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Use your vacation days at the large company and fly out to the Bay Area for 1-2 weeks, lining up some interviews before the trip.
My point is that nowadays, individuals who are disinclined to higher education, and hence are less likely to put their heart and soul into it, still feel obliged to attend. That's my analysis anyway.
To be very literal, I don't think that Youtube itself would have been in much danger of being shut down if the bill(s) had passed. They're too big now. But tomorrow's Youtube, that's another matter.
Let's dismiss this article and move on. PG has made an important invitation to all entrepreneurs within earshot and this article just adds noise.
Short version: Backface culling. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back-face_culling
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As others have said, engineering is hard. It's also why managers in other fields like to hire engineers.

I am just surprised by the chart. It implies engineering majors only study 4 more hours per week than humanities majors. I would have thought it to be much higher.
Musicians and film production companies need to start acting more like tech startups. Bootstrap, find an audience (traction), raise funding to pay for production costs (friends, family, fools, or kickstarter.com), distribute in iTunes or elsewhere, make money from digital downloads.

You could create a tech startup to sell user generated digital content and give back 100% of revenues to the artists. Got a great idea for a film? Find investors, gather the talent, shoot it, and sell it online. Forget about Hollywood.

Hacking new ways to distribute user generated digital content is only one part of the solution. iTunes and Youtube already exist for garage bands and film school students to bypass the entertainment industry to sell their work. And most of it is terrible.

Technology companies could take an active role in financing the production of quality digital content. Invest $20k into 10-12 artists to seed an album or film leaving enough upside for the company to get back a return.
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Why not a startup that focuses on user-generated funding that releases movies into the public domain? In the age of digital media, everything is a fixed cost. Once the initial investment is paid for, distribution is free. Give producers, indie or otherwise, a platform to ask for money and promote their shows. On the user's side, offer options like direct donations and subscriptions. Give them the choice to say "I'll pay 30$ a month. Recommend me shows and split my subscription among them"
Why should talent in movies be paid millions, when the truly outstanding in other fields are paid a lot less? The simple reason is that total expenses in movie making and distribution system are so high that these payouts seem reasonable and it makes sense to get popular actors at the prices they (artists) demand.

This system works well for the companies and the top rung artists. Ripe for "disruption".
May as well use asprintf if that's the kind of thing you want.
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Congrats on a good outcome for team and hopefully investors -- taking roles at a still fast growing but huge company like Groupon should give the team a lot of great experience. Maybe they will do another startup in a few years, too.
Maybe you should quit smoking marijuana.
Googlebot definitely fetches Javascript. How else would it get AJAX pages?

http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2122137/Googlebot-Learn...

It also grabs CSS and has for years.
I think you were originally downvoted because slavery isn't slavery because the person isn't being paid, but because the person is being forced to work against their will.

In fact, if the person was forced to work against their will and paid for it, that's still effectively slavery.
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I imagine that this question has been asked many times in Hacker News and elsewhere but I'll throw it out there again. I'm a software developer for a large (Fortune 25) company working on a mature internal application. Basically I'm coding small fixes and enhancements, researching issues, and generally trying not to break anything. I telecommute, have a ton of autonomy, and have quite a bit of credibility so nobody really questions what I'm doing. Plus I'm well paid.

However I'm basically making no impact on our company, nor am I growing as a developer. I write probably 20 lines of production code every 3 months and spend the rest of the time unit testing and spinning in my chair.

I have a family, a mortgage, and a busy life outside of work so I appreciate the low stress work. But I really miss being challenged and feeling like I'm making a difference in my career. Would the grass be greener at a smaller company where I could write more code, grow as a developer/architect, and feel like I'm making a difference?

Thanks, and please post any links to relevant posts.
> Oddly enough, soccer isn't on a level playing field worldwide.

I dont see why you would think anything should naturally be on a "level playing field worldwide." Obviously soccer is not since there are certain places where there are huge cash flow in and out and naturally that's where the talents gravitates towards. Both because of massive contracts, prestige, sponsorship, and because of much better training systems from a very young age. There's no one regulating "drafts" like NBA/NFL so it's almost a free market on talents.
Oh I know, I lived a couple miles from Redmond for most of my life. I just pointed out another large company that had a similar mindset. Sorry if that came off as Microsoft jumping on a bandwagon or anything.
You can hide whether the list of people who you are following shows up on your profile. You can't, AFAIK, hide the fact that you are following someone from the person themselves.

