?

This year, a normal movie year, Hollywood will make a profit of $X million.

Now let's suppose we "kill" Hollywood. We produce 100% of the new content in 2013, Hollywood produces 0% of the new content. However, Hollywood still has a massive catalog of copyrighted works which they continue to sell. What fraction of that $X million per year they currently make comes from selling old content? What fraction comes from selling works which are two, three, ten years old?

Basically, what is a realistic timeline for Hollywood to wind down sufficiently that they can no longer maintain a significant lobbying presence?
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>Even in the year 2012, after all these years, Americans still need to hear stories that directly outline why communism doesn't work, and good old competitive capitalism is the way of the future.

Making sweeping generalizations about Americans contributes nothing good to this discussion. It's needlessly incendiary, and it's more likely to lead to an argument than an interesting discussion.

Please have a look at the first, third and final sections of the HN commenting guidelines.

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This is something I'd been thinking about awhile ago (it's buried somewhere in my comments.)

Show production isn't necessarily out of the scope of whats possible as I've posted about the disconnect between cost of entertainment in the past on HN

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=552394

I still believe digital animation is an environment where a small startup could produce content to pave the way for the online market. This was something I looked at some years ago - it turns out that I'm simply not talented enough as an animator to do anything like this.

However, I am reposting links to my previous thoughts in the hope that someone who is talented enough can potentially make it work. I'd love to see someone beat Hollywood at their own game.
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It's Apache licensed, and the data files are embedded in the app. Looks like there's nothing preventing an iOS port (for iPhone 4 and up).
Well, I was using the same password for gmail and dreamhost, because I figured both were secure. Yeah, I know that's bad practice, and I don't do it anymore (I use a password manager for new sites), but I'd set up my dreamhost account a while back, and forgotten I was using my "secure" password.

I won't be the only person doing this.
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I'd add that one of the best features of XHR Poster is that it uses your cookies and any authentication you've already performed in Chrome when sending the requests.

I had to build an API that lived inside a system with entirely too many authentication/cookie checks and using curl was becoming too awkward for testing, this saved me a lot of time.
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People nag me about cat'ing stuff to grep, and I explain that it's just easier to edit the pattern when it is the last argument to the command. Also it of course fits better in the toolchain when I need to replace the input or the grep with something else.
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This is a great idea. I already bought Pictos icons and fonts twice (for personal use, and for my day work) and I always thought that it would be nice to be able to have a tool that allow me to use a subset only.
The savvy investor doesn't even need to do that. If the payout is high enough, he can invest in all the teams with any chance of success.
I have worked as a "Chat Tech"/"Junior Administrator" --tier one support-- for a little over a year now for HostGator. I typically do phone calls rather than chats but the experience across each is similar. That said, none of this reflects the official endorsement or opinions of HostGator.com LLC.

The type of concern "joering2" has is obviously not something we handle at a first encounter level. It's not even a "support" issue in the normal sense. It's an infrastructure issue. Support chats and phone calls aren't going to end 15 minutes later with me having: designed, developed, tested, and deployed an entirely new password storing, reset, and re-send mechanism. This is true for any company that one has a widespread concern with regarding their policies and infrastructure. I may not approve of Microsoft's policy of forcing me through a "Customer Retention Specialist" when I wish to cancel my excess Xbox live subscription, but haranguing the poor girl I'm speaking to about company infrastructure and policy issues is a waste of her and my time.

That said, for HostGator, if you want to quickly reach someone regarding this type of concern, here's an email address: feedback@hostgator.com.

With regards to "registryrocket.com" I can assure you that it is and has been the bane of every tech's existence here at HostGator. Some explanation: HostGator used to, and still does, resell domains through eNom. When you visit "registryrocket.com" -- visit http://hostgator.com/domains in order to get a working session -- what you are seeing is eNom's idea of good default site design and then their idea of user experience. The user experience with this tool is... lacking. To put it this way: I've never had a call where a customer told me how easy and great purchasing a new domain through hostgator.com/domains was.

Moving on, this is not a system that we directly administer and control, so far as I know. It is a service hosted on and developed by eNom, as stated on their own page describing the product: "We take care of the website hosting, merchant processing and other eNom services." (http://www.enom.com/help/faq_rr.asp). This, the poor user interface for managing domains, and the general frustration of having to work with an external registrar rather than being in complete control, has led to us forming our own registrar: "LaunchPad." We're already registering new domains under this tool and getting a live web interface for it has been a huge request both from our customers and us lowly tech and sales staff. Here's to hoping the hiring push for development talent pays off :)
You mean besides the MPAA/RIAA bribes?
Woah woah woah. You have a downvote button?
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And were clearly not as well prepared as the TPB crew.
I understand that, but the thing is that you don't know in advance when you'll go from your living-room to an office, so what do you do when you hire your first employee? You know she'll be in the first stripe, but since you don't know how many you'll put in that stripe, you can't use the nice formula 10%/n.

