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A mistake is a moment in time
Looks like the techniques of the world of High Frequency Trading are migrating into the wider universe. Except now the customers may benefit if the prices are lowered by someone who wouldn't sell at that price (by, say, showing that the product is in stock, but showing an error when you try to add it to your cart) in an attempt to make their competitors' algorithms follow the price drop, in order to deplete the stocks of goods in the process.
Seems nice but the rage comic illustrations are a bit irritating. That's just my personal taste though, I'm sure most people won't mind :)
Off topic, buy I really wish that 9to5mac would just serve up the normal desktop version content, instead of the mobile version. On my first gen iPad their website is utterly unusable.
The point is that taking strong measures against copyright infringement is stupid. Many (if not most) of the people that do it would pay a reasonable price if it was possible for them to do so.

Also, stealing a car is nothing like copyright infringement. There is absolutely no parallel you can draw there.
Thank you for calling it "P2P" instead of "collaborative consumption" or "sharing economy." Regarding the startup itself, I wish them luck (but I am skeptical because lending at less than the government rate combined with the loans being dischargeable (I assume) in bankruptcy = not a good investment for the lenders = unsustainable business model, at least at scale. I mean if it is just rich people giving money to students, great, but that's a scholarship or grant, not a loan.
The title is wrong. Like you said in article, it's not a WordPress server but only a nginx serving static content.

Only 2 persons hit PHP on your Pi, you when you edit posts and the first visitor for cache generation.
How intelligent is it for companies to go after people who trade and know your program, that are not paying _now_? Seems a waste of resources attacking who might be your customer, in both money and good-will.

Example: I'm in school for drafting/design tech. Due to the school which I am taking classes, we learn Autocad and Solidworks. Both have student versions available, and both are with nasty "We'll send you the serials sometime next week".

So I went onto the local pirate archive and grabbed a copy of both programs. Half an hour later, they're installed and they work flawlessly. Fellow students are still waiting for the serials through email sometime next week.

I do think its different for a for-profit enterprise to go out and pirate everything under the sun. If you make money, you should pass the buck, so to speak.

Read my history to rehash the 1 day old long drawn out argument about DRM. No sense in repeating all of that.
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Care Thread provides secure mobile messaging and team-based collaboration solutions for healthcare providers in hospitals. Care Thread's mobile and web apps deliver real-time information detailing patient status and treatment to every member of the care team, addressing communication gaps to eliminate unnecessary costs and reduce medical errors.

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I am sticking with XP for my home PC as long as I can. I really don't have a good reason to move off. Why break things when they work.
> Why did you assume that "mom" is the dominant descriptor in the term "mommy blogger" rather than "blogger" or the whole term?

If he'd meant "blogger" generically he could simply have used the word unmodified. Instead, he specialized it by using a gendered term to repeat a common stereotype about a broad class of people. Have you ever heard anyone use a neutral or male identified term in a context like this? Would the point have any way been worse as “No sports-blogger“ or “No photo-blogger”?

As for your attempt to claim that this is somehow due to my not knowing the definition of the term, I would note that your choice to resort to personal attacks rather comically undercuts your proclaimed desire for “rational discourse”.
The post you link to in that tweet only mentions one NSFW subreddit in the top 25, though. It's not a very good example of your point.
Black Swan
I wish SmallBASIC (there are two of them! [0] [1]) would catch on (become a household name). Very easy, approachable, and has the same charm as normal BASIC/QBASIC - with regards to the development environment. Perfect for children.

[0]: http://smallbasic.com/ (Microsoft SmallBASIC)

[1]: http://smallbasic.sourceforge.net/ (SmallBASIC - One more basic)
The Universe Project [video]
Please tell us you use Chrome or FF at least :)
Hotels, Horses and Handball
Agree 100%. You don't have to install anything. It's on every machine with a modern web browser, even mobile devices.

It's even got the "nastiness" factor down. :-)

We're also starting to see things like Snap written in pure JavaScript/HTML5:

http://snap.berkeley.edu/snapsource/snap.html
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Piracy is different from stealing, yeah. But I find it kind of short-sighted this notion that it's "victimless."

Not intending to bite your head off. :-)
I realised that both crash (possibly because of plugins) BUT it is easier to kill one Firefox process in the task manager then x Chrome processes.

Adblock works with ff better also.

I use Opera as secondery browser.
> "Many (if not most) of the people that do it would pay a reasonable price if it was possible for them to do so."

And the fact that they can't afford it gives them justification for stealing it? Would it not make more sense, that if you can't afford something you aren't entitled to it? If a poor or homeless person were to steal food from a shop they wouldn't be allowed to do it because, although they would like to pay, it isn't possible for them to do so.
We really enjoyed having everyone out. We'll be having these bi-monthly from now on, so expect another in late january.

