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I wouldn't be so quick to consider the anti-IP position as one of simple rationalization. I once held your position, and now consider it to have been a narrow-minded mistake (that was directed at my past self, not you).

Give me a moment to explain my philosophical transformation by way of example:

Suppose you walk out into some unclaimed forest and gather some wood. Per John Locke, you have mixed your labor (gathering) with a natural resource (wood) and now own the gathered wood.

And what is ownership? Ownership is the right to do with your property whatever you'd like, provided what you do does not affect or threaten the property of others (including the property they have in their own persons). This is understood intuitively in the scope of the example here that it would be wrong for someone to, by force and against your will, take the wood that you gathered.

To continue the example: your friend Bob approaches you and shows you an invention of his - a wooden seat, exquisitely crafted and very comfortable to sit upon. It's a fantastic idea, and you're really quite taken with it. Instead of purchasing the seat, however, you decide to produce some of your own, using the wood you own, for your own use and to sell to others. You do so.

Bob comes to you, quite upset. You've stolen his idea, he says, and profited with it against his will. And here the internal conflict introduced by the concept of "intellectual" property is highlighted. You used your own property as you pleased and in a way that did not harm or threaten to harm anyone else's property, and yet according to Bob, you've violated his "intellectual" property rights. In fact, the only way to not violate Bob's "intellectual" property is to not do with your property as you please, even though that use is entirely nonviolent. Bob's exercise of his "intellectual" property right is a violation of your property right!

I hope I have sufficiently demonstrated here that IP cannot be a right at all, because it destroys the internal consistency of property rights in general.

The response to this is usually utilitarian: "But how are artists going to get paid without IP?" I offer a riposte here not because I have to (the ends do not justify the means) but because some people need firm ground to stand upon before they can move into a brave new world sans copyright. The threshold pledge system (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threshold_pledge_system) is a means of providing compensation to artists for their work that does not depend upon IP law.
I have a profound desire to travel there, but I'm not very good at lying or holding my tongue, so it's probably not a good idea.
Interesting observation. I can only guess someone flagged it for being irrelevant.
"For very deadly conditions like I have, nuking the body is the standard practice. They do the same thing with cancer. That is a statement of fact. It shouldn't be used as a flimsy excuse to call me a quack."

What makes a person is a quack is not observing when a spontaneous remission occurs, but the connections one makes to determine why that has occurred. Besides, generally, "quack" refers to the practitioners and "authorities", not the victims of quackery.
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I second this - I built one of the competing services (shameless plug: http://beathound.com), and it seems like every day I find a new one (or a new one gets announced - like yours!).

I gave this a shot, and it's pretty cool - but it seems like some of the javascript is a bit superfluous, and I was confused by the interface. On this page: http://d.pr/i/e0hN - why are there no thumbnails? I was expecting that box to have a picture inside it (and I was expecting clicking it to take me somewhere).

On the New Music! page, I expected clicking on the album boxes (not just the thumbnails) to load up the albums for me to take a look at. It took me a second to figure out I needed to click on the thumbnails - and having to wait for something to load (Ajax, I'm guessing?) was a bit strange. I was expecting that click to be near instantaneous.

I'm sure the slow bits are just because you're getting hammered today - cool service, and good luck!
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The tests to measure violence mean nothing by themselves. It is by comparing the results that you can draw conclusions. In this case, they compared people who played violent video games with people who played non-violent games.

The study shows a difference in both cases. However, if they didn't test with people who did not play either violent or non-violent games, they lack a control group and they cannot say if violent games make you more violent or if non-violent games make you less violent.
All of their justifications seem to have a language specific VM like the JVM in mind. If you made a strategy of a "platformless x86" approach you might be able to overcome a lot of this stuff.
Good points - I actually misread the OP and didn't see the word "corporate" tax - need more coffee!
A stop loss is basically the point where a trader will dump their stock (most traders don't even maintain stop-loss orders since they are often times hunted by more sophisticated players.) It is a clear marker where the trader is wrong & the trader will recognize the loss, preserve capital, & wait for the next setup. So if the stop is @ $10 & the only offer is not until $9.75, a trader should take the loss @ $9.75 in order to avoid an even deeper loss.

A stop loss is merely one mechanism in a traders risk management strategy.

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Well, I never was much of a gamer. But Doom was the first game realistic enough to trigger motion sickness for me. I have been unable to play any FPS since. (I can't even watch many of them.)
I see, I misunderstood what you meant then. Obviously if you are going to get the product by some means, it's best for the producer if you pay for it.

