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Unlike Godaddy's tangential interest, the cable companies and their media partners are the force driving SOPA. In addition, the amount of money cable subscribers spend doing business with these companies each month is typically an order of magnitude greater than what Godaddy sees from a domain registration each year.

Cable TV is no more a necessity for the most vast majority of people who oppose SOPA than Godaddy. Instead, it is simply another convenience.

Moral outrage over Godaddy is convenient, but are you seriously arguing that going without cable in order to oppose SOPA would cause one too much suffering?
I would definitely second your suspicion. There is no way Edinburgh (where I live) can even touch the prices in London, and yet they're listed very closely on these results.
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The marginal cost (which is truly marginal) to add more ports can be easily absorbed by a more expensive TV.

Considering how many people use receivers, I'm surprised there aren't good HD monitors with one HDMI input and no audio support.
Good read. My wife actually quit as a teacher in DC (mostly b/c of Teach for America but that is a different story) and started tutoring.

It took her about 6 months to get set up with a good reliable set of clients. She was able to charge about 50% more per hour than she made as a teacher (like the article says) however that still did not mean that she made more. First off, tutoring of school aged kids in DC happens in the suburbs so her daily commute doubled to tripled. Next, she went on my health care. And lastly even before those other problems, she still couldn't book anywhere near the same number of hours (as any good freelancer should know) and so was lucky to make 70% what she made before. It still was the right choice as TfA was terrible but just a data point.

Side note for Tutorspree: While we lived in Northern Virginia that shouldn't prevent the listing from showing up in DC. Just the 2 cents why my wife tried to use your service and then quit.
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Some? Practically every encoded video intended for end-users is 4:2:0 (and certainly everything in HDTV, Blu-ray, and DVD.)

I meant mainly for consoles, computers, and subtitles (though for subtitles it also depends on your DVD player) so I amended my post.
Sarno's book is part great and part fluff, but the idea that stress/ideas play a big part in chronic pain is not controversial among pain scientists. Explain Pain by Butler and Moseley is a great book about this, but unfortunately it is rather expensive. The latter part of this blog post gives a summary:
http://changeyourpain.com/2011/03/03/what-was-that-about-chr...

This is a TED video by Moseley:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwd-wLdIHjs

And this is a good summarizing post about pain science:
http://www.bettermovement.org/2010/seven-things-you-should-k...
On the latter parts, I'm currently an (early-career) college prof and would seriously consider switching to that model if it existed/worked. I'd much prefer tutoring people outside the institutional framework of curricula/grades/exams/lectures if it were reasonably stable work you could earn a living at, with genuinely interested students. There are some good things about the formalized education system, but in large part it's a compromise due to the need to produce some kind of credential employers recognize (related but not identical to "actual learning"), and to make budgets work.

Though I'm less interested if, like some tutoring jobs, it's just helping people cram for SATs, and especially if that's really seasonal work that only happens around SAT-time. So I wish you luck. :)
Most people don't play games, but I do. If even 200ms was common, it would be widely known among gamers that certain TVs are unsuitable for games. If you can't provide a citation, can you at least explain why you hold this belief? I'm obviously still incredulous.
Another interesting point: bandcamp does not in any way prevent users from downloading songs from them for free. A quick "view source" makes it trivial to determine the actual URLs for all the songs in an album, as do any number of standard tools for downloading files referenced by a page. Despite that, they make it easy for people to actually purchase songs and albums rather than just downloading them, and thus people do purchase them rather than just downloading them. They explicitly point out this approach in their FAQ: http://bandcamp.com/faq#steal .
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MS spent a decade driving its smartphone brand into the ground and then excavated a sizable crater for it by floundering for several years while the rest of the smartphone market flourished with new offerings from apple, android, and others.

MS has lost its smartphone brand credibility. Releasing good, solid products will help them rebuild it but even if they successfully rebuild credibility it'll be a long time before sales catch up.

See also: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3395281

Edit: I found a decent chart that tells the tale: http://www-bgr-com.vimg.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/npd-u...

P.P.S. I've said it before, but I think it might be some sort of great cosmic karmic justice if somehow Microsoft got shafted trying to peddle a "superior" product in the face of competitors with network effect on their side.
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I would actually like to see the breakdown, because I am not sure it is the majority of people.
Some rhythm games have a built-in calibration tool you can use - it'll offset the video/audio by a certain amount to compensate for HDTV lag. I know Guitar Hero/Rock Band have one, maybe WiiFit does too?
Heh, the reason I used Bandcamp instead of iTunes is that it runs on Linux and that they actually want my money :-).

