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That might well be - thankfully, nobody pays me for my economics expertise :)

What I meant by my statement is that the marginal cost is near-zero for everybody. I've just learned that a better way to say that is "decentralized distribution". I do appreciate you clarifying this. (I really do. It's rather hard to say "thank you" over the Internet without coming across as the most sarcastic person in existence)

And I don't expect content creators to roll over, but I do expect to see a significant shift in the industry. Because no matter how inconvenient the access to the first copy is, the second one is free. At some point, that'll need to be factored in, because it can't be prevented.
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Here's what a RFC-compliant email address regex looks like: http://www.ex-parrot.com/~pdw/Mail-RFC822-Address.html

Hint: God damn long.
Two weeks too late, I set my Raspberry Pi to serve as a Time Machine all by myself using Raspbian, and boy, it was a massive pain.

As for people saying that the complete setup is almost as expensive as an actual TimeCapsule - yes,but then I had a spare 500GB drive laying around,and had no special use for my Raspberry Pi. Thanks to this both of them are used on a daily basis.
I was thinking the same thing while reading the post. Maybe a scene in the next 007 franchise film could boost their revenue ;)
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I thought this was an amazing paper when it came out, especially considering its source. And it's still amazing.
Those thieves, looters, and cheaters are no different from you or me. We're all H. sapiens sapiens here. The only difference is culture.

My guess is that a culture that teaches that we are all thieves, looters, and cheaters will indeed find itself full of those characters. Meanwhile, a culture where profit and value are seen as compatible with human dignity and progress will find your view utterly alien.

The cool thing about culture is that it's opt-in by nature. You can adopt any culture that you find advantageous, or create your own. Most people don't take advantage of that fact, but it's still an option, and it's one that you should perhaps consider.
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That is why starting a business is so difficult. You have to solve the problems. Remember Airbnb!
Why not use a librairy that validates emails? You save time, and you actually accept valid emails.

I agree that the example with a lot of symbols is over the top, but when a website doesn't accept foo+bar@host.com, I assume the product will be sub-par quality wise. The author did not follow of rigorous process for something as simple as email validation, I doubt he'll be more rigorous in other parts of his project.
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The title of the article is wrong,but otherwise it's very useful - I had a spare 500GB drive laying around and a Pi for which I had no major use and now I use it as a Time Capsule on a daily basis without spending a penny on top of what I already spent on hardware which I wasn't using anyway.
The "Locations" page looks broken somehow: it's telling me that the nearest Bufferbox to NYC is in Toronto. Is that actually the case?
You know, I made some socks for you to buy, to subsidize the production and distribution of my artisan bleu cheese. My cheese startup failed, you filthy pagan pirates, because you failed to buy my socks!

Come on. We're supposed to just suck it up when someone offers us something for sale? You're kidding, that's not how markets work. If HBO does something stupid, they get penalized for it in the market.

Beyond that, the debate here is about DRM. Institutionalizing DRM (legal mandates, DMCA style legal penalties for "reverse engineering") probably causes more damage to society as a whole than allowing some smaller monetary amount of piracy. Clamping down on the civil rights of the populace as a whole in order to prevent a tiny fraction of the populace from violating already outrageous laws on "intellectual property" really isn't a good idea. Stupid laws and stupid enforcement of stupid laws make people disrespect the law and law enforcement.
As an engineer I find CorelDRAW far more useful (and usable?) than Photoshop and Illustrator sometimes. I do use Photoshop for quite a bit of work. However, CorelDRAW makes some things that require jumping through hoops in Photoshop really easy. It's almost like a melding of a technical drafting and an artist's illustration tool.

It can, for example, ingest AutoCAD geometry and use it for further illustration. Since I've been using AutoCAD for a long, long time this aspect of it comes with no effort.

In the case of the OP's example, I'd probably find a 2D or 3D model of a helicopter for either ACAD or SolidWorks; load into the appropriate tool; edit, stylize, simplify; export as a flat 2D DXF and then import into CorelDRAW. From there you can manipulate further, stroke, fill, shade, etc. Do it all in layers and then output whatever it is you might need.

Maybe this can be done in Photoshop, I don't know. It seems that I am always Googling for how to do the simplest things in PS. Yes, of course, I don't use it enough. That said, things like having to jump through hoops to draw a stroked circumference drives me up a wall sometimes. In a program like CorelDRAW it's just a matter of drawing a circle without fill, which makes far more sense to me than having to draw a path and then stroking it.

