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Let's say it doesn't have any affect on their profits... hell, lets say piracy makes everyone MORE money. Does it matter? Shouldn't content creators still have a right to say who gets their content for free?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_personal_pronouns#On

TL;DR: 1) a very close analog to (pronoun, non-numerical) "one" in English, 2) an informal stand-in for nous, that is, "we", as in on y va[1].

[1] http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=81144
You can blame the American healthcare system, but the idea that people don't get immediate life-saving treatment is simply not true.

They will get the immediate treatment that they need. It might be more complicated, expensive, and painful than if it was dealt with earlier, but it will still happen.

Look at the EMTALA. The wiki page is pretty good.
Buy a cheap SSL cert from RapidSSL ($11/year via namecheap). Get $5 DigitalOcean server, and reverse proxy whatever you're serving with nginx. Done for $5/month.

Bonus points: get the guy a private VPN on there too.
Heroku doesn't do a great job explaining what that $20/mo provides - it's not for a SSL certificate. It's for a SSL terminating load balancer that sits in front of your app instances.
A download is rarely a lost sale - for us to count it as one (talking about games) you need to download it, install it and play trough it.

I know people with 5-6 TB of music on their drives. Or books - that is more that a person could consume, ever. So counting them as lost sales is absurd.

I have pirated a lot, but with steam available I both rebuilt my pirated catalog - their sales helped a lot, and rarely bother with piracy lately - my backlog is so big, that I can literally wait a couple of years for the game to come to 90% off.
you know what destroys a hell of a lot more lives than false rape accusations? rape
So is not coming to a full stop at red lights, driving 1 mile per hour over the speed limit, bringing lobsters under a certain length into the country, exposing government corruption, and many more questionable things.

Your point? Slavish adherence to the law makes you obedient, not noble.
This is an exceptional post, good enough that I'm going to follow along later even though I'm not super interested in Nim per se. At first brush it was interesting enough to pique my interest in the language.
So that implements what subset of http://redis.io/commands ?

s/;)/:trollface:/ ;)
A one person drone delivering a paramedic to an accident might be almost as useful as one that can take the casualty back to hospital, at least to stabilise the patient. This might be useful for remote areas or urban congestion like a motorway tailback.

Ideally the drone might not need to land - just lower the medic (still in their seat?) on cables, release and fly off.
Interesting, wonder if Google's algorithm is even prepared to rank "there is no good answer" as a good result. I mean it's optimized to provide good answers, if there is no good answer perhaps the algorithm just breaks apart completely.
OT is notoriously hard to get right. That's probably why there's little work done around it.
> So what do you do with your phone, ipad, laptop, etc? Clip all the microphones?

You use software that you trust.

Yes, that restricts options severely... I mostly use software whose source is public and anything closed is handled as suspicious (for example, Cyanogenmod's Privacy Guard comes handy to fence applications in - but something as basic as looking at networks traffic is a good basic check).
After 1984 "TVs that listen back" have certain unique flavour
As a copyright holder of my HN posts, it hurts my feelings seeing you criticize pirates. Please refrain from doing so as a condition of downloading my posts.
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The "HN crowd" consists of more than one person and can therefore have more than one opinion. Surprise!
That argument works only in defense, not in offense. Look:

A: Pirating is wrong!

B: But I have no alternatives

A: So what?

You are right, of course: so what? But if "so what?" is an option, then the entire discussion becomes:

A: Pirating is wrong!

B: So what?

B doesn't care about this discussion in the first place. A wants to make a point. That means you can't use "so what?".

This is what lultimouomo meant when he said "the excuse is weak, but the fault itself is also considered weak." [para]

Again, not saying I disagree. Of course; so what? But, in that case: people pirate. So what? You're the one making a point. If your point is just "it's illegal": everyone knows that already. So what?
If you're just going to make up your own things that I said, there's not really much point in me saying anything. How am I marginalizing anyone? I never said anything about voice recognition not existing or not being used. In order for it to work, it needs to transmit data to a server owned by the company providing the service. That's just a simple technological fact. If they're going to use it, they need to weigh what I think is a vanishingly small privacy risk against the benefits they get from the service. Just like you have to do for literally every online service in existence.

People can use the service and come to terms with that fact or they can not use it. If they choose not to use it, they need to live with the consequences of that decision. If it means they have no other way to access some service, then that's something they need to take into account. I can't think of any service in existence that can only be accessed by voice recognition instead of having an phone representative, physical branch, or other options. If you really, really need to access your bank account, there are plenty of options aside from speaking to your smart TV. Nobody is getting marginalized here.
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Hi. The tags are stored in a Sqlite3 database. By default the database is created at ~/.tmsu/default.db but you can create a local database anywhere in the filesystem with the 'init' command. TMSU will use the local database automatically whenever your current working directory is beneath that point.
It did not forward me at least.
Sand won't save you this time...
Isn't one of OpenDNS main features watching your network to find suspicious activity. If your network is asking openDNS to resolve DNS of black listed servers or something it could throw up a red flag.