I'll also try to do other nice things for members. For instance, we will have a free lottery for an after-hours secret showing of the movie "Hackers" at The Roxie.
Oh sure, but the tone of the two people on CNN made it seem like he was crazy for not wanting to turn himself in. I highly suspect that if/when he ever gets in custody, he won't be out of it for a long time.
The Ups and Downs of Making Elevators Go
Same with Windows and Office. It's better to have them pirate your program than run somebody's else.
> Basically there were three things that stood out, first was that there was a lot of 'toxic waste' in the form of stuff we know now to be carcinogenic used in the construction of these things

And the Enterprise's got the even bigger issue of the nuclear plant inside it, there are very few non-military refit for which a nuke would be of any interest, and taking out the plant essentially destroys the ship either way.
This post is meant as a response to DevilBoy and in part you, Chasing.

Blending both concepts of copyright violation and theft together, what happens in this common situation?

1. I go to a store and buy an audio CD. I'm given the receipt.
2. My audio CD is stolen at some later date. I still have the receipt.

We know a theft happens. Someone stole the disc. However, where is my unique copy created by the rights holder? Is it on the CD? The receipt? Or perhaps more intangible as some sort of judgement (think more like metadata)?

Is the thief guilty of copyright infringement?

Edit: as meeting this line of thought out, I realize there are 2nd hand shops that can legally sell media of all types (cd's included). How this works is the person (me) goes in with the intent to sell the disc. They give me a price, which we come to a meeting of the minds. Sale occurs based upon first-sale doctrine.

This would indicate that the proof of copyright does not exist in the receipt. So would the rightful copy retain with me if there is no meeting of the minds (theft)?
You do realize there's a 50 years old nuclear plant inside the Enterprise right?
I shouldn't have made the comment about the car. Too many people are misinterpreting what I meant... I'm not equating the crime of pirating Windows and stealing a car. Very different things.

But, are crimes in general justifiable if the person committing them does it for self-betterment?

Yeah, probably in many cases. Possibly in this case. But I also worry that it becomes a rallying point for piracy in general. That's what concerns me. I don't think most people pirate media for self-betterment. They do so because they don't want to pay.
Ask HN: side projects: quantity vs. quality?
Is it better to have 5-10 decent side projects OR 2-3 in-depth ones? Specifically for college grads.

(I'm personally building a startup with a friend, but I was curious anyhow)
Wow; I remember this game. This game was pretty awesome when I was 7. I'm not surprised to hear that it was a full conversion of another game.
Pew Internet: The Best and Worst of Mobile Connectivity
I've heard that too, but I have no idea if it's true. (Surely, Photoshop would be pirated regardless of how much DRM is added).

But it's definitely not only the goodness of their heart that leads many companies to offer free or cheap software to students. Microsoft BizSpark is all about giving startups free Microsoft software in the hope that they'll build on the MS stack.
"Although about 3 million computers get sold every year in China, people don't pay for the software. Someday they will, though. And as long as they're going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade."

-- Bill Gates during speech at University of Washington

http://articles.latimes.com/2006/apr/09/business/fi-micropir...
> And he could have done with less unprovoked politically correct corrections on HN, especially when they are factually false. A programmer's mom may not be synonymous with "technically unskilled", but statistically speaking, the overwhelming majority of them are

So are the overwhelming majority of many other types of bloggers - in fact, the unmodified term “blogger” would have carried the meaning equally well. The choice to specialize the term in a highly-gendered manner is unnecessary, particularly when it reinforces common stereotypes and using it adds nothing to the actual point being made. That's why I suggested this was not deliberate: it's so common in mainstream society that many people aren't even consciously using it.

As for your “cultural imperialism“, “provincialism”, those terms have specific meanings which aren't relevant - they are not simply free passes for you not to have to think about topics which make you uncomfortable.
A one-day stock price decrease isn't the news.

Zynga was in a very special place at a very special time. Social gaming had an amazing stretch of months, but that time seems to have passed, at least in terms of being on fire. Zynga's relationship with Facebook is really the only thing that set them apart. Innovative games? They took the same game and kept reskinning it. When that fizzled out, they began copying other games wholesale. (lol at a title of theirs I saw recently: "Scramble with Friends") They're not a gaming company, but did a pretty good job of looking like one and getting paid in the process.

However, going public was dumb. They should have piled up cash and kept it all to themselves. Going public is meant for companies that are capable of being in it for the long haul. Not for companies that have figured out how to be successful in an industry that didn't even exists two years prior.

Zynga can probably transition into other areas, like mobile games, online gambling, etc. However, they are just one of many in that space. They have no secret sauce or magic. They can probably turn a profit, but nothing that can bring their stock price back to where it was.

The only ones who care how Zynga does are the crazy ones that hold ZNGA. Otherwise, they're just another gaming company right? If you do hold ZNGA, well, that sucks. Not a "sad set of circumstances" suck. More like "I blew my money on a Vegas weekend" suck.
2013 feels like it will be the year of the startup. Maybe its just in my circles, but everyone is talking about one. Perhaps crowd-funding has something to do with it..
You should vary per epoch (e.g. per year). This way you can gain experience in both. Scale appropriately with time and # projects.
Exactly like Mundo
Though it'd be better still if they paid something. Microsoft offers special low-cost editions of their products for developing nations, don't they?
And with this regional pricing crap, the same companies are petitioning Congress and SCOTUS to ban first-sale doctrine on "stuff" coming in from abroad.

