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No. Adulthood has nothing to do with the fact that everyone is using a word that doesn't accurately describe the action taken.

Just because it's not stealing doesn't mean it's not illegal. You can't call anything that's illegal "stealing". It's piracy, which is illegal, but a different act than stealing.

People who started calling piracy stealing are the same people that cannot accurately understand what is actually happening, and people who benefit from calling it stealing instead of correctly portraiting it as it's own crime.

The desensitized image of piracy that people have is somewhat close to the way some people have a desensitized image of credit card fraud. The image that you're hurting a faceless corporation, and not an actual person. Introducing the moral part in an action that doesn't accurately portray a victim is the hard part. When stealing it's easy because you can relate and imagine the victim of an action.
Leap seconds are expected to become more frequent, and the last decade has had unusually few leap seconds.
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I like it too (really, thanks for the suggestion), but the pricing is way too high, by at least an order of magnitude. A single user might import 1000 bookmarks -- there's $10 right there.

Now that I've set up phantomjs (headless webkit) on a VPS per petewarden's suggestion, I can see what it costs to run a screenshot farm myself. A couple pennies per thousand images at most for bandwidth -- Linode's smallest instance can run a bunch of webkit instances in parallel just fine. I've already generated and resized almost 1000 screenshots since installing it all.
I wonder why some graphics are embedded in CSS and some not.
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I don't see it. Can you point out similar passages?
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Does that mean we expect there to be more than a couple of leap seconds every year? (Based on the "more than an hour over 500 years" statement)
I like the leap-hour once every 500 years or so idea.

But I suspect in practice, it would never be actually assessed. When it comes due, everyone alive would be more accustomed to the 'hour off' times than the 500-years-ago time, so natural tendencies to eschew change in such matters would make following-through on the promised leap-hour unlikely.
Exciting direction, although I find the title to be a bit racist by implying that poor kids are all Black or Brown. It also seems to imply that Black and Brown kids may be less capable of learning. Maybe I'm making something out of nothing, although Gengrich just caught hell for making similar implications. Thoughts?
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Thanks, but you can only set past post visbility to "Friends", not "Private", and I don't see any definition of how old a post has to be to be considered a "past post".
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It's especially ironic considering the nature of the blackout protest.

On one side, for the most part, we have a bunch of creators using their own creations to spread the message. On the other, there's a bunch of distribution companies paying someone else to spread their message for them. So of course, guess which side picks a name claiming to represent the "Creative"s.
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Good for him!

Flash of insight: a big part of why he was able to do this, is because he put himself in the public arena and allowed himself to become a celebrity (in some sense).

As someone who is a little scared of becoming famous, this is a wake-up call.

I always focus on the negative aspects (eg being judged) of being known to many people. But if Amit had been as much of as a fraidycat as me, he might not have gotten this chance.

Bottom line: being a public person confers many benefits. It's easy to focus on the 5% who are haters rather than the 95% who are fans. Being obscure is safe, but stifling.

(A friend of mine who is somewhat famous in his niche noted that the lynch mob he had expected never showed up :p )
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If I write random bits to a file and it turns out to be a Star Wars movie, did I steal it?
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I decided not buy a coffee this morning. I've deprived the owner of his potential earnings! Must be stealing.
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7 minutes? Either your tubes are way faster than mine or I need to start reading faster.

Thanks for the push folks; it was much simpler than I expected, and now I can be excited for some snail mail!
Err, yes, that does sound an order of magnitude out, now I come to think of it.

The original proposal allows updates four times a year, though only the July and December updates have been used.
You don't actually need a Turing-complete language to implement games. You can use finite state machines driven by keyboard/joystick input with images for each state.
For anyone that wants to change the CSS/HTML easily:

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How does the score counter work? The rest of the stuff seems quite straightforward, but this one I couldn't figure out with quick examination.
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> You won't be able to fix that without reinstalling or using a crack.

This is the point that gets under my skin. You can't ask a commpany to actively maintain staff to support a 10 years old OS. But then, it shouldn't put DRM or activation processes that have fail cases needing active help for products that have long life spans (I know, planned obsolescence and etc.., but still).

This is a problem I don't have with other OSes, and it just looks bad in comparison.

To answer your points,

1) the license I am trying to use was acquired a long long time ago in a previous iteration of my company. It seems it would be a big hassle to retrieve who/how it was bought... That's bad resource management.
But now I can't imagine it was stolen or frauded in any way.

2) Windows XP on a virtual machine was a choice among others (say win 7 with a separate physical machine for e.g.), and I needed time to try the install, knowing that activating an install that would be trashed afterwards would not be good. Now, this situation might be an answer, but otherwise it was a quite usable environment.
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Kodak sold their sensor division a few months back.
Allowing piracy is a pricing policy. Whit that, they effectively have a free product without risking having it called dumping.
For sure! What is found at the end of the page is priceless, sophisticated humor:
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Thanks Smerity that was really interesting - we are looking at applying special searches to Riak.
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It's not like you lose your identity as a person though. And i think that that intellectual "property" belongs to the issuing authorities (government, banks etc) not you per se
> but the speed of editing digital caused

I'd also expect the storage convenience to have had an impact, you can store dozens to hundreds of pictures in a memory card the size of a nail (a pretty huge nail for CF cards, but most of the market will be consumers shooting on SD anyway) and you can offload them into a computer or a bigger storage system at the end of the day, instead of having to lug around cases of film.

