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"how many of those people demanding easy purchases of DRM free music on Slashdot back in the day actually gave up on pirating once it was readily available?"

Numbers say, a lot of them did.

Paid digital downloads are growing and legal video streaming rivals bittorrent.

Can you prove that somebody who demanded drm-free mp3s later found the next argument? Do you have some kind of examples, some kind of proof, or are you behaving the same way your opponents do: never quit bitching as your wishes getting fulfilled one by one?
To even have a chance at Ramen profitability, you need a couple of grand a month.

With three non-tech cofounders... hmmm, get out, tastefully.
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You're missing the entire point of the Ferrari argument. If you bought a Ferrari and the agreement with your purchase said "You must not resell this car" then morally you would be wrong re-selling it, because you were told not to. If you don't agree with the clause that says you can't resell it then you shouldn't buy it.
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Watching RT every now and than certainly gives you another perspective on the news. Yeah, they're Russia-funded, but s what? They don't make the news, they just use a different filter. Check out their America channel as well: http://www.youtube.com/rtamerica
How about latest buzz websockets?
Getting my money back
Fellow hackers - I wanted to get this question out there, because I hate being screwed by banks. I recently got a gift from someone - a debit card, in my name, from a well known bank. The card has $1800 on it, and I can go to any store, and buy whatever the hell I want. Except there is a catch. Given the economy, (and what I mean by that is my personal economy) I don't want to go out and spend it all. I want to withdraw it, and put it into my bank account for safe keeping.
I went to my bank yesterday, and we tried to withdraw cash, to deposit it, but was told this was impossible. I called customer service for the card, and was told it was it a "no cash out" card - ie, you can't get cash out of an ATM, or withdraw any cash. Weird - it's my money, I should be able to do whatever the fuck I want, right?
Plus, on top, this wonderful bank starts charging a 'monthly fee' for this great service.

So, that's why I'm coming to you guys - I was thinking of paying myself (via Square) for services worth $1800 bucks - but that would mean paying Jack Dorsey and Co. 2.75% of my hard earned cash.

Have you any other ideas on how I can turn my $1800 in to cash?
The only way to check an address is to send it an email. Hotmial.com has valid DNS, for example.
These bitcoin hacks have amazed me every single time. The old-school financial industry goes to extreme lengths in order to protect the money it's in charge of. Physical money is stored securely and guarded. IT infrastructure is carefully guarded both physically and electronically.

By comparison, these bitcoin folks seem quite content to store what is essentially money on run-of-the-mill servers in run-of-the-mill data centres. Linode? Rackspace? Are you people fucking serious? It keeps happening, and I keep wondering why any thinking person would trust plain old data centre security staff with their money like this.
This is actually allowed. They are allowed to pick one final ride in the direction they are headed at the end of their shift.

That being said, report them anyway and they will have to prove the time and date actually corresponds to the end of their shift. The fines are pretty steep and the drivers almost never prevail against the taxi commission.
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No, I think he's saying Linus is a robot. A robot whose software is compiled with clang.

That implications are disturbing.
Exactly this. If a form of advertising would actively annoy me if it was on my phone, I do not put it in my apps. Most users understand the need for ads in applications. They're willing to have a 50px banner because they're pretty easily ignored. Most users are not tolerant of apps reaching outside their scope and pushing ads, like this Sellaring and whatever the other one was that put ads in the notifications (AirPush maybe?).
What if we acknowledge this point but aren't afraid of consequences?
Music quality fell sharp before the internet piracy; TV series quality stand high; movies are mixed bag but you have more luck with non-mainstream.
I don't see how it would all suddently collapse and I'm willing to risk.
Every time I discover a new feynman anecdote, I wish there were more.
Email is arguably still more important. They want to be able to contact you if the package cannot be delivered.
If the children were identical in all other aspects, maybe, but they seldom are and as mentioned in the article the first problems arose with the birth of the second child.

I'm not saying it's not a brain defect, but the above is far from conclusive.
Somehow, I don't think PayPal is going to be a drag on Douglas Crockford's resumé.
100% propaganda. Just my take, but then a lot of these bullshit "authority" news sources are entirely propaganda when you start thinking about it.
Yes but I believe that psychologically these other European countries and peoples aren't as haunted by the identity of being vicious killers or conquerers. They see themselves as mere sidelines players and thereby sidestep the psychological burden that looms over the Germans, of being active and causal forces in the war and in the murdering of millions.
Optional tipping like we do in Spain as well doesn't seem to me to actually encourage people to do a good job. I assume it's because it ends up being a low amount. If the reward is not significant then it loses its motivational power.

