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American writer Tom Ricks comes to Paris desperate to put his life together again and win back the love of his estranged wife and daughter. When things don't go according to plan, he ends up in a shady hotel in the suburbs, having to work as a night guard to make ends meet. Then Margit, a beautiful, mysterious stranger walks into his life and things start looking up. Their passionate and intense relationship triggers a string of inexplicable events... as if an obscure power is taking control of his life.
Or you could just try to work on gigs that pay well for 3-4 month a year in a place that has awesome internets and dont work while being in places that dont have decent connections. Better than getting into real employment situations anyway.
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Winner of the Silver Bear for Best Screenplay at the Berlin Film Festival, the powerful second feature from Joshua Marston (MARIA FULL OF GRACE) tells the story of an Albanian family caught up in a blood feud. Nik (Tristan Halilaj) is a carefree teenager in a small town with a crush on the school beauty and ambitions to start his own small internet business. His world is suddenly up-ended when his father becomes entangled in a dispute that leaves a fellow villager murdered. According to a centuries-old code of law known as the Kanun, Nik's family owes a life in return. Nik finds himself the prime target and becomes confined to home while his younger sister Rudina (Sindi Lacej) is forced to leave school and take over their father's business. Marston transports us into a world rarely seen on screen, where tradition and modernity clash putting young lives in the balance.
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If a blackout of the English language Wikipedia affects you, then the destruction of the English language Wikipedia by US domestic politics would _also_ affect you, whether you like it or not.
Ask HN: your employer is a SOPA supporter - are you going to work today?
TheOatMeal's Take on SOPA
Microsoft Now Opposes SOPA, But Only 'As Currently Drafted'
What do you mean? Obviously, multicellular life forms did evolve in those several billion years.
Connecting the Dots on the Future of Programming Languages
> You just validated my point.

Perhaps I don't really understand your point, then. It seems to me that most of the works being ripped off via TPB and the like are the products that many people have worked on to get to a high level of quality, which of course are also the ones that are expensive to make because of that, and yet clearly a lot of people aren't paying for them.
Some of this is fair criticism of Oxbridge, some not so much.

The 'grand formal settings' for interviews are the buildings most of the colleges have -- and one of things that make them such incredible places to live and work. Yes, you could erect a small, casual prefab to conduct your interviews, but that would be kind of dishonest.

On the other hand, Oxbridge probably is unhealthily attached to some of its weird old traditions (gowns, Latin, port, etc.). These things also vary widely between the colleges -- but in ways that are hard to find out unless you are (or you know someone who is) on the inside.
I am exactly in line with what the article says, except that I don't buy, neither do I downloaded music these last few years. In my case it is therefore not a rationalization for having free stuff.

I downloaded a lot when I was a student, when I began to work I decided I did not have the "I'm poor" excuse any more and I began buying CDs of bands I like. I stopped buying CDs after I got my first DRMed one. I thought "ok, this is stupid, I don't want to be part of this any more".

Only recently I have discovered the real harm that copyright laws and lobbyists are doing to the society. They are criminalising sharing. Think a bit about it. We have to stand against them. Now there are copyright restrictions on SCIENCE papers. It is effectively a danger to our society.

Here in France a law was proposed to display on CDs price tag how much the artist receives when you buy a CD. It was voted down by lobbyists' minions. That alone says a lot.
Just a pointer. I would have invested just a tad more in the audio. It sounds like you are speaking from a tiny closet, while what you want is to sound like you are speaking from a large open room.

I would recommend even the cheapest condenser microphone.
Should've hired an actual UX and/or Interactive Designer to do the redesign and not leave it in the hands of us developers (again). Hope there are further improvements!
Discliamer: IANAL.

No, it's not fiction. I live in Spain and we have a similar tax. It taxes private copys, which are defined as

1. The work must be publicly available.

2. It must be done by a physic person (as opposed to an organization)

3. For private use, i.e. not broadcasting to an open audience allowed (but I can play it in my house with my friends).

4. Access to the work must have been obtained legally.
5. Must be non-profit.

6. The receiver of the copy cannot be a collective.
So I can buy a CD and make a copy to all of my friends. They can do the same, and so on (a copy of a legal bought CD is legal).

According to some experts, P2P falls into a gray area, or it used to before they changed the law. I'm sure they will refine it progressively, but I won't stop downloading while I pay my copy tax for USB STICKS, BLANK CDs & DVDs, MP3 PLAYERS, HDDs AND EVENT PRINTERS AND PAPER.

Anyway the general attorney throw a paper stating that downloaders shouldn't be prosecuted.

One time, years ago, some members of an internet freedom organization, got a laptop with WIFI and, after calling the police to inform them of the fact, they mounted a table in the street and downloaded copyrighted works, offering free copys to whomever passed near, to show that it's legal.

