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It's a demographics issue - all the 20-somethings I know follow shows, almost nobody does the whole "I just want to see what's on" thing anymore. There's a major shift in how people use TVs, and the new user mode supports intentional watching (as opposed to passive surfing).

This is supported by the rise of DVRs, allowing people to choose when they want to view their content without delving into the online realm of Hulu, Netflix, etc.

The problem right now is that none of the major online streamers have really good integration into any TV set. There also does not exist a good discovery system ("you like House? You might also like...") for anyone except Netflix, and they're more of a movie house than a television one.
Darn, the thought didn't even cross my mind.

Should be resolved now and new entries will have a proper Comments link ... if I didn't mess anything up that is. But I'm fairly certain I didn't.
Which part of Silicon Valley do you think patio11 lives in?

When, exactly, did he claim that "innovation" was some critical portion of his business models?

One of Patrick's most charming features is his unwillingness to tie himself up in emotional knots over his status as an "innovator", or fret about whether or not his products sufficiently express the essence of his cutting-edge twenty-first-century personality. He just makes things that people want, and markets them systematically with a great deal of focus. And he writes about that.

My lawyer, my accountant, my dentist, my doctor, my grocer, and my pharmacist don't have particularly innovative business models. They just provide things that I want, and I pay for them. There is no sin in that.
I'm doing something similar but it works with any RSS feed.

Example:

http://viewtext.org/article?url=http://news.ycombinator.com/...

It also works on single webpages (like redability).
While I agree with the current comments for the most part, I have found communication to be a really significant part of team relations. Often, this type of problem compounds and I have seen similar situations end with a member leaving the team.

That being said, I have found that this type of issue can usually be solved by talking about what your expectations are and being clear when they are not met. Just make sure that your expectations are reasonable and leave room for error here and there.

Finally, you need to decide if you are ok with having your teammate working part time. Someone splitting their time between two projects usually contributes less than half of their potential to each team.

As others have mentioned, the fact that he has been meeting his deliverables probably means that the issue is less about contribution and more about communication. If you cannot solve the communication issues then you may want to look at alternatives without this partner.
Then you're not paying taxes or operating under U.S. laws.

Ok. And your point is?

If your point is that the U.S. is the de facto world government and you would like to do something to change it, then vote or otherwise go about your own citizenship duties to elect a government which will leak secrets, make deals, or otherwise act to change U.S. policy.

But don't electronically come over here and spread all our state department cables all over the world. I'm sure your government has some sort of rule about attempting to destroy the functioning of a foreign government.

If not, they're about to develop one.

Sigh. I keep getting back to WL being the jerks that I mostly agree with who are going to screw things up for everybody. And you know the worst part of it? A bunch of folks will lionize them for it. We won't have as many freedoms because of their actions, but it'll be okay because we have heroes who stood up for the little guy.

It's depressing, really.
DirectTV has a strategy of using sports as an acquisition/retention tool, and paying handsomely for it. They also have exclusive NCAA Tournament content - like being able to watch 4 games at once on your TV. Sunday Ticket is the biggest driver here, though, for sure.
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Why is it not fair use?
> Hopefully a device will be available, but there could be some humor in it being unable to print, don’t you think?

Personally I don't really care about being able to print from a netbook. I print documents occasionally, mostly when it's required due to some legacy legal reasons. Even though people have different needs, I don't think this is such a big deal. Especially taking into account that Chrome OS netbook isn't going to be your one and only machine any time soon.
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> One wonders whether a real impactful whistleblowing leak might be disadvantaged in this climate;

This one is pretty real.

For one we now have official confirmation that the Netherlands hosts a foreign countries nuclear weapons inspite of numerous politicians being on the record to the contrary and for that alone I thank Julian Assange.

I'm pretty sure that there are lots of other bits and pieces that are relevant to various parties.

One thing this all shows is that you really can't trust governments with any collection of data and that's another useful thing to know with direct application to everyday life.
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In five years it seems that bloggers have about caught up to traditional media in reporting at the whims of PR firms.

