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I agree with you, This poor young mans life has just been turned around on him. I can't imagine what he is going through,all the question he must have. I do think he should sue and a meaningful gesture on his part would be to give the money back to the community in one way or another. I pray that he can get through this with Gods grace.
DRM free is not always better. I like steam as it allows me to download any game I've ever bought from them. Sure, it's locked to my account, but its super easy to use. As well, I have a catalog of all my purchases games right there.

DRM free may be a nice ideal, but DRM that does not get in the way is just fine by me.
the plethora of articles about how every breaks at least 3 federal laws a day

...which are mostly not founded in fact, but designed to tell you what you want to hear in order to sell advertising.
If you're going to finance your own retirement, feel free to stop working whenever you have enough money saved up. However, if you're going to demand that future generations of workers finance your retirement through taxation (which is how the U.S. Social Security system works), then what you're saying is that future generations have a "moral obligation" to spend ever-increasing fractions of their salaries to fund prior generations as life expectancy increases. Keeping the retirement age the same while life expectancy goes up results in an increasing transfer of wealth from younger generations to older generations, with older people having an increased standard of living at the expense of younger ones.

By the way, higher productivity per hour doesn't necessarily mean that people can afford to pay higher taxes to fund your longer retirement. In many cases, it means that employees are expected to work more hours (e.g., work 50 hours a week and answer e-mails from home) for the same salary. Also, productivity per hour is only likely to have increased in jobs that are based on technology. It's not likely that the productivity per hour of a mail carrier or a teacher or a waiter is much higher than it was decades ago.
I'm a lawyer in common sense. "Buying a license" is what penn & teller call BS. There's a common sense understanding of what buying is, and kindle books don't fall into that category.

I will admit that "legally speaking" was perhaps not accurate. But is it really?
"Chris is doing something very smart: he’s fishing in a smaller pool. There may be fewer fish, but he’s got them all to himself."

This is the mistake. This pool is not merely smaller (that may not even be the case), but investors in it have a lower ratio of value to cost. Which is precisely the reason someone who fishes in this pool has it all to himself.

I.e. the argument here is not akin to "Since this restaurant is too crowded, I'll go to that other equally good restaurant that's empty, but rather "Since this restaurant is crowded, I'll go to that other one that is deservedly empty."

I find it odd to be arguing this side of the case, because I'm usually the one telling founders not to chase high valuations. But these arguments are simply fallacious.
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How do you know people who pirate it are not buying it on DVD when it comes out?

How moral is it for someone in one territory to buy from a different territory? Because, to the business, that's just as bad as pirating. Which is why you can only change the region on your DVD player (Apple, MS) 5 times, and why there are laws preventing shops telling people how to make their DVD machine region free.
This submission rather well summarises what upvote-hits baiting is about - Congratulations Wired!
Yay! Thanks ☺

This can, incidentally, be a great start for a tool like Why the Lucky Stiff's "Try Ruby in Your Browser" [1].

s/Ruby/Rust/

[1]: http://tryruby.org
steer clear from most of the entrenched practices and packages (e.g. devise and related trainwrecks)

I agree with your sentiment in general, but what do you suggest to use in place of devise? Surely you're not suggesting to write all the code for handling mail confirmation, password changes etc. yourself?
E.g., we can't even increase fish farming productivity without massive political interference:

http://www.nature.com/news/transgenic-fish-wins-us-regulator...
My claim was only that his anecdote is not valid evidence of his claim. I didn't claim that it was statistically false, because I don't actually have scientific data.

I'm not familiar with this "law of big numbers" term you keep using, but my proposed explanation of the author's anecdotal evidence is valid. Like I said, it's probably very likely that at least one viewer in the world would see both formats and experience audience laughter in only the non-HFR showing, even if a very large percentage of audiences in all formats laughed. It is not evidence that, among all showings, there was less laughter in one format than another.
I hear great things about HBO Go, and I thought it was free for all HBO subscribers. Have you tried it?
In a global economy, restrictions on parallel importation are destructive and backward.

What happened to "free trade"? I see no difference between buying something in country A and selling it in country B and buying and selling within the borders of country A.

As borders continue to fade away, restrictions on importation will become restrictions on first sale rights. So I really draw no distinction, personally.
Your examples and much more have been swept under the rug of "Not In The Workforce". The more people you disregard, the lower your unemployment percentage becomes.
Since neither Forbes nor the author, Jon Matonis, saw fit to point this out, I will.

