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I wish MAFIAA would realize one day that I've never bought a cd, vhs, or dvd product (or a game or application, for that matter) simply because I couldn't have been able to copy it from somewhere.

Everytime I've bought something has been because I've realized that it's a good album, movie or game that I want to own. Emphasis here: I want to own the release. This means it doesn't matter if I can get it free because I want to buy it. It also means that subscriptions or DRM remove me from owning what I want to own. I pay for the ability to own what I bought, and for that only.

Now, getting to know what I want to own is a tricky question. I may have read a game review and known that I want to buy tht game. Perhaps a movie was made by someone I know makes good movies, and I know I want to own his next film. Or I hear music at my friend's place and decide that I want that album too. Or I "pirate" releases from a friend or Piratebay or usenet and realize hey this is good stuff, why don't I look up a collection box or greatest hits album somewhere.

However, what has changed is that I no longer want physical cds, dvds, or game boxes. I want what Piratebay offers: downloadable .avi files well-transcoded or flac files without DRM. And I want it easily, from the same unencumbered source instead of hunting for online music stores and trying to figure out if they offer what I want in the right format.

I wonder what happened if Piratebay offered a Pay button on top. You could, if you wanted, pay an amount you think it's worth for what ever downloads you liked. There would be no minimum or set prices because you can get what you want for free anyway. The money would go to the production company or whoever owns the copyright to the song/film/game in question. It would be absolutely net-positive for the copyright owners because the worst that can happen is they get nothing which is exactly what they have now. If you have enough channels that people can use to pay you, a number of them actually will do that, because it's easy and people like to pay for what they want to own.
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That is a really good way to put it, but I can't seem to ignore the abscence of an important business document. It feels like the arbitrarily chosen figure is step 1, the actual figure is step 2, and they just skipped the first half.
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Com Truise is great. Discovered him last year. I'm a sucker for ambient lo-fi stuff.
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McConnel makes a pretty convincing case in "Rapid Development" that long hours by programmers, are counter-productive.

After a quite short span of overtime (a week or two), where development speed is increased by a relatively short amount, productivity drops to around 10 or 20% as far as I recall.

The conclusion is that even if the developers worked 24 hours a day, they would still not be as productive as a well-rested and motivated team running standard 8 hours a day.
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I would recommend these (i ordered them for you):

1. seymour, o'connor, introduction to nlp (metamodel, submodalities, read almost to the end)

2. frank farelly, provocative therapy

3. robert dilts et al., nlp volume I (first 2 chs)

4. zander, zander, the art of possibility

5. bandler, grinder, frogs into princess

6. anthony robbins, awaken the giant within (seriously, years of study and i recommend this one)

7. ken wilber, no boundry

8. eric berne, games people play (tough read, yet its good to know)

9. robert dilts, sleight of mouth (more fun with language and messing inside your brain)

10. steave andreas, transforming your self (submodalities in action, see 1.)

getting into 1st one alone will make some major shifts in your neurology. or it will not. ;)

edit: "i ordered them for you" >.<
My humble opinion:

Probably due to the novelty of this feature, income will spike and then fade away. Similar to any other startup article appearing on TC. This service will stop being used pretty fast.

The only way I see this service being successful going forward is by providing stats/analytics to users on post views, engagement, post virality, follower stats, etc. If this service is provided together with the $1 highlight feature, I do see a business going forward.
rhostudio, can also be considered as a option...
Eric Raymond talks about the problems of converting svn repos to git and is promising a new release of reposurgeon soon that handles svn well. http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=4071
That definition doesnt make sense. Guerilla warfare by definition attacks an army. Terrorism has to do with fear and coercion. Plus i don't think terrorists make any distinction in their targets.
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> Git is used as a local cache for perforce where a branch roughly corresponds to a CL. Only subtrees of interest are checked out.

That's a common use for git at Google, but not the only one (I'm a SWE). When I do use perforce I've got enough rhythm that it doesn't get in my way, but I really like git at Google for local branches on rapidly-changing subtrees. A lot of time I'll work on a branch to submit as a CL, but then realize I should do something else that depends on it. Perforce is a mess at this situation if the tree is changing much, and git is perfect if you just make a new branch.
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And any opportunities he would have had working for Microsoft.
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Thanks for all your comments from when this was last posted, one month has since been and gone, there has been quite a few updates in response to the comments.