However, it's important to note that a lot of the content that is consumed for free wouldn't be consumed otherwise. Just because you are not going to pirate something, it doesn't mean you are going to pay for it. And from the producer's side, it's better if his product is consumed than if it isn't, if the distribution and duplication is free.

As far as free distribution goes, I don't think it makes a large difference whether or not it's through official or illegal means (though it certainly merits studying and testing). Having your product for free on your website and having it on a torrent site probably both make you a sort of "loss leader" in a very similar way. You may have different costs and the visibility to some demographics may vary, but I doubt it matters much.

I just think the benefits of free distribution need to be better weighted. We just have no idea how much companies are losing or winning by having their content pirated.
> Absolutely true, but VirusTotal is only using hashing to determine if it's already scanned a particular file (and even if it has, you can still force a re-scan). Most of the individual AV engines have at least basic heuristics, so, for example, you can detonate a piece of malware in a VM, dump the memory, carve out the offending module[1], upload it to VirusTotal, and still get a positive hit.

I was referring to the method they currently use, which is just matching hashes, not VirusTotal. No matter what, you need to somehow run the code through an antivirus at some point, so the files need to go up to the server or you need to run the AV locally.
So you can work it into the Powerpoint for your next VC pitch.
Yes but a "loophole" is generally an abused tax break.
Every property law is unnatural. Who says that I can't own the land across my backyard?... Yes, some stupid law that was passed to invalidate my natural right of conquering that land with a club in hand. The civilized society was created by imposing these laws, and copyright laws allowed the establishment of an industry for creative works.
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Independent of Haskell, Heist is one of my favorite HTML/XML template engines so it's great to see such huge advancements.
Which suggests the site is generated in some unsafe way that could possibly be exploited.
Everytime these predictions are made, the outcome seems to be the exact opposite. That said, in 2030 I predict:

- After toying with 3D printers for a while, they will go back to vat-grown organs

- With widespread Internet access, remote work being a reality and local energy generation, people will leave the big cities seeking better life quality in smaller, country-side cities

- There won't be brain chips
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While I sympathise with your issues with Ubisoft's ridiculously hamfisted DRM, I simply don't believe this is a significant driving force behind piracy. I'm not claiming it doesn't exist though, or endorsing horrible DRM.
Could Apple do a deal with Dish Network or DirecTV and use internet streaming in place of satellite dishes? That would let them avoid negotiating deals with regional cable carriers.
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I do mountain bike trail work and mapping, and I like putting very large QR codes on the trail head sign kiosks with a note saying "Scan this QR code with your phone to download a copy of this map.".

Year-old example (it's changed slightly since then): https://nuxx.net/gallery/v/travel/local_places/biking/PB1500...

I don't have anything in place (unique URLs or whatever) to track how often it's done, but I've personally seen a number of people using it just in times that I've been at the park and sitting near the trail head.
Pretty sure Capone dressed like many others and didn't have a unique style. Wearing black shirt + jeans everyday (or perhaps as a public persona) is obviously intentional. I'd say those are like a football coach always wearing a fedora (Tom Landry) or a rapper always wearing a giant clock around their neck (Flava Flav) to name a couple of examples.

That said, I really don't care if they copy Jobs. I can think of several entrepreneurs I'd love to copy in an attempt to channel whatever insights they might have had.
Agreed. I just bought a 55" samsung smart TV on black friday. It was $1300 and was the first large scale TV purchase I have made in a decade.

I already have a mac mini hooked up to the 42" in the bedroom, and I never use that. While nifty, I just don't see apple building a TV business because the revenue stream is too low.
It's a pretty good question. One, Apple entered the market for PCs a long, long time before it became a commodity business, so history plays a part -- they can play these games in a commodity business because they have been playing these games in a commodity business.

But people buy TVs not to run software, but to watch movies and TV shows, so value-added TV sets are basically dead in the water. The real business Apple has to attack is the cable industry, and they have zero leverage or competitive advantage in the sickly morass of rent-seeking and quid pro quo backscratching that is regulated telecoms monopoly world. By analogy, the TV makers are Dell, Lenovo, Acer &c, and the cable industry is Microsoft.

The only conceivable change is for Apple to forge direct business relationships with the production houses and rights holders, and the cable companies are buying them up as quickly as they can to prevent this sort of disintermediation.
Okay what is up with Westwood studios. They produced a lot of licensed games, which usually means "crap" but they made Dune II (and of course Command & Conquer), Nox (I had forgotten that one was theirs), and several very solid dungeon-master like games.

