skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If piracy didn't actually cost the entertainment industry anything, wouldn't you think they would stop wasting any money trying to prevent it?

I would assume they'd try to be fairly objective with this study, because they'd be very happy to discover that piracy is a good thing for them.
I agree it would be hard to draw sound conclusions from the study. The changes probably aren't even outside variability.

But are these the claims really that outrageous? ie. The biggest piracy site in the world has a slight effect on sales?
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No, but is it reality to think that people that would steal begin paying? Most pirated content is content that would have otherwise not been paid for in the first place.

How much did it affect the promotion of movies though if people weren't talking and looking for it more? I actually think it ends up benefitting in the end or close to even. Exhibit A: The success of Windows Exhibit B: The success of Photoshop. Both gained a foothold via piracy initially. Piracy gets them hooked then later they buy or they buy it with budgets at work.

Is it worth recovering 1-2% for losing 98% of a user base? Does that eventually lead to more sales? It is a tough problem.
A number of my friends mentioned in the article are Malaysians. And they are good software craftsmen.
If you did as you said, you'd also see the length of the waves dynamically lengthening/contracting.

If you saw it in person, it'd just look blurred out.
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If you want to reproduce the signal, yes.

But in this case they don't want that. They want the illusion that the water is standing still, which you get by sampling the signal at the exact same point in every cycle. So to the sampler/viewer it looks like there is no signal at all.
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I would presume that facebook photos are usually not public. There is quite a distance between the way private and public data should be handled.
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I don't think it would work very well if it were the people who agreed with a study to somehow also have the obligation to point out its flaws. Could we believe that they were being thorough in finding problems if the conclusions supported their own beliefs? It works better, I think, if the challenger takes an adversarial, but not actually hostile, position. And, of course, for both sides to have open minds, but I realize that is often too much to ask.
Movies have less network effect than software, and most is not all. Why does MPAA need a bunch of people watching movies but not paying? These viewers aren't tastemakers, mass market advertising is taste maker.
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Maybe it's because I was introduced to both Ruby and Python early on in my career but I disagree. There are languages that encourage writing semantic code and thus making readability a function of how close the code is to an english description of how to implement the task at hand.
Our eyes don't have a 'frame rate' at all. Light falls on the retina continuously and is continuously processed, if I understand correctly.
Does this study account for the fact that 2011 was the worst year for movies (in terms of quality) ever? Look at the academy award winners and the top box office performers of that year and compare it to 2012.

Side note: I would like to see a study on the quality of movies in 2011 vs 2008 based on economies 3 years previous. So when movies were getting funding in 2005 for release in 2008, we got some real gems. In 2008, when the economy took a down-turn, we see some bad ones in 2011.

http://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=2011
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/84th_Academy_Awards

http://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=2012&p=.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/85th_Academy_Awards
It is meant to be a scientific study. What's the use of an unsubstantiated claim? In fact, its been proven to be highly counterproductive (at least in other fields) as others go on to build works and further claims around it, only to later discover the errors and depth of uncertainties.

Using the same principle, I could posit (probably quite defensibly), that the amount of alleged copyright infringment of Megaupload Limited's limited access and centralized services would be dwarfed by that from Bittorrent and other P2P methods.
I don't think that's the case at all. "Smart" and "hard working" are relative terms. Most "smart" kids aren't taking quantum mechanics in high school and most "hard working" kids aren't putting in 14-15 hour days in high school. You don't have to cheat to get to the top--you just have to have your shit together when other kids are focusing all their efforts on getting laid.

That said, the incentive to cheat is certainly much higher these days, between the 15 hour days and rigorous course loads, than it was 50 years ago before SAT tutors and numbers-based admissions; back when just being able to pay the $$$ for a top preparatory school basically guaranteed admission into Harvard and Yale: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/06/books/review/06brooks.html... ("That year [1950] 278 students from elite prep schools applied to Harvard and 245 were accepted. The acceptance rate from Exeter and Andover was 94 percent.").
That's why multiple data points are used.
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i don't understand how this is better than skype ?
Fossils just got a lot more interesting.
Recording: 'script' from util-linux, with a custom patch or two to make it less broken. http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2013/03/02/bugfix/

Playback: a fork of term.js derived from the jslinux terminal with some minor adjustments, plus a wrapper of my own which plays back the data with timing intact. http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2013/03/04/jvt/

I've been using them to demonstrate how I go about writing certain bits of code, with the goal of eventually showing the creation of something larger.
I think normally we process 15-16 frames per second. So if I did this with a 16hz wave, would I see the same effect?
I'd love that too, but have you seen Sims 3 and its DLC? One of the reasons I cancelled my pre-order was because I realized that EA would undoubtedly milk SimCity customers for as much as they could. I wanted no part of that.
> Edit: Just found out that SSRN is not even a peer reviewed journal!