At least in some countries (mine included) you can't in fact buy music or video from iTunes. They won't accept your paypal or credit card.

There is a workaround -- buying and redeeming gift codes. But honestly, I can't be arsed to that.
There are some that provide exactly what you're asking for. At&t park (whichever baseball team they have, I can't remember) has what they call the Digital Dugout which has instant replays, including ones that can't be shown on the big screens due to MLB rules. It's only accessible from the network in the park, but supports a multitude of smartphones. For the 2011 superbowl, the cowboys stadium had an iPad app with everything from maps to player bios to live scores to replays to a live view of different cameras.

A lot of the teams/stadiums know what's wanted, but the number of companies that can set up a WiFi network that works well under the worst possible conditions is significantly lower than the number of companies offering it. And the good ones get bought by megacorp and turned into one that can't.
It seems like this would also affect audio, depending on how you have it set up: if it runs through the TV, the TV could delay the audio by 100-400ms to compensate, but if it goes straight from the computer to the stereo there would be a noticeable lag in the video. Is there something obvious I'm missing why this isn't a problem?
And badly at that.
I do raise my rates about once a year. I do mostly AI and text mining, and there is a lot of excellent offshore talent that I am competing with (judging from the people who I sometimes team with). All in all, getting $60/hour working remotely (I live in the mountains in Arizona, a low population area and fairly inexpensive cost of living) is about right. I get about double that rate when I travel and work onsite for US customers, but I prefer to not do that because it interferes with regular life. I also turn down over 80% of consulting offers because I usually prefer spending my time writing (I am also an author) or working on my own projects. I care much more about quality of lifestyle than money.
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Reads like an Anonymous PR piece, though more mature. If only Barrett Brown could write in a non-douchey way like this. It strikes me as odd that Anonymous doesn't seem to work with the EFF on critical issues... they have a lot of support and manpower that could be really useful in working to fight things like SOPA (instead of attacking websites, committing fraud, releasing personal information of random individuals and generally vandalizing systems & networks). Let's see where they are in 10 years.
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Maybe I'm biased from seeing one after the other but recently there has been so many data points on, how to call it, self-paced teaching/learning that I think this movement has definitely gained critical mass. People still debate endlessly about the relative merits of classroom teaching vs. approaches like Khan Academy, but the enormous success of Stanford and MIT online courses followed by codecademy and now this is, to me, irrefutable proof of a huge need.

The next step is to diversify these approaches to other domains, i.e. x.cademy. How about creative writing, web design, typography, plumbing, general relativity (if you think this is far fetched, check out all the questions from laymen on Physics exchange about GTR and gravity)? It would be great if there were a standard way of putting together course materials, i.e. a wrapper format and standard ways of presentation.
No, it's because they were too late to market and because their product wasn't that much better to change the computing paradigm again, like the way the iPhone did in 2007. So WP7 may be a little different than iOS and Android, but it's still mostly the same, and Android and iOS already have huge leads and ecosystems.

Also, because Android is open source, it will reach markets that WP7 never will because it's proprietary and it has restrictions that are even higher than the desktop Windows, which back then "won" because it was the default option for the market leader IBM, and it had no real "mass-market" competition before it.

Android is the default option already for pretty much any manufacturer now, from noname Asian manufacturers to more recognized companies.
I'm not going to lie, I simply don't like the look of any of the WP7 phones. Yes, I know it's shallow, but it's a pretty big first barrier to overcome. I've heard some people say they really like the Nokia phones, but none of them really do anything for me.
And bots. I notice in my logs, a number of bots report themselves as being IE6, when the behaviour is clearly not that of a normal user.
It was a problem with my TV (a Sony Bravia LCD display) so I had to run the sound through the TV and into the speakers instead of directly into the speakers.
>They wanted to maximize revenue and not force people to re-train. It slipped and slipped and slipped...

And don't forget the 80386 was released in 1985. In fact MS had the early OS/2 2.0 SDK betas in around 1990 which continued until MS broke the JDA in mid-1991. And while Chicago was slipping, look up "OS/2 Microsoft Munchkins" for some of the unethical tactics MS used to attack OS/2 after the JDA was broken. And I hasn't even mentioned DR-DOS yet.

