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A lot of YouTube videos cannot be played in Germany.

Part of that is due to music licencing laws and not allowing it to be streamed in Germany. More of a copyright case than free speech.

Though Germany does have some laws, like it's illegal to show the swastika, or to deny that the holocaust happened, etc.
Yes, always. Isn't it for you?
Works quite nicely on Chrome. Too much lag on Firefox and Opera!
Wealth creation as well...
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excellent news, I thought Jython was dead.
Nothing of value is lost, almost half of those are scams
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I thought it was going to be a comparison of the different arguments, but it's a list of links of different articles saying "learn to code" or "don't learn to code".
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If you want some interesting precedent, do some research on "Internet2" and the testimony of the RIAA to legislators.

Do you know what a LAN is? It is an evil invention to share copyrighted works. It must be stopped.

If you want a better understanding, read everything you can find on UDP, Ethernet, firewalls, NAT and encapsulation, in that order. I would suggest not to waste time trying to figure out "pre-packaged" peer to peer software solutions (i.e. all the different approaches people have taken, e.g., aeroFS, Kicksend or whatever). They often include far more complexity than you need to accomplish peer to peer. As such, they won't help you much to understand the basics: how connections are made.
The items in question are still there, it's just the name itself that is getting formatted.

Side note: Why are the post that are giving apple the benefit of the doubt of this being a mistake getting downvoted? Really guys?
For me, yes. I had an extremely shitty undergrad in EE. I wanted to do C.S. (to put it bluntly, I didn't know shit about programming) and Math and basically crammed in as much of a B.S. in Math/C.S. in those 2.5 years of Masters. Moving from being unemployable to employable is a definitely boost.
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I wonder how many people still use Photoshop to create mocksups first and then move to HTML/CSS.
Ever since CSS3 became popular I create my mockups directly in HTML/CSS3.
That was my first idea, but it's actually a trademark[1] owned by "Antiga Confeitaria de Belém Lda", and I didn't want to get involved in ugly legalese.

[1]: http://oami.europa.eu/CTMOnline/RequestManager/en_Result?tra...
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I find that harder to read than if it had a : separating the attributes.
Want an incentive to have students perform better?

Schools need to implement a standard performance-based path for skipping grade levels so that students can get out sooner.

I was reading Hawking, Nietzsche, and college-level humanities books in my free time in 8th grade because I was bored out of my gourd with my classes. In 12th grade, I was forced to take classes that taught, for example, how to balance your check book.

I'm pretty sure that when he's older, I'm going to encourage my son to get a GED when he's 16 yo or so, just so that he doesn't have to put up with all of the bullcrap classes.

And, I don't care about your socialization arguments. My son is 2 yo and already has great table manners, is polite, shares, and is quite empathetic. Most of the "normal" young people I meet these days behave either like wild Indians (feather not dot) or slovenly Barbarians.
This could be good -- any additional info that you can share? The details are somewhat scant and I'm greatly interested.
Long story short, I am not planning to expand my FB advertising efforts at this point. In my best ever campaign I managed to get 6 conversions after spending $280 which is getting close to breaking even, but not quite there yet. Just to reach this almost-breaking-even point I've spent probably close to $2000 on various ad networks.

Another one that came close to working was bidding on SMBC comics ads through Project Wonderful.
That makes sense. I suppose I just think of something different than I should when I hear "weight loss." When someone says "weight loss," I hear "body composition change," which is obviously different than weight loss.
Plus... chicks dig it.
Person X is a hypothetical game developer. Person X is not new to software development, but does not have much experience developing games. The best way for Person X to learn is to look at the source code for a game similar to the one he/she wishes to create, to see how the experts did it.

Sadly, that game is non-free, and Person X is unable to study the source code. Person X learns nothing other than that he/she has been denied this knowledge and must go seek it out from another source.

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There's other reasons. What if the game saved all my data to a remote server and I wished to modify the game to save it locally? Or, perhaps the game crashed every time I entered a certain room and I did not want to wait for a fix from the original developers (which may never happen --- what if this game is now unsupported due to its age?).
According to the blog post, consumers are 10% more likely to buy vs. Facebook - well, that's a decent lift stat but it does, as someone else mentioned, depend on the base. Then, later in the article we learn that in Sept 11 they had 75 total orders (across 26,000 shops) via pinterest, then 320 orders in April 2012. Yes, that's more or less 4x the Sept number and does indicate an upward trend - but that's still a very, very small number, and the growth rate is unlikely to continue.

