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Actually, I believe that piracy needs to be stopped by education, enforcement, and innovation.

> There's no reason the studios individually or better yet, collectively, couldn't make all the content they represent available, on the same day it premieres, online, WORLD WIDE, for a reasonable price.

I understand how you could come to this conclusion but that's just false. Two years ago I started a streaming music company knowing pretty much nothing about licensing laws. Now, after working with one of the best music licensing attorneys available and reading an annoying amount on this subject, it is clear that if you intentionally set out to create an industry that was impossible to maneuver legally, you could not do as good a job as the current music industry. And, I know it's the same for the film industry, which is further complicated by the fact that nearly all films also have music in them.

Both of these industries are filled with extensive legal requirements, many of them labor laws, union regulations, licensing restrictions and more, designed to make sure that artists and other people are not exploited. For every movie you make, not only do certain players in the movie have certain rights, certain royalties owed, and so forth, but then there is music in it. That music has a copyright owner, a publisher, and so on. They all have different rights, and many have assigned those rights to others for management, and this information is not easily located all of the time.

There is no cookie cutter way to license everything you need for these films in one stroke of a pen world wide. In some countries, even the publishing rights owners themselves cannot waive or change the mandatory rates to be paid for the use of their work. And, as a company putting out a world wide film, you have to know all of these laws for all of these countries. And then to do what you've proposed you have to make the movie available in every weird new format that comes out every other week, you have to forego release schedules that actually allow you to build buzz and execute a marketing plan that maximizes the ROI for your investment, and so forth.

So, there are about a million reasons why what you described is impossible. And then, at the end there is that one last incentive to pirate that will never be gotten rid of - charging money, which they cannot avoid.

All things being equal, you don't think these people want to make their product more convenient to have? I know a ton of people in the industry who try to put their content anywhere they possible can. At the end of the day, it doesn't matter how hard they try, it's never going to compete with free, and these people deserve to be paid for their work.
The Thais are one of the most hygiene conscious populations I've encountered, particularly in the NE where eating with hands only is most common.

I could counter by saying that eating with utensils is appropriate if you are barely civilized and can't be trusted to wash your hands before eating.
All of my friends pay $120/month for satellite/digital TV... I pay $120/month towards expanding my personal data storage space.

Up to about 7 terabytes now..
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i thought vice versa, we pay taxes to operate/regulate anything that is in public domain ("ours" already), not that we buy it with our taxes from someone.
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Some theme music for reading: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6MlwT1lBk0&feature=youtu...

Sorry 'HN Etiquette', I couldn't resist.
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Not NYPD. Most they could do is give me a report I can use with my insurance...if I had insurance.
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Maybe we should all resolve to do exactly that every now and then. Competent website owners will soon notice a spike in 404s looking for it...
Sounds interesting! Who's going to make it? if none then I make and ask,"Who is going to finance me?" :-)
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> That question is mute. If you really need to hear a answer, they want. In this extream case there want be any people who make money with creating "art". This is probebly not how its going to turn out if there is no IP.

I don't have a problem with the OP's position. I have a problem with his argument: it's fallacious. Enticing at first, but upon scrutiny, it doesn't hold water.
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The noise pollution in Toronto is obscene and I am thinking I should move somewhere else. I live by the Gardiner, and I also code at night, it is bliss, there are virtually no cars on the road. No noisy neighbours or horns or traffic or street cars.
I'm sorry but this is a classic episode of WMFS syndrome (aka, "where's my free shit?"). You can't have exactly what you want, when you want it for free, so it's someone else's fault. If you wanted the show, you could watch it right now. But you don't want it $3.99 (?) worth, or whatever iTunes/AMZN charges for it.

Since you didn't avail yourself of the opportunity to watch it the first few times you had the chance, you pay for the privilege. You might not like it, but that's how it goes. You can't walk up to an airline and buy the same seat at the same price the day before it leaves, either, so this sort of price discrimination is hardly remarkable.

First, as you say, you did have the chance to watch the over-the-air broadcast (for which Murdoch should pay you/the gov't for use of the airwaves; if you don't like the current financial arrangement, write your Congressman). You didn't avail yourself of that opportunity.

Next, you could have DVRd it, as you say. But you didn't, for whatever reason.

