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> It is a fact of reality that it is morally right to give people ownership rights

> precisely, like physics.

There is no place in the universe where the laws of physics do not apply, however there were and are societies without a notion of property, much less the moral right to property, thus property rights are nothing like the laws of physics. They are a product of your provincial worldview. Of course, property is a useful human invention, but it's nothing more than that.
The business model will definitely evolve with all the digitization and internet pressures. Claiming that the industry is exhibiting "death throes" is way way way premature, though.

The way I look at it, government power and spending are on the rise. Meanwhile, big media continues to be very important to politics, both as a source of money and as a source of star power for re-elections. Those two forces working together will be extraordinarily difficult to kill. Like a many-headed hydra, we'll whack off a head or two, but the darned thing will keep fighting for its existence.
You're right! That's why you're the writer and I'm the (very much part time) blogger I guess.

I'll try to be more precise in the future, the media industry is indeed a much too broad brush. This bit started out as an email I wrote to myself a while ago and then posted in response to another thread on HN, I should have done a better job of sharpening it before posting it.
fingers crossed somebody releases a case with a lcd screen, battery and keyboard that will accept the raspberry pi. even a build your own kit could be interesting considering the cost of the raspberry pi.
> destruction of property rights (intellectual or otherwise)

These are not the same. Most people do not support the concept of "intellectual property". But for a property to exist in practice, you need majority support, otherwise your property is either just imaginary or you need a totalitarian police state to enforce it.

> the basis of society

The concept of imaginary property is neither supported by a majority of population not in any other way democratically backed. Nobody on this planet has ever voted on it. From its early beginnings, it has been enforced from the top down, decided in shady deals behind closed doors between corrupt officials and industry stake holders and then enforced against the majority.

> steal it

To steal it, you must first reckognize that it is somebody else's property first. But what if you dont consider it property in the first place?
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The idea of a digital stockpile of the world culture in your closet is very interesting.

I already have a torrent of 100 thousand books on my mirror raid, for example, so I'm sure I won't be missing much even if they go nuclear on internet piracy. In a few years you'd be able to do the same with music and movies.
Why did you stop operating the site?
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"Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence."
I'll volunteer to do this for Lua. Which browser vendors do you have on board? Perhaps we can teach the world that "Asynchronous code" and "Seven nested callbacks" are not synonyms.
You can still tell and sell stories about them. It's done all the time. Nothing is stopping anyone from doing so.

You can't tell a story about Disney's Pocahontas or Aladdin, true. But you can about your own version of those characters.
Agree on both. Current location and the one-off entry button should be distinct from the preset buttons.

I love the simple but powerful UI. It's not often you see something that makes you think "Why hasn't this been done before?".

I would even gladly pay a buck or two for an Android version ;)

EDIT: grammar
Why is there so much dislike for C++?
It's going to be sold mainly online. You can order now, although the caribou is running out.

We're planning to make a "strong build" for large guys.
The term "media industry" is not usually applied to "crowdsourced low budget SF epics from Finland and state-subsidized art films from France", any more than the term "agricultural industry" would be applied to someone's backyard herb garden.

The OP did not claim that "movies are dying", he claimed that the media industry is dying, which is a completely different statement. If the media industry dies, people will still make movies, they just won't have the massive budgets that contemporary movies have.

For what it's worth, I think the OP is letting his anticipation cloud his better judgment. While the media industry will certainly decrease in size and influence, and will probably become more selective about which scripts it funds, it will continue to exist so long as customers are willing to pay $20 for the experience of watching a blockbuster on a hundred-food cinema screen.
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Regarding events: It's a common pattern to pass a function into a method as a callback to do an inversion-of-control kind of thing, like "on error, call this." It would be natural to pass an event with the semantics "on error, fire this event." But there is no way to pass an event. You can imagine similar situations with properties.
I think someone just rick-rolled the server. Was having fun up until then (although doing diagonal moves was frustrating!)
If Microsoft is able to police conversations carried over Live Messenger, shouldn't it be unable to invoke the dumb pipe defense and be held responsible for any piracy its service allows to happen because its negligence in blocking the evil activity happening on its own network. They even profit from those activities! And not only copyright infringement - bank robberies, terrorist attacks, child molestation, heresy - it's all their fault for not blocking it in the first place.

I would love to see this idea in court.

OTOH, who can be sure they do not store IP and login (or other personal information associated with the Live profile) and hand it to anyone with the proper court order?
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I couldn't disagree more unless you want to clarify in greater depth what an "idea" is. People who think of ideas as property are literally the personification of selfishness. Their anti-altruistic thought is a stunt to creativity. We are were we are today scientifically/culturally because of the continued improvement of other people's ideas and research.

