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I for one am extremely tired of this kind of stuff happening and as a result, never knowing wheat I can watch, and can't watch, with Netflix streaming.

Two weeks ago, my son and I were watching LOTR and had to pause for some travel. When we got back, I was puzzled that I couldn't find a way to get it back on to finish...turns out their contract expired.

How is this OK for a company in this day and age? I'm tired of giving Netflix a pass because the content partners aren't playing fair. I'm sorry, but that's your business model, and now that you put the competition out of business, I need you to perform and not act like a 10 day old startup.

Screw both TV and video. If this is how it's going to be, I'm out. I'll stick to This Week in Startups, 5by5, and my book collection.
I'm a fan of using standing desks and wanted to figure out how to convert my home desk [which had 4x4" wooden legs] to a standing desk. I did so by: getting 4 12" 4x4s; nailing beam caps (http://www.strongtie.com/products/connectors/BC.asp) onto one end of the 4x4s; lifting the desk while my wife slipped the 12" 4x4s under the desk legs. $30 and 15 minutes work -> nice wooden desk -> standing desk.

* Note: I didn't attach the beam connectors to the desk legs since my desk is lodged in a corner and I didn't want to mess with the legs, but I'd recommend attaching them...
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You're asking that facetiously, right?

The answer to your question is simple: Wall Street runs this country. The people in charge of making US bank policy have all come from the banks themselves.

http://themoderatevoice.com/93909/wall-streets-control-of-ec...
I always like to hit up "Ten Thousand Statistically Grammar-Average Fake Band Names": http://alumni.media.mit.edu/~bwhitman/10000.html

I'll find words I like and fit them together myself, like Rocketboom, or Humanwire, e.g.
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>what is Netflix bringing to the table?

My credit card. I'm not going to sign up for 5 different sites for content as each network puts up its own little fiefdom.
They don't cite any research that say vacations improve productivity, whereas breaks and 5-day work weeks appear to have actual research to back them.
I'd love to see an rss feed on the pledge site.
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Hack value: moderate to high. It's nice assembly code.

Practical value: low to negative. This port scanner is slower than a competently written scanner in C or probably even Ruby, because it has a static timeout and no dynamic timers.

Someone else here pointed out that a port scanner is pretty much the most I/O bound application possible. That's true. The performance wins in port scanning probably mostly revolve around maintaining sliding windows and trying to infer timeouts.

It is probably a really excellent technique for getting comfortable with assembly (I'm not, at least so much that I could write this code as cleanly as the author). I wonder what some other good short assembly versions of Unix programs are. Maybe a plugboard proxy.
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Aren't there tens of portscanning shellcode eggs already?
Rackspace's July update for Slicehost customers to the same effect: http://forum.slicehost.com/comments.php?DiscussionID=5210...

In particular:
Under the Rackspace Cloud program you will not have to pay for incoming bandwidth.
in 1985 i would have loved reading this end to end. now, looking at assembly makes me want to stab myself in the eye with a fork. twice.

does that make me old?

now, where is that Scala book and my glasses.
You could, however, have two certificates issued by different CAs signing the same public key. I'm not sure if the protocol requires the additional certificates to be part of the same chain, though.
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Putting a miniature thorium reactor in a car could mean years of driving with no need to refuel. It may be difficult to do well, but it is not a silly goal.
Incidentally, a lot of things are as fast as nmap or even faster in the common case, but fall down against large targets with firewalls. Everything's fast when all you have to do is hurl packets and bucket responses. It's a lot trickier when there are no responses.
Also, Om Malik is a partner at True Ventures.
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What'd you think it was going to do? Memory map I/O space and reimplement the ethernet drivers?
The links you give are about nuclear thorium reactors, which is a real working technology.

The problem is that in this project, they are not using a thorium reactor. It is not a nuclear fission reactor of any kind!

They heat thorium with a laser or they produce a laser with thorium, or something like that, it changes from article to article. But the thorium doesn’t participate in any nuclear reaction. The energy involved in any nuclear reactions is so high that, with the current technology, it is impossible to produce a nuclear reaction with a laser (and perhaps it will never be possible).

