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I'm going to be blunt for a moment. If you are not using ZFS, you deserve what you get.

As the author realizes, hardware RAID, or naive software RAID, is becoming more and more useless given the size of volumes and the bit densities (and thus error rates) of those drives.

The only solution to this is a proper file system and volume manager that can proactively discover bit rot and give you time to do something about it. At the moment, the only real solution is ZFS.
The problem with film piracy isn't box office records- blockbusters will always generate great revenue, and this year was one full of blockbusters.

The problem is that independent filmmakers are hit harder by piracy than the blockbusters. And piracy causes Hollywood studios to be less likely to back indie films, causing them to instead favor low hanging fruit, projects with mass appeal that will generate the most revenue regardless of piracy, instead of independent projects that may be more bold and creative, but would have more to lose from piracy. See here:

http://articles.latimes.com/2010/sep/28/business/la-fi-ct-fi...
Tough. They don't need a mechanism to enforce that no-one ever watches one of their films without paying them.
Ask for a refund.

Sometimes all you have to do is point it out and they'll fix it

As I hinted, I would have done so at the time if I'd had the language skills to confidently say what was wrong (and understand their suggested resollution). (and if I'd been able to find an usher as well, for that matter).
Nothing in the article suggests they are at all. What made you say that?
Movie theaters are extremely expensive setups (proprietary digital projectors, playback/DRM systems, licensing) usually operating at cost - profit comes from those $10 popcorn bags.

Along with digital projection (not much work to do), that means there might be one or two operators for a dozen screens. The projection room also has noise blocking, so no one is listening or looking when you shout. It's more likely that the ticket/security crew outside the door listens and calls the operators, but you have to shout really loud :)
We have extremely strict libel legislation, and an independent press ombudsman. State funding is not a factor in the finances of the major papers who pushed for the measures mentioned in this article
I find it funny that you call out these products. These are products that actually create value for their customers and they make their creators a decent amount of money. Yet you call them "get rich quick schemes". If anything this site (HN) is all about get rich quick schemes. How many startups actually make it to a point where they sell and make their owners very rich? Very, very, very few. It's almost like winning the lottery. Yet HN is always full of the "next social app" that's "valued" (in fake money of course) at a billion dollars that does nothing special. If anything, startups are the real "get rich quick" schemes, but HN eats them up.
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VCs?
Angels?
Good luck to them... This was already tried in belgium http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2011/07/google-versus-bel... years ago
If I spend time on my own projects before work, I often end up coming in late, as I usually get carried away as I just fix one last thing...
I did simple analysis of overall letter frequency and how that would map to a 98 tile set (not counting the blanks) and this is what I got:

A: 7 B: 2 C: 4 D: 3 E: 11 F: 1 G: 3 H: 2 I: 8 J: 1 K: 1 L: 5 M: 3 N: 6 O: 6 P: 3 Q: 1 R: 7 S: 9 T: 6 U: 3 V: 1 W: 1 X: 1 Y: 2 Z: 1

It makes a lot of sense to reduce the number of Ss for the sake of gameplay, and it seems like Butts redistributed those extra tiles amongst the vowels.
That's not always the case. For example, the independent movie "The Man From Earth", gained a lot of attention that it otherwise wouldn't have, due to piracy, leading to the producer thanking the pirates:

http://torrentfreak.com/producer-thanks-pirates-for-stealing...
> The place where I struggle is the day-to-day tasks, and I still haven't found the answer.

One thing that worked for me (but I accept it might not work for everyone) that was given me by an occupational therapist was to break everything down into tiny tasks.

Thus, not "I will wash the dishes", but "I will gather everything that needs washing." then "I will scrape them off" and "I will clean the sink" then "I will put dishes in sink with hot hot water and dish soap" then "I will scrub them and let them drain" then "I will dry them" finally "I will put them away". Each task is small and easily achievable, even if it's a tough day. And doing one small task gives you a small sense of achievement, and gets you moving around. That might be enough for you to continue doing things, or you might decide that's enough for the day. But at least you've stopped things going backwards, and started making progress.

Another thing that helped me was having a rigid structure. Thus, Thursday is always "take the trash out". But don't overload each day with tasks. Just put 2 tasks per day, and make sure you include 1 thing for you each day.

I guess these are more useful when days are tough, rather than just everyday.
Why does it matter how many people watch? I guess I don't understand this logic.

I would pay $30 USD to watch a movie from my couch that is currently in the theaters. Maybe a couple friends are over (another couple) but that total is 4... not 40.

I would bet major releases would see people throwing parties at their homes. But then again, is it a problem? Maybe raise the price a bit?
> Yet we've never seen a flight failure due to electronic interference.

