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Dare HN: Download/purchase True Blood without BitTorrent or subscribing to HBO
Hi I need your help.

I recently had my internet turned off because HBO told Qwest (soon to be CenturyLink) that I was sharing True Blood over BitTorrent. With the burden of proof in their hands, I resolved the situation and as I am now on their watch list, I don't use BitTorrent.

Be that as it may, I feel a certain duty now to -not- subscribe to HBO, even though I would like to. But I want to support the writers, directors and cast members of my favorite shows on HBO and other networks:

True Blood

Dexter

Mad Men

Big Love (girlfriend enjoys it ahem)

Californication

But for the life of me, I can't find a place to purchase current episodes of True Blood. iTunes has last season. I'm told I can go on IRC and just ask for them, but that seems so 1997. If any of you know of a simple site where I can purchase episodes for download, I'd be grateful.

If not, maybe it's time for a web-based BitTorrent of some kind. Off the top of my head, one could use the compression ratio of maximum URL length (roughly 2048 characters) to the SHA-1 length of 20 bytes or 40 hex characters, to store data in query variables.

Basically some kind of spider would go around reporting the SHA-1 of basically every URL in existence, and to upload a segment of a show, people would post a properly formatted request that causes data to hang around on sites like flickr or facebook, and then post the list of checksums somewhere where search engines will find it.

It might require a math function to swizzle the URL somehow, perhaps recording the difference between the actual URL and the desired URL in another query variable on the end. It doesn't really matter how it works, just that mathematically the opportunity is there to store data that way. The important thing is that file sharing would go back to being a download-only operation which would (ideally) free fans from the threat of disconnects and lawsuits.

Then as companies submit takedown requests for these URLs, other spiders would go around and make sure that the chunks are replicated on some number of other URLs, maybe on servers in other countries or in pictures or other persistent data.

This is all well beyond anything I could ever do, which is why I ask about it here. To me, this is the inevitable future of the web. As I like to say about my definition of inevitable, it's "that which is harder to stop than to start."

The endgame is an arms race between hackers and content providers, which mathematically the content providers can't win. So that means there will probably be legislation of some kind, making the use of certain software or the download of certain material illegal, which will be the end of the free internet because they'll have to monitor you to enforce it. Maybe this is already happening.

The flip side is that if content providers don't tone down their prosecution of their customers, they might piss off one hacker too many. I kind of feel sorry for them, they just don't know who they are dealing with.

Well I guess that's it, am I off base or is this all destined to happen?
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I spent 20 minutes on Netflix last night looking for one decent movie that I haven't seen. I gave up and watched reruns (hah, deprecated term) of The Office on Hulu.

I hate their new site, I think Qwikster is a good idea poorly executed, but if they have good movies I'll still use them. If they continue to have crap, will cancel my Netflix account sooner rather than later and happily go back to piracy.
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To me, it goes beyond selection. Netflix is great because it's embedded, deep. I don't care if anyone else spins up the best, cheapest, most wonderful streaming solution ever. Because Netflix is already on my Xbox. Or my Wii. Or my iPhone. Or my PS3. Or my Roku. Or my TV. They're in deep, and no one else has the coverage they do. I can't watch Amazon's streaming product on my Xbox. I can't watch any of a dozen different channel specific streaming options on anything but a web browser.

I can't wait for a viable competitor with equivalent selection AND device coverage emerges.
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Looks off on OS X FF6 as well.
The fake letter doesn't separate them:

> Members can log into both sites using the same login. This will allow streaming-only members to add DVD by mail, and DVD-only members to upgrade to streaming, at any time. The websites, however, will remain separate, so that we can start giving these different worlds the unique attention they deserve.
I think I get the whole reasoning but I really disagree with one of Microsoft's decisions on this.

* ARM is Metro only

* x86 is old + Metro

* All Metro apps must be purchased in the App Store

I understand the last one from an ARM perspective. It stops any confusion if the app with run on ARM. If I can see it in the App Store then it will run. I just think it is a bit of overreaction / greedy to require all x86 Metro apps to be in the App Store. It just seems like a really bad way to mess up adoption of Metro on x86.
In the first version of the site we had a model for renters, brokers, and landlords. We tried to service everyone through on place. However, after we built it I realized that I would never use that site. I wanted to build a site for tenants and no one else.

