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Thanks for your suggestions! The problem with allowing anyone with a .edu email address to register is that there are plenty of people who work for universities that have .edu addresses, but aren't teachers. There is a matching algorithm that matches students who are taking a certain course to teachers that teach courses similar to the one they are taking. The rating system is a very important feature, which I hope to get to work on soon!
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Allowing "skilled writers" is something I want to do soon! If you are a skilled writer, you can still sign up! I may send you an email asking for a resume before I verify your account.
$100m+ movies won't exist if they can't recoup the money (according to real accounting, not Hollywood accounting). And that might happen if peoples' attention (and therefore, entertainment dollars) are spread out among more people by making more people able to entertain each other and profit from it, making it hard for any small group of people to hog the whole pie, as it were.
So let's see - your legal stuff stored on an online service... or even broader, you contract some service you need out to a company. That company gets it's doors slammed because they landed in legal trouble - who cares who's fault that was, that's not your problem - your immediate problem is you no longer have access to that service.

I've seen a bank go bankrupt and people lose quite a bit of money. (no, not in the US, no FDIC, etc etc, private bank, other country). Imagine hitting the ATM on the way to work and finding out that the bank is simply gone. Okay, the US has good protections against that, as do most 1st world nations..... but the lesson coming out of that was "Hmm, maybe we should look at only using government sanctioned banks with, you know, insurance, and if it's going to be a private bank, I want to know more about their financial situation before committing to them. Lesson learned.

Security company for the condo complex got shut down because they broke immigration laws. Left the condo with no security, even though most of the staff were legal, it didn't matter. Those guys are out jobs, and the condo has to have an emergency meeting to figure out how to get back good, trustworthy guards again.
Suppliers go bankrupt.
Heck, people get sick, family emergencies, they die unexpectedly and unfortunately, leaving you with a problem.

So let's not blow it up into more than it is.
If the lawmakers were way out of line here, let's make sure it comes out and they are sanctioned appropriately.... but regardless, it's a 3rd party service.
If you're using any critical service that is devastating to be without, you need to properly assess and address that risk.... whether it's data or services, staff or insurance, etc.
I'm sorry, but in a time when invading armies raped, pillaged, and killed at their own discretion, defending and thus staying alive is a much higher priority than saving your library. Especially when surrendering to the invaders would probably have gotten the library ransacked & burned anyway.

You cannot reap the rewards of technology fifty years from now if you are beheaded by a mercenary today.

If you need a simple analogy, think of the Civilizations series. (Or, hell, any game with a research/tech tree). Research wins games, but only if you survived the initial stages!
(iPad user, although I also tried out a Kindle Fire). I use portrait for everything except watching video. I haven't really found any iPad games which held my interest long enough to care.
Yes, I have. To me there seems to be an abstraction leak. Specifically he's baked HTML into his entire thesis. The idea of interconnecting hypermedia together is great. It does how ever limit on to using spec'ed hypermedia like HTML. HTML is one of the only spec media that can link out of the box.

One of his goals was that a document would be able to provide links to another document in a natural, intuitive way. It is ment to be so intuitive in fact that the interchange of the document doesn't need a schema or WSDL like system. HTML has this ability. JSON however doesn't.

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.

So I recommend pursuing pieces of REST. But a full HATEOS concept seems to meaningfully limit on to symantec HTML.
I suspect there's been an executive brain freeze, while they assess the impact of Apple's iTunes U or iText or whatever. Guys, it's a 1.0 Apple product. It won't make a difference until 2.0 next year, or 3.0 the year after. Apple's like Microsoft - they take 3 attempts to get anything right, but they limit the scope of 1.0 rather than making it suck.
Disappointed that an RFS is just a thinly disguised rant. I love HN, YC, and PG, but this tit-for-tat attempt at retaliation is childish and unworthy of the great minds that populate this forum.
People are always hating on bigcos around here.

"Sky Map’s development will now be driven by the students, with Google engineers remaining closely involved as advisors."