In fact, MS screwed up the protected mode transition so badly I could write an entire article about this history, starting with when Intel announced the 80286 in year 1982 but MS ignored it and made the mistake of wasting years writing a real mode multitasking DOS. Then IBM refused to license it, which led to the JDA in 1985, which resulted in the 286 protected mode based OS/2 1.0 being released in 1988 which was what should have been finished by 1985 in the first place. Problem was that the 386 was introduced by Intel in 1985, and I could go on about Windows/386 and Windows 3.0 etc including the MS OS/2 2.0 SDK betas mentioned above...
> and certainly everything in HDTV, Blu-ray, and DVD.

The HD broadcasts are 4:2:2, more often than not. There are a few stations that have their video servers down at 4:2:0, but many of those are scheduled to upgrade over the next 2 years.

Edit: The servers are 422, but the broadcasts are 420, as brigade points out. (The edit tag on my original comment has already expired. Grrr.)
It's interesting to see how different social networks tend to heavily favor certain topics of discussion. For example, I have yet to find intellectual discussions on my Facebook friend feed...then again, that probably says more about my friends than about Facebook ;-)
> that "how ridiculous!" reaction is the only reason I read the story in the first place

Sure, but I'm not talking about the first time you hear the term, I'm talking about if this happens to become more widespread. Don't underestimate the power that comes with naming something... people really don't think beyond the label for something they think they are familiar with, and this can have a dramatic impact on the way they feel about it.
I voted for C, but I also greatly enjoy (x86) assembly with x264's abstractions.
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I'm surprised that most of them dont already have a smart phone. Its a great way to get them involved.
I know I would participate a lot more if I could reset my password. Somehow I was able to register my usual handle without providing an email address because there doesn't seem to be a way to recover it.

I created this new account just to gripe about this and when this cookie finally dies I'm not sure I'm going to bother to re-register.
Lamar Smith Still Thinks It's Just Google That Opposes SOPA
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Python I love because it forces me to write readable code. Every so often I write some PHP code that eventually after being rewritten again and again becomes a little sphaghetti-ish. I also like Perl because it offers choice as well as an easy offline lookup tool
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My main nit to pick with this article is that you violated DRY principles by assigning "Water is wet" to both Person A and Person C. Only one person was required.

edit: I was kidding.
One thing I've heard about other incubators is that they demand a large amount of your attention, in a way that is more like working for them rather than as your own boss. This is interesting because it would seem to challenge the entrepreneurs' drive for independence, which could be harmful to their success. Contrast this with YC which gives you more independence and simply offers "office hours" and weekly meals, where it's up to you to make the most of them.

Has anyone else experienced this?
I'm making an attempt [1] at simple logging. Thoughts on the basic design so far?

[1] https://github.com/peterldowns/lggr
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This is correct. It is worth noting that our setup is hardly complex or clever.
Is there a way to do that without being logged in?
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I'm from the Indy region. The cable company is Bright House Networks and the channel is the local NBC affiliate.

Since they have news shows locally, they have been regularly calling brighthouse customers to call up and complain that they don't take the NBC deal. It's rather slimy, but it's worked for the last 6 years the channel has done that.
The assumption that "use a framework" and "clear, concise, well-written code" are incompatible is the problem.

His "punk movement" is more of a "I don't want to use things I have to learn" complaint. I defy any PHP developer to assert that the majority of development is made faster by spending your days bolting together that which already exists.
my vote is database concepts. With the rise of PaaS options out there the need to be able to build distributed systems yourself is lessening (unless it's referring to decoupled systems, such as standalone API endpoints) and falls more into the sys-admin domain. However database concepts will directly relate to your web dev career and will help improve your architecture design and general programming skills as well.
I particularly like this example, which the author acknowledges is extreme:

"3. Be positive.

"This can really be hard when smart people debate, but try it anyway. Notice the difference between:

"Person A: Water is dry.

"Person B: No it's not. You're full of shit.

"and

"Person C: Water is dry.

"Person D: Not in my experience. What data have you encountered to cause you to arrive at that conclusion?"

I really like those "what data have you encountered" questions. In a lot of threads, I silently upvote replies that ask people making striking, unusual, bold, or implausible claims to please provide more information. (Too many of those helpful questions, alas, never get answers. But I'll keep on upvoting follow-up questions looking for facts when I see them.)

The author finishes his list of good suggestions with

"10. No list is ever exhaustive, on Hacker News or anywhere else. Anyone have any more suggestions?"

I'd be delighted to hear other suggestions about constructive participation on Hacker News too.
>So that's where all the box model madness

Do you mean the CSS box model madness?
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C# is so powerful, expressive and I am glad to see that Mono is becoming more popular and helping to separate C# from the Microsoft stack.
1.) Most of the time I just tell stories. I am only 20 and have relatively little experience. The only thing I can really add is a well written comment that asks a question or explains something neat.

