skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your 4th paragraph needs to be your first. The issue here is that HBO still (thinks they) needs big cable, and aren't willing to piss off cable distributors to offer a purely digital delivery. Why wouldn't they want to cut out the middle man financially? Current distribution systems like Hulu and Netflix already prove such a tactic is possible.
Hope this stays away from Canada.
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The only thing that Andy Ihnatko gets wrong in his critique is that he claims the original oatmeal comic is funny.
They aren't obligated. And let me check.... yep! Turns out my computer still can reach the Pirate Bay! So there's your choice, philosophical discussions are worthless.
I prefer something like

#TODO #4001 needs more bananas

Where 4001 references something in our bug tracker (task, feature, issue, bug, etc.)
Virtually every American car already includes EDRs. Over 40 million cars are on the streets with them now. EDRs are cheap and incredibly useful in accident investigations. They were for obvious reasons only going to get cheaper and cheaper until it became economically irrational not to include them. They are an inevitability. All this bill does is codify the fact that you own the data on them, and that your data can't be taken without consent or court order.
I'm impressed it works well on an IPad - good job!
I'll always remember Sony for screwing the Playstation 3 Linux Kit. I'll pass, que te vaya bonito, Sony.
I think the box is a fine idea - without the GPS. GPS speed limit data is wrong often enough in any case; IMO decent accelerometer data should be more than enough to correlate to aggressive driving.
Your competition would include sites like GigMasters, which do (only) that -- which could be good and bad. But if you've got 400K users paying $0 right now, it probably wouldn't be hard to undercut $200 + 5%, for offering booking support.
In what programming language would this cross-CPU simulation software be built?
hbogo.com is still the best website I know of for watching any tv channels shows. HBO subscribers get access to every single show the second it comes out, and it remains available forever. I can go back now and watch every episode of every HBO show.

So while I empathize with all of your complaints that HBO makes it too hard for non cable/DirecTV subscribers to subscribe, I think they are due credit for putting all of their content online when most other channels have not.
Get rid of 'digital handcuffs', says European Commission vice-president
Splunk in a nutshell: it runs a daemon on all your boxes, that tails all your logfiles (you can configure which ones) and pipes them all to a central logging server. On the logging server, another daemon runs that does pattern matching/filtering on the incoming logs, and fires an alert when it gets a match. And umm, that's about it really.

The one useful thing it can do is give (say) devs access to logfiles from prod servers that they aren't allowed for whatever reason to log into themselves. But you could do this yourself with a periodic rsync to an internal webserver...
In most cases these packages should be loading libssl as a shared library. Simply updating libssl to a fixed version would solve the problem for all of those instances.
The weird is that they project this model in Europe as well, whereas they are not as tight to broadcasters here.

The other day, there was an ad on TV for HBO Go. I was like "wow, finally, HBO in Europe (in the Netherlands in this case), AND with an app?!"

So I went directly to my computer to look at the details with the firm intention to subscribe if it'd be a reasonable price (let's say 15 euros per month).

So I go on their website and what do I see ? To get the app, you need to subscribe to their cable channels. But wait ? I just want the streaming, I don't care about their channels (particularly because I am in a shared apartment).

But I thought "OK, let's see how much they cost", so I go to the next page, and what do I see ? HBO is only available on Zyggo. No way to get them with any other provider. And I'm sure not gonna switch providers, a lot of hassle in the first place, but even more in this case since it's a shared apartment and all.

Conclusion : they lost one customer, and probably more, because I have plenty of friends here that watch a lot of HBO shows, usually illegally acquired, because otherwise you get to see them 1 year later, that would probably have paid for it as well.