Pinterest is definitely interesting - I'll be trying it out for some eCommerce, but I'm not expecting much at this point.
WTFFF !!!!! What does Pastebin & Vimeo even have to do with the "Piracy Stuff" !!!

How foolish is the Indian Government !! Seriously !!!
Those who are unaware of history are doomed to repeat it. I don't see even an attempt at mitigating the security issues inherent to in-browser, JavaScript cryptography: http://www.matasano.com/articles/javascript-cryptography/ (for the TL;DR crowd: there is no such thing as security when it comes to JavaScript running inside the browser, therefore, the crypto done in JS is not verifiable and not trustworthy, therefore worse than useless)

In other words, this whole idea is completely insecure by design, and actively harmful by providing an illusion of security.
Update:
Indian Supreme Court website hacked in response to TPB, Vimeo block
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3986661
I don't mean abusive in the sense that it's using technology in a way it was not intended to be used. I mean abusive as in actively harmful to the user's interests and privacy.
I would say pretty much ever designer I know still use Photoshop to design first. I also know that the PSD to HTML businesses do HUGE turn over each year, so I think this is very much in demand.
It was renamed as Operation Iraqi Freedom after the public relations nightmare it generated. Just look at the links I posted before.
I also can't believe it was upvoted, mainly because it was a silly bit of sarcasm.
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I think this is the most important question regarding online games on Linux, and aren't most games online these days?

I think that the solution is radical: I think that as much much time and effort should be put into making the binary unhackable as is put into the game. Ultimately, DRM(1) is a game, and a lot of programmers are addicted to breaking it anyway.

What's funny about DRM in the case of an online game is that it's actually a feature that customers would pay extra for, and a premium for quality DRM. Hopefully, we'll have good companies and groups creating it, and online games (whether given away or sold) will advertise and brag about what kind of DRM that they're using.

(1) I'm using the term DRM because I can't figure out a better term - but it's more like tamper management, isn't it?
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Get bought by Amazon or Google in my mind - they have stock to do it, and it would benefit either of them (although less for Google). I could see Amazon buying them as, essentially, infrastructure for driving ecommerce sales.
My suspicion is that it just wasn't that good. This was given at a TEDx event, not an official TED conference, which means they have no control over the content and are pretty free to not post it. Only a few of the TEDx talks ever make it on the TED.com website.

And you are right, this is hardly controversial. You couldn't find a politician who would disagree that a strong middle-class is the backbone of our society.
Apparently it's too partisan: "This idea is an article of faith for republicans _and seldom challenged by democrats_ and has shaped much of today's economic landscape."
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That's precisely the sort of bubble economics that the parent was objecting to. The objection is to speculation as opposed to investment - investment expects a steady return based on real profits/assets, speculation expects a greater fool to come along later and pay more for this asset, regardless of what it might actually be worth based on revenue/assets alone.

In a bubble (tulips, houses, stock markets) there seems to be an unending supply of greater fools, until all of a sudden there isn't, and someone (who of course expected to find some other fool to sell to) is left picking up the tab for assets which are now close to worthless.

If your valuations are based on what someone else might pay in future, you are speculating, and will be lucky if you manage to get out before other people realise the assets you have bought are not worth $1B or whatever you paid for them. If on the other hand you bought because there is a steady income stream from an investment which will eventually pay off the investment and add returns, and thus underpins the price, you don't have to worry about whether this is a bubble or not.
One of my favorite classes in college was how to build a MIPS processor. How program counters, muxes, ALUs, branch predictors, and such worked blow my mind.

I wish I still had the notebook of my CPU drawing.
It does sound like it was at least a vaguely political decision, mixed with image-maintenance PR concerns, if the email excerpts from the related article (http://nationaljournal.com/features/restoration-calls/too-ho...) are genuine.

Fwiw, TED doesn't publish all talks, especially not all TEDx talks, so it's not as if this was singled out to be suppressed. But it sounds like it wasn't selected for publication due to a mixture of: 1) Anderson personally disagreeing with its politics; and 2) TED's attempt to carefully manage its image on anything political, which involves closely planned and timed releases of things like the two "political" videos they did publish, on global-warming and contraception.

