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> AMC is ending Breaking Bad next season because of Madmen sucking up the budget

Thankfully, that's not going to happen. AMC tried cutting BrBa back to only 6 episodes next season. But Sony owns the rights to the show, so they shopped it around. AMC caved. For all the press Mad Men gets, Breaking Bad has ~2x the viewers per episode, and Walking Dead (which had it's budget cut due to Mad Men's cost) gets about ~2.5x the viewers.

[Edit: Removed my snarky comment about AMC's management.]
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I can't find anything that provides those features. Can you let us know where it is? (Chrome 13.0.782.112 on Linux)
Thx for the feedback, a lot of the stuff you mentioned are definite problems. Many people have mentioned not really being sure on what to do on the site. As for the syncing, everything is synced within reason (the app accounts for a 10 second buffer delay, in which case it resyncs, otherwise it tolerates the delay).
Good call. That interpretation seems obvious in retrospect.
I don't know, what does a guy have to do to get a language accepted these days. Integrate it with one of the most popular platforms, base the syntax on the most popular syntax, make the type system sound and expressive at the same time... and then it's too complicated. Or too hard for the average developer. Really? It seems to me that scala can be seen as an extended version of java. Though it extends pretty far, sure.

I've used scala on and off for 5 years or so. It seems to me to be a very practical and flexible language. There are things that I don't like, but compared to the number of things I don't like about every other language I use, scala does ok.

And I kinda wonder about the too hard for the average developer thing anyway. Didn't the average developer use to program C++? Despite efforts to the contrary, I still program C++, and compared to that, scala's a stroll on a spring day.
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Oh definitely, I guess I just wanted to say something about it's current state. Come see my site, its finished, but not really (not the most captivating title ;p).
Yea, there's a lot of little stuff I have to iron out. I really wanted to get some kind of working version up, but there are a lot of nitty gritty stuff that needs to be ironed out.
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I haven't torrented anything in probably two or three years (only used it for non-US releases and before I had significant income), but I've never needed to fuss with codecs/formats after using the Combined Community Codec Pack.

I had no idea there was any drama about who provided what content in that scene, but I suppose that's one more reason to welcome legitimate online video sources.
Actually its quite different from DoubleRecall, in the sense that DoubleRecall is presented as a road block. Users are forced to interact with it in order to continue their session.

PLAY is a replacement for display ads. Users interact with the ad only if they choose to do so.
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FST's are used a lot in natural language processing, for example in speech recognition and dialogue systems. In these cases the state transitions are given probabilities (weights), which makes it a weighted FST.

Sometimes I used FSM's during the design phase of a project to model system behavior, but I'd end up implementing them pretty crudely with spaghetti code or case statements. Looking back, it would have made more sense to explicitly implement the FSM in the code.
Congrats from a fellow Nashvillian. I just found out that I know one of your recent hires (from undergrad) after I interviewed a potential intern yesterday (common friend).

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There might truly be no limit. Let's assume that Linode has to buy its bandwidth symmetrically. If someone can confirm whether that is true or false, it would greatly be appreciated. With that assumption in hand, I think we can add the assumption that a web hosting company mostly does outbound traffic - people downloading things from their servers, not the other way around. They might have so much spare inbound capacity that it really wouldn't matter.

Plus, there's a small "what goes up must come down" logic to it. So, you get a Linode and you start pushing as much inbound traffic to it as you can. How much can you push to it for any purpose you can see as useful (useful being defined as something other than testing whether Linode will consider you abusive at some point)? The largest Linode (costing $800/mo) only comes with 800GB of storage. At that point, you need to push some of that data outgoing or delete it before you can really take more inbound data. You could run a service that was 24-hour YouTube - a site where a video uploaded would only be available for 24 hours and then deleted. Of course, the point of that site would be for people to watch it which would be outbound traffic.

