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> What about pirating Game of Thrones episodes?

If piracy caused future GoT episodes to not be made, that would be a bad outcome. But it won't happen. A series of GoT costs $50 million to make and they could probably fairly easily crowdfund it, (e.g. $10 * 5 million or some other multiple). I'm sure lots of people would be prepared to pay that amount (or a lot more) to ensure they could watch the next series -- I know I would.
> Some people are honest about it and say "I just don't want to pay for it". But most people I hear justifying piracy feel entitled to it and don't think there's anything wrong.

And what is dishonest about that?

When a builder builds a house he gets paid for his work. If he wants more money, he has to do more building. He can't just sit back and take a payment every time someone enters that building for the rest of his life.

Nurses, doctors, lawyers, shopkeepers, mechanics, service staff, chefs, teachers all have the same deal. You can't multiply your work by the people who benefit from it forever (maybe everyone who likes the person whose life you saved?) and get paid by each one.

Now to me, that seems sane and normal. You want more money, you do more work. Getting the government to pass special laws allowing you to extract rent from your creative endevour for every person who experiences it going into the future is what seems dishonest to me.
Excellent suggestion - suggestions on how? Filed: https://github.com/jnoller/talk-mentorship/issues/11
I'll take a stab:

* Concurrency support at the language level.

* Immutable data structures becoming the default.

Making Clojure (2/2) and Go (1/2) some up-and-comers. Erlang probably deserves some credit, but I'm not familiar with it.
Truth be told, I wasn't aware of the difference. I am now.
NoMethodError: undefined method `new' for Foo:Module

You can't initialize modules, I think you meant to make Foo a class.
I think he's completely unaware of the GNU/Linux distributions and the gratis software that comes along with them and the freedoms that that software offers to the user.

"
“Free software” means software that respects users' freedom and community. Roughly, the users have the freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software. With these freedoms, the users (both individually and collectively) control the program and what it does for them.

A program is free software if the program's users have the four essential freedoms:

- The freedom to run the program, for any purpose (freedom 0).

- The freedom to study how the program works, and change it so it does your computing as you wish (freedom 1). Access to the source code is a precondition for this.

- The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor (freedom 2).

- The freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions to others (freedom 3). By doing this you can give the whole community a chance to benefit from your changes. Access to the source code is a precondition for this.

A program is free software if users have all of these freedoms. Thus, you should be free to redistribute copies, either with or without modifications, either gratis or charging a fee for distribution, to anyone anywhere. Being free to do these things means (among other things) that you do not have to ask or pay for permission to do so. "

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
My biggest gripe about the ultrabook series is the dismal screen. I ended up purchasing an Asus Zenbook (1600x900) and lived with the quirky mouse issues (patches and such) until the newest kernel. Now Asus Zenbook Prime has upped the resolution to 1920x1080.

Hopefully enough people purchase this laptop for a gen2 to come out and by then hopefully 1600x900 or 1920x1080 on a 13.3" is the standard.
STEM Bill Passes at House, Pending in Senate
Not really. Zynga isn't failing because they were screwed by a Facebook policy change or really anything Facebook themselves are doing (unlike, say, Twitter's recent API brouhaha), but because of their business model. AznHisoka in this thread said it better than I can; they have nothing to build a business on.
>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.

I think this is (close to) the case of people who are actually a problem. The first two cases don't represent much lost oppurtunity. In this case, the people pirating might go out and buy the stuff. Because of this, the oppurtunity cost of them already having some of the stuff is far more significant than in the first two cases (where there was minimal oppurtunity lost)
Uhm, an Arduino with a single LED that switches on and off randomly? That's probably the first thing in any Arduino book. It's great you've found a friend but that's hardly news worthy, right?
Same here -- I'll be interested to see if they go head-on against Webtech Wireless
https://github.com/Netflix/Hystrix/wiki/How-it-Works

It's more than just aborting a request. It also handles caching with different fallback modes, collapsing multiple requests, monitoring and most importantly it provides a consistent model for handling service integration.

Probably not the most innovative thing in the world but definitely useful if you do have a large SOA system.
No, they don't. I even remember that the prices for legal Microsoft software in one of those "developing nations" were higher than prices in the USA.

And it's not only Microsoft, some other companies (Audodesk, Adobe, Apple) also keep higher prices and worse quality in some of poor countries than in the USA. It's kinda like they try to punish people that want to buy their software legally.

