skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Key point here.

You can't actually stream any other major pro sport in your local market you only get out of market games (ie no Giants baseball in the Giants territory - and the territory extends north to oregon and about 300 miles south of SF)

Here's the funny thing - you generally don't need cable to watch your local NFL team. You can actually usually get your local NFL team using an over the air HD antenna and if you get a decent signal you can get pretty good HD. This is because most NFL games air on local broadcast affiliates which still transmit an OTA signal. Most of the other sports games are on local cable nets.

So really NFL is actually the only sport where you can get a local game feed without cable. So to answer the article's premise - no.
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http://kevinrose.com/blogg/2010/11/27/2010-geek-holiday-gift...
The Wikileaks hysteria is proof that an entire country can suffer from Stockholm Syndrome.
link to more comments on your original thread http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1976698
And he's basically advocating fascism, and implying that killing 100,000 arabs is no big deal compared to embarrassing the people who did it.

This is so disconnected from what danielbmarkham is actually arguing that I've flagged this entire thread as unproductively political.
Yes. I'm kind of puzzled and sad about NFC in general - at a technical level it seems to be basically trying to do the same thing as bluetooth, just with a different security profile. If they had somehow built this thing on top of a bluetooth profile we might have seen way more rapid adoption with backporting to all kinds of different devices - as it is, I don't expect to see this
at a retailer near me for years.
Switch to AVG Free.
I support your cynical comment, because I think we need to point this is in fact a major values-of-the-community issue.

"Major" you ask? Yes, the value proposition of murder is always a major issue. It should always be reaffirmed as one of the brightest lines a society can draw.
This isn't Reddit, and nobody outside television shows marketed to Americans actually talks like that.
I've started calling them Internet Brownshirts, Godwin's law be dammed.
I said two things about his points, and you acknowledge only one of them. Yes, I think some of these arguments are dubious. But I think they're all banal. They're things anyone could have said about the US government 5, 10, or 15 years ago.
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As a Canadian, I'm glad to know that everyone involved in the ongoing Wikileaks debate has managed to remain calm, mature, and level-headed. Here's to you, humanity!
I know you probably worked hard on this, but I'm extremely disappointed that you might have just lifted Twilio's appointment script example (http://www.twilio.com/docs/howto/appointmentreminder), set up a billing frontend, and charging $79/month for this product. I wish you would've credited Twilio for much of the hard work.

As much as I want you to succeed, I don't know if this is the right way to do it.
Positives:

- Dig the concept overall, I need a way to track new additions to Git.

- It's fast

- Adds more items as I scroll down, however it would be great to know when I've gotten to ones I've already read.

Some suggestions:
- RSS?

- The dropdown readme functionality is awkward and not intuitive. Confusion as to where the hit area is and the expected interaction/net effort result.

- Simplify and ease opportunities to engage, add the add a repo to the homepage, maybe sidebar it.

- Repos should open up to new window?

- Allow someone to create a cart of things to research or auto-watch items without clicking through to each repo.

- Spend a little more time on the UI. Alternating row colors, maybe reduce the contrast of a white background against the creme background data set.

- The most significant data point on the page is the descriptions of what each package is, not the package name. I'd consider making that the title line.
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He's calling for this guy to be killed. He said, lethal force. Because he's a quote "enemy".

And the reasoning is that the guy dared to tattle on the government killing people. Identity politics and advocacy for unlimited extrajudicial police power to prosecute said enemies. If that's not fascism, I don't know what is.
Or just bump ;)
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Probably not. Or rather, we do, it's fine that they're there---but the HN engine should process them as duplicates, or at least related to each other, and group or hide some of them accordingly. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1975950 for my ideas in this vein.
Let's chat. We can discuss some methods to help with this jsheehan@twilio.com
I'm mildly disappointed that it's only released on T-Mobile. I had figured that one reason to go with a Samsung device was that they already shipped a single core hardware set to every carrier, so there would be a low barrier to getting this thing on every carrier (or at least more than one). I guess this is not under Google's control, but still, I had hopes ...
The main reason I subscribe to cable is for sports. Football is infrequent enough that I can go to a bar, but if I went to a bar for every baseball game I'd be poor and drunk all the time. MLB.tv is great if your favorite team isn't your local team. If you like the home team you have to go through hoops (alternate billing address, proxy) and always live in fear that you'll be cut off.
I'd like to say that with my N900 on wind mobile in Canada, I get 200ms and skype is basically all I use. It works great!
Clearly, Julian Assange doesn't much care for US policy and is using information to fight against it.

Now, if he were using violence to kill Americans, like say a Somali pirate, and no less violent alternative was available and effective, then lethal force would be justified.

However, if we don't want him to discuss our secrets, the solution is pretty simple: keep them secret.