In other words, if you have person B in your circles, you can hide whether person C (or the general public) can find out that person B is in your circles. You can't prevent person B from knowing that they are in your circles (thought they won't know which circles they are in).

I'm pretty sure this is the model. I can confirm it if you'd like.
Even in a world of exclusively free (as in beer) software, programmers can exist and make money in a variety of ways; for instance, writing custom software for businesses, giving away ad-supported programs, or selling access to server-side applications.

Your comment is excellent and made me consider whether an analogous situation could arise with the arts. Clearly it's important to have dedicated, full-time artists, just as we need software engineers. And both professions take a lot of study and practice.

I think professional artists could exist even when they can't sell their end products. For instance, they could be consultants contracted to produce informational or promotional videos for a business. Such consultancies may even create and give away short entertaining movies or something to raise brand awareness and attract creative talent, in the way that software companies often contribute to open source projects.

Additionally, a serial-type scenario could work, where an artistic group is paid up front on a periodic basis to continue telling a story.

So I think in the hypothetical situation where all art is free (or at least freely reproduced and distributed once its been created) it's still possible to have professional artists creating high quality work. Certain things, like $100MM summer blockbuster movies (unfortunately) might not work, though.
The fact that a warrant and an indictment were issued doesn't mean that these guys did anything wrong. Lots of people who are indicted are later acquitted. The fact that there is evidence doesn't mean that there's enough evidence to convince a jury beyond a reasonable doubt (the standard for conviction in criminal cases) that a crime has been committed. The defendants have a right to present their own evidence to the contrary.

The U.S. Constitution has all these nice phrases like "due process of law" (see 5th Amendment), but they don't really mean anything if the government can take your property away without your having been convicted by a jury in a fair trial where you had adequate legal representation. Nothing terrible would happen if the government were to leave the web site up until a jury convicted these people.

If you were accused of a crime, wouldn't you want to have a chance to defend yourself in court before you had your property taken away?
"Despite the articles pro-capitalist rhetoric"

Ah, so it wasn't just me who heard "Closer to the Heart" play ;)
Mentioning standards and security audits makes me cringe in their current state. Certainly agree with you that they'll help, but many are draconian. Things like physical access lists when you use cloud services... or policies on tape backups. :)
This whole post is a red herring.

Megaupload was also used for legal activities. Awesome. I bet the mafia also did some stuff that was legal. Let's consider the "complexity" this introduces into the act of putting mobsters in jail. Insightful.

Piracy is victimless. So is me breaking into your house while you're not home, watching TV for a while, and then leaving. I mean, you're not even using your TV while you're not home! I mean, if I break into your house and watch your TV, it's not like I would have paid to watch your TV if I hadn't broken into your house. I mean, you're not losing anything! How dare you prevent me from doing what I want with your shit.

What, just because you spend $100M making a movie, you think you "own" the right to charge for that movie?

The end.
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The MPAA lied. Big surprise.
Film school already killed Hollywood.
The Apple TV (if it's real) would definitely facilitate this. Imagine the opportunity to build apps that compete directly with television programming, on the same device.
As long as you're worrying about the double copy, you may as well worry about chasing the pointers in your map through the cache hierarchy. Usually I'd use unordered_map here unless there was a good reason not to.
If everyone works hard, everyone gets to keep more. Because more is produced. If only some work hard, then the whole group cannot produce as much.

Perhaps every worker has a different threshhold for what they will settle for in terms of what amount of the harvest they would like to retain.

All the HR people reading HN know exactly what I'm talking about.
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You're making two mistakes here.

The first is that you're confusing the quality of your (from the sound of it, lower division) undergraduate English program with the quality of English as a discipline. The study of literature, in English or any other language, is, at its core, philosophical.

The second is that no discipline, not even engineering, is immune to students coasting by doing the bare minimum. Criticizing English because you breezed through a couple of lower division surveys is like criticizing computer science because you breezed through a class on HTML.
If you are accused of a crime, you are detained. You can get bail, but only if you can convince the judge that you aren't likely to re-offend (or flee) during the bail period.

It's the same basic principle.

