skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Speaking of soccer in terms of entertainment it is almost as bad as Hollywood and in some areas worse. Like Hollywood all online deals are careful not on step on established players toes (DirectTV, TimeWarner, et al). You can pay $15/month to watch games live online, but any game involving marquee teams is delayed.

The FA in England takes it a step further and doesn't even allow unauthorized publication of fixtures and statistics. Fan blogs can't post upcoming matches unless they pay a annual fee. A license to display statistics in any media starts at 5,000 pounds ($7,770).

A few years back they sued every blog that listed upcoming matches. Suing your biggest fans! It's madness.
You first fragment the audience so that earning a return on $140mm becomes less and less likely. The goal is to bankrupt the incumbents by keeping them on the same spending path, while reducing the likelihood of big returns. Amazon is doing this with publishers:
http://pandodaily.com/2012/01/17/confessions-of-a-publisher-...

IMHO, movies will be the last to go, but attacking the TV industry is doable now.
You don't have to go chat up VCs to build a startup. Bootstrapping may be harder but is certainly doable.

If you want to get funding though, you have to talk to VCs. If that's a weakness, you have to fix it or work around it by finding a co-founder who can augment your abilities. That is an example of resourcefulness. If you can't do either, you won't get funding.
In addition to this is the commonly stated idea that you don't own a copy of a movie, you only have a license to watch it. If that's the case, I should be able to acquire the movie data assuming I have already paid for a license to watch said movie. Right now, consumers get the worst of both worlds.
I think the best way to kill Hollywood would be a large amount of independently funded/produced tv series that are solely broadcast on youtube or some other website. Once entertainers figure out that they don't need to go to Hollywood to become famous, more will follow. Perhaps services that could help web-based entertainment shows reach a larger audience would be a step in the right direction.
This is the worst possible outcome. If 10 passages through the lab animals was sufficient for the virus to become transmissible by air, then this will happen in nature. Not being able to share with other members of the world-wide flu monitoring network what they need to be watching for is irresponsible at best.

The fact that this variant of the virus was formed relatively easily, however, leads me to believe that there is a reason that it hasn't been found in the wild yet. It could be that transmission in ferrets is not exactly like transmission in humans. It could be that this variant is transmissible by air in a lab setting, but is critically vulnerable to environmental factors in the wild. Regardless of the explanation, there is something vital and important that can be learned through further research...

But OH NOES THE TERRERISTS!!!1!

You know, Caesar was just trying to protect Rome when the library in Alexandria burned. Those who have the most are willing to loose the least but, as they say, nothing ventured nothing gained...

The future of scientific progress no longer lies with the United States of America.
The only thing I don't understand completely is his actual stance on copyright. He says he's okay with the notion, since he and many other artists benefit from it. But he quite clearly doesn't think piracy hurts artists, and doesn't seem to think that downloading poses a threat (or at least not enough of a threat to warrant taking down websites).

I agree with the latter, but I'm not sure how Coulton finds the latter consistent with the former. Perhaps he believes copyright should only apply to commercial violations, or should only require attribution, which would make since considering that his works are released under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/. But does he believe other artists should be allowed to place their works under stricter licenses (i.e. ones that would allow them to sue a kid for downloading an MP3)?
Nemertes Predicts Colocation Crunch
I will refrain from commenting on theories that resolve all moral decisions through reasoning about natural selection (as i said i am biased, and this is already off topic). Just this:

One study of the biographies of 1004 eminent people found homosexual and bisexual people overrepresented (11 percent of the sample), especially among poets (24 percent), fiction writers (21 percent), and artists and musicians (15 percent) (Ludwig, 1995)[1]

Surely if artistic creativity was evolutionarily so advantageous it wouldn't hide itself in the least-reproducing subpopulations

[1] http://www.davidmyers.org/davidmyers/assets/Sex-Orient-9e.pd...
I cannot think of a good counter argument to that.
This could be a totally different way of thinking about investing than the way I previously thought.

Assuming the investor can figure out what the next big thing is, their only goal is to find the team with the highest likelihood of success.
No, we're using a custom framework on the backend. We call it "Gin." The form submission is something we've been playing with for a while - We do the form submissions through a socket to increase performance and make the user experience lightening fast.
It's a custom font set, using css @font-face like Typekit, and Google Fonts are for example.

So so just like characters in a font, the icons can use the same text effects like any other text, like size, coloring, gradients, text-shadows and etc, which can save you a lot of time and maybe bandwidth too.

We used Pictos fontset on our RailsRumble app (http://splendidbacon.com) a while back and it was much better and faster experience for me, than building the different icon colors & sizes in Photoshop like usually.
They may have a tremendous amount of talent, but they aren't able to employ it effectively. If they were, they would be developing new popular online stuff instead of buying their way into "online properties".
I think the problem is in the distribution of entertainment. There's no motive to stop the actual production of entertainment.
The new proposed functions, sounds very similar to stpcpy() and stpncpy()
Agreed. Although discovery isn't just an issue in the film industry; I think it's going to happen everywhere as small scale producers attain the ability to produce great content/products/whatever and the market becomes more flooded with choices than ever before.

