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Interesting until one reads to this part:

"To that end, we have established a first-look development deal with Warner Bros., the biggest movie studio in Hollywood."

I'll pass. No one should be making any deals with Hollywood anymore.

If this was Amazon's attempt to fund movies for its own distribution, that would be awesome. But it's not.
Yup. I remember when DeCSS hit they had shirts printed up with the code on the back. I know this was a small file the OP sent, but at what point is the medium the moved to a context in which it is free speech? Has twitter reached that point? Are they an immovable third party communications medium?
That's the point of the 100 most recent. If they are power users and they can submit 80 posts a day, each of which gets at least 20 points, then they are obviously making a contribution. If they just have high Karma though, they won't necessarily be able to have a high limit. If they keep submitting crap in the hopes that a few will be upvoted, their average will go down.

Also, you could try using median rather than mean and that might produce better results.
I was at MSFT for a decade or so and several times saw folks who turned down the first offer get a second offer that was much more to their liking. The hiring manager has to really want you in order to push back sufficiently with HR, but if you're unhappy with the offer and willing to risk losing the job I've seen it pay off...
Improving distribution systems will not solve the problem because free is still cheaper than not-free.

I disagree. Yes, there are many people who pirate because they can't or don't want to pay. But I believe there's an equally large group of "casual pirates" who only do it for content that they can't (easily) get otherwise at all.

This latter group may be relatively small in the US because you have a whole range of online content providers (NetFlix et al). But it is definitely huge in europe and other countries where said services are not available or only in crippled form.
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This sounds horrible... and like it would ruin my productivity towards the end of my work day.

How about waking up early to exercise?
looks kind of like the final visualization in the last frame made blurry and added a bit of movement
Same thing happened with chimps and the discovery of tool use. Jane Goodall was met by the same resistance. It is a characteristic, I would assume of the social organism as a whole. We have a lot in common with our little burrowing social friends. Empathy being one of them.

Altruism is also indicated by leaving the sweets for the trapped rat.

Im not a neuroscientist, but I can guess the mirror neurons are at play.
You've expressed an ivory tower viewpoint. Forget the "industry". These people are learning to code for themselves, to scratch their own itches.

I encourage you to think less like a software engineer and more like a hacker. These people are gaining greater digital literacy. They are gaining the tools to solve their own problems.

Only a few of them will take up software as a profession. They will be subject to the same filtering process as everyone else.
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I can't find it but I remember something that sent messages like this over Facebook chat and then, on the other end, the software pieced it all together to show the image that was transferred. Anyone else remember this? It was a video so it might be on YouTube.
Does anyone in the comments actually have experience in working with agencies like CAA & William Morris besides watching Entourage?
It is hard to tell the full details & long term prospectives with Amazon studios but Hollywood is about 100x harder to work into compared to any online app or service. An online service you can build & market anywhere and it doesn't matter who you know. Hollywood is exact opposite, you can write it from anywhere but you need to be working in LA and be friends with plenty connected people and work with good agents, lawyers, management, etc.
Some attacks are by government agents claiming to be "Anonymous" in order to justify passing draconian laws like SOPA.
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I do believe it is "wrong" to watch pirated content but like I said in another comment, the problem has two sides. People are doing things that "come naturally" to them on the internet and Hollywood is trying to map an old business model onto a distribution method that has so many different dimensions and norms that it's caused a schism between the (potential) consumers and themselves. People, then, resort to pirating a movie because it's cheaper or they want to be able to watch it multiple times.

I think Amazon's content delivery "system" as it stands, now, is a wonderful answer to this whole issue (you buy it, you can download it, and it also sits on your own S3 account accessible by all of your devices!).

Either way, Hollywood needs to innovate (or be disrupted) in order to turn all of those people pirating into monetizable consumers (I really do think that is possible, too).
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Actually I wasn't saying anything so much as asking. Given our current political realities what practical ways would you go about changing it? I ask because I truly do not know what practical ways would have any chance of success short of political negotiation.
Hollywood already creates piracy where it doesn't exist to inflate the numbers. What makes you think they'd actually stop if piracy really did stop?
So there can only be one explanation?
I'm not sure if Amazon Studios represents real democratization of movie-making, or if Primer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primer_(film) does. Of course cult classics like Primer are few and far between, just like successful startups.
And given MU was shut down with existing laws, there is absolutely no need for something like SOPA to shift this pain balance, yet I'm sure we'll here about them again. Much easier to legislate that pain than innovate around it.
We don't have abundant solid gold toilet seats because of financing, not science, either. Now this isn't to say that there is no market for solid gold toilet seats. Surely, I'd buy one, if the cost was the same as a regular toilet seat. But it isn't, now is it? Yes yes, I know this will kill my Hacker News karma. Deduct away.
Ask HN: What's the problem with Hollywood?
I see a lot of posts discuss ideas to replace Hollywood in the wake of the successful defeat of SOPA. I was watching Moneyball today and Brad Pitt's character repeated a question that I heard often in consulting: "What's the problem?" Identifying the real problems that Hollywood currently solves is a fist step in creating disruptive innovation. It may help to recognize that the capability we are focusing on is Entertainment or "our ability to tell stories and entertain ourselves".

