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>If an artist wants their music to be free they would make it free.

This isn't always the case. MGMT comes to mind as a band who wanted to release their album (Congratulations) for free download but the studio or producer or whoever wouldn't let them. This isn't always the case I'm sure, but it's also not a fair statement to say that if you can't get an album for free it's the artist who wants it that way. There's a lot of people that have their fingers in the pie.
The expectation in the article was not that apple would include X11 in the OS, but rather that an in-place update to the new version of the OS would not remove X11
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If somebody is a novice programmer (in ruby on rails) then should he develop the app from scratch or use any open source app for his idea?
Anybody know where I can find good open source rails app especially for developing a CMS?

Thanks
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> What I find disturbing here is the expectation that they would include it.

If it's always been included in the past, why wouldn't it be included now?

Maybe it's just me, but when I buy an "upgrade", I expect it to be a better version of what I already have.

Also, the installer didn't just not include X11, it actively removed the version he had installed. If the current install isn't compatible with Mountain Lion they could have popped up a message box or prompted him to upgrade the next time he ran an X app. There's no reason to delete things from his machine without telling him.
One tracker down, dozens more will pop up overnight. No matter what side of this issue you are on, fact is, you cannot stop people from file sharing or pirating.

Media companies need to realize this and fundamentally change their business models. That is the only viable solution to discourage pirating.
Copyright infringement is equivalent to theft in the context of the statement I was making: getting something you would normally have to pay for for free by illegal means. It is, of course, not equivalent to theft in other contexts (e.g. from the perspective of the person whose copyright is infringed).
Ok. and what answer did you leave for this survey, given that "Clojure" is not valid? ;P
Stripe is beta testing internationally. I got an account in Canada about 2 weeks ago.

http://www.businessinsider.com/stripe-square-international-e...
wait, wait, wait. We want a subscription model now? I thought we were tired of renting things and wanted to own them. Somebody please make up their mind and tell me what to think.
Right now the industry is doing the equivalent of adding an 18% gratuity to a take-out order.

Only there's no effort on their side to take your order, and it's way more than 18%.
It's free, personal money transfer that you can cancel if someone steals. What's not to like?
The article suggests: "We’re now 25 people, raised $7.3 million, and just had our best month ever."
http://searchrank.is/ monitors search keyword rankings of iOS apps on the iTunes store and tries to predict keywords of compeditor apps.
Fantastic, how do I go about applying, do you know?
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No clue about UK
Sure, but then someone can mug you. Credit cards and checks you can cancel.
I would be very interested in how do you do ticket handoffs/tracking across multiple non-dedicated support people in your rotation.
My router has built in software to participate in these broadband sharing schemes but frankly they scare the shit out of me, so I don't touch them.

Firstly , I'd be amazed if the TOS for my from most domestic ISPs
actually allow you to "resell" your connection in such a way.

Secondly what happens if somebody uses your connection for nefarious deeds, how can you prove it wasn't you?
That's certainly not been my experience with setting up online billing through authorize.net (or braintree for that matter). Integration is easy enough, it's the screwing around with getting a merchant account that's a pita.

Plus, if you're a startup, you don't really know how much you're going to be selling (or not selling). It's a good idea to keep associated costs variable until you have some better benchmarks.

Stripe is unquestionably the fastest, easiest way to be able to accept credit card payments online without making yourself look like an amateur by having google checkout or the like. Not having to go through the process of getting a merchant account--and the way their fees are structured--has been a huge time and sanity saver for me, both for myself and for projects I've worked on.
What is the absolute cheapest way to process credit cards online
What is the cheapest way to process credit cards online? I've used Paypal & Stripe. At the lowest level, Stripe is a better deal (no redirect). Paypal forces you to redirect the user to Paypal, process the payment, then redirect back to your site. In 2012, this is just crazy - which is why Stripe is doing so well. For the same fee, your users stay on your site (2.9% + 30¢)

However this clearly isn't the cheapest option.

In the top post on HN, another user mentioned: "get a merchant account through a bank and authorize.net ." However I am wondering if this is still the best option.

HN - what is the absolute cheapest way to process credit cards online?
> Nesticle/Nesticle95 did not required patches to NES games

NES ROMs were distributed pre-patched to work on Nesticle. I was there for it. This was not done by Bloodlust, but by people wanting to play the games.

Some emulators to this day ship with databases of checksums to detect these images.

> IMO, a SNES emulator requiring 3GHz means brain-dead implementation

I look forward to your SNES emulator with no known bugs and much lower system requirements. And if you aren't making one, why are you so sure of what is required? None of the other SNES emulator authors who have looked at my code feel there is a technical flaw in its implementation.

