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> It is and has been easy to buy music online for quite a while, so I don't think that's really a problem.

If you are into mainstream music perhaps, but if you are in the United States and like music from a Dutch group you won't find it on iTunes in the US music store, it will be in the Dutch iTunes store. But you can't purchase the music from the Dutch iTunes store because it requires a Dutch iTunes account.

There are so many times now that I have looked for legal ways to purchase music, particularly music from Europe (where I am from) where the techno/trance/electronic scene is so much bigger and I just can't get it legally. I start searching for various different websites that might sell it to me and there are restrictions because I am in the US. Then I try to find it on Amazon or other sites and get physical copies and I end up on shady looking websites where I am not even sure I want to enter my credit card credentials.

I feel much more secure grabbing a .magnet link from The Pirate Bay than I feel inputting my personal information on various different websites while hunting for the music I want. The worst is when you follow a "Download here" or "Purchase here" link and you end up on yet another website that sends you to yet another website and so on and so forth.

These days pirating simply isn't an option for me due to my job, and I don't like to do it, so I find the music on Grooveshark, or Spotify or hope that it comes by on Pandora again, until the next time when I am in The Netherlands and I can walk into a record store and purchase the stuff on a CD.
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IPO means that $1BB was the plateau. They waited for this. Time to cash out. All down hill from here. How fast? Don't know. FB CFO probably does.

FB business model is display ads plus fad factor. Recent survey said 1/2 people think FB is a fad. What happens when fad dies down? Display ads alone are not a viable business model for a growth company. Hence we say FB has no business model.

There is no reason that FB _must_ fail. But there's nothing to suggest they will succeed. That's the problem. They do not have a business model that will allow growth.

FB now has $15BB to burn through while they keep competition in check (M&A but also G+) and wait for a business model to appear (more M&A). How fast will they burn through $15BB? Meanwhile they have to deal with Wall St.

Zuckerberg is still a kid; he's an unproven CEO but has unfettered control of the company. There is no Eric Schmidt to help him.

What about morale? What if FB believers start to doubt?

And then there's that sociopath/privacy thing... and peer-to-peer.

People are thinking about what happens after FB fails. And that's smart thinking, in my opinion, even if you're not in advertising.

From a consumer perspective, and we are all consumers, FB has a ridiculous amount of personal information. Imagine what happens if it finds its way into the junk mail/direct marketing/spam industry. One big mess.
But there are plenty of password stretching algorithms like bcrypt.

A very reduced keyspace, but we all knew people's password choices are poor anyway right?
But how can you argue this about Apple? They're incredible innovators, they deliver great products that consumers love and the prices of those products generally fall over time.

While Apple may be incredible innovators, they have also setup a marketplace to allow others to innovate. This marketplace is the only place you can get software from (I don't speak for jailbroken phones, which void the warranty). As the ones controlling and participating in the marketplace, they have an extremely unfair advantage if they prevent others from selling products Apple also want to sell.

This is anti-competitive, and the reason I believe they need to be careful before someone tries to put together an Anti-Trust case for them to answer.
By the same logic you support nobility I suppose.

s/citizen/noble/ in the following:

I am a citizen of a wealthy country, but I didn't earn this privilege, I got it by birth, and that gives me more rights than a lot of poor people working here much harder than I do.
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Sure, but then you have to use Firefox, or IO, or Safari, or Opera. It's not all great.
Interesting project. My first thought was: Great, changelogs! But then I started thinking a bit deeper and realized that what I'd love to see happen (on a related note) is a site/repository where you can see not only the legislation but the relevant case law over time.
I guess a Saturday might work out better. Friday is doubtful for me.
Sydney here. Close enough? :)
"- Don't use question marks in a resource URL (.css?v=234)"

why? if you get the cache headers right, this is the way to go to let it cache forever. that's a nice thing.

(i don't really get why they do not use a caching proxy in front, there even is a wordpress plugin for varnish, so wordpress behind a caching proxy does not suck that much.)

unfortunately some suggestions are not possible with wordpress, so that alone could be a thing worth replacing.
The time and effort were already expended. You can't steal those anymore than you can "steal" a digital file you made a copy of.

If I build an app and sell it for a $1 and someone purchases it for that amount and then makes a copy for his friend I have simply missed out on revenue, but my time wasn't stolen nor was my app.
Same here when trying to upload my bot the first time.