Now you are upset that Hulu Plus doesn't have it. Do you yell and scream when the public library doesn't happen to have purchased the book you want? Because you pay for those books too. Go get a refund from Hulu Plus, if you're unhappy, but it's an economic decision not to make it available on Hulu Plus or on Fox's website.

The fact is, you had several chances to watch without paying more out of pocket. You missed them, so now you have to pay, if it's important to you. That is no one's fault but your own.

Update: formatting
I have a git repo up here: https://github.com/mvanveen/freedom.txt

Included is a Python script which automatically generates a freedom.txt file.

Please feel free to send pull requests. Add a separate line on locations.txt with your freedom.txt address and the script will automatically output it!
Will the government rescue us from peak energy, and is this a moral hazard?
Is there an assumption, especially amongst investors, that the government will step in an rescue us if peak energy happens?<p>If so will this discourage investors, as they are afraid that any investment they make into alternative energy will be "crowded out" by a panicing government, when it realises it must secure alternative sources of energy?
Fully agreed. As a Canadian, I was disgraced by the attack ads put forth by our two most recent contending parties that I did not vote.

How can I vote for either of them, when they are both miscreants?
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Of course the side effect is that you end up posting your reply to the wrong article ;)
How and who determines karma points on HN?
I'm a newbie, and I'm just wondering who screens what submissions to display and who determines karma points on HN? Sometimes I submit a link and I don't see it appearing here. Then I get 1 point, hehe. Is there an FAQ I missed reading? Pls enlighten. Thanks.
Maybe even a combination of this with the idea of pledging money if you don't achieve something? How much more motivated would you be to roll out of bed at 6am if you knew that skipping it would cost your buddy cash?
It would be useful to have this in yakuake.
I dunno, I've found I can make it work with progress. I get up at 6am, generally do 30 minutes of waking up admin (usually with an Anki/SuperMemo session thrown in), and then try and get a good two hours of work in, before heading to the day job.

You can't do this if you're not willing to go to bed early and eat well, too, though. And if you're still drinking alcohol during the week ... well, you have too much free time :-) I find a heavy workout at lunch time keeps me going after lunch.

What amazed me most about the OP was he updates his todos ... while watching TV? And squeezes his reading time for that? How do you find time to cook healthy food? See friends? Spend quality time with the girlfriend? Watching TV isn't inherently bad, but if you're doing it regularly, you've got waaay too much free time.
I just tried this on someone's home server, but he's running such an old kernel that it didn't work at all. Scary.
Love that people are responding positively to this. I shared the idea with my brother, and we're going to try to throw something together in our spare time over the next week.

If anyone's interested in helping out (I'd say we're most in need of someone with good web design skills, though will update later once we've fleshed it out some), feel free to contact me at [my HN user name] at gmail
The point is that the hours between 5 am to 9 am should be more productive for the majority of people (assuming everyone else you know is sleeping at that time) than say the hours between 9 pm to 1 am when most of us can hardly get anything done.

But I agree with your premise that maximum productivity is achieved when one finds his/her best schedule and sticks to it.
As a nonfiction writer, I have always wanted to use computers to help make the writing process easier, and so far, the only tool for doing that has been computer-based outlining programs, which only go so far. There are many kinds of number-related processors--spreadsheets, accounting programs, income-tax programs, etc--but so far only two kinds of word-related programs--word processors and outliners. What would be the next step past these two programs? What would an "idea processor" look like?
I've traveled a fair amount as well (~30 countries, almost all the US states), and I guess I agree with you. I don't really find it "enlightening" but it can be very different and fun compared to what you can do while staying in the same place.
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I addition what others have said, I'd emphasise that goto for error handling is fine in C, but in C++ it is usually unnecessary because C++ has exceptions and RAII.
Remember when people were screaming at Apple to get out the hardware game in 1997?
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Proportional representation creates more diverse parties. You don't vote for a "Left Democrat", you vote for a Green. Or a Pirate. Or some Tea Party equivalent. That's where you get "extreme" parties. But if you believe in the importance of free speech, you should also believe in putting a plurality of views into parliament (even ones you disagree with), where they can have a fair debate.