Apart from OpenDNS I'm guessing companies like ESET (Antivirus) will monitor network activity and look for streaming audio and trigger something? Or maybe that's a more tailored alert.
Does it work on Chromium? Because (AFAIK) Google Chrome is not FOSS.
Sure, you can even put the IPs on your hosts file. But 300bps was talking about the "people" in general switching to OpenNIC - and I think that it's unlikely enough that they'll do that, much less that they'll start tunneling their requests.
In clojure, I define any queries that are semi-complicated in their own .sql files with simple ? parameters (using yesql to load them and send them across parameterized). The really dynamic stuff (off an open-ended HTTP API for example) tends to get built out on top of a SQL abstraction layer (not quite an ORM, but close) called HoneySQL that turns data structures (easy to manipulate) into SQL. Doing a similar thing with Python using SQLalchemy (the other language I write DB code in sometimes) for the highly dynamic queries is reasonable. I don't write db queries in other languages to be familiar enough with their database libraries, but you should be able to accomplish something similar.
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This sentiment is amplified if you live outside of the United States. It is amazing how often you will try to watch a video online and see, "This content is not available outside the United States". It is amazing how difficult distributors and copyright holders make it to actually pay for and consume their content.

So people turn to alternative methods. Not because they can't afford it, but because it's often the only way that they can even access it.
I would argue it is the developer writing the code, not the language it's written in.
Two scenarios:

1/ Shareholder and CEO. My company generates €1M in profit. I pay myself a salary of €1M, and pay a flat tax on my salary. The business pays no tax.

2/ CEO, but no shareholder. The company generates €1M in profit, and pays flat tax on that €1M. Dividends flow to shareholders, and they're taxed again?

Situation one would mean that owner run businesses can be more competitive than non owner run businesses. After all, that owner could, after taking out his salary, just loan that money back to the business.

3/ What do you do with foreign companies that levy corporate tax, and then declare a dividend? Do you tax it again at the flat tax in the hands of the shareholder?
> I'd guess

No need to guess, the paper explicitly deals with this:

Thus, individuals who scored high versus low on trait
social anxiety benefited similarly from introspecting using non-
first-person language.

In your terms, you'd expect people from less supportive environments to have higher social anxiety. Study 6 shows this doesn't matter.
That list appears to include CVE going back to 2006 at least. I count 17 in 2014, the highest rated of which is an arbitrary code exectution (CVE-2014-5203) rated 7.5.

Not sure number of disclosed flaws is a good metric to look at, whether it's high or low.
Maybe such 'controversies' would hold a lot more credibility if they were actual controversies instead of the paranoid conspiracy theories of fedora-hatted misogynists?

Just a thought.
If we want to do this in a way where everyone can run their own infrastructure then we've got to tackle some of the distributed systems problems. Specifically, life-cycle management of software/apps, how things sync/backup, and issues of identity and connectivity. One method is to take a clean-slate approach and build up a new stack (with its own trade-offs) e.g. Using unikernels as a base http://amirchaudhry.com/brewing-miso-to-serve-nymote/
Yes, this is my attitude as well. A lot of the work I've done has required the use of proprietary tools; you might not be getting paid to improve the tool, but you are (presumably...) getting paid to produce a product, and if the tool is getting in your way somehow then you need to do something about it!

Even if you don't bother to report usability issues or suggest improvements or what have you, if you encounter a bug that's blocking progress, sitting on your hands isn't going to help anybody.

(Of course, reporting it might not do much either ;) - but that's something you need to find out on a vendor-by-vendor basis. Some are responsive.)
Democracy is a pack of wolves voting on which sheep to have for dinner.

Now, what I'd like to see is each person's vote multiplied by the amount he pays in taxes (all taxes: property, sales, income &c.). That would be fair, and it'd give an incentive to pay up too.
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This was posted on hacker news a while back that fits your description; http://getaether.net/
Only my mom. But she accepted my crayon drawing certificate.
Is there a better alternative to OwnCloud that doesn't have similar flaws?

I'm not being sarcastic, it's fine to say it's broken but that doesn't really make a difference if there are still no better alternatives!?
I don't know of any TVs that have webcams. On the other hand, I'm surprised not to have heard more about video from Kinect devices.
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An up to date demo is available at https://demo.owncloud.org.
The post mentions losing database data when doing a "rm". Couldn't you set a volume parameter on the postgres container (to /var/lib/postgres or wherever data is stored) to prevent that? Or am I missing something?
My guess, and i only minored in psychology, is that I'm guessing you just don't like the rationalization, because it's obviously silly and false.

