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It's possible to build a business 100% built on piracy internationally, and still be "technically" legal or have no real recourse.

You can DMCA them, but they are given a "reasonable" time to take it down, and per the article, they never even removed the actual content, but created duplicate URLs over and over again.

You can build a wall of plausible deniability, even though you know what you are doing the whole way, and potentially even get away with it.
Is this to suggest exchanges could be manufacturing rumors to increase their profits?
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My career as a developer has been coming up through the role of front-end engineer, really from when that was first being defined as a separate role (2004-2005, around then). In hindsight now, I would never hire myself. Either you're a developer, in which case you should be able to traverse that stack (so for example JS as well as PHP/Ruby/Python) or you're a designer, and you can traverse that stack (so you design, implement your designs in HTML/CSS, maybe a little JS as necessary). But while there is crossover between the two domains, there isn't a separate role in the middle. Trying to fit development workflow around people who just do HTML/CSS/JS ends up creating too many bottlenecks, on both sides: "I'm waiting for designer A to deliver X" or "I'm waiting for back-end person B to deliver Y". When you just have people who work their whole stack, that bottleneck is removed.
Nonsense. As someone else posted here: "Something about the cm fonts gives them an air of respectability."

This means that almost every maths paper they read before was typeset in it, thus to be taken seriously they think they need to be as well. This is cargo culting because it is adopting the trappings of insightful study in the field of mathematics without necessarily doing anything of the sort.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6916322
Again, unless it was registered as a company in US, then I don't see the problem.
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I find the methodology questionable. First, build a list of denier organizations based on anyone who has ever been remotely associated with known climate-deniers. This includes being labeled a conservative organization. Second, classify the organizations on a scale that categorizes anyone who neither remains totally silent nor actively encourages immediate government action as some form of denier. Third, pull all the publicly available funding data you can find on those organizations since 2003 and attribute it all to climate change denial.

Lots of these organizations are almost totally focused on non-climate change issues. There is no attempt made to figure out what fraction of their revenue might actually support climate change work, if any. (It would be difficult, given how little data 990s provide, but there are proxy measurements: number of staff working on climate change relative to total staff, number of climate change studies relative to total studies, etc.) Instead, if an organization so much as expresses some small doubt that immediate government action is the best solution to climate change problems, all of their revenues for years are considered to deny climate change.

This study is like the Glenn Beck chalkboard of climate change denial conspiracies.
Nothing against you, as I don't know you or your work, but "shipping product" does not equal doing good work. People ship crappy, buggy code every day. Just because one "ships daily" doesn't mean that what they're shipping is worth anything or means they know what they're doing. I've seen people that have no clue how to write code copy and paste crap they find all over the internet into a file and ship it. It's a slow, buggy and ugly hack, but it shipped. It will come back days later as unexceptably bad by the customer. That's the purpose of these tests. To weed out the people that have no clue how to write proper software that deals with high loads, scalability and performance criticality.
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And you should stop insulting people on Hacker News and consider rereading the guidelines.
I guess it will be more popular if Perl6 catch up in speed.
> In America a company is considered an individual/has a social security number correct?

No, in America (as everywhere else corporations exist, since this is the very definition of a corporation) a corporation is considered a legal person (that is, an entity subject to legal process in its own identity). In America, corporations have Tax ID numbers, which serve (for tax purposes, though not for Social Security itself) a purpose similar to Social Security numbers.
This is the problem right here.

It's a business model that works..if you don't have to spend $100 million dollars creating it.
Which reference?
Good one, as long as marketers and recruiters don't use.
you're supposed to be spending your time meditating on the false dichotomy of divide and conqueror, daydreaming about "if only the other political side ...". Or viewing the output of one of the few remaining media international megacorps who have purchased the .gov. Daydreaming about the women on /r/gonewild is not effective indoctrination and is not profitable for those who own "our" culture.
Making eradicating aging even more important.
He interviewed at big co. and (I guess), you interviewed at startups. Maybe that's the difference?
Your wife forgoing her career hurts the overall productivity of the economy. Why should this be subsidized?
Cool beans. I saw this this morning and was excited.

I've been dealing with rewrites of a few internal utilities in C (was going to use go, but the runtime has issues) and was going to start testing how struct passing with errors in a struct for example would look in C.

I'll keep an eye out thanks!
Voluntary? I thought it was required. Are there ISPs that don't?
Right, because she was not capable of giving consent. The doctors looking after her decided that it would be best.

Hell if you bother to read even slightly then it's wholly reasonable: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/1049605...

If only people on HN could be downvoted for being completely and arguably wilfully ignorant about what they comment on.
Yeah, as locksley said you can use coinbase for over the email BTC transfers.

