skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A couple of thoughts.

WD lists their 2.5TB drive as having "Non-recoverable read errors per bits read" as "<1 in 10^14" and the drive has about 2 x 10^13 bits, so while the chance of an error in one whole disk read is non-trivial, it's not 100%.

Mirroring will still work fine as long as the error is detected. The chance of read errors in the exact same sector of two disks should still be small. Silent errors were always a problem for mirroring.

At what point do we as consumers start considering drives to be defective? Is the underlying ECC suffering because of the need to hit greater storage numbers?
Music existed, but not recording devices, microphones etc. There is a hard cost associated with all of those. Granted, those costs have come down over time, but the rental of a decent studio is not $0.
Maybe that's part of why Zynga makes sense. They seem pretty good at transitioning players to new games.
That rivals the Heroku for the biggest YC exit so far! (Heroku was ~$212million) OMGPOP would slot in at #2.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkkhSN3vaY4jdF9...

This likely means YC gets about $3-5million out of the deal, funding even more startups in the future. :)

(edit: Originally wrote Flightcaster for some reason; meant Heroku. Was thinking of Flightcaster earlier today and got confused.)
No, it isn't. But up until recently OMGPOP was strangely hesitant to make mobile games (as relayed to me by a friend who used to work there). Look at their entries in the app store- they have three games.

They went in a new direction and it paid off. I would have been interested to see them try to go further with it.
Using a "gateway" appliance for cloud backups is missing the point.
Aside: I noticed that redis/Solaris used select() instead of the fancy new "event completion framework"[1] in Solaris 10. I figured maybe the new API would be faster and I could contribute that back, so I ported to both that framework, poll(), and /dev/poll (I feel the event API just wraps /dev/poll due to the perf #s I saw, but it isn't clear) and it turned out that select() is actually faster than any of them, which struck me as a bit odd.

[1]: http://developers.sun.com/solaris/articles/event_completion....
No busybox in android; that too is GPL software that Andy Rubin and the pre-Google Android people didn't want to ship. They actually hacked up a minimal "toolbox" to avoid shipping it. Sad, really.
> What would happen if creators couldn’t charge for their creations? The same as if you couldn’t charge for lines of computer code: there’d be less of it.

Would there? Really? Like, are we absolutely sure there would be less of it? Are we also ruling out the possibility that someone would pay you to produce specific lines of code or just that once you produce code, you can't sell it?

It used to commonly be the case that you got paid to make music for someone. Now you make the music and then try to sell it to people.

It just seems like there is an implicit assumption that the marketplace model is the best way to encourage the creation of all things.
Curiously omitted from both essays (unless I somehow completely overlooked it) is the ending of this apocryphal story. The judge asks the accused infringer to take a coin out of his pocket and drop it on the table, saying "The sound of the coin shall pay for the smell of the food."
Talent acquisitions. Investors are often left with close to nothing.
This also illustrates one of my bigger gripes with how AirPlay works, in general. Why should the mobile device, that has limited battery (and maybe connection speeds) be the device that does the heavy lifting in this situation?

The Apple TV is constantly plugged in to a power source and (presumably) has a more reliable data connection, and will always be within range of the display. Make it do all the work. Seems very fragile the way it is now.
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If you focus too much on the lawyer filing the lawsuit then smart lawyers will prey on young graduates. If you focus too much on the plaintiff filing the lawsuit then smart lawyers will probably find a way to make special corporations which can cheaply make the complaints before being dissolved.
You would need to update the locations according to the equations yourself, so that at any given moment (if you update all of them in one atomic transaction), their locations are up to date. We have not yet seen a compelling reason to support spatiotemporal objects, but this is something we might consider.

Note, however, that SpaceBase truly shines when there is a large number of objects and a lot of queries/transactions.
When I see 'Please enter your first name.' instead of 'First Name' on form I get angry that my time was just wasted. Please don't say 'Please' and 'Thank You', thank you.
I think I speak for everyone here when I say that Turing's bill should be a power of two. I think Turing should get a £5.12 bill.
No, and I'm genuinely curious to know what rhetoric you think I'm using and what you think they are using it about?

All I'm saying is that it would be better for them to not dress things up as a breathless scandal, until they've properly investigated and discovered whether there is a real problem.

Reporting that the new iPad gets warm, and stating the temperature, perhaps with some reference temperatures (e.g. a Starbucks latte) for comparison is fine.