I've done some pretty interesting graphics in CorelDRAW for such projects as photorealistic renderings of product models that are not only interesting graphically but also dimensionally accurate because of the link to the underlying CAD data.

For a lot of the work I do on the web and iOS apps Photoshop can be simpler to wrestle with.
Why don't we just settle on "so long as to make expiry irrelevant for video games".
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I think they were only in Toronto: http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/16/sorry-we-missed-you-yc-back...
Congrats for sure. Now let's speculate on what Google will do with them? Are they going to get into online retail and compete with Amazon? Will Google be able collect data on what is stored in the compartments? Any other ideas?
That is actually the case. It's a Canadian startup that is rolling out their boxes in Toronto to start, and scaling out to other cities in the future.
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This article didn't even tell me what BufferBox is.
I use this and transfer speeds are around 5-6MB/s. That's because both the hard drive and Ethernet share the USB bus.
And it's completely fine, took around 6 hours to backup 90GB from my MacBook Air.
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The issue is App Stores with DRM do conflict with the license. Though I think LGPL could be appeased by posting the code on a public website, but that might actually be a conflict :)

Apple certainly has a strong policy against GPL and LGPL on their store since it the store can not be compatible.
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I don't understand. Won't a correct-to-spec validation procedure take about as long to implement as an ad hoc procedure? I'm guessing a maximum of two developer-hours, and that's if you're extremely careful (i.e. unit tests).
Why on earth should anyone care how hard it is to see a swords-and-sorcery soap opera?

If I were involved in creating said soap opera, I'd like to think that I'd care a great deal about user experience.

The mystery is why the content creators don't.
As already stated, the problem is that netatalk has trouble keeping the AFP protocol up to date. On the Linux box it doesn't make sense to use HFS since Ext3 is much more stable and also supports journaling...
I'm wondering.. It sounds exactly like what the german post service offers. You order something, it get's delivered to some automated station where you can pick up the package at any time..
Is this not common in other countries?
Not every pirated work is a lost sale. In fact I'd wager an exceedingly small number of them are. The rest are downloaded by digital packrats, the future's archivists essentially, who just like to hoard stuff that has value, even if they never consume the media itself.

If I download, reshare and stock a movie that I never end up actually watching... What damage has actually been done? Someone somewhere, maybe, was made a new fan of a certain director or producer or genre?
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Please be mindful that you responded to a post citing the example of

""()<>[]:,;@\\\"!#$%&'*+-/=?^_`{}| ~ ? ^_`{}|~.a"@example.org"

That address is not "common" even if it is technically valid. If you want to talk about your own email address, you should provide a sample address that is similar so we know what you're talking about.

[edit: I see your address in your profile. It is nothing like the example given.]
Wow, congratulations. I'd love to get one of these (although bigger than the one in front of YC) once I have an office.
I take this back. Quick relative to YC class but they've been working hard at this for 2.5 years. Great job guys. Super well done.
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Genuine curiosity : why this reply to niels?
No, that's not a comment. That plus sign is part of the email address. It's up to your mail server how to figure out how to parse it and stuff it into the correct inbox.

The RFC allows for actual nested comments to appear within the address. Though nobody actually uses this and really the RFC is talking about formatting for email messages in transit, not how you should or shouldn't record your address on a form.
Caveat: I'm a co-founder of Dev Bootcamp (http://devbootcamp.com), so I have strong opinions. :D

"The problem is this: somehow we mutated universities into a place where everyone goes in order to get a job."

No, I don't think that's fair. There's no "we." Everyone -- students and institutions -- have a different answer to "what is the purpose of an education?"

In the US, we've been experimenting with the full spectrum of answers for the last 150 years.

For some students "an education" is the promise of livelihood, for others it's about needs higher up on Maslow's hierarchy of needs. Some reasons people "go to school":

* Access to expertise and high-quality curriculum

* Ability to connect with similarly-motivated people over an extended period of time (think: MBAs)

* Credentialing, or in general access to a certificate valued by the market

* Cultivating their own internal or external life, becoming a better person, citizen, etc.

None of these are better or worse than others, however these mandates often contradict each other.