If you submit an idea, it immediately becomes public domain and can and should be copied or replicated if it can be made better and more open for the benefit of society. (To my regret), I studied law and spent as much time as I could in Intellectual Property because it was the most interesting field to me; what I learnt from my studies is how broken the entire system is.

If you are offended when someone steals you idea, then you should go invent your own internet. With blackjack, and hookers. Because ultimately, you are only where you are because of the contributions that other people have made, and if something can be clones in 11 hours, from svbtle to obtuve, then all it is is an idea.

Steal ideas, copy them, make them better, and encourage EVERYONE to pay it forward by pushing up the bar of expectations.

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Edit:

I came across some idea a while ago, I can't remember what it was called, something about "boycott commits", or along those lines.

The general premise is that every time you ever touch a file, you have to make it better in some way.

If you are going to do a commit to some open source project, you should make it better. Either by commenting something with more verbosity, or by optmizing how the project handles some ternary condition.

It's up to you, just make it better.

Now, imagine the entire world is an open source project, we are all in it together, we might all be running our own branches, but we all work from the same code base. When you commit you have a good chance of making my fork better too!

Want a more tangible example? Google and Facebook.

Whether or not you want to believe it, Google and Facebook are each making themselves better by copying and competing each others ideas. Google started out by looking at what Facebook had, and spotting what they are missing out in.

They then spent time developing features to fill these gaps.

They came up with Circles. They came up with Hangouts. They came up with high resolution pictures. They up with FooBar.

Well, now, Facebook came up with lists, Facetime, and recently included high resolution pictures.
Whether you agree or not, this competition is all benefiting us.

So what if Obtvse copied an idea. Lets hope that is spurred dcurtis into making his platform "better".
wow! hurry and get this out for android - otherwise I'll do it for you ;)
Smart phone case will alert you if you get too far from your cell phone or keys
good job!! question -- did you design outlook and icon yourself? any suggestions?
Their IPO might have caused a spike in trading volume on their exchange, which might have triggered the bug.
"the bits created by media companies"
They don't. Media companies don't write songs, neither they're really shoot movies. They are the middlemen.

Yes, I think that my bits are more valuable than the vapor created by middlemen.

But there's more important issue: Once I have 100000 books, 1000000 songs and 10000 movies on my hard drives, I might lose desire to have any of their bits at all.
I don't even need them produced because the bits already there are just as fine.
This actually isn't true. I know several people who worked on the Perl version of YP and none of them are locked into the industry.
You'd have to make special case syntax for it and it would just feel bolted on to the language. Plus, tuples lose their usefulness if you have to declare its type to pass it between methods.

I think it could be OK even without return type inference on methods. Imagine you could type this:

(int, bool) TryParse(string str) {
// do stuff
return (num, success);
}

That would be clean enough.
Someone is injecting a flash script into the background.

Edit: You might want to change the page's title. Also, thanks for the game. I really enjoyed it.
I would think it would help you. Many porn sites get so much traffic, the engineers rival those of Facebook and Google.
It's not being really "marketed" at all.

Java, that had marketing. As in million dollar campaigns, ads in trade magazines, tons of articles and PR even in NON-tech outlets about the "next big language", a company betting most of its strategy on the language and so on. C# too.

Go? Being made by Google guys that are also battled tested programmers helps, but it's not like the language had any marketing. A website, a mailing list, a blog not that frequently updated, and a few appearances on some tech conferences. That about sums it.

As a language, Dart is more heavily touted by Google. And is made by the famous V8 (and more) guy. But noone is using it.

So, yes, Go is used for its pragmatic merits, not because of marketing.
Take the chromium, put lua inside.

After you do that you have better chrome than Google does and you can start distributing it. It's in fact doable, once you have a set of patches, to reach some audience with that build.
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Any kind of device that can help dectors an early heart is actually a must. This is the 21st Century which has the technology to go with. Why OT use this to help all of us before it's too late
Did all the design myself, except the icons which came from the excellent glyphish (http://glyphish.com/) icon collection. The icon is also based off one of these.
Amazon's new robots connect the cyber world directly to the physical world
On this topic -- add your common locations (home, work, trader joes) as contacts in your iOS address book. Then when you need directions, just click on the address book icon in Maps under Search, and select the location, and you're good to go.

I was an iOS user for several years before figuring this out -- it's saved me a lot of time. I probably typed in my home address a hundred times unnecessarily. Although, since I'm going to try out this app, this tip maybe isn't so useful. :)
There goes my weekend...
Small thing: on the http://trypair.com/ site, I tried clicking the play button several times expecting a video demo until it scrolled up beyond the initial screenshot.
Oh, right.