Way to go HBO !
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A car transponder I would like to see is one that coordinates self-driving cars to eliminate traffic congestion. You can do a rough version of this by reading traffic reports, but finer grained decisions would require something invasive like this. I care about my privacy, but I think privacy would lose over the safety and convenience such a system would provide.
torrenting episodes as they're aired is an attractive proposition while we're waiting

Because you can't, you know, just wait until they are legitimately available?
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Thanks for sharing. Just wanted to add that if people's subjective perceptions of BCC (modern! clean!) are improved, this may improve (admittedly hard to measure) word of mouth. Keep it up!
those are all really great resources. i’d also mention pg’s personal site (http://paulgraham.com) as well. it’s not really a blog, but his essay’s provide a level of depth that’s often lacking from many of the more active blogs

and steve blank’s site (mentioned above) also has an incredibly long and comprehensive list of resources for new entrepreneurs including many other blogs worth checking-out as well

i’ll also throw out one more, "Bloomberg Businessweek: The New Entrepreneur"
(http://www.businessweek.com/blogs/the-new-entrepreneur)
it’s (obviously, given the name) a news blog, but i find they cover a lot of interesting topics less frequently touched-on by the major business/tech sites out there
A few people torrent, and then buy when available.
It's much more useful now, IMO. Now you can chain an error handler onto your view's render method, and the level of abstraction becomes "I couldn't render the view" rather than "I couldn't get some JSON from the server".

Functionally the behavior is the same - you're still going to have to gate an asynchronous stream of actions (make sure steps a, b, c have completed before d, etc.), but with this, you can describe that logic where it matters - renderView().then(attachHandlers).then..., instead of callback nesting hell (attachHandlers would have to be in renderView).
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Do you really want to open that can of worms?

Because I won't argue the point any more, but piracy is theft when people loose something.
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> 4. We're not deep enough in debt yet? Want me to skip to the end game and just cut out my liver and hand it to you?

By very definition of the capitalist society, no.

The only reason you exist in the wheel is to spend money, so of course more and more creative ways to do so will always be found.
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wow, up to 800k visitors per month after only 1 year? Impressive! How are you getting most of your traffic, if you don't mind me asking.
Yes, but, this bill will also initiate the requirement of EDRs in all vehicles. I don't believe that is anything to go crazy about, but it is significant.
Not only that, try running dis() on each of those and seeing what bytecode gets executed...
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Out of curiosity ... if you love implicit returns in principle, then why would you dislike them in this context?

Certainly, you need to keep in mind the return value of a function while you're writing it -- if you don't want to return any value, then just "return". And it's definitely something that you need to keep more in mind while porting JS than when writing code from scratch. But given all that, would you really prefer explicit returns in CoffeeScript?
Store returns are not an ethical issue, but a result of market forces. The more lenient a store is with its return policy, the happier its customers will be, and the more money they'll be inclined to spend there.

For example, managers often have the discretion to extend the duration of stated policies; in my experience, they're happy to do so if it'll please the customer. This costs the stores some money, but the people in charge keep the policies in place, so they must have judged them a net win to their business. I'm happy to take advantage of the convenience it offers me; in fact, I'm more likely to shop at a store with a lax return policy, and likely to buy more, as I know I can return it later if I don't like it. Presumably, it's this tradeoff that the store owners are after.
It's fascinating to watch how much opportunity they are throwing out of the door.

According to blog monitoring service blogs.yandex.ru, Game of Thrones is third most discussed TV series in Russian speaking countries right now.
Obviously a huge number of people watch it from various of sources: original torrents, translated torrents, streaming... But HBO gets exactly zero from this.
They just don't want anybody's money. They do nothing.
their purpose here isn't to inform, it's to generate rageviews

"Rageview" may be my new favorite word. Thank you for expanding my vocabulary.
The "I will argue publicly with an imaginary straw man" is one of the laziest writing devices in the world. Gosh, I wonder who's going to win?
HBO aren't idiots. They've done the math and for now they've found it IS more profitable for them to only allow you to get their content with a cable subscription. Why does when it come to big media everyone thinks the companies are run by 12 year old morons when they don't agree with their policies?

Hurting Game of Thrones Through Piracy Won’t Change HBO’s Business, It Will Just Get the Show Cancelled: http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/features/hurting-game-of-th...
He definitely deserves it. Congrats Linus.
Wanted to do the Algo class, turned out to be a pain in the butt. These people need to work on their friction problems, and it felt like they're just flying by the seat of their pants. I hope they're not just half-assed Khan pretenders.
And if you read from the original bill, it becomes even more clear that this could not be used for wireless snooping.