Would anyone say there's a higher proportion of PR-resistant bloggers than newspapers or magazines?
That's a fine line. If I produce a porn video on my sick day, should Google own it? Would they even want it?
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hello,
I need a tool that could merge recordings of the same view by two separate cameras located at different angles and eliminate the object that appears to both cameras.
Imagine I want to record the classroom, whats on the blackboard to be more precise, but there is always a teacher walking between the cameras and the blackboard.
If I locate two cameras in two different corners of the room under different angles from the blackboard so that each of them sees a the blackboard and the teacher but each of them will have different blind spots on the blackboard.
when I combine the two views merging them on common region (part which both cameras can see) I will be able to get the view of entire blackboard.
please refer to this pic to understand what I mean *ttp://i56.tinypic.com/2reo08i.png
Is there any tool that can automatically do that?
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I really need this for my term project at the university
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When I read the article, I was a bit suprised by how he almost seemed proud of his tactics to rip people off and later bully them. Particularly, the part where he said "I’ve exploited this opportunity because it works. No matter where they post their negative comments, it helps my return on investment. So I decided, why not use that negativity to my advantage?"

This guy should be the dumbest criminal in modern times. He understood how powerful the internet was, and then decided to ignore it.
The phone was released when there was something to release, complaining that it didn't happen half a year ago doesn't make much sense. Not to mention that December is usually considered a perfect time for releasing new gadgets.
I buy a digital cable package with HD just for the football season. We only turn it on for football games. ~300 channels and an extra $80 or so over my cable modem costs for 2-3 games per week. We cancel post-Super Bowl every year and restart for preseason.
It's because nvidia and intel can't play nice and apple decided using the nvidia built in gpu/northbridge and an older cpu generation is a better comprimise than going with intel's inferior gpu/northbridge.
Just curious, what age groups to do associate with? Being 20, so around teens and what not 'fail' is said an obnoxious amount. I don't think it's as subcultural as you think. (Some of these people ask how to use Twitter...)

Yes, it's an error page, and it says it is "having trouble finding the page". I don't get the confusion that could cause.

If an obvious reference is boring, why did you complain about the use of fail which is subcultural as you put it?
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I used nothing of that code. Did you actually look at it? It is sample code not complete enough to even run, much less actually solve a customer need.
"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?"

Because the NYT is an agency dedicated to telling stories -- some of which happen to be political and/or secret in nature. Wikileaks is dedicated to attacking the structure of the government by mass releases of documents covering all sorts of things.

When you have a leaker which wants some injustice fixed and a publisher who publishes to tell that story, you are then able to make some informed judgment on what was best for society, ie, there is a rational conversation. See the Pentagon Papers.

But when you leak 200K documents -- who has the ability to review or digest all of that? I doubt anybody could make a statement on what the impact is or whether the leak was worth it or not. They'll be debating the impact of these leaks 50 years from now. It takes away the conversation between the voters and the government. Which is the entire point, of course. If the purpose is to destroy the relationship between voters and the government, then you are no longer a publisher, ie, you are no longer relating a thematic story with some sort of political or secret overtones. Your right of free speech -- the ability to relate stories, demonstrate, protest, and persuade me of a certain cause is not applicable any more. You can't have any sort of reasonable conversation about how to fix things using 200K documents to do so. This would be like calling myself a musician if I played every note on the keyboard on a thousand instruments at once. I would be something -- noisemaker or something, but not a musician. There is no theme or point except chaos and anarchy.

Beats the hell out of me what wikileaks is, but its not a publisher. Information sprinkler? I'd go with "cyber terrorist", but nobody was purposely killed to effect political change, just massive amounts of information leaked, so the word "terrorism" doesn't work.

It's a very strange semantic place we've ended up.
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>Please ask yourself why.

Looking for a way to hands-free scale very cheaply without vendor lockin. Would be nice if I can simply add another machine to the database to the cluster. And not have to generate the ids in the application layer, use hashing algo to select correct machine, and have everything stop working when a single database goes down. Seems like it should be a solved problem by now. Investigating new tech won't set me back much time, and my MySQL queries aren't going to disappear if I don't like it. Furthermore looking at large sites such as Flickr that massively scaled MySQL it seems like they stopped using its relational features anyway.
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Already on the roadmap, but I couldn't fit it into prelaunch and GC support wasn't a blocking issue.
We used mongodb for a weekend hack/prototype cycling news site. It was an excuse to play with Mongo, not because we felt we'd need Mongo for this particular site. I am very glad we did use it, because I now understand some of the cool things you can do with Mongo.