I agree that there are a lot of people who are too lazy or unwilling to contribute. Our challenge is to convince them it is a good idea, and do it without some awful gamification-skinner-box methodology.
That's a good point. I wish there was a little bit more talk in lean about validating before coding. I don't think Customer Development and MVP covers the range of things people do here.
Don't forget ratings. Many people have years and years of ratings that drive their algorithm. That is now gone. Good job guys.
WRT your first point, Microsoft used to sell Windows on multiple architectures. They abandoned Alpha, PowerPC, and MIPS in 1999. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT#Supported_platforms A big part of the problem was that software vendors did not make non-x86 versions of their software and subsequently users were confused and disappointed that the software that they wanted to run on their (e.g. Alpha) computer either wouldn't run or had to run in an emulator and thus ran slower than on an x86 machine.

Microsoft supports two architectures currently: x86/Itanium and ARM with WinCE/WinMobile/WP7. There is no real synergy between the two currently, e.g. the "Office" apps that run on ARM are totally different beasts than what run on x86. The primary crossover is "mindshare" - i.e. users recognize the names.
They work pretty actively with amazon on any of these massive clusters. They call ahead of time and try and find a good time (US night), etc, as I remember hearing.
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I wonder if allowing an API that lets users import and export their ratings would help.

Maybe even allow non-paying members to sign up just to rate and suggest films, and constantly entice viewers with a "watch now with a Netflix subscription!" logo in the corner.

They could easily try to take share from IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes, and be "the website for movies". Every time someone makes a post on Facebook or Twitter it could be "_____ rates <film> !"
I believe it's 91k now.
Yes I did. Apple certainly has a better consumer facing voice than Netflix, especially when deprecating services.
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As I understand it, it isn't so much less light or warmer light as much as it is a lack of blue light. The amount of blue light during the day time in the sun is huge. F.lux works by reducing the color temperature which greatly reduces the amount of blue light coming from the display and shifts it to red light.
I believe Microsoft has already stated that only Metro apps will run on ARM (no legacy x86 apps):

http://www.infoworld.com/t/microsoft-windows/will-windows-8-...

Steve Sinofsky: "We've been very clear since the very first CES demos and forward that the ARM product won't run any X86 applications. We've done a bunch of work to enable that -- enable a great experience there, particularly around devices and device drivers... [W]hat we announced yesterday for the first time was that when you write a Metro style application, all the tools are there to enable you in any of the languages that we support to automatically support ARM or X86. I think that's the key part of everything that we'll run."

Why does the argument that by some magic you'll be able to purchase an iPad-like Windows 8 tablet and run full blown desktop Microsoft Office keep cropping up?

There will probably be a version of MS Works that is written for the Metro touch interface that will work on ARM, but the performance of an x86 desktop application running in an emulator on ARM would be atrocious and everybody knows it.
Not true - I'm a Canadian expat working in the US and I've had to deal with this myself. It really comes down to this:

- Canadian residents always pay tax to Canada on all income, no matter where it is made.

- Canadian non-residents do not pay tax on international income.

- Residency is determined by:

A) How much time you have spent outside of the country. If you have spent the majority of the year (6 months + 1 day) outside the country, you can claim non-residency. If you have spent the majority of the year in Canada, fat chance.

B) "Significant ties" to Canada. This seems draconian, but is actually not really. You can have a driver's license, space in a storage unit, or bank accounts and still easily make the claim of non-residency. Hell, I have a friend who owns a rental property in Toronto and still makes it.

- In any case, the whole process is much easier and less burdensome than the American equivalent. The first year you believe you qualify as a non-resident, you file a form with the CRA (Canadian equivalent of IRS) with your blank tax return (stating all income is international). Once you do that, you no longer have to do it ever again. I do not have to get my non-residency status constantly recertified.