My gut feeling, FWIW, is that the internet is a communications medium that tends to disintermediate supply chains; because it makes it really easy for people to locate sources of supply, a lot of traditional middlemen suddenly discover that nobody needs them.

But that doesn't mean there won't be any middlemen; merely that the buggy-whip vendors will be replaced by the folks who understand how to sell automobile seat covers (if you'll permit me to stretch the metaphor).
I do a great deal of work with youth marketing so I have a slightly different perspective. I can't speak to music -- but films cost a great deal of money to make, and YouTube videos just won't replace that.

If you look at the next generation of consumers (kids) they're watching more broadcast television than any other demographic, they're camping out overnight to see films like the Hunger Games and this may surprise you ancient twentysomethings but these kids are actually paying for their music too. This is why Katy and Gaga are making real money, but more sophisticated music aimed at young adults isn't doing well.

The biggest mistake that techies make is that they assume that their lives are the lives that everyone else leads: And this just isn't the case. Are kids spending tons of time looking at YouTube? Yes! But they're also spending hours looking at the Disney channel too and paying for songs on iTunes with that gift card that grandma got them for their birthday.

Will the film and music companies go through a great deal of disruption? Very much so — but they won't be replaced by tech companies, unless those are videogame companies. The only way that tech companies will disrupt Hollywood is if they get into producing content - so far the only examples of this is Steve Jobs taking over Pixar to make films and Sony with their valuable music and film business.
But you still need a device to stream it to... I've been looking for a way of running our conference using apple tv's I'd love to be able to send all the keynote presentations to the apple tv without having to have a device to stream them..
You've released your chat media out into the world. As far as I can tell that makes them fair game for everyone to look at and download and alter and remix as they desire.
To me, it seems like this (the ? ) is the strongest feature of the app. My kneejerk reaction is that if you go to a place often enough to save it, you probably don't need directons anyway (or won't after one or two trips).

Nitpick aside, this is a beautifully simple interface.
Yes, here is a scatter plot:

· http://koldfront.dk/misc/hn/pl/data.png

I would like to make a bar chart with favorite votes pointing up from the x-axis and dislike votes pointing down, but my rudimentary R skills doesn't stretch that far yet.

Here is the scatter plot on with log scales:

· http://koldfront.dk/misc/hn/pl/log.png
wow! cool idea bro! installed it! I am sure I will be using this all the time when I need the maps!

One request: If you can write a blog/comments about number of downloads after making to top of HN, it would be interesting metric to look at :-)
Hrm. I only use my nav to get to _new_ places. That being said, I do see value using this app to swipe to the "?".
Rip off of the popular Wordament game on Windows Phone!
Nice job - it's addicting and fun! But I agree that diagonal can sometimes be frustrating - I had to do it very carefully, which made me slower.

Also, I was hoping there would be more to it - like an all-time high list, or something like that. I'm not sure how you would structure it, but I think some kind of stored history would make me want to come back and play again.
>working on porn, in any respect, supposedly locks you into that industry.

"Supposedly" by who? I don't think it's real at all.
Does anyone know what YP is using for their fulltext search?
This little greasemonkey script will play the game for you. http://pastebin.com/mcguLiWj
Yeah I never like when people toss around the term "media industry" especially in the context the author is talking about (it dying) because what exactly is media?

The author might as well have said "the media industry is dying...long live the media industry." Most of the companies that are indirectly referred don't appear to be dying at all. It's true that they are taking in less revenue, but the digital age allows them to produce and distribute at a fraction of the cost.

Hulu is a joint venture between Fox (News Corp), NBC (NBC Universal), and ABC (Walt Disney). The WSJ (owned by News Corp) has been successful in monetizing the audience instead of the content (charging you only after you have read a certain number of articles).

These companies will still be around for the foreseeable future, but instead of making billions on physical media (papers, DVDs, and CDs) they will be making billions from streaming and DRM'd content which have a lower cost to produce.

The cool thing though is that these same lowered costs allow artists to self publish if they want, but they will still need to make a deal with a distributor (perhaps directly with Apple or Amazon) to get there content into the market place.