The fears over compulsory voting are ... interesting. I'd say that disinterested people make the best decisions, not party fanbois. Disinterested people are less informed, though. What's needed is some way of informing them at the poll booths. In Australia, party reps will hand out "how to vote" marketing brochures. This process could definitely be improved. Candidates could be forced to answer some structured questions, which could be written by an independent commission (to try to reduce bias, though the commission might be a little corrupt or biased). Stuff like "Do you support X, yes, no, or undecided".
Incidentally, I just completed the first edition of the tutorial and screencasts recently, and thought I might as well try to integrate the new testing tools in 2e beta. Unfortunately, guard-spork does not work on Windows and I wondered what happened to autotest (it works really well with Growl on Windows)

Also, the guard command prompt is unusable on Windows now: https://github.com/guard/guard/issues/204.
As someone who's been on the other side of the table (in multiple businesses), I really can't agree. In most cases, a business has a desire to fill a position fairly quickly, and especially in start-ups and small businesses, cost is a major concern. In larger businesses or governmental organizations, HR regulations and bureaucracy become a major factor.

I've personally filtered out dozens if not hundreds of otherwise qualified people due to salary concerns without a second thought. In two cases within the last six months I've seen the party who pushed for a higher salary reach out again only to find the position filled.

My guess is that you've never experienced an employer's market. It may not be one in silicon valley, but it is for most engineers around the world. Being a white guy in Japan, and then a guy with a popular blog following, you've had a far, far different experience than a typical engineer.
This was on HN five months ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2843728
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>We need a simple and cheap distribution channel. In 20 years there will be no movie theaters. They might remain as a novelty, but 90% of them will be gone.

I don't completely agree with this part. I do think the number of theaters will decrease but I don't think they will become simply novelty items (in the way that drive in theaters are).

There are several selling points to theaters only one of which is "new releases". The other primary selling point is the experience, which breaks down into two sub points.

One is "you can't get this at home". This covers things like IMAX, even a 50" 3D TV doesn't even come close and with any foreseeable technology it just isn't going to happen in the home outside those few who build $x0,000 setups with a dedicated room.

The other part of the experience is the social aspect, which covers the growing trend for theaters to be less the "500 seats" style and more the tables serving beer and real food style.

So I think theaters will continue to be popular. The ratty "cram 500 people into a room for a new release" variety will die out. IMAX style theaters and those that provide a more "dinner and movie with friends around a table" style will grow.

I think if you look at the industry statistics, this is already happening. I know at least around here (Northeast USA) numerous old style theaters have either closed or converted to the "dinner and movie" style and IMAX theaters seems to be popping up everywhere.
I've been in this cycle before. I still almost fall into it naturally, but less so than when I was in my early twenties.

My experience was that it isn't sustainable, the day after you stay up all night just gets worse and worse the longer you are on that schedule. After a short time, for me, that day was so unproductive that it more than destroyed any gains made in those extra hours or the encouraging "reset" to my ability to sleep at regular hours.

I have to admit that the early night and long sleep after that day was the best sleep I could get at the time.

The rest of it was pretty shitty, I slept like a dead person and woke groggy. Good sleep habits and a regular schedule have a domino effect, improving all sorts of stuff, definitely worth trying to stay off that sleep 2, stay up for 1 cycle in my experience.
http://thenounproject.com/noun/mermaid/#icon-No1011

Looks more like a woman then a mermaid.
$125 per month for DirecTV. $7 per month for Hulu Plus. $7 per month for Netflix. Where do you see me saying I wanted it for free?

The fact is, I can have it on demand and for free if I want to watch it through my computer. Or hook my computer up to my TV. Fox provides it this way.

But if I want to watch it through a Roku or Google TV, from the same exact web site, from the same exact data stream, then I can't.

And I can't, because, Fox is afraid that if they do it that way, I won't pay all the money I'm already paying to DirecTV in the first place.

So lesson learned? I shouldn't bother with any of the payment options in the first place.
Ask HN: Cold emailing to increase freelance business?
Having recently moved to a non-tech area due to new baby (due anytime now) I was wondering if any freelance/contract developer had any success cold emailing potential clients (general companies, web development agencies, etc..) to offer my services.

I guess this would work on a high scale (emailing more than 50 companies/day) but real data would be beneficial.