This is an op-ed piece, written by a board member of the Bitcoin Foundation. Regardless of the merit of the article, it should have been explicitly stated in the piece.
Cars are better today then they were 60 years ago. I would not presume that their prices should remain equal.
I give an example in "How would I even use a Monad (in C#)?" ( http://twistedoakstudios.com/blog/Post867_how-would-i-even-u... ), assuming a hypothetical extension to the language:

///<summary>Pulls the monad type outside of the list type by binding across the list's elements.</summary>
///<remarks>Not actually possible to compile in C# today.</remarks>
public static M<IEnumerable<T>> BindAll<M, T>(this IEnumerable<M<T>> sequence)
where M : Monad { //<-- Type parameter M takes a type parameter T. Not currently possible.
return sequence.Aggregate(
M.Return(Enumerable.Empty<T>()), //<-- Static interface method. Not currently possible.
(wrappedAccumulator, wrappedNextItem) =>
from accumulator in wrappedAccumulator
from item in wrappedNextItem
select accumulator.Concat(new[] { item }).ToArray().AsEnumerable());
}

This single method combines several apparently distinct methods: waiting for all tasks, choosing all of the combinations from a list of lists, etc.
This comes across as quite naive.

Why is it that people see software developers as tradies? As plumbers who drive around in a ute[1]? As guys you look over their shoulder while they fix the drain when they're in your house?

When you hire a developer you're hiring this person for their knowledge and experience, much like when you hire a laywer or when you go see a doctor. Would you ask these questions to lawyer or a doctor?

A lot of clients are simply not capable of working like this with their developer. For this kind of transparency a client needs to have certain knowledge and experience about the development process. If they don't, they will simply be a nuisance and they will make everything much more difficult.

E.g. I build websites for a living. The amount of time that I've wasted over the years dealing with clients who were going to reinvent how to navigate a website is simply astonishing. As an expert I know what is right for their website but will they take my advice? Of course not. When clients are involved in your project on a micro level they will be in a state of mind where everything in new to them so every decision is a new discovery that needs to be analyzed. When all avenues have been discovered they end up at what you suggested to them in the first place.

My advice. Unless your client is savvy enough to be involved, keep 'm out of the development process and black-box everything as much as possible.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ute_(vehicle) (reference for non-Australians)
The article is empty link bait, using 'Mumford and Sons' to get views.

While I am also not a fan of the band, this 'article' doesn't suddenly make them Lars. The 'warning' seems generic speak slapped on things. A Google search shows Velvet Underground records from the 80's with this warning.

Also, a lot of people think The Avett Brothers are considered a 'poor version' of folk music(easy listening, pop) in the same bucket as Mumford & Sons. Regardless of versions and quality, both are nice to listen to on summer days with friends(who often don't care much about music), regardless of who's imitating who.
I agree that it bothers me to see Gitlab UI looking too similar to GitHub. I’m hoping that GitHub would not pursue any action against it. I also agree that Gitlab can’t compete against GitHub in the areas you’ve listed.

For my company, however, Gitlab makes a lot of sense. We have a large number of small and close source client projects to manage. We don’t want to pay for file hosting, e.g. $50 a month for 50 repos, when each repo is tiny and we can easily and cheaply host them. GitHub Enterprise is also out of question, as it is not very affordable by a small company.

Cost factor aside, Gitlab does have advantages over GitHub. Legal requirement is one, and the ability to integrate with other tools in the company is also quite nice. Although this feature has not been implemented yet, I look forward to the ability for Gitlab to integrate with Jenkins and display build status.

I will continue to use GitHub for personal and open source projects. For client work, Gitlab will be the one I use.
It's not a microkernel; it just happens to implement the Mach APIs.
The idea is less "which laws count?" and more "which man counts?". Most people will never be picked up for breaking the laws that they break, the few who are will be selected not for which laws they accidentally broke that day, but for who they are.

The purpose of everyone being a criminal is not to allow the arrest of everyone, but rather anyone.
The reason Link Conditioner is 10.7 and up is that it's using pf[0] internally. The man page for pfctl[1] is pretty easy to read after you start to get the basics of how pf works. Be careful applying examples you find online though. Last I heard, OS X's version of pf is slightly newer that FreeBSDs, and moderately behind OpenBSDs.

0: http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/

1: http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Darwin...
It seems that to satisfy this person, all I have to do is compliment their work ethic, ask when they're hoping to finish, ask if they are tired of pursuing degrees, and confirm that they have no free time.
It's not DRM that matters. I pirate almost all the content I have, except for PC games. Why? Because Steam is just that good. It makes it so easy to purchase, install and update games, and connect with friends. I just checked my account - I have almost 90 games in Steam. And yet I can't remember the last time I purchased a movie or song. Let me know when Netflix and Spotify have improved their selections greatly (and Netflix has everything it can in full 1080p with surround sound), I'll be willing to pay then.

