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Clearly you'll need both devs and designers. The theory behind hiring a good designer/frontend dev is that it'll allow you to iterate on UX much quicker, which is usually a bigger win for your customers.

Clearly this is generalized advice so take it with a grain of salt.
Congratulations. I hope that the money will be put in a good use.
He's not saying it doesn't cost anything to produce, just that the incremental cost of "manufacturing" one digital copy of it is next to nothing. Sure, there's a fraction of a cent of bandwidth involved, but they could make a billion copies of an ebook for more or less the same cost as making the first one.

This doesn't hold true for an optical disc, where the disc has to be physically manufactured, have its contents written, be put in a case, and then shipped (probably across an ocean) to be sold.

One would like to think that since they're spending less to produce it, some of the savings would be passed on to the consumer. But I guess people are largely willing to pay the same price, so it just ends up being extra profits. The customer can't do much about the fact that a huge chunk of the price goes to inflated "delivery fees."
I'm moving to Portland Oregon, from the UK. I'm afraid that says it all :(
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This has been confirmed as false already.
I don't think you can argue that at all. Until very recently (on an historical time scale), mechanical copying wasn't possible at all, so copyright isn't some new thing, practically, it's just that in ye olde days it wasn't a relevant concept because you couldn't copy art - there were no CDs or records, lithography, etc.

If you wanted to hear a Beethoven symphony, you had to find an orchestra that was playing, and travel to see it.

Even duplicating printed work was much more work, since the type would have to be reset by hand.

While the funding model was certainly different, the era was much more different. Using the romantic era or earlier as proof that (in modern society) culture could flourish without copyright is ludicrous.
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I'm sure this will get down voted but why, in the last 30 years, have we needed the National Endowment for the Arts at all?

Art is massively funded. The Motion Picture Arts, The Musical Arts, The Art of Literature, The Art of Architecture, The Popular Arts (as San Diego calls comics and graphic novels), The Video Game Arts

Kickstarter will help fund more art. That's great. I doubt it will get rid of NEA. The NEA is about funding things nobody wants. If people wanted them they'd already fund them directly.
No problem - thanks for asking a great question.
I'm sorry, but how on earth is a document (DRM-ed or not) the same thing as an app? An eBook is content in a certain format. An app is a program that does stuff with input.

They are not the same. They aren't written the same, they aren't used the same (usually), and they aren't sold the same (usually).

This is like saying that gun control laws should apply to lighters. I mean, they both are made of metal, they are both manufactured by humans, and they both make fire right? Same thing!
I hate news like this. You read it and for a brief moment you go 'awesome', then you remember that you read it on the bottom of hn, and not the front page of every newspaper because it isn't yet tested, etc and ready for use.
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What I don’t understand about quantum mechanics is the reason nature had to make things so damn complicated. What was the fundamental problem that led to the solution of quantum entanglement, or the duality of the wave-particle situation.
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The big thing is it is a half-measure against an emerging threat model.

Don't get me wrong, we need bootloader protection like this. However the approach that is being taken is wrong. This is the UAC of boot loader protections.... A half-assed measure that if Microsoft actually looked at what everyone else was doing they would have supported something different.

Consider the following scenario:

Spear-phishing attach aimed at the right individual compromises their computer through an IE exploit (never happens, right?) and steals the bootloader private key.

What's the response? If the key cannot be changed then overnight this fancy new protection has been rendered no protection at all. The key can then be sold for top dollar to malware programmers. The solution for the user will be to wait a few months and then buy a new computer.....

So you are right that the sort of implementation we are talking about will not make much of a difference long-term, but for a different reason: it offers no long-term security if the key cannot be rotated.

I don't doubt that something could be designed right, but I do doubt that such a design in security-critical aspects of computing will arise with Microsoft's cooperation.
> often more than the cost of the physical book (which is usually less than a dollar).

Is that "less than a dollar per physical book" or "less than a dollar regardless of the number of physical books" ?
Let's say I want to do an SQL group by implementation. Are there examples like this?
Firefox with NoScript worked although I did wonder what was causing that fan noise! Not one to leave open in the background.
You're missing the most important point...you're not selling the used software...you're selling the used license, or the unique license key.