The need to attach physical hardware to get data out of it is made clear here:
http://ecfr.gpoaccess.gov/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=ecfr&sid...

And the conditions under which it's recording data, and the data being recorded, are described in the following two links:
http://ecfr.gpoaccess.gov/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=ecfr&sid...
http://ecfr.gpoaccess.gov/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=ecfr&sid...

Long story short, it's really not very exciting.
Article about the follow-up study from the German Space Agency, including some kind of map.

http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/18245/
It's not their fault, but it's their responsibility to clarify differences, or else accept returns if they don't.
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Best Buy is just a test center for Amazon - a lot of people come in just to see and touch stuff before buying it from Amazon. I saw a guy checking a headphones in BB and immediately buying it from Amazon on the spot from his phone.
This is why many of us have video cameras on our dashboards continually logging our drive. Note that this is completely voluntary and under the control of the driver.
I find it odd that Google would use Angry Birds to describe High Performance Graphics. lol.
"Share via barcode" can be useful. Say you want to tell someone some contact info for you, but neither of you currently have any contact info on the other. If your phones have screens and can read barcodes, which I presume they can, no need for one of you to say some number or email address while the other types it in. One person just shares via barcode, and then the person that just got that contact info shares theirs back using that contact info.

Also, emailing or texting links to someone right there at the table with you contributes to needless inbox clutter.
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They are certainly not obligated to sell me anything.

I just take my business elsewhere. Monopolies are bad, right?
Are there no consumer protection laws in your country or state? Or small claims courts?

(This is the odd thing I find in reports from the U.S. ... usually there are some such laws, and I have friends who claim to have used them successfully, but journalists never talk about them.)
My understanding is that airbags are triggered when a threshold of very sudden deceleration is crossed and has nothing to do with the brake pedal.
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We have mostly normal hours, although my co-founder less so because she works a real job during the daytime. We're kind of expected to have reasonable hours because we're a travel magazine, and all work and no play would be bad for our image :)
Court orders, how do they work?

Seriously, what oversight is there over court orders? Wiretaps, getting private information from social networking sites, now car black boxes- who monitors and evaluates court orders to make sure the judges made the right decision?
Online vendors need extra level of good customer service to reduce people's fear on buying expensive stuff, like Amazon's customer service.
This is very cool, though I personally find postfix flow control confusing to read. The postfix loop with destructuring is especially odd to me. As I read left to right, I see variables that don't exist "yet" until I get to the later loop clause.

This is probably just a familiarity thing and I would get used to it, but compared to all of the other changes in the video which I think are pretty clean that stood out to me as a bit... iffy?
Sorry. I did some small clarifications (the original post got a little mangled during edition before my coffee kicked in) regarding order.

When you use a list comprehension, you may (or not) care about the order of the resulting items, but your program is completely shielded from the order in which the resulting list is calculated - unless your function is affecting a global state while the LC is being evaluated and each evaluation depends on the state changed by the last one. You can't insert a print in the outer loop, for instance, unless you explicitly nest the LCs.
Speaking of Best Buy, I didn't read the article due to Time's instant full-pager for Citibank. WTF kind of experience is that?
RSS also doesn't work very well in pure client-side development, whereas the same data structure in JSON is easy in pretty much any context.

Say, for example, I want to show a list of items from a 3rd party in a sidebar on my site. With a few lines of jQuery or other similar lib, I can do that no problem.

Maybe RSS, just like XML-RPC which was still much better than SOAP but has fallen by the wayside in favour of REST + JSON, can be supplanted in the same way.
You'd generally be expected to pay for these items prior to removing their shrink-wrap coverage anyways, so there's not really any difference in that respect.
Personally, in my own code I also like to put pass at the end of all blocks. It's more consistent, and it also makes auto indent in the editors work properly. Anyone else?
There's a good video from a recent Google I/O on memory management where they explain the recycle method, their reason for requiring it, and that it won't be necessary in 2.3 and up. I still always recycle everything manually just to be defensive, but supposedly it's not required anymore in API 10+. Whenever you see a framework object with a recycle method it's because the memory is allocated outside of the dalvik heap, so it's not part of the GC cleanup process.

