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I'm not saying that HBO is rich so it's OK to pirate their stuff, I believe the entertainment industry as a whole, from Big Five studios down to indie filmmakers, is no longer viable -- at least in its current form. Previously, duplicating a creative work was labour- or resource-intensive, so comparatively few entities could attempt it, and the effort required to police them was small compared to the economic and cultural gain. Now, duplicating a creative work can be done at the twitch of a fingertip, by anybody, anywhere, anytime. As a civilisation we could spend the time and effort to police such things, but I'm not sure it would be worthwhile.

As you point out, it's already hard to monetize a low-budget film and it's not getting any easier. But that's not because people are freeloaders or because they refuse to allocate their resources responsibly (although both may be true). Ultimately, the real problem is that the world changed, and things that had been difficult became easy. We can't put the genie of general-purpose computing back in the bottle, and I think it would be irresponsible to lock it down in its current state. The only reasonable alternative is to move forward: this will mean a great economic upheaval for artists, just like the invention of the printing press and recorded music and television were, but I don't think that's a deal-killer. Humans have been creating art, with or without economic recompense, for thousands of years, they're not going to stop now.
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If your whole argument boils down to "well, we're still alive and respected", it is not a good srgument. I understand there is no "control group", but it would be interesting to see what would happen if various raised issues were resolved.

Also, I wonder whether the US will remain the most powerful nation say, 50 years down the road.
There are a few companies that have made it in to YC from Chicago over the years.
IKEA was a huge brand before the internet was there to make it important for people to type its name correctly..
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In Spain we have an state developed program to fill and send the taxes.
That's what I loved about the [basically] now-deceased Actionscript 3 [1]. It was an optionally typed Javascript with compile-time and runtime checking, packages, and namespaces. It was an absolute pleasure to code with. I would generally start my prototypes untyped to get something running quickly as a throwaway, and then rewrite strictly typed as I better understood the problem. I was very happy to ditch Flash years ago, but I would have loved to have AS3 replace Javascript.

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActionScript#ActionScript_3.0
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More less like in Spain. The government send an SMS or email, you check the data and if right you approve it
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It's probably an x-ray machine. I doubt anyone comes to the playa for a spot of cancer treatment.
It took us three years of weekends to build this game and finally it's on the App Store. It's not yet perfect but we believe it's entertaining and our first players find it addictive.

Would be happy to answer any questions you may have.
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I'm not an MRA. I don't like the Reddit anti-feminism scene. I don't hate feminism, but I strongly oppose a lot of the ideas it comprises. It's an incoherent mess, a circular, self-defending hall of mirrors that shames people for not caring more about ethnicity and more about gender than they do now, when I think we should be trying to care less about those things.

Why isn't it rape when a woman has sex with a man too drunk to give consent? Because men can't be the victims of rape. Why not? Because it's not really rape unless it's done by men to women as a way of maintaining a rigid hierarchy of domination.

Why isn't it female privilege when women aren't required to sign up for the draft, or can comfort a stranger's young child, or are one tenth as likely to be incarcerated, or enjoy any of a thousand other undeserved advantages conferred by society? Because, by definition, those advantages are all benign sexism. Anything that appears at first glance to your ignorant eyes to be female privilege is actually benign sexism, and the fact that you thought it might be female privilege is just more evidence of how deeply entrenched the patriarchy is.

Why isn't it racism when someone makes blanket statements about all white people? Because racism isn't just discrimination on the basis of race, it's discrimination on the basis of race by members of a relatively privileged class against members of a relatively less privileged class. And how do we know what the classes are, and their levels of privilege? Well, feminists will be glad to tell you. But the criteria for deciding may never be revealed, and they certainly wouldn't be open for debate.

If feminists make statements about, e.g., "men", and you are a man, and the statement is clearly not true in your case, and not true of your dad, or your granddad, or any of your male friends or male coworkers, you would be wrong to be upset, because they obviously weren't talking about you, or them. If you told them that their machine gun seemed to be hitting 90% innocent bystanders, that would be an attempt at derailing.

I'm being a little snarky, and I really don't like that. I want to be positive and not add to the noise. But in this case I think it's important to try to express how infuriating it is to come in contact with this stuff. It's toxic waste. It's a mental virus.

Needless to say, everything I've said here is invalid, because I'm a cis white male. It's irrelevant how difficult my life has been. I'm still privileged, and one of the best things I could do would be to shut up [1].