There's also the ability to quickly remove "failed" or extra shoots on the spot without wasting a valuable spot in the card, where film... a photo taken is a spot taken, no going back.

> 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'm not sure your argument is much helped by you comparing professional film with consumer point-and-shoot from 5 years ago.
Fun fact: the 7 consolidated media companies (all media there is in the US basically), are intimately interconnected with Pharmaceutical and Insurance companies. Link: http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=3845

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>It is possible to be paid in other ways -- that do not impose on other freedoms.

What ways? And if you say "selling t-shirts" then you lose.
Why don't we let GPS satellites and NTP broadcast both "regular time" and International Atomic Time (TAI), and let each user use the one that fits best?

So: satellite navigation, financial services and flight control systems use TAI, everybody else uses regular time?

To make the difference obvious and prevent misunderstandings, TAI could even have a different form, like a pure integer of "seconds after date X". So nobody except programmers for financial services and other specialized systems would ever get to see TAI, and everybody's happy?
I'm just generally very suspicious of any "expert judges situation by magical intuition" story.

I do generally have a good opinion of Oxbridge, despite the fact they turned me down :)
How (I think) it works:

Basically it's a bunch of animations that play simultaneously. For example, there is no actual timer. Instead there is an animation of a bar filling up, and an animation of a "game over" screen doing nothing for a few seconds, and then sliding onto the screen. All of this is done with CSS keyframes.

Each of the alligators is actually a radio button styled to LOOK like an alligator, including an animation to move up and down in a fixed pattern. When you check the radio button, it changes the style (through CSS rules conditioned on the checked state), which changes the animation to take the alligator off the screen.

Now, the scoreboard: For each alligator radio button, there is a corresponding radio button in the scoreboard, paired up so that checking the alligator button unchecks the scoreboard button. The scoreboard buttons are stacked on top of each other, and unchecking them causes them to animate their height down to zero. This effectively computes the number of checked alligator-buttons and outputs it as the height of the element. At the bottom of the stack is a strip of images for scores 0, 1, 2, etc, so that as the buttons are unchecked, the right one moves up into the display area.

Finally, the "play again" link at the end just reloads the page.
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I'm not angry about downvotes. I know jokes have no place in HN :-)
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Yes, but it's fairly difficult to get an Android phone without paying the Microsoft tax, at least in the US: http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2012/01/microsoft-now-...
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Burnout is not a real disorder (as far as the American Psychiatric Association is concerned). It's a problem one has with their motivation and is inherently personal in nature. How one gets over their burnout is also specific to them.

Depression, anxiety, and chronic fatigue are true disorders. It likely takes most patients more than 3 days to get over these disorders (if they ever do) but it's likely that a good portion of workers can get over their own "burnout" in 3 days or less.
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I think the way he said it wasn't directed at anyone in particular. It was just an observation that one week vacation isn't enough. I think he might have been suggesting that the guy should holiday for longer...

I've plodded through a miserable couple of years and am certain I'm burnt out. I've just handed in notice for my job, and know for certain that one week won't remove the feeling of work life AND home life sucking.

As humans, we bring meaning to whatever we choose. Nothing really has meaning except through the wiring in our brains.
It's unfortunate that we concentrate so much on making money, that we don't concentrate on those things that would eliminate the need for it at all.
The whole debate about stealing is irrelevant, and not very interesting.

1) The way that the internet is configured means that distribution is now nearly free for everyone.

2) People will (and are!) using this to distribute things that other people don't want them to distribute, and may even bankrupt them.

3) Changing this, if even possible, will require fundamentally changing the nature of the internet in it's current form, which will have massive implications for freedom of speech and may bankrupt other industries.

#3 is the only part which is truly interesting. Are we going to break what we have now based on the (possibly incorrect) assumption that it will do anything to help the recording industry?

Copying under the current system is guaranteed... that's what it does. Whether it's "stealing" or "moral" is something else. Whether people go to heaven or hell when they download Season 4 of Sex in the City, or whether their government locks up children from copying a ringtone... These are less interesting points. Societies can take care of themselves on these points, I presume they won't tolerate it.
I suspect he hasn't recovered properly yet and hasn't realised.

I've experienced burnout a couple times. For me, a week of TV will make the world start looking brighter again. However, if I try and actually work for more than an hour or two, that murky grey feeling of dread pops straight back.

Both times I've gotten properly burned out its taken me ~3 months to recover properly, and really start enjoying my work again.
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Umm, I think your comment exhibits exactly the attitude I was arguing against. I'm not smart enough to argue conclusively why one should care about what happens after one's death, but this greek proverb moved me a lot.

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whose shade they know they shall never sit in.

Example: http://www.gardinclothing.com/blog/?p=31
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Yes it is:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2300836

https://github.com/elitheeli/oddities/blob/master/rule110-gr...

in combination with HTML at least...

