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It certainly is, and I've linked to several of Rob Walling (http://www.softwarebyrob.com/) 's posts in the past. Rob is a great example of a one-man-army type of entrepreneur. I know a few others who are successfully applying this model.

Re: parallelising, obviously you can only focus on one thing at a time, but many ideas take time to build out - as in, waiting time. If you've got control over your time, why not spend that waiting time testing out other ideas? In practice, I think most people who are still at the validation stage will in fact parallelise part of the process.
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Works for Chrome anyway.
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I think the blank out of Google is making more of a point then say if they blacked out Gmail or Youtube.
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If they would do that (which they won't, ever .. never) .. Well it'd be bloody awesome.
You have no right to the media they produce

They have no right to force everyone else to conform to absurd rules made to preserve their profits.
What I do to protest SOPA offline
Would people still create cave paintings without copyright? Absolutely. Songs? Yes. Books? Fewer, but probably yes. Multi-million dollar movies and games? Absolutely not.

Art would still exist, but it would exist much differently than it does today. Free copying does allow for more creative freedom in many respects, though I would argue many of those benefits can already be had through current fair-use practices, which are quite extensive.

I've often heard the argument thrown around that "the world could live without another Transformers 2." I don't know if you fall into that camp, but many people really enjoyed that movie. In aggregate they were willing to pay more to see it than ~99.999% of individuals globally produce in a lifetime. If big-budget movies, pop stars, and games cease to exist, other things will surely take their place, but they won't be the same and most media will start to look a lot more like youtube and less like hollywood. Most people probably don't want that.

People need incentives to do things. Incentives are probably the second most powerful force in the universe, after compounding interest :), and a lack of them is why communism fails. People are not benevolent. They do derive utility from things other than money, but money is able to coordinate the interests of many individuals from disparate backgrounds under a common goal. Other things can too, and the Linux OS I'm running right now is a testament to that, but Linux can exist in a world with copyright while Transformers 2 most likely cannot. At least not until everybody in the world is a lot richer and making Transformers 2 is a lot easier.
I really like the new design, but as a PHP developer now using Python... the boat has sailed on making the language better, and more appealing with better designed sites.

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When I started making enough money to buy everything I was consuming, I put an end to my piracy habit for some time. I had Netflix, used Rhapsody (then Spotify), bought season passes on iTunes (I used iPlayer a couple times but being in the US I had to use Tor to get around the region filter to watch a Louis Theroux documentaries, I guess that's "piracy").

I stopped when I realized that while I could afford it, all of these services were inferior to the ones I was used to. I will gladly pay for a product that is better than its free counterpart. I will even pay for a product that I could pirate, but I will not pay more to watch ads and listen to music on only a limited number of DRM-supported devices.
That's not a bad angle, and in fact to minimise the risk, a services business may be a good idea. However, services businesses come with their own bundles of problems, not the least of which being that you're still caught in the "sell your time for money" trap which stops you from doing other things. It's better than a job, but not as good as building a product.

I think in all cases where you're building a product, whether it's competing with existing products (better), or an entirely new thing (worse), there is some amount of market validation to do. Does anyone want your "accounting software with this extra feature"? Will anyone care about your "Basecamp but with a different look"?

Best to validate those before sinking lots of dev effort in them...
That's an entirely different issue and not a counter point to what I'm saying.
Looks good. This was really needed IMO. The current site, while perfectly functional, is just ugly and keeping it fresh might help a little with PHP's recent reputation with being quite uncool, because, lets face it, sometimes looks are important.
I believe this is now the default for all Explored photo pages. And below all individual photos there is now a message with the option to 'Darken this Photo':

"Many websites today are engaging in an awareness campaign about two pieces of pending U.S. anti-piracy legislation -- SOPA (The Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (The Protect IP Act).

If you would like to join Internet users around the world in this campaign, you may choose to symbolically darken Flickr photos (yours or others), depleting the web of rich content and letting others know about the potentially harmful impact of these bills. For more information see http://blog.flickr.net/.
Piracy is dishonourable... That's all the reason anyone should need for not doing it.
Pirating is basically how a world without "intellectual property" and copyright would be like and it this world is fucking awesome.
The article actually says that some cells forfeit the ability to procreate, and there is true division of labor among them.
here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Door-in-the-face_technique
This is a series of pretty poor arguments. The author seems to be looking for reasons to justify their own piracy and conflates anger at the approach of the "copyright industry" with infringement upon peoples' rights. One of the final lines of the article, in particular, is jarring:

"If I'm a pirate, it's not to have some cheap music. It is because the time has come for you to fuck off."