The reason they might not be stating a limit is that there might not be a limit. Rather, I should say that you're going to be limited by storage. There's no point in taking the data if you have no place to put it and I can't really think of pulling in data that one would want to store for such short periods of time that it would put a strain on their network. This isn't rhetorical: how would you see yourself or someone taking inbound traffic on a Linode that wouldn't similarly see that traffic go outbound or need to be stored?
Hmm, I'm not sure. The press release[1] can certainly be read that way "do not currently have access", but I haven't seen any of the blogs talk about that aspect.

[1]http://blog.us.playstation.com/2011/08/17/directv-and-playst...
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I suppose I personally just never thought of assembly language code as having any nesting-like structure. It's just a list of individual instructions, to be executed one after the other, with the occasional conditional GOTO or subroutine call. Higher-level constructs just don't really spring to mind as I'm working in it.

Then again, it's a while since I did a more than a short routine at a time of anything more complicated than 6502. (The 6502 is so basic, you have to think in the actual instructions directly. It would be odd if you didn't.) If I set to do a decent quantity of code working with something more modern, maybe I'd find my coding more coloured by my C experience than was the case last time.
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So what you're saying is it's cool for someone to only learn half their job if you've got other warm bodies available to cover for them. Eh.

Taken to an extreme this is similar to you saying I'd make an excellent plumber if I could drive the truck and had a couple of helpers that actually knew how to do plumbing.

You can't tell me with a straight face that a designer that doesn't have a solid grasp of the underlying principles of how front end code works isn't going to (at least occasionally) end up cranking out the worst sort of pie-in-the-sky speculative horseshit that's a rugged nightmare to mimic on the web, and every time they do they end up taking a big ass bite out of the project budget when the rest of the team is scrambling around trying to sort out the cross browser issues with the hot mess of a design comp they've just been handed.

I'll pass, thanks.
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I think the more important news for many is that the overage for outbound traffic is the save price as pre-paid plan, so you could lower your plan (e.g. going from Linode 1024 with 400GB to Linode 512 with 200GB). Serving static pages shouldn't cost much memory and processing power anyway.
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It's true. We generally forget that nature == nanotech. It's like we have an standard library out there, but with really shitty documentation.
Because unless those deep pockets actually release functioning players on Wii, PS3, XBox, iPad, OSX, Win 7, Samsung Blu-Ray players, then I wont be using their service. That's quite a barrier to entry. Not insurmountable, sure. Then they have to make sure I hear about it. Then get my credit card number. And you have to do all this in a recession when consumer sentiment is at an all time low. I'd love someone to do it, I just don't think its gonna happen.

In contrast there's itunes, where in theory I can watch movies that aren't on Netflix. But I don't. I'm not buying an apple TV when my TV is already overloaded with input. And because I can't watch it on my TV, I've never bothered to figure out how to do it on my Mac or my iPad. I have watched plenty of Netflix on my Mac though. Unfortunately, a new release movie for $9.99 is just not that much better than an old movie included in my monthly fee. $9.99 to rent a movie? Fuck. No.
> What's broken is the personal computer. It was wrong form the start.

It wasn't broken from the start. It was the only thing possible without ubiquitous broadband access. Now that we are getting close to ubiquitous broadband access, the cloud (thin clients) are starting to make sense, but they were impossible back when the only connection to the web was dialup.
We're not that far off; I think that is something Apple would do. But that's Apple going directly to content producers and making deals with them. That's not something Amazon, Hulu, Veoh, or Crackle could ever be part of (Netflix probably would get grandfathered in). Those are other middle men. Apple wants to be the middle man.

It's a really tough sell though. Right now Starz or ABC or whoever can create a subscription channel on Roku, X-Box, Playstation, and I highly doubt they would have to pay anywhere near 30% (My guess is that those platforms are happy to have the content, and allow the apps for free).
> I had no idea there was any drama about who provided what content in that scene

It's called The Scene[0], and yes, there are humongous drama queens in some of the biggest release groups.

> but I suppose that's one more reason to welcome legitimate online video sources.

Not really, since, as I said above, it has no effect on the end consumers of said media.