If I uninstall adobe photoshop and sell you my license key, you can install the same version and activate it using the key that I sold you. Now I cannot re-activate my copy of photoshop because my key no longer works, it's already being used by you. There's one copy of the key...it cannot be reproduced.

eBooks do not require license keys to read the book. You can essentially make a copy of the ebook and send it to me and we can both read the ebook (DRM issues can be a whole 'nother post here). The only way selling an ebook would work is if they required license keys that can be transfered around but not reproduced, and that would prevent me from reading my book after I've sold my license, my rights to read the book.
Very interesting article, i'd love to know how closely openruku is the the real thing
National funding is for things that can't get done by themselves. If kickstarter works for you, you don't need NEA there are plenty of valuable art undertakings that do not have public appeal. that is what the NEA should be doing.
I think you're missing my point and the point discussed in the article I linked to. Sure, the incremental cost is less (not 0, since places like Amazon may charge an electronic delivery fee), but the total cost still ends up being very similar for the digital version, even accounting for the lower incremental cost. The incremental cost of a paper book is also almost nothing, so I'm not sure where you expect these savings to come from. Overall, ebooks are in fact often discounted more than the cost of printing the paper book.
I really can't imagine why that would ever happen. What car would ever use a clock for anything essential, instead of a timer? Maybe I'm overestimating the intelligence of car developers, but it seems like the obvious, simple solution.
The best part of that is that every drop of that kickstarter money was voluntary. That is to say that the donors gave their money up willfully without the application of compulsive force. The same cannot be said about the NEA.

Regardless, the article hints at the primary problem with the replacement suggestion: this would effectively replace the current, centralized, political decision making with a distributed form of decision making. I don't see that happening anytime soon.
I get what you are saying, and you are correct in many respects. But when the barrier to entry gets that low it is because we have advanced further. So if anyone can whip up a website without know how then there will be very little in the way of profitable companies in that field, because why pay for something the next guy can cook up easily? Instead the startups in this theoretical time will be focused on creating companies that allow you to just whip up a drag and drop sites because they will be making the money, hell many companies do that now for small business that want to create splash pages, or restaurants with menus. What I am saying here is the Morse code guys weren't CS majors of today, the CS majors were EE's of that day figuring out long range radio while people started using the telephone. Money is in the next big thing not the last.

I am not trying to tell you to forget your plan, I just hope you are aware that you aren't living 15 years from now where the tides have potentially shifted. You will graduate in 1-3 years and be in the current work force that is flooded with liberal arts degrees, I have a ton of friends who have gone back to get a Masters to help differ getting a job further as their degrees did not put them in the position they were hoping. So if you would like to avoid this fate your best bet is either get in a technical/graphical program or get EXTREMELY involved starting now in the space you want to go into. Coming out of school with a BA and some interest in tech is not going to open a ton of doors, ever since the Facebook movie every person I know with no tech background has 100 ideas for apps I should build for them...and they have BA's too, they just need a "technical co-founder" and 75%.

I am really not trying to put you down, just trying to say if you want to be in a technical field you either need to be technical or work your ass off early, often, and many times for free.
Bytes or octets?
I don't know if this is true or false, but I've not yet had trouble with that while playing under wine. It will be interesting to see what comes out of this in the end.
For multi-Availability Zone ELBs, the ELB service maintains ELBs redundantly in the Availability Zones a customer requests them to be in so that failure of a single machine or datacenter won’t take down the end-point.

Based on how they behave in outages, I've always been curious (read: suspicious) about whether ELBs were redundant across AZs or hosted in a single AZ regardless of the AZs your instances are in.

It's good to hear that they are actually redundant and to understand how they're added/removed from circulation in the event of problems.
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I think this area will actually prove to be one of the key differences between AWS and Google's New Compute Engine. I'm not an expert in this area but the technical details of compute engine talk from google io (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ws2VRHq5ars) makes it sound like they are doing something special so that global traffic travels on their backbone as much as possible and you can move ip from server to server.
40 hours of time which isn't free, no less. Time which he (rightfully) expected to produce a fix to the problem in something less than two fucking years.

Emphasis on the expletive because this is absurd.
More or less the happy sense of being proved right. Since the Higgs is well-modeled and well-understood in theory, other than the value of its mass, we already have a rudimentary scientific understanding of what it does and how it works. But it's critically important that these theories, like the Standard Model that predicts the Higgs, be experimentally confirmed--though you are right that it would be far more earthshaking if it didn't appear.
My phone has ICS and honestly I'm not getting a lot out of it. I could be back on 2.3 or 2.2 and not even notice. I think Android versions don't really have much for the end user unless he or she needs a specialized application that makes use of the newer APIs.