Also, Dragon Strike was a very enjoyable and different flight-sim style game set in the Dragonlance world.
I also agree with this sentiment.
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Because regardless of what people say things are "for", generally all money goes in to a single fund, and everything gets drawn from that.
This is kind of annoying in my opinion. Mainly when I am reading some new in my mobile, when I go back the more link sometimes is expired. I think it would be a good idea at least one of the following:

1 - Make the expiration longer at least 90 minutes.

2 - Go to the next more page independent if the items have scrolled.

3 - at least go to the main page of hacker news.
That is a minor category made possible by the major ones. The torrent you used was not seeded and distributed just for those who had paid for the game.

I myself prefer to pirate ISOs rather than find reinstallation media in my closet (a rare need), and it is just as irrelevant given most people seeding and peering also want the serial crack/gen file as well.
In the Civ lineage, Alpha Centauri does have far more extensive terrain modification. Not using the mechanics mentioned in this article, but you can raise and lower terrain, and doing so raises/lowers surrounding terrain too. It can be highly effective to use modifying territory as a strategy.

Not only does it alter movement points, it also alters weather patterns, and so resources gained.

A highly successful strategy (especially when playing agains the AI, which doesn't understand this pattern) can be to create straits up against stronger enemies to force them to rely on seafaring troop transports (that area easy to take out). And when your land units are strong enough to create land bridges wherever you want to go and build railroads instead of sending naval units and transports to attack enemy cities.
http://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=status&ts=1...

Still no update
Gmail is down and children are in the street weeping!
Same problem here. All other Google services seem to be fine.
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I wonder if it's linked to that calendar bug?
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I've been on it for the past hour without a problem.

It must be server/account specific.
I didn't really understand what this was until I scrolled down to the screenshot and realised its a buildwall. May be worth using that term in the summary on GitHub for clarity?

As for the project itself, nice work! I'm a huge fan of buildwalls and think all colocated teams should have one on display somewhere prominent where the whole team can see it most of the time. We literally just started a new team up a couple of weeks ago, are colocated and are using Travis for CI. So your project is about to go up on the wall here right now. Thanks! :)
I have first hand experience with transfer pricing. My old startup had offices in Australia, India and the USA, income from all over the world, etc.

These tax systems also apply to the smallest of startups operating online. Its just that Google can afford the best advice and are the biggest target.

My concern is that further changes to tax laws that are aimed at Google and Apple could end up affecting smaller companies and startups as collateral damage.

Google and Apple will wriggle their way out of any changes to transfer pricing laws, as they usually always do, while small startups and businesses might not.
"I dislike the entire concept of "we don't really know what is going on, so we will claim your body is merely attacking itself for no real reason". "

Likely because you have an unrealistic expectation for how the immune system actually works. One that works "too well" is not advantageous. "No real reason" is silly, because that is the job of the immune system, to attack invaders. If it misidentifies your own systems as invasive, it will attack your own systems. The mechanism is not in question, how to treat it best is.

http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/more-boosting/
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So the fnid is essentially a caching mechanism for pre-rendered web pages linked to a point in time? That's pretty neat and simple fitting in perfectly with the simplistic design of HN (not confusing simplistic with basic, instead a reference to the design paradigm).
You can only measure repositories if you have "official" repositories which everybody goes to in order to get content. This would require strong IP laws to enforce.

What happens if a lot of stuff gets distributed P2P or via an independent repo who don't want to hand their server logs to the gov?

Also medical research still has contentious issues like Stem Cell research etc. And it is easier to justify objectively like "will help X thousand cancer patients".

Creative works are more difficult, for example what if somebody wants to make a film that might be perceived to promote racist views? There are certainly people who would not want their tax money spent on that.

There would also be people who would see it as an affront to free speech for such a film to not have a fair chance of being made.
This will make for an interesting legal argument. The ruling compelled ISPs of a certain size to block access to TPB and the Pirate Party is not an ISP. It would be good for this to go to court to be re-examined given the ineffectiveness of the remedy.

Don't forget to donate to the Open Rights Group (www.openrightsgroup.org) if you support an open internet.
Am I the only one who thinks this is a completely unreasonable response? You purchased the game, whether or not you should be allowed to download another (slightly modified) copy is a legal gray area - but one I would morally support.

Downloading other products from the same company, just because they ticked you off? You've just escalated the situation from what is likely an unfortunately operational issue (no malice) to some form of revenge.

If you want relief from the harm done to you (which, I would argue getting the pirated copy of AC3 was), allow a court to determine the reward. In this situation, it's likely overkill.
I suspect the chance of both services being down is under 0.0001%
Both my apps and personal account are down.