I would be grateful for your comments again, negative and positive comments are welcomed equally.
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I learned by typing in BASIC program listings from computer magazines on my VIC-20 in the mid 80s. That slowly transitioned to modifying programs to see what would happen. At some blurry point the trial and error shifted to me actually understanding the language - and more importantly, the realization of programming logics - and starting to use it intuitively to write my own programs.
TorrentFreak says that 1 Million plays of Lady Gaga on Spotify earned her a mere $167: http://torrentfreak.com/lady-gaga-earns-slightly-more-from-s...

And InformationIsBeautiful has an infographic showing how many plays a solo artist would need on each digital service to earn the US minimum wage:
http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2010/how-much-do-music...

These sites might be solving the service problem, but they're not earning much money for the artists.
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You ask the question as if you don't know the answer, even tho you have stated it quite clearly (and it's common adage):

Happy is he who is content with his lot.
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Easy to say, much harder to do. The question isn't so much what but more along the lines of how ;)
Compared to the code review facilities in GitHub, Gerrit is pretty crappy. Gets the job done, but the UI and the work flow it forces is a bit annoying.

The worst part in repo + gerrit is that their default work flow is based on cherry-picking and they introduce a new concept called Change-Id. The Change-Id basically yet another unique identifier for changes that is stored in the commit message. The intent is that you make a change (a single commit patch), a post-commit hook adds the Change-Id to the commit message and then you upload it for review. When you make additions to your change, the previous change gets overwritten. Gerrit tries to maintain some kind of branching (called dependencies), but they mess things up when there's more than one person working on a few changes at the same time.

In comparison with GitHub-style work flow where you make a branch with multiple commits, submit a pull request, get review, add commits, squash and merge, the repo + gerrit model is awfully constraining.

We might be using an old version of repo and/or gerrit and some of the issues I've encountered may be improved. However, I think that repo+gerrit is a mess beyond repair and trying to "fix" it only makes things worse.

Unless you work on Android and are forced to use repo+gerrit because Google does so, stay out of it.
You belittle clear advantages simply because they do not fit your taste or style while the usefulness and spreading use of IDEs is unquestionable, so this is too much of a personal preferences discussion than anything else, just like all vi vs emacs flames have always been and I find it disappointing that in 2012 this STILL keeps coming up... I thought I had FINALLY left those zealots behind me in the 90s. And I really do not like your tone.

I am more than sufficiently "fluent" in pretty much all common IDEs and in vi(m)+console so that I don't really care which one I am using or have to use neither do I care on which OS... most of the time I end up in a good IDE because for a lot of the tasks I want to do and get paid to do, there are no real alternatives in vim+console, they might be specific though.

The article argued vim's superiority in editing so comparing that to an IDE really are two completely different things. Comparing vim+console to an IDE is always going to be all about personal preferences and which extensions do you use in the one or the other, which tools/options/tasks are available and which aren't - but ultimately they cater to two usually very different crowds: the console-lovers and the oh-shiny-clicky crowd and you will find it very difficult to even remotely describe an advantage of the one to a member of the other crowd... and that's where the comparison doesn't add up and feels to me like apples-oranges.
"not only that you don't have to carry an ID with you in Britain, but that it's not even compulsory to own an ID (passports, driving licenses, etc. are all optional)"

That's probably because the cameras spying on you wherever you go already know who you are.

"In my opinion, the British don't appreciate how liberal their state is."

Liberal in some ways. But there's no freedom of speech guaranteed in the British constitution, protesters are atrociously abused, and the British libel laws are outrageous. I would not call either of these things very liberal.

Of course, the British system is more liberal in some ways than some countries -- particularly in regards to their NHS -- but more conservative in other ways (see above, plus the push to privatize more and more over recent decades -- Britain is getting more and more conservative).
>>It still hasn't sunk into the music industry
Last.fm

It's not future of music industry - it's reality.

Most of new artists I'm interested in - available "free".
Some of them - also listeners like me. Keef Baker, SE.

