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Repealing DADT, Repealing the Defense of Marriage act, same-sex marriage are some social reforms that would never happen under such a system because you can easily find millions of americans that are extremely outraged about those issues.

How is postpone and force a public and (hopefully) fair debate about a subject the same as stopping it from happening?
Well, this might be the solution : http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=1028109

When a few students can do Pixar quality animation, you know where the world is headed, right? Sotfware makes the barrier to entry to creation lower and lower, while the Internet makes the barrier to entry to distribution lower and lower.

Entertainement startups will take-over the old giants.
http://www.jamendo.com/en/ is treating the very problem of remunerating CC artists, and they are doing well for quite some time.
How does it differ from internet radio and existing music streaming services (Pandora, Spotify, Last.fm etc.)?
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I read this and the original article, and it still makes no sense to me. I found a report in the Norwegian Dag Bladet (http://www.dagbladet.no/2012/01/19/nyheter/innenriks/barneve... ) and that mentions the report against the parents also says there were too few toys, the kids weren't wearing socks, and the rice+yogurt diet is too one sided. Oh, and that the mother "ikke holdt datteren riktig når hun ammet " -- didn't hold the daughter right when she breast-fed.

The mother did slap the children, but stopped when told it was illegal in Norway.

They live in Stavanger but the Stavanger Aftenbladet doesn't have anything about this.

One bizarre thing is the complaint that the two children sleep in the same bed as the parents. The eldest is 3 years old. But the daughter of Finnish friends of mine was sleeping in the same bed as her parents until at least that age.

There is somewhat of an escape clause; immigration law trumps custody for this case and once the mother's permit expires the foster home system would have to apply for a residency permit on behalf of the children if they decide they don't want the children repatriated. But the father, a geophysicist, would have to quit his job of several years in Norway.

The foster care system also refused to return the kids to the father, should the parents separate while this is being resolved, and refused to let the children be with the grandparents.

This is still hard to believe!
According to this http://hdd-compare.com/en/blog/hard-disk-drives-rma-statisti... or http://www.hardware.fr/articles/773-6/taux-pannes-composants..., it seems that you have betwwen 0 to 3 % chance to return your hard drive. That is quite higher to incident that can cause your full collection of DVD and CD to be destroyed.
14 films, including short films, at this year's Sundance received some portion of their funding via Kickstarter.
I interpret this as a call to use innovation and creativity to produce something constructively that will bring Hollywood the fear, and I approve 100%.
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I would make the argument that the music business—and by that, the author means "major label" music business—is already being killed, and one can see its utter demise just by extrapolating the current trend.

I suggest three reasons why this is true:

1. There is little or no profit in the major label business anymore—certainly not for the artist, and rarely for the label. I believe this is because of the fragmentation of entertainment, failure to embrace new technology, and many other trends. Regardless, this has led to consolidation over a 20 year period, where six major labels became just three (today Sony, Warner, and Universal). And revenue has declined from $15 billion annually at its peak in 1999 to about $6.8 billion today.

2. The music industry failed to see the value of the Internet in music distribution. Once piracy became rampant, the music industry essentially signed control of distribution over to its one credible savior, Apple (and now, to an extent, streaming services like Spotify). The net result is that the industry has little control over the price of its product, and little connection to its customer. iTunes dominates.

3. Home recording technology is getting better and cheaper, and distribution is easier than ever (recall that Justin Bieber was discovered on YouTube). While this may not have made a meaningful impact yet, it is easy to imagine that it will over the next 10 years. I can already point to several artists, like Brad Sucks (one of my favorites), who are taking advantage of this.

In short, I don't think we need to change the status quo much at all. The major labels are on their way out.
you're missing the point completely. any replacement has to succeed because it's better than hollywood. something even more awesome will come along and replace it.

the argument is not "lets all share files until they go bankrupt"; it's "there is change afoot; whoever can make the awesomest, most loved art / entertainment of the next wave will win big".

you're not a special flower. the stuff you like is mass market. you will like even more whatever comes next - if you didn't, then it wouldn't be the next big thing. the argument is self-fulfilling; yc simply wants to be the one that makes money on it. don't be mislead by the macho "killing" rhetoric.
EDIT [missed the edit window] whoops, I see ctrl-r is "reverse-search-history" (not "history-search-backward"), it matches your input to any part of the history (so the prefix issue doesn't arise). So you could just type the hostname, and it will pick out the most recent line in the history that matches - it needn't be at the beginning of the line. You can hit ctrl-r again to go to a matching line further up.

ctrl-s goes back down again, but not working for me, apparently because my gnome terminal intercepts it before bash's readline sees it, using it for xon/xoff according to http://stackoverflow.com/questions/791765/unable-to-forward-... This "fixes" it (by disabling the STOP feature of the terminal), so ctrl-s works to search down.