<edit> an both are back at 12:17pm EST</edit>
I will remember not to approach any company where you work, Meaty, because of your lack of faith in people being able to dedicate themselves and learn quickly. It also sounds like you would never invest in any employee, which makes it clear that you would not be the right one to work with anyway. Developers are in demand so much right now that I have no idea how you find the perfect candidate. The market will not get any better without the investment of employers. I am by no means proficient after graduating from Hackbright on Friday, and I hope that every company I talk to knows that, but I have a wonderfully firm basis that will help me build an amazing career I never dreamed of. I think that is actually noble of the founders of Hackbright to change peoples' lives so quickly and wonderfully. It is my understanding that every programmer continues learning, and that is just what I intend to do.

I come from an arts background, and I am glad. A couple of years ago, I realized that though I was interested in technology and analyzing autobiographical internet writing, I was more interested in making the magic happen, but I didn't have the tools to do that and I was floundering. It's actually pretty awesome that we with "business and arts backgrounds" have been able to hack it with such different experiences.

I cannot even begin to describe how flustered I am by your silly comment that "it's an easy way to make quick cash":

1. I don't think it's easy at all.
2. Quick cash with San Francisco housing costs? Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.
3. I had no idea how much programmers make going in. It wasn't the money that motivated me; it was learning something that truly interested me out of which I could hopefully make a career.
4. It pays better "crap" than the crap I was getting paid before. With a Master's degree, managing experience, language skills, international experience, a project management internship, editing knowledge, and a boatload of other very valuable skills, I was making around $24,000 a year with no benefits whatsoever, and that was after about a year and a half of searching for a job. Try doing any kind of thriving on that. So even though money wasn't the motivating factor, I think we can easily agree that I have tripled or quadrupled my value as an employee. That doesn't sound like it "pays crap" to me.
It takes effort to make a solid profit from investing, but more than that, it takes effort to avoid losses.

That's one of the reasons wages and investment are treated differently: your effort can be wasted in either case, but with investment you can also lose your capital.
The list forgot Mascara (http://www.mascaraengine.com/) which adds features like classes, type inference, array comprehensions and so on, but is backwards compatible with JavaScript. (Disclosure: I made it. Hope it's not considered spam to post here anyway?)

It is probably closest to TypeScript on the list, but is IMHO more mature and have more features (like generics).
Is this affecting Chrome as well? Looks like it might be a bigger problem. It just crashed for three guys in our office within a few seconds of each other.

Edit: Nobody was using Gmail at any point.
I'd say that was more of a welfare benefit than a tax loophole. It's just that we don't like to label money going to average middle class families as welfare. Much government social expenditure is structured this way: if you are poor you are really made to know that you are receiving welfare, and sometimes they don't even give you real money. On the other hand, middle class people don't get 'welfare', just 'tax breaks'.

The result of this is that better off people underestimate how much direct government assistance they have received [1]. I won't comment on the potential political motivations for dividing up the welfare state in this way

[1] http://themonkeycage.org/blog/2011/02/08/the_invisible_ameri...
I don't really want to get into an argument about semantics, but I feel there is a standard English definition of the term "dangerous fugitive", and it does not include a basic burglar. Googling for "dangerous fugitive" (not the perfect method, I know) shows multiple pages of people who are all suspected of already having committed a violent crime.
People with kids usually post a significant amount of anecdotes, observations and photos about their kids. I can totally see that people could pay to get these backed up, formatted nicely and provided as a separate web service, a slideshow or a physical book that they could give to their kids later.
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Or alternatively wait 2 minutes for it to come back up. C'mon - you can't complain about Gmail's uptime record.
- Games

Maybe. I'm currently playing lots of Kerbal Space Program, and didn't even realise it was written in C# (well, I noticed how hot it makes my laptop).

I can see for something like an FPS engine you'd want as much performance as possible, but doesn't that mean C (and increasingly CUDA and friends)? Similarly big physics number-crunching tends to be in fortran, sometimes with python to glue it together.

- Systems programming

As in kernels? Linux famously uses pure C.

- Compiler development

Does that need to be C++? I believe most if not all of the Java compiler is written in Java.

- Being able to deliver an application without depending on a VM

Why would that ever be a requirement? What's the difference between a VM and a runtime library (which even C has)?

C++ might sometimes be the best choice, but I don't think it's the only option for any of these cases.
Given the massive scale of Gmail and the infrastructure of Google, it's highly unlikely that the entire audience of Hacker News sitting and pressing F5 every second would hurt Google's ability to bring it back up.
Gmail is down for me too.