That sounds pretty awesome, especially for the students involved.
> 1s and 0s, something we've long argued can't be "stolen"

I don't understand this argument. Because it's "1's and 0's" doesn't mean that it can't be stolen. If I take a bunch of photos on my digital camera, and my camera is stolen, are my photos not also 'stolen' from me as I no longer have possession of them?

> Honestly, I can't take any of these arguments seriously,
> if only because they are using the same arguments the
> MPAA/RIAA have been attempting to use against us for
> years.

The MPAA/RIAA argues that making a copy while not depriving the original owner if his/her copy is stealing.

What is being argued here, as I understand it, is that depriving the original owner of their only copy is being called stealing. As I stated in my original comment, the FBI confiscated the drives that those copies are being stored on.
The fact that they have to make changes to their system in order to not have useless crap appear at the top of the results tells us something: either people are searching for crap or the portion of the web Googlebot is crawling is full of crap.

No, it means the ranking algorithm is evaluating the results wrongly. Which is what they're trying to fix.

With respect to the later idea, the search engine may in fact be contributing to it by encouraging more crap to be created, because it easily percolates to the top of their "intelligent" results and users blindly click on result #1. And no doubt many users see these results as equivalent to "the web". Whatever Google returns, to them, that's "the web".

But that's the point, isn't it? It shouldn't easily percolate to the top. That's what their algorithms are for. If it does, they need to be fixed.

Are you evaluating search results, or websites?

I'm evaluating websites, individually. Because that is what the web is. To me, Google is not the web. Google might give me some clues about some sites. They do an enormous amount of grunt work crawling them.

But it's up to me to do the final evaluation. To decide whether a site is useful or whether it is crap.

I don't get what you mean by "Google being the web". Of course the final evaluation is up to the user. But if Google can rank the results more like you would, you're wasting less time clicking through the crap to get what you want.

And there are other ways to discover websites besides using Google. How do you think Google learns about existing and new websites? Voluntary disclosure by the webmasters?

Actually, they do that too. But mostly by painstakingly loading every link recursively, something which is obviously impossible for a person to do unless they want to be limited to 0.0...01% of the web.
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Perhaps can be argued better storytelling can take place in person, whether via education or live performances - however storytelling in person is an artform, much like proper education is.
I thought "the fold" was always the line where you have to scroll to see below it
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For the record, I don't believe copyright infringement equals theft.

The OP that I replied is correct with that claim. His proof, however, is wrong.

Here's a genuine question:

How would an artist make money if everybody pirated just as everybody stole? (I'm going off what the OP said.)
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You've seen the clips of the hearings and the movie and were not honestly reminded of it?
So you have no sense of humor?
That makes me die a little on the inside...
The best system involves keeping end pointers, not lengths. Remaining length changes. End pointer never changes. At previous job we converted our whole code base to this system, and it worked great.
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What? So you think this is nothing more than propaganda?
Girls freaking LOVE picnik. I can't tell you how many times I've seen albums of crappy filters with text that says crap like "Live...Love..Laugh" in sparkly letters that came from picnik.

If you can make a service easy enough that a typical college aged girl can get into it, you're doing something right.
"when the truly outstanding in other fields are paid a lot less?"

You mean like sports stars?

The command higher fees because having their name attached to a project reduces the amount of marketing expenditure of a project and increases the projects chances of success.

Aside from fees for high-paid actors and directors though there are still a LOT of people needed to produce a quality film: screenwriters, cinematographers etc.
You should obviously be doing projects on the side to not atrophy. As for the smaller company route: since you have a family, then who cares. Just stay sharp and network. Maybe watch the projects you are on, just in case you need to jump ship. Use the free time to put in motion your own vision for life.
I think you are wrong. Maybe a few thousand dollars isn't enough to make a movie with good production values. But there are lots of low budget movies that are amazing works of art. Also, a lot of movies made with massive budgets "aren't worth watching". Clearly the funding isn't directly correlated to the quality of the film.
Ah yes, that SEPR does have an ad block with background color #FDF6E5. However, that color is only 10% yellow. Objectively, that should present a very faint yellow.