The real bitch of this, and what I think you were getting at, is the lack of accurate memory debugging tools. I read a really long post on SO about a guy who tested all of the various ways of testing memory consumption through DDMS, adb, etc, and all the numbers he got were conflicting.
We can control hard drives - not just with software, but with encryption the government is (hopefully) unable to break.

If we had the same degree of control over these recorders, I'd be less concerned.
Why are we slow? An average page weighs in at ~1MB: http://bit.ly/IRUzXD - 60% images, 18% JS, and a touch of html. Yikes.
"...HDCP encryption, a newer part of the HDMI standard..."

I don't think that's true.

My understanding is that HDCP encryption has been around for as long as HDMI has been around. For example, Blu-ray discs/players use HDCP to encrypt their content.

It seems strange that these DVR boxes don't support HDCP. Maybe some of the heat should be directed towards DirecTV for using such non-compliant hardware.
Is it an euphemism for "never"?
I guess there is no way I can obtain Game of Thrones, legally, in English, with subtitles, if I live in Russia.

I could order a blu-ray, but then again it would be region protected!

If there is no way for me to pay them the damn money, how can it be if I'm a doing anything wrong by pressing "play" button and conveniently streaming it the same day it was aired? Brought to me by people who actually deliver.

EDIT: Before 1967 or so the copyright laws were built to explicitly combat this problem by NOT protecting foreign content with copyright by default. Then they believed the world went global and now they should. Guess what? In 2012 they failed to figure it out again so we should demand the roll-back to pre-1967 situation.
Agreed. I think there's a bit of LOC-golfing at work here. That loop is more nicely written as:

for {handler, context} in @events[topic]
handler.apply context, args
You sell the bingo card creator 5000 times a month? Never expected that bingo is such a big deal. Congratz! :)
If this is really the case wouldn't they be designed with exceedingly short memories (a few minutes at most)?
Just a like a few people actually wait to buy when it's available.

As has been said before, the "I deserve to have something RIGHT NOW" entitlement mentality is just infantile. If something is worth watching, it will still be worth watching in a few weeks/months.
This is very cool. But then I look at the maker of the Diagram Library and the cost per license is $7,900 dollars ???

Talk about expensive libraries.
I imagine it has something to do with the "level" of credit card you have. My card is fairly high end; nothing in the $500,000 per year solid gold card league, but definitely not in the "sign up for this card and get a free pizza" type either.

The customer service has been outstanding. I've never spent a minute on hold, and of the three disputes I've had (one identity theft, one double charge, one true merchant dispute) they've canceled the charge in seconds without question. I received a confirmation letter in the mail about a week later and that was the end of it each time. It's been a completely different experience than when I had a "free pizza" card.
I can confirm your findings - this domain [simple OLAP] really sucks.

As CFO I implemented [all including planning database/dimensions/forms/reports/calculations/rules/etc except for programming] 3 OLAP based projects in three multinational companies.

Closed source
In 2 projects we used Hyperion Essbase, in 1 project we used SAP Business Objects. In all cases we used consultants for programming the cubes and all else per spec. Also, there is MS solution - have not used it.

There are a number of OpenSource solutions, including Mondrian, etc - most of them use SQL database (PostGre et all) for storing data and building OLAP cubes.

Check SO on OLAP, most Q&A are garbage, but found some good gems. You can start from here

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3705011/what-should-i-hav...

I also saw post of Cubes implementation in Python some time back on HN - Google for Stiivi-cubes-v0.7 and Stiivi-brewery-v0.7.

pls keep posted if you'll find smth cool, i.e. easy and simple DIY OLAP. After spending close to several days on Googling, I gave up.
Sure, you always need a money-spinