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This is exactly what annoys me about it; all artists I know are against. I don't think many creative people are in favor of SOPA/PIPA. Maybe Lars Ulrich is... I guess he should be considering his stance on 'copyright' and I hear he needs a 12.000th pool. /rant. Anyway; it's the publishers across the board, not the creative people. The creative people should let their voice be heard; maybe they cannot because of contracts or?
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Why unethical? I don't think it's unethical at all. Not sure if it's an EULA violation, but it's probably legal, and certainly ethical.
Well, in my experience most developers who are working at a job don't set the bar quite so high. In fact, if they can make about 1/3 to 1/2 of their salary without having to work at a job, that's already considered a victory, although of course people don't stop there.

And that's kind of the point... once you've built a business that successfully and reliably provides 1/2 your previous salary without working for someone else (i.e. building a product or productised service, not a plain service/freelancing), you can probably increase that to 1x, 2x, etc... whereas before, there's a hard glass ceiling above you.

Obviously that equation is less appealing if you're already well off financially - hence your distate of the business idea you came up with.

Which is fine - one of my friends who applies this method has in fact done exactly the same thing - built a small business, figured out how it would be profitable, then decided that it wasn't the kind of business he cared about building, and so shut it down and looked at another idea.

Product-market fit and idea-founder fit are equally important - at least when you have the room/comfort to make those decisions!
Really? I'm starting to feel the opposite: that these arguments by definition are getting tedious and deliberately miss the point. In much the same vein as the "marriage is only between a man and woman" variety.

The English verb "to steal" is certainly capable of meaning "to take without the right" regardless of whether physical property is involved. Not to mention the myriad of common idioms, like "So-and-so stole my idea." What else are people trying to express by its use in this case?

It's clear that the issue here is their legal right to exclusive distribution and transmission (or "state granted monopoly", if you prefer) of their work, not whether or not they "still have a copy". It can be disagreed with, but they have it and others distributing their work without permission diminishes it.

Not saying I disagree with you that it's the wrong way to go about things, but, I think if one is being honest, the argument over the use of word is telling on both sides and that some people are clearly trying to demonize those who use the word, in the same way that they feel they are being demonized by its use against them.
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My partner has this amazing ability to just switch off. He doesn't even have to lie down or block out noise etc, he just closes his eyes and bam: asleep.

It does seem to have a downside though; he requires much more sleep to function than I do.
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How would someone implement this, then? Is it really just an index column besides the data tuples, containing the recursive quadrant position (111111 for bottom-right in a 3-level grid)? And, what datatype would you use for this - clearly, an integer is not long enough if you have a great number of levels..
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There's a common flaw in this line of argument. In your (B) example, you need to do one more level of analysis:

i) Would have paid if it were the only option, but would rather get
something for nothing
ii) Would not have paid under any circumstances

Assign probabilities to each of those events and now you know the probability of harm to the creator. Option (i) could be low, but it is not a 0% probability which means that for a sufficiently large sample size the (B) scenario does cause the creator to suffer.
Thank you, now I see. Here's my version:

shuffle :: (ChoiceMonad m, Eq a) => [a] -> m [a]
shuffle [] = return []
shuffle elems = do
x <- choice elems
xs <- shuffle (x `delete` elems)
return (x:xs)
You absolute bastards. There isn't a day that goes by that I don't use this. Damn.
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In the paper, they state that they compared their implementation to FFTW and beat it handily.
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Ack, I assumed that was the joke and gave you an upvote. :(
There's been a lot of wink-wink nudge-nudge over the years to the effect that Fujifilm was subsidized by the Japanese government; to what extent this was the favorable tax deals Kodak also got and to what extent it was real was and is hard to assess, but it is certainly the case that Fuji was not burdened by the antitrust pressure that led Kodak to divest itself of its camera-making arm in the middle of the 20th century. There's a lot of claims to the effect that Fuji piggybacked on the pioneering Kodak research work, and this is very difficult to refute, but if they did they at least equaled Kodak in quality. When people talk about "cheaper film" it was, but not that much cheaper and at least the equal in quality, sometimes better; I found Fuji's consumer films to be far preferable to that turd Kodak called Gold 400.