If you're seeing a gold-ish yellow background, then your monitor is set to low brightness or Gamma 2.2. That way, you won't see colors as they are.
This was a nightmare. I was trying to get some urgent changes committed for a client that needed it this afternoon. Just about to commit around 14:00 est and Comcast takes a dive. Comcast support says they'll have it fixed by 5. Not great, I wanted to be done with work early on a Friday, but client is on the west coast so it will still be okay. Comcast comes up and ... shit, can't log in to the server. Try a few dozen variations of my password, then scour the web for an hour looking for hints if I'm locked out or something. Finally decide to check Dreamhoststatus.com. Fuckwits. Only sysadmin has access to panel to reset my password. He's sick and only checking IM sporadically. Finally get logged in and commit at 23:45pm est. Comcast+Dreamhost fucked me and my client real good today. Not much I can do about Comcast, but our migration off of dreamhost is getting pushed up to the top of the list.
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I started to write a comment of my own then saw this one. You are spot on with this. What needs to happen is exactly what you are saying. However, I think humans in general tend to like to see the same actors in movies time and time again so finding a way to decentralize production but still keeping popular actors involved can be a bit of a challenge. From what I understand, the actors unions are probably currently limiting some talented people from becoming well known actors so balancing this out could help as well, however I don't think we can get away anytime soon from the appeal that certain people have to audiences, however the rest of it is all interchangeable, in my opinion, writing and special effects work can be done anywhere as can the actual filming of the movies.
I didn't get this email for PGM, even though I'm enrolled. Strange...
Not to be excessively trite but, Planet earth is BBC right? The state sponsored entertainment of the British empire?
Reading the post and the comments, I really miss Steve Jobs.

Look, guys, Hollywood is not your enemy, you're not going to kill it, and it doesn't need killing. Hollywood's use of technical and business model innovation has advanced faster than most other industries over the past five to ten years.

Similarly, Congress and the carriers aren't your enemies and they're not going away either, although you certainly didn't win any friends in Washington with the tactics you used to stop SOPA and Protect IP for the time being.

Perspective is important here: Congress has been working on copyright and on-line piracy since the Napster days, and this one just one small episode in a struggle to rationalize creator's rights with new technologies of distribution. This fight emphasized the universal human right to speech, but there's also an article (27b) in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights respecting copyright. So it's not a simple black-and-white, good guys and bad guys issue.

Congress also has a long memory, and you can't steer the ship of state blacking out Reddit or cloaking Wikipedia (in a way cleverly designed to preserve page rank) every time there's a debate on the Hill that makes you uncomfortable. And be aware that Congress deals with tech industry issues several times a year, every year, no matter what.

Tech (I won't say Silicon Valley because the San Francisco Web 2.0 social media sharing cabal is on a completely different tack than the Valley in its heyday) needs to refine its marketing skills, develop better relations with Hollywood, Congress, and infrastructure providers, and to think about what it does well and what it's never going to do well.

Gaming and information processing are more up your alley than narrative, character development, and story arc. Get real.

Lots of people around the world have spent a lot of mind time on developing better forms of interactive entertainment, infotainment, augmented reality, education, and more. Even people in Washington who work in the policy space can fill you in on the details. See the latest Congressional Internet Caucus State of the Net conference that took place when you were staring at blank screens this week: http://youtu.be/4VF-EIXQCzE

But it's a good start, get beyond the anger and think about where you want to be in five years.
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And, they can learn that they better get a good education so they have an alternative to low income jobs before they have to live off said low-income jobs.
It will be interesting to see how the courts interpret the various DMCA requirements and whether or not they're able to clarify matters. For example, just what part of the DMCA requires them to deal with repeat infringers? There are allegations concerning that, but many of the allegations do not cite what law they think is being broken. I seem to recall that it has been considered by Congress, so is it really the court's place to decide those rules in their place? They sure don't mind deferring to Congress everywhere else, so I would tend to say no. But who knows just what they might read into the "red flag" requirement?