Moreover, in some cases I have seen that all tips are put together and then split after work, so you lose the direct connection between doing a good job and getting more $.

I have always found american's standard tipping uncomfortable, but the few times I've made a point to not tip, and the generally more attentive service there, keep me convinced that the system in fact works.
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The rate doubles when you leave the city to compensate for the driver having to get back without a fare.
I keep wondering why any thinking person would buy bitcoins. Could be related.
"Its a very scary place. I dont even go there as a tourist because they have a legal right to throw anyone in jail without trial if they want to."

The U.S. is not a scary place. Violent crime is the lowest it has been since the 1950's. Also, the police do not have the right to just randomly arrest people. I have no idea where you came up with this notion, but it is manifestly untrue. There is much to criticize in law enforcement trends in the U.S. and this type of hyperbole is completely unmerited.
The basic law says I can sell a property of mine; and it says it is illegal to sell me things while demanding to not to resell those.

The problem is, copyright law says I have no rights and copyright holders have any rights they want to impose over me. Sorry guys, it's not a good offer.
Competing with piracy is not exclusively about providing a cheaper service, but about providing a more valuable service. I don't understand why you think competing with piracy would be some tacit approval of commercial exploitation of piracy -- which is where the law should draw the line (for as long as practical). This hole in your logic underlies your entire retort.

For instance:

> but at the end of the day content is content, and must be paid for by consumers or advertisers or you would see a _drastic_ drop in the quantity and quality of content produced.

Why do you assume providing a better service to your customers means handing out content for free? If pirates can provide a better service for free, why are you providing a worse service at all? If anything, you should be giving people their money's worth or better. This is my point: they are doing _nothing_ to drive customers away from piracy. I'm not even talking about lowering costs.

In light of this, I found it hilarious for you to say:

> (the content industry understands this which is why they fight for measures that make piracy less convenient and constantly reminds you that piracy is "wrong".).

It is interesting that in your list of content industry "responses" you forgot to mention the things they do to make legitimately purchasing/enjoying their content less convenient. On the contrary, they have done little to make piracy less convenient. We're talking about stuff that has no effect on their profit margins or business model, that they do anyway.

In that sense and context is where we state "compete", so no, it is not born out of cognitive dissonance. Replace that with desperation and you might be closer. In the end, competing with piracy as a service is only part of the battle. Alternative models for subsidizing content production will have to be embraced eventually, but I'll leave those discussions for a rainy day.
Perhaps, if that jewelry store owner had his diamonds sitting on a picnic table outside the store, unsupervised.
There's an error in Rule 52. They specifically say variables shouldnt have any capital letters but their example does.
If he had anything substantial he would have used it already. Whatever it was, after 2 years Bank of America has contained it or used their lobby to defuse it.
Thanks to all who have taken the time to answer.

I also posted this question on Quora at http://www.quora.com/Web-Development/If-a-startup-plans-to-e....

I should have clarified that I wasn't looking for advice for a specific startup, but rather to draft up a general guide of pros and cons to consider for any startup facing this decision.

I'll absolutely take all of the comments made on this thread into consideration when I write the post!
smarter mousetrap, smarter mouse. it's pirate pay vs. the internet. man, I would not want to be them.
What do you mean by not believing in LISP as a classification of languages? Are you saying you don't think s-expression based languages are at least as similar to each other as, say, OOP languages or logic languages are too each other?

I'm saying exactly that. Qi/Shen are basically Haskell with parentheses but because of those parens we call them Lisps. My Scheme->x86 compiler uses an s-expr assembly language as its final IR. That language has about as much in common with Lisp as C does.
That is exactly what annoys me about it too. It looks just like a dead or downmodded post.
Ubuntu packages are extensively modified to work with Unity. Often, the Ubuntu patches cause bugs that are not present in upstream.

This is why I have moved my laptop to Debian, and will move my desktop and server when I have the spare time.
A beautiful theory.

However, the bean counters and glad-handers who stand between you and a paycheck often ask difficult but irrelevant question, and if you don't worry about explaining yourself to them, you make it much harder to get that paycheck.