The point is, there's stuff like formal charges, warrants, and so on which have to be taken care of. The cops can't just impound your car because someone said you were using it to ship stolen property - they need to get a warrant.
This is what I am seeing when Googling "trash cans":

http://i.imgur.com/gJjCK.png

To me that yellow stands out extremely well, I have no trouble seeing it.

The background in Google's CSS for that div with id "tads" is: #FDF6E5

This is for the search "credit cards":

http://i.imgur.com/bPnkJ.png

The background colour is still the same. I just asked around the office if anyone was misled regarding these ads and no-one else seems to be unable to see the yellow or have trouble seeing it in general.
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Radio is a communications technology. Hollywood is a consortium of large, rich entertainment companies which are capable of adopting and adapting to new communications technologies, usually reluctantly, but eventually successfully.

They will not be replaced easily.
They aren't in competition. They both were geniuses.

Smith did not advocate laissez-faire capitalism. He was against any kind of cartel, oligopoly, or monopoly, and wanted the state to be more powerful than corporations, not controlled by corporations. Marx was right about capitalism but wrong about incentives.

Both of them should be drawn from in the creation of a next generation economic system.
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The letter mentions www.molbin.com, looking at the About page shows this is definitely the same zealous person: http://molbin.com/about.php
Awesome quote. But IMHO a better and more accurate point to make about composers and musicians 200 years ago, was that they produced, and produced, and produced. Being a composer or musician was about composing and performing. Artists had ownership in the abstract (that is authorship was important to the 19th century audience), but a musician being payed for a composition or performance was not significantly different to a baker being payed for his bread.

You go back further and find Bach writing masterpieces on a daily basis which he could only assume would be performed once or twice, put in a box, then thrown out when his successor took over.
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> * Use DRM in all output or otherwise proprietary formats

Oh well, I just discovered iBooks Author does use a proprietary format, not ePub. Then of course it is not as useful for authors of free content.
They are part of a closed guild that drives up compensation. Their barriers to entry are just lower.
It's up to a jury to decide whether the prosecution has proven its accusations beyond a reasonable doubt. It's not up to the government or a judge or the media or the readers of HN to decide this.

If the government alleged that your web site (lets assume you have one) was a criminal enterprise designed specifically to make money off copyright infringement, wouldn't you want them to have to prove their case to a jury before shutting you down? If so, you should demand the same right of due process for everyone else.
"It is a human right to only work voluntarily. The alternative is slavery."

I'm not saying anything about pay. Of course if all work is voluntary, then the ability to only work for pay is implied.
> Seven: As well as tickets, shares are sold. These, start out cheap but will also rise in price as they are sold. Thus a keen smart eye might be able to make real money if they spot a winner early and invest. Investing always incurs a percentage fee. Shares are real shares in the real profit of the film and its merchandising. Shareholders get access to the film-making process and limited creative input during the development. Shareholders always get to go to the party. The filmmakers and Trailer Pitch will always get to keep some shares for themselves.

If I recall correctly, not too long ago there was an effort being made to set up a futures market for box office receipts, although I haven't heard of it recently.

One concern, though, was of sabotage. It's relatively easier to make a movie bad (or a good movie do poorly) then a good movie. If you sell shares in a movie, then people will be able to set up derivative contracts on their value allowing you to bet negatively, essentially. And if someone bets negatively on a movie, that could spell trouble.
"No demographic categories are associated with your ads preferences so far."

I don't really know what this implies in terms of ads, but I'm not complaining ;)
This seems like a blog echoing what many say in regards to so many dying industries; "Think about the jobs this will take away!" YC isnt telling people to destroy Hollywood out of spite, they are saying to destroy Hollywood because there is a huge opportunity for disruption in their industry. Innovation will always prevail, and the more you fight change, the faster you will be left behind. Dont destroy Hollywood because they attacked us, destroy Hollywood because their lack of innovation leaves us opportunity.
The article is well written but a little light on facts.

From my bad and distant memory;

The terms of the contract stated that you had to give X amount to the collective from your land, anything over and above this you kept. The X amount was originally set to be the same as the previous years harvest. The local collective had to raise the amount X a few times so it would appear that they where role models within the system.

It was only after other farmers in the region saw the results that they copied the process. It was eventually turned into the standard for a lot of China.

There are differing versions of the same story around depending on what the politics are for the writer. This version sticks to the American line of "The officials swore at him, treated him like he was on death row.". The Chinese version probably made the villagers look like model, conforming, hardworking and communist loving citizens.