0: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Warez_scene
But isn't this one of the selling points of node.js? From their site:

"Node's goal is to provide an easy way to build scalable network programs. In the "hello world" web server example above, many client connections can be handled concurrently."

I've noticed a few sites hosted at no.de go down after hitting the HN front page. I'd like to know the answers to the questions posed by the grandparent.
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Programming is a creative endeavour. All these accomplished and renowned 9-5 programmers must hang out at the end of the rainbow with all the accomplished 9-5 painters, musicians, etc. I'm not saying there aren't any - some people really just have a knack for it. I'm saying they are the exception and not the rule.

At work you're often focused on completing tasks on time. Good employers understand that you need to develop skills and will allow you to do so on the clock. Many people are not fortunate enough to work at such places and if they don't sharpen their skills outside of work then their skills dull with time. Novices that work at such places will have a very hard time progressing in such an environment if they don't take the initiative in their spare time.

Working with developers that are more skilled than you are is also a good way to learn and improve. If you don't get that at work then you better find or start an OSS project or something to contribute to.
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I'm sceptical about the usefulness of the dataset. One of the first things we learn as startup founders (or interns for Dr House) is that if you ask a person to analyse or predict their own behaviour, chances are the answer is way off. Even upon careful reflection and introspection, too many biases are at play.

I first learned this doing customer development for our current startup. We surveyed potential customers until almost being arrested at a private conference. We thought "this time is different" because we planned to validate the concept until we went numb. But we relied too much on others' self-assessments.

I'm not suggesting self-assessment is pointless (clearly it underpins our personal development), but rather in fleeting engagements with people who lack vested interest (e.g. surveys), it can do more harm than good.

Additionally, I found the Startup Genome survey so long-winded that my answers ended up being rubbish. It would have taken all day to get passed my own biasses and really think through that many questions. I understand there's more to the project than the survey, but that's the part I'm particularly sceptical about.
Why not have both? I wonder if your concern is pre-mature optimisation as well.
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Was it taken down as a result of the controversy, or was it unrelated?
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Normally I wouldn't ask. I really wouldn't.

But why? Why's this better than gcc -S?

It's not exactly CPU-bound. For not needing libc, your own implementation of syscall() isn't exactly hard, if you can't just statically link in libc as-is.
I think it's not exactly the same as the book version, but the author's original is available at http://www-biba.inrialpes.fr/Jaynes/prob.html
I have some friends that applied 4-5 months ago; after getting no response, they retried a little over a month ago, and supposedly got accepted in a few hours. Maybe they are not bothering to approximate a FIFO queue.
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But that's not how it works. There are a lot of people who could do it. In fact, there are consultancies who could do it, probably better, for less than $65k.
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To AMC's credit, the CPM AMC receives for Mad Men is much higher: $34 instead of $12-$25. It could be because people pay attention to the commercials, since the show is about advertising. A cynic would say it's a prestige thing for media buyers to get their ads run on Mad Men.

http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.printFrie...
It would seem that lab-grown meat is the only one of those things that is not already available, though it seems the current state of "sex robots" leaves something to be desired. Perhaps lab-grown flesh could go some ways to improving that as well ;)
I think a lot of companies would stick with subscribe-outside apps. Again, same rules as the iPad, so that's okay. Netflix and Hulu would for sure. But:

There are 200,000,000 iTunes accounts with credit cards.

I really can't fault the established video subscription services for keeping at it, but wow. Can they really resist the power of the App Store?

Now, the interesting thing happens outside of the mainstream. If you're Major League Lacrosse, or a yet-to-launch uncensored rap video channel, or SOAPnet (ABC's soap opera channel that a month ago curiously backtracked on their February 2012 announced end date), CurlTV (an online live curling video site that folded earlier this year) or one of many other special interest channels (actual or potential), you're really interested in becoming a subscription channel on Apple TV. Just imagine hundreds and hundreds of those channels and you have a platform that appeals to people on a very personal level that cable can't touch.