For me, it's an easy decision, I just don't use their software at all, but some people have to use their software, and I totally understand why some of them decide to pirate it.
Win8's hybrid interface is exactly designed for these hybrid devices that can change use-cases in a second. Surface tablets are just a variation on the tablet/laptop convertible idea. The first convertibles had screens that swiveled 180 degrees, and the back of the screen latched against the keyboard.

Many ideas have been tried out, some having an always-forward screen and a keyboard that "slide-and-rotate" out from underneath. Others have a screen which rotates vertically inside a frame, allowing it to flip over and cover the keyboard.

Surface basically takes the motherboard & battery and fits them behind the screen, instead of under the keyboard. The keyboard itself can become just a detachable accessory. This arrangement isn't new -- it's been used in many mobile devices for more than 10 years.
It sucks there's nothing scheduled. I'm in town until Tuesday, visiting from SF. It would have been nice to meet other HNers in DC.
Recently downloaded your webapi pdf, it was a very good primer. Have recently been building a spa architecture, and purely restful back end webapi. Frontend pure HTML/CSS/js ( sammy for routes, knockout for databinding amplify for store, pub sub mediator and request!)
Wizards of the Coast often puts up videos of celebrity D&D games: http://www.youtube.com/user/DNDWizards. There's a televised game at PAX every year, for example.
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> The major problem with all static generators is that, by design, they can't host comments.

Very few sites are enhanced by allowing people to leave comments. I don't go to YouTube for the comments.

I agree at the sub-optimality of third party comment hosting. Maybe a solution is to encourage better discussion on aggregators, and better aggregators?
Why annual? Do you really need the latest CS(n)? Or do you buy by subscription?
Agreed. This would be a killer feature.
Right now the options you have is to do everything server side (say django-lean) or use one of the commercial options (optimizely). Not ideal.

My money on the static site generator race is on docPad.
This is a great set of reading materials. It is great to find out how teams are building in resiliency at the micro level. That being said, I would never actually use this project for building things. IMHO: Libraries > Frameworks.
My favourite line was one from my girlfriend - "Maybe you shouldn't have taken his anti-virus software off my laptop .... he seems pretty badass."
I want a picture too. Or something to show how you're using this.
But to compensate for that a new version of OSX is released three times as often as a new version of Windows is.
This may be a long shot, but were you at Launch@Grow?
I wouldn't mind losing the ability to upgrade myself if I could have one of these slim iMacs. You can always pay the Apple tax if you want upgrades.
>This trope comes up every time piracy is discussed. The point is no one is talking about the legal meaning of "stealing" versus "copyright infringement". What people are saying is that it's immoral.

It comes up every time because piracy and stealing are worlds apart morally. Were I to steal someone's car, they would be incredibly inconvenienced. Were I to illegitimately obtain a piece of software, the developers just get a smaller check at the end of the month.

As the article says, things are not black and white and we should not treat them as if they were. There are degrees of 'badness', and piracy is not as bad as stealing.
There's a risk of turning it into too much of a gimmick, but I'd love if travel sites started doing things like this. Showing you a flythrough of where you'll be going as they pull up trip prices, for example
Can Art be Games?
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>CANDU runs on natural uranium so the waste products are actually less radioactive than what we take out of the earth, as well CANDU can burn nuclear waste from light water reactors alleviating the need for Yucca mountain.

There is less uranium in the waste, but there will be fission products and trans-uranium elements just like in the fuel of regular reactors. Radioactivity of uranium is hardly a problem, when dealing with spent fuel. In short term (less than 100 years) fission products produce most of the radioactivity. In long term trans-uranium elements are the problem.

>Lets look at it's meltdown profile, CANDU reactors need heavy water to function, if you replace the heavy water with light water fission stops, no meltdown. Also before the reactor would ever get to that point the fuel bundles deform, halting meltdown.

Halting a normal fission chain reaction is hardly a source of accidents in any current nuclear reactor design. Decay heat is produced in the spent nuclear fuel of CANDUs just like in Fukushima or Three Mile Island.

CANDU is an interesting reactor design, but there is none as great alternative as you propose. However, various active and passive safety measures may get you very close. I don't know CANDU design so well, that I could judge those.
I'm sure that repairability is less of a factor than sexiness with most of their purchases.
Girls love criminals.