There is an exception, however: Software is not covered under the private copy, so it would be illegal to copy software (being myself a developer, I have never undertood the differentiation).

The funniest part is that this tax is directly collected by private entities (our *AA counterpart), which have in the higher seats crappy artists which decide how to share the collected money (i.e. between themselves and their dearest friends). Some of them, like Alejandro Sanz, are arguably very crappy, but at least they are artists (for some definition of the word). But some others, like Teddy Bautista (ex president, now convict for different forms of stealing) or Ramoncín, AFAIK haven't composed or sung a song in the last decades.
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In my experience, glare was the most difficult thing to address in making a live iPad demo video. The black plastic sheet with a hole in it they came up with here is an ingenious solution.

Many app videos (including my own) just end up screencasting the simulator. I originally avoided that since it seemed like a cop-out, but then I noticed it in a lot of other app demo videos.

Live demos are also tricky if you have pets, though: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIG6rPvfKnw
It's not all bad though. Playing NetHack on my laptop is how I got really good at moving around in vi.
Sony Launched Super Fast USB Micro Vault MACH
Slow and Steady Wins the Race…working on this notion for the very first time Sony has introduced a super fast USB 3.0 Flash Drive. New Micro Vault MACH is a high speed USB which will help the users to save and share files within no time.
Future of multi-core
" Is the average US pirate kind of tanned, has a really tacky foreign accent, or conveys in any other way a vaguely menacing ethnicity?"

You forgot to mention the parrot on the shoulder and the peg-leg...and the gratuitous usage of Google Pirate:

http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=xx-pirate
Why is your expectation of a right to privacy an issue but not the creators expectation of payment for their work?

After all, at the time they created it the legal and commercial framework, as well as the social norms, said that they could expect payment from anyone who consumed their work.

Why are you allowed to override their expectations yet someone using your property without your permission isn't allowed to override yours?
Offtopic but how do you get that top bar? I just have the standard dark skinny bar.
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"Wikipedia Blackout Workaround"-extension for Google Chrome:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/glfkamdjgidnjgfpmf...
Direct Line and Churchill fined for altering complaint data
Change your Facebook profile pic to protest SOPA & PIPA.
Freedom of information is only useful to those who can use it. Most people do not gain much from free information, as they can't make money with it and they're not interested in learning from it. They gain more from the entertainment Transformers provides. In the world we on Hacker News live in, freedom of information is much much more valuable than it is to the vast majority of mankind. Because of its value to us, things like open source and wikipedia exist, where people share things freely because everyone benefits so much from that ecosystem. I'm commenting here right now because I benefit from this ecosystem and want to do my part to keep it going. The beauty is, as I said before, that this can all exist in spite of copyright. Louis C.K. can make a ton of money without needing to use DRM or enforce his copyrights. People can choose not to use the system, and do so to great success. But some things require the system to exist, and those things don't need to be sacrificed. Vote with your dollars not by pirating but by supporting content that is open source, or that doesn't use DRM. Pirating more convinces the powers that be that it's a growing problem, supporting content made by people who aren't draconian hoarders of information will encourage more to be open with their content.
Sounds exactly like me, except for the movie part. None of the service that are available in Sweden have a large enough selection.
You should realize that what you're advocating is much worse than the current copyright system. You say that movie studios should produce a movie, lock it up extra tight and only show let theaters show it in high quality. If the movie is never leaked, then you're hurting everyone who would rather have paid to watch that movie on DVD, or through paid digital download, or off of Netflix. You're saying people should hide information and limit how it's disseminated even more instead of sharing it for a price. Yes, with contracts you could still have DVDs and require purchasers of them to agree to the contract and pay if they're caught sharing it. With contracts, you can do everything that's possible under copyright EXCEPT punish the freeloaders. Once something gets leaked, everybody who shares it from then on is free of any culpability, because they never signed a contract. This leaves us in essentially the exact same place we started. Either everything will be locked down tight and less useful to the public or else it will instantly be leaked, and then the leaked information will be sold/distributed legally where now it cannot be and the system will break.
4Chan censors posts in /b/ in protest of SOPA/PIPA
The browns are still pretty noisy for a quiet office environment. My vote for a mechanical keyboard with good feel that won't disturb workmates is the Topre line.
I had it, and I didn't like it. It felt like there was bubblegum under the keys.
Pragmatic Bookshelf participating in SOPA protest with complete blackout
In terms of cultural cache alone, America is leaps and bounds beyond most other third world countries. This isn't from luck; America's brilliance has always been in its sociogeographic diversity.
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The moral of the story: don't let engineers write copy, and don't make them write copy on a deadline while trying to fix bugs.