You get a lot farther with the ability to solve real-world problems and MBA-appropriate skills than with just the ability to solve real-world problems, if only because there is such high demand for technically inclined people with people skills and business skills.
I've read a lot of these accounts and some are truly egregious. PayPal should definitely provide some better means of dealing with disputes, but I would hazard a guess that 99% or more of such disputes are simple cases of fraud and are dealt with appropriately. The lack of alternatives is the biggest issue I see with PayPal, so they can sail along without having to address the issue. Given that they are neither regulated as a bank, nor faced with any serious competition, it seems, to my admittedly limited knowledge, that they do well for the most part. While some of their actions may be deemed as unethical, I don't think there is cause to paint the entire organization with such a wide brush.
yes you can, you just don't want to acknowledge it. unless you don't speak fluent english, in which case I apologize.
OH: "Any sufficiently complex DoD coding standard is indistinguishable from Ada"
Reputation damage is never the motivation for leaving. I wanted to leave long ago. The income was too attractive for me to actually leave.

Without money I can finally rationally re-think my destiny.
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I was a co-founder of ITA and can tell you that a second request is not "standard operating procedure". It's a big deal, and it's likely to be a very expensive learning experience for both Facebook and Instagram. Big mergers in spaces of interest to the regulators are always reviewed carefully, but it's simply not the case that every deal this size must endure a second request and a "full monty" regulatory process.

Assuming the report of a second request is true, this is quite problematic for Instagram. Once a process like this is underway, the outcome is inherently uncertain. They will be left twisting in the wind for many months. It is an absolutely awful place to be, both strategically and psychologically.

For Facebook, as well: expect various "helpful third parties" to work behind the scenes to convince the regulators to impose onerous conditions on Facebook as part of a consent decree to "ensure consumers are not harmed by the deal;" this is one of the few mechanisms by which competitors can damage Facebook without needing to compete with them successfully in the market. (Ironic, isn't it?)

This also means that the integration of Instagram's technology into Facebook's platform will not begin for many months. Once such a review is under way, the two teams cannot collaborate other than superficially; doing otherwise is known as "gun-jumping," and can lead to not only the deal being scuttled, but additional penalties as well.

(BTW, the DOJ reviewed the acquisition of ITA Software by Google, not the FTC. They are entirely different entities, and often squabble with each other over who gets to prosecute a given case.)
Well said. It seems as though an intellectual shift has occurred in law enforcement training where de-escalation is no longer a priority and police officers are now more prone to escalate. Part of this might be due to the introduction of less-than-lethal and (supposedly) non-lethal weapons.
Interesting! This seems like something that might work well with 3.0's function annotation support with the ability to specify that the handler's input argument conform to either a the streaming or buffered interface.

As a point of curiosity about best practices, how are you handling the meta information right now?

It feels like decorators provide the cleanest solution currently, but I've always wondered if there are alternatives.
The story is cute, but the blog post itself -- could you guess from the title? -- is an unadorned swipe at strawman "feminists" which really doesn't deserve the attention.
So then, can you give an example of a regulation that you don't think is morally wrong?
Find a store that sells products with high value-density and does full cash refunds for unopened products, buy $1800 worth of stuff, then return it the next day and ask them to put the refund into a different account/cash?

Alternatively, if online gambling sites are legal in your area, you could sign up to one, convert your money to chips, and cash out into a normal bank account. If it's one that gives you a little extra credit for free when you join, you could place that on low-risk bets, and probably even end up with more than $1800 in the end. Just don't get hooked. ;)

... all the ideas I'm having sound like money laundering. Oh well, I guess that's what it is, really, albeit not for nefarious purposes.
Feynman story is neat, but it's being used by a rabidly sexist man[1] in an attempt to prove a false point using anecdotal evidence.

[1] http://pechorin2.wordpress.com/2012/05/08/women-shouldnt-hav...
Spanish: It's the second most spoken language in the world.

[citation needed] Possibly so by number of different countries where it is official or co-official, but certainly not so by number of speakers.

Weighting aggregate number of speakers by the economic activity of the countries where those speakers predominate may be a better gauge of which languages are expedient to learn in the next few years.
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Why are you suggesting that I'm suggesting that?
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"Civilized is not exactly a well defined term. It's essentially a subjective criticism."

Actually, it is quite well-defined. Here you go:

"1. Having a highly developed society and culture.
2. Showing evidence of moral and intellectual advancement; humane, ethical, and reasonable: terrorist acts that shocked the civilized world.
3. Marked by refinement in taste and manners; cultured; polished."

So, either America has no:

1: Highly developed society and culture
2: Evidence of moral and intellectual development
or
3: Refinement in taste and manners

Now, which of those do you think we Americans would take the least offense to, at being lumped into a board category of "uncivilized".