The same way "I want to get home faster" or "i'm careful" is also a silly and false rationalization for the speeding/rolling through stop signs/etc.
Funny, that's about the same amount of money as the budget for the NIH. Sadly, their research budget has remained stagnant for years as inflation has gone up.
Sorry, but that's just nonsense. We already have that; it's called air medical services.
there are some debt replayment programs for low earners in the US as well,

but student loan repayment will be a serious drag on any attempt to build wealth for most people who take out loans

I'm of the opinion that most people don't have a good grasp on what the marginal difference in outcome needs to be to justify taking on student debt
I doubt it, it probably relies on some DRM module that Chromium would not have (exactly because it's FOSS). Screw the MPAA.
Unscrollable on my phone.
I agree with you. Even a simple asterisk like reddit has with edited comments would at least indicate that it's been changed. Perhaps a hover over the title shows the last known title?
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Lack of selection. Inability to find it online and then go to the store and pick it up or speed to receive it. How often stuff gets misordered due to supply chain problems.
A whole other issue is their bubble. Once you start clicking certain links etc, Google will take that history into account when sorting the results. Thus you get into a "positive" feedback loop...
I mean, there has to be pages that say: there are no good answers (but we also can't say it's vaccines).

Also, I wonder why I'm being downvoted. Google meddling with search results is nothing new, sometimes they're even legally/politically forced to do so. Assuming we get unfiltered results is very naive.
That's a config option. Regardless, the recognition is done locally.
If you can't profit off a business model then you picked the wrong business model.

Today there really is no excuse. If you are a game dev looking to break into the industry, you do need a lead - something good to show off what you can do - but really all you need is a demo of your capabilities, and with something like Unity you can get something out the door really quick. You just need to demonstrate competency. And you should probably give that one away.

Then if you actually intend to make a legitimate project, of scale, with huge developer costs et al, go kickstart it. If you don't have the finances to gamble on if or if not enough people will voluntarily give you an arbitrary amount of money effectively as a donation for making the game after the fact, find out if they are willing to give you a fraction of it beforehand. If not, your game would not have sold anyway.

And if you say something along the lines of "they have no audience, how can they kickstart?" then I ask you how they can sell their game in the first place, if they have no audience. For better or worse most digital media sales are not about quality or effort but are about publicity and consistency. Fundamentally piracy does not mean you would have or not had a succesful launch - the pirates are just users who mostly would not have paid at all, and you won't get an order of magnitude more sales from somehow making it so you cannot transmit data online freely anymore.
>Because if I make the walled garden nicer, I'll live in a nicer walled garden!

For certain aspects of my digital life, this does in fact sound wonderful. I've not found 'open' and 'free' to exist much at all in the mobile world, and where it does it's clunky, frustrating, and insecure. A walled garden sounds good when one is surrounded by barbarians...
In the U.S., it is a civil offense, not criminal (as long as it's non-commercial). In other countries (i.e. Canada), it isn't even a civil offense.
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It is funny how everyone engages in writing his own explanation on why this works.
Here is mine:

By having the self-talk in first person you are in the scenario of being alone; while using any of the other forms, you are playing two different roles, therefore you are actually accompanied instead of alone, which I guess, helps to control anxiety...
More "Photoshop Engineering", no real study of energy needed for such a device. By the time it reached actual production.. you would have a helicopter.
Warren Buffett, one of the few with the liquidity to invest at that time, did just that.
Awesome! Excited to see how this goes, especially with a bigger example!
Quite possibly as wide as the spectrum itself, a recent article i ran into talked about brainscans showing idiosyncratic across people on the spectrum, while "normal" people were more uniform.
> So, money was made?

I don't know the details of when the money was disbursed and when the money was recuperated, but if it were disbursed in 2008, and recouped in, say, 2014, there was a 10% rate of inflation, which devalues the currency to the point that no, money was not made.

If 2013, the rate of inflation was 8.2%, which leaves a .4% "profit", assuming no other costs.

If 2012, the rate of inflation was 6.6%, leaving a 2% profit, etc.

Of course, this assumes the money wouldn't have performed in any way just sitting in the government coffers, and I honestly don't know enough to even begin to evaluate whether it would have.
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Avatar was the most profitable movie in history, as well as the most pirated one.

Profits seem to be much more strongly connected with quality/popularity rather than the rate of piracy.
"Swizec, you really didn't have to say that" is second person, not third person.

"Swizec didn't have to say that" (or "Swizec thinks he didn't have to say that") would be third person.

IIRC, there is a period in early development where children frequently use the third person to talk about themselves (likely related to the development of the theory of mind, i.e. the distinction between one's own mind and others, which develops during early childhood too).