It's all pretty simple. At the end of the day, if you live in Canada you pay tax on money you make - anywhere - and if you live outside of it you're basically just off the hook.
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You can go to some unincorporated areas around LA and find similar surprising backwardness -- like people living in unheated garages without running water

I think you are confusing the availability of infrastructure with the ability to pay for it. Anywhere in the US that is zoned for residential use will have access to clean water, sewage, trash pickup, mail, broadcast television, landline phone, police, fire, etc. So this garage, if it is in a residential area, and is up to code, will have access to these services, assuming the owners or occupants are willing and able to pay for it. I could go live in the garage at the Playboy Mansion, and I wouldn't have running water or heat their either. That says more about my personal living conditions than the infrastructure the government provides.
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In order for them to survive, they have to split their customers. It sucks, big time. They don't want to do it, but those who own the content are holding a gun to their head. So they have to chop their customers into two so that 7.99 is palatable to both their customers and their bottom line. And they are playing nice so that gun doesn't get bigger and blow a larger hole in their wallet.
I might've misused the word "warmer," but I thought warmer light just meant light with less blue in it.
Is anyone actually using Plus? My stream is so dead I don't even bother checking it anymore. It's a ghost town over there.
If not, maybe it's time for a web-based BitTorrent of some kind. The important thing is that file sharing would go back to being a download-only operation which would (ideally) free fans from the threat of disconnects and lawsuits. This is all well beyond anything I could ever do, which is why I ask about it here. To me, this is the inevitable future of the web.

Don't take this the wrong way but, are you trolling?

EDIT: Also, Mad Men's on Netflix streaming, off the top of my head.
After running Windows 8 on my laptop for a while, I'm struck by how poorly-suited Metro is to a traditional (mouse/keyboard) computing experience. My sense is that traditional PCs should boot to the traditional Windows desktop and tablets should only have Metro. It would be seen as a nice benefit that traditional x86 computers can ALSO run Metro apps but I don't think anyone will lament the fact that you can't run Excel on your tablet...
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Terrific - couldn't have phrased it better. Only missing item is maintaining ratings/carrying them over.

I wonder if Reed hastings was drunk or high when he made these announcements and wrote that blog post. Hard to believe someone who built a business so shrewdly could screw up like this..
my stream is dead too. I've since left.
Actually, this is might be a great area for a third party to get involved. Inveni (http://www.inveni.com/) already works with Netflix, IMDB, etc as a recommendation engine. It would be a pretty short step for them to start managing your Netflix/Qwickster queues.
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Netflix should have made an effort to secure the domain-names for these alternate spellings

And the correctly-spelled Twitter name! http://twitter.com/#!/qwikster
It is one of the core beliefs of Christianity that we are all sinners and that all sins are equal in God's eyes -- just any any Christian. But in practice, most tend to treat some people as a lot more sinful than others, and to be looked down upon for that. Hitler, for example, or gay people, or the 9/11 terrorists, or swingers.

Scripture does not define typical Christian behavior; let's not conflate the two.
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I don't care what the service is, or the actual contents of the page, but the content it generates would be really bad to use in any placeholder text that could potentially be shared to a customer or other department within your organization; for example:

Look, just because I don't be givin' no man a foot massage don't make it right for Marsellus to throw Antwone into a glass motherfuckin' house, fuckin' up the way the nigger talks. Motherfucker do that shit to me, he better paralyze my ass, 'cause I'll kill the motherfucker, know what I'm sayin'?
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This does not surprise me. I've had many problems with my Android phones (3 so far) I really don't see the point in getting another one. I'd rather give WM7 a try at this point. Maybe in 2 years or whatever I'll give Android another shot but my needs are basic enough (web/mail) that it seems silly to suffer with Android any longer.
Not trying to be nitpicky, but capitalized App Store is the Apple owned store. It is app store if meant generally or Windows Marketplace if speaking of the Microsoft branded store.
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One thing that could maybe have won me over to G+ is a great iPad client. Tablets are almost made to relax and scroll over your friends' updates. The nymwars ruined it too, though.
For every one true GSD person you'll find, there are ten who'd rather spend all day arguing about how their tools aren't perfect or they are waiting on X person/thing. In larger teams it becomes easier and easier to blame the 'X'.

A good rule of thumb to spot these people is how much yak shaving they require before they will start adding value. If they walk in and say "well I need new new system A from IT, and hours B approved by HR, and version control system C, and software stack D, and my last company had E, and, and, and etc..." The big red flag is when they ask for all of this serially and not in parallel. Then you know you've got somone looking to setup excuses for why they haven't delivered. A true GSD will carve through obstacles as much as possible.

A good analogy is the out of shape person who wants the platinum gym membership, new workout clothes/shoes, the trainer, and the diet plan, but always needs something else before they can start working out. Meanwhile the GSD person is going for a jog and doing pushups.
Amazon may offer it digitally; you would have to check. Your other option is to wait for physical media.