It's fine to be angry about the approach large copyright holders take to piracy - suing consumers, encouraging the extradition of 23 year old UK citizens for linking, throwing cash at politicians to try to push through obscene laws like SOPA/PIPA. I'm angry about it. It's a horribly reactive, staid approach to a changing world that just isn't going to net them any long-term profitability.

What's not fine is in your mind elevating your piracy to the level of a significant political protest. It might make you feel better about it, but it really doesn't change the fact that you're stealing something of value that someone worked hard to produce.
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When I was living in the United states I was able to use services like Netflix and spotify and get the content I wanted whenever I wanted where ever I wanted. Now, I that live in India, I cannot get that content legally. I cannot watch the TV shows I want to watch as they are aired (I have to wait 2-3 years for stuff to come on TV). The ONLY option I have is to download tv shows via torrents / find some online stream and discover new music via grooveshark. Its not that I can't pay for the content, or don't want to, its that I quite literally cant!
nope, they are pretty savvy about this and plenty of people have been caught.
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yes. I think it was the time.
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TheOatmeal.com blacked out in protest of SOPA
The problem of music piracy is mostly solved, largely because of iPod/iTunes and Spotify and others. And it was, indeed, solved by making the legal services as good or better as the illegal ones. Sure there are some music piracy left, but only a fraction of the piracy during the Napster heydays.

The problem that does persist (if it's a problem at all) is that the perceived value of recorded music has dropped, other forms of entertainment has taken the crown. The nineties are over, and it's not coming back, sadly the record industry thinks it's still possible.
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And so what? The most visited website is putting out a SOPA protest. This thing has gone from a protest to a greedy contest it seems. I want more, I want more - not every huge company can do it without losing profit, you know.
Do they force you? Do you have to buy a Rihanna album?
A lot of his arguments are centered around the music industry, but guess what: You can get a high quality, DRM free song with just one click for about $1 today. This makes his whole blog post sound like an uninformed, whiny rant.
Wrong redesign IMHO. It's kinda like the new Google thing, better aesthetic proportions , whitespace and shit.. but loss in density and habits. I'd vote for something less bold and more derivative and small step and :loop:
"Success" really depends on way too many factors to come up with a general formula, as I've argued in this article:

http://swombat.com/2011/12/23/entrepreneurial-success

However, I'd say if your business helps you move one rung up the ladder (from zero to survival, to comfort, and then to wealth) then it's "successful" at least on the financial level.

In terms of figuring out if the business is "sticking" early on, that can't be ascribed just to money - it really depends on what you're building. You need to figure out the core metrics that drive your business and see whether they're going somewhere good. In some cases, the metrics are money, in others they might be user growth, or something else!
It's been around for ages already - for those who stumble on to the settings part of the site. It takes some time to get use to, but overall I like that they have gone from 90's to 20's era.
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Yeah, I was burned by the same problem with the razer mechanical keyboards. No noticeable keypress feel improvement, and hideously loud; waste of money.
Ask HN: how can a non-American Internet user contribute to anti-SOPA protests?
SOPA related protests are all over the web today - Wikipedia, Google, Hacker News and many other popular websites. As I am not based in USA, the law per se is not directly going to affect users and businesses in my country. But as a user of these amazing Internet services based in the USA, it affects me too and I want to get involved. Question to HN users - how can a non-American Internet user contribute to Anti-SOPA protests?
I hate to sound like a fundamentalist economist, but ...

There's a demand for movies. If you cut off the source, fans will make their own. They won't be the same (lower budgets), and their distribution will be different (initially theatres, protected by contracts), and they will have more product placements, but they will still be there. You won't have LOTR, but you will still have low budget talky stuff, suspense thrillers, and so on.

Eventually, animation techniques will allow fans to collaboratively make big budget special effect movies.

If movie company's wanted, they could survive quite well on theatre takings, and release stuff on DVD simply as collector items (after they movies are leaked online anyway). They would have to make cutbacks, but they'd still survive.