"Free" - in Russia it costs 5$/month.

It must be 0$ in US and Germany.
Yes, fighting piracy is the wrong way to go about increasing sales, or at the very least a half assed solution. What's needed is a proper alternative to the convenience offered by piracy (in terms of effort, not price, as argued in the article) and once you've got that, ramping up sales becomes a matter of marketing and piracy becomes a hindrance of variable strength, depending on how good a job you do.

But I wouldn't argue in favour of "owning" digital content. That's tricky. What kind of warranties can be offered? What if the service goes out of business? I'm a big fan of subscription models, but I understand their complexities (although I also understand averages, so I'm tempted to just say work the numbers until they are right) and so I'm also in favour of renting content. That said, once "The Service" is out there, owning may come about naturally, competing with rentals and subscriptions.

The whole battle against piracy is a joke. To think we're (we?) willing to dial back on hard fought liberties because it refuses to move forward is truly sad and while piracy may never be killed, there may be innocent victims that are put down due to the bureaucracy, malice and incompetence of archaic industries, lawmakers and laws whose consequences are not considered thoroughly.

It has gotten to a point where progressive developments seem inevitable, and yet nothing happens except SOPA, PIPA, ACTA and whatever else may be oven for tomorrow. There is an up side to this madness (opportunity) and HN is probably the place that will uncover it, but that can't be unlocked unless these industries wake the fuck up.

Sincerely,
Someone who may not be going to see The Descendants tonight.
Breaks the web? You mean breaks your site, I am still happily browsing 99.999% of other websites.
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Yes, that's why I refer to the kind of works you mention with the label "speculative fiction". They are really sci-fi but they have reached a level of social import and acceptance -- upon which they get labelled as "speculative fiction" rather than "sci-fi".
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one more thing. If I'm generous I'll pay everyone 10% more than they're worth. How do I do that?? I have to know what they're worth first.

someone else in this thread said: "It's a productivity killer. If everyone knows that John is a better developer than Bill, but Bill gets paid twice as much because he understands corporate politics, then people focus on politics, feel like life is unfair, etc. The money saved by underpaying your best employees is rarely worth the inevitable productivity hit and loss of talent."

If everyone knows that Bill and John each get 10% more here than anywhere else, then I am a generous and fair employer.

If Bill and John respectively get -20% and -40% here as compared with what they would get elsewhere, then I am both non-generous and unfair. If they both get -10% as compared with anywhere else, then I am not generous, but at least fair.

And if they get +20% and +35% as compared with what they would get elsewhere, then I am generous but unfair.
If downvoting me, I would appreciate at least if you explain yourself :)
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Metric? That'd be about 607 km^2 [per what].
"I wonder what happened if Piratebay offered a Pay button on top."

Can't happen, won't happen. Not only because finding who to pay to would be a hassle, but regulating that would be a disaster. Who get's to enter PayPal email? The uploader? Then I would put in mine.

But more importantly, even if money was sent to verified addresses, it would still likely be illegal. Studios couldn't take the money without accounting for that, and accounting would mean endorsement, and they surely don't want to endorse it in any way at all.
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It's only free as in free beer if it's free as in GPL, otherwise you have to pay for a commercial license. GPL means you have to provide source if you distribute the app. And isn't there also an incompatibility with Apple's App Store terms and the GPL (VLC case)?
Nice read. Did you also always wanted to open things to see how they work? When I was 6 or so, I asked my mother if I could open our hamster to see 'how it worked inside'. Maybe if I were allowed that, I'd be a surgeon now instead of a software developer!
I don't think this works as i imagined it would, it differs from tracert(command prompt), i always get some weird connections from usa or germany/france while i traceroute.im my local sites (slovenia), tracert(command prompt) doesn't show these, see what im getting at?

Great idea btw, reminds me of uplink i always wanted to see that for real.
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What is the graph showing?
By 1929, the plan was to have five women be artificially inseminated, and then live at Ivanov's institute with a gynecologist for one full year. But just as the first woman volunteer was secured, known only to history as "G", Tarzan died.