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Mixpanel can track any event, so that should work.
I have a story too, I really wanted an apple and when I came into the super market they had this HUGE line and they only accept credit cards on purchases above 5$.

I won't tell you the course of action I took, but I really wanted an apple.

Obviously, totally their fault and its OK since they are a failing industry.
It's not confusing when you realise that strncat() is not a concatenating analogue of strncpy(). It's just a version of strcat() that accepts an upper bound on the number of characters copied.
To be precise, the record labels do not own the copyrights to the songs, but rather to the specific recordings produced under contract with the artist. The rights to the song are held by the music publisher, which is often a different entity.
How are you getting from right-or-wrong answers to rigor? That doesn't follow. In fact, at a professional level you could make the argument that a lack of right-or-wrong answers actually calls for a greater degree of rigor. To quote Heidegger:

Precisely from the point of view of science, no field takes precedence over the others, neither nature over history nor vice versa. No one method of dealing with objects dominates the others. Mathematical knowledge is no more rigorous than philological-historical knowledge. It merely has the character of "exactness," which is not the same as rigor. To demand exactness of the study of history goes against the specific rigor of the humanities.

Anyway, anecdotally, four years of shepherding would-be engineers through basic writing requirements was enough for me to conclude that as a group, engineers are singularly terrified by the absence of right-or-wrong answers. For my part, I'm glad to have had a rigorous grounding in the humanities before stumbling into coding.

It's like what Eric Raymond says about Lisp: "Lisp is worth learning for . . . the profound enlightenment experience you will have when you finally get it. That experience will make you a better programmer for the rest of your days." A sufficiently rigorous study of art and philosophy and history won't just show you new things; it will give you new eyes. It's a shame most people (including, of course, many with humanities degrees) miss out on this.
Hi Chris, it's fun and all that but is HN the best place for your marketing efforts? I'm not sure that, as a group, this is a paper based calendar audience - even when the sheets are quite large.

good luck with it though.
The thing is. There is a finite number of apples.
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>Legal bans on prostitution

This is a widely misunderstood thing. Almost no country bans prostitution per se, not even most US states. That would be a gross violation of economic freedom. Instead they ban activities perceived as harmful: soliciting and pimping.
I think pg is actually completely 100% on the money here. Kudos to him and YC being bold enough to come out and say it so bluntly.

Here's why I agree with him: I see a lot of comments from people suggesting that Hollywood works on a cycle, where things move along, start to stagnate, and then a dark horse director comes along and creates magic. Altman, Lucas, etc all fit this bill, and they've produced amazing hits. Using money from Hollywood.

So, if this cycle is indeed perpetual, and Hollywood simply has to wait for the next big thing, then why don't they? Instead, we are seeing prosecutions on a massive scale, and grossly out of touch legislation proposed like SOPA and PIPA.

If Hollywood were so confident, and had so much money, why should they care about these infringers? Is it that copyright infringement makes Hollywood lose that much money, or is it that the economic model has changed dramatically, the execs are scared shitless, and are trying dearly to hold on to their once-empire?

I don't think anyone can challenge the assertion that the field has changed dramatically. I also don't think anyone, including the Hollywood execs, has a clue where it's going now. Laws like SOPA seem to be about preventing this change from happening, to keep the power where it was. It sounds like YC's approach is to encourage people to be creative and try to come up with a viable suggestion as to where things are going.
"Provable", in this space, is a relative term. We just cannot know how strong arms can get, given sufficient exercise, hitherto unknown ways of training, nutrition, etc, and drive. Evolutionary, birds give counterexamples to that claim.

To see whether one could fly a gossamer-albatross type device by arm power alone today, I would look for a paraplegic or someone born with very small or no legs who has spent years in a wheelchair, preferably doing, say, cross-country running in it.
Global distribution territories are like a maze of twisty passages, none of which are alike.

Combining the other recent pg essay about schlepping, this is a major schlepping window of opportunity. If someone could find a way to make it easier for filmmakers to reach markets around the world, that would help the overall issue.

I don't just mean slap up a youtube clone and call the problem solved, I mean provide access to theatrical and tv gobally.