Criminals in jail get so many love letters from girls.
The first webcam was aimed at a coffee pot. Point is, just because its simple right now, doesn't mean it won't evolve over time. This is a long term project that I'm sharing so others can join in on the fun. Everyone needs to step away from the startup from time to time and just hack for fun.

Its also simple because a lot of people here dont have an idea of how to blink an LED. This will allow them to learn.

Also: Upvoted, because its a fair question/point.
I agree. In fact, reading your post, I'd nearly call your prompt fancy, mine just tells me user, and directory, everything else I'll runn a command for.
Haha, at the moment it seems like a quite boring friend, but if you'll do cooller stuff with it(like adding some kind of way to communicate with it) I would really like to try it.
Very nice. It feels so fast compared to other server-side solutions. You should definitely extend it for katakana as well.
Things that use codemeter are impossible (At least right now).
The idea that nuclear waste needs to be isolated for (pick your arbitrarily large number) of years is a misconception based on the assumption that everything else remains static.

It won't. In particular, we are in the middle (actually, maybe still near the beginning) of a biotechnology revolution every bit as profound as the electronic one that started with the transistor.

What we fear most from radiation is cancer. If it weren't for cancer, nuclear power would be a no-brainer. Its environmental impact is negligible compared to fossil fuels because the volume of fuel mined and transported is so much less. This was shown in a book titled "The Health Risks of Not Going Nuclear", now sadly out of print.

And in fact, radiation is a very weak carcinogen. Frank Von Hippel, a Princeton professor who is no friend of nuclear power, has estimated the total cancer deaths resulting from Fukushima at somewhere near a thousand -- pretty bad for an industrial accident, but hardly the Black Death all over again.

Consider cancer treatment today compared to, say, Ben Franklin's time. Now imagine how much more detailed our understanding of cancer treatment, possibly even prevention, will become in another century or two.

If cancer becomes the kind of non-issue that smallpox is today, a disease which used to kill one child in three before the age of 5 in many parts of the world, our descendants will regard us with the same pitying disbelief that we apply to the self-flagellators of 1348 trying to propitiate an angry G*d.

Consider this slideshow:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/54904454

entitled "A Rational Environmentalist's Guide to Nuclear Power".
No, it's pretty far off from reality. It's an extreme edge case that doesn't at all justify pirating Photoshop.
The thing that got me off XP quickly was how difficult it is to find applications. "All Programs" becomes an unnavigable maze unless you spend a lot of time keeping it in order, which almost no one did. Since Vista Windows has had universal search which is very nice.
Are you trying to create Hal?
It's being used right now by manufacturers to make custom parts in things like jet engines.

While "bedroom make anything" might be a ways off, it's being used now and will be used a lot in the not so distant future.

http://news.softpedia.com/newsImage/GE-to-Print-Fuel-Injecto...

http://www.businessinsider.com/ge-buys-3d-printing-company-t...
I swear to Zeus that when I read this post aloud to chunky (its name), it started bliking franatically. :)
Try it out. Follow the repo. I plan to add some cool (cheap) sensors and stuff to it.
I grew up in Silicon Valley in the 80s and I was not one of the fortunate---anything more than $5 was crazy expensive. But having a way to access the technology definitely changed my life trajectory. I don't condone piracy but I understand it. And yes, now I work in high tech and I pay for everything---even donate and occasionally volunteer because of all of this.

I think the article wasn't so much about the glory of piracy and how you can make a profit out of it. Rather, it is a perspective on desire and finding a way to feed it. I think that this is the one of the best things about living in our current state of the internet: if you can get the initial tool (the computer or the smartphone) you open up access to so much opportunity.
I tried it as "first language" and it's a freaking pain, I still don't understand the "everything is an object" stuff and why to use modules for everything instead of solving problems with your own code. BASIC is way better for beginner's, especially kids.
Yes.

But not with LEDee. That would be Nuuton.
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If a builder wants to take a payment every time you enter the building he is free to do so, thinking otherwise is highly presumptuous. Whether that business model will be viable in the market will be left for him to see (hotel managers operate exactly like this except they don't get paid for entering their building but for getting a room for the night).