It's not really a journal at all. It is a repository for papers in the social sciences, kind of like arXiv is for some other fields.

Most of their target audience is well aware of this, but it might seem confusing if you're coming from outside academia. They're not trying to pretend they're something they're not. Putting pre-prints of papers on SSRN is considered good practice.

SSRN is actually a pretty important source for open access research.
After reading the article, I painted a very minimalistic picture of the apartment in my head - Check out the video tour of his house -http://vimeo.com/55389782
I think this is living with a lot! but cramped into a small space.hmmm
This kind of treatment is inexcusable.

I canceled my safari subscription, and told them why.
I drive a 15 year old car and find Torque very valuable, it's not just for enthusiasts.

And you can make the screens as simple as this displays.

I guess this one is just easier out of the box.
If every member of a species behaves the same way (eating a lot and falling asleep), it is instinct. If we see diversity and individual creativity (ordering midwinter delivery, building a freezer, barricading the door, planting a garden), it is planning ahead, on top of a simpler instinct.
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What the hell do they still train 'war' dolphins???
In respect to the graphics, it looks awesome and I was expecting to be just as great as previous iterations. I actually wanted to play the game until I found out it was social multiplayer with cloud-based saves.

That just killed it. I have since bought a copy of SimCity 4 and plan to be quite happy with it for another decade or so.
Everything that makes you happy or sad is in your mind. So I would suggest that it is not about beating depression but achieving a balance of the two. One cannot completely eliminate depression type or extreme joy type feelings from one's life. So it is good to develop a balance that leads to the understanding that shit happens. But this too shall pass.
Does a regular pen "2D print" drawings?
Just found out that SSRN is not even a peer reviewed journal!

Nobody claimed it was. It's a platform for sharing preprints/working papers, like arxiv. Obviously you don't like this study or its conclusions much, but throwing the kitchen sink at it doesn't strengthen your argument either.
Not all elm327 clones are the same. Some don't support the newer protocols, you should check their forums for leads on the better sellers on ebay/amazon.
Bernstein may be right. He certainly does care about this issue, and has researched it. But when there are two almost equivalent approaches, one has 0 risk, and the other has minimal, why not follow the approach with 0 risk?

Incidentally your Berne Convention argument is rather weak according to my reading of the actual text of the Berne Convention. (See http://www.wipo.int/treaties/en/ip/berne/trtdocs_wo001.html for the text.) Public domain is only referred to in article 18, and the only type of public domain referred to is due to expiration of the term for copyright. Section 7 indicates the minimum terms in question, and those terms are both long and do not contain anything indicating that they can be shortened by the author's wish.

Therefore the fact that public domain is mentioned in the Berne Convention does nothing to reassure me that countries which sign the Berne Convention will necessarily pay any attention to a public domain declaration.
From the article:
"...it stems from the different business models of the big rivals. Google, Microsoft and Amazon are primarily software and services companies, though each makes some mobile hardware (Google through its Motorola subsidiary). But Apple, while famous for making good software, sells that software almost entirely through iconic and expensive hardware, from which it makes the vast majority of its money."

I think he covered that the different companies have different business models.
A SaaS freemium model for large teams, and server deployment for large organizations (non-cloud solution).
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Yes, because what is an android user gonna do without Apple's Maps?
Actually, the human visual system has a particular image repetition frequency, above which we interpret the input as continuous. This is called the flicker fusion threshold:

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

Now one may ask -- how do movies, running at 24 frames per second, appear to be continuous, since 24 Hz is below the FFT? The answer is that a movie projector splits each 24 Hz frame into two frames with a moving shutter, resulting in an apparent frame rate of 48 Hz, high enough to appear continuous.
I went briefly to through the comments, it seems that no-one is bothered with lack of details in this post, things are not logical at all, almost like it was written by PR agency in charge of promoting Go.

Except it is established business so I would assume things are true, but real motives are hidden. Go is obviously good language for some specific things, but it's not like ruby is pure trash, how come you did 'everything' in ruby, and then didn't know about eventmachine, but just had to rewrite things in Go.