Major schlepping there, but probably a good opportunity too.
The correct (albeit scientific wishy-washy word) is "suggest", not "indicate".

Rather, it equally indicates that the Norwegian foster care system is over-reaching and unable to accept difference in child-rearing practices different than the Norwegian cultural norm.

The Norwegian Degbladet questioned the "Head of Child Protection Service in Stavanger, Gunnar Toresen", and received only that the transfer of care taking was not due to cultural differences and that it was very problematic for them since the description (of the problem) is not rooted in reality.

Note also that the Fylkesnemnda (the court-like board which oversees child services) overturned the decision of the child services employees who made the decision, only to be overturned themselves in appeal. Which suggests that this is not a clear cut issue.

The appeal has been appealed, but trial date has not yet been set.
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My tweet about a month ago in my ideation session for a weekend project:
"I'm thinking cinemas are obsolete, and movies should be streaming in my house on their premier."
https://twitter.com/#!/chegra/status/150519505636950016

I was thinking maybe groupon / kickstarter for movies. A studio large or small[ie individual] creates a trailer and people pledge to it. Initially, I was thinking about streaming, but now I'm think just have a download of the movie[better quality].

In terms of what would happen in 20 years, I'm banking on the singularity would have happened by then. Films would be generated on the fly to match your mood, personality and preferences to guarantee maximum pleasure.

Coming back to the present, the advancement of strong AI[1] would be the natural end to Hollywood.

Edit: Took a look at this picture: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PPTSuperComputersPRINT.jpg . Apparently 2013 is the year when we are suppose to have enough computing power to simulate the human brain[feels less crazy for suggesting it.].

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong_AI
> By creating a new form of entertainment, one can take over a portion of Hollywood's revenue pie

That's what the videogame industry has done, isn't it? Their total revenue is now actually larger than Hollywood's. It's not clear it's greatly harmed Hollywood, though; it's possible people are just choosing to spend more total money on entertainment, rather than videogame spending displacing film spending.

It's possible some future form of entertainment will compete in a sense that's more directly a substitute for Hollywood's entertainment, but it's not clear to me that that'd necessarily be the case, unless it were literally a substitute in the sense of just being an alternative financing/distribution mechanism for standard films.
I agree. Sadly, political influence costs lots of money. And thats the hardest part to overcome. So, we should first settle our differences (in your sample, how to solve the broken system) to avoid wasting time and money.
But I think indie games are more visible, they even get some space on Steam (yay!), so maybe all is not lost.
Hmm. While music labels do still have reach, in fact, there's very little profit anymore in the creation of recorded music. Today, records primarily serve to build hype for concert tours, which, contrary to your suggestion, are not put on by music labels, but by organizations like Live Nation. (Labels own the rights to the specific recordings produced under contract with the artist, not to the songs themselves.)

Since most of the profit in the music industry now comes from touring, the labels are trying to get a piece of the action with so-called "360" deals, which promise them royalties from tours, merchandise, and more. But for the most part, touring and recording are not integrated businesses.
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I am a director, I can speak on this from experience. Primary problem with producing movie/TV shows is money. It costs A LOT of money. Even shows you think can be done with a lower budget, it can't... currently. Reasons for high costs are numerous and I can expand on them (and will if someone asks me), but lets take that as an axiom for this post.

It costs a lot of money, which means people who invest in content production need to offload a lot of money and wish to guard their investment as much as possible, since that's what it is - an investment in a project. Financing cycles and budgeting is as lean as possible in showbusiness, and a lot of money is involved both upfront for production and later when gathering yield.

IF someone can disrupt financing side and securing measurable projected yield in this business - only then we will have a disruption. That is where one should look at for disruption, everything else is futile, because it's as lean as possible.
Please do expand on these reasons. What costs a lot for fundamental reasons? And what can be attacked with software?
I just watched http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Af2ZXv3P3bs. That learned me that this thing is _not_ human powered.

Power comes from four small electro motors. He controls those engines by moving his arms while strapped into the device.

He says calculations say it should work.
I think `man readline' is more appropriate for the keyboard shortcuts, since it is the readline library that provides many of them.
This really demonstrates the power of crowd-sourcing! An awesome project.
Music is a big cultural thing that people use as much as a method to identify themselves as a particular tribe (especially young people).

In many ways this is more important to many people than the actual music itself (even if they might deny such a thing), this is why certain musical acts become almost like rallying banners to certain subcultures (Bob Marley , Slipknot , Marilyn Manson and Eminem are examples of this) these acts are almost deified by their respective fanbases. Music celebrity culture is a very important part of every musical genre.