What's dishonest about it? The mental gymnastics to rationalize their actions when it's really about "I don't have to pay for this and there are no consequences if I don't so I'm not going to".
Actually, Imgur uses CloudFlare. And we're happy to have them as a customer.....

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$ dig imgur.com

; <<>> DiG 9.6-ESV-R4-P3 <<>> imgur.com
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 41976
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 3

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;imgur.com.	IN	A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
imgur.com.	286	IN	A	108.162.206.103
imgur.com.	286	IN	A	108.162.205.103

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
imgur.com.	23823	IN	NS	noah.ns.cloudflare.com.
imgur.com.	23823	IN	NS	sue.ns.cloudflare.com.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
sue.ns.cloudflare.com.	40407	IN	A	173.245.58.145
sue.ns.cloudflare.com.	40407	IN	AAAA	2400:cb00:2049:1::adf5:3a91
noah.ns.cloudflare.com.	72084	IN	AAAA	2400:cb00:2049:1::adf5:3b85
Have you tried Punch? http://laktek.github.com/punch. (and yes, I'm the creator).

It will fit into all your requirements and has been there for almost a year now.
This is a classic example of where Flash excels over the over-hyped HTML 5. The demo is very very sluggish and laggy on my Laptop (Chrome, WIN 8, C2D 2.2GHZ, 4mb Cache, 4Gigs RAM). If the author had designed the same thing in Flash,

1) He could have done it with less lines of code.

2) He could have done it with smoother animations and could have added more interactivity.

I'm not bashing the author, just suggesting a viable alternative.

Unfortunately, the unwanted HTML5 hype is just killing the platform. And the platform (I personally believe) is in the wrong hands, because they haven't marketed it well (IMO).
Ah, you're correct--we were talking about software mainly, not music.

Software companies never go out of business without selling off their assets, and it's the extreme edge-case where people continue to distribute the works.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abandonware

This truly seldom happens.
The TARP money wasn't a gift

But it included one: when a trade is not FMV the delta is/was the "gift"
I dont know why my comment was deleted, so here it is again:

Here is the issue with cloudflare- They are overselling, plain and simple.

If I was a large image host, like imgur- Whats to stop me from going to cloudflare and ditching my $100k+ current CDN bill for $20/month? (actually, I have seen cloudflare error pages on imgur, so that might already be the case)

So the question is, how can you trust a company that is willing to lose 100k a month to keep a free user? If said image host declines a SLA, is CF OK with that or will the image host soon be kicked off?

So, lets say CF does not kick them off the service and just eats the cost- all this means is that its a business designed in the common "get it big at any cost" model VC's push. But this is not scalable, its fake and backed with investor money.

There are many ways to grow business's insanely quick but I never put much faith in the ones that do so in a way that seems propped up on investor cash. Its not hard to get traffic when your business modeel is giving away other peoples money through services.

This seems like it just hoping for a exit to a akami or cisco style company who hopes to convert these free users to paid and end up writing the whole purchase off years later.

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Responding to your post- Yes, I said imgur was using cloudflare. My post is about "How does that make business sense, if they chose to be on a $20/month plan"
I know and every regular readers of HN knows, it's my point.
Pi can serve statics, ok, we all already know it, what's the news?
This is already achieved by atomic bombs and the means to get them as far as Moscow or Beijing or wherever your enemy of the month is today.

No need for guns, tanks, aircraft carriers and all that other stuff that is used to _actually kill people_. Especially if you are living one your own continent with no enemy around for thousands of miles. If you didn't get it now: The weapons i talk about kill people. Many innocent. The ship we talk about was actually used in multiple wars to kill. I only hear "defend freedom" and "deterrence" but in reality it's neither of them. Only indoctrinated stuff that people have been told all their life and actually believe..
Unfortunately Flash has it's own downsides, namely that it doesn't work on mobile.

I'd rather have a few more lines of code and more openness and portability.
Can Smartphone Observations Revolutionize Weather Forecasting?
Most of them are going to be using the latest iteration of some tried-and-true series of reactors from another country. Russia is exporting the VVER-1200, Korea is exporting their APR-1400, and China is looking to export their ACPR-1000 and large components of American, Japanese, and European reactors.

The common thread here is that all of these are very conventional, directly descended from designs that have seen extensive service and have an excellent record of reliability. You're not going to see newbie countries screwing up the designs. (You might see them mess up the operations.)