No one in the industry was really prepared for the nose dive film sales took; essentially only die-hards like me still buy it. Film was and is to some degree still capable of more resolution, more dynamic range, better color fidelity and less prone to weird errors in the way that a Bayer sensor does (almost every Bayer ever sold to consumers had a detail destroying filter attached to it because the alternative is horrific Moire effects), but the speed of editing digital caused it to take off like a rocket. I suppose the lesson to be learned there is that Kodak spent a century making the very best film it possibly could (for the professional lines, anyway) when it turns out the market is perfectly happy with a 4 MP digital with a mediocre lens and chromatic abberation out the arse if it cuts the feedback loop down from days to seconds.

I have mixed feelings about Kodak in general--they had a tendency to make bizarre decisions that led the few film enthusiasts remaining to believe that it was simply a matter of time before everything got the shaft and they would have to switch to something else anyway. They also made a lot of really bad digital cameras, which was strange considering the superb reputation their press lenses and the Retina had back in the day. Fujifilm never divested itself of its cameramaking arm and continues to make some of the best lenses in the business to this day, and I think that has been a very important strength for them.
The US constitution's "supremacy clause" says that:

This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof; and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land

so treaties seem to have quasi-Constitutional authority, in that they are, like the Constitution, the "supreme law of the land". But the text doesn't clearly specify how to resolve conflicts between treaties and the Constitution itself. It's a bit of an open question since the U.S. has tended not to enter into treaties that present it square-on, but the Supreme Court seems willing to enforce some restrictions on what exactly a treaty can do. If there's a direct conflict, the Constitution supersedes treaties under http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reid_v._Covert, but in more gray-area cases the courts seem to give more leeway to treaties than normal laws, due to some vague mixture of the supremacy clause and general principles of deference to / non-interference with the "political branches" on foreign policy.
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> What motivations are there for everyone else?

In a worst case scenario, survival.
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Yet, some artists and developers are happy to release downloads straight after the release. Some are happy for you to pay what you want, rather than some standard retail price.

To your Anthony Hamilton anecdote, I throw in an anecdote about artists just asking to leave your recorder on the stage for better effect (Phish if I remember correctly), or you know... just selling the bootleg after some time http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lillywhite_Sessions, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootleg_recording
The sun rising at noon in the far future long after we're all dead is not a problem for us, and it wouldn't be a problem for the people living in that future either. On the other hand, software bugs due to unnecessary complexity are an actual problem, now and in the future.
> (Fun fact: Availability was what "drove" me into piracy in the first place. There was a TV-show which had aired about a year earlier, which I had missed then but wanted to see. I tried every legal way to obtain it that I could think of, because I believed piracy was wrong at the time, but it was simply not for sale. In the end, I ended up with my first torrent downloading.)

This is also the very reason that that drove me (and thousands of others too, I'm sure) to piracy and the one reason why I still do it. Even if I really wanted to support that TV show, sometimes it's just not possible (Case in point: The comedy show "The Class", it's simply nowhere available on DVD or similar, yet all episodes are on The Bay. How am I supposed to not torrent that stuff if I wanted to watch it?).
I did not get this in the article - how exactly do we construct range queries (which the Hilbert curve improves on) here? Is the quadtree range resolved into actual coordinates, or is the datatype of the index bound to be integer, so we can query a range over the index (0110110 to 0110111 = 54 to 55, so the query range is [54, 55])?
> I see this in some of my co-workers who only code for a living, not for a passion. They go home to their TVs and Netflix and raise their families.

Especially this one:

> ... and raise their families.

You think being a coder and raising a family is oxymoron? Or rather not being a 'passionate' coder is a bad thing? Or even being a hacker for 8 hours a day is the same as not being a hacker at all?