The original intend for building TipperCoin is for tipping and supporting open sourced projects. To send a tip / act of gratitude to people that built cool stuff and that you don't personally know (as opposed to email, which you tend to know them).

A few weeks ago, we built an open sourced browser wallet (www.sparecoins.io) and we posted it on reddit and got a bunch of tips with reddit tip bot. That was very encouraging for me. (The fact that people liked it enough to send us a tip!!) And so we decided to build this tipping service (open sourced, ofc!) to encourage supporting other projects.
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If someone posts nonsense, then no possible response can ever be seen as non-insulting. What was posted was grade A total nonsense. So I can't see how I can tell the poster this without being insulting.
From the ABI perspective, struct returns are multiple return values. ARM64 allows structs to be returned in registers if the struct members are suitable for it.
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My experience has been that there is nearly always a plugin for what you're attempting to do but they're hard to find (mostly because of naming) or they're poorly coded or missing features. Thankfully, most of them are GPL'd so you're pretty free to do whatever you want with them.
We have only seen the erosion of prohibition of a single drug. For everything else we are still seeing more of the same -- in the same period of time where states have relaxed marijuana prohibition, numerous other drugs have been made illegal.
The whole "replication" angle is a total red-herring brought up by apologists for movie pirates. People are entitled to sell their work for the price that they can get for it, irrespective of the marginal cost of production, and should not be required to compete with entities that do not produce their own products, but simply free-ride on the work of others, being able to "sell" to consumers for the cost of distribution because they don't bear the cost of actually creating that work.

Apologists for movie pirates try to paint the situation as stodgy old businesses not being able to keep up with technology. That might be the case if we were talking about Hollywood being displaced by guys with GoPro cams and a Youtube page. But that's not what's happening. The relevant technological shift isn't that it's become easier to produce content that people want. The shift has simply allowed entities like Megaupload to make money by ripping off the people who actually make the content.
Interesting so I hope you said get ready to spend a fuckload of cash on state of the art secure key stores as this is the only way to properly build a secure back end.
I'm not arguing that they weren't a criminal enterprise or that movie pirates are all closet consumerists waiting to be parted with their money. However, the article says that the vast majority of mega's money came from "premium subscriptions". The subscription part is interesting to me because it implies that a not insignificant number of people were paying regularly for this "service". They can't all have been dupes who never checked their credit card statements.

As to your statement about them reselling this stuff for "pennies on the dollar", I do have a major problem with creators not being compensated for their work. However, I'm also not really sure what movies and TV shows are actually worth anymore. The pricing seems totally crazy between Netflix, physical media, and iTunes. It's anyone's guess what an episode of "Breaking Bad" actually is worth. The answer is increasingly, "it depends".
Apple releases the iWatch marketed as a fitness tool (like readwrite said), flops because it's not a perfect watch replacement in other situations, analysts claim Apple is dying, Apple makes record profit and ends the year as the most valuable company.

Probably led by Samsung, Android dominates a product category that probably doesn't exist yet by the end of the year. Readwrite are probably right about Samsung taking Android 64-bit first, although they probably won't release anything on Android with > 4gb RAM next year (but will probably be first to market with one in 2015).

Moonshot prediction: Bitcoin explodes on rumours of Amazon adoption, only for Amazon to create their own virtual/cryptocurrency. Bitcoin falls apart and Amazon's coin sees more transaction value almost immediately. This is seriously unlikely, but I've seen speculation about what happens if Amazon adopts, and don't think people consider that they'd probably prefer to control.
No, HSBC didn’t disagree. They initially agreed, then /executives/ at the bank said “this will reduce profitability, so we need to change our position”.

They are very much at fault.

We don’t need to cross-reference anything. You should be disproving things. Why? Because HSBC admitted guilt and liability.
They're "voluntary" in the sense that the Government told them to voluntarily filter internet access according to the IWF list, or the Government would pass a law forcing them to do so and it'd be a lot worse for them than just playing along.
Like Saddam's WMDs?
Can someone figure out a formula for this?
Hey guys,
I've been thinking for a formula but i wasn't able to figure out. Maybe someone smarter could give me a hand.

The series:
b, e, g, i, k, n, p, y, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 1a, 1c, 1e, 1g, 1i, 1u, 1w, 1z, 21, 23, 2b, 2e, 2g, 2i, 2k, 2m, 2o, 2r, 2t, 2v, 2x, 30, 34, 37, 39, 3c, 3e, 3g, 3i, 3m , 3o, 3q, 3s, 3v , 3y, 40, 42, 44 , 46, 48, 4a, 4d, 4g, 4n, 51, 5n, 5p, 5s, 5u, 5x, 60, 62, 64, 66, 68, 6b, 6j, 6n, 6p, 6r, 6t, 6w, 71, ...