I'm not sure where the prentiousness comes from (though I'm aware of it), but this style of speech is also frequently used when trying to portray someone as severely lacking intelligence (likely to make them appear more like a child): "Hulk angry. Hulk smash!" comes to mind as an obvious example.
That article has some rather strange claims, and there's more than a hint of the traditional anti-Semitic conspiracy theories. No point in starting to refute things point by point, but just to pick a few:

At that point the German government thwarted the international banking cartels by issuing its own money.

As if the Weimar Republic didn't have its own money, which it printed with lots of zeroes after a non-zero.

World Jewry responded by declaring a global boycott against Germany.

Oh, there's a declaration by World Jewry?

Hitler began a national credit program ... All these were paid for with money that no longer came from the private international bankers.

Except, of course, where money came by confiscating the property of racial and political enemies [edit] that happened to be bankers [/edit].

Under the National Socialists, Germany’s money wasn't backed by gold

That was no news, exactly. The Weimar Reichsmark wouldn't get you much gold, either.
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People are already charging drastically less for their software. Upgrading to the next version of Windows will actually be free! How likely would that be ten years ago?

That's why everyone is busy writing SaaS apps instead; they're harder to pirate.
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> If they didn't neglected the server back end and just concentrated on user desktop they would never be doing open source.

Windows desktop/mobile (and big apps like xbox music) gave birth to TypeScript (which is obviously OSS).
This is something I find frustrating about the Netflix model. Charging me $8.00 a month is nothing. Add a premium plan for "power" users or people who just want to support a model that isn't their cable company. Charge us $19.99 a month or $24.99 a month or $29.99 a month. I will pay for it if it means better licensing deals, better service and more groundbreaking original content!
> Personally I think the marginal tax rate should be much higher on the highest earners, for the simple reason that the impact of exact additional percentage point tax is far lower for a higher earner. To me the actual percentage is irrelevant. The relative impact is far more important.

So, you define a fair tax system as one whose perceived impact is identical across the tax base.

I define it as one where people pay in proportion to the benefits they receive. One can, indeed, argue that a rich man receives more benefits than a poor man, since his larger fortune is protected, and indeed due to his connexions he himself is more likely to be able to call on the protection of his state. I'd bet that it's linear or sublinear, though, and surely not superlinear (which is the case with progressive tax systems).
I'd say the for profit US corrections system is winning.
Can you provide links. Silicon Valley have state of the art health care in the tech community that allows early screening.

But yeah ... there is engineering brain from what I see.
I used kickass torrents to download Microsoft Windows 8 ISO (after legally buying it from Microsoft, MS did not have the ISO anywhere for me to download, and I needed it for a VM)

Then yesterday I used kickass torrents to download Mac OS Mavericks, because Yosemite is a piece of shit but Apple doesn't make Mavericks available any more, and torrenting was the only way to downgrade my OS.
> That's an idiotic response.

You're inability to sense the sarcasm makes your entire response idiotic. Typical HN bullshit.
Yep, apparently my Greek money isn't as good as American money, since Netflix isn't available here...
That's cool, I like that attitude! Maybe once I am ready to hire I will reach out. :)
This reads like the upper end of the spectrum. How many of those diagnosed is actually up there?

I keep having this suspicion that many that gets diagnosed function "fine" when left to their own devices, but burn out during (long) sessions of social interaction.

And they come to the fore now as more and more of life become highly oriented around "face time".
No its mainly primarily about damaging the social staus of the technical profesion in Anglo Saxon Contrys - but the fact that school systems like germany that force kids into one track do descriminate against those who dont fit in is very widley known.

You where also asuming the the system Germay has evolved would work in other countrys with aparently no undertsanding of how Industrial relations and socity has evolved.
Based on my experience with kids, scooter most likely feels trapped for various reasons:
1 - lack of internal coping mechanism (never taught that its ok to feel a certain way)
2 - the realization that he IS different without the accompanying external validation that it's ok to be different.
3 - a mostly aimless daily routine were one just waits out their days
4 - poor or no support network

This is not much different than kids put into the Children's Aid system. Now that's another shit show that needs fixing.
Sandstorm, a platform which allows users to run arbitrary applications on a server in a secure sandbox. Of course, OwnCloud is at version 8 and Sandstorm is still working out its permissions UI.
"We think there is a fundamental misconception about piracy. Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem. If a pirate offers a product anywhere in the world, 24 x 7, purchasable from the convenience of your personal computer, and the legal provider says the product is region-locked, will come to your country 3 months after the US release, and can only be purchased at a brick and mortar store, then the pirate's service is more valuable."

Gabe Newell

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/114391-Valves-Gabe...