Where the writer's argument falls apart is that

1) Assange doesn't owe the US Government any duty to keep its secrets, unlike a US citizen

2) it's not a commensurate response; embarrassing us is not the same as killing us; there are simple solutions to prevent what he's doing and

3) it would be ineffective because it would make the US look far worse than it already does.
Half of the internet population in China use internet cafes.

The internet cafes in China come fitted with XP and IE6. They do something of a reinstall/refresh every restart.

It isn't helped by the fact that downloading chrome/firefox takes quite some time as the server is located outside of the country.
It's a great idea, but on the internet there's this strange subculture called "teenagers" who think foreign swearwords are hilarious.
PakistanSurvey.org is using MongoDB for general data storage of tons of survey responses and aggregation of them.

Similar sites we're working on use CouchDB in the same capacity, because we can push simple analysis back into the database and represent more complex data in a natural form.
Ron Paul: Don't blame Wikileaks (audio)
I think it's the reverse at this point: The cable companies are keeping the NFL off of the internet. The NFL makes so much money off of broadcast / cable TV that I don't see how they could make it up with internet fees.
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> Larry Sanger -- one of the founders of wikileaks...

Just FYI, for those who don't know, Sanger confounded Wikipedia and not Wikileaks. Two separate organizations; not related.

I have alerted the author about this.
Not to mention, most of the stuff got leaked reflects a lot more poorly on other governments than the US.

But that's besides the point. He's a hippie! Look at his hippie manifestos! Don't read the leaks or anything, we'll just have a debate on cross-fire about whether he's anti-american.
mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=1 --raid-devices=2 /dev/first /dev/second

Strangely, I think it was exactly the same 3 years ago. At least I don't remember doing anything complicated then. Although I did go via /etc/raidtab and mkraid.

(I'm skipping over all the required apt-get / yum installs and creating the partitions with fdisk - this are of course standard simple dependencies)

Edit: just noticed that there was a link to the previous post... where the guy did exactly this. The rest of the post is formatting the partitions, installing needed software, configuring grub, etc. I see his point, but I'm not sure I agree with it. Part of the original title "... To Run RAID-1 When You Didn't Plan For That Originally" sums it up. If you know how to handle partitions and how to configure your system in general, raid is just a one line difference. If someone gave me a windows box, I'd probably spend just as much time clicking around trying to figure out how to manage disks :)
please read my comments while wearing a teflon jacket. these are not personal attacks, just my personal thoughts about a book about how to make a web startup. i'm trying to build a new startup and reading all these blogs, and at times it seems like the authors of these blogs are pontificating their thoughts and trying to sell their own book, or speaking engagements, or whatever. So I start the discussion as a jaded a-hole. It's just where I am at right now. sorry.

I don't like the title. sounds like a book about running to lose weight. maybe it'll change by the time the final comes out. i quickly paged-down through 39 pages of the pdf, and most everything seems to be a rehash of stuff I've read on blogs. is the value of the book come from having all these concepts in one place? can a book have value anymore because once it is written it is basically obsolete? and do entreprenuers have time to read a book, especially a 141 page book? in your about the author section you say you've been doing start-ups for 7 years, but you don't explain if the startups became successful, so can we trust what you wrote as a valid recipe for success, or is it just adnecdotal musings of personal ideas, etc. the book is written in the tone of preaching, i.e. this is how to do it, but so far it lacks the exact how to do it steps. I think that is what programmers are most fond of, a book of recipes that show you how to make something work, and they can do it and it works. yes I know, this is a lot trickier. there is no right or wrong, no compiler to validate that you're doing it the right way. maybe this book is more for a business person who will just hire or subcontract a programmer and drive them crazy with pivots every hour :)

that's all the time i have for right now, i'll try to stay up even later tonight (after my coding work has burned out my brain) to read some more and make more comments. thanks for sharing it.
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They re-pair after you press a button, and their password is always 1234. It's not secure at all.
Just to clarify one thing: I am not supporting an assassination attempt on wikileaks. What I said was that I support use of state force up to and including lethal force. What the appropriate level of force is, I leave that up to people smarter than me. I just have decided that I support whatever decision is made legally.

You guys can continue the bickering now.
> I guess the logic is those people wouldn't bother to pay anyway but I am surprised they would allow their IP to ping the server in the first place.

Stopping an anti-virus from phoning home means you're out of date and every day it has less value. That said, I suspect the vast number of computer users would have no idea to prevent said ping (or even know it was happening). Especially those in the market for AV software.
> WL is fine with dumping United States State Department secrets, but if they had dumped all your financial and personal records, that would be bad?