I am neither American or Chinese, I am just fascinated by history and the differing ways it is represented. "History is written by the winners."
Title should read: Google is abandoning Sky Map. That's what the article says (in so many words).
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When I initially read that article, it really rubbed off on me the wrong way. But then I read all the comments on it and seeing friends and others comment/repost it on FB as well and they were all positive comments fully agreeing with the author. I thought maybe I just didn't get it or something.

I'm glad to see I'm not the only one that feels the way I do about the article. It seems too much preaching and there's a sense of elitism in the post. It seems hypocritical that the author left Facebook (where by some standards he was doing great things and making a huge impact), to co-found his startup, Asana. Like others in the comments here, I agree that if this message came from someone else, doing something different (i.e. someone doing research in curing cancer) it would mean a lot more. Nothing wrong with Asana, and I think it's a good product, but it's not doing great things in the world and changing it amazingly for the better.
The average RoR of big-budget movies is less than the average RoR of low-budget movies, as well as a higher risk for potentially lower reward.

There are financial very successful (in terms of $100k's/a rather than millions of dollars) movie producers, actors, writers and directors who specifically aim for sub-segments of the market and fulfill niche demand. Christian and African-American movies being two successful segments of the market for low-budget, high-return movies.
> find something which will eliminate the public's appetite for shared/"public" art experiences

You kind of just blew my mind with that. I'd never thought of hollywood movies that way, but there's something really fundamental about that.
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I'd say getting feedback from an unbiased teacher is not much different than getting feedback or recommendations from parents or friends. Paying for someone's time that will help you improve your skills and do better in school does not seem unethical to me.
I'd say 'abandoning' applies more to what they did with Google Health. Here at least they're opening the source and organizing student projects to nurture its continued development. How better would you like them to move on from a project?
This was actually something the MPAA successfully lobbied to kill. http://www.ifc.com/fix/2010/07/futures
Hi! Thanks for your comment! I will definitely think about changing that part of the copy. In no way is that statement meant to encourage cheating or immoral behavior, rather the goal of it is to communicate the value of the service.
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I had forgotten about that quote, so I dug up the article:

http://www.smh.com.au/business/world-business/why-this-tech-...

Good call.
Thanks for your feedback! I'm going to change the copy tomorrow, and will incorporate your suggestion into it.
I'm getting down voted to oblivion for this...

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.

I wonder how many of you reading this in America even stopped to think about the message you're being fed.

I wonder how many of you reading this in America have absolutely no clue the rest of the developed world does not feed this kind of thing to it's citizens.

Stay clear of those evil commies...
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The one problem that I have with pictograms-as-fonts is anti-aliasing. The designers that I work with spend hours to make their icons absolutely perfect at every pixel size that they'll be displayed at. This is particularly visible when the icon has horizontal or vertical lines. Most of the time you'll want them have a hard edge, and with anti-aliasing you can never be sure you'll get that result.

This will change in a few years when all our screens have high pixel densities, but for the time being I'm sticking with PNG sprites, with hand-tweeked pixels.
whether socialism is, regardless of inevitability, possible, is a matter of hot debate.

I figure the only way to make it possible is through the ability to pick & choose members, and exile members. Not to be elitist, but rather to protect the community from those who would abuse it.
The way to "destroy" Hollywood is to encourage decentralization, as has been occurring for the past twenty or thirty years. With film & TV production moving outside of southern California to Canada and other US states, the localized production power of Hollywood has been disseminated to other regions. The distribution for high-budget films currently remains in Hollywood, but increasingly the Internet (as distribution, financing & marketing outlets) and in the long-term local demand in China, India, Africa & the Middle East will begin to pull global distribution control away from Hollywood even for big-budget movies.

It is the decentralization of movie making that will destroy Hollywood, not start-ups.
You're missing the classic game theory element. If everyone is working hard, everyone gets X. But if I decide to slack off, everyone gets X minus some tiny fraction, including me.

Game theory tells us this kind of system will fall apart practically instantly.

I forget the details, but I think Marx tried to dismiss that problem through an appeal to nationalism.
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Which are the biggest production costs that could be lowered?
mmm well of course there can be balance in competition, and there can be extinction events. my comment should be read to imply detrimental runaway effects in Hollywood's ecosystem.
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