And rewrite happened overnight, right?

A lot is missing from this story. I will definitely look more into Go, mostly because someone compared it in comments with TurboPascal, and I have fond memories of Borland tools, Pascal especially.

Go and Rails are so different that there is almost no point in comparing them.
Yeah, no one has ever gone out and bought or rented a movie because "all my friends are talking about it, better keep up".
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Eyes don't work like that at all. They're continuous. You can fake motion with a low rate of pre-blurred frames, but parts of perception can get all the way up to hundreds of fps.
My dual point was that you look down on novelists as being archaic typewriter-users, and that there is a lot more to publishing than the technical aspects of layout or ebook formats. Please curb your prejudice.
1. I searched for journalists who have written about topics my startup was related to and shared my story and gave them sneak peek into beta version. That gave me some great visibility via blogs like thenextweb and mashable.

2. I made sure that I use write set of words and language to provoke few early users to share my beta website with their network - It was all about wordings.

3. The tweets and facebook messages that went out had similarly provoking wordings that made posts viral.

4. I launched beta version with very basic feature but started rolling out new things every 48-72 hours.

5. I used a real bad logo initially, people made fun of that logo on twitter - i used that as an opportunity to ask for help from twitter world - got 19 logo designs (some from designers at big ad agency, TV network) in my inbox in 24 hours or so.

6. I was super super quick in support - people were wow'ed by the speed at which me and my small team replied to support mails.

1 month later, we were @ 100K users and got acquired in 4th month of launch.

Hope this helps.
I brought up the TIOBE index not as an absolute metric but to show that Ruby and Python are not totally obscure languages and have usage similar to PHP. I think your "go into any web-dev shop" test fails for software of interest to developers here who are developing web applications rather than dynamic sites. The web-specific part of PHP is it's ability to act as a template language, inline with HTML. I don't think this is an advantage for web apps as there is often significant logic and infrastructure other than the user interface and frequently several interfaces are desirable (e.g. API, mobile, and web). Mixing together logic and presentation, that is to say the web-specific parts of PHP, make this goal much more difficult.

Ruby and Python were not originally made for web development, but they have been extremely successful and popular in that role. Twitter, Github, Stripe, and Hulu have significant Ruby components, and Instagram, Dropbox, Mixpanel, Pinterest, and Yelp use Python. There are smart people choosing these languages to build their companies with for a reason.
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Business guy here. Depending on what your product is the approach can vary. For all my projects I try to target the most interested group of users. In some cases I might target linkedin groups, meetups, target specific website forums, etc. In other cases, I've tried the ad approach (fb, google, etc). You can also try direct emailing your user group (depending on where they are) and have them sign up for your product (launchrock).

Although I love HN, the challenge I've found with places like Show HN, reddit/r/startup, betalist is that its sometimes not related to the product I'm selling so a)I'm trying to sell a product to the wrong target market and b)tech sites can often times be an echo chamber and the data you get isn't necessarily quantitative.
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Berne Convention uses the term "public domain" as something that happens to works when copyright expires (absence of copyright), but it doesn't mean you can say an incantation like "i hereby release it to public domain" to make that happen. In many (most?) countries the incantation doesn't have a defined legal meaning as authors always have copyright to their works, the Berne Convention is implemented in national copyright law without talking about "public domain".

See here, Article 18 is the only place that mentions public domain: http://www.wipo.int/treaties/en/ip/berne/trtdocs_wo001.html#...
People watching more movies gets them interested in actors, series, artists, directors etc, this later does lead to sales and is directly a network effect. It is advertising and content is being consumed, if the content is good it has a lasting impact. Same effect it has on software in some cases.

These are also people that have the time to pirate and were never going to buy right now. Later when they have no time and more money they will buy products, they weren't buying if they were taking the time to pirate it. So is it better for an artist or piece of content to be seen/heard or not? $10-$20 for a movie is cheap compared to the time it takes to get it at a certain point and is more convenient. Compared to software prices, music and movies have it locked up in the convenience factor if prices are low and content is actually available. Users will choose convenience and have on those types.