You need to understand the exponential function to understand bsnes' system requirements. When I first started out, I was able to run ~99% of games almost as quickly as Snes9X (the latter used ASM cores for the CPU, SA1 and SFX.) The more accurate you get, the less it fixes. To get everything running at the same time is the hard part. It means you can't take shortcuts anywhere.

If I chose to remove behaviors that would break at best a dozen games, my emulator could run four times as fast. In fact, I've made a build that does just that. Here it is getting 80fps on an in-order Atom CPU: http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/405/zelda3v.png/ -- this build pushes 300-400fps on my 3GHz E8400.
Looking at the "note taking" screenshot, their virtual keyboard style is shameless.

Screenshot: http://cdn.techpp.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Capture1.jp...
OS X is now download-only, so I imagine pruning bloat has an immediate benefit for any users without infinite, speedy broadband.
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alan_cx's comment is a little silly, but I'll take your bait.

> Does there need to be? People are taking something for free, something someone is trying to sell and does not want to be taken for free. Surely that is enough for illegal sharing of music to be considered bad? If an artist wants their music to be free they would make it free.

Most of the pushes for these laws and raids are done by studios who insist they are losing out, big-time. "Think of the jobs!" If the pirates cannot have their narrow anecdotal evidence, nor can the studios. ;)

"People are taking something for free" simplifies the issue, and misrepresents it as well. If I made a song and priced it at three billion dollars and thousands of people "stole" it, would it be the biggest theft in the history of mankind? The terms set out by which information can be exchanged should not be exclusively in control of the creator. Copyright has generally existed under the premise that society demands a little fair use in return. That should be based on what is practical to enforce, and partially on what benefits culture the most.

Consider that almost nothing can be done about piracy without sacrificing everybody's civil liberties. This is not a crackpot theory, technologies exist _today_ which end the ability of the government to enforce copyright or any other law over information being exchanged between two parties. The Internet would have to be deeply curated. Even that wouldn't stop it.

Are you willing to go that far to enforce copyright? If not (as I hope) you should support making non-commercial filesharing legal, and expanding fair use in other ways.
It would be amusingly relevant to the subject of the actual post if that feature was implemented in Chrome so you could conditionally turn this off just for the browser where it's broken. :)
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MGMT chose to sell their rights to their music and to turn their music into a business. If they remained independent (owned their own music) they absolutely could give their music away for nothing if they wanted to.

They made their band a business: they have to deal with the consequences. Using MGMT as an example of how "bad" record companies are is very disingenuous, they chose to sell out.
Why is that? I know nothing about Haskell.
Though - piracy accounts for (potential) loss of sales - so while not losing ownership, they are losing revenue.
How do you know this for a fact?
Jobs was in charge of Apple as they shipped numerous versions of Terminal.app for a period of over 10 years. If he was going to remove it, he would have.
https://stripe.com/global
I will be sure to quote you the next time there's an article about someone stealing a startup idea or website design.
I would have told myself to divorce the ex then, instead of waiting 5 years and prolonging the misery.
In case anyone is curious, here's Patrick's sales graph:
http://www.bingocardcreator.com/stats/sales-by-month

You can see the big jump in May-July (although the jump for July is 32%, not 53%)
Stripe the service is fantastic. I just hope they can get the financial side together soon. They sent me a 1099 on April 14 this year (you know, one day before taxes are due). Fortunately I hadn't filed yet (I was literally typing everything in TurboTax as the postman came). Not only was that usually illegal (at least for traditional 1099's; I don't know if the same rules apply to 1099-K's...haven't looked), it was highly annoying as it was also the second one they sent me (each with a different amount). Turns out they'd switched payment processors or something at one point and didn't bother to tell their customers to expect two 1099's.

Still using it. Great product. But I had to file an extension and crap to get it all sorted out, which was highly annoying.
That sort of business model is not for everyone though. I'm perfectly fine with paying per album as long as the album is actually mine after purchase without any limitations on what to do with it. Period. I'd even rather have that than a "flatrate".

What I'll be "finest" with though is paying the artist directly, even at the same rate. I have no interest whatsoever in sponsoring the music industry, as in corporations. I want the artist to receive my money, not some manager, business executive or whatever, because the product I'm interested in is the music itself, not it's promotion.

Morally speaking I'd rather pirate and then paypal some money to the artist to support the good work.
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If you disagree with their business practices then boycott them and use your money to support alternatives. Stealing their stuff just empowers them to get dumb laws passed.
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If modern smartphones had existed when I was a kid, I'm 100% sure I would've been building (probably crappy) games and apps for them when I was 12.