Here's a article that goes into this: http://bindle.me/blog/index.php/170/chances-of-discovery-one...
This is based on my own biased opinion...

It can happen for a number of reasons and isn't necessarily with securing a webserver.

Sometimes security issues get that "well, it isn't an issue right now" view and get put in a backlog and never resolved. Other cases it is a lack of good code reviews or security reviews. Or inexperienced developers (at least inexperienced with that kind of security).

From a Dreamhost employee (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3491643), that code was from 1999. Could have been any one of the above.

The truly sad part is the number of examples of this kind of thing blowing up yet companies are still making the same mistake. At what point does someone think of checking their own apps password practices to ensure they aren't next?
The latest tech news on the web.
Yes, but in practice a forward won't take a dive unless he's lost control of the ball.
Is it possible that soft subjects are easier not because they are soft, but because weak competition self selects in to those classes?
How is that even legal? The UK is a common law system like the US. Doesn't it have a court case similar to Feist v. Rural in the US that establishes jurisprudence that data cannot be copyrighted?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_v._Rural
When Amazon sold Lady Gaga's latest album for 99 cents, the volume of purchases crashed their servers. Even I bought the album, and I'm not a Lady Gaga fan. Why? Because it was 99 cents. It stands to reason, if lowering the price of a good by 90% increases sales 10 fold, then lowering it to zero increases consumption even more. So it's not unreasonable to say that 95% of pirated content would not have been purchased otherwise, and results in zero loss to the industry. It's also the only reasonable explanation why Hollywood continues to make record profits in the face of such "pervasive" piracy.
If you log in with your Web Panel password, you can change an accounts' password without needing to know the old one.

The DreamHost engineer who's been commenting here says the web panel passwords haven't been compromised (I changed ours anyhow).
I have to agree w/r to Philosophy. But I've never considered Philosophy as a "soft" subject in the same way as a history class, English lit class, or some similar class.

Philosophy is every bit as difficult as any advanced Math course I'm familiar with. You learn the rules and axioms of the philosophy, and work within it, and those rules can be as complicated as any other kind of complex logic.

I'm specifically talking about what's considered an undergraduate degree in "English" or "History" or "English History" or some such. I had the fortunate happenstance to go through an undergraduate program that really wanted their engineers to be well rounded. Back in those days we were required to take 3 years of 2 classes a year of English Lit, 2 years of History (a year of Western Civ and a Year of some non-Wester civ), Speech, Communications, etc. for every Engineering Degree and a couple other "soft" courses.

These classes were more annoying than hard. Once you figured out what the teacher was looking for (usually within 2 or 3 short essays), you could write all day on that subject and in that style and get A's. It was literally "programming" for the teacher. Good grades were programs that ran well, bad grades due to grammar or spelling issues were syntax errors, bad grades due to content were run-time.
You know, Caesar was just trying to protect Rome when the library in Alexandria burned.

Sorry, but what? What does the accidental burning of a library have to do with this?
Well, I was using it!

To be fair, I'm not a normal case, I started creating and querying full text retrieval systems for customers and myself in 1991 when I started my half-decade of document imaging work.

But I did use +, e.g. I'd do a query and get too many or the wrong results because one term wasn't being weighed well and then I'd add a + in front of it. Changing that to wrapping it in double quotes would be only an annoyance if the change wasn't entirely gratuitous (as I understand it) to the Google search function.

And, yeah, the segmentation algorithm is very good, although I haven't torture tested it ^_^.

(Side notes: LinkedIn is the only "social network" I'm likely to use in the foreseeable future, Facebook is anathema (they seem to have inverted your "don't be evil" motto) and Google+ is way too dangerous to use because being kicked off it kills the rest of your Google accounts.)
A large portion of the work in the TV and film industries are not wage or salary jobs, they are contract gigs.
The problem with extension development is that each browser does it differently.

If you abstract away the browser-specific API, it's not too hard to write a cross-browser extension. Here's one that runs on both Chrome and Safari:

http://code.google.com/p/marking-menu-js/source/browse/#svn%...

Notice how it implements the important bits of Chrome's extension API in terms of Safari's:

http://code.google.com/p/marking-menu-js/source/browse/trunk...

That allows you to easily port Chrome extensions over.
If you want to achieve something that is blocked by a weakness, you have to address the weakness or choose something else to achieve.

You can address a weakness by improving yourself or finding a workaround.