I WANT HIM TO LIIIIVE AND PLAY WITH OTHER BOTS IN THE REAL WORLD ;_;
Paid news is unsustainable.

News has always been free. The newspaper was a package deal, largely paid for by advertising, and consumers only forked over a little bit of money for the convenience.

And now that raw news has been disintermediated, there's even less reason to pay for "news".

Newspapers have already lost other things of value in their "package deal" (personal ads etcetera) because they couldn't be bothered to really go online. And most of them have completely sacrificed their credibility as watchdogs for political and commercial gain.

News has zero market value. News happens.

Newspapers are an outdated concept, and it's valuable parts have already been monetized by others.
This is incorrect. Google treats each page as a different page (even on the same subdomain). PageRank is per page and not per subdomain.

If anyone wants to learn most things about SEO, I highly recommend "Getting to Know SEO" by Andre Kibbe, it's the best book I've read so far on the matter: http://rockablepress.com/books/getting-to-know-seo
What you refer to here is known as a "natural monopoly": see Wikipedia for more information. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_monopoly
When I look at newspapers, there's a lot of stuff in there that is badly written, and there's a whole lot about stuff that doesn't need "proper" journalists: celebrity gossip, how to lose weight, move reviews, etc. Much of this can be offloaded by Twitter, blogs, tumblr, whatever.

Then we're left with all the rest, which might actually be interesting news and articles. There's probably too many reporters for this, though, if we exclude everything else.

I think I'm going somewhere with this...
That's an option, but there are a lot of downsides to being a professor, in addition to upsides. It's not at all a clean alternative to being an independent researcher; you're an employee expected to play a certain kind of game (which involves things other than scientific merit, like status/PR, grant funding, publication-counting, etc.).

But in any case, my main point was that you're incorrect that not spending money means sitting around on a beach doing nothing.
Wow. That's so insightful, I think you've single-handedly rendered every research division at every investment bank obsolete. Consider switching careers.

"This company is trading at this price, which is appropriate because this price is what the company is trading at. My recommendation is to purchase shares in this company then sell them at a higher price later on. Alternately, we can short this company's stock, and then profit when the price falls."
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What does Github's top 10 list tell us about its userbase?
Tip #4 out of 5: Build original content. Shouldn't this be on top?
Err, Opera isn't Webkit based at all. It runs on their own custom, proprietary layout engine.
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And by encryption scheme, you really mean hashing scheme. Yup, it's easy to get confused.
Funny tidbit - in the first statute in Title I, Chapter 1 (basically top-level definitions - "Words denoting number, gender, and so forth") it was considered important to include among the 10 definitions the following:

'the words "insane" and "insane person" and "lunatic" shall include every idiot, lunatic, insane person, and person non compos mentis;'

Interesting that that was considered to be up there with the legal definitions of "person", "officer", "oath", and "writing".
While this is how the free market works, ironically Apple have implemented the very opposite of the free market. Those who develop apps have also expended capital. If their app is suddenly yanked from the market then you can no longer claim that you are working in a perfect free market.

Incidentally, I disagree with you but I still had to think through my points. I am very surprised that you have been voted down. I upvoted you, I hope some other folks do too - your POV is actually quite germaine to this debate and I appreciate that you have expressed it!
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Actually, for freelancers it is more accessible and less risk to use illegal copies than for companies. Mostly, freelancers are producing sources for the concrete client, they aren't selling/shipping the binaries directly, so no one cares whether they used Notepad++ or Visual Studio.
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Very nice idea if there was a REAL democracy, but I doubt this will be suitable to the law-makers, because most of them don't want people to know how this process is, let alone know what laws are being discussed, and even worse, who and what did he/she patch...
"So how do you get good inbound links? Well, the key to really nailing SEO is producing such great content that other sites on the web can’t help but link to you."

And if you're a local plumber who, other than a lack of incoming links, provides great service? Social mentions of that great service (nofollowed on Twitter, for example) aren't going to help the ranking.

With startups and side projects, isn't the end result of this sort of thing that people have to create blogs/guides/content that is outside their core focus?
Don't forget miles driven per vehicle either.
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There was a great discussion on HN previously about this topic which also explains why a straight git implementation isn't viable:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3968653
I don't under stand the confusion in the other replies here.