[1] http://www.blackgirldangerous.org/2014/02/4-ways-push-back-p...
It will be forced on the users, though. If it becomes widespread, the choices are to support DRM or be locked out of the web.
If it's so bad, why did the author run for Congress at all? I wish (s)he had explained their motivation to run for office.
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Exactly 300 days ago we did the first installment of Screenshot Saturday. I think it's time to share some more of our current projects.
Please post a screenshot and a few words of explanation about what you have been working on for the past week.
You seem to be forgetting about ghostwriters.
Can obviously use these not just for book covers - illustrations, blogs, web pages - whatever you like. We give you the option of downloading the originals or the files already optimised for all the main ebook formats.
We'll be adding all kinds of images, not just photography. New batch every week.
I was more interested in knowing the level of transparency on a day-to-day basis on metrics such as usercount, revenue, etc. you know, stuff that could get you in a bind for insider trading.
I think the JavaScript virtual machines are amazing. Thanks to browser speed wars, they pulled out a trick that I would not have thought possible - making JavaScript fast as hell.

Calling V8 "whatever monkey" is a bit ignorant.

Oh, I haven't said that JavaScript is a good language :)
It's a natural mistake. In the 1980s, I had a friend who wanted to be Senator because he thought it was the best job in the world. Seriously. What's more, he had a background in really understanding this stuff from childhood -- he was Richard Neustadt, Jr. And he'd been working toward it all his life.

What actually happened is that he died in a tragic accident, so I never had a chance to discuss how his views might have changed. :(
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The US has extensive public healthcare. Medicare and Medicaid are huge programs. I realize there is a fair chance that you mean some baseline universal care, but imprecise terms make the conversation more difficult.

Large corporations are also hilariously micro-socialist in the way health care is provided to workers (partly by government rule, partly because they hire productive workers and can afford to compete with benefits).

Edit: The ACA (Obamacare) was also a big step towards universal care. The funding/payment model is messy, but all someone needs to do in the US to get health coverage now is apply for it and make payments, they don't have to hope they get accepted by the insurance company (and I guess it is also much harder to drop coverage).
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Besides RHEL there is also SuSE SLES / SLED with apparently 7 years of "general support" + 3 more of "self support" (guess that means you just get serious security fixes).

http://support.novell.com/lifecycle/

In addition to the shorter support time, with Ubuntu LTS it's a bit too easy to install packages from "universe" that aren't actually supported for more than 18 months...
With NPAPI each site picked one plug-in that worked in multiple browsers. Another site could pick another single plug-in that also worked in multiple browsers. With EME, each browser supports some DRM(s) and there's no single DRM supported by all browsers, so sites need to support multiple DRMs to reach multiple browsers.
Ravti (YC S14) is hiring rails developers
They were featured on the Science Friday podcast:

http://www.sciencefriday.com/segment/02/06/2015/honey-i-shru...
I believe the comment meant V8 and {Spider,Trace,Jäger}Monkey (the Mozilla JS engine), which nowadays even beats V8 in some benchmarks.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpiderMonkey_%28software%29#Tra...
I enjoy the tension that exists between the first two points.

Interpreting with some hostility, Congress is not out of touch with people that have money back home. Which means they are probably mostly out of touch with people back home.
Violating regulations does not necessarily equate to "dirty food". For example, in SF it's OK for a coffee shop to sell ice cream in cups, but a health code violation to do so in cones.

http://blog.sfgate.com/cityinsider/2011/05/26/big-government...

Also: http://www.grubstreet.com/2014/03/per-se-health-department-i...
I dist-upgraded to Jessie from my working Waldorf system (using now). It was a little faffy, but not too bad.

One problem I've got is black internal borders on some of my menus (e.g. network-manager panel menu), but it doesn't affect me much and I really can't be bothered to read the docs to sort it out. Any ideas?

This was the good thing about Crunchbang: a lightweight debian install that looked good and needed hardly any configuration to work well.
Ask HN: As a Full stack developer how do you keep up with all the technologies
I started learning web development 6 years ago when i was 13 or something, it started as something to do just for fun and ended up as a passion that pays for college. When i started learning i focused all my attention to HTML and CSS since they were relatively easy, and as time past by i grew accustomed to them and didn't feel the desire to learn anything else, but once i started freelancing i had to learn a couple of things to keep myself in business. But the thing is, with every new project i take i have to learn something new, wordpress development, joomla development, angular, responsive, JSON... There's like a thousand thing to learn, and each time i take 2 days to learn what i need to know and finish the project but then after 2-3 weeks or after a new project i can't remember a thing about that technology! How do you guys do it?
Yes, "brittle" is how it's been described to me and how I describe it to others.
Its unclear who "you" means, most people on earth can actually buy antibiotics without this. Also unsure as to how you define what is "responsible" for them.
Yet Flickr did ok for itself. As did Twittr, and del.icio.us (sp?). I agree that names matter but the scenario you've painted isn't fatal by any means. In the modern connected age, 'word-of-mouth' is just as much about text as it is about talking (ie FB posts, tweets, msgs, etc).