(Although as others have stated this game is really just a state machine)
By what metric are these 'people' considered the to be smartest in the world?
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My main issue with the maths as outlined here is the costs. I don't dispute that bands spend $500,000 recording an album or making a video but I do dispute that they should.

I have a friend who is a producer / musician who has been in a successful (top 10 singles) band. He'll tell tales of spending a day in the studio sampling a snare drum sound. One day, one snare drum sound. Given the cost of studio time that's just obscene.

Now maybe that's what the highest production standards demand, but I think we need to view the $500,000 album and the $500,000 video as a luxury, not the norm. If those costs come down (and that's perfectly realistic) then the maths potentially looks very different.

The issue here is (surprise surprise) most likely with the record company. After all the better the production the more likely the record is to sell (arguable but it's probably not going to hurt) and the record company don't care whether the money goes to the band or to the studio / producer.

But bands do need to take some responsibility for how THEIR money is spent. In the scenario outlined there is meant to be a scramble for this band. If that's the case then bands need to argue for more control rather than just more money as money seems to be pointless without it.

Makes me think about the contract the Wedding Present signed when they moved to a major label. They gave up a load of cash to have complete control over studio, producer, artwork and so on and if the label didn't like the resulting record, to be able to take it to someone else. More bands need to think in those terms.
I both wouldn't bet on Joyent's Smartmachines being a magnitude cheaper and being as fast:
On the speed: We run a Riak cluster, and for us the actual response times we get from Riak are, as described, slower than what Amazon promises in its docs.

On the price: If you would get 3x16 GB machines with Joyent, that would cost you 1400$/month. You can get a lot of resources for that with this new AWS service.

I don't have any experience with either Joyent or this new DynamoDB, but I do have some experience with Riak, and from the docs this new service would be a very viable competitor.
I set up a queue/worker setup with a max of 5 threads to generate screenshots with phantomjs then resize them with imagemagick. It was averaging one URL per second. Wasn't very taxing on the CPU so probably could be pushed much higher even on this little VPS.
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Four times a year, with up to two seconds added each time should put an upper bound for adjustments accumulated over 500 years to:

500 years * 4 updates/year * 2 seconds/update = 4000 seconds = 66 2/3 minutes

So an hour in 500 years seems to require adjusting almost as much as we can, which isn't realistic.
Wow - either poorly researched or a bit biased. The article failed to note that users could bypass the blackout by turning off Javascript in browser, or with NoScript. Jay Walsh knew about that, and would _very_ likely have mentioned that to the NYT.
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I'm glad to read this. My experience is pretty terrible at the moment. I'm not at the burnout phase, but maybe it's taking longer and will consequently be a more spectacular breakdown. I feel myself getting to closer to the edge every day.

My life situation: I have a full time day job at a small business of 18 employees as their IT director. I fight fires all day and help them dig out of constant deadline pressures. Oh, and I have my own responsibilities and we have 'initiatives' that we're accountable to which are supposed to be outside of work.

It's been too much for awhile - nearly 2 years. A year ago I started diversifying so I had something to fall back on. I took on a large side project where I'm the sole developer. It was with a longtime moonlighting client of mine who has high expectations of quality and time. I would love to subcontract the development but I'm afraid that it will take more of my time to get started and the cost/quality won't be high enough.

I wake up at 5am, do my moonlighting until about 7am. Help get my 8month old ready for the day and off to daycare. I then still can maintain a workout (30 minutes a day 6 days a week for 5 years straight), and then get to my day job. I'm there until about 6, come home spend a few hour with my daughter and wife and then feel compelled to dig out of the 20 emails I get from my coworkers while I'm disconnected. After that I try to make progress on my moonlighting gig until about 10pm.

My weekends are the same way.

Is this a good way to live? No.

I fool myself into thinking that it's just one more project or one more deadline then the pressure is off. Another one immediately follows. Occasionally, I'll slip into needing to have a few beers while working to take the edge off - to just get through it. Also not good. I'm probably developing some form of RSI because my pinkies and wrist hurt as I type this.

So, I'm suffering. On the other side, my wife just quit her job, we're renting in a new city with a house for sale (mortgage already paid off though) in another. We have at least 60 months of savings and another 40 if/when the house sells. Need insurance though so I can't quit and have no idea what it would take to self-insure. Also, don't want to eat away at that rainy day fund now that I have a daughter to take care of.

What's the solution? I tell myself I'll finish up this side project and that'll be it. I'll try to reduce my hours at work. Hopefully I can get back to a normal life - if I even know what normal is any more...
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I didn't see any pricing info on your site, although I
do see a "Try it now for free" button. Does this mean
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Despite being fully aware of the blackout, my regular browsing habits led me to the Wikipedia website around 10 times or so.

This goes to prove how crucial online info has become, at least for me. I fully supported the protest, yet kept going back to the website. I guess my fingers are faster than my mind.

How many times did you end up on Wikipedia yesterday out of habits and reflexes (not to show your Aunt Marge the stylish protest page)?
Only that you'll have to correct this more and more in time because earth's second isn't constant (actually this is exactly why they started to use the leap second).
So why do it? Just to get a /Universal/ time in sync with Earth?