The main PR mistake TED made, afaict, was to say enough to give an impression that it was political. If it just got lost in the shuffle, like most TEDx talks do (few are posted on ted.com), it'd be one thing, but Anderson arguing against points in the talk, and then giving the impression that it was scheduled and later pulled due to partisanship concerns, created a fiasco where one wouldn't have existed.
This should shift the s/w outsourcing edge away from India.

I think the rest of the world should consider this good news and encourage them to find more creative ways to 'protect' against imaginary criminal activity.
I find it more likely that good songs are both pirated more and bought more, rather than that the piracy increases the sales. Correlation, not causation.
I really liked the environment to find new projects to invest and also the very good support for who is now beginning.
Burst.NET cloaking processes in dedicated servers?
I have 6 dedicated servers in Wooservers (a reseller of Burst.NET). I monitor CPU with rrdtool. I'm getting these strange charts:

http://i.imgur.com/YAu8q.png
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exactly at 00:00 my servers either stop or start processing something according to rrdtool, although there's nothing started/stopped by me. I look at ps/top and nothing shows either.

i've been scratching my head for the last month and can't come up with an explanation... aside from the crazy idea that these guys modified the kernel (they installed ubuntu for me) and somehow are cloaking processes. Any ideas?? Thanks!
I dunno.

The New York Times regularly posts hand-wringing debates between "the usual suspects" on this issues.

Everybody in these debates seems to take it for granted that taxing the rich will hurt economic growth, but maybe just maybe there are some benefits to equality that will make up for that.

Nobody mentions that an economy has a hypothetical failure mode (like the game of Monopoly) where all of the money ends up in one person's hands -- and then trading stops.
It's still pretty prevalent. I'm currently consulting for a largish e-commerce site, and their creative department sends all their page designs over as PSDs.
Does it notify you before making a call or receiving one ?
Photoshop is still pretty popular in web agencies.
You actually read manuals?! Thanks for the pointers, I have read some myself, but I'm in the search for new ones.
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Sigh... This thread, again?
"Switch to a new carrier" sometimes means "move to a different city/state".
This reads like a post that exists just so that people pirating music can give themselves an excuse to keep doing so.

I'd be interested in seeing the process that Hammond took to establish this relationship between pre release piracy and album sales. It says causal, but it seems like you can't truly control for all of the variables when you're dealing with phenomena in society.

One thing that sort of makes me itch is that the reported benefit of a one month in advance leak is a value rather than a ratio. It seems like a figure like that lets weight ruin the measure -- an album that was popular anyway will weight heavily when it comes down to the expected value.
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I have this link on my bookmark bar. I do the same thing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases
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My idea for a smart fault tolerant assets / CDN balancer? 
My idea is to store assets on multiple networks/CDN providers. Label them assets-n1, assets-n2, etc. The user is given an roughly equal amount of assets to load from each network during the evaluation session. Load times are taken by javascript which are then sent back to the load balancer. Going forward the user is sent to the fastest/cheapest network through simple HTML markup. This allows the ability to add edge CDN nodes where the CDN provider is not located or is providing bad performance. This allows the automated routing around temporary bad performance.

I am a little inexperienced and wonder if I could get input for improvements from the HN community. Maybe you know someone who has implement something like this? Maybe you want to implement yourself and share it with everyone?

-- savr
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It is even worth than that:

> “They’re not accepting answers that are mathematically correct,” Abbott notes, “and accepting answers that aren’t mathematically correct.”

The test just seems to be a retarded thing designed by a clueless bureaucrat.
I had missed the previous one; for anyone else likewise having done so, here it is: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3983598
I've been following your posts since you started with the business. Have to say that I'm impressed by your tenacity in keeping this fun idea going.

Now, your marketing copy is all over the place. The layout is so hard to follow. Things are just too spread around, and the eye cannot follow an easy reading path.

Put everything into two columns, side by side. Put more pictures, and more information. Get a smaller third column on the right side for the testimonials.

Also, your headline is not bade, but it has nothing under it for me to read . The job of a headline is to get people reading the copy. You have no copy.

The big ugly green button is akin to a car salesman handing you a buying contract for a brand new car before you even shake hands. Get that out of there!

I believe that if you did a video of you hand picking specialized candy for your customer then sales would improve. People are not buying the candy, they are buying the experience. Let them see the process through a camera so they can relate and live out their Japanese fantasy.
In fact, do a 10 minute long video of you shipping for candy. Put all the different candies and give out your opinions. Talk to Japanese people, and have them share their favorites. You could even try and get the best selling candy manufacturer into letting you do a little tour of their factory.