How do you know? There are plenty of unexplained failures traced to electronics or on board computers. And stuff like electronics acting weird and after reset they're ok again is even more common. If these things happen more frequently it could lead to trouble.

How would you even expect to prove after an incident that it was due to interference?
US prices are typically $20 to buy and $5 to rent.

It's just madness. I want to think about what film I want to watch, not about whether I'll spend the money.

The ironic thing is that my monthly spend would be somewhere around 40 or 50 Euro if the prices were at stupid-la-la-thinking-land levels. Somewhat of an improvement from the big, fat €0 as at present.
Funny, I owned this domain until July of this year and was planning to build the exact same thing. I was in my "have an idea, get excited, buy the domain, do nothing, let it expire" phase.

Glad to see you picked it up and actually built and launched.
If your argument was valid, then the top 10 grossing films would surely not be the ones which are recycled IP.
You're not the only one with a headache. Trying to work out pricing for intellectual property that's inherently a monopoly is like reading entrails. It's whatever you say it is. It's pricing based on psychology, rather than pricing based on traditional microeconomic pricing principles (like cost + x%) which are driven by competition.
Big box office numbers don't really prove or disprove much.
"If Hollywood wants to make MORE money. Let me watch NEW movies at home."

Is there even a point to watching new movies? Hollywood is not all that creative these days. The same plot plays out over and over; they are remaking movies that are less than a decade old; actions scenes are formulaic, sex scenes are formulaic, and the way in which scenes are composed is formulaic. When movie studios run out of ideas about what to copy, they just create formulaic sequels to movies that were OK the first time around (Fast Five? Really?).

Hollywood's problem is quality. They spend enormous amounts of money on improved special effects, when special effects are not really what needed to be improved. If you can predict how the story ends (or count the number of possible endings on your fingers), the movie probably isn't worth paying for.
The argument that "many signals add up to catastrophe" is a load of bunk.

1) The RF emissions of most unintentional transmitters are next to nothing. They're difficult to measure, and because signal strength decreases over distance at a rate that is similar to an inverse log, the net effect at any distance (even inches away) is even less.

2) In the atmosphere, and especially at altitude, a plane is being bombarded by cell phone signals anyway. Cell towers are designed to transmit in an elongated toroidal pattern in order to maximize efficiency, but there is still significant cellular spectrum radiation transmitted in to the atmosphere.

3) Everything else. The atmosphere is full of electromagnetic interference. You can listen to lightning strikes with an AM radio. You can also listen to the spark plugs in your car. Cosmic rays bombard the planet from outer space, despite our planets considerable electromagnetic shielding.

The bottom line is that any equipment sensitive enough to be disrupted by unintentional transmission shouldn't be used in a plane. Cell phone signals are transmitted in predictable wavelengths. Likewise for WiFi. If there were truly significant risk to the safety of aircraft at the influence of these consumer electronic devices, there would be a warning bell in the cockpit that goes off every single time RF from those bands were detected above a certain threshold. I've never seen or heard of such a thing, and it wouldn't be feasible anyway, because of the aforementioned interference already present.
Excellent idea. I'd love to have MS Surface as an option (in horizontal orientation). I'd also love the ability to do it with a video.
Let them. Let them start charging for links. Let them miss out on the free SEO and let them fall off the face of the search engines. Let them lose their readership because nobody can find them and let them go bankrupt because no one is looking at their ads. This is how the internet works. If they can't figure that out, then its no ones loss but their own. A less greedy company will be happy to have sites link back to them and will eventually take their place.
Isn't the Xbox/Windows Live/Zune/Microsoft billing back end a nightmare? I remember there being a EU-centric website protesting the lack of data portability that is mandated by EU law.

To be fair, being in different countries trying to access/retain (you lose all your purchases with the MS stuff if you switch countries) your "purchased" content is still a clusterfuck even with Apple and Amazon, but I recall my experience with MSN/Live being totally fucked up for just wanting to change my address.

Their recent shuttling of Games For Windows Live redirected users to vague no-detail error messages on Xbox.com for stuff like having to login and accept new EULA terms.
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I would rather live in a tent - then selling out
> No independence, no civil war, nada.

To be honest, most schools that do cover those do an even worse job than not teaching anything at all.

If you're interested in filling in the gaps on your own:

http://www.amazon.com/Dont-Know-About-History-Anniversary/dp...
http://www.amazon.com/Lies-My-Teacher-Told-Everything/dp/074...
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If you product is junk then nobody will buy it (within experimental error). Steam sales consistently pull in a heap-load of sales and there's been lots more this year than the previous. I think if say COD9 would be $10, not $60 it would sell many more copies; go below $10 and it's at the "whatever dude" pricepoint.