I'd rather go with something thats open-ish and stale than this controlled freakshow that is the iOS ecosystem.
> It isn't as if the Android browser doesn't have its fair share of bugs

Patches welcome
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kmm stated that "we have our quantum field and we write it as the sum of our elementary wavefunctions", so I assumed that any quantum field can be described by a superposition of the elementary wavefunctions convolved with some sort of particle-position function P(p, x) (where, roughly, P(p, x) = E if particle p exists at position x with energy E, otherwise P(p, x) = 0). Am I wrong to assume this?

Edit: from what I can understand about the formation of the Standard Model from the Lagrangian, the domain restriction which makes the elementary wavefunctions elementary is wavefunctions which evolve over time (according to EM theory) such that when viewed as particles, their motion is compatible with QM (or relativity?), and that there are only a finite number of distinct wavefunctions which are needed to span this space. Is this roughly correct?
Partly, sure. If I had to write some C again I would surely try to do it as functionally as possible, and with the added experience I have gained in the last years I would now probably be a better overall C programmer. But had I sticked with C and not moved on to other languages I probably wouldn't be much better now than I was before.
Because I suck at business, I've had had to hire employee #1 way too many times. Here's what I've learned:

1) Hire someone with skills that fill in deficiencies that you have. If you hate paperwork, find someone who is diligent. If you like meeting customers, find someone who will do the heavy lifting when you've sealed the deal.

2) Don't hire a jerk, and make sure you get non-competes and non-solicitation agreements in place. Take your prospect out to lunch and watch how they interact with the waitstaff. That's a good window into their behavior, unless they are very shy.

3) Be a good example - any character flaw your employee picks up on will be parroted by them if they can get away with it.

I'd have more, but like I said, I'm not too good at this :)
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Nobody cares about Karma on HN. Please take such concerns back to Reddit.
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I can't help but suspect that this is turning into a bit of a scapegoat for cheaters (especially in Blizzard titles which, due to the studio being one of the few to continue to develop using OpenGL, generally work really well in Wine).

"I wasn't cheating, I was running in Wine!"

I'm not saying that false positives can't or don't happen; I'm simply saying that I wouldn't put it past a lot of clever gamers to try a little social engineering and manipulation of the circumstances to get away with things.
Between introducing multi-touch errors, and hobbling the HTML5 Audio API, there is no way to build an engaging game for mobile Safari. Apple has sabotaged their web platform with expert precision.
Actually, if the existence of the Higgs boson exists and it is right where we expected it, we are zero steps closer to a theory of everything. To get closer we really need to find something unexpected. Finding something we expected merely further confirms the Standard Model and gives us nothing to work with, even as we know something must be wrong with it. We need clues about how it is wrong, not more confirmation it is correct.
> why don't I see a "What the Fucking Fuck, Google" post.

Because you haven't written it yet?
where did you get that data?
Your argument would have had so much more weight if you had omitted the almost undisguised ad hominem attack.
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Still, making good products is a tactic, not a philosophy. Apple doesn't put the effort into making good products because they want to make people happy, they do it because that's what sells.

Any notion that Apple has altruistic motives is absurd. All companies exist for one reason: to make as much money as possible. Apple is no exception.
Per book obviously. But, ebooks are often (but not always) discounted more than a dollar off the price of the physical book, while their total costs often end up being similar.

Even for ebooks priced exactly at their physical counterpart prices (and ignoring that the total costs may actually be approximately identical), people aren't complaining that ebooks should be 80 cents cheaper, they are complaining that they should be significantly cheaper, which the economics of producing an ebook does not allow.
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Ok, so let's go further.

I want an email to be sent to me when the quantity on hand of a part gets below the re-order point.

So now, I build a program that listens for notifications, and when it gets one, loads the data, erases the queue, and sends me an email.

I build this so the app itself doesn't know this is required or is going on. Database triggers, queue tables listening scripts, and templates all are triggered when the db write takes place.

Now, what we have here are arguably two MVC environments where the model behavior of one triggers a model change in another, which triggers a controller to run, calls some other model stuff, creates an email (via a view) and sends it.