To be honest, I'm in LA and this almost seems like I'm talking myself into starting up a consultancy specializing in Apple TV apps. Combine hard-to-find assets (iOS developers) and a presumed gold rush with an industry starting to decline (but still flush with cash) and you have a pretty nice business.
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Well, if the RP organization is getting them for their boards, why not resell them to hobbyists for cost or a very small margin to fund further research?

"Your business" here refers to Broadcom, when the internet generally thinks you're Raspberry Pi. That's the rub.
So? An attacker's not going to have the private key they were created with, and probably won't have a private key that you have an existing trust relationship to.
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- 30 is not old, don't worry about that.

- Continue to deal with your depression. It's going to affect everything. Take charge of your treatment and have a say in what works for you. Treat your doctor as a team member, not a boss. Pay attention to all the "be healthy" advice and decide what that means for you, but decide.

- There will be software fashions and software eternal truths. You'll come to know the difference. You'll also notice that fashion will change, and you'll see some things fall out of fashion and come back years later. You'll also find that things you held as eternal truths will change. So what? You don't have to be right, you just have to be interested.

- Maybe you want to step away from software for awhile, do something else and come back.

- Or something. It seems like, just vaguely, you could benefit from shaking up the whole thing.

- Overly ambitious projects: choose smaller scopes. Build up gradually.

- You don't have to stay in software, and you don't have to leave software. You don't have to do anything. You can do whatever you decide to do, and there's no requirement to follow any particular path. Make lists of all the mundane and outrageous things you can do, both career-wise and personal wise. Leave nothing off the table. Decide to do some of it. But don't feel like you have to commit the rest of your life to whatever you choose, you can change it whenever you want. You're going to change anyway (guaran-fucking-teed), you might as well have some say in it.
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If you can manage to keep the last few displaying, and not link all of them, it would make for an easier time viewing your recent drawings. This game is a blast seeing how these threads develop.
No need to rubbish Zed. You can like Zed like I do, and still not make any conclusion from the fact that a developer doesn't know who he is. Except, maybe, that said developer doesn't read Hacker News either.
> How about create a JavaScript library that sandboxes execution of third-party scripts [...]

There has been some work done in this direction. I don't know how active the project is, but it's called ADsafe (http://www.adsafe.org/). It's a subset of regular JavaScript and doesn't allow access to global variables or the DOM, instead giving access to an ADSAFE object to limit the access of the script.

ADsafe makes it safe to put guest code (such as third party scripted
advertising or widgets) on a web page. ADsafe defines a subset of
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Some of the things removed:

- Global variables: Limited access to Array, Boolean, Number, String, and Math is allowed.
- Dangerous methods and properties: arguments callee caller constructor eval prototype stack unwatch valueOf watch
- Date and Math.random: Access to these sources of non-determinism is restricted in order to make it easier to determine how widgets behave.
A news story I saw last night about synthetic sausages contained a vox pop from a woman who claimed that she would not eat them because it was "unethical". I have to say, my mind was blown by her apparent construction of ethics.
How can a time function exist in functional programming?
Any other things that people have done to create a lot of buzz prelaunch?
Do small things. If you love software get some job that pays you to write code. Try to improve the status quo of the code at work in small increments. The smiles you bring on users faces will give you the energy to start a virtuous cycle of writing more software that people care about.
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Just curious, who are the cranks you refer to?

(Not trolling, I'm honestly curious. My mental association for Bayesians is people who want to tag documents, diagnose illnesses, or similar AI tasks.)
Where did you host your mongodb instance at? How has your experience been with no.de?
Part of the issue might be that Joyent's virtual Node servers, at least the ones used by Node Knockout competitors, have 120 megs RAM.
I've yet to see any indication that it will use PHP5.3 in an idiomatic way. It still seems like a bolt-on.

(I still wouldn't use it because frankly, I don't think the Kohana developers take security seriously enough, but it'd be a start.)
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