The main difference is - what a consumer does in their own home should be sacrosanct. Telling a theatre not to leak a movie (as part of a commercial contract) is fine, but attacking consumers for ripping a DVD they bought is not.
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I recall using this design a year or so ago.. and I was really hoping they'd change some things about it (mainly the ugly green everywhere..) Unfortunately that's not the case.. Functionally the site is better than the current design though!.. Right?
It does, and it works as well as the compiler can prove that the code is unused. For some stuff (like functions that are never syntactically referenced), that's trivial. In the general case, it's impossible, because of the halting problem.

G+ is a heavy user of Closure Compiler (websearch is too, actually, but we use it differently), and Google's JS coding conventions actually are designed with the compiler in mind. The thing is, most of this bloat isn't functions that are never used, it's functions that are rarely used. G+ is big because you can do a lot with it.
I no longer pirate software because I can live with free software or if I really need/want something I guess I could just pay for it. I no longer pirate games because I don't play that much and if I do I mostly play games that are "free to play". Several times a year I buy a "serious" game on steam because it is so easy.

However I still do pirate movies because they are extremely expensive and I know of no way how to watch them online for smaller prices. I still pirate TV shows because there is no way I could watch them otherwise (that I know of at least). Music, well.. much less than I used to.

Luckily it is not illegal to download a movie or a song, but it is still not right. I guess.
You can't "prove" anything about businesses until they either finally fail or finally succeed (whatever your definition of failure or success is).

However, you can get a pretty decent idea of how successful an idea will be if you push it further without spending anything like 2 years on it. Most ideas that are invalidated after 2 years of the founders working their bollocks off on the business could have been invalidated much sooner than that.

Ask experienced entrepreneurs (who have built profitable businesses) around you. I think you'll find that most of them already do this to some extent - they don't commit fully into an idea until they've tested the waters and found that this idea is worth committing into.
I wasn't particularly impressed with the quality of the arguments either. On the other hand I don't see much hope of change unless 'piracy' becomes even more commonplace than it already is.

So while I personally would rather do without (similar to using Linux/Gimp vs pirating Windows/Photoshop etc.) and think that piracy in many ways strengthens the hand of the copyright owners by suffocating legitimate alternatives (again see Linux/Gimp vs pirated XP/Photoshop) I think that encouraging and legitimizing widespread piracy could well be the only "significant political protest" with any chance to succeed.

Riots and revolutions tend to happen in the summer, maybe copyright will only change if some people get to watch Transformers for free. I can live with that.
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Many times over, although it seems like everyday I hear of an affiliate marketer who is killing it online and I wonder how.

Having interacted with that world somewhat in the past, I can say that there are some very rare affiliate marketers who are making a good chunk of cash - but those are people who have invested a lot of time and energy into building vast mailing lists of followers who sign up to stuff they recommend.

If you're willing to spend years building such a mailing list, you can make a few thousands a month jumping between various MLM opportunities. Personally, I'd find that deeply unsatisfying work.
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I would say any design problems and questions could probably be engaged with pretty well here on Hacker News, I've spoken to many good designers through HN.

It's more of a start-up community then hacker one, designers are a strong part of that community.
I believe ploum still lives in France and in France when you buy a usb sticks, blank CDs and hard drives, you have to pay a "private copy tax" that can be in the tens of euros.

So even if he ignores it, he is still paying them money because media companies can't adjust or accept that they're doing it wrong.
Disclaimer: I've interviewed there and turned down a few positions in different departments and I know current/former staff.

Anyone in the know knows that Yahoo! pays ridiculous rates (more than Google), but most of its departments can no longer bribe top talent into staying in a shop rife with dysfunction.
A few reasons why I've migrated, and I prefix it with saying I've always been a big fan of IndexTank.

1) I was never interested in running my own Search stack. Now forced with the need to run IndexTank myself, this benefit was lost.. Seeing as I'd have to run IndexTank myself

2) Even though it's open source, I doubt that LinkedIn, will be accepting any pull requests.. I imagine that this is nearly the end of the massive development drive that has previously gone on. (Purely my own thoughts, I hope I'm wrong)

3) The faceting with tokenizers is more powerful in Solr. (non existant in IndexTank)

4) The categorization implementation in IndexTank was a little flawed. ie you couldn't create "Grouped" fields, that can contain multiple values. To do this, you had to invert the keys of the values, so that it maps like "Sony=>manufactuer" for example, where as in Solr, you can create manufacturer=>[Sony] and have multi value fields, such as theme=>[thriller,romance] etc.