So simply providing a large library of great music is not always enough, many people don't actually want to sift through music catalogs to find something they personally like, they want to listen to what their friends listen to so that they can go to the shows together and bond over the music.

For example , if you talk to a bunch of teenage metalheads and many will insist that is is the one true genre of music and will not admit to listening to anything else even if they might enjoy it , lest it make them appear outcast from their hurd.

This is where the marketing is important , I would imagine that small minority of acts make up a huge percentage of actual music purchased. People want to listen to bands that have the money to put on huge worldwide tours so that they and their friends can attend.

I'm not so sure how an indie music startup could create such strong emotional attachment to the artists, the way major labels can do this is taking the right for the music in exchange for an advance and doing aggressive marketing of a small number of acts.
Not sure why this is being down voted quite so hard?
I agree the name isn't a big problem, but unfortunately I think a group who will really consistently be on "our" side (vaguely EFFish) is quite small, regardless of the name. When it comes to lobbying, the tech industry is for the most part just another special interest like Hollywood, taking whatever side is best for profits in any given dispute. Sometimes, like with SOPA, that's good. Other times, like with Apple/Microsoft's pro-DMCA lobbying, it's bad.
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come on..that was my senior English in high school 20 years ago..and yu call that hard?
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Experiments along these lines have already been performed. The struggle between VOD and theatrical is one of the major battles underway in Hollywood right now.

Contrary to what you might initially suspect, the studios are in favor of VOD over theatrical.

It's the exhibitors (theaters) that are fighting it.

Here's a youtube interview with the NATO (theater owner trade association) president which focuses a lot on the VOD issue.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5_Habwshog
A great point:

"We are constantly demonstrating through our actions what we believe to be the norms for acquiring and consuming content. Right now a lot of us think that it’s OK to download stuff through illegal sites under certain circumstances, and a lot of us think it’s totally fine to use those things to make videos and put them on YouTube even though YouTube profits from it. That’s not ME saying that, that’s US saying that"

Piracy discussions often go towards the ethical. It makes sense to look at what the actual ethical norms are.
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Idea based on pitches with short or expanded (up to 15 minutes) trailers could work, because that's how it's done for independent productions looking for money now. Thing is that this would work only for low budget movies and shows (up to $20 million)... I don't see how could this raise budget for a high budget movie ($200+ million) - that would need a serious coverage.
Exactly: old Unix directory filename entries were, at least at some time, exactly 1 to 14 characters long.

http://computing.fnal.gov/unixatfermilab/html/filesys.html

Having the size so fixed, storing the 15th character that would always be null on the disks (and also in memory) was a pure waste. Note that earliest versions of Unix run in less than 64 KB.

When copying the name to a fixed buffer of 14 characters which is to be stored on the disk, padding the buffer with nulls was also not a performance issue and had a benefit of not leaving "junk" in the buffer.

The problems only happen when people expect from such routines with very specific usage scenarios something for which they were not designed.

So the strncpy was never meant to be "a safer veriant for strcpy." Moreover, strcpy_s is also not a replacement for strncpy, but for a strcpy -- it was introduced to be replaced instead of strcpy in the old code bases as a part of reducing the number of security issues in the old code.

Of course there is (in Microsoft's CRT) strncpy_s, the rationale behind all _s functions is here:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/8ef0s5kh(v=vs.80).as...

"Sized Buffers. The secure functions require that the buffer size be passed to any function that writes to a buffer. The secure versions validate that the buffer is large enough before writing to it, helping to avoid dangerous buffer overrun errors that could allow malicious code to execute. These functions usually return an errno type of error code and invoke the invalid parameter handler if the size of the buffer is too small. Functions that read from input buffers, such as gets, have secure versions that require you to specify a maximum size.

(...)

Null termination. Some functions that left potentially non-terminated strings have secure versions which ensure that strings are properly null terminated."

The article is based on the wrong premises.

Advice: if you work low level with substrings and concatenations, where the performance matters, don't try to fix the str routines, use the pointers. Maintain the pointer to the last character of the area to which you concatenate. Traverse only the characters you need from the source. If you don't care about the performance or exact storage aspects, use much higher level approaches, some string libraries.
Does anyone have figures for pokemon red / green (during the first few years of release) vs the whole of hollywood?

But I suspect that game production has been Hollywoodised; you have big publishers and big studios and whole teams of people. It's getting better with the rise of indie gaming, but that's still a tiny fraction of the market.