Thanks for your help!
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I wonder what happens to the Youtube/Twitch dynamic after a huge amount of video game content got claimed on Youtube. It seems that if they can do it to Youtube they'll be able to do it to Twitch if them creators just move there.
Pardon the profanity, but fuck! On a logarithmic scale, a decrease of 0.1 on the pH is a 25% increase in H+ concentration...

... and a decrease of 0.7 is a 500% increase in H+ concentration. That sounds apocalyptic, at least for ocean ecosystems.

Warming and acidification are increasing jellyfish blooms, right? Do you know any good recipes for grilled jellyfish?
Ordinarily, technology makes it cheaper to produce a good, allowing new producers to come on the market and undercut the entrenched companies. If we were talking about new media companies producing movies people want to watch for much lower prices using new technology, then that narrative would be applicable. But it's wholly inapplicable here, where the only thing the technology is enabling is entities like Megaupload to rip off the work of the actual producers. It's disingenuous to play the "technology reduces costs" card in this circumstance.
> Well, ok, then what do you do with all the money sitting in deposits in the bank?

There's a couple ways you could handle a "corporate death sentence" applied to a bank:
1. You could treat it as if the bank had failed completely -- all assets are forfeited, but customers receive refunds on insured (e.g., covered by FDIC) accounts only up to the amount insured. This would create some risk for large depositors, which could be considered bad, or could be considered good as it would encourage large depositors to take an active interest in how banks are run which would create pressure on behavior which would reduce the likelihood of needing to impose sanctions.

2. You could treat it as a facilitated sale of the corporation itself -- either in one unit or split into pieces with different buyers -- with any proceeds going to government rather than the shareholders.
Yes, I provided a detailed resume as well as my Github account for all of these. The problem is it didn't seem like the individual interviewers had taken much time to actually look at what I'd done.

If they had, then maybe I'd agree with you, but it seemed like many of them were just going through the motions. It seemed like they interview people all the time.
I never thought about which countries are producing all the porn. I tried to find some numbers but it turns out to be quite hard. I still found some interesting numbers [1] although they do not really answer what I was looking for, which country is producing how many hours of porn every year.

[1] http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/7668/is-the-inco...
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Leak the list of course, and use it as a weapon against anyone in politics or the public eye. Much as you can fire any public schoolteacher seen consuming alcohol in any form, now any librarian or political opponent will be attacked for being "on the list". May as well wear a scarlet letter "P" on your 3-piece suit.

Of course if you'll agree to support what we define as network neutrality, perhaps your name can accidentally not be included on "the list". Or we can charge an extra fee for an unlisted account much as the phone company used to charge extra money for an unlisted account.

Even funnier it would be a shame if your political opponent were added to the list, right? I mean, obviously no one would ever execute a pretexting attack to tarnish the good name of their political opponent, or perhaps the good name of a coworker aiming for the same political appointment as yourself.

All you really need to do is see how the Germans treated the Jews in the mid 30s. I'm not trying to be inflamatory, merely factual. I specifically listed the 30s not the 40s.
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1. Line-height needs to be increased as lines are almost touching.

2. Colour scheme is terrible: green, orange, grey, pale yellow, orange on dark blue, dark blue text with orange shadow, green text on black terminal style popups, black text on asphalt texture, light blue boxes with grey text and dark blue headers, dark red footer with coffee table.

3. Lack of distinction between what is uppercase and what is lowercase. (And in general, just don't do uppercase like that as it's hard to read.)

4. Long-winded copy.

5. "Let Us Know Why" takes me to a team page. On the bottom is what looks like a gigantic back button. Where does the so-called back button go? Not back to the page which I was before I can tell you that. If it's a call-to-action it should be clear what it does.

6. Weird branding in the copy: text that jumps in between trying to appear professional/startupy and wanting to share a beer with you.

7. I just found a whole new introduction page: http://boards.coffeestrap.com/#/welcome I am so confused why more than one exists?

For starters. Realistically they need to work with a designer and start focusing on simplicity.
Blowing up islands with nuclear weapons is pretty dirty, isn't it?
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Thanks this helps a lot, the HN page made it sound like a satire to me as well.
I can definitely attest to 50 person bureaucratic companies, having worked in several. I think this comes down to (as Guy Kawasaki puts it) a Bozo Explosion. Hire bad people, those people hire bad people and the politics get bad quickly.
Concerning that they ask you computer science questions when you will be working on the front end.

What if you were to ask CSS and Javascript questions to a DBA? Do you see how absolutely ridiculous that sounds?
One problem is that many people associate front-end development mainly with HTML and CSS. HTML and CSS are not programming languages.