Piracy will be won via convenience, not against the current. Yes it can never be legal or the whole system breaks but it will never go away, use it. Piracy is a 10x+ modifier on user base (freemium is a response to this).
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If a response is too small to describe the changes to the state of your city at that time, clearly it's a thick client which mostly knows how to simulate the city.
which often evolves to a rather refreshing discussion that doesn't have to necessarily end with an agreement
How about "man up"
The concept isn't much different, but the permission model is. document.ly is very similar to Asana and Trello (allowing every user to participate in multiple projects and inviting anyone in the world to view and edit any document), while Hackpad aims for a standard B2B marketing strategy.
Just gave your app a shot (design student here). Some feedback:

As a designer:

* I love the expanding bottom bar and it's a very creative use of that space, you might have in your hands the new "Path menu" phenomenon.

* Your Path menu, on the other hand, could use a little bit more design effort.

* Item details is too busy / roughly designed that it looks busy, would benefit from a second look.

* Your logo on the other hand and above all, is quite awful. You might want to hire a real logo designer or illustrator to get that working.

* "Location" looks like the header of the details box as you're visually connecting them.

As a student:

* I like the idea, and I can immediately see the use case,

* but the intent is unclear in having "duration". Deadlines don't, and it feels like you're trying to replicate google calendar. Removing that ability would make it more clear that it's essentially a deadline app.

* I have different kinds of assignments, so for example this does not work very well for assignments other than those on paper.

* I want to be able to take a photo of the assignment sheet (there is almost always one) and attach it to the deadline.

* Better yet, do OCR on the sheet and fill the deadline for me. That's tricky, but not impossible to get 90% right.

* New Due Date is unclear. I'm not adding due dates, I'm adding assignments.

* There is no point in having a global class name search for a single user.

* It's unclear if the global names listed here are attached to specific universities. If yes, you're not showing me the uni name or allow me to search for it, if not, what's the point?

Here you go. If you need more feedback, reach me from HN profile, happy to give more. I'll be using your app.
Even "resources" primarily only cost money because of the labor it takes to discover them and then remove them from the ground and refine them. In theory there are some things that are genuinely scarce (e.g. energy or specific elements) but so what? Most of them have substitutes, and the fewer labor costs have to be paid the more substitutes become viable. Have the robots mass produce wind turbines or solar panels out of low-scarcity materials, or mine space, etc.

Even in the most pessimistic case where you have a valuable scarce resource with no substitutes then you have something to tax which will produce revenue that can be used to supply necessities to the public.
Well the RIAA still firmly believes that litigation is what slowed down music piracy. However in reality it was probably the advent of easy to use and cheap (or even free) music streaming services that really hurt music piracy.
The article doesn't really explain how at all. It just makes a simple observation that competitors to Apple in mobile platforms are releasing their apps on iOS as well as their own operating systems.

This seems like a classic example of how new entrants to a market try to attack the leader. Get people attached to using your services on the leading platform, then claim (perhaps valid if you cripple your iOS offering in some way) that the integration is better on yours.
Large corporations are rarely driven by profit, but rather petty political bullshit and personal crusades.
Thanks for noticing. Looks like a HN bug. I copy pasted the URL with the apostrophe.
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So what, the lack of a mainstream ORM implies "So there is really nothing to learn besides the language itself"? I don't think so.

And there's probably more to a lack of an ORM other than "Go is immature." It's a fairly common opinion among the Go community that ORMs are not worth their complexity. I tend to share that opinion myself, after having worked with a few in a couple different languages.
Land is much less useful resource than before, despite all claims to the contrary. You can become billionaire without ever owning a single slice of land - something that wasn't possible not so long time ago. I have hard time seeing how you need any land more that it takes to build a modest house. Of course, you may want a private island - but that's way beyond "sharing the wealth".
On favourite tactic of the movie houses is to report on decline in US domestic sales (and they are, or at least were last year), but report on piracy globally. They don't report on global sales, because they're raking it in.
"their own apps" + "the best apps from their competitors" minus "their own apps" does not correspond to a single competitor's offerings - which is Apple's advantage, according to Mossberg's logic. His argument's got little to do with Apple's own apps (not that they have particularly much of a presence either - even on their own devices.)
I tend to take the open source project route. Basically I work on projects that interest me and take note of the companies that are major contributors to these projects. I find that, while not 100% the case, companies that allow their employees to work on open source projects tend to be a bit more developer friendly. It's how I found my current position that I'm quite happy with.

Granted this is for the IT sector, and you should always checkup on the company in more depth to ensure it's completely the right fit
Not find their way around California as well:

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2416321,00.asp
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Google/OAuth doesn't beat just letting users play with it.

I rarely sign in with Google for any app.
wow, worse than the irc python channel.