I find it striking that there are people taking the time to make pot-shots at America on a technology site. We need only look back a short period in history to see that civility is a very recent trend in most parts of the world, and especially so in Europe. It would be most beneficial to all of us to politely ask how we can improve each others' lives, rather than goading people into defensive postures.
Now if only there was an easy way for me to all but kill BT on my own LAN, so my roommates stop using up all my upstream bandwidth, and so I don't start getting nastygrams from my ISP because of them once they start doing that in July. As a network admin, BT sucks!
I did not downvote your original comment (only this one), however, here is why I think it might have been downvoted:

a) Your comment does not make sense: People only very few people who commited any war crimes in WW2 are even alive anymore. Germans these days learn about it in history class. While it still has some influence on their attitude towards nationalism, it is unlikely that it has any influence on their general aggressiveness.

b) This is a sensitive issue. It might have been considered offensive.
"funded news organization and I have heard that it is just a propaganda tool, but a lot of the news seems very legit especially the coverage of all things our mass media ignores or hides."

This has also been my experience with Al Jazeera English. This sort of thing makes me wonder what other sorts of things are not as portrayed to us in the 'free' world.
Again, you are assuming quite a lot. You're being quite rude.

You're a sad example for our community.

Thanks for dismissing class but I have to say I did not learn much from you, great teacher that you are.
I think viewing licenses as just about lawsuits is a reductionist take on the issue.

A license can provide a strong indication of your wishes even if you don't ever intend to sue. I don't think it "requires you to enforce the threat" to be effective as a signal to others, particularly companies.

Now, you could say putting a note that isn't part of the license would have the same effect, but I find that hard to believe.
"It shows how from the first feminism was driven by ignorant indignation rather than reason..."

And that's where I stopped reading this vapid linkbait. Flagged.

Generalizing about "feminism" from this "meeting" is nothing more than ignorant indignation rather than reason.
if you're talking about this example:

const uint16 max_pressure = 100;
enum Switch_position {up, down};

``Switch_position'' is not the name of a variable, but an enum type.
No it isn't, it's an enum type.
My thoughts exactly. Well connected people essentially raise money on no-cap convertible notes in their seed round at a sum of a few million dollars with no product yet. That means their VCs and angels want in so badly that they essentially give free money to get preference for the series A in a pay to play sort of situation. The founders may be stingy on equity, but they do not have a problem paying at or above market salaries. Also, I would be very skeptical of any CTO that has not worked as an engineer at some point.
This is a neat story, and Feynman is of course a genius and raconteur of the first order. But it sounds too good to be really true, and Feynman admits at the end that the transcript that his narrative does not match the transcript; in other words, that it's partly fiction.

Regarding men and feminism, this quote is probably very apt:

"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool."
This guys takes cloning "seriously"
Cool story. Now I will laugh at the OP, with your permission.

> It shows how from the first feminism was driven by ignorant indignation rather than reason

Way to editorialize, dude. It fucking shows nothing. At most, it shows the existance of a loony subset within any given set of people. Shocking indeed.

So, what's up next? Will Rob Pike's story, previously seen in HN, prove that the open source movement consists mostly of lunatic men that lack social skills and hygiene habits, who also behave in an incredibly moronic and unprofessional way? Because if your sample population were RMS, Ulrich Drepper and Eric Raymond, you'd get just that. And you'd piss many people off, of course.
I strongly disapprove of the recklessness you have displayed several times, but then again you're a kid and it's understandable.

I hope you are successful and that you have banked well in the Bitcoinica deal.
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You're right. It should've been "Spanish is the second most natively spoken language in the world, after Mandarin Chinese."

From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_language
> - With an interpreter, there are no separate object files.

The article is talking about JIT compilers, not AOT compilers. JIT compilers don't need to generate object files. Compilers can provide eval. JITs use more memory at runtime than interpreters, with AOTs there is no runtime overhead from language processing.

> - With an interpreter, there's no phase separation. In a compiler you're always dealing with expressions, and you can't deal with the values they evaluate to.

This is just plain wrong. Interpreters can have phase distinctions. Any language that could be interpreted could just as well be compiled. I don't even really understand your argument here.

> - With an interpreter, the implementor keeps more control of programs.

What does that even mean?

> - Potentially smaller code sizes.

Interpreters that offer macros will have to expand the source code, too, which will use up memory. The difference is that now macro expansion is happening it runtime, which impacts speed. Furthermore, (dynamically-linked) compiled binaries are almost always smaller than their source code.

There are benefits to using interpreters versus compilers of any sort, and vice versa. This article is discussing the drawbacks of JIT compilers in particular.
They are OK if they are not reporting about Russia and/or former Soviet Union republics.

Once they report about Russia, it snaps to "Putin is God, anyone not agreeing with him should be put to jail" mode.