I say this a front-end developer who has to write HTML, CSS and JavaScript on a daily basis. Yes, strictly speaking, HTML and CSS may be considered programming languages, but they lack control structures, design patterns and other interesting tenants of computer science. Like the author, I'm much more drawn toward the CS-related tasks of the job such as writing JavaScript.

To be clear, I have an enormous amount of respect for people who enjoy the design aspects. Writing CSS, using Photoshop, etc., requires a lot of skill. My point is simply that there is a divide among those front-end developers who are drawn toward programming and those who are drawn toward layout and design.

As more sites gravitate toward complex JavaScript-driven web apps, it may be useful to ditch the general term "front-end," differentiating C.S.-oriented front-end developers from those who prefer visual design.

This might make the expectations of a front-end development position much clearer, allowing for a simpler interview process.
I saw this on Reddit yesterday.

http://www.grokit.ca/spc/computer_science_review/

So, perhaps this can get you started.

I plan on getting a copy of: http://www.amazon.com/Cracking-Coding-Interview-Programming-... too.
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Yes. And it was a very crappy system at that.

Trying to trick you to sign up for premium accounts, audio constantly out of sink with video, nagging you to sign up after 70 minutes to sign up.

Not to mention there was no ability to search the site.

Yet people were still using it.

If the entertainment industry tried only a little to address the new market that was developing on the internet they could have blown mega upload out of the water but they would rater limit peoples access and not offer legit alternatives.
We were hiring a non-senior full-stack developer recently and I noticed there were no "frontend" questions on the list, so I added what I thought would be a question that any developer with frontend experience could answer, and would also pave the way for some more interested discussions for an advanced candidate. The question was something to the effect of "In JavaScript, what is the value of 'this' in a method?"

I would have accepted an answer as simple as "The value of 'this' depends on how the method is called" or even "The value of 'this' confuses me because it's often not what I expect."

It was a disaster. We may as well not have asked the question at all. Nobody seemed to even be aware of anything about it.
Perhaps (s)he's surfing from the pornographic portion of the internet and the UK Government blocked the information superhighway in both directions just to be sure?
I was disappointed to find out it wasn't! Although I guess it doesn't really make sense as a concept; maybe just the JS parts of bootstrap.
> The entertainment industry has just never really been able to get their heads around how to best develop a new, sustainable business model

The entertainment industry seems to be doing better than ever. Did piracy actually reverse growth at any point in their history?

Today you can buy new-release movies from your PC, smartphone, tablet, set-top box or smart TV and either download or stream them instantly. You can buy combo-packs in store that come with both physical discs you own and a digital download license. The download-only rights for new releases cost substantially less than discs; charging the same was a common complaint of pirates on messages boards for years (e.g. today you can buy Elysium on Amazon at $3.99 to rent, $12.99 for digital purchase, $19.99 for DVD or $27.99 for BR+Download). The digital versions are available as soon as, or even earlier than, the disc versions. Tens of thousands of movies that few would want to purchase are available on a dozen streaming services for less dollars a month than buying a single movie outright.

Almost every objection to legal purchases made by pirates over the years has been answered; the studios gave us what we asked for. Their content is available at reasonable prices virtually wherever and whenever you want it, at least within their own countries (international licensing is still a mess). BitTorrent's share of US internet traffic went from 33% in 2006 to 21% in 2011 to less than 7% in 2013. I don't think that's coincidental.
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I hate the look of Computer Modern as well, finding its letters very thin and hard to read on mobile.

I can't really convince anyone on aesthetics, but please look at how the default zoom level on Mobile Safari renders many of the bold characters as having this weird double-line effect:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/enojel6ymuhfnlw/Photo%20Dec%2023%2...

https://www.dropbox.com/s/gkk1aqgduka40gw/Photo%20Dec%2023%2...
I would work on a more uniform color scheme. Also, more repetitive design elements. The random dashed border buttons, and other inconsistencies aren't helping with consistent UX and are a little jarring.
Now Jacqui Smith was a pretty awful excuse for a politician anyway, but consider: http://www.standard.co.uk/news/brought-down-by-husbands-porn...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4122937

Lowcost home file storage,

HP Proliant Microserver (mine is N60L me thinkz) Can get cash back on it if you look around (sometimes 35% back)
ECC memory 8gb max (recommended if going for ZFS)
Western digital reds 3tb x 4 (reds have 3 year warrently and built for raid)
ZFS in raid 2 i think. (one disk redundancy)

Total space is about 7.9tb

Running FreeNas from a usb inside the case.

it works, and cost wise it was cheap minus the drives.
Linguist also has an odd tendency to miscategorize projects as being written in Prolog, thus inflating the repository rates of an already very niche language.

Perhaps it has something to do with (at least in part) Prolog and Perl sharing the same extensions?