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I also cut cable 8 years ago and haven't turned back.

It was hard at first for sports because I had to watch random internet streams that were often bad quality, getting shutdown or full of browser ads (just use adblocker.)

In the last few years it has gotten a lot better. Almost every network has an AppleTV/Amazon Fire/Hulu app or online streaming service with cable quality streaming. Most of them require you to have cable subscription, but thats easily circumvented by using a friend's TV login.
Hospital staff in Thailand use LINE to do everything from organising shift rosters to trading images and instructions for patients. I have personally seen a (nurse) friend of mine receiving images of wounds from on-duty staff and giving advice for treatment over the app.

In the absence of some kind of really amazing and free dedicated app, it actually seems very efficient! I have zero faith in any of those mandated health information privacy schemes anyway.
I personally think it's best practice, although returning a generic 400 isn't _that_ bad. Libraries like Django REST Framework handle this automatically.
I manage the engineering team at HelloSign (YC11) and wrote a little response to Google's team success study that came out a few weeks ago. It tries to answer the question: How the heck do you foster psychological safety in the first place?
Agreed, the downvote should be used for content you find inappropriate or adds nothing to the discussion. A dissenting opinion that is on topic should not be downvoted.
Warren Buffet talks about "moats" all the time. Basically a business with a moat is just a business with a defensible advantage.

If you think of your business as a castle, a moat is something that stops others from taking your castle from you. This could be anything from a network effect (Facebook, LinkedIn), economies of scale (Amazon, Walmart), to patents (most biotech companies) to brand (Coke).

The way he put it was something like, "If you gave me 100 billion dollars to take Coke's market, I can't. They've been investing in infrastructure and brand all over the world for decades. Even if I could make a better tasting beverage, people would still buy Coke. They have a moat".

http://www.valuewalk.com/2015/09/warren-buffett-on-economic-...
I actually think the ads on Facebook are done in a transparent and un-annoying way. Unfortunately, they only show me two things:

1. Geeky shirts with "clever" sayings on them (since they know I'm a programmer, I guess).

2. Things I've already recently bought on Amazon (or elsewhere).

In the first case, what they know about me leads to a severely mistaken impression regarding something else about me. In the second case, what they know about me is already outdated.
The subscriptions are handled through in-app purchases. I cannot load any of those apps onto my existing devices. So now I have to buy a device, so that I can subscribe to HBO Now?

The point is that the blanket statement, "And you can get HBO without getting cable," is correct but not complete. You still must flow through a provider, and the providers are not universally available. A random person with an internet connection and a computer cannot order HBO Now.
> It's debatable. Do you stand aside and look the other way and say, that's their lot in the world, or do you do something.

> It's not an was call. If you do nothing people die. If you try to do something people will die. The idea is to pave a better path to the future.

This was the propaganda used to excuse invading Iraq, but it's incredibly naive to believe it.

> Or even today, do we say, forget Syria. Seal it up, let them sort things out and condemn a whole country's population to great suffering?

That's exactly what we'd be doing if they weren't sitting in the way of fossil fuel transportation routes.

It's ridiculous to claim that we're doing this to reduce the suffering of people in Syria. The US has supplied Israel with bombs that have been used to kill Syrian civilians for more than half a century, yet suddenly we care about the suffering of Syrians now? Yeah, right.
Cool, although I really wish it was free and with an iAP to unlock it. Or a lite version. I want to give it a go for some days to see if I really use it.

How do you get the items by location?
I'm almost certain that that is false. They may be high-profile, but there's only about 2000 players on NFL rosters, 500 on NBA rosters, 750 on MLB rosters, and another 750 on NHL rosters. In the grand scheme of things, that's not that many possible rapists and abusers, compared with the legions of, say, prison guards, or police officers, or lawyers, or soldiers, Catholic priests, or investment bankers.
Eh. The analytics data is pretty low value as far as hacker targets, and this can be mostly mitigated anyways by sane segregation of the admin backend from the publicly accessible site.

There's an open ticket for it, but it looks like it hasn't been addressed in a while since they don't want to break all existing passwords.

https://github.com/piwik/piwik/issues/5728
If you're just quoting it, and not doing anything transformative with it (or other things protected by fair use e.g. criticism), then yes that's infringing. Per the article a judge ruled that Prince's work was transformative.
>I guess Apple arbitrarily doesn't support them on my older iPhone

It's not arbitrary - it requires a 64 bit CPU (of which Apple has now shipped 3 generations of).
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More and more, if I'm not satisfied with DDG, I will Google that term, only to get the same stuff.
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Snowplow is great. Super scalable and they have instructions on how to host everything on your own AWS infrastructure.
> attached to a desktop or server computer by a cable?