(I'm in the IRC channel where the SOPA blackout was planned and executed... the engineers are running on adrenaline, caffeine and sugar.)
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http://www.openrent.co.uk

But the code is taken from:
https://github.com/zachstronaut/stop-sopa

Courtesy of: http://blog.appharbor.com/2012/1/18/join-the-sopa-protest-bl...
What are the startups you worked on and why do you consider them to be failures? Maybe HN takes a different (more positive) view although I realise that telling us what they are might also identify you.

I just thought it might help to do a bit of HN Therapy.
It does look better than the current site, but does it really need that bar of images at the top of the page?
The point that the major industries are trying to get across is that copyright infringement is just like stealing. They're saying so quite explicitly whenever I go to the movie theater or rent a DVD.

But copyright infringement is not stealing. You could make an argument about it if the period was still 14 years (i.e. the author has only 14 years to collect revenue from it, so if you want it either pay up or wait 14 years, which is doable). But that's not the case.
Backbone.js by example
The menu completely fails to work without JavaScript. Is it really that difficult to design things properly and provide a graceful fallback?
If you want to rationalize your piracy, awesome, but torrenting isn't going to compare to actual protest of an issue.

If you're passionate about SOPA, tell people; write a blog post; write to a congressman. Slacktivism needs to go away.
It's a good thing that twitter is not blocked, it helps spread the news about the protest. They could add at least a small notice though. Blacking out hacker news is mostly symbolic preaching to the choir.
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I'm sure this has been posted here many times before, but I think it deserves another airing:

http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/pseudo/fibonacc.htm - Fibonacci Flim-Flam
I hate to generalise, but in my personal experience people that are somewhat less computer literate do indeed visit the homepage to search. I've seen my parents do it countless times, even though I told them searching from the address bar is possible. My guess is that precisely these people are less likely to know about SOPA and its implications.

It raises the question, would these people notice the logo change and would they even be bothered to check out what it means?
I think today can be unofficially called the doomsday. Not because SOPA won, but because everything is dark.
On a tangent topic, I hate to buy videogames nowadays, with all the DRM crap and other nasties. But if I pirate them, everything works without effort, despite the industry marketing advertising the opposite (you know: beware! virus!, et cetera). I won't pay for losing my time with their nonsense. So a couple months ago I decided to only buy DRM-free games from Humble Bundle.
It makes me angry that this even got into the news.

Getting into Oxford is a difficult process and not many make it. Those that do have been selected based on merit, obviously she did not meet what the admissions tutors were looking for.

It's childish that she replied with such a letter to be honest, she just sounds like a spoiled child throwing her toys out of the pram.
Nice rant!

Sorry, but I'm not going to use "each person's generic current favorite practice" instead of "best practices", even though that's exactly what I mean. It may be more correct, but it just doesn't sound right to me. You are correct that the term is overused and doesn't provide a lot of descriptive power. Part of the problem is that when I say "Agile is best practices around iterative and incremental development" what I'm _trying_ to say is exactly that: it's fuzzy and difficult to get your head around and understand if you're new to the field. it varies greatly depending not only on the person you ask, but the particular circumstances. Everybody has a different set of favorites. So the things you rant about actually are good things for purposes of my description. The frustration you describe is exactly what newcomers find. I am not saying that there is a best way to do things which I will simply not describe. I am saying that a dozen people will have a dozen best ways, each of which may change drastically depending on the particular situation. I must describe this situation, and the phrase I used appears to me to be the best for doing that.
Hacker News should go dark for the day. Site participation in the blackout is not just to inform users but to garner news media coverage of SOPA. Thousands of conscientious sites around the net are participating but Hacker News isn't.
It's not pedantic to differentiate between two completely different things.

If you ever have something stolen from you, you'll quickly realize the difference between theft and copyright infringement.

Debates such as these keep orbiting around the definition of stealing because the term keeps getting used for copyright infringement out of lazy thinking or in order to facilitate an agenda.

Stealing is intrinsically "wrong" from a societal perspective because it puts those who take by force into a better position than those who earn by earning it, which is not sustainable.

Whether anyone is put into a worse position by copyright infringement (e.g. in the form of illegal downloading of music) is up for debate. But any serious debate should avoid the term stealing to describe the issue at hand.
Great move by Nissan in breaking into a new market with an innovative and fast-selling product that fits well into their product line as well. They are making use of their existing resources very well.

This move is also good in terms of branding since Nissan cars may be associated with the innovative and successful Iphone.

I can also think of countless distribution channels where they will be able to sell and package these cases alongside their existing product line.
Check out get_iplayer http://www.infradead.org/get_iplayer/html/get_iplayer.html and play the downloaded flv in VLC.
In red wine, it’s both the booze and polyphenols that help
I've always thought Yvette's special touch was at least in the top 3, if not THE worst.

http://yvettesbridalformal.com/

And of course, time cube. http://www.timecube.com/
List of supporters: http://venturebeat.com/2011/12/22/list-of-sopa-supporters/
Well, at least, I can be more productive today.