What I'm saying is that it sounds very nice and fair to engineer-type people. But it also sounds like it only works after the fact.

And again, I understand it's not really to be read as a strict formula, but more as something to give you a gross idea of what you're trying to accomplish. But in that case, it's not much different to what's already happening naturally: founders and employees know that the equity offered should reflect how early they arrive in the mix and what they bring to the table. I'm sure you can go in many startups and find the stripes that naturally formed and get something close to that "formula".
Ask HN: CLI for AWS which is not Java/Perl/Python/Ruby
I want to control AWS EC2 (not S3) via command line using either 1. basic UNIX base utilities, e.g. sh, openssl, netcat (curl is OK too) or 2. Lua. But not Java, Perl, Python or Ruby. Has anyone else already done this?
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I've been happy with Dreamhost's service, but becoming aware of this in the last few months has forced me to look into other registrars. If this is fixed, I would be much more inclided to stay.

If you could forward these articles to whoever's working on security, I'd appreciate it (and they're a good read):
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/09/rainbow-hash-cracki...
http://chargen.matasano.com/chargen/2007/9/7/enough-with-the...
Tell that to the MPAA then next time they claim piracy is hurting their business. :)
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Tens of thousands was a bit of hyperbole. However cheap special effects are getting very close to good enough to compete with Hollywood movies.

>Quality (especially the talent) is expensive, and that is fact in every field.

There are plenty of quality actors that are paid much less than millions of dollars per movie.

In addition, price is a function of what consumers are willing to pay and what sellers are willing to charge. If piracy drives down what consumers are willing to pay (and thus what actors can charge), what do you want to bet actors will still act (for much lower wages).
It is so very true that financing is the real issue here.
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i'll take a point hit here, but how dare you complain of such things.
Except that you will probably not put your money in a bank that's widely known for being a drug dealers haven, will you?

Yes. No one would ever use Wells Fargo now, would they?

(If you didn't get the reference: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/apr/03/us-bank-mexico-d... )
Most movies in the tens of millions aren't worth watching either.
Much of the expense for 'talent' comes from the artificial scarcity created by marketing. It's a vicious (or virtuous, depending on which side you're on) circle: a company spends marketing money, which attracts theaters, which means big audiences for the movie, which means that newcomer with a minor role gets exposure, which increases their appeal as a lead actor, which means their next movie will make more money. There are only so many actors who can appear in a 'major' release because a) there are only so many screens and b) there are even fewer movies showing on those screens because the blockbusters dominate the limited number of screens. There are always more actors (and directors and screenwriters, etc) that have the capacity be 'stars' than the system can accommodate. That system is built primarily on marketing, not talent.
You can use this CSS rule to make them look like Photoshop:

-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;

only works in webkit, which is most all mobile and chrome/safari.
Android link correction. This is the paid ($0.99) version: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.tenromans.birthday...
I've taken the weeder classes at decent colleges and I have to say that "not up to it" simply means undisciplined. While my experience isn't all-encompassing, I personally haven't seen any undergraduate class that couldn't be passed by almost any of the students with a sustained effort. Some students are more naturally inclined for the hard sciences than others. It doesn't mean they can't do it. It just means they have to work harder at it. Most just choose not to.
but if I log in to 5 different email accounts I'm still just one user.
Absolutely! And see the funny reasons people have been citing in favor of such an act - http://www.quora.com/Why-does-Quora-redirect-to-URLs-in-a-wa...
I think the argument is that the marketing and distribution institution that is Hollywood can be remade more efficiently. This streamlined Hollywood would capture fewer rents, exhibit less social malignancy, and pass on more of the value-added income to the creatives. This would, theoretically, increase the rewards to creativity.
> Pretty much everything written by one country's media
> about another country is propaganda.

You say this, yet you only attack American media for propaganda. Would you say the same thing about a BBC article on Iraq? A French article on Spain?
I made a FOSS gnome icon theme whose sole host was megaupload (the tarball was too large to upload to gnome-look.org). I hope I have the original on an old computer somewhere.
What hollywood has going for it, is a track-record of executing on the operations behind producing movies that make money.

People who invest in movies invest for the same reasons all of us invest in anything-- to make money.

Hollywood is a business, albeit one rooted in entertainment, but let's face it-- many artists are also just in it for the money.

I don't think our world view of "entertainment" is going to shift the way that YC suggested in it's call for action. I think most of us (unfortunately) are still going to want to watch movies like Transformers 3 at a $200 million budget than a $1million dollar indie flick.

So, once we've recognized that uprooting involves figuring out how to finance movie production instead of shifting the realm of entertainment (at least, for our generation, perhaps future generations will just want to watch WOW and starcraft online), then we're getting somewhere.

Unfortunately, figuring out a way to finance a film that costs tens or hundreds of millions to produce is a pretty tricky endeavor.

Still, it will be pretty awesome when Brad Pitt signs onto his first crowd-sourced flick =)