My Internet was disconnected a few months back for torrenting. Watching shows I forgot to DVR, and the OnDemand service was too shoddy to reliably watch anything. Not that this makes it legal, mind you. Shame, though.

For most shows their entire model is to get as many viewers as possible and make money from advertising. I find it very amusing they can't figure out how to make money on the Internet, when it's the same model. I'm confident all of HN could easily imagine ways to propagate that model if we had the financial backing that these companies do.
Chances aren't, actually. GPUs impose many constraints. I engineer embarrassingly parallel workloads for a living, using both CPUs and GPUs, and only a small minority of real codes can be usefully ported to GPUs today. Those that can usually see a ridiculous speedup, but they're the exception, not the rule.

In any case, I know these guys and they're not newbies. They're familiar with GPUs and what they can do. They're running the workload they need to be running.
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We don't know that yet!

I'm quite interested to see how they handle user data in the split -- will each company get a copy? Will the Netflix side maintain a complete database of movies, even if it can't stream them, so that you can continue to rate freely and get recommendations?

There are some thorny user experience problems here for sure, but they are not unsolvable.
This is quite true and surprising. A european once mentioned that one problem is too many fat people in the "developed countries".

See the distribution of worldwide obesity here -
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and

http://www.healthyfellow.com/241/weight-loss-news

Probabaly from driving cars and watching too much tv and computers.
Except google apps users..
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Creating a Lorum Ipsum generator seems to be on of those projects a lot of people try at one point or another. I recently created Guttenberg Ipsum http://guttenberg.templaedhel.com/ which pulls sentences from Project Guttenberg books for random content. Currently have some small kinks in the parsing, but in general it works fairly well.
"Nobody would pay for source code that only ran on your hardware."

Unless your hardware was a mainframe. IBM distributed quite a lot of code in source form, with the implied assurance that there were no cheap, alternative means to run it. OS/360 wasn't even copyrighted, which is why it's legal to run on today's PCs. IBM, without trying, and probably even without realizing it, was an early pioneer in the open source niche of this "Pay-It-Forward" culture.

"SHARE Inc. is a volunteer-run user group for IBM mainframe computers that was founded in 1955 by Los Angeles-area IBM 701 users. A major resource of SHARE from the beginning was the SHARE library. Originally, IBM's operating systems were distributed in source form and it was common for systems programmers to make small local additions or modifications and to exchange them with other users. The SHARE library and the process of distributed development it fostered was one of the major origins of open source software."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHARE_(computing)
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On a totally different note, my wrists hurt just looking at that picture of Carmack in front of his Intergraph monitor. Lower your keyboard, man!
Yep that is how I remeber it as well.
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I remember vocal user feedback telling them not to ax the "friends" feature too, but that's long gone. (And sorely missed, at least by me.)

I also remember vocal user feedback telling them not to switch to Silverlight, for that matter. I was one of the many who stopped being able to use their streaming service when that change went through, until I recently bought a PS3.
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Sustainability and environment count for something. Perhaps a lot. Self-reported happiness obviously counts for a lot.

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You can also partially unsubscribe from friends that share celebrity news. Moving them into the "Acquaintances" list means you'll only get their more "important" updates.

Alternatively, you can change their subscription level on their profile page for the same effect. You might want to do that if you share status updates or set privacy for your personal information like phone number and address to "Friends except Acquaintances" and this friend isn't actually an acquaintance and should get that stuff.

Unfortunately, if you want to both "see everything" and "avoid celebrity news", there isn't a solution to that at the moment.
I don't even think you need to call them jerks. Just say something like, "Our new licensing deals have us moving to a model where we are charged, not for how often you stream video, but for everyone who could potentially stream video. This means that if you're not watching our instant streaming at all today, but only using the DVD service, we still have to count you as a head. So we decided that the best way to handle this was to separate our DVD from streaming service. This way we, and you, pay for the services you use, and not what you don't.

Now you may then ask, 'why the fee hike?' Simply put, the math doesn't add up otherwise. To keep $9.99 pricing we'd have to do something like $4.99 for DVD rental and $4.99 for video streaming. Compare our DVD pricing to Blockbuster -- even at $7.99/month we're still cheaper. $4.99 for video streaming would only barely cover our licensing costs. We found a reasonable price point that allows us to offer great DVD and streaming services going forward."