The entertainment capability transformed from telling stories, to the written form, to plays; and, ultimately, television and the silver screen.
The entertainment capability has an existing value chain or process by which inputs are transformed into outputs. I would be interested in furthering a discussion that identifies problems and potential solutions.
This isbexactly how i lauched two products with a family with 2 kids
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I recall something about storing rar archives in jpg files, as jpg ignores trailing bits and rars ignore heading bits..or something like that.
The question in the end is who is responsible for the 'file.' MegaUpload was shutdown because they are being targeted as the responsible party. Most sites like YouTube and others have convinced the necessary parties that they are not responsible.

Once a file is broken down into multiple parts and scattered throughout, can you be held responsible for hosting parts of files? how large does the 'part' have to be to be held responsible? what happens if a file is split into parts and posted on pastebin + github + blogs and a trackers are used to manage and build the files again?

The only thing taking down megaupload will do is create new means to allow sharing to occur.
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"...blissfully ignorant that pretty much everywhere else in the first world owns or will own an iPhone"

Speaking of living in a bubble...
Hopefully there will not be a trial. In order for a trial to occur, they have to be extradited. Nearly all extradition treaties require that the alleged conduct also constitute a crime under the laws of the jurisdiction that is being asked to extradite them (in this case, New Zeland). Showing that may be difficult to do, and if they cannot do it, they will be set free and cannot be arrested again on the US warrant in New Zeland.

These guys have some serious legal firepower. I sincerely hope they are able to defeat the extradition request.
One of the more interesting chapters in the Steve Jobs book discusses the time when Jobs finally convinced the recording industry that piracy wasn't necessarily a problem because people want free stuff (though that is a portion of it) but that it was simply easier than the alternatives. (In the case of the music industry at the time, every label had their own solution and they were all a pain to use.)

This experiment (and other humorous examples like this: http://datenform.de/blog/dead-drops-preview) displays the complexity of trying to prevent piracy by fighting it. If a critical mass of people want something and there isn't a convenient way to get it, alternatives will arise.

Life... er... pirates will always find a way.
Maybe it is horrible :) I'll see how I feel in a month. But why not experiment? My desire to do this sprung from being tired enough after a day of work that I'd really only work on my stuff on weekends.

Truthfully, I do run on Thursday mornings instead of code because that day I have lunch commitments (I run at lunch the rest of the week). I plan to try mixing in more morning running with the coding, see how that changes things too.
I used to do this a while ago, while working from home. I woke up at 6am and had my breakfast right next to the computer, then would only do the 'morning routine' (shower, walking the dog, etc.) after my wife had woken up and gone to work.

It was incredibly productive. As the author say the cost of those two hours keep you focused (you know you are making that extra effort, so distraction isn't an option.)
I don't pirate and have no ties to anyone that produces content. With that said; what is the difference between doing free coding or consulting for exposure and access? I used to own a consulting company and people tried that line a lot, even when starting out I never consulted for free to get "exposure;" why should we expect any different from other industries?
the lesser IMHO would be consumer who spent that money on anything else than entertainment, so if it wasnt beer or drugs, then it was better spent money
I'm not sure I understand you. If you're talking about the creative craft "What is Dropbox?" video, that was definitely post-MVP. Dropbox launched publicly with the ability to pay for it in Sept 2008. The video that made them take off like a rocket was in Sept 2009.

You could argue that sept 2008 was already post-MVP and they had what they considered a tentative MVP in March 2008 when they launched the private beta. Remember, the whole lean startup philosophy is about testing and learning. If they knew in March 2008 that their product was actually good enough to sell, then they should have let it out earlier.