1) lowercase inputted password.
2) hash password
3) compare hash to db hash (which was from a lowercased initial password).
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One exists. Hookworm aka Helminthic therapy.

Unfortunately the FDA has ruled that this treatment would require approval. The approval process is expensive, and there is no way that anyone can recoup their expenses for doing so. Therefore this treatment will never be approved in the USA.

But I know someone who had severe Crohn's disease who went to Canada to receive a mail order of hookworm. Thanks to that he's been totally off drugs for over a year, and shows no signs of the disease.
I think it's good because it raises awareness.

Many people simply believe that the government and these lobbyists are fighting for their interests, after all they are honest taxpayers that go to vote. Which in the case of SOPA/PIPA is simply not true and the world needs to know that this was a mixture of malevolence and incompetence.

And despite what some people on HN think about the power of lobbying with money, raising awareness is the most effective tool at our disposal. SOPA was stopped on tracks because the likes of Wikipedia and Google and dozens of others got the message out.
I think he's pointing to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efficient-market_hypothesis
Or it's just younger devs, who like to see something when they run their program.
You really think companies investing billions in things like Facebook are just throwing money at whatever they fancy and hoping it all works out? Investment banks employ thousands of people who do nothing but sit in their office and calculate if a certain security's price is off by fractions of a percent. Virtually everything that bank does is based on that analysis. They are very well-paid and a good market researcher is worth 100x his weight in gold-pressed latinum. They do fuck up, often publicly as it turns out, but that does not make their science any less refined.
Ask HN- Does something similar to HN exist?
Hacker News is my first site every day. I see HN as the best pool of popular stories on that day that scramble to keep their lead. I sometime go to see comment though I find them going sideways (not staying on the topic started by the post) pretty easily. But, this (going sideways) is a human nature. One major thing about HN - It shows the same contents for every visitor.

I would love to see such a site for very much everything, including tech news (imho HN stories differ vastly to the ones on say, Techmeme), local news, business, shopping (a great opportunity for opinion-based shopping), travel etc.
We don't want review sites, we want to say something on current state of affairs and let someone provide quality response (important feature of HN). Reddit is one, but childish most of time. Fark is another, but hilarious. I think of Quora, Stackexchange family but nothing matches simplicity and openness and global reach of HN. Many see answers in facebook and twitter but they are too close to be called as global for a single login (I have less than 50 friends on facebook).

Do you have any suggestions?
Ok, so instead of just going to court, I have to do arbitration first, and then go to court. Sorry, I don't see what your added value is.
Facebook won't make that mistake.
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Content providers are not subject to the same laws of libel as, for example, newspapers.

see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubby,_Inc._v._CompuServe_Inc.

And the subsequent Section 230 of the CDA:
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I wish lecture notes and videos were available for this course...
I like Wikipedia's version better:

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_be_a_dick
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"how far can I drive for this amount of $" is a question I've only heard a few times. But I do often hear "how far can I drive on a tank" or "how far can I drive on my remaining amount of fuel".

Perhaps the disconnect we see in this comment thread is between people who do almost entirely city driving and people who drive long distances. If you only ever drive a few miles at a time, you don't really care what sort of distance you can manage on a tank, you just care how much it's going to cost you to go to work every day (you'll probably convert the fuel/distance ratio into a money/time ratio.) If you spend a lot of time driving across central Kansas, how often you have to stop for gas becomes a more significant consideration (you'll probably convert distance/fuel into stops/time.)
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This is an article speculating which direction Facebook's stock is going to go in the coming months and years. The efficient-market hypothesis is about as relevant to that as prayer.
... and I hope he's being sarcastic.
The only problem with that is that it's ripe for timing attacks. I _hope_ they always check all three passwords anyway.
site doesn't load for me either... maybe the HN traffic is crushing their servers?
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I never programmed in haskell, but I did in clojure and I must say that functional style and number crunching fit really nice. Said that, I am not sure you can beat things like numpy or pandas when it comes to complex/big datasets. I looked around in the haskell world and it seems that to do the same as, say, in pandas you need to write a lot of things yourself and you can't rely on the same superb documentation.