Raising the specter of health risks, and using the words 'burn', 'hot', and 'overheating' repeatedly is misleading unless justified.
The fact that someone could use it for 20 years without knowing everything makes it seem more approachable to me. It shows that you don't need to know everything, or even most things to be productive with it.
"Well, all of the music available on iTunes, Amazon, and the Pirate Bay has already been produced, it just needs to be distributed."

Just because it has already been produced, doesn't mean that it has already been paid for. The studio and the session musicians have probably been paid, but the artist should be compensated on a scale commensurate with the popularity of the work and that needs to be measured across whatever timescale people are still buying or downloading it.
You might have noticed I used the example of inputting Euro into the Somali system in Norway. The fact that Norway uses the Krone does not mean that Euro are not readily available. Likewise, Sweden may switch to digital, but Euro and dollars, and certainly silver and gold will be readily available. Doesn't matter that a person gives the Somali CFA in Cameroon, Euro will come out in Paris.

The Somalis are good with that sort of thing. You just tell them how much and exactly who is supposed to get it. They can make it happen. What's crazy is that they can even make it happen in war zones. Even in a place like Goma with genocidal Hutus and lunatic Tutsis running around. I suspect it actually works better in places like that because the corrupt generals need some way to get their ill gotten gains out.
If you classify nerve endings as part of the value chain, then the UI of web apps certainly qualifies.
Don't sell software development tools to HN'ers.
I have found that open source software is often far better in quality than other products that you would pay big dollars to buy. I am an Ubuntu user and an Open Office user. I found the way that the way my computer ran with a Windows operating system was horrible. The hard-drives were spinning hard all the time. I felt that with every automatic update that my computer would run worse and worse. When I switched my computers ran better and cooler.

Open Office has been a staple for me and has been great office software that I use daily. VYM mind maps have been a blessing to me as well and very frequently use it. Moodle was something I used while in business school as some of the professors on campus required using it for submitting projects and for working with a group.

Open source software and Apple products are really all I use anymore. Also, I would rather use a server running on Ubuntu than one that runs Windows. My feeling is that free and open innovation is something worth supporting.
I'll just cherry pick this gem here: "What would happen if creators couldn’t charge for their creations? The same as if you couldn’t charge for lines of computer code: there’d be less of it."

Spotted the massive, gaping flaw in the argument yet?

It's 2012, if you make this argument then I am done with you. Linux is how old? How much of the internet runs on it?

Done.

Edit: Wow, really? Why is this still a necessary argument?

The linux kernel is utterly free. Yet it's still developed. It's still a state of the art product. And people still make money off of linux and linux-based products.

Do I honestly have to connect the dots here?

Spoilers: if you can't or don't want to charge for the code directly then maybe you find some alternate way to charge for something else or you use another form of supporting development.

The analogy to the creation of music and movies should be so frelling obvious I shouldn't even need to make it.
I honestly had that thought as well going into this piece. But now that I've visited the site, I can say that I disagree. This is not a clone or a competitor, this is the same business idea executed in a different market, with a ( slightly )different focus, and yes with similar design stylings. A clone for me is a site that is pixel for pixel copied. Saying this is a clone is like saying Mountain Mikes Pizza is a clone of Round Table. and personally, I'd rather have Folksy in the US then etsy, Folksy was everything Etsy should have been.
>If I want to pay for music to be produced, I use Kickstarter.

If I want to pay for software to be produced, I use kickstarter.

Now I can download AutoCAD, Illustrator and Photoshop guilt free.
took me by surprise when it even found my RDP connection.
"What would happen if creators couldn’t charge for their creations? The same as if you couldn’t charge for lines of computer code: there’d be less of it."

This sums up why I disagree with the author. People have been playing and composing music way before "selling records" was the way to make money. Just like people don't contribute to open source "for the joy of it".

Very serious business is being done around open source, and the same could happen around the music industry. I personally wouldn't mind settling for an industry where artists get paid for their performances (getting paid for the "actual" hours put in, not just a one-off recording session decades ago that's making them fat millionaires), using their records as promotional tools. Parallel business would develop, they would charge for packaging, interviews, talks, God-knows-what. Let the next generations be creative.

The industry may not seem as lucrative as it may sound today, but frankly I could do without the MBA consultant in a suit. Cut off his salary and most of the middle men and you're good to go. Despite what the article says, the cost of producing and publishing new material isn't that high. My closest friend took a couple months off to record a home made 6 song album. With an iMac and some amateur equipment. The result is simply bluffing. Even a small team on a low budget can definitely invest this money as part of their promotion campaign.
I've posted about my favorite editor (acme) in the past, but rather than trying it, HNers mostly just echo-chamber it into oblivion: "I have touch the mouse? Oh my god I will literally not be able to write a single line of code now! Vim FTW!"