Data bandwidth is already an issue in GPUs, and sending bits over a cable isn't going to help.
At Cloudron, our vision is to allow companies to host their own apps easily. We dogfood and don't use Google. We don't use analytics on our website (a conscious decision). Our emails are based on IMAP servers and we use thunderbird. We selfhost everything other than email (which is on gandi).

We just entered private beta yesterday - https://cloudron.io/blog/2015-12-07-private-beta.html
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I'd love to get some feedback on this, particularly what you found obvious/intuitive about the experience, and what confused/discouraged you.

Thanks!

For those unfamiliar with the term 'tweetstorm', it's the name given to the practice of posting multiple (numbered) tweets in a linked thread (usually by replying to yourself) to share longer thoughts.

It's a bit of a clunky process, so I've tried to take away some of the discomfort with Ramble On.
Your discussion of the motivation for the metformin research is intriguing - thanks. NCI has funded human trials based on human epidemiological studies to further examine metformin's possible impact on cancer: (April 2015) http://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/researc...

Calorie restriction support was recently undermined by a NIA study. The conflict between the NIA and Wisconsin study is summarized by TIME here: http://healthland.time.com/2012/08/29/want-to-live-longer-do...

The teams are supposed to be working on a joint study to resolve their differing results.

EDIT: I have seen Dr. Mosley's BBC documentaries and they pre-date the recent CRON results. His HIIT segment is also very interesting. Not dismissing any of it - just not the slam-dunk that it seemed at first.
That "ratcheting effect" is by design.

Similarly, anti-virus software has a "ratcheting effect" in that once you install them, you don't get to see the kind of high-quality viruses and trojans that might convince your computer to encrypt all your files or give up your bank passwords.

Installing an ad blocker has become another one of those "hygiene" steps that you do whenever you set up a new PC: Install Anti-virus, install OS-provided updates, install ad-blocker.
"We are having trouble showing you adverts on this page, which may be a result of ad blocker software being installed on your device.

As City A.M. relies on advertising to fund its journalism, please disable any ad blockers from running on cityam.com, then reload the page to see the rest of this content. More info here."

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I've been using chesscademy.com for like a year or more, they have excellent chess strategy puzzles. Problem is however that site has some annoying little bugs on touch devices that I've reported a few times and got zero response from owner, and AFAIK they still haven't fixed them. Also I've noticed that some puzzles started repeating quite often, which all led me to conclusion that this project has been abandoned?!
>Isn't a lot of art basically bullshit? Just take a look at modern art paintings

No.

>and how much they sell for.

Perhaps. I guess it depends on the perspective you're approaching it from. As a use of capital resources in a world of crushing and grinding poverty, I say yes.

As a potential investment: if the someone is willing to pay more in the future then it's not bullshit.
>To me, you're the one being "catty" for no reason at all.

Please, the person you responded to put in two paragraphs of their reasoning.

HN indeed.
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Ah, so you are passing some client IDs over the GA after all. An IP address perhaps? You know that's a leading question, right?

Incidentally, I ran similar experiment with gaug.es few years ago - pulled on their tracking API from our server side. While it worked as expected, these sort of shenanigans are good for only one thing - hiding the fact that you are using 3rd party analytics from your visitors.

On a more general note - the thing is that you either care about other people's privacy or you don't. It's not a grayscale, it's binary. And if you do, there's no place for GA in the picture.
Indeed.

We all profit from having a free market, for that to be existing consumers need to have a choice; the market has to be either free of monopolies, or we have to make sure the monopoly on one market (say, web search) doesn’t quickly turn into a monopoly for other markets (say, mobile OS, web maps, etc), too.
Not directly related, but this reminds me about the story of paper town in map making. Check this TED's talk: http://www.ted.com/talks/john_green_the_nerd_s_guide_to_lear...
WhatsApp is infuriating. I've managed to get the people I chat with to move to Signal or Telegram (seems a bit more friendly). But there's tons of resistance. My 9-yr-old doesn't seem to care about the privacy implications of sending all your writing (and photos) to Facebook, forever. My 7-yr-old does care, and expressed surprise that it was even legal to "take their secrets" and "I'd call the police on Facebook." (Her words.)

But I suppose if other parents don't join in (shit most of them use WhatsApp themselves), what hope do their kids have? And I don't want to get my daughter ostracized so being heavy handed seems like a long-term losing strategy.

Doesn't help that this is in a 3rd world Central American country and that vile, anti-net-neutrality zero-rating is in effect for FB stuff. You can basically pick up any phone, and WhatsApp will work, even if nothing else[1] does. Apart from the cost of the phone, there's no cost, at all, as far as I can see.