I don't actually know anyone at Dropbox and I don't know if they are lean startup fans or if they would characterize anything this way, but I think it's a good example of the best case scenario for how you can build a great product: initial beta followed closely by minimal MVP with real paying customers, then some tweaking to get all the kinks worked out (technical and marketing), then one of your marketing pushes finds the market and you take off like mad.
The very profitable XComics app would BEG to differ.
> The answer must be to provide legal services that are at least as convenient as MegaUpload.

One thing that makes this hard in reality is that ANY service where people have to pay means people have to SHOP. Which means they have to make decisions about what entertainment products to buy, and at what price. And since these are "experience goods" you can't judge them until you've paid for them. In my book, that means means this particular type of "shopping" REALLY sucks.

So the fact that "shopping-just-sucks" (and especially for experience goods) is the TRUE friction that any hypothetical as-easy-as-Megaupload services need to overcome. A big draw of Megaupload (I say this never having heard of it before this week) is you can consume whatever you want and there's no downside to a bad choice.

So I'm not sure how any alternative service avoids the Shopping For Entertainment Products Sucks Syndrome unless they get some reasonably-priced all-you-can-eat plan that makes a lot (80%?) of commercial content available under one roof.
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Sounds like a great habit. There are some studies that indicate problem solving ability is highest when you're "groggy" so maybe skip the coffee. Many authors have developed the same habit during their early days when they had a day job. Mark Cuban said, "You're only at your best once a day."
Well, it does say "experiment". But I think the point is summed up in this line: "I believe that piracy will always exist". The OP is showing that data is so malleable that no matter how many Megauploads you take down, there will always be a way to share it, which seems obvious to us at HN, but to a layman this might be a little more eye-opening. Or maybe he was just fucking around over the weekend and wanted to find the most ridiculous possible way to send data.
I am a stay at home dad recovering from AML stim cell transplant. I have been trying to find time in my day to work on a personal project that I need to develop for myself and I think has a potential for profit. However with my busy 1 year old son waking up at 8AM(sleeps all night, which I am super thankful for), I can't find the time during the day to focus on a project. I get spurts during his 30-40 minute naps and when he is playing real good by himself, but as I get focused I am quickly pulled away. I have tried to be productive when I put him down at night, but I find I need to spend this time with my wife.

It is looking like I might become a 6AM coder soon. Seeing that my day starts at 8AM.

I had thought about getting up this early, but I just didn't think I could make it through the day with my semi-low energy levels.

However, I am thinking if I get up at 6AM, I can nap when my son naps for 30-40. As I read another post on HN that it actually is great to take these short duration naps.
What you are suggesting in turn is in fact the old studio system where a studio had contracts with everyone from stars down to dressmakers and technicians. For a variety of reasons, that has given way to the current model where artists and technicians are not guaranteed income beyond one film.
it would be very interesting to watch whether FBI/officials will go only after Megaupload (big fish) or they will make a case out of each and everyone who had their account and illegal uploads hosted there.
When I upgraded to OS X Lion, I discovered that the way that I had previously set up iTerm2 to launch tmux would cause a kernel panic when I would close iTerm2, without fail.

I don't remember off the top of my head what the setting was, but it was working in Snow Leopard on two different machines, and the kernel panic behavior struck on both upon Lion upgrade.

At any rate, changing how I had iTerm2 launch tmux solved the issue, but creating a guaranteed kernel panic like that was very odd indeed.
"HBO series have a lot of credibility, in general, as well. So I'll hold my breath that it doesn't paint indie/startup developers as total screw-ups."

I'll give them benefit of the doubt. As a huge fan of 24/7 for Hockey, they've given incredible insight into the game that nearly all fans of hockey and documentaries can enjoy.
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They don't use the forensic tools on everything that passes through, and an SD card full of landscape photos is a lot less likely to arouse suspicion than one full of unreadable encrypted data.
I agree. I suspect the creator didn't start this project until that morning, though, so there's no way he/she could have gotten that data. Notice that the video doesn't begin at midnight, but rather 8 A.M.
The idea of sharing frequency is very interesting. I think this is one of the primary reasons that Twitter always seems more active and interesting than Facebook. Twitter has built a notion that high number of tweets are not a bad thing - 10 tweets per hour won't raise as many eyebrows as 10 status updates on FB.
it always amazed me reading youtube sell blurbs again and again how instead of raiding it and closing for obviously at least 3/4 of content being illegal and persecuting owners, they got bought by a multibilion company with Board to execute and stockholder to answer to. And now they are heroes for the deal they pulled off. I dont find the difference between original youtube owners and megaupload owners business-wise.
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You totally got the point of my post and my experiment! I created the experiment after reading one of my friends' reaction to the Filesonic decision about stopping file sharing. He posted on his Facebook account that this was the end of piracy. But as Pash correctly states, as long as content is digital, it's just a bunch of ones and zeroes and the usenet experience teaches us that any file could be easily translated in words and posted anywhere, including blogging platforms.