(Edit: I enjoy vim. I prefer it to Emacs. I have sometimes found interesting things in these articles. I just think there are too many, and too much zealotry in the community)
I'm dying to know the cash/stock split on this one. It will send signals about what a company like OMGPOP thinks of the social gaming space going forward.

Considering they just spent 6 years working in the sector, what they think of Zynga's future is telling.
"commercially released music is produced specifically for the purpose of being heard, and paid for (whether by the buyer, or by a royalty from a radio station)"

Remind me again how much radio stations in the US pay in performance royalties?
I get annoyed when the "hard" word ends up being some rapper/celebrity name instead of something that everyone knows.
Didn't downvote you, but generally speaking people on HN prefer comments which are insightful and implicitly constructive, and not well-known links reposted out of some weird sense of non-existent internet obligation.
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At first I wasn't sure if "Defining Property" was one of the most insightful essays I read in a long time, or lazy logic on Paul's part trying to protect the internet in the copyright debate. But I'm pretty sure Paul is talking about something important now.

What he hits on is that there is no scarcity anymore. Media is reproduced and shared freely and instantly, because that is the nature of the internet. The 'pipes' (expensive, physical means of distribution) the recording industry pumped music through for decades have now dissappeared and have been replaced with an open environment. Anything that tries to close that environment is just trying to create artificial scarcity.

It's true that media costs money to produce. And the publishers can still charge for it, if they make the distribution model convenient (or not). But that is still a one time cost which promotes the artist. And let's not act like artists are going to just stop making media if they don't think publishers are going to give them a big payday. They aren't. The more likely scenario is that the distribution will shift to being handled by the artists and that money will be made through concerts and merchandise. Downloaded music will be paid for sometimes, but mostly used for advertisement.
I don't think PG was saying that music equals smells. He's saying piracy = smells, some of them good, some bad.

It's just silly that the industry spent a decade suing people, and probably could have made 10x their money by giving up the 'suing people for smells' and started other music/content related businesses.
Its fine to be less than perfect and to make mistakes, but if someone makes a mistake large and in public, they should apologize for it. Spending the least little amount of time talking to someone who was offended should be enough to clue in the clueless, and ensure a genuine apology.

An insincere apology shows that the person apologizing really cares less why anyone actually was offended, and is just as likely to say something equally offensive again.
I sort of disagree. I've seen Primer several times, and am a fan of the movie, but I get the feeling that the writers purposefully made the movie confusing just for the sake of being confusing.

The complexity doesn't seem to arise organically out of the plotline. A lot of the confusion is generated out of not hearing the one time in the movie someone explained something, or from the movie not explaining something that is easily explainable. It's almost as if the writers could have made the plotline easier to follow while keeping the plot the same, but at times purposefully chose to obfuscate it solely for the purpose of making a "complex" movie.
•The file is preserved in amber for millions of years.
So in your view the entirety of the 99 cent charge should go to Apple? The song you wanted to download just popped into existence before hand with no time, effort or talent from an artist at all (or discovery by a label)? Please tell me more about this magical music tree.
The OMGPOP team is probably reading this from their Ferrari's as they are parked outside the Yacht dealership.
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Yep, sustained success on mobile is all about cross-promotion between a portfolio of games.
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Created a small program over the weekend. Had a great time surprising and surpassing all my friends.
Before we start using them in those roles (and massively expand "install base"), we're going to have to solve the security issues http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/03/hacking_medica....
The cost of studio rental is irrelevant. What musicians want to be compensated for is the lifetime of study, dedication to a craft, years of poverty and uncertainty, risk of repetitive stress injuries, etc.
But pg's argument is prescriptive. For example, it includes the question "Should people not be able to charge for content?" and then gives a (conditional) answer.

There's nothing wrong with writing a prescriptive essay; it doesn't make it in any sense weaker. But it is prescriptive, and Rob's argument here is specifically with the prescriptive part of the argument--in other words, he argues that music is not so much like smells that it supports the overall prescription pg is making.
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No yelling, but I agree. Janine is also super cute (lucky husband!)
Not sure in the US but I remember hearing around £200 for day-time airplay (more listeners) to £40 at late-night is what an artist can expect to earn from a play on the BBC.
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Created a small program over the weekend. Had so much fun in beating, surprising all my friends in the popular game :)
It's ok in the summer. I mean you get good enough sunny days, not too hot, not to cold. Winter is a bigger issue... definitely not what I expected. It actually puts people in hospitals due to drinking and mental issues. Two exchange students I knew had to go back home around November because they couldn't handle it.