Another important point is that they don’t have a working prototype, and the explanations about how it works are very confusing.

Some previous submissions about the same project: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2877063 (14 comments) and http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2879219 (5 comments).
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Because people like us would go work for Netflix as developers because we know we'd be treated like first-class citizens. Starz? Who's leaving a job at Google to go work for Starz?
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This isn't enough.

Break the banks up so that the failure of one is insignificant. Put limits on bank size so that they must split if they grow beyond a certain size. Accounts at institutions that deal in derivatives should be denied federal insurance; those that deal in loans should be federally insured.

Anyone who made more than $5M working for the banks or financial institutions during the last 15 years should be denied employment at any financial institution for the next 20 years and investigated for evidence of criminal wrongdoing.
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I'm no Kotlin expert, but it looks like C# and that's what I do at work. I've been playing with Scala at home and the fun-factor in Scala is several times that of C#.

Jetbrains should post a Kotlin vs C# to clear up what's really the difference between the two languages. If the difference is really small, are they trying to take advantage of Resharper to introduce a new language on the JVM?
Nail in the coffin.
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This crazy dude I used to work with (and I mean that in the nicest way possible) liked to point out that the theoretical specific energy of a battery (that is energy per unit mass) is c squared. By that standard it is entirely possible we might one day have cars that ship with all the fuel they'll ever need stored in a little capsule the size of a thimble.

But it's one of those "in principle not impossible" kinds of technologies that are fun to think about but unwise to bet the future of the planet on.

What would be really cool is if someone figured out a way to generate electricity from a nuclear reaction without going through a heat step—to somehow fling off electrons without moving the nuclei around much. In the mean time I suppose we could also shine this guy's laser at a solar cell like the article a few weeks back suggested.
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I like the first part (break 'em up so any one can fail). The second part is partly our fault because we were dumb enough to let them too big to fail in the first place.
I like it a lot! I would love to learn a bit more about your technology stack (NodeJS I assume?).

Obviously you're polishing it, but I'll give some feedback and hope it helps you:

1) Landing page, the enter key event isn't submitting the login form, right?

2) Time stamp on chat

3) Close button on the search dialog

4) I like cursor: pointer;cursor: hand; on my action buttons

5) Maximize video option?

6) Vote up/down by user to sort queue?

I love the [# of un-viewed messages] in title bar.

You definitely have to use another computer for it to work. Browsers on the same computer isn't working--which it shouldn't anyway. Perhaps you could just detect if it's the same computer and put up an alert ("hey, you're a phoney! you're on the same computer!") then you won't waste a lot of resources to process that request.

The music synched on my 2 computer. Very cool. Please keep up the good work.

-V.
Good. If I thought it'd be clear enough, I'd say that the second most important qualification for a role her --- after "ability and enthusiasm with code" --- is being comfortable with being overwhelmed. A typical project in my field is just a few weeks long, with just a few teammates, where by the end of the engagement you need to be standing triumphantly in the smoking crater where a system that took anywhere from 1-8 years to build once stood.

We're not looking for someone who can recite chapter in verse from the GNU Radio documentation or write a compelling essay on category theory or even take the determinant of a 4x4 matrix. We just want people who are comfortable with the idea of becoming able to do those things. With, like, a day's notice. :)

You cannot possibly waste my time by emailing me. Even if we're not a great fit today, I can tell you more about my field and software security in general. Write me anytime.
For Roku, at least, I think the way it works is you give your credit card once and then you select channels through Roku. So in this case it's not any less convenient.

It made sense to go with Netflix when nobody else really had a streaming implementation, and Netflix had its own advertising the content providers could piggyback off of. But these days more and more people are getting content through third party boxes that already act as payment processors.
Wow, impressively thorough. Kudos.
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I have both. Roku has high wife acceptance factor, but apple tv has two killer features - YouTube and AirPlay.
Unlike HBO, Starz does not really make any content worth watching. They really are just a middleman between the content owners and distributors. They don't carry the kind of weight HBO does.
Lets get some clean grid power first, then we can worry about luxuries like that.
I used Prosody (XMPP Server), with a custom module. The whole site is built around XMPP multi-user chat. Front-end is primarily Backbone/Strophe(xmpp library)/Jquery.

