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> "Work hard, don't work hard — everyone gets the same," he says. "So people don't want to work."
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> Many people point to this idea as the main weakness (or stupidity, depending on whom you speak) of Socialism as originally proposed by Marx.

But it is not a Marxist idea. In a society following Marxist principles, if you choose not to work, you would starve: You're not contributing according to your ability. The much mentioned from each according to ability, to each according to their means, is a social contract: If you don't contribute what you can, you should also not receive.

In fact, the purpose of socialism (as opposed to communism) in the Marxist model is a transition where the working classes put in place measures to gradually deprive the capitalist classes of the means to live off capital and to take away their capital in order to subsume them into the working classes: If you don't want to work, as opposed to if you can't, you will eventually starve.

The irony is that a lot of Western social democracies follow policies that Marx' likely would've written off as ploys a la Bismark's "state socialism": Ways of pacifying the working class, and potentially damaging by creating a chorus of people who oppose further socialization by creating systems full of attractive opportunities for those who don't want to work.

This is beyond a lot of the early socialist demand for a right to work, rather than a right to welfare.

A welfare state that pays people unemployment benefits without also putting them to work is petty-bourgeois, not Marxist socialism.
Two things:

a) this doesn't include mobile/tablet browsers, thus it's irrelavent.

b) this is only the case because Google deliberately dropped support for a recognised format backed by open standards, in exchange for an arguably inferior format that it just happens to own.
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I agree - the early part made me think there was going to be more about our time. But I have to say I really enjoyed the final third on Limonov and Surkov, and the further link on Surkov http://www.lrb.co.uk/v33/n20/peter-pomerantsev/putins-rasput...

great link!
I live in Kenya. The quality of the local stuff we see on TV and in movie theaters is still a long way behind other places. To the point where more than 95% of what we consume (and enjoy) is foreign.

I think if someone could you use what you are suggestion to produce really well written movies/series for markets such as our would be very successful.

It would be:
1. Local
2. Better than most other local stuff.

You could theoretically make a lot of money going to various countries such as Kenya and making quality stuff based on the local culture etc.

You would also be profitable while gaining experience/momentum to later launch into other more developed markets.

Makes sense?
Those things are always off the mark...

He assumes the way too much about the quality and quantity of the student's future earnings if they just continue "in the workforce", whatever that means.

Or, as the old joke goes: "A lawyer or accountant with 30 years of experience is semi-retired... A software engineer with 30 years of experience is likely unemployed".
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Yeah it's tough to keep them working for you on your plantation when they have their own 40 acres and a mule.
#2 is what Pandora does. Pandora knows what music I like and will like better than I ever could.
I think a site that would have a huge catalog of exclusivly non-RIAA music with a great recommedation system and streaming radio would be a real winner. I know i'd use it.
Ask HN: Would I be mad to make a web app that requires canvas?
I am at the very early stages of developing a graphically rich web app. Using HTML5 canvas would undoubtedly be the best solution for some of the stuff I am looking to include (there are significant performance problems doing what I want with alternatives such as Raphael.js etc).

Would I be mad to make the app canvas based? I understand this basically rules out IE 7 and 8 (I don't care about 6!), roughly 32.5% of the browser share according to http://caniuse.com/canvas. That said, the app won't be released fully for around 12mths, so things will have improved by then.

Are there libraries/techniques I should look at for falling back to a suitable solution for incompatible browsers?
This is true, I know some indie musicians and they usually own a minimum of $10,000 worth of equipment themselves and on top of that hire other stuff when they record or play live.

A lot of things that people think are "done in someone's garage" are either done by someone with very rich parents or produced by a relatively well funded company.
Certainly getting pursuing a math degree is not a waste of time compared to only studying math on your own.

Washington has a fantastic math department, one of the top 30 in the country. Max Lieblich is an outstanding algebraic geometer and a brilliant lecturer. They have one of the top combinatorics research groups in the world. John Lee is a great differential geometer and a well-known and well-regarded author. William Stein is an expert in number theory and single-handedly started the SAGE project.

Do you think you could learn math better without these people's help, or with it?

The real point of a good university class, once you get through the required freshman stuff, is that it will expose you to a lot of amazing material that you don't know is out there yet, and simultaneously it introduce you to professors and students who are excited about this stuff. I anticipate that any of the professors I mentioned would be very happy to guide some independent learning/research if you finished some basic classes, showed some motivation, and proved that you were good.

Good luck!
I just got the email from Dreamhost at about 3:30AM EST. I checked out their status blog and found something interesting: over the past month a good number of people have had malicious .htaccess files and scripts inserted into their Wordpress installs. That would include me.

About a month ago one of my Dreamhost sites was hacked. An .htaccess file was modified to insert some PHP scripts that provided a backdoor to the site and that also embedded ads. I see now that I'm not the only one who has had this problem. When I reported this at the time I submitted as much information as possible but only got a canned, autogenerated response. Dreamhost ran an automatic scan on my site and IIRC it did pick up the offending file, but by the time that had been done I had already found it. The particular backdoor was c99shell.I. As I've read more comments, people have had .htaccess files modified who weren't using Wordpress, so it's not a Wordpress problem.

This leads me to ask: Is this compromise related to the hacks that I and other users have experienced? If so, how long has the password database been compromised?

Thankfully I use GMail for email, so at least that level of personal information wasn't stored on their servers. But this makes me wonder just how long someone has had free reign to access many Dreamhost accounts.

Needless to say, I will be switching hosts and will never recommend Dreamhost again. I guess you get what you pay for, and if I had been able to speak with an actual human being about my site being hacked maybe they could have connected the dots. Furthermore, they've had this weak password system since 1999?

Edit: Here's a link to the status blog post: http://www.dreamhoststatus.com/2012/01/20/changing-ftpshell-...

Edit2: I just remembered that I got a strange call from a friend a few months ago who said that when he tried to access my site his corporate firewall had blocked it because of the presence of pornography. This is a church's web site we're talking about, so of course there was no porn on it. This is the same site that was later more overtly hacked in December. Apparently the initial hack only inserted text when a crawler hit the site, so it was an SEO hack. In December, the text became visible to regular users of the site. This post has more detail: http://www.dreamhoststatus.com/2012/01/20/changing-ftpshell-...
Anyone with a smartphone can have Pandora in their car, I sure do.
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That's a Chrome Frame opt-in. Its only effect is to instruct an installation of IE with Chrome Frame installed to switch over to Chrome Frame for these sites.

That said, I do think Chrome Frame is a bad idea because it hijacks one browser and turns it into a weird hybrid instead of just encouraging the use of Chrome in the first place.
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It's a free tool and makes rapid prototyping possible. Also, Firefox as a platform is free and widely available. The app itself is fairly good; not as powerful as, say, Balsamiq, but still better than many other options (e.g. Visio).
And you say that hiding behind a throwaway id... very brave of you.

Instead of insulting people, try to learn to properly discuss ideas. Learn to point out failed reasoning and to defend your own concepts with sound reasoning or facts. Once you start, it's not that hard and it makes the discussion so much more useful. We have limited time. We shouldn't waste it.
This only considers HTML5 <video> tag support. It does not count browsers with Flash installed as H.264-capable.
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Thanks for feedback!

The video is a bit old now, and I did work to clear it up a bit. The weirdo "old west" style font is gone (replaced by helvetica), and the actual writing is in Georgia, with proper line spacing.

There are also several themes, from which you can choose.

Again, thanks a ton for the feedback!
Better link:
http://pencil.evolus.vn/en-US/Home.aspx

This page has a version that says "Compatible with Firefox 4 to 11"

I did use this a few years ago and it was pretty good. Think of it as a really stripped version of Balsamiq Mockups (http://www.balsamiq.com/)
We finally have the initiative. These last years we just reacted to bad laws trying to prevent or at least weaken them. Now we have finally a voice.

Let's make this victory a durable one and let's propose a constitutional amendment so that such laws can never ever be brought back again.
It's not the amount of money spent, it's the time available. They probably fear far much the time spent in Facebook, casual web games, youTube, etc... Those are only starting and they see what it means for revenue in the future.
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Please link directly to the site next time, not to a small announcement on an unrelated site. - http://snippetspace.com/
"Open standard" is a vague term. To many people, open doesn't mean "as long as you have a license". Google purchased On2 specifically to release WebM, not "just happens to own".
Comment: multiple articles on 'killing Hollywood'
Hollywood has long been a dead industry going back to the 1950s. There was a documentary once on one of the cable channels detailing how movies were being killed by TV and so they tried to seek the protection of government through lobbying, which they did, but not sufficiently to their satisfaction. Theatres were decaying due to nonattendance as people switched to TV. Their response was first to raise movie prices, then when this decreased attendance further, raise refreshments to astronomical prices and crack down on bringing outside food in to the theatres. To this day that is why popcorn and cola is so expensive in the theatres.