I studied mathematics and linguistics at the University of Chicago and the thing I loved most about the university was that it had a very strong opinion about how to answer “What is an education?” That answer wasn’t for everyone, but the school was comfortable not being “for everyone.”

In my mind, by taking care of a small subset of those mandates, Dev Bootcamp helps free universities to have a strong opinion about that question again.

Sal Khan wants to call it a "new kind of college," which confuses things a bit. To me it's about understanding all the ways people answer the question "What is an education?" and unbundling those needs.
Nope. The common option in the US and Canada is to get DHL or its equivalent to come to your door and deliver it. The problem comes when you are not home and they require a signature. In this case they usually attempt again. If none of the attempts work, they store it in their warehouses for a bit, and if no one comes and picks it up, it's returned to sender.
> Outside Microsoft, critics charged that Biddle's project represented the beginning of the end for the PC as an open platform. They feared that Microsoft would use the technology to exert control over which software could be executed on Windows PCs, freezing out open source operating systems and reducing users' freedom to run the software of their choice.

Nope, it's Apple that got there first with iOS.

I think the thesis on how the darknet would defeat DRM was correct... but only assuming OS's and hardware that actually gave owners control of what software they ran on the devices they own.

In a world where you void your warranty and possibly make it impossible to upgrade your OS (_and_ possibly break the law in the US!), by 'jailbreaking' your device so that you can install software on it without that software having been given a stamp of approval by the device vendor... I'm not so sure. And I suspect DRM was the real motivation for setting up the ecology this way on iOS -- where Apple managed to succeed, both technologically and in the court of public opinion, where Microsoft had previously failed, in doing exactly what people were scared Microsoft was doing -- reducing users' freedom to run the software of their choice.

And that's what looks like the future of consumer computing now, no? The idea that a device owner should have the right to install whatever software they want on their device... is going to seem a quaint relic of a bygone age in 10 years, and not just for 'mobile'.
The DMCA does not criminalize reverse engineering; my field is based in large part on routine reverse engineering of all sorts of software. While there is some grey area and certainly some overreach in the DMCA anti-circumvention mechanism, what it essentially criminalizes is an attempt to build a business on devices that circumvent content protection.

As a sometimes-reverser, I'm ambivalent about this. I wouldn't howl if anti-circumvention was eliminated (it won't be, but still). I'll howl with all the other security researchers when it's abused to stifle research and disclosure of security flaws (for the overwhelming most part, it isn't, but still).

I don't understand your sock/cheese metaphor at all. People can in fact bundle socks and cheese. Nobody would in reality stick up for you if you stole the socks to avoid the cheese. But nobody does bundle socks and cheese, because that's moronic. It is manifestly not moronic to bundle Game Of Thrones with ESPN.
I don't think that's what OP meant. You can have comments like first.last(notify IM)@example.com see http://blog.dominicsayers.com/2009/02/27/comments-in-email-a...

I just don't understand why they made the spec so complex. Seriously, indefinably nestable comments?
my wife works in human resources here in germany, so its not exactly the US perspective but from what I've read the regulations are fairely similiar b/t EU and US. Anyway from what she's told me, there are #1 the stuff you mention i.e. lots of extra hassle, costs, and time concerns and if all the tons of paperwork is not filled out perfectly you can expect to pay heavy fines. Also there's the risks @gabriel34 mentions, and on top of all this there are (at least in germany) regulations that require you "prove" the foreign applicant is better than a german or if no germans available other eu applicants.

There's a reason these companies have HR departments, it is a convoluted mess especially the legal side. I'd be interested to know what some of the US specific problems are if anyone knows?
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The only person here who seems concerned about 'showing' anyone is you, I'm afraid. We're just missing the 'inherent right to intellectual property at all costs' ethics update and can't be bothered with throwing money at incompetent salesmen.

Really, I'm surprised at your apparent inability to make cogent or compelling arguments when it comes to these sorts of policy issues, given the rather high quality of your thoughts on just about everything else. Ah, the mysteries of life!
I don't know how I should have framed my reply. Just wanted to point out that in some places these boxes are already quite common.
Remember that these same companies are actively lobbying for oppressive laws behind closed doors, actively inserting malware into their installers, actively disabling and deleting content users still legitimately have a right to access, illegally invading sovereign nations (New Zealand / megaupload), actively working against artists (Hollywood Accounting), actively terrorizing 9-year-old girls, to name a few.