Indeed, Bryght's revenues are in the multi-millions so they're clearly doing something right.
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He didn't want to participate in the building of the atom bomb.

Hero.
The constitution changes slowly, but it does change. There were 12 amendments to it during the 20th century.

http://classroom.synonym.com/many-constitutional-amendments-...
When people say that, they are usually referring to the age of the government. There has been one constitution since the 1780s.
This could be really interesting. Any chance you can get a demo running somewhere?
> 9) Congress is still necessary to save America, and cynics aren't helping

> Discouragement is for wimps. We aren't going to change the Constitution, so we need to make the system we have work. ... Our greatest strength is our ability to bounce back from mistakes like we are making today. ... The point here isn't to make us something we're not. The point is to get us to make sausage again. But for that to happen, the people have to rise up and demand better.

How exactly are we supposed to get them to "make sausage again" when #2-8 pretty much list out why they aren't going to make sausage?

Have we not been demanding better? Any laws we might want of them to limit 2-8 is going to require the people who benefit the most from 2-8 to vote against themselves.

Articles like this is exactly why I'm discouraged and each voting cycle I get less and less inclined to go out and vote and just stay home and code.
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> Anthem hackers had compromised the credentials of five different employees

Would be much more news-worthy if it were five the same employees!
Actually I like the critical causation and correlation discussion under that subject. But I would like to propose that we are with any other suggested social causality as critical as we are here.

It might seem convenient to use that argument when it comes to defending something dear to us such as Craigslist. But when it comes to more sensitive social and economic issues I wish we would see the same skepticism.
Errr, all I'm pointing out are a couple of related details of classical mechanics that require the calculus, basically Newton's 2nd Law of motion (ignoring jerk and beyond, which you might describe as acceleration of acceleration).

It is very interesting stuff, but I'd suggest studying the most basic bits of the calculus and classical mechanics if you want to go further (this is typically the first thing you're taught about both). At this level it's not all that hard.
I don't know how js developers deal with explosion of frameworks. The other day I was reading about React and someone was mentioning om, morearty, and omniscient and I had no idea. I was frustrated with reading HN at that point. Lots of learning and forgetting? What a waste. This is where one has to rely on some authority to pick the winners. I dunno. Ignore almost everything and just pick a framework?
Europeans visiting the states are genuinely worried that they will be carjacked, which I always find hilarious. Life is not like the movies or the news.
> no more democratic than say most European states

I may get flamed or burned for saying this, but I believe we (in Europe and US) are currently pretty close to the ancient form of Greek democracy.

In the ancient Greece, the vote was a privilege of the free men. The definition of "free man" on the other hand was not quite what we think of in a modern society. To start with, only a few percent of the population actually was eligible to participate. [0] To qualify as a free man, you needed to have position and/or wealth. Usually the two came together.

After all, what good would it do to allow plebs to vote? They could vote against your agenda! Better to control the access to the vote by simply ensuring that at least majority of the voting people already share a certain appreciation for the status quo.

"But, but but... We can vote however we want" you say. Sorry, no you can't. Thanks to the nature of the system, you get to vote between two or three nearly identical alternatives. Outliers will not be even put on the ballot. (I think California is an exception, which introduces its own downsides.)

The choices on the vote are in practice dictated by those with the most power or money. Lawrence Lessig outlined this situation with his only slightly satirical TED talk - a country of Lesters. [1, 2]

But back to terminology. If the power is held by those with wealth, and decisions are made purely among the people who have the most to financially gain from them, what do you call such a system? Is there even a descriptive term for a mix of oligarchy and plutocracy?

The True Greek Democracy?

0: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athenian_democracy#Participatio...

1: http://blog.ted.com/2013/04/03/how-we-can-make-elections-abo...

2: http://www.ted.com/talks/lawrence_lessig_we_the_people_and_t...
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That could work for someone with a day job where they use that framework, but for a freelancer like myself you need to be flexible and keep up with at least most of the technologies..Which is getting to be too much to handle
No kidding. I could use some that Blow money right now ...
It's easy enough to release some rats, throw some feces into a pot when you're the hotel owner. These guys weren't playing ethically. They need to be outed.

edit: changed an autocorrected fences to feces which chrome for some reason doesn't think is a word.
I'm not even going to honour that zealousness with a serious comment, I got too much self respect.
True. In India, we have a state-hosted tax filing portal[1] that's very easy to use.