Thanks

Filipe Moreira

www.filipemoreira.com
@filipeamoreira
It's been working for me so far but I can see how it would be hard to maintain. I don't expect to keep it up forever. Although it's working now I doubt it will last more than a month. Good to hear someone else experiences this sort of cycle naturally. Sleep is a big problem for me and really hurts my productivity so I'm always trying to figure out new patterns that might help, at least short term.
Why is "Anonymous" capitalized in the text?
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Really? My brain is semi-toast until about the middle of the day.
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This. I personally take a 1-2 hour nap between 4-5 hour coding sessions. Being a freelancer facilitates this.

Also, this infographic about naps is great: http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/naps/
Seems like a nice graphic calculator. It could be really useful on a short and memorable domain.
Hopefully they would search on tineye at least before allowing the submission.
>I shouldn't bother with any of the payment options in the first place.

Many people on HN don't pay for any content. It's no secret how they do it but there is probably something in the rules that would see me stopped.
Newly submitted links appear on the new page.

http://news.ycombinator.com/newest

When someone upvotes a link you submitted or a comment you wrote, you get a karma point.

When links get enough points in a short enough period of time, they appear on the front page.
Your account was created 551 days ago and you consider yourself to be a newbie?..
Many of the icons are in the public domain which alleviates this problem to some degree.
Murdoch just knows that post-Season 8 Simpsons isn't worth streaming. ;)
You are reading things into my posts that are not there. I am commenting only on objective things like laws that are being passed and practical policies being adopted today. Those laws and policies have very serious consequences for a relatively small number of people today, but for now only much less serious consequences for the wider population. However, they could be exploited by an undesirable administration at some future point to have serious consequences much more widely.

Please notice that at no point in this discussion have I suggested that any current Western administration is behaving like the Nazi party of 1930s Germany, equated any current leader with Hitler, suggested that the motivation for these laws was genocide, or anything similar. I have criticised only specific measures already taken that pose a much wider threat to basic human rights and freedoms than has yet been realised, and I have been careful to acknowledge that I am considering only the end results and that the motivations for such measures are probably very different.
Warren Buffet made his first significant money through research and basically anonymous buying and selling. He was an original quant. He isn't an executive of the sort that signs deals and negotiates and clawed his way to the top socially. By the time he was personally dealing with executives, he was already the richest most powerful one in the room.
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"Blocking TV Devices Promotes The Piracy You Hate"

That's like saying the high price of Porsches promotes car jacking. People are pro-theft or anti-theft. I'll never download copyrighted content without permission. It doesn't matter what anyone does. Having the Simpsons is a privilege, not a right.

It wasn't that long ago that shows would air once and never be seen again (as far as audiences knew at the time) and I don't remember people rioting or breaking into studios to steal the original tapes because shows only aired a single time.

When you steal copyrighted content, that's exactly what you're doing, even if you aren't busting down physical doors and rummaging through physical storage rooms.

Just my two cents.
Maybe due to over use of caffeine?
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Agreed. It's a simple task from my end to disable the Disqus plug-in during the downtime.

But what if the service goes down during the night time where I might not be able to immediately login to my wordpress and disable the Disqus plug-in until next morning?

Wouldn't be nice if the plug-in automatically takes care of itself, rather than manual intervention?
that's the exact intention of attack ads, they disenfranchise voters, and this is usually very good for incumbents.
Haha, fantastic, thanks!
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I'm exactly the same. I'm not a morning person and I can't seem to change this :(
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Forgive me. Your complaint is that you can't watch it on the device you want at exactly the time you want for free. (Though if it's on Neflix streaming, one would think you could watch it via Roku.)

Anyway, I think we agree that Fox is making a business decision, just like you make a business decision to provide some of your content for free on the web and some for pay at your conferences.

So your quibble is with the choice of devices. But your post (and reaction above) counts up the amount you are paying, and implies that Fox is being atypically greedy (or myopic) for not making it available on the specific device you want at no additional charge.

My complaint is that you're couching an economic argument--you want to pay +$0, Fox wants $0.99--in moral terms, which smacks of the entitlement to which I object.
Shame it's not working on my phone, furthermore it looks like ot is UA sniffing to tell me to upgrade my browser.
For me, the biggest surprise in the interview was the reaction of the legacy energy companies. At first, they were very unhappy with the idea of independent, distributed generation (no surprise). But once it became clear that A) It's happening with or without them. And B) There's a new role for them in distribution intelligence. They got on board and now are actually pushing progress forward.