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You are imagining his explanation of the biochemical pathways is the sole supporting science. That's incorrect. There are many studies supporting the direct effects of sugar, including measured lipids in students who are asked to drink sugar-laden soda vs controls. Given the many studies, he gives his hypothesis on the pathways that contribute to metabolic syndrome. Full-blown diabetes does not have to be present for there to be bad effects. Studies on the effects of hyperinsulinemia and increased insulin receptors suggest a whole list of bad outcomes, including a cellular environment that fosters cancers.

He does not claim obesity is the main disease. It's another sequella of the underlying issue: excessive fructose metabolism.
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Cultures are different enough across the world that this might work somewhere, possibly in Holland since KLM is organizing it.
If you have used ClearCase, you will know that while it's a great solution to a "what shall we do with our buckets of cash" problem, it's not something that anyone encountering performance problems would reach for.
I missed this the first time, perhaps you could provide a link to the HN thread from a month ago.
proclaiming that you too use US venture capital and the English language really is more a testament to American soft power than anything else.

No, it's not.

Regarding VC, it means that there is more money there now, that's true. But the fact that VCs are coming to Europe can be seen also as you losing that power you claim to have.

Same for language. I cannot deny that English spread mainly because it's the language of tech and the internet and that comes more from the USA (but remember that English as a language comes from England, Europe).

But language is just a tool to communicate. European countries are adopting it, but that does not mean they are adopting it to talk to you, or at least not only. English is becoming more and more a language to communicate across Europe. I am form Italy and have been living in the Netherlands for almost two years, without having to learn Dutch.

It also makes it much easier for people that want to leave the US, since they know they can come here and be able to speak to everybody.

My point was not to deny that there might be an imbalance toward the US for some things, but nothing is over and I won't be like this forever. China has been the most powerful empire on earth for millennia. It lost its power, but it might regain it in the future.
So people with Facebook profiles are somehow repulsive, while people with HN usernames are implicitly acceptable?
Well, all this is a bit of a fairy tale to me. Sure programming on my free time with friends, always wanting to know more, to go further, that's true it is fun and I'd say it's a way of life. Now consider: process, deadlines, the annoying management guys.. All this is exhausting and boring, it takes away creativity and fun. Not everything is bright and shinny like that article seems to state. The guy actually designing apps is not necessarily the guy who will code them, etc. There's a lot of frustrating realities out there that are better to be known and accepted than ignored.

Also, see http://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/05/11/0358233/is-pro...
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It's a thought experiment, I think you don't have to be so literal. The point is that people will probably pay for their content if they are given the freedom to actually use it as they see fit.
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Disclaimer: this is sarcasm.
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So we can't build a system that allows copyright holders to automatically claim audio and video on YouTube, but we can't do that?

I'm not saying it would be a good or even desirable solution, but to quote some dude's election slogan: yes we can.
Traceroute.im perfroms a traceroute from the traceroute.im server to the site you specify. The local tracert program performs a traceroute from your computer to the site you specify. Additionally, tracert (windows variant) usually does ICMP probes while I assume traceroute.im uses Linux traceroute and thus UDP probes, but that shouldn't change the route your trace takes.
Ask HN: Should we raise more money?
I am in my first round of funding and about to close it.

Background: We are working on the project since 1 1/2 years, 4 founders - living in different cities

Status: Prototype - ready for launch approx. may 2012

We have 2 offers from angel investors:

1) 10% - 140.000 EUR
Really good Angel, has perfect network and experience in our field of business

2) 3% - 42.000 EUR
Is a privat person - medium network and expertise - more "dumb" money

Our expenses for the next 12 months are at least 115.000 EUR

If we would move together and live in a appartment together in berlin, it would be 133.000 EUR

We plan to launch in may 2012 in cooperation with some of our clients for beta testing (no revnues).

We plan to make our first buck in october 2012.

Questions:

1) Whats a good way to calculate the amount of money needed - e.g. expenses of X months + ??%

2) What should be the end of our current runaway and current goal to raise the next round - launching? revenue? growth?

3) is it very negative to have small angels invest in you with just 3% shares for further funding rounds?

4) Is living together worth the money? (2000 EUR/month)

Thank you very much for your opinion!
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