I have yet to make up my mind on the whole situation, so I'm open to that thought experiment, but I still have one major unresolved issue for which I have not heard a satisfactory argument:

Why is it okay for the New York Times to publish this information, but it's not okay for WikiLeaks to do it? Are we not distinguishing between the leaking and the publishing anymore?
Ask HN: Are open-sourced documents good enough to open a company?
Hey guys. I am on the verge of getting funding for my company from some family friends, and I could really use some advice from those in the crowd who are familiar with setting up the legal paperwork for a startup that is getting funded.

Lately we have YC, TechStars, Founders Fund and others open sourcing the documents they use to open a Delaware corporation and set up the investor structure in the right way.

Fred Wilson recently posted on his blog regarding standardized funding docs, where he actually prefers them, because they make it easy to understand how things are structured, when you enter into talks with VCs. I suspect that many VCs appreciate this.

http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2010/03/standardized-venture-funding-docs.html

So that leads me to ask ... how much more needs to be done that is not covered by the standard docs? If we assume that the investors are your friends & family and aren't out to do a high powered negotiation -- they just want to set things up correctly and keep going.

1. Can we do this ourselves by reading the docs and filling in the blanks?

2. Can we get a lawyer to look over it for a couple hours and help fill in the blanks? (Much cheaper than a custom opening of a company)

3. Could anyone outline the steps that we'd need to take if we wanted to use one of these documents and work with our investors to open a company correctly? Preferably with a convertible note?

I want to set things up correctly, but at the same time I am wondering what I would be paying the lawyer to do. This isn't a rhetorical question, I really just want to know what I'm missing and what the pitfalls would be if I tried to do it myself.

I'm sure a lot of entrepreneurs have the same question. They probably would have written it in a more concise way though :)
That's the interesting thing about facism: nearly everybody is in favor of it as long as it furthers their causes. Democracy really doesn't work any better than other forms of government, it just tends to keep the lunatics at bay, and even that doesn't always work (see Bush Jr., Hitler, ...).
Sharing your idea with potential customers is part of the Customer Discovery Process (Steve Blank) and it leads you to refining your original concept.

Sharing your idea with potential competitors, especially those who can execute quicker than you is dumb. You could be told that your idea sux and they'll go off and implement it.
They did advocate piracy ... http://www.avast.com/lp-talk-like-a-pirate

More seriously, I wonder what the numbers are for the second most popular pirated key?

And more generally, what is the frequency distribution of users per key like? Is one pirated key dominant, are their competing rivals? What proportion of users share their key among only a few extra computers?

Also interesting is the approach they are taking to handling this. It will be very interesting to see what the conversation rate is, if they share that information as well.
The Arduino is pretty awesome and relatively cheap. The board itself is around $30, but you can get bundles for $50+.

I asked for the Arduino Uno and an ethernet shield for Christmas because I couldn't think of anything else. And let's face it, the idea of programming your plants to tweet when they need water is pretty awesome.

Here's a link for your reference:
http://www.adafruit.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&...
I think this is the coolest new feature, and I hope all new phones have NFC. RFID tags scan way quicker than QR codes, and don't rely on decent lighting (or an ugly code).

Further, NFC means the device also has it's own RFID tag. Visa: please replace my credit card with an app. Your card readers already have the near-field hardware!
Dynamo's consistency ranges from fully consistent to loosely consistent and is tunable on a per-application and per-call basis. This means a write can be reconciled against 100% of the replicas before it is considered finished. How is this any different than the consistency guarantees an ACID compliant system provides?

You make a claim that Amazon uses ACID semantics for the checkout process. The Dynamo paper claims that in order to meet business goals, the complete Amazon.com order process must be highly-available and partition tolerant. A system that is ACID compliant must sacrifice availability or partition tolerance, but this isn't the case for Amazon's purchase process. Amazon simply strengthens consistency and durability guarantees in the case of checkouts with a quorum write. It would be exceedingly rare for a partition or disaster to knock out communication with more than one datacenter, so this works very well in practice.
Wikileaks wants to become immortal, creating mirrors of itself
Daniel,

I respect your opinions, and I certainly respect the strength of your conviction about WikiLeaks. Most people seem to be taking a white-or-black stance on this, but I'm stuck somewhere in the gray.

Regarding the leaked cables (at least the ones leaked so far), I'm finding it hard to believe that the leak has caused permanent or significant damage of any kind. Diplomats will have to work overtime to smooth some ruffled feathers, but I haven't seen evidence of a shift for the worse in international relations.

If the worst outcome of these leaks is "even greater clamping down of information and ... a new age of the security state", then there is something fundamentally wrong, that goes beyond WikiLeaks. It seems irrational to argue that such changes would never happen IF ONLY WikiLeaks wasn't around.