Edit: the parent (username "citricsquid") just deleted his post (screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/yQiir.png). Here is the text in its entirety:

> That quote is such bullshit, it's the most obnoxious pandering around. Yes, if you reduce the prices of your content and increase availability you'll sell more, but the fact is no matter how cheap you price your content and no matter how easy acquisition is people will still pirate it. Steam is in a very good position, it has so much good will (what some might characterize as circle jerking) around it that people buy from Steam just to validate their views on piracy.

> "Steam is so successful because they are so great about piracy! That's why I buy from them!" but then when another company takes a much better approach to DRM than Steam (eg: release their content DRM free at a very reasonable price and available everywhere) people will suddenly forget all this "service problem" stuff and pirate it without a second thought.

> http://2dboy.com/2008/11/13/90/
Right now, the top post on the frontpage pro-inflation article is anti-inflation, and the top post on the frontpage pro-deflation article is anti-deflation.

Regardless of the merits of each, they can't both be right and they can't be the products of substantially different readerships. It's as though people are upvoting people simply for being contrary.
I was replying to the original claim further up the thread that it would be preferable to abolish employment contracts and use only a standard set of legislation to resolve everything.

This is different from simply arguing that certain clauses should not be enforceable.
30 years ago a 5 gigabyte hard disk cost $250,000, now it costs about $1. You might want to read The Wealth of Nations for an in-depth explanation of how over-reliance on gold can strangle and economy; in a nutshell, those who possess it have every incentive to take it to wherever it can yield the highest return, and an economy once starved of currency rapidly grinds to a halt.
HBO can hardly blame cable companies just because HBO's crappy business model doesn't work without cable companies.
Solidworks used to work like that too, it's a delight to just start a line and keep on typing distance deltas in numbers and see stuff emerging without a single mouse movement.
Of course the decision point still needs to be maintained - that is, the human should retain the trigger on a predictive transaction unless they explicitly give it up, such as in recurring payments or that XKCD $1 bid bot! :-P
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I think the two of you are mostly in agreement. I believe mikecane is talking about someone that believes their mental model of users' needs, desires, and expectations is complete, and is using the question as a way to shut down a feature, with the implication being "if the reason someone might want X is not immediately obvious to me, it must not exist."

I don't think he was talking about someone that acknowledges that their understanding of users is incomplete and wants to learn more.
No, I'm saying that the 'features' on the full site are rarely worth the time and bandwidth required to load them. I'm not complaining about things like Google Earth or other high-bandwidth services, but the amount of visually and functionally useless cruft on many sites, news sites in particular.
There's not enough information to make a judgement. It's like saying "Is a house worth 100k ?" - without knowing the details it's impossible to say.

There are definitely domains that are worth millions of dollars, but there are far more domains that are worthless.

A good point to start is by saying "how valuable would this domain be on the open market at auction ?"- if you don't know you can get specialist with expertise in the domain market who can value it for you.
Inflation punishes people who keep their money under the mattress instead of consuming it or investing it. Too much is a bad thing - just like giving life in prison to someone who was speeding just over the limit is a bad thing. A fine is necessary to disincentivize bad behavior but not so much as to be extraordinarily punitive. A small fine is a good thing. Do you really want people to be rewarded for not helping grow the pie?

If you want to discourage leveraged consumption - increase the cost of leverage slowly.

Deflation is bad. It rewards people for doing nothing with their money. It's just like giving someone who breaks the law money instead of a fine.
Except that when a government prints too much of the stuff it's diluting the value.
Came here to say this. It pains me to think of great products not being released because they don't have the _perfect_ set of features. Until you get real-world feedback from users it's often hard to guess what those must-have features are, anyway.
I know there will be a lot of people feeling extremely vindicated in their suspicions that if HBO offered Game of Thrones for legal download they would rake the money in. Let's take a second to work through the counter-argument though.

Instead of asking why they don't cash in on the clear demand, why not ask yourself how HBO & Co would operate if they did sell shows by the episode and direct to consumers. If you're looking for a proxy, the outcome probably wouldn't be a million miles from the networks, where audience levels translate into ad revenue, which means shows live or die very quickly. Look at Fox's 2010 series Lone Star. Despite having the best-rated pilot of any of that season's debuts, it was cancelled after two low-rated episodes.

Have you ever asked yourself why HBO, Showtime and AMC have the track record they do in producing great TV of movie-rivalling production value and movie-topping narrative chops? The simple answer is that they run a subscription model and that gives you a lot of freedom. In the first instance, a significant part of HBO's subscriber base is there for boxing first and foremost: money in the bank for the programming arm. In the second instance, once you're paying for something monthly, you're actually quite unlikely to cancel it even if you don't extract the full value from your subscription (see cinema all-you-can-eat memberships). Above all, it allows you to operate from a stable base of yearly income and that completely flips the consideration of which programs stay and which programs go. It's simply a consideration of opportunity cost; is there a better series that could fill this slot?