1: Including emergency, as this country hasn't really gotten to that point yet.
I'll try to help you understand the parent's point. The current environment of VC-backed companies is such that almost all companies in the tech startup ecosystem are following high-risk, high-reward paths.

Barber shops and restaurants tend not to do this - they follow low-risk, low-reward paths. One reason for this is how they are funded - a bank giving a business loan for a restaurant might want to see a conservative plan to make one restaurant profitable within a few months of opening, to maximize the likelihood that their loan is repaid.

If there was a VC backed restaurant with equity financing, they might instead try to grow rapidly to a thousand locations to try to displace/disrupt McDonalds, all while losing money for several years, in the hope that they end up a multi-billion dollar chain. Obviously this is much more likely to fail and be worth nothing.

By adding a new form of funding that sits between a business loan and a VC equity deal, the hope is that you also create a new space of business plans that are more aggressive than the single-restaurant with debt plan but less aggressive than the "try to take on McDonalds" plan.
Random fact: GA cookie is distinct from adwords(google.com) cookie, and it is illegal for Google to join those (not sure if it is even technically feasible).
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How do you organize and scope out mobile app projects?
We have built this prototype tool to help do project assessments for Mobile App builds. Any good? Anything you'd change to make it better? Please let me know. Appreciated
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A big problem that comes with all of these novel proposals is that for me, the average American gun owner, they're not better than the current system.

What incentive do I have to change from the status quo if the change won't result in a net benefit for me?
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They can't build it into firefox on ios but how about building it into firefox on other platforms?
It's definitely possible to offer that on a monthly basis if you model that each customer stays for 36-39 months. Also, I doubt that they are using replicated storage, but are using erasure coding instead. Also, they dedupe before upload, so more cost savings there.
But... his work sells as modern art?!?

Infinite logic recursion detected, abort!!!
The idea that the Hugos were a "celebration of something deeply unliterary" seems bizarre to me. Looking at the winners over the years it seems pretty clear they are generally works with higher than average literary merit within the genre.
These fraud shops make you deposit first then you go shopping much like how silk rd worked, so at anytime could have seized the coins.

For all we know this screen upon checkout is random, and whoever doesn't complain to get their money back is the cop. Most fraud outfits have major customers they deal with or cashout teams they offer specific BINs over chat, the online store is for bottom tier thieves on public sites.
MPEG-LA (the patent pool organizer) isn't MPEG (the standard body), even if the former adopted the latter's name.

The only thing to blame standard bodies for is their dysfunctional approach at patents that incentivizes useless feature stuffing so that all parties have some patents in the mandatory-to-implement part of the spec.
This may work when dealing with the incompetent but not the malicious.
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Walter Benjamin would agree with you; but in an age when economic security still means personal security, and creativity is one way of achieving economic security, stealing other people's creativity is pretty low, and isn't a cultural habit we should encourage.
Don't you have any issues with sending your detailed medical information to Facebook?

Signal, or even Telegram (despite it's stupid crypto, the E2E stuff _should_ work if verified right, and it's a marginally better client at the moment) should suffice without sacrificing privacy.
That would be like an anti-virus software that ran every virus it found and then asked you opt-out of the ones you don't want.
Imagine these arguments about ad-blockers, but instead being leveraged against spam filters on your email inbox.

If you don't think you have an ethical obligation to read your spam emails, then you also don't have one to view advertisements.

Also, nobody should be able to force you to run their code. The publisher's rights end where your computer begins.
The "conflict" described here is a result of unchecked greed in advertising as they worked to grab user focus at all costs. Had they behaved in a more disciplined manner, ad blockers would not be so popular or would work more like Disconnect.me and Mozilla's new product. Instead, they will have to earn the chance to be seen again the hard way.
I don't get it. SpiderOak states that they dropped GA because it furthers "the erosion of privacy on the web.”, but then they just started tracking in house.

How is tracking in house more private than GA? The user is still being tracked.
How about: "Reliable curation"
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That is Amara's Law [1]. The paraphrase given by Cringely that is commonly quoted (to my knowledge, Amara himself never gave as concise a quote as the paraphrase) is:

"We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Amara
It's how you get attention to John Doe, who doesn't cares about ad-blocking until Apple does.

Similarly how this "dilemma" is again rehashed because Mozilla made a content blocker. Not that about 10 others sprung out since September where the content blocking support was introduced.
What a high quality ad is supposed to be? If the product is any good I'll get to know it anyway.
Generally reuse of copyrighted materials need to be transformative in some way, and to many people following this artist he is not doing that.

Also, I don't like him or his concept of art. Maybe if he was donating most of the proceeds to charity with enough to make a living.
I've never used IIS, but isn't that confusing protocol codes with content codes?

IMO HTTP status codes should return information about the HTTP transaction, and only about the HTTP transaction.