For example, if one of his strengths is bonding with fellow geeks, OP could bond with a fellow geek who likes talking to VCs and convince him to be a cofounder. Then he has worked around the problem by using a strength which is an example of a resourceful workaround.

TLDR: Using your strengths to work around a weakness is an example of being resourceful.

NB: In my experience, the willingness to go outside your comfort zone, even your weakest areas correlates highly with success in entrepreneurship.
Movie/TV Show industry != Hollywood.

There could still be a movie industry that doesn't involve Hollywood in the same way that there can be a music industry without record labels
i got this (screenshot) in my control panel but no email:

http://is.gd/yFhhrv
With this "RFS" who's pitching who?

I'm working on the prototype to prove the concept. But there is no GUI, I am strictly a command-line user.

What are the "other ways" you allude to?
I think in a sense you've identified the issue too. For every dedicated player who will pay $60 and be disappointed when he beats the game in 50 hours, there are 99 or 999 who want a game that they don't have to invest as much in.

Players like me want to play on our own terms and come and go as they please. I used to play a lot of WoW but shutting down all my VMs and rebooting out of Linux to do so is now a big disincentive. I have tried to get into some PS3 games but the long mandatory updates the system forces you into just makes me hate it. Oh my god and the loading screens that plague the PS3 are just horrid.

(Sorry I'm not trying to complain, just trying to give you guys some ideas. :-)
Sometime over the past year I went from thinking YouTube content was insignificant compared to Hollywood, to the point where I'd happily give up all broadcast/cable/DVD/Netflix content for YouTube type user generated content. I suspect this will be more widespread in a year or two more.
Can you imagine what the complete works of Shakespeare would look like if he were responsible for releasing any of the folios we use today?

The whole idea of being absolutely loyal to the artist's intent is a cultural idea that has come in and out of vogue, but is largely an artifact of 20th century America. Really, art has always been crowdsourced in some sense or another, and any work of art is in some sense an amalgam.
I'm really not optimistic on getting people to stop watching TV or movies. Maybe there's some way of producing and financing them that's smarter but I wouldn't bet on changing behavior that drastically. People have been consuming stories about other people forever, and they're going to keep doing that.
But you do have to be a generalist to be a successful entrepreneur

I don't believe it.

You may have to be willing to dabble in these areas in order to get started, but if your strengths are technical, your goal is to do them only until you can justify paying someone else to do them. The entrepreneur who tries to manage every angle of business will never grow beyond his personal limitations (time being the big one).

Again, it's about opportunity cost. Pay an accountant to do your taxes if it's taking you away from money-making work that you're actually good at.
Republicans and Democrats (and even Liberal/Conservative, which mean different things to different people at different times) are also loosely aligned coalitions that don't really have that much of a common ideology though, or rather they're designed to give each individual in the coalition the impression that there is a common ideology and it's that individual's ideology.
There is another explanation for the high attrition rate which I believe also explains why so many engineers end up in business school.

People select engineering as a career for the money, not because they actually want to do it for a living.

In 1995 I was starting high school and had signed up for computer programming classes and was teaching myself along with my friends.

In 1999 I fell in love with finance and realized I hated programming. Before entering my freshman year I had switched my major to finance.

4 years later I entered an MBA program. Once there I noticed a huge percentage of engineers and their reason for doing the MBA was always to get away from engineering.

Engineering takes a particular type of mind to enjoy it, and I don't believe 10% of the population has the combination of aptitude and passion for the career.

That is why great engineers are rare and very valuable. As someone that tried programming, I fully respect and oftentimes envy those that enjoy it.
There are very few, at least in the Western eye. Only two that come to mind are the latest Zelda, and Dark Souls.
And because of the danger this poses to your other Google services (get kicked off of Google+, lose them too) that'll be the day I move my Google Docs back to my own systems (they are mostly there because that was the best solution immediately after my apartment was trashed by the Joplin, MO tornado and I'm trying to go Microsoft free) and delete my Google account, assuming that doesn't trash my Google Group subscriptions (which go to my own email address serviced by Fastmail anyway).
These both are technical issues. The first one - maybe there is no need for a director, when you can have multiple versions of a scene - which then can be voted on. The second - the system would have to ensure that that hack would only get paid proportionally for contributing the farts.

I know it all sounds crazy, but I'd be wary of underestimating the power of community. There may not be processes to convey such group endeavor yet, but then these are a matter of discovery - also a group effort.
Here's a link to the repo on github.
https://github.com/schell/mod
I just watched the video. Thanks for adding that link.
There would be no Godfather without Hollywood. No Apocalypse Now. (also no Taxi Driver, no Star Wars, no Indiana Jones, no MASH or Nashville)

So what have they done lately?