The closest analogy in terms of effect on American policy and society would be 9/11. 9/11 was a barbaric, indefensible act, but the US has vastly over-reacted in the following decade, with no signs of slowing down. How much of the blame for the over-reaction belongs to Al Qaeda, and how much points to a systemic problem with how the US government deals with crises and the tradeoff between security and personal rights?

Now, WikiLeaks hasn't flown any planes into buildings. They haven't killed anyone. They've made state secrets public, which is a serious matter - but, pragmatically, they've embarrassed and caused more work for a number of diplomats, and not much else. That doesn't necessarily make them praise-worthy, but does it really warrant violent or even lethal opposition?

Look, the reality is none of us have any real clue about what WikiLeaks means. All we know is that technology means the rules are changing. I only really see two possible trends for the future - more openness, or more control. I'm not convinced that what WikiLeaks is doing is right, but given the choice of how I would prefer the world to look like in 20 years, I'd pick more openness over more control. Your preference seems to be for more control, since you seem to feel that an assassination of Julian Assange by the US government would be justified.

Edit: saw your comment about assassination. You can disregard that part of my comment, although since Julian Assange is not a US citizen (and neither am I, for that matter), our ideas for what "lethal force" implies in this context are probably different.

Edit2: Have you read "The World is Flat"? It may seem tangential, but I think it has everything to do with people's perception and expectations of WikiLeaks, and the changes implied by this episode.
Very nicely designed site, but one thing bugged me - your brand features a circle and a tick, yet there is no UI element in your app that I could see which uses this. I know you'd likely need to use non-standard interface elements to achieve that (e.g., in place of a checkbox perhaps) but it did stand out to me. "Hey, isn't this place all about ticking circles? I've been lied to!" ;)

Regardless, as I said, the overall design is excellent. Well done.
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The 3.5 year old steps are equally valid today for many and probably most cases. Been there done that and I'd never do it again; the cost of the hard drive isn't worth the blood pressure and strong drink this kind of juggling causes.

IFF the machine was set up with LVM (and there's a single VG with the right properties) you could build the MD array degraded, add it as a PV under LVM and migrate the data at that layer[0] then nuke the old drive and add it to the array. I believe you could even do it without rebooting but I've never tried. Additionally, making distros boot from LVM isn't always straightforward, at minimum you'd probably have to get your hands dirty with grub.

That said both BTRFS and zfs are (theoretically) "windows easy" for this case, once you're booting from them you can add mirrors to your heart's content and things should Just Work.

[0] http://www.greyoak.com/lvmdrive.html
All this failing and whaling has got me wailing.
in the sidebar now - thanks!
A comment on the page:

"...I'm annoyed at Windows software raid because they restrict it to the more expensive versions, so I can't use it on my gaming PC."
He has the running / on /dev/first, he's migrating that to a degraded array of just /dev/second then bringing /dev/first in to complete the array.
err, no thanks
http://www.neowin.net/news/avg-update-sends-computers-into-l...
Sounds good, I'll try to find time to give it a read and offer my thoughts.
> So if you speak to an American consular official, you deserve that conversation to be made public? But if you comment online about file-sharing, you deserve to remain anonymous?

The difference between my secrets and the secrets of the government is that the government works for me.

The government governs in the name of the people. I am the people. Government employees are my employees.

If my employees keep their actions secret from me, conspire with diplomats from other countries against me and try to push me into waging wars based on false information, then I should be able to find this out and make it public.

> [Wikileaks] are my enemy, and I support any use of state force against them, up to and including lethal force.

You have the right to "support" anything you want, but the US constitution (in theory!) prevents the government from killing individuals without due process (which includes charging them with crimes based on pre-existing laws, and trying them in an open court).

If you don't approve of the US constitution, then what are you fighting for...?
I thought you were looking for actual developers for your product, not customers.
I use a combination of semi-reliable stores, including a NoSql table storage provider, to implement durable messaging for distributed systems with nodes located in any number of data centers or clouds.
Patriotism/Nationalism is a disease.
This is a plausible and knowledgeable-sounding argument; its only flaw is that it not true.

The only relevant 'several hundred instructions' cache miss on a Core 2 Duo is a L2 miss ("Last Level Cache" miss). The hardware pre-fetcher will pick up accesses to the data stream after the first 1-2 misses. No amount of minor local jumping around in Turbo-BM is going to affect this.
Had the same experience with Tokyo Cabinet/Tyrant on a project. We had hundreds of millions of small records to store, and TCH could pack it into space fall enough to fit into disk cache on an XL EC2 instance.
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Hell yes, my number one most desired feature for android is proper strong encryption of the whole system.

I'm reticent to cache any passwords on there or store useful but sensitive data on my phone since I can't easily encrypt it (unlike my laptop).
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Fast prototyping in the physical world