Regional pricing could also be used, if the company is greedy. People living in low-income countries aren't really going to be able to afford $60 for a game, but it were $10 for them, they might.
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Same idea as http://repos.io ?
Lots of people are saying similar things. Does anyone have data on whether sales actually go up after an event like this? I suspect the people pirating your app aren't going to pay for it, they're just going to not use it.
People do seem to like Humble Bundle too. That's a great way to advertise and get some cash as an indie.
Here's a startup idea: a hip site with daily exercises targeted at people like us. There should be two levels: no supplies and having basic weight set (so it gives me the option of doing it at work on home too). You could track fitness, and tie it to a mobile app which reminds you. I'm sick of fitness being geared toward getting tone, losing weight, body building etc. I am just concerned with living healthy, so I want a minimum workout.
Belgium... Ireland... who's next, Andorra?

Frankly, 99.9+% of the world's population can get through their day without learning what happens in Ireland unless and until it affects a country with a more direct impact on their lives. The fact that country will almost certainly have newspapers that aren't actively trying to get blacklisted by search engines is just a nice extra.
This is not an ad hominem attack. The author's background is closely related to the subject matter. The fact that he once owned and operated companies that were (possibly?) engaged in much of the same practices brings about relevant questions about the consistency of his views. Was he always of the same mind, but operating in contradiction with his ethical viewpoints in order to make money, or was there some turning point? What motivated that change of viewpoint?

These are relevant questions.
90% of movie theaters already avoid independent films. If you're independent, why not distribute online? I bet a majority of "pirates" will pay instead of downloading a dubious torrent. You're not going to make money off hollywood distributors anyway.

Regarding the article, out of those 60.000, how many would have gone to the movies to watch it? I watch a lot of indie films just because it's easy, while I wouldn't go out to a small crumpled theater downtown to see it, even if it was free. That's the MPAA math and it doesn't add up.

See http://www.indiegamethemovie.com/
Microsoft offers up free month of Xbox Live following Cloud Saved Games outage
You know what I love to know? Which branch is the most uptodate! The network page of github is slow and hard to see what is going on.

Some repos become dead then I look for forks to see if somebody fix it or improve it. Normally, I need to open several forks to select one.

I imagine a interface like a leaderboard where the most uptodate and with more commits lead the pack...
Sorry, yes there is a lot of people hitting the server right now. Yes, that would be possible but I think what we're going to do is add PNG outputs so you can place them together with your own backgrounds as well.
C puzzle: what do you think it will be printed?
This is the point of responsible disclosure. Tell the company, wait a week or whatever, if they do nothing, then it's ethnical for you to tell the world.
I've found that it can be hard to isolate whether pain is solely from repetitive motions or if it's stress induced. Reducing both have helped me.
Say you're looking for the email of James Smith, and you think it's one of jsmith@gmail.com, james.smith@gmail.com, jamesmith@gmail.com.

If you type all these when composing an email, one of them will pull up a bunch of their social networks attached to that email, while the others will do nothing. That's how you can quickly figure out someone's email by guessing + Rapportive.
There are two main classes of electronic devices:

1. Devices that are unintentional radiators
2. Devices that are intentional radiators

The concern is that people may not know which class their device falls into, and also that they may not know how to fully disable their device as well. The problem with intentional radiators is more obvious - it could potentially jam other circuits by producing energy at specific frequencies. However, many people seem to ignore the other class of unintentional radiators. Many circuits require the use of clock generators and phase-locked loops, which can actually radiate a fair distance away if not designed correctly. One of the problems with this is that noise generated by a PLL could intermodulate with the PLLs in the plane's navigation systems (i.e. GPS or ADF) and cause the pilot to use an inaccurate position report in determining the location of the plane.

An example of one such interference case: Someone wanted to launch a high-altitude balloon with onboard GPS and an amateur radio transmitter. They added a small keychain camera manufactured by a Chinese company, but when the camera was powered on, it completely disabled the GPS from locking on to any satellites.
The type of bike you can get from Walmart shouldn't even be considered in the same category. It may be "working" in that it can roll when it leaves the store, but if you attempt to do any serious miles on it, it will break quickly and/or require inordinate amounts of maintenance.
Awesome! Such a pain point that needs an actual solution -- I'm honestly pretty underwhelmed with GitHub for not providing this kind of functionality in the first place. Glad someone took the initiative to do something not just cool, but so very necessary with the GitHub API.
For those thinking about using Go on a Pi, I cannot overreccomend using cross compilation. It is incredibly easy and pleasant with go.
the italian word "decimare" also means both
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Have you tried the penclic over a regular vertical mouse like an evoluent? care to tell us how you like it?
I wasn't specifically arguing the facts, but having the facts right is no excuse for having terrible sources.