I don't pirate. However, "take the moral high road" is not a valid argument here. If you were telling the artists to "boycott the corrupt labels and take the moral high road," maybe you'd have some weight. For the fans, stick to the "what gives me the most bang for my buck."
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Note that Dalvik is actually not a very good trace JIT. There's a recent paper comparing Dalvik to an embedded version of Hotspot. The Dalvik interpreter was slightly faster (~5%), but the JIT speedup was only 3-4x whereas it was ~12x for the method JIT. The reason is that Dalvik's traces are way too short and cannot even span method boundaries. That means little scope for optimisation and a lot of code just to load the state from the stack into registers and then write it back. Weirdly enough, Dalvik also generates more code than the method JIT, yet low amount of compilation overhead was their main goal.

Fortunately for Dalvik, most applications actually spend most of their time in native code.

The paper (behind ACM paywall): http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=2388936.2388956
I'm just feeling goofy. I didn't mean anything by it.
I just noticed that Microsoft has an opening for a "Privacy Strategist, Senior - Trustworthy Computing"

https://careers.microsoft.com/jobdetails.aspx?ss=&pg=0&#...
https://twitter.com/adamshostack/status/274589817776525312

I accepted a position at Microsoft a few months ago, and I'm feeling pretty happy about it. I've been a merciless critic of MS in the past, but it appears to me now that MS is one of the few large tech companies in a position to make the consumer's privacy interests a competitive advantage in their products.

One of my long-standing criticisms of the whole Trustworthy computing initiative matched what was described in the article: that all this research in computer security and TPM hardware on the motherboard was not being used well in the interest of the consumer. With the very notable exception of Bitlocker, "trustworthy" tended to mean that 3rd party interests could expect the computer to act on their behalf and against the demands of the system's actual owner.

If you are or know someone who can articulate good arguments on behalf of the user and privacy, please show them this job posting.

Thanks :-)
Heh, that's fair enough. More moving parts is always a problem. Thanks for sharing!
5-6 MB/s is fine? My backup runs with 100+ MB/s and still feels awefully slow :/
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Incredibly happy for Mike, Jay, Aditya and the rest of the BufferBox Team! It seems like it is getting better and better for Canadian, and in particular Kitchener-Waterloo areas.
One of the other cool things is that I've had my desk at the Velocity Garage right next to theirs for the past month, and I only heard of the news this morning.
That comparison is over 4 years old. Google code now supports git, and most of the arguments against git are either spurious ("git history isn't sacred!")[1] or have been improved since then (better windows support, smart http protocol, single user-visible binary, etc.).

[1] dvcs history locally should not be sacred, because rewriting experimental branches is necessary for clarity and to avoid polluting the main repository branches. dvcs history on a central repo can be made sacred with git by disabling non-ff commits and disabling deletes.
I'm guessing this is related to what I just read in the new Economist: http://www.economist.com/news/21567361-google-apple-facebook...

>Google is experimenting with a service that would let folk find goods online, order them and have them delivered within a day for a modest fee. This seems similar to Amazon’s hugely successful “Prime” service, which costs $79 a year to join in America. Rather than try to replicate the e-commerce giant’s extensive network of warehouses, Google is looking for partnerships with shipping companies and retailers instead.

I'm excited to see what Google can do. Amazon dominates e-commerce so well I'll often buy from them even if there are cheaper options elsewhere (because it's easier). Competition, as usual, will be good in this space.
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Browsers already complain if a site mixes http and https, why can't they complain if security levels are mixed at all (plaintext, self-signed, normal-CA-signed, EV, TACK-pinned)?
No explanation on comments, nothing on chromium design docs.. But its UDP and is just the client code..
Looks like they got the server already :)
> Pi can essentially saturate its network connection

There are a few caveats here. If you're serving the same content ( < 512MB ) and it's static, then yeah, why not? Serving static content isn't CPU intensive and you're serving directly from RAM.
That's the normal procedure in germany as well.
But the "package station" offer is also available, plus if you have one nearby sometimes they send it there instead of the next post office. Unfortunately they closed my "package station"..
Also in this space (although not one day delivery) is ShopRunner, with a pretty impressive list of participating retailers:

http://www.shoprunner.com/trial/free-shipping-best-stores.ph...
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