[1]https://incometaxindiaefiling.gov.in/e-Filing/UserLogin/Logi...
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I notices Firefox sometimes starts busy looping on 2 cores while playing youtube (usually when "buffering"). IMO, they should really move the decoding threads into separate processes so they can be restarted easily (just like Flash was).
On Linux the OpenGL implementation of the graphics driver (which is by far the most complex part) runs in user space, as do drivers for printers and a lot of other USB devices. However that doesn't make Linux a "hybrid kernel", and neither does what you said make NT one.
Isn't this saying that because the MSIL is generated from C#, VB.Net, F#, etc, that there can be no guarantee? As far as I know, Rust isn't compiling to a CLR, so the GC in .Net is happening at a lower level than the language, it's happening in the runtime.
I'd use "preparer" everywhere you use "collector" above. The private companies don't actually collect the money; that goes straight to/from the government. The private companies, whether silicon or carbon-based, just serve to help you prepare your tax return (ie: calculate your total tax and file the return).

I agree with you on the complexity points, as I spend in the just barely four-figures annually for my CPA/EA to prepare our family returns. Our filing generally runs in the 50-100 page range and I don't even run a business.

I disagree on the duty to inform point. It is your duty as a citizen (and optionally a business owner) to understand the laws that are relevant to you, and not the government's duty to push that information to you in a customized-to-you fashion.
You're right, property rights have gone too far and should be limited and curtailed.
OK, but correlation is correlation.

Should we stop doing statistics because it can never prove anything? Should we only accept that statistical results are valid when they are convenient and fit with our existing world view?
This is a bad thing.

No saving means :

No time shifting, no device shifting, no legal fair use.
on the defensive side there is research into tools to conceal style, e.g. anonymouth https://psal.cs.drexel.edu/index.php/JStylo-Anonymouth
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You're completely confused.

What you're discussing is that the House (which under the constitution can set their own rules) decided to create a rule XIII(6)(a) that said that bills couldn't be passed by the House without a day to consider them except by a 2/3 vote. Later, the House changed that rule to waive the requirement to wait a day. Later still, they reinstated it.

Colloquially, the waiver of the rule is sometimes referred to as "martial law", in much the way that proposals to repeal or reform the filibuster rules in the senate are called the "nuclear option". The nuclear option does not involve nuclear weapons, and the so-called "martial law" rule in the senate does not involve martial law. It's not even related to martial law.

Martial law would be a suspension of civil liberties and an injection of military personnel over civilian authorities; it would also necessitate a repeal of habeas corpus and the posse comitatus act. What you're discussing is a minor (and long since reverted) rule change governing when and in what circumstances draft bills could be brought to a floor vote in the house.

The bottom line is this: The minority party in the house wanted to delay and debate the bailout bill. The house—which is charged with setting rules about delays and debate by majority vote-set rules which didn't allow the minority party to delay and debate as much as they wanted. Some members of the minority party, in a fit of hyperbole, analogized the rule change to martial law. It wasn't. It wasn't even sort of LIKE martial law.

TL;DR: You're so wrong, you didn't even understand c-span.
What does Theo think?

> You are absolutely deluded, if not stupid, if you think that a worldwide collection of software engineers who can't write operating systems or applications without security holes, can then turn around and suddenly write virtualization layers without security holes.
Here's some US individual state tax experiences, granted, all for simple filings, that might suggest some good things:

First state tax return I filled out was in Massachusetts in 1981, and it was the ultimate EZ form: they sent me a punch card with e.g. my ID info already punched into it, and I filled out a few items and was done.

Much more recently Virginia created a very nice web site; they also quite intelligently have a deadline of May 1 so you don't treat your state taxes as something of an afterthought.

Missouri, where I retired to, did a very interesting thing: PDF tax forms which you fill out, hit a button on them I think, and it encoded all the info in a 2D barcode in upper right of the form. Which if all goes well, makes it super easy for them to get everything correctly into their systems.
I did not know about the bcache thing - interesting!
To claim a refund based on incorrect/falsified statements of income, deductions, and withholdings.

Claim that SSN 123-45-6789 worked a job where they made $19K in income, had $4K in taxes withheld, and owed a total tax of $0, so please mail the $4K refund check to 12A Main Street, Fraudville, MA 02341.

The tax authorities are often compelled to process the refund in a certain time window that precludes cross-checking all the information and certainly precludes waiting to see if the actual taxpayer will file an actual (non-fraudulent) return.
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Size is important. I think everything gets harder with increased size. The more I look at the US, the more I like the EU being more of a confederation than a union, even though all the horse trading makes Brussels a mess. Countries with homogeneous culture and a population less than 10 million just seems optimal. There are positive scaling effects to be had, and I don't think the EU is quite strong enough to capture them all yet, but I think a vision of a USE is misguided.
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