Basically, if you are prototyping and have a few extra hours to spend playing, I would say go for it. Can't hurt to understand the tool, so you can pick it if it makes sense for what you need to do down the road.
Twilio wants him to do this. They created a fund that invests in startups like patio11's [1]. One of the Twilio people even wrote a comment on HN encouraging patio11 to apply [2].

[1] http://blog.500startups.com/2010/09/23/twilio-fund-for-500-s...

[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1721822
This tool is _awesome_. I can say that having used it on my site. This is way, way, way better than Rails's built-in i18n.
> In the great rock-paper-scissors game of ideology-nationalism-money, money wins every time.

Why did WWI happen, then?
> Until IPTV or whatever you want to call it can perform as well as cable, and it can't yet, I don't see cable dying.

As someone who recently moved from Time Warner Cable to U-Verse, U-Verse (which is an entirely multicasted IPTV system) is substantially faster than TWC in terms of channel acquisition speed — it's literally instantaneous. I suspect a lot of that has to do with Time Warner's increasing use of switched digital video rather than encrypted QAM, but that certainly isn't going to change anytime soon.
I am more prone to seeing that damned "I'm Sorry..." but we think you're a bot or some dick sending automated queries and now we are killing your access for 24-72 hours.
Sharding does not allow arbitrary joins to work efficiently. This is a really big issue with the relation model for data, and flocks of cheap hardware for storage.
Sadly, I find this extremely common in Italian writing (I am Italian). I wouldn't be lying if I said that this kind of logic (or lack thereof) is one of the main reasons why I left the country.
GMail search is awful as well.
This is great and all, but this guy flagrantly broke the law many times and no one did anything. Do I need to have the New York Times publish an article if someone does something like this to me?
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.

Yes, I would appreciate it if things were organized in a way that suited my needs too!

I think you should consider these documents as a sort of wishlist for investors, and bring them along to a meeting with you attorney when setting up the company. They're not designed to exploit or mislead you, but they're not constructed to safeguard your interests either. It would be good as an intellectual exercise to sit down and compare the different versions, and ask yourself why there are any differences beyond the purely cosmetic. Pretend you're an investor instead of a entrepreneur and ask yourself again why you might prefer one term sheet over another. Then go see a lawyer, something that I am not.

The service a lawyer provides is to listen to your goals, needs, and ideas - and how they differ from anyone else's, to the extent that they do - and advise you on how different options will affect your interests. One startup may be all about upside with investors who like risk and want to maximize their opportunities; if you're relying on friends and family then you may be more concerned with limiting downside risk, and its potential impact to important personal relationships. Everyone has different reasons for starting a business; they're often similar, but one size does not fit all any more than one product satisfies everyone's needs.

Although there's some expense involved, consider the upside: if VCs are publishing term sheets it means they're competing to be your capital supplier, because of the possibility that you will enrich them. Assume they have your interests at heart in the same way that credit card issuers do :)
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It's actually kind of a good sales tactic since they can now contact each user and tell them to pay up or switch to the free version. Like a viral trial ...
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https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Fair_use:

"Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 17 U.S.C. § 106 and 17 U.S.C. § 106A, the fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by that section, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright. In determining whether the use made of a work in any particular case is a fair use the factors to be considered shall include:

1. the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;

2. the nature of the copyrighted work;

3. the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and

4. the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.

The fact that a work is unpublished shall not itself bar a finding of fair use if such finding is made upon consideration of all the above factors"

Personal use does not, unfortunately, apply.
Even though Umberto Eco probably does not realize that mr. Mannings activities do not really qualify as hacking he's right on the money in that any large trove of data will sooner or later become public.

There is a ratchet action at work here which causes information to be disseminated even when you really don't want to. The mere existence of information that more than just a very few people have access to almost guarantees a leak and eventual publication, with some direct numerical link between the number of people that have access and the chances of the information being leaked.