There are so many neat things you can do that will turn this into a 10K business ASAP.

Good luck!

PS. Shoot me an email to rm at innovafy dot com
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Another idea: Let your customers comment on the "past candy". Let them rate it and share it and talk about it.
I like to form a hypothesis then test. Does that make me stupid for jumping to a conclusion? I'd rather approach something with "I don't know, but I think maybe...", lets test and see.
"Now waiting for App store approval" - does that mean Mac only?
I don't use Photoshop, but the hue-shifting glowing hat and floating words are a pretty cool effect.
I thought it did. How do you think they differ?

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If you give the parents the ability to "shop", what happens when everyone thinks that teacher X is the best English teacher for 7th grade and they ALL want their kids in her class? Or what about the kids whose parents aren't as involved (maybe they both work full time or it's a single-parent household) and therefore don't get a chance to hear about which teachers are best... do those kids just get the less-capable teachers?
Two problems I see with this are that he only uses one source for pirate figures - a private tracker specializing in sharing music - and focuses on pre-release leaks. These would both imply a link with music fans and not the piracy market as a whole.
I use Google Docs code a lot at work in "production". Here's my experiences:

Yes, you can do more than a few hundred lines of code. My in house library is now about 5k LOC. Yes, it's basically straight JavaScript. Everything is there except for the DOM. Yes, the online editor sucks. I don't use it at all. (see below how) No, you cannot use jQuery/Prototype, etc (there's no DOM or Window class). No, you cannot use long running methods. Google Docs cuts you off at around 30 seconds of execution. No, you cannot share code. (see below)

-- How I develop on Google Docs:

1. I develop it outside of Google Docs using Sublime Text 2

2. I test using Node.JS + assert() + methane.js (see below)

3. I then minify it using Google Closure Tool

4. Then I copy and paste it into Google Docs

This works well because the online editor blows when you're doing anything semi-complex.

--- Testing in Google Docs

I use node.js + assert() + methane.js. What is methane.js? It's a little piece of JS that mocks some of the Google Apps classes and functions. I can then override that mocked method to return the value I expect Google to return and test my own methods.

It's here: https://github.com/chrisle/methane

Consider it alpha code. It's not very well documented. It works for me!(tm)....

-- Sharing code in Google Docs:

Inside of onLoad() I've seen people use UrlFetch and then eval() the response string as a way of getting shared code to work. Not ideal, but it works. I personally don't share code or use this method.
I've seen a few mentions about this fairly inane speech -- smells like PR/astroturfing to me.

Frankly, whenever I hear the phrase "job creation" I tune out immediately, because I know that nothing intelligent will follow that phrase ever.

People hire people to do things when they have work to do. You "create jobs" by increasing economic activity. The problem is, business these days is all about consolidation and labor arbitrage.
Not particularly interesting. Just someones opinion, the masses won't push for any major change around any possible wealth divide (if it exists or not). No one goes for extremes
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These "bubble" comments may become self-fulfilling. Even if there's no substance behind the claims, enough talk of a possible bubble can shift investor and consumer mentality and end up causing a bubble down the line.
Looks like they are about to release a tool for that too http://csspiffle.com/
What really gets me is when I'm on a site (Newegg does it too) and I search for, let's say, 4GB DDR3 1333. What comes back in the results? A $3000 PC that has two sticks of the RAM I'm searching for. That's not RAM. That's a product featuring that RAM. Or more to your point, search for HDMI and you get TVs and video cards that have HDMI ports on them. If I wanted to look for TVs, I would have said TV.
Some activities do however prejudice my view of others, the most obvious one is smoking. While one former good friend is very intelligent and has a work ethic second to none she recently started smoking at work. Now since I knew her before this I am less likely to write her off as being stupid but I cannot say the same for others whom I first meet and find out or witness them smoking.

So yeah, it is hard to fight a first impression.
>That's why I can say with confidence that rich people don't create jobs, nor do businesses, large or small.

This argument only considers half of the problem. Yes consumers are needed to create jobs but what is needed to create consumers? Jobs. You can't be a consumer without an income, and for the vast majority of people, you don't have an income unless you have a job.

Therefore for failing to acknowledge this fundamental, very simple and might I say, quite obvious fact, I think it's fair to say Nick Hanauer's reasoning is at best weak, and at worst disingenuous.

It makes one wonder what his motivations really are. Attention seeking contrariness? A desire to ingratiate himself with the 99%?