But this is the sort of action you are talking about, right? You think this violates separation of concerns?
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Are you under the impression that all particles live in one All-Embracing Majesty? That is not true, although all particles of the same type are excitations of a single field, different types of particles have their own fields. For example, the electron and the tau have two separate fields. The weak interaction makes for some mixing, but that is not really important.

If you're wondering why there's exactly 12 (+ 1 for the Higgs?) fields, I cannot answer that question and it's one of the open questions in current theoretical physics.
OK, but once you start your copy process, it should be straightforward.
This link has some interesting satellite photos, and some discussion in Portuguese.

http://negociosangola.blogspot.com/2011/04/nova-cidade-do-ki...

I wonder why they picked such an isolated spot 30 km from the capital. Angola has one of the lowest population densities in the world, surely land is not so scarce there that you need to go such a distance.

EDIT: well, I'm reminded yet again of how you can't rely on journalists. I took the 30 km figure from the BBC article here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-18646243

However, a check of Google maps shows that this town is a mile or so away from the capital, right outside the ring road. Even from the center of Luanda, it's not 18 miles as the crow flies. Certainly not "18 miles outside the capital". Doesn't seem like an unreasonable location, now that I've seen it.

EDIT 2: the affordability of this by average Angolans (or any large number of Angolans) is a different story, but my guess is that given the population growth of Angola and the location next to the capital, this town will fill up one way or another, tho' possibly at a loss to the government, which is repaying the Chinese loan for this with oil revenues. Also, it seems that the vast majority of workers who built this were Chinese - apparently Angola didn't insist on local employment offsets.
I don't mean this as snark. When it comes to art, if nobody wants it, why is it valuable?
My gut tells me that the underlying reasons are elegantly simple; it is our imperfect understanding - and a long chain of knock on effects - that leads to complication
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The ghost towns remain empty for the first year or two. But within five years all chinese ghost towns fill up. That's what I heard. We continue to hear about ghost towns because as soon as old ghost towns are filling up, china continues to build new ghost towns for future expansion.

Please correct me if wrong.
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“infinite” is really huge in the world of computation

Really huge = infinite. I LOLed.
What's more interesting - can I legit share my private collection of ebooks I paid for? If physical libraries can - why cannot I run a small digital one. With no ads served.
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Thanks for the correction – I had thought the geographical location of the court was Germany, hence my phrasing, but in going to double check it, it was a Germany company but the court was in Luxembourg... and yes, it was a EU court, I'm sorry if my statement seemed misleading/confused.
I wonder if anyone on Hacker News does the excellent service of doublechecking linked pages for attempted nastiness.
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Just take a look at the timeline: App Store was probably in the works when Jobs was still talking about web apps.
Thinking that Cydia forced Apple to reconsider its policy is very naive.
They are both goods. I should own what I paid for.
I can't help but read this and feel that your life priorities and response levels to problems are out of whack
You can't use the local App Store to buy games (since they haven't bothered to arrange for self-rating like other app stores).

Can you say a bit more about this? I don't follow.
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I'm not saying you're wrong, but:

"An app is a program that does stuff with input."

What? Says who? What input does my NYT app take, and how is it different than a table of contents?
Engine won't start, service due 300 years ago. I'd be willing to bet $10 there's at least a few floating around with real time clocks, no idea what they'd be used for though. If nothing else there's always in-car navigation and entertainment which are definitely candidates, although I suppose less likely to result in a brick.
ghostfish's message is now gray, so I guess he has been downvoted. Can anyone explain why?

My experience with DDG has been very similar to the one cited by aw3c2: I used it as my primary search engine for a couple of months, and eventually found myself always using !g, so I switched back to google.
Libraries do not pay the same prices as individuals. In fact, they pay higher prices for ebooks for the license to lend them out. If you wish to enter into such an agreement with publishers as well there's nothing stopping you.
You are exactly correct; It does this for anything that may require an action. The action can be cancelled prior to the progress bar completing, but none-interaction will result the progress bar completing and the music playing, alarm being set, etc..

I don't understand how parent can write such a lengthy comment without watching the entire video and understanding what they're talking about. Even the parent's disclaimer states they are only going by the video, but it clearly shows they didn't watch it fully, since what they missed is contained within the very first minute of the video, multiple times.