The tools to create are more democratized, which is extremely powerful. Seeing high-quality apps in the app store, and knowing that I have all the tools to do the same, would've been the ultimate challenge for me.

I would've spent my high-school years studying existing apps, open-source, etc, and trying to emulate successful ones. I know this b/c I DID spend most of my childhood trying to figure this stuff out, but available resources were so primitive (mid- to late-80's). Most people didn't even have a computer, and there was little open source or good-quality software to look at for inspiration.
You sound like you might be a musician/artist. It's really a shame at how many artists are angry at consumers because of piracy. Record labels love this, because you're fighting their battles for them. They're using artists' anger of THEM not paying artists, and projecting it onto piracy.

1) Musicians should be angry with their labels. 2) Musicians should not buy into the bullshit that piracy is decreasing their cut. "Hey man, we'd pay you more, but there's so much piracy going on! The revenues aren't there! You should be mad at the pirates."
Name one next-gen p2p solution.
That is a lot of excitement for something that was available at http://xquartz.macosforge.org/ on release day. I didn't even notice or care until I realized that libpng's headers were considered part of X11.

When Apple introduced X11.app, I regarded it a tactic to get UNIX developers onto the platform. At the time, MacOS developers were sticking to Carbon like glue, and I think that by improving the POSIX compatibility and adding X11, Apple was trying to get other communities excited about OSX.

X11.app did not integrate well with OSX, let alone Apple's shrinkwrap vision of the Desktop. I'm not surprised to see they treat it like an optional add on package, and I am somewhat relieved to see it continue as an open source project with support and recognition by Apple. It's the right way to handle a legacy framework in my opinion.

As for the loss of RSS from Mail.app and Safari.app. Srsly? People use that who don't have a six paragraph definition for "semantic web"?
I'd like you to offer your own suggestions for in-use next gen technology, in return for having read all the above. Whatever you have your world stage set with, your assumed knowledge about the state of play that you use to project forwards, is not commonly held. Get off the fucking soapbox and present a damned case, man.

Tribler, http://www.tribler.org/ is, to my knowledge, nearly the only assemblage advancing p2p & which is in use at the current moment. It's half academic stomping ground, one quarter experiment, and one quarter earnest direct directed software, yet this loose assemblage of different interests is, as far as I know, the only ones doing anything like what you're talking about, making systems where for example even search can be done p2p. They call this 4G P2P: http://www.tribler.org/trac/wiki/4thGenerationP2P .
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Not sure why the author goes through pains not to call out the fact that SO is not secure in the layman sense. In general, if a service requires users to understand the lack of SSL and to take security into their own hands, the service is not secure. Worse than that, SO does not even explicitly communicate this to users.

Also, the author omits a crucial workaround. When on a public network, communication can be made secure if routed through an encrypted tunnel to a known-secure network, such as with a properly configured VPN.
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My current builds do perform per-pixel synchronization of the CPU and PPU. It cuts the speed in half compared to scanline-based, and even that is only because I run the chips out-of-order until synchronization is absolutely required.

It's needed by Air Strike Patrol to draw the plane's shadow, as seen here: http://byuu.org/bsnes/images/accuracy/air-strike-correct.png

It also affects a lot of "line error" issues, but those are fairly easy to work around with a scanline-based renderer.
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Could you verify that it is indeed a law? I keep on hearing different reports about this: some say that it is a law, some say that it is not a law, just a clause in the contract that the merchant and the CC network agree to.
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> getting something you would normally have to pay for for free by illegal means.

You have to remove "by illegal means" from your statement, because you're claiming how copyright infringment is theft, and being illegal doesn't make it theft. It's illegal because it's claimed to be theft.

So your statement becomes "getting something you would normally have to pay for for free." Is this theft? If you could get something for free that you would normally have to pay for, wouldn't most people do it? What is the compelling reason not to?
The whole point of this move is so that technical users will get a fully up-to-date version of X11, rather than whatever old version was up-to-date when the OS went gold master. Technical users will have little trouble installing it (Apple makes it easy), and will appreciate being up to date. Meanwhile my parents won't miss it.

Another example of this way of thinking is that Apple apparently removed the web server software from Mountain Lion as well. As someone who builds LAMP sites for a living, this is fine with me because the Apple versions of AMP were always out of date or had some quirks. Everyone I know who develops for LAMP on Mac OS X runs MAMP or Virtual Box, not the software that ships with OS X.
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check out copycopter and bcms as well.

Honestly I'd say this depends on your goals - are you trying to learn? Or just make something (either answer is fine)? If the former, build. The latter, plug something in.
"I mean, would some one like Rhianna be happy to see her fans potentially get fined or even jailed? Ironically if you fine people they have less cash to spend on these muppets."