In fact, dexedrine is not methamphetamine. It's related, but it's a different drug.
Yeah, I think once a tech product becomes entrenched enough that your grandma tries to use it on a fairly consistent basis, you've hit a "point of no return" for market share. Something eventually stabilizes as a long-term de-facto standard, and Facebook is that now for social networking. imo it's going to be difficult to break FB's grip on traditional social media uses. Before DOS/Windows became the king, there was a lot of flux in the OS/computing market, very analogous to the bi-yearly transition to a new dominating social platform.

Facebook is becoming less and less cool as more and more grandmas get accounts, but I think at the same time it's becoming harder and harder to obsolete.

Maybe I'm wrong and it will soon just be used mostly by persons of limited technical literacy while the more involved people switch to a shinier alternative. I often compare Facebook to Windows, but there's quite a different barrier to switching an OS and switching a social media site.
Your first link crashed my Safari Browser.
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I have had a multi-disk failure occur with a RAID-1 setup. Server was pre-built from a large vendor and worked fine until both disks failed at the exact same time (within minutes).

Took the disks out to find that they had sequential serial numbers.

Called vendor for replacement only to have them tell me that they had issues with that batch, yet did not make any attempt to inform me.

Spent the day restoring from tape backup.

TLDR: If you buy a pre-built server check that the disks aren't all from the same batch.
This is something that does worry me. I pirate a lot, but in the past[1], I used to try to buy the product as well. This is easy for big brands, but it's much harder for the little independent movies or for the foreign movies.

And I'm not quite sure what the ethical thing to do for foreign movies is: buy product only when it's available in my region? Or try to buy in my region but buy it from another region if it's not going to be in my region ever?

The industry seems to say that I must never pirate; must never buy second hand goods; must never import from another region. (But it's only relatively that they've said that format-shifting (ripping CD to mp3 player for example) is okay.

[1] Now I don't pirate anything if there's not a realistic chance of me being able to buy it. This means I'm missing out on a lot of product, but I get to feel smug.
Ask HN: What is your new years resolution?
Curious to hear...
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Hey, Ryan (author of the piece) here. You are clearly making a lot of assumptions about me and my work!

Nothing I've built or worked on (gdgt, Engadget, etc.) has ever collected or used user data or social information in any untoward way. You'd be right to assume there have been opportunities to do so, but that's simply not the kind of business I'm interested in being in.
"Now, six years since I created a real Facebook page, mine is deactivated and I couldn’t be happier."

"Deactivated" is very different from killing an account outright. If you ever accidentally sign into another app/site using Facebook, your account will instantly reactivate (whether you realize it or not - they don't warn you). Playing Words with Friends? You'll need to decouple your FB account entirely or your FB account will suddenly reawaken.

They make the addiction incredibly easy to slip back into as well. During the deactivation process, you'll be presented with pictures of 4 of your friends, each saying, "Chad will miss you" or "Mike will miss you." In my case I was actually presented with a friend's pitiful dog looking up at me, and another friend's child. I was sure they were algorithmically selected (I think from the top 10% of my active friends), but I was stunned by the presentation.

It was incredible.

My guilt and apprehension was flooding me with confusion when I pulled the trigger. I felt justified for not completely killing the account outright. And, for at least 2 days, I literally felt a bit of withdrawal. ("I should have posted this picture... Maybe I should reactivate, post, then deactivate again." etc.)

That wore off quickly, and when I tell folks of my departure they often ask me about it with eyes of wonder and disbelief. It's almost like an AA club, and I meet more people like me.
This isn't going to last very long.

In a few months, at the outside, they (the newspapers) will have a condescending piece of back-pedaling that implies we were all too stupid to understand their statements, because obviously they never so much as implied they would charge people to link to them, and saying they did means we just don't get it. Then they'll maintain strict silence over it and refuse to even acknowledge questions about it.

I hate when they do that.
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I find the timers people use to turn christmas lights on and off automatically wonderful for timing daily routines. You connect them to lamps, etc, and have them turn off when it's time to do X instead.

You can put them on monitors (through a surge protector), for instance, to tell you to walk off and go to work, for the room lights to tell you to go to bed, for the TV to enforce a hard bedtime, and for noisy home equipment to start waking you up (icemakers, fans, lights, etc).
I like how you can toggle between the normal Google map and the census dots. It's fun to try to guess what the large white spots are in areas I'm familiar with, such as the Crystal Springs Reservoir near San Mateo, CA.
> If you can predict how the story ends (or count the number of possible endings on your fingers), the movie probably isn't worth paying for.

How on earth can you say this? New tellings of old stories are a — the — foundational element of human storytelling since the dawn of time.

Can you give an example of a story whose ending can't be reduced to a few possibilities given the beginning? That doesn't make people shout "What a tweest!"?
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Yep. That's what I thought too. The more number on a pixel, the darker (or brighter) it gets. But I don't know how far that can be pushed.