Those tasked with guarding our privacy are worried about all this precisely because they seem to be incapable of doing so, even when dealing with stuff that would never have seen daylight 20 years ago.

With every advance in telecommunications technology, computing and storage the amount of information explodes further and avenues through which it may leak out multiply.

Cellphones with cameras are one nice example of this effect.

When you put together a 'list of sensitive installations' you need to realize the impact of just creating such a list. Once created you have to assume that eventually it will fall in to the hands of those that you don't want to have it (and what a banal list it is, is that the best they could do?).

Spy novels have been preaching 'need to know' for a long time, and governments the world over have always struggled with finding the right balance between being able to do their jobs as well as not helping their perceived enemies or other parties to the information they so painstakingly collected.

It looks to me as though the big lesson of this leak (besides a bunch of important details in the cables themselves) is that this process is currently failing.
ESPN and NFL network are the only reason I still pay for cable. I'd cancel tonight if i could stream both (willing to pay significantly for both as well)
What do people use shortcodes for? Especially with a smartphone in front of them?
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Thank you so much for the responses. First time on Hacker News (came to it on a friend's recommendation...) and I'm really impressed/grateful at how engaged the advice has been.
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Here's a link to WhaleShark Media, the Austin, TX company that purchased RetailMeNot: http://www.whalesharkmedia.com/
He's an idiot for bragging on interviews. He's Russian but doesn't realize that this is not Russia and he can't go around threatening people.
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That is nothing short of awesome. I love the way the S becomes a monocle. :)
I agree that there's a lot of paranoia and FUD going around out there about this. But I don't think this is fair. Some people have valid concerns about a tech bubble emerging. For instance Fred Wilson doesn't strike me as someone who is running around screaming about the sky falling.
The flaw that you keep hitting is that you assume the government is just. You say that if someone exposes something confidential that they are bad because they broke the law. Law is an abstract thing created to better society and strive for justice, but it is anything but just. Often, it is used for personal/corporate benefit as well as political agendas (or even favors).

Doing nothing results in no change - this is probably the most illogical argument of all. You also cannot say the government should go after them for releasing information that the government said shouldn't be released without explaining what exactly Wikileaks is harming in doing so. Lastly, you cannot go to war with the government over this because just as voting doesn't work, neither would rioting unless it were national (or say >= 20 states).
Care to back this up? I think MongoDB is awesome from what I've seen so far and I've heard nothing but good thiings about it even in the performance sector. I'd love to see more info on what you're saying. Thanks.
I'd have thought Borders a little better. What metropolitan area are you in? I'm in Washington, DC, so comparing B&N in Bethesda and downtown with Borders on L St. or occasionally Silver Spring or White Flint.
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"Reluctant Genuis" (biography of Alexander Graham Bell) - a must read to better understand the context in which the phone was invented, and the tremendous impact it had as a technology; the story of an amazing inventor, period.
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It looks like Wikileaks received all the cables from a US citizen who gave the cables to them of his or her own accord. They didn’t “come over”, they merely published what was given to them. I personally don’t feel like it is my or any foreigners responsibility to keep the secrets of the US government. It’s not as though Wikileaks stole them.
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A fundamental misconception about the Media Lab is that it is an engineering lab. Yes, the technologies that are developed are forward-thinking enough that most students and professors there must be at least moderately skilled engineers. However, the primary goal of the media lab is to birth new ideas, not new implementations.

This may sound a bit blasé, but a well-faked demo of a totally original 2040 technology is going to be more well received than a well-designed product with 2011 technologies.

This varies depending on the particular group at the lab, of course--some groups, such as Biomechatronics (http://biomech.media.mit.edu/) are more grounded in reality, whereas others, such as Lifelong Kindergarten (http://llk.media.mit.edu/) are more experimental.

My advice: READ THE PAPERS that Media Lab groups are publishing. Especially recent Phd theses, and papers at the high-profile conferences (SIGGRAPH, SIGCHI). Think about them. Write about them. Figure out how you'd build upon them. Then talk to the authors of the ones that excite you the most.

NOTE: This is based upon my own experience, and my views do not represent those of the Media Lab. I've worked at the Media Lab in the past, but I'm not speaking from any official capacity here.
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