I was really happy I left at the end of December and was aware I couldn't handle it much longer. It's amazing what the lack of sunlight does to you.
PG's analogy is only flawed in that it's meant to be prescriptive and not fundamental, so it admits arguments like this. Producing content costs money, yes. But once it's been released to the public, it's impossible to restrict copying. Cold hard fact, move on. Sorry if it's not the way you'd like - you can take your ball and go home, but you can't go back in time.

All the interest and investment in new distribution services is basically looking to be part of RIAA 2.0 - continuing profitable distribution channels based on consumer laziness. The goal of the record industry has never been to compensate artists, and the decreasing prevalence of big-name acts means there's even fewer lucky ones with the power to demand so. Meanwhile, the pirate side has accepted that distribution is free and is trying to usher in the future so sustainable artist-beneficial (whatever that turns out to mean) structures can be created. Oink was responsible for my going to many shows, while the risk of being hassled over torrenting (I've become more risk-adverse) has resulted in me knowing very few bands on the concert listings.
Oh, thanks for the correction. Didn't know they did that.
Where would Linux be without Windows and Mac OS X to borrow ideas from?
It bothers me as well. Perhaps OP should change his question to "What would happen if creators couldn't police the area outside of the music festival to make sure that nobody benefits from the sound that happens to escape the fences?"
one line of thinking is this: "if it's not re-sellable it's not worth paying for". I buy a hammer, and once I'm done with it I can sell it. If I buy an MP3 file, can I resell it? Not that no one's going to buy, it's even 'illegal'...
Son of a gun! I just tried, and you're right. Thanks!

It's just that there is ZERO indication that area is scrollable. It shows three (on iPhone), has rounded corners, no scroll bar... definitely a failure in user-interface. Strange.

Minion would be my #1 pick too.
On the other hand, how many iOS apps would there be if Apple wouldn't allow you to charge for them? It would still be an ok ecosystem, but not great like it is now.
While these scroll sites are pretty cool... I don't know if its the javascript library or maybe that is the affect the site's creator wanted but it doesn't feel smooth.

Maybe because of the scroll speed the animations have fewer frames to animate which makes it look choppy? I'm not sure.
I was just trying to point out cultural differneces in a tongue-in-cheek manner. I think Japan is the least Europeanized wealthy country (the other Asian tigers count too but are less renowned for shocking westerners). As a result, it's often a lot less valid to generalize from Japanese culture to American culture than, say, Australian or German.

There's a world of difference between pointing out cultural diversity and racial stereotyping. I guess the fact that I'm actually kind of into Vermillion Pleasure Night blinded me to the fact that some people might have interpreted my comments as derogatory.
Clearly he is talking about copies of software too. It's changing from Adobe PS type software to a subscription cloud based software. You can still certainly make money with software but your not gonna make as much selling just copies of software.
That the majority of Linux contributions are made by employees of companies that sell Linux nullifies your argument. Take that away, and Linux would not be near the state it is in today.
I personally think copyright can be a good thing. My beef is with the never ending length extensions and that everything including the piece of napkin I used to doodle on earlier is covered by it.

I think the solution is more to push for it to become registration based and offer companies a way to extend the copyright for a fee that increases exponentially with time. Lets say the first 10 years is free everything after starts to cost you more and more.

That way I feel that you let things like orphan works be preserved and used even if they are not longer worth enough money to keep under copyright and publish.

Also have the database of what is under copyright be available to everyone so that right holders can be located and licensing can be made easier. These records can be maintain with the money obtain from copyrighting fees.

And also, fix issues with fair use such as breaking DRM being made not illegal.
Panel - Are we there yet? Do European startups have the capital they need?
Why would you feel guilty? You don't deprive anyone of anything by downloading Photoshop.
I found if you use the mouse scrollwheel rather than the keyboard it was much smoother.
Linux is subsidized by large players who need an open platform on which to provide other services. This includes companies like Google who provide advertising based upon things that run on linux and companies like IBM who sell proprietary software that runs on Linux and support contracts for those products.

There are very few viable, large-scale open source projects that are run on developer free time alone.
I'd argue Linux is an open source reimplementation of Solaris more than of OSX or Windows.
ENHANCE!

Marvelous achievement. But I hate it when technology confirms the misunderstanding of a Hollywood hack.
> People paint, write, sing and act all the time without compensation of any kind.

Because they choose not to exercise their right to profit from it?
Moreover, much as I love it, most free software usually has a huge gap in usability and QA, because those are the boring parts of writing software.
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You cannot simply substitute software for music, literature, or film. It does not work that way.
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