1-5) Yea, lot of little stuff I'm gonna need to handle.

6) Since there can be many people in the room, skipping, rearranging, repeating, looping, all of these things are going to have to be voted on.

Lastly, I think it may well be a failure on my part, but the title bar # indicates messages received while you are tabbed away from the window. I detected this by checking to see if the chat input box was in focus (from my understanding that's how gtalk does it). It's clunky, and I should probably figure out a better way to do this.

Thank you for your feedback :)

Also, I've made the Javascript code available on my github (Since I need to find a job):
https://github.com/ahaque/lh
Ballsy.

I sorta agree with #1. "Too big to fail" is too big. Doubly awesome, "too big to fail" is also counter to standard issue investing advice: diversify your portfolio. "Too big to fail" really means "poorly diversified portfolio".

But #2 risks throwing out the baby with the bath water. No doubt that some people prospered solely at the expense of the taxpayer, but it's also likely that some of the people who prospered were competent folks who were just at the right place at the right time. Removing them, even if they did prosper,might remove the best folks to right the banks.
Actually, if you run asmscan as root, it pings the target host first to estimate the timeout value. Otherwise you're out of luck, because you need root privileges to send raw packets.

IMO, it is quite fast with this feature.

You're right, I wrote this for educational purposes. nmap is hard to beat ;)
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Liar's loans were closely related to NINJA loans - No Income, No Job, No Assets.

These transactions made sense only in a world where the mortgage issuers knew they could turn around and resell them before the ink was even dry. The buyers of this paper, in turn, were only willing to pay when they knew they could bundle the obviously-sketchy loans into securities that allowed them to safely extract a 'clean' payment stream. And by 'safely' I mean they knew they could dump the toxic byproducts on buyers who could insure against (very likely) losses. This backstop position required the participation of an insurance firm (AIG) that was free from any legal requirement to hold collateral commensurate with their exposure to risk.

Everyone involved in this racket knew full well that the 'investment' operations they were running were fully enmeshed with the boring but vital infrastructure of everyday banking - paychecks, credit card processing, savings accounts, etc. In other words, they knew they had the country by the throat. So it's not that they were too big to fail - they were too important to fail. When the music inevitably stopped, there was never any doubt that taxpayers would get the shaft.

All this was possible because the firms involved have so much power in Washington that their lobbyists literally wrote the law, handing drafts to their former colleagues who working directly for the Senators and Congressmen in change of rubber-stamping these 'rules'.

Nothing in this - and I mean nothing - is even remotely consistent with victim-hood in any sense of the word. The fact that the banks are playing this card - which entails admitting that their lender verification and risk-management standards are utterly worthless - indicates that they feel perfectly safe in making what should be deeply incriminating remarks with absolutely no fear of sanction.
Improved toolchain to minimize complexity:

- better compiler error messages:

https://raw.github.com/scala/scala/master/test/files/neg/fou...

https://issues.scala-lang.org/browse/SI-2388

https://issues.scala-lang.org/browse/SI-3092

(unfortunately the JIRA is down now and google didn't really cache them)

- compiler warnings, e.g. tupled arguments:

https://issues.scala-lang.org/browse/SI-4851

- implicits: "-Xlog-implicits" switch tell you where they come from (and the IDEA plugin works pretty well on this issue), and explicit return types for implicits:

http://groups.google.com/group/scala-internals/browse_frm/th...

- documentation: definitely a lot of work with a "doc czar" appointed.
Really? My Roku is great. I have two, actually, and I don't think I've ever seen a bug.
I always found the persistence of some tech companies (i.e. ASUS, Samsung) in using "Booth Babes" to be so strange. Do they ever find a direct correlation between the use of models and the interest in their product?