Honestly, that's probably the biggest thing to watch. If they come up with some particular rule, a lot of people will have to scramble to implement something. And it will be even worse if they just say that people need one without giving any guidance.

I hope to see remarks from grellas on this one.

EDIT: Note that they do mention the repeat infringers bit the "conspiracy" section of the indictment, but that doesn't really make things very clear. I note that they also claim a link to ninjavideo (whose owner was taken down for criminal infringement) at the very start, then leave it out when talking about the "conspiracy." Weird.
Securing them properly is pretty straightforward, but it takes time and skill. Time+Skill = money. Web hosting companies compete primarily on price because its the only thing that is easily compared. How does one measure a service provider's competence? Like used cars, the quality ones get pushed out of the market by the dirt cheap lemons.
This. I'm hard pressed to think of online content that is as transcendent as a great film.
Based on some hiring e-mails I've seen it sounds like Daphne Koller and friends are trying to spin this off into a commercial venture (at least the means to offer such courses online). So it sounds like either a) they've gotten so much interest they're having trouble scaling (hard to believe) or b) they're held up trying to sort out ownership and terms of a partnership with Stanford.
What blazing rhetoric. This is not about blowing up buildings, finding execs and their families and executing them slowly, or occupying a land mass. This isn't a war against Hollywood, so using typical anti-war talking points like "war isn't the answer" and "just find a compromise regardless of who is right!" and "don't give in to eye-for-eye revenge!" (I'm surprised the author didn't use a Gandhi quote or two) don't fly as counter-arguments. It's also not a simple eye-for-eye retaliation, for one reason because this isn't war, but another reason because the eye-for-eye retaliation would be for the government to nationalize Hollywood and subject them to the same crap NASA has had to go through since the last moon mission or so. This posting is a great example of why using a shaky metaphor is a bad idea, because that metaphor quickly turns into an equals sign as far as arguments go when it shouldn't.

When PG says "Kill Hollywood", it's meant in the exact same sense as "Kill Microsoft". That's the only "uh oh" in his whole posting, it doesn't say "declare war on Hollywood". Neither Hollywood nor Microsoft comprise the entirety of the entertainment industry and the tech industry no matter how much they want to and no matter how much the average ignorant random-person-on-the-street might believe they already do, so clearly it's not even a desire to kill off an industry, just to remove a particular member's influences from it and from everything else.
Pretty much everything written by one country's media about another country is propaganda.

There is just as much propaganda in American media as there is in Chinese Media.

Does Rupert Murdoch support SOPA or is it the fine informed editors at the Wall Street Journal? Rupert wouldn't use his media as a propaganda network for his own benefit would he?

There is no propaganda in American Media, none at all. It's only the evil commies that have propaganda.
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Bummer -- this was a great service. Seems like Google has been shutting down a lot of things recently. There was a passage in the Steve Jobs biography where he was telling Larry Page that google should focus on fewer products and not spread themselves so thin -- seems like since Larry took over from Eric Schmidt, that's what he's been doing (slowly but surely).
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Are you fuckers smoking crack again? Movies are preposterously expensive to make. Canon, Nikon, Red, et. al are driving down the cost by making the means of production accessible to more people, but the filming of a blockbuster is as much of a production as building a skyscraper. You employ thousands of people for years at a time.

It's cheaper to film movies in LA because that's where all of the qualified people are, and bringing a crew to location is guaranteed to destroy your budget. Independent film can happen anywhere because it has a smaller footprint. "Hollywood" movies, both good and bad, can happen only because of the economies of scale that go along with a gigantic centralized labor force.

I'd love to see new startups change the face of filmmaking, I really would. A YC for films to get financed outside the studio system would be great. Independent digital distribution would be great. But when the stated goal of your undertaking is to "kill hollywood" you'll excuse me if I roll my eyes. "Kill the MPAA?" Great! "Kill lionsgate!" Um, fine. "Kill an entire industry!" I think you may be laboring under several grave misapprehensions.