Trust me, raising a family (if done properly) involves a hell of a lot more 'hacking' than saving 8ms on some random SQL query...
You are thinking of Protecting Children from Internet Pornographers Act (H.R. 1981), which could easily be extended to include internet piracy.
You can , if you have good communication or a small team.

I have a PHP Project that is about ~200Kloc , ok that's not enormous (and it's about 60% boilerplate) and I can maintain it happily enough but I wouldn't want to let a large team loose on that.
- Earth is flat

- If we free the slaves nobody will do the unpleasent work.

- Writer and filmaker will not make money without IP

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> Does this mean that any time you want to sidestep an actual examination of the merits of an argument in the Supreme Court you just need to ensure there's an international treaty in your favour?

You're mis-interpreting things: as michael_dorfman notes, according to the constitution of the united states of america any international treaty signed by the United States's administration is the binding law of the land.

> How does the US become party to a treaty, in any case? I'm guessing it has something to do with Congress.

The executive (the president) ratifies it and the Senate contents to it (with a two-thirds vote)
I'm a bit confused. I've naively put axis-aligned bounding-boxes (AABBs) in my octree without any kind of thought. I put them in the smallest box that contains them. I also keep a byte using bits to mark the sectors they intersect, a cache that greatly cheapens things.

It works very well. I even keep small things like bullets in my octree (most game engines keep them separate), putting them in an AABB representing their position for some duration.

I am doing my queries in nanoseconds.

Its worth saying that for big worlds (think minecraft++), octrees don't work as well as zoning systems e.g. pages. You can of course use a hierarchy, using pages or zones with octrees in them.
I'm sorry but are you trolling me on purpose?

I deliberately did not equate anything with stealing and you haven't responded to the overall point of my previous post.
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And the constitution states[0]:

> This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land

(note that the constitution does not explain how to resolve conflicts between treaties and the constitution: while laws "shall be made in Pursuance [of the Constitution]" no such restriction is associated with treaties)

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_Six_of_the_United_State...
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The pay wall is indeed a major hindrance. However, this is not because you have to give money. This is because giving money takes time. Paying with my credit card takes me a full minute when I have to type its number, and I don't really want to trust big companies with it (not to mention my buying records).

I don't know how we could do this, but here is the ideal case: paying requires only 2 clicks, it is secure, and it is anonymous (no one besides the receiver and yourself know of the transaction). Imagine computer games that feature a "click to donate $1" menu option. Media players could do the same, provided there is the relevant information in the music file. If I ever have the urge to donate, I just click, and it's done.

Right now, I have a pirated copy of Skyrim on my computer. I like this game, and I think it deserves at the very least a tip. Actually, I am seriously considering purchasing it. But it is a hassle. I need either to set up a steam account, or to buy a copy at a local store (in France, and I want English dialogues). But if my copy featured a "donate" button I can trust, I definitely would have given at least 10€, probably 25€.
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No it wouldn't. Rather than being a monoculture, the world needs more respect for the differences that naturally exist.
Amazon already allows this. I make music purchases that go straight to the cloud in one click, plus a single confirmation click. They are immediately available both on the web and on my phone.
I was certain there'd be /some/ kind of JS in there..! Rather impressive.
Ok I just wrapped my head around it. For querying to work here, the datatype HAS to be integer or long, or else queries on higher levels would not return the tuples associated with lower-level-quads.
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Doesn't work in Internet Explorer or Firefox for me.
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And yet pay tv, netflix, itunes, amazon and countless others manage to survive in the face of free-to-air tv, radio, and pirates.

Stop thinking that the USA is the world, and what works there will work everywhere. Outside the US, availability of digital content is a wasteland.
And Facebook, and Twitter. And I believe Steve Jobs said that about Dropbox, too.
Code that is exercised once in a century (see: y2k and similar timestamp problems) is buggier than code that is exercised once every six months (leap seconds) or in real time (NTP, which given the poor precision of internal clocks, everyone should be running anyway).
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Indeed. I had to audit the source believe it, but this is actually legitimate.