I think you're proving the point. They're an empty shell of their former greatness and should be put out of their misery to make room for whatever great thing is to come next.
Hi. I'm in chicago, and your image loads are kind of wack (you don't preload, so it's a bit choppy).
There is a real risk in putting national security above all else. Leaders often make the mistake of believing that those with the greatest military might succeed, when in fact it is those societies with the greatest technology that have always lead the world.
On the other hand, the past few years have been very good for indie game studios:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_indie_game_developers
Perhaps they are just copying from each other?
Many people saw Ruby for the first time when they looked at a Rails tutorial. Many people see Python for the first time when they look at a Django tutorial. In both cases, you'd still need to learn more about the language to do something useful. I think the disclaimer "You shouldn't need to know Haskell" just means that the same thing works for this tutorial: you don't need to have seen Haskell before going through the tutorial, because you'll learn enough to follow the tutorial, even though you'll need to learn more later.
If Open Source software provides any clues, marketing is indeed a problem.

Consider 'Blair Witch Project' which cost US$ 35.000 to make, was sold for US$ 1.1 Mil., and then the company spend US$ 20-25 Mil. for marketing. And this was an awesome campaign.

"Open Water" cost US$ 500.000, was bought for US$ 2.5 Mil, and the company spend additional US$ 8 Mil. on distribution and advertising.

Box Office revenue is more closely correlated to advertising dollars spend than production dollars spend, accorindg to the presentation here: http://abovethelineproducer.blogspot.com/2011/12/hollywood-p...
It also gets boring to watch my wife play her 20th hour of Assasin's Creed Revelations. Video games aren't good entertainment for those not holding the controller.
And? Do you see me touting Facebook as the company that will save the world?
What about if the price of apples went up you could still be making the same amount of money as when they were cheaper...and you need less people to buy your apples. I can almost guarantee that a smaller number of people saw Avatar in theaters than Gone with the Wind.

A movie ticket, on average, cost $.23 in 1939. Adjusting for inflation, thats $3.72 today. I think I paid $15 for Avatar 3D.

http://boxofficemojo.com/about/adjuster.htm
Are bisexual people "non-reproducing" now?
How many programming languages do you use? :-) Just like we use Python, Java, Scala, etc... where each is appropriate, we also use different databases where appropriate.

Each system serves a need. We also use off the shelf databases, where appropriate: it should be noted Sensei uses Lucene (a well known search library), Voldemort has a pluggable storage engine (where we mostly use BerkeleyDB and a custom read-only storage engine), and Espresso uses MySQL.

We don't build databases for reasons of NIH: we focus on building features (faceting, real-time indexing, partitioning, fail over, etc...) that enable us to build fast, usable, feature rich, scalable, and reliable applications. We readily use open source components in many places within both our infrastructure systems (search, various databases, Kafka) and in the applications, and contribute to existing open source projects.
It's a combination of things, but mostly, every piece of software expands your attack surface. Most systems are not written with defence-in-depth and most have all-or-nothing authentication/authorisation.

For shared hosts it's worse: a flaw that punches through can affect many customers at once. And there's often a larger attack surface because of the complexity of hosting multiple customers in a single system.

Take, for example, Wordpress. It uses a single login into a relevant MySQL database. Plugin code has the same level of access to MySQL as the core Wordpress code. If a there's a defect in either, your MySQL database is wide open to receiving SQL statements.

If you didn't configure the database properly, that wide open pathway now leads to other databases, or to shell access with interesting privileges, and so on.

So the design of wordpress (and in fairness, pretty much all web apps follow a similar pattern) both increases the attack surface and decreases the depth of defence.
Soccer as an international industry needs to be 'disrupted', more so than any other professional sport leagues in the US (NFL, NBA, MLB). Simply because of the flow of talent is very unbalanced, and it's built on a system of infrastructure instead of skill. Oddly enough, soccer isn't on a level playing field worldwide. But that doesn't stop anyone from predicting the rise of Chinese and Indian superclubs like Barcelona or Real Madrid.

Personal side note, there's definitely a lot of social leverage there too. Figure out how to pair something to soccer, like education or clean water, and it has to power to spread like crazy.

In any case, I think pg's point was that when you've got a scoring chance to go one up, you don't go down for a cheap foul. You take the shot and end the game. * Which is what he's hoping the sleeper underdog startup will do, instead of taking the easy route a-la los Merengues. Yup, I just went there.
And it appears it will come full circle, as late last year YouTube announced that it was going to start producing original content: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/29/idUS38163096092011...
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Thanks. It's easy to forget about that stuff when all the images are cached. I'll work on that asap! Does it break the home slide show or was it able to download them fast enough to keep it going reasonably smoothly?
But sadly, that would be used as an argument of why they need to pass new laws to protect them.
And anyway, they would simply make the physical discs disappear earlier, so there's no borrowing anymore, replaced by something like Ultraviolet.
Useful post, thanks. I am also signed up for those two classes and was expecting them to start on Manday. That said, free is free, so I can be patient :-)
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