Where the established industry has an advantage though is in its ability to market artists (and not so talented artists) outside of these new digital markets/channels.
Thanks- its great to hear that you enjoyed it. I am trying to fix some of the xss and injection problems with the game right now. I plan on adding high scores and polishing this game up!
None, I like all. Really.
Apple will produce a TV itself and remove this product from the market

The current Apple TV exists as a low cost way of encouraging people to buy movies from iTunes. There's no way they'd get rid of that.
It's a shame that Google's trends tool doesn't allow us to compare case-sensitive terms. One could scrape through the first N results, but N would be an order of magnitude smaller than what a proper Google implementation could accomplish.
High blood pressure is called the silent killer because most people who have it don't know that they have it unless they see a doctor. You can check for high blood pressure with a device that costs well under $100 and is available at pretty much every drug store in the land. Will someone who can't afford to see a doctor get a device? No.
Haha- I love hacker news :)
Consider adding calendar integration? i.e. a "next appointment (3pm / 1313 W. 54th Ave)" bubble...
I think the other way...
I just fixed a few more problems with how I was handling input which could have been the method for the rick roll. Will have to wait and see I guess.
Very interesting post. How has the blog impacted your user growth? Given the effort involved in writing each post, has it been worth it in terms of growing the business?
what GPS app do you guys use? all the iphone GPS apps I've used are terrible, I still use Siri w/ google maps, which takes more attention than it should when i'm driving.
The "?" button is definitely useful, but often I use Google Maps on Android to get transit directions home (or some other recurring place).

I know where home is but I still don't know whether or not I have to run to catch the next train.
It doesn't say anything about the number of servers, that is important to know how efficient the software stack is.
At first I thought, "Hmm, nifty idea. Could be useful."

But then I stopped to examine the use of it. It seems that this idea is inherently kind of pointless because the places you frequent you already know how to get to. On the other hand places you don't frequent, the case in which this would be fantastic, won't be in there.

What are your thoughts on this? Have you considered using prediction (perhaps by scraping the user's calendar) to show places they have not driven to many times?

Great job with the design by the way.
I am a bit confused, why do you need the starting point? I guess you would be there and for navigation you would need a GPS position anyways.
Yup thats where I got the idea from. Wanted to see if we could build an HTML5 version in 24 hours :)
Speaking of which, in this day and age, I find it inexcusable for example.com not to be a valid alias for www.example.com. (Are you listening old media??)
I remember someone pointing out your AudioGalaxy server cluster at the north austin datacenter (I think it's the one that became SunGard). I just said "wow". You still in Austin?
Objective-C. It's the weakest of weak ways to add classes to C. I spent some months learning it and the supporting OSX NSObject framework. Unlike several other languages, I never felt myself become enthusiastic about it. Even after I became reasonably proficient, writing code in Objective-C just felt like drudgery.
If you were at an institution with Internet2 connectivity, "the internet" would be ambiguous in a way "the Internet" isn't, perhaps? Anyone here part of such a group? For most of us though, it makes no difference and it wouldn't be the first time informal and formal usage have differed :)
Nice app, I'm impressed!
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That was my initial thought as well. An interesting extension of this concept would be to have generic circles too (eg "Bars") that connect the user to a list of nearby places that the user can select from. Still no typing.
very good point on using your mom as a beta tester. if it's easy enough that your mom can use it, you've done your job.
You should add an option to hide stories with titles in the form of a question.
What would be the difference between say a 21" or 27" iPad with Netflix and HBO Go and iTunes movies and TV shows, and an Apple TV set? We may just wake up a few product cycles from now and realize that the TV isn't necessary anymore.
I empathize with what you're saying, and in this case the notion of "stealing an idea" was a bit more blatant than most, but I still think two versions of Svbtle is better than one.

Let's look at some positives of what the clone did:
1) It generated buzz for both sites. And forced people to consider this idea as a legitimate product, instead of a weekend hack.
2) It validated the market. More people doing similar things suggests there's a valid space there.
3) Provided that both sites continue to operate and grow, they will continue to push eachother to do better.

I don't think the fact that the core product was copied is discouraging at all. I think it helps. I think the real problem you have is the manner in which it was copied. You nailed it with this line: "Real creative comes from a personal connection to a project or idea." <-- this is true. If the idea started with you, and you have the passion to continue executing on it, you'll stay the long haul and it will become a great product, it's your baby. Why does it matter what else is in the market? Shipping a product is half the battle - especially when you're dealing with space where there's no proprietary technology powering the product. Where real differentiation occurs is marketing execution, and that's where innovation is forced to occur.
Not sure if it's ICS only but there is now a widget that you can set up to navigate or get directions to a specific location in 1 click.
The smart people in the music industry know that to remain relevant they need to stay close to the artists. This once lopsided relationship is changing to be more equal, the record companies need the artists to make money.

There is value in curation, marketing and management. I expect some of the current media companies will surive but they will look different and be much more competitive.
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