....nope, Facebook is still working.
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What's the difference? In both cases the pirate is deriving an economic benefit without directly causing an economic cost.
Downloading music for free that is available to buy, is immoral.. If artists can't earn money from their art, there will be less art and more lady GaGa VS justin bieber shit.. Do you want to live in that world?
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Neil Gaiman on piracy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Qkyt1wXNlI
The Oatmeal's SOPA Message
JOB TITLE:- Java Developer 
EMPLOYER:- Valleysoft Inc.
LOCATION:-Santa Clara, CA
Or, to paraphrase her letter.

"Dear University,

I realised 10 microseconds after leaving the admissions interview that I have no chance in gaining admission to your establishments.

In the age old tradition of it being better to be the dumper, than the dumpee, I'm going to try and make myself feel a bit better by 'rejecting you'.

I'm sure you don't care one jot about this letter, but if I circulate it to my friends on facebook, I might get my 15minutes of fame.

I wonder if any other establishments will read this and accept me?

Sincerely....
"
I think the /real/ abuse of power here isn't the RIAA/MPAA at all... it's the US (or rather, govt and certain corporations thereof) thinking that because key Internet infrastructure is located on their territory, they have a right to screw with it.

If the US were to start messing with, say, DNS, it seems fairly obvious that they couldn't restrict the effects to their own country (especially since the Internet is canonically /not/ organised around national boundaries). So, they'd be breaking not only their own internet but everyone else's too - and they simply do not have that right, morally speaking.

If bills like SOPA/PIPA pass, I intend to write to my MP about the importance of establishing a separate infrastructure that co-operates with, but is not dominated by, the existing system. The US has too much control over things like name authorities and SSL root CAs. ICANN is a US corporation. If the US wanted to break the BGP routing table, they wield enough power to do it (heck, AS7007 did it by /accident/).

It is becoming increasingly clear that the US cannot be trusted with stewardship of the global Internet; a still more decentralised approach is needed.

(Maybe, if they break it entirely, we can build a new one with all the lessons we've learned over the past few decades about how to build peer-to-peer decentralised internetworking. Plus, y'know, we could use IPv6 from the start)
I never liked these. I know some that do, but the keys cannot be compared to the older Apple Extended Keyboard, they have a completely different feel. Also, as mentioned, the resistance seems to increase with age.
Ask HN: SOPA, Iron Fist of Cyber Warfare
From what I understand regarding SOPA; sites containing even a few links to 'banned content' will be blocked.

Now imagine, SOPA is in place.

Normally after a website has been defaced/hacked it could take hours to a week or so to be properly running again.

With SOPA, hackers/malicious users would only need to post links to illegal content on competition/opposition websites to have them blocked by SOPA, which could take a long time to protest (probably even a few weeks).

Effectively, cyber warfare just got backed by the government.

The real question is; How tight will the iron fist be?

If it's pretty tight, it would give even the most inexperienced hackers a powerful arsenal.

(Btw, if government websites violated the act, they would have to be taken down too - won't they?)
Its an intressting casestudy. What would happen if the hole world would be like in china. Basiclly no copyright. Hard to imagen nowdays.

Countries like china often start copying everthing an then start to innovate themselfs skip a century (or half) and its the other way around.
That's a very good question, but my answer is no for a few reasons.

1. Change is gradual. Copyright exclusivity can slowly be ramped down at the same time the government gradually provides more and more services for its citizens. One doesn't have to come before the other. Meanwhile, there certainly shouldn't be any new enforcement of copyright (or patent) exclusivity where none existed before.

2. Copyrights aren't rights. They're tradable monopolies upheld by the government. You'd actually be giving artists more rights by removing exclusivity. No longer would be able to take away their right to do whatever they want with their own work. The artists who are in it for the money are doing it for the wrong reasons.

3. The economy will never work as I describe it as long as copyright exclusivity enforced. I don't believe in copyleft. It still involves keeping track of licenses on everything, which can get very out of hand. Big corporations should be able to use free software too.

Copyright exclusivity is the only reason an intellectual property market exists today. The law can affect the economy and vice versa. We can bootstrap ourselves out of this mess.
Reddit is  down for 12 hours protest SOPA and PIPA.
There surely are a lot of people who obtain quality content through TPB without paying for it. However, from what I could observe, attempts at making this group of people pay anyway have been largely fruitless so far, while at the same time they often appear to inconvenience paying customers, e.g. through intrusive "copy protection" schemes. So as a content producer, I tend to think of what I might "loose" through TPB as "promotion expenses".
This is the best point to make: the SOPA will only stop people who don't know how to get around it, just like the Wiki blackout. That is precisely to point to be made here.