"Sorry bub, you bought that X from the company who makes them, in another country. And because they sell stuff cheaper in THAT country, you have no rights to what you buy past yourself. Even if I did sell to you."

Regardless that companies use price arbitrage on everything under the sun, including the workers and the WHOLE company (to get away from higher tax regimes). We peons aren't allowed to use the same tools the big guys use.
As a work-seeking freelancer, I think there are a few causes for this paradoxical perception.

One, "seeking work" as a freelancer doesn't necessarily mean the same thing as "unemployed". Many freelancers are juggling several projects, but still looking for few more to keep busy during the week. Some are looking for a future gig so that they have something to move on to next.

Two, the "developer shortage" you speak of tends to refer to full-time on-site developers. The people that fit these roles are not always the same as the people who are freelancers, often for lifestyle reasons. For example, not everyone wants to move to Palo Alto and work 60 hour weeks. Instead some choose the freelancing path because they have discovered that they can live more fulfilling lives by entirely avoiding the bureaucratic fascism of modern employment.

And finally, it's possible that the aforementioned "shortage" is the cause of a surplus in the other direction. It's easy to have ideas, and hard to implement them, so there are a lot of empty-shell startups springing up. These will have a hard time hiring good developers just because the developers have to be convinced of the value of this new hyper-social-geo-localized-dog-food-eating web service.
Our YC Rejection Email After Interview
"Unfortunately we decided not to fund you. While it seems that paying freelancers working in emerging countries is a real problem, we had a hard time understanding exactly what solution you'll be able to provide that couldn't be replicated by either Paypal or Western Union. It's possible that we just don't know enough about this market to fully appreciate the specific details of your solution but unfortunately we're reluctant to invest in businesses that we don't completely understand."

Harj

My question is, just because PayPal can do what we're doing does that mean we should not address the problems our customers are having for years? Didn't PayPal copy every other idea out there from multiple payment startups and still failed to stop these startups' growth because their version of what these companies are doing sucks? (PayPal does not listen to their customers and Western Union is worse)
Help a hacker out: Business idea survey.
lol, that is ambitious.
Thanks, now I was able to find:

http://blog.sfgate.com/crime/2010/06/29/landlords-from-hell-...
True. In the original tweet I said literal or figurative porn, where figurative porn would be stuff that's overtly Digg-style entertainment junk food.

Maybe this is a better list:

http://redditlist.com/index.php
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Both roles are based in Edinburgh, but there is the option for Rubyists to work remotely if you're a self-starter who has successfully developed and scaled large web apps like FreeAgent.

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Speak Up - Speaking mentorship
I'm not sure about this with Windows, frankly. "Something else" is not as obvious and accessible the same way one movie or videogame is over the other.

I remember getting burnt badly trying to install ... Mandrake was it ... back in the days.
This, exactly this.

Moreover, I think that piracy mostly happens because either it's the only way or because it's way too cheap.

The first case is similar to how I was as a kid: I pirated all my games and software and copied all my music, and then bought the best games and the best albums that I could afford. I owned the games and cds that I considered the best, and worth owning. I paid for them so that I could own them: not because I would've wanted to make sure the authors could make a living. No amount of piracy laws and copyright enforcement would've added anything to the funds I had at my disposal. I already spent whatever I had.

The second case is why some people hoard files. They download full discographies and filmographies of nearly everything there is because copying is so cheap it's practically gratis, copying can be fun, and just to make sure that if the world comes to an end they'll still have years of entertainment in their hands. They probably watch and listen one percent of what they're downloaded, and they probably actually buy one percent of that one percent.

There's a third case of "piracy" which is just casual copying, to sample the products. People first download music and torrent movies and sample what they've got. If they find a good director or a good band, they buy a collection or a set of albums. I don't really consider these people a problem since they're consumers at heart and they use downloading mostly to find stuff to buy. If they couldn't download, they wouldn't find much music or games or movies, and they would subsequently buy less.
Climate Change Is Simple (real End Of The World)
That's what I love about the new Nexus release. We get to hear all the things that sucked about the previous Nexus that Android fanboys refused to admit while it was the flagship device.

Of course THIS Nexus, this is the one to turn it all around. Not like that Nexus One, or Nexus S, or Galaxy Nexus. They were cut-rate devices with cut-rate build quality and features to match a low un-subsidized price point.

When will people learn that Google has no choice but to cut corners if they insist on competing primarily on price? You're not going to get an unlocked iPhone for 300, you're going to get a phone Google can sell for 300 unlocked without going bankrupt. That means, parts of it are going to be bad.

Whether it's digitizer of the Nexus One, the underpowered chipset of the Nexus S, the low-quality screen & camera of the Galaxy Nexus, or the lack of LTE in the Nexus 4. There will always be something. It's worth letting others buy first, if only to determine what "thing" it will be this time.