The movie industry has consistently and continually gone diametrically the wrong way in seeking "solutions" to its loss of revenue. One innovative idea I saw (wish I still had the link) is to air live showings of local sports, concerts, etc. -- basically have an in-theatre version of live cable-TV events showings. This would be a great idea and would actually serve up a new, genuine product to consumers: the chance to view live events in context of a crowd of like-minded strangers, and without having to brave traffic to drive into the city to get the same experience. The movies could still charge sky-high prices, get their revenue, more than make up for losses from showing movies with lackluster attendance, breathe new life into theatres and the theatre-going experience, and maybe actually still be cheaper than going to the live event at the stadium, and be more convenient to consumers. Win-win. But no, MPAA will continue to avoid innovation like this and continue on with outrageous prices for movies and wonder why people continue to "cam" and pirate movies; with astronomical prices for popcorn; with digital projectors locked up like fortresses so that attendants cannot even open the projector to swap out lenses from 2-D to 3-D, resulting in the 3-D lens being left on all the time with resulting dark, washed-out pictures in 2-D, etc. etc. etc. Innovation IS possible within MPAA and RIAA but they do need to get out of their mindset of being hamstrung by parasitic, inefficient distribution and pricing policies and attitudes inimical to innovation.
We need to support the system so that there can be low level jobs like stagehands that poor writers can use to subsist while writing? Sorry, that argument is absurd. Apparently what those writers need is a low level job, it doesn't have to be in the industry. And who knows, whatever disrupts Hollywood might even make it easier for those writers to make money with their art.

That they even have to work their way up the system in low level jobs is perverted.
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You balk at DSLRs but (whilst not the go-to option) they are increasingly being used by the industry. This[1] is an article just about the use of cannon's 5d mkII. You can add Slumdog Millionaire and 127 hours to this list. If it's good enough for an oscar winner?

1. http://canon5d.wonderhowto.com/blog/canons-5d-mark-ii-invade...
There's also standalone version on the downloads page if you don't want to use it as a Firefox addon:

http://www.evolus.vn/Pencil/Downloads.html
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a) Most web videos play through the native app on mobile, don't they?

b) WebM is not a proprietary format
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As a musician who is sick of the music industry: Yes, please!

(I'm currently transitioning into programming, as I cannot stand the "biz" part of the "music biz" anymore.)
> how do you get your series in front of people?

A simple answer would be 'social proof'. Mashable provides a TopTen list of the most watched shows. That's a good start but the site is too distracting for Average Joe, in my opinion.

Also, web series are too short for true passive entertainment. I guess what your communities would need is a sort of Google Adsense, so you could plug-in advertising to be able to produce longer streams.

That would at least provide you with some money. When one show hits it big, that'll make news, and more people would start looking for shows like that. More eyeballs, more advertising, better chances of another hit, more news, and there you go.
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Marketing and distribution - this is an interesting piece. It's profit AND loss for the studio - they sell ads (or the theatre sells ads), and buy ads. It's like all the websites trying to make money on google ads, advertising on ... google ads.

You can bet that really stupid decisions are made here, because they can't save money without losing a revenue stream, or pissing off theatres.

And Box Office sales are really important, because they are the first figure to be released. If 10 million people watch the movie, it's a good movie, so the DVD shops it (doing free advertising for you), and the TV Channels will pay more (even if everyone thought it was awful). They want to "anchor" the movie as being a money maker, by maximizing Box Office sales.

If you shoot a brilliant movie, like The Shawshank Redemption and nobody goes to see it, then the DVD shops won't push it. This means you'll only sell copies by word of mouth, by which stage the price has gone down.
What native app? Regardless, how many mobile devices support WebM? And how many of them are hardware accelerated?
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Not to mention that the actual basis for the Relational Model is the mathematics of set theory.

Like an essential mathematical theory can be a "failed experiment" to be substituted by some random ad-hoc model.

Anyone saying "theory doesn't work out in practice" is an idiot who shouldn't be allowed near a computer. Proven theory works each and every time with the set of constrains it defines in its operating environment. What he confuses as relational model's shortcomings are implementation details of RDBMS systems (storage of sparse data, etc).

And when he proposes NoSQL as the solution, he compares apples to oranges. The two solutions do not offer the same thing in respect to data integrity, assurances about the model, etc. You just get a more flexible model and (debatable) more speed.

Actually, is he aware that NoSQL was the norm BEFORE SQL, and that that was the original failed experiment? There were hundreds of proprietary, ad hoc, flat or hierarchical data storage/query solutions. People were doing that, and they stopped and adopted SQL.