5) Solr already has a Suggest more like these feature

6) The geo spatial stuff works better in Solr. Especially if you need facets on geo spatial documents to provide counts back.

7) 4.0 (available in trunk) has real time search. So no index rebuilding.

Don't misunderstand me in saying that IndexTank is poor.
IndexTank worked great, and I reall liked it. Perhaps my application just outgrew the features that it could offer and Solr became the obvious choice.
That's a good point, they need a "public terminal" option at browserid.org. I'll email them now.

However, considering that it's pretty easy to add two-factor authentication to the provider (in this case, browserid.org) using Google's open source libraries or any other way, I'd say this is a huge net plus. After all, logging in via Google, Facebook, Twitter or any other such provider has the same weakness.
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YoYoGames on why SOPA is bad internationally
I wan't to buy "How I Meet your Mother" on English with spanish subtitles. I am from Spain and live on Germany.

The only option to get the content I am looking for is through megavideo/piratebay.

With the films, happen the same. If I use my iTunes spanish account, the content is delayed 6 months, no tv shows and all of them in spanish. If I use a German account, I only get German content.

I pay spotify premium since two years ago. But for tv shows and films. The only content i can get is from sites like megavideo/piratebay, etc.

This industry is the only one that doesn't offer to the client what the client wants. Easy.
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I disagree, IndexTank is great. Each to their own.

IndexTank would be a great name for the Google crawler too.
I don't like it. IMO the colors are really off.
This is such bullshit, I really wish I could downvote this sort of post.

No. Upvote and explain why the author is wrong. We need to educate more people about piracy and intellectual property.
There is a reason that most of emplyees of Apples, Googles and Intels of the world are located outside of US :)
If I have free speech rights, and if you have free speech rights, why should we not have free speech rights if we form a corporation and speak with one (amplified) voice?
"with infringement upon peoples' rights"

People's rights are man made, so they are debatable.
The only thing I agree with in this article is that film / music industry products often do not provide a good service. They are riddled with copy protection and unskippable ad's which punish people who actually buy the damn things.

Take this ad:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6xj4jS8cho

This the truth...

You spent an hour to go to the shop's and buy it / waited a day for delivery
He spent 15 minutes downloading it.

You have to sit though ad's you cannot skip.
You have to watch a 39 second anti-piracy ad on a legitimate DVD.
You have to wait 30 seconds for the title menu to load because some moron decided to show clips of the film you want to fecking play before it appears!

He is already 5 minutes into the film.

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Its horrible.

As for the rest of the arguments I disagree.

1) Because you don't use my money well

It doesn't matter how they spend there money. They are provided a product that you want. If they didn't exist the product wouldn't exist.

"Everything else was probably diluted in stuffs I don't need: packaging, distribution, transport, marketing,"

If they didn't market you wouldn't have heard about it. If they didn't pay for distribution you wouldn't be able to get it. If they didn't pay for packaging you would receive a scratched, perhaps broken CD...

2) Because you are messing with my life

"Worst, you will use my money to sue me in court because I would have downloaded something that I didn't want to buy anyway!"

Yeah.. your like stealing their stuff? Why shouldn't they come after you? If you don't want it don't download. If you download it.. don't pretend you didn't want it.

"With the change left, you will pay lobbyists to ensure the governments make stupid and dangerous laws."

The politicians pass the law's. I see nothing wrong with the music / film industry lobbying to protect their interest's. Where it gets scary is when politicians act on the side of lobbyists without considering the wider picture.

3) Because you are destroying the whole society

I agree there are problems but I completely disagree that these problems are all caused by the film and music industry. I didn't know EMI signed teachers for their lectures?

Finally...

"If I'm a pirate, it's not to have some cheap music. It is because the time has come for you to fuck off. In your arrogance, you are hurting the fundamental value of freedom only to save your little petty interests."

I guess big hollywood movies and the majority of career musicians can fuck off as well aye?