Using Twitter was just a provocative way of analyzing the issue, given that the experiment was deeply interesting also under the light of DMCA, as another user suggested. I was thinking what would happen if people started "infesting" legit websites such as Twitter or other blogging platforms with copyright protected content under the form of Mime64 messages or using any other encoding method which translates a file in text. While posting a link to a copyright protected file would justify a DMCA takedown notice, the problem would be bigger if the file would be hosted (under the form of Mime64 tweets) by the blogging platform itself.

Let's make it even more complex. What if tweets or blog posts would be posted randomly (not just by one user) and links to all these tweets or posts would be collected in a small document, something similar to a .nzb file? Could Twitter or any other blogging platform refuse a DMCA takedown notice for messages which are harmless by themselves and which are a violation of a copyrighted work only if collected together following the list of files contained in the .nzb-look-a-like file (which may be hosted somewhere else)? This would be a general counsel's nightmare.

In conclusion, the fight against piracy is the classic mouse-cat fight...piracy will never die and the only way to bypass this is to come up with a new business model for content providers and copyright holders.

I know that Paul Graham recently launched the idea of "killing Hollywood" by creating a new business model for content distribution. I think this idea should even be broader and should be about "how to kill piracy" by removing the fundamentals of pirates (which is, I think, sharing, avoid paying premium prices, etc.) by creating a new business model or method for content delivery and fee collection for content utilization.

Thanks everyone for the great comments that you posted so far.
willing to risk losing the job

In almost all cases, the original offer is still on the table. "Negotiating with the decisionmaker will cost me this offer, so don't negotiate" is something which is only really believed by engineers who are -- and I say this with love -- abominably incompetent at negotiation. This is regrettable, since skill at negotiation matters a whole heck of a lot more than skill with Chef or mastery of Postgres trivia for determining both the instant results of the negotiation and one's larger career trajectory.

Still working on that blog post on negotiation, should be up early Monday for more elaboration on this.
I really doubt it. ICANN doesn't tend to involve itself in this kind of thing AFAIK. From all I've ever heard of people's dealings with them, it's clear-cut squatting on womebody's rights, they don't care, and the URL currently points to the owner's Delicious page, which doesn't qualify.
I think that HN is large enough now that we don't have to worry about stories getting missed. We used to be small enough that any contribution was potentially new and novel and a general benefit to having been posted here, as it might not have been submitted otherwise.

Nowadays, it's big enough that people submit so much that the opposite is a problem, where a given article is submitted multiple times.

It's less important whether or not everyone can submit an article because the frequency is high enough that we'll get it from the next guy. We can now afford to limit the amount of submissions we receive, and limiting the submissions to people who have some standing in the community makes sense, at least on its face.

That said, I think it's a great idea, and about the least inconvenient, from a community standpoint, as I've heard for limiting spam.
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I did this for several months while I was taking the Stanford AI class. I got up at 6, did coursework for two hours or so, and went to work by 9.

I found it to be highly beneficial for several reasons (some of which were mentioned in the blog post):
-since I am usually exhausted by the end of the day, I found the early time to be really conducive to clear thinking
-early part of the day is so quiet-- no interruptions
-I felt like I accomplished quite a bit even before arriving at work, so I somehow felt more productive even though I should have been more tired

I intentionally did not keep up the early time on the weekends and slept in-- btw, 8am felt like sleeping in :)

Since the class finished, I kept up the habit and wake up early to code or read.

I admit it isn't for everyone, but it is worth a try for anyone who wants to code after work but feels too tired or easily distracted.
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Could you explain how context changes the substance of my quotes?

I realize the author doesn't believe that spending time on your work, improving your skills and solving abstract puzzles matter. Maybe she's right, though I prefer employees who don't need hand holding. But that's irrelevant - rewarding autodidacts, puzzle-lovers and hard workers is not discrimination.
You have to articulate a goal to get there. I'm not going to make obvious comparisons but clearly there were plenty of legal regimes in the past that people thought could never end that did in fact end.