The subscription model is precisely the reason that HBO is able to swing for the fences on things like Boardwalk Empire and Game of Thrones, which are both enormously expensive undertakings. It's entirely because the shows are able to prove themselves over seasons, and not episodes, that subscription-driven channels are able to make them. And even then the judgment of whether to continue is usually based on creative satisfaction and not cold, hard audience figures - both the Wire and Treme kept their places on the roster despite comparatively lousy viewing figures.

The problem with a subscription model is that it has to be all or nothing. If you start giving people a way not to subscribe, they won't. They'll just pay to watch episodes as they become available. That's not even to get into the practicalities of carrier relations and all the added considerations that throws into the mix.

tl;dr: Game of Thrones might be a no-brainer for selling legal downloads, but things like Game of Thrones don't get made by companies that use that business model for very good reasons.
That's incorrect. The first sale doctrine has no such restriction on lending.
That's why I dislike the currency = proxy for goods and services.

It seems more accurate to say it's debt. When a person has earned/acquired currency it does not mean anything. Proxy for goods/services only goes so far as someone accepts it. Debt feels more accurate because in order to be debt someone must owe. Collectively our society has agreed that we will exchange currency as debt. A debt that someone else will desire to exchange goods/services for. This guarantee is enforced by the central banking system.

"Saving" makes much more sense when you view it as collecting debt for the future. It's in the Government's and banks best interest to inflate the currency to limit the repayment of your debts.
Maybe you are just too nice to say "no" to more hours?
well... if you can afford it I think a good domain can be worth a lot...but remember that there are more important things if you are starting something.
I hope the publishers realize that they must tread lightly here. Even by the ridiculously low standards of music and movies, books are reaaally easy to pirate. The DRM is a joke and most of them comprise fewer bytes than a moderately complex webpage.

If we learned one thing from the music industry over the last 15 years, it's that the internet gives your customers the power to destroy you if you treat them with contempt for long enough.

I love to read and I happily buy many Kindle books at $9.99+ a pop on Amazon. I want to live in a world where authors can make a living by writing. But bogus restrictions on book sharing, complete lack of a resale market, etc. are already starting to rub me the wrong way. At some point, if pushed too far, I'm not going to feel much remorse about flouting the system.
I find this revelation incredibly relevant to the "I have nothing to hide" thread here on HN. How many people can even comprehend getting in trouble for just handing a CD to a friend?
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Given the practice of tax dodging, how many items are really sold in the US by US webstores? Are you sure that all those amazon books are sold "in the US" and not from Ireland or some small island somewhere?
I don't know. But we've got to have some kind of scales.
You realize in the US 30% of the population is obese and almost 10% of us have diabetes, right?

A couple of points worth making:

1) 10% of people have diabetes because the definition of "diabetes" has been tinkered with extensively over the last couple of generations. Blood sugar levels that wouldn't have resulted in a diagnosis in the 1950s are now grounds for panic in your doctor's office. I'm not qualified to judge this as a good thing or a bad thing, overall, but it's obvious that it renders basic statistical comparisons impossible. We've seen similar abuse of statistics with other conditions such as autism.

2) If people are heavier now than we were in the past, it could be for the same reason that we're taller than our ancestors: better nutrition (as opposed to the usual claim of worse nutrition.)

In support of that idea, there was an amusing link on Fark earlier: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2251920/171-pounds... (May be considered NSFW if you work in a church.)
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Did you know that you can get in trouble for lending a CD in the UK, which lacks the fair use laws found in the US?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4960226
You should read more closely.

Don't ask when we're hoping to finish. Research is not a course, it's a job. It's like asking, "when is your start-up's IPO?"; it makes a lot of assumptions and implies your career is a paint-by-numbers affair.

Don't even talk to us if we seem like the kind of kvetchy grad-student who bitches about having no free time. Maybe it's just that I'm at Technion instead of some American university where everyone's a careerist workaholic, but over here many grad-students do have lives, at least until we actually get into doing our thesis. We know there are no new professorships, without illusions, so we're a little less hasty to finish.
I implemented a socket server in python on the raspi. I wrote a very simple android app that opened a connection to the pi and continuously streamed the x, y, and z coordinates.

You can see all the raspi code here: https://github.com/jminardi/RobotBrain
And the android code here: https://github.com/jminardi/RobotBrain-Controller
Its standard for the uk, doesn't surprise us here and its never, ever stopped anyone lending to their friends.