Now, the reason NoSQL come to prominence of late is, easy to setup, easy to hack together some models, matches the dynamic language use well, fast to get some stuff going (that for solitary hackers --for large systems is equally or slightly less a pain to setup as SQL, and you have to implement most of the assurances yourself on top of it).

So, the main reason large teams/systems use NoSQL is: speed and easy ad-hoc schema changes.

Ad-hoc schema changes are nice, but do not fit all business domains. They are the GOTO of 201x, leading to a mess of spaghetti code and edge cases. I wouldn't touch those with a ten foot pole in a financial/banking/legal etc application for example. For a web system it could be OK, but would you want to want with a codebase with accumulated arbitrary schema changes after a decade for something like Amazon or Facebook? Even if the code is perfectly maintained and refactored once in a while, you get everybody's different approach to ACID (or lack thereof).

I like the approach of 37 Signals, which throws hardware (not even horizontally) at their scaling problems and insists on a regular SQL solution.

As for speed (of SQL/NoSQL), it can be a non-issue with total in memory databases and horizontal scaling (the future "dynamic memory cloud").
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Fine by me.

"I can tell you that the No. 1 problem in Hollywood was and is and always will be pedophilia. That's the biggest problem for children in this industry. ... It's the big secret," Feldman said.

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/corey-feldman-pedophilia...
So why aren't they on by default? Why is the latest Ubunbtu (styled as a user friendly Linux not a purist Linux) still making the clueless "HUH?" noise at me during tab completion because it doesn't have completion-ignore-case on by default? Or automatically showing a list of clashes or cycling through clashes instead of sitting there like a lemon? Both also one line of config somewhere.
I'm speaking of radio as an entertainment industry, not radio as the induction of current on a wire loop and subsequent vibration of a crystal by electromagnetic radiation. The former very much resembled Hollywood in its heyday; the latter, more analogous to film. The introduction of film killed not radio the technology, but radio the industry.

Here in Vancouver, on the AM radio station CKNW, there's a show called Dan Russell's Sport Talk that succeeds each Canucks game. I used to listen to this show back in the day, parking my car at the beach and smoking a joint as I heard talk of trade rumours and coaching strategies. For reasons previously alluded to, I would occasionally find myself sitting in my car listening to AM radio at 1:00 in the morning. If you live in Vancouver I highly recommend you do this at least once, for you'll encounter an interesting anachronism: the Radio Drama.

Late at night, CKNW plays dramas from the Golden Age of Radio. There were murder mysteries and detective stories and comedies, tales of adventure and romance. There were radio stars, known for their rich voices. There were famed writers and common tropes, much as you find in Hollywood today. In short, there was an industry that many today would recognize, now long dead and forgotten.

This industry was, at one time, the pillar of entertainment and news. Before the silver screen it was the radio that conveyed fact and fiction, that drew families together in the evening. This industry would have seemed just as indomitable as Hollywood does now. Indeed, many of the great radio broadcasters persist today in television, having made the necessary technological leap.

Hollywood shows no signs of being capable of such a leap. Granted, the music industry until recently showed no such signs either. It may be that Hollywood will, as market forces dictate, slowly gravitate to a streaming and on-demand model, but we've seen no signs of it. Their active hostility towards Netflix, combined with their lack of interest in offering an appealing alternative, suggests that they simply lack the industrial agility to adapt. If Hollywood could have continued to produce the content they do on Netflix dollars, they would have. They can't, and so they either must adapt their production to much different revenue streams, or die. Either way, streaming and downloadable video is here to stay. It may well be, as pg hopes, that a new form of entertainment rises up. We shall see. What is undeniable is that the old distribution mechanisms are dead and gone.
I was making light of Google's Microsoft-ish tactics:
Buy tech.
Release for free
Try to convince people its better than an existing open standard.
His idea assumes a population that recognizes they're almost certainly not going to become part of the wealthy elite, and so who recognize that it is not in their interest to support said elite.

While there is a hopeful optimism in a lot of early socialism, Marx scoffed at most of it, and spent a lot of his time criticising what he saw as untenable utopian forms of socialism that assumed altruism and selflessness.

Instead, yes, he assumed slackers won't be tolerated. It is common for people to assume that communism would somehow mean people could just relax and not suffer consequences, but a large aspect of Marxism is to take away peoples ability to live off the work of others other than to the extent society can afford to do so as the result of excess wealth.

The question of why a society following Marxist principles (as opposed to other forms of socialism) would choose to take the means of doing so away from one group of people just to let other people slack off is something that does not seem to occur to people.

I would be inclined to think that if your immediate co-workers see direct impact on themselves based on whether or not you work, their interest in making sure you work would be greater.