2.)The best way to participate is to go out and do something awesome. Take something you saw on the front page and mess around with it. Maybe something will happen and you make the front page. Probably it won't, but the next time it comes up, you can at least share your experience and point out the basic pitfalls. Example: I am working on extending emscripten to use dragonegg to compile fortran. It's really hard and I don't think I can do it, but next time emscripten comes up, I will know what's up and can comment on how awesome Alon is.

3.)My password for my account is zackzackzack. Yep, same as my user name. It lets me keep from getting attached to an argument or an account. If somebody can just go in and change my password, then it is pointless to really care all that much. I like contributing, but I know at any instance all the karma I built up on here could be sealed away.

Edit:
fortran to javascript. Google emscripten github for more info.
As a user of these I couldn't agree more! I've thoroughly enjoyed using them and reading the source.

Having said that, could you do a remix of the Noir-blog example that uses Korma as the data layer :)
I would really like to hear progress reports on that one. Does F# Mono now correctly implement tail recursion? The most recent release notes suggest it does.
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Hello Reuven, you might remember me, we have traded emails in the past. Since you are (still?) in graduate school, it seems right on to work multiple smaller jobs for experiences and not get trapped in huge projects.

I have been working a long time (since early 1970s, but I have almost never worked more than 32 hours/week). While it is easy for me to say since I am financially very stable, I believe it is such a mistake to maximize financial wealth instead of experiences and general lifestyle. Real wealth is mostly family, friends, travel, etc., once one has the material essentials. Based on seeing your open source projects and writing, you may agree with me.
Reminds me of Cryptonomicon.
There are separate reasons for TVs and computers. For TVs, extra resolution just isn't all that important. Most people can't tell the difference between 480p and 720p, let alone 720p and 1080p.

For computers, there are concerns about display connector bandwidth and LCD fabrication yields, but they are surmountable. The real limiting factor has actually been the terrible state of DPI scaling support in desktop operating systems. Higher resolutions make the UI elements too small to see; it's as simple as that.

The future is bright, though. Apple realized that their uniquely tight control over the hardware and software environment on iOS would allow them to easily switch to a higher resolution display and scale the UI without any compatibility problems. Now that they've released the retina display there's pressure on competitors (including themselves with OS X) to follow suit.
I should also point out that there's no reason these two can't exist together. When you really think about it, Korma is like ring for SQL and enables a host of higher level abstractions to be built on top of it. To that end, it would actually be fairly easy to build CQL on top of Korma :)
Put your contact info in the "about" section of your profile (the "email" is private).

Just wanted to emphasize this as it seems to confuse a lot of people.
It helps to have the huge email list of codecademy. If only I could get a link to http://oneworldcollege.com on there :) Still, I'm excited to see education go mainstream like this.
Never heard of these - I will look them up.

> I just couldn't buy into having plastic between my toes

Me neither, but I just had to try, and I actually like it, even though I don't like "toe socks" inside a regular sneaker.

> or not having option of wearing some liner/socks

There are injinji socks; but I prefer the VFFs unsocked if I can properly wash and dry them (I use socks when I don't have wash-and-dry facilities).

> since mine look more "normal" or let's say less "goofy" I can confidently wear them in any environment.

That's a definite plus. (On the other hand, if you're looking for a conversation starter, the vibrams are hard to beat!)
Every single member of Congress should have to go through the TSA screenings like everyone else, instead of getting to skip it. And Napolitano too.
We didn't email our users to get to that number ;)
Hah! For years when I played the piano, I held my hands like I now type; relatively flat fingered and straight wristed. It never affected my ability to play anything complicated and the only real problem was that my piano teacher insisted that this was not the 'correct' way to hold my hands while playing. Never suffered from RSI during the many many hours I've spent at either type of keyboard.
My jaw literally dropped when I saw the price tag on the monochrome Barco. You could get several new cars for that much.
The provocative headline isn't really where the article is going, but it does make a good strategic point: windows phone is failing because they've decided to split the difference between their competitors' strategies, requiring enough control to allow the software to be good, but not enough to ensure that the hardware is also good, thus ensuring that their products aren't so great that consumers demand them but also requiring enough control that carriers don't like them and thus don't push them. Optimal points often live at the extremes rather than in the middle.
Thanks! We think it's self-paced learning's moment too.

And on the second one - let us worry about that ;)
I've remapped caps lock to ctrl instead of backspace, so I don't have experience with that.
Ultimate phishing scam. Without some sort of trusted party or verification process lists like this are ripe for exploitation.