But I will be really happy to be proven wrong. I really think lots of things would be easier in Haskell.
Except of course the artists who didn't get the money they otherwise would have if a free mp3 rip of their music wasn't already posted online somewhere.
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They should be weighting by miles, not sales, though that is harder to measure.
"Who the hell cares? Take a deep breath of chill the fuck out and don't read so much into things" is the attitude being referred to. It isn't exactly "Hi, you should consider this viewpoint..."
> According to Wikipedia, Windows provides one of the best ASLR on the market.

According to the same page, ASLR is enabled only for Windows binaries who had the option set at compile/link time. Also I see no sign of your Wikipedia-attributed affirmation; the article even notes a number of deficiencies.

> OS X for instance, has almost none of the OS-level security features found in Windows

I don't know which precise security features you are talking about, but Mac OS X has been iteratively improving on that front: a limited form of ASLR (along with NX bit and W^X) was available since Leopard for 64-bit processes and was iteratively improved in Snow Leopard and Lion. Full parity was brought to 32-bit processes in Lion. Kernel and kexts are fully randomized in Mountain Lion. Also, as far as I know Windows does not enable NX/DEP for non-system processes by default, and does not implement W^X at all. This is a far cry from 'almost none'.
Are you serious? The two periods are hardly comparable. See link.

http://www.hbs.edu/units/finance/pdf/Where%20Have_April_3_20...
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Reliable reports of news from a trusted source continue to have market value (quality info has rarely been free), and people continue to pay for them. Also good journalists often produce articles on trending topics which sometimes take weeks to complete and a lot of research. These things can be done by anyone, but they are hardly worthless and require investing time and money - producing good journalism takes a huge amount of time and effort, and the ignorance of crowds and free spread of rumours is hardly a fair substitute.

The internet has of course disrupted a lot of the news industry (for the better), and printed papers will soon be gone, but that doesn't make quality news and analysis any less valuable.
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You're probably right, but I think the future that you describe is less certain than it seems. For all the abundance and redundance of news and news outlets we underestimate the bottlenecks in the system.

If you trace the actual information items back to the source, you'll find that there aren't that many sources and there's a limited number of people who get the information from the original source and do some basic checks in terms of corroboration.

If the organisations that work the sources stop giving that information away for free and manage to reduce or slow down copying just a tiny bit, they have tremendous leverage. The general news business could look a little bit more like the financial news business.
the glaring thing is the mixing of both } and end... at least pick only one and be a bit consistent! :)
I'm sure the artist who just lost out on his 5 to 10 bucks would beg to disagree.

It isn't your right to choose the price you'd pay for something and then copy it if you feel so inclined. You either pay the asking price for a good / service, or you don't pay and don't enjoy the benefits of the service / good. This is why copyright infringement which subverts this system is illegal.
Do you have a reddit account? The quality in some of the smaller subreddits is much higher. If you signup you can unsubscribe from pics, atheism, funny, awww and whatever other fluff defaults on the front page.

For an example of this higher quality content I'm mentioning check out: http://www.reddit.com/r/photography
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This looks pretty awesome. I've messed around with TRESOR and it still feels like a research project.
Possibly because you hadn't said what the links were, and the downvoters were lazy.
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I agree they're being dicks(even though we have famously never received a straight-story from Rogue Amoeba), but this is not anti-trust/anti-competitive or monopolistic.

To get into the hot water that Microsoft did, you need to have a monopoly on an open market, which requires that there is no reasonable choice in the market. Android proves every day that there is indeed choice - and it's actually cheaper and easier to get involved with Android. Android is 56% of the market in comparison to iOS's 23% market share. iOS is only a revenue leader, which is like saying DM Chrysler has a monopoly on rich people.

Secondly the monopolistic abuses need to influence situations that would normally be out of their control. Anyone can choose to stop selling Brand X in their own store for example, it doesn't matter how popular the store is/or how much revenue they earn.

Once those are satisfied they need to do things which leverage their position to trample competition. E.g. Microsoft deliberately changed the function of their APIs to make quicktime unstable. Microsoft deliberately fragmented Java with their own flavour to stifle Sun and the cross platform movement, Microsoft deliberately enforced a web browser on their users as a way to prevent Netscape innovating the web-app scene. Microsoft deliberately forced vendors to sell Windows-only systems by threatening them with severe price hikes if they packaged OS/2.

That is anticompetitive, and they were excellent at it. Apple always wanted a curated store and have deliberately structured their store for this reason.
He has a horse in the race because he thinks he is right, not the other way around. He doesn't have to have a horse in the race.
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