Yes, but if you allow piracy to continue, people will think it's just fine and it will eventually drive the price of music and movie down to $0. You are hurting pretty much every artists by pirating..but you just don't seem to care. You must be part of the entitlement generation.

"Any concrete proof that "piracy" is actually costing them actual real money?"

Why does the HN community get so upset when the GNU is violated and a company uses GNU code in a proprietary application (remember the wordpress thesis themes)? It's the same exact principal as pirating apps.

"It certainly was for Louis CK."

It worked once..and it may work a few more times. But, when people are used to the cheap prices, the piracy will eat up all the profits again. Ever talk to an app developer? 99 cent apps are pirated all the time...which tells me it has nothing to do with the money (IE: "it's too expensive" is a bullshit excuse).

"so then cant they invest rather than using government to beat on their customers?"

If copyright/patent laws ever get repealed, don't complain when we only have a few big companies left. I'm going to save my cash..so I can start taking a small company's ideas and use my resources (that I know they don't have) to bring it to the market and put them out of business before they even have a chance. But the truth of the matter is, people like you will still be complaining....

"Why does government support failing business by using the law to do so"

If there is no market, then why is the music even pirated? Piracy shows you the legitimacy of a business. Artists that aren't popular will not be pirated as much as the popular ones.

"I'm sorry, this whole thing is absurd."

So is your rant.

I'm not sure why so many people in the HN community wants to put themselves out of business by pushing the $ value of their craft down to $0. When this happens, don't complain and don't try to unionize: you did it to yourself.
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> Cheques (spelled like that) are rarely used

looking at all the people protesting the proposed removal of cheques in UK last year I'd say that's not the case :-)

Sadly many (relatively) big business and countless public bodies only pay and accepts payment by cheques. As an example only this year City of London Corp started accepting bank transfers for rent deposit. 2 years ago I had to dig up my business cheque book and bring a cheque to their offices for an office rent deposit.

Take a look at the "Treasury - Written Evidence - The end of Cheques?" http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200910/cmselect/c...
> Most of the pushes for these laws and raids are done by studios who insist they are losing out, big-time. "Think of the jobs!" If the pirates cannot have their narrow anecdotal evidence, nor can the studios. ;)

I didn't want to try and make the point because I can't find the information I have seen before and I'm not confident in saying it, but I'm sure I've seen information shown before that if an album had 100,000 listeners 10 years ago it could have yielded x return (enough to justify the investment and risk) and now 100,000 album listeners might mean only 1,000 purchases, which is often not enough to justify the investment and risk. I don't even think there needs to be evidence to justify the point, because it's common sense: If 100,000 people consume something and only 10% of those paid for it that's worse than if 50,000 consumed it but 50,000 paid for it (accounting for listener growth, now vs. 10 years ago)

> "People are taking something for free" simplifies the issue, and misrepresents it as well. If I made a song and priced it at three billion dollars and thousands of people "stole" it, would it be the biggest theft in the history of mankind? The terms set out by which information can be exchanged should not be exclusively in control of the creator. Copyright has generally existed under the premise that society demands a little fair use in return. That should be based on what is practical to enforce, and partially on what benefits culture the most.

The cost of something does not matter when discussing whether or not it's right or wrong to take something. If a song costs $0.10 or $100 it's still wrong to take it. No, downloading a song that is priced at $3,000,000 isn't worse than downloading a song priced at $1, but that doesn't make either of them right? I'm not sure I entirely understand the point you're trying to make here.

> Are you willing to go that far to enforce copyright? If not (as I hope) you should support making non-commercial filesharing legal, and expanding fair use in other ways.

Personally I would much rather society just stopped being so damn selfish and accepted that if someone wants something they either meet the terms of the owner or just don't consume it. If I want an album that costs $10, I pay $10, if I want an album that costs $100,000, either I pay $100,000 or I don't get the album, I should not just download it for free and say "well it isn't worth $100,000 anyway, so whatever, fuck them, civil liberties!"

It's not about copyright, it's about respect for other human beings, respect for the people that create the content you consume. If someone prices something at $100,000 either you pay for it or you don't get it.
Prior to Clojure, my primary languages were Ruby and Erlang. Where Clojure or Java libraries are available, Clojure is typically a functional superset of Ruby. Blocks are used as weak macros, that sort of thing. Erlang/OTP is pretty unique in my experience; while actor models are common in various languages, nothing comes close to OTP's treatment of failure modes, upgrades, and distribution. I also miss Erlang's pattern matching, though Clojure's destructuring bind is sufficient for many cases.