Massive abuse of data url's and keyframes, but it works.
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I think the problem comes as soon as you need to do any floating point work within the Javascript VM , not sure what javascript FP performance is like but I guess it's not pretty.
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Most likely because of things like

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For a backgrounder, read this CACM article:

http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2011/5/107699-the-one-second-w...

I've wondered, would the technical problems described be ameliorated if a longer timeframe was given? At the moment, we have about six months notice of leap seconds; what if we lengthened this to, say, two years?

That said, I'm not really sympathetic to the proposal. We already have the highly predictable International Atomic Time (TAI); why if we want this predictability, not just use TAI instead of trying to change UTC?
Maybe you should have shared your feelings with your friends. I just got back from a trip and visited some friends from college. Once we got past the pleasantries of not seeing each other in almost a decade we started on how our life is now. It felt good to share our collective feelings on career and life and no one was there to judge me, some of us wish we could exchange lifestyles (more vacation time, more money, more exciting cities).

This is why I consider my friends from college to be my closest buddies. We all entered the world in the same socioeconomic position. We've all experienced similar problems so nothing is ever a first world problem for any of us.
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I agree that 'first consumer pays everything' is an option. Hardback books work like this a little -- if you want to read it earlier, you need to pay more.

I don't know that this continues to work for digital goods. Are there examples you're thinking of?
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So is CSS Turing complete then?
> it is always going to be illegal.

No, it will be illegal only as long as the majority is of the opinion that it should be illegal.
> the "harmonization" is always done by increasing the copyright restrictions of the freer country

In addition, the freer country harmonise increasing its protection to the less free countries' protection + some additional protection, so that another round of harmonisation is now required by the other countries. And so on…
>Over decades, the difference between Earth-based time and atomic clock time would amount to a few minutes, but over 500 years, they would be out by an hour. Over millennia, the discrepancy would grow even more.

Is this really true?
Based on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_second

It seems like there's only been 25 leap seconds in 40 years. That's around a minute every century..
The fundamental problem is the US government has essentially unlimited power (despite the legal basis for its existence, the constitution)

Compared to other government who actually do have complete unlimited power, your statement looks like a gross exaduration.
Probably the least of most of everybody's concerns, but it doesn't look like you can get more than 10 points.
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Erk, this is getting very politic-y and not the sort of content that should be on HN. I've flagged this.
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But they did, they just did it all wrong.

Kodak hasn't been a film-company for years, and in fact they still lead the industry in many ways. For example, look at the market for high-end medium format digital sensors, Kodak is still at the top of that heap. Of course, the market for $20K digital backs is... pretty small.

Kodak's strategy in the digital age was try to become a technology broker, and let others tackle transforming this tech into actual end product - but it doesn't take a genius to figure out that your licensees and customers will eventually vertically integrate and push you out entirely. Canon built their own sensors, Sony got into the sensors game and pushed Kodak completely out of the consumer sensor realm, and between those two Kodak's doom was all but sealed.

Instead, their consumer-level efforts focused on stupid, low-margin, technologically simple wares like inkjet printers and digital photo frames, all lowest-common-denominator product categories where Kodak didn't have a significant technological edge against its competitors.

Kodak invented the digital camera, but they completely dropped the ball. They needed to ship their own cameras.
From the pricing page:

"Note that the required number of units of Read Capacity is determined by the number of items being read per second, not the number of API calls."

Maybe its just me but that makes this insanely expensive for almost all of my applications. I buy 50 'read units' which really means 50 rows / sec or 100 rows / sec if eventual consistency reads, as long as the row is < 1KB in size. So it costs ~$7 a month for sustained ~50-100KB/sec read speeds.

I can think of several recent applications that required 100ish rows to build each view (lots of tabular data). It would seem I'd almost need 100 'read units' for every 2-3 users, more with caching obviously but that has its limits and sorta defeats the purpose of a ultra low latency store.