If you run an API layer on top of that, that's a separate concern.

So "Server busy" should not be in the same space as "That API request was bad."

On my last project I returned 200 for successful transactions, 404 for missing pages, and 444/closed connection for 'Piss off and stop making inept attempts to hack this server, use it as a free proxy, or rack up your SEO stats."

IPs trying any of the latter are blocked by Fail2Ban.

444 seems to have cut down on spam requests from botnets, and it's cheaper than serving a full 404 page.
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Ah, is that the differentiator? I see. Still strikes me as somewhat arbitrary, though - is content blocking such a strenuous task that it requires a 64-bit CPU? Wouldn't using a blocker cause the CPU to do less work in most cases since it doesn't have to download so many ad media files or execute as much JavaScript?

Yeah, I guess it's just time to get a friggin' new phone already, but this one ain't broke yet, ya know?
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Actually you won't since it doesn't provide the option to block images. I have yet to find the content blocker that does what I want, block everything by default let me whitelist individual features for individual sites (images, js from same domain, js from external domains). If anyone knows one that does this, please let me know. I'm willing to pay.
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A large factor for this is the current provincial government that was recently elected (New Democratic Party (NDP)). Their current policies of implementing carbon taxes and increasing corporate taxes in the energy sector when a lot of companies are already hurting can be argued for redirecting the already slim investments to other markets.
Great to see 'Refind' made it to HN. I've been using Refind for 2 months and it has completely replaced Pocket in my workflow. Better browser integration, better search, and I really like the social twist of it.
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Unbelievable. Unsalted MD5, no less. There's an issue to fix this that's been open for seven years! https://github.com/piwik/piwik/issues/5728
Exactly.

They (the media companies that took ads too far and ruined the experience for us) did this to themselves. Ad blockers would have never proliferated, had the web not come to a state where 25% of web requests were ads and tracking requests.
Small nuclear reactors look very promising for high density energy usage- so long as we put some effort into R&D for the technology.
I was curious as well and just assumed the usual NIH (not invented here) syndrome. Web analytics was so mature before Google bought Urchin and turned it into Google analytics. Since that time countless open source projects have sprung up (pwik was the first that came to mind). Google for open source alternatives brings up thousands of pages of projects.

Writing your own is easy for the basic stuff. When you want to move beyond the basics, as Spider Oak will find, it becomes much more difficult.
As someone who works in the art industry, I can say that this is really not the case for the majority of artists, gallerists, and collectors. A lot of people working in this industry, especially outside the major centers of wealth (New York, London, LA, etc.) are really just making fairly unremarkable middle-class incomes, and do it because they like art and genuinely believe in its cultural importance.

That might not be the case if you're looking at the Saatchi collection or wandering about in one of Larry Gagosian's spaces, but they are the wild exception to the rule.
I like it but one minor nit. Searching for "C" brings up anything with a "C" in it. Adding an explicit "C" tag doesn't seem to work right.
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As long as websites act like they are the victims when ad networks are compromised and serve malware to visitors, I see no reason anyone should feel bad about blocking content. It's simple prudence to not download malicious software to your computer.
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Without knowledge of NBC/CBS/Fox's internal balance sheets, this seems unlikely.

I'll concede that I don't know them any better than anyone else speculating on the matter, but I know for sure that all three networks get a per subscriber fee from cable companies like any other channel on cable.

The NFL has 15-16 games per week. Of those, 4 or 5 are on the local broadcast (three or four on CBS and FOX, one on NBC in the evening). If you want to access the other 11 games, you're reliant on cable-based access.

And the NFL is a unique animal here. MLB, NBA, and NHL are all completely reliant on cable-based delivery methods.

The sports networks these companies have launched are all fledgling and receive a miniscule subscriber fee relative to ESPN.

Fox Sports is not fledgling. They've been number 2 to ESPN for most of their history, and a huge number of NBA and MLB games are broadcast on Fox Sports.

Sports as an industry clearly needs cable subscriptions to support its current business model. And those cable subscriptions are reliant on people that don't watch sports paying for them anyway.

Eventually the sports industry is going to be forced, one way or another, to deliver a better user experience, and it's highly questionable whether or not they'll be able to generate the same revenue without the support of non fans that cable brings.
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I think this idea is ridiculous. However, ...

Owning a gun does not reduce the odds that you or someone you care about being being killed by a gun. So, you benefit just as much from gun control as everyone else.

PS: One option is to simply jack up the cost of each bullet. At 100$ a pop that still useful for hunting or self defense so no constitutional issues, but your not going to see teens firing thousands of rounds. ;)
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Sadly, the book has a ridiculous price.
oooh - good find. The tagging has been a bit of a bear to get right. :)