Or to put it another way: do you see Apple or Google using booth babes to drum up attention for their new products? Nope.
While we're on the top of Bayes, does any Berkeley grad have a copy of Michael Jordan's forthcoming book?
really weird that nobody mentions that, while this is a huge story
No fooling. I recently donated money to the Ada Initiative (http://adainitiative.org/about-us/) because this kind of stuff makes me crazy. If somebody is turning this into a serious campaign, please contact me so I can help.
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I couldn't agree more that banks should face severe penalties, both civil and criminal, if they engaged in system fraud or deception.

But denying someone employment and investigating them for criminal wrongdoing because they made more than $5m working for financial institutions?! You must not know any venture capitalists... and in any case, whatever happened to innocent until proven guilty?
No idea why you've been downvoted --- this is what google says for me, too.
... And they just got taken down. The hackers have spoken.
Why eliminate them? I want more of them, as long as they are male...
PAX (the Penny-Arcade Expo) is the only convention/expo I know of with a strong anti-booth-babe policy, you could start by supporting that I suppose. Also, you could make sure to register a strong complaint to any convention you attend that has booth babes.
Go to NPR.org and click Listen. It works almost exactly like that. No video, of course, but it's better content than anything on tv.
And I just tried clicking on the link too. It's quite comical to see them go after this.
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Are you saying Steve Jobs isn't a booth babe?

It's dumb, but it makes more sense for samsung/ASUS/whoever since I would guess that a lot of their consumer market share is young men.
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It's been trying to do too much forever. I can switch between Chrome, IE and Firefox of any version without a blink. With Opera, I am immediately turned off. There's just so much noise.
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Our startup uses several of the products on the list, but there is a one big name missing: Hellofax

We use Hellofax several times a week and it's great! It makes signing and faxing documents extremely easy, instead of the mess it used to be.
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Depends on the person and their interests, really. A lot of the day-to-day stuff (product prioritization, feature design, user testing, operations, development process) is easy to get people involved in if they want. We definitely involve everybody with recruiting and hiring, which I think is vital for startups.

Direct involvement in financing is, as you expected, hard. But we try to be very open. Everybody knows the burn rate and the terms we took money under. Everybody regularly gets updated on dealings with our investors. We also have a regular brown bag series. A couple months back, my co-founder did one on venture financing, covering both the basics and our specific fundraising effort. He did another one recently on the competitive landscape. And he's an awfully good presenter; you can see a 5-minute talk he did recently on our approach to testing product ideas:

http://vimeo.com/24749599
Google uses celebrities instead (TV spot with Lady Gaga using Chrome).
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I liken it to (in the United States) one gas station advertising at $3.00 and another at $2.99. The latter will get more people to pull in based on lizard-brain impulse.

Young men are (mostly) going to have their attention snap to where ever there are young ladies. Just human nature.
Maybe this will be a huge story for a week and then people will adjust.
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If you are so professional, then where is the hardware block diagram? where is the pin description of all your connectors? Lots of people are wasting time on your blogs because you haven't released technical information. The product doesn't have to be finished to release more information.
You can count me as a supporter if only on the hope that this lowers the desire of lecherous men everywhere to attend anything.
FWIW I have both a standing desk and sciatica due to a bulging disc injury. My physician, chiropractor and physical therapist all agree that I should stand and walk as much as possible (all day at work is fine) because of the benefits for my back.

Mainly, they claim that I will spend a lot of time making small movements -- shifting weight from side to side, repositioning myself, etc. -- and these movements of my spine are beneficial. Evidently, these kinds of movements (and also a lot of walking) move the fluids and nutrients in the spinal cord that keep the intervertebral discs vital.
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Repeated exposure to booth babes turned him into a sexist and that's someone else's fault?
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My experience with PubMed is that I almost always only get the abstract and a link to buy the article from the publisher. Sometimes I get a link for the free full text article, but this is a strong minority.

Is this because so many of the listed articles are not funded by the NIH?
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Most of the banks which encouraged/looked the other way on liars loans (e.g., Wachovia) no longer exist. How is that "escaping consequences"?
Yeah I picked a nice cartography desk setup for $1 each a few years ago. People where just ditching them.

I had one set up for standing, and a second set low for computer (so my rising chair could be used).

Following all the rage around these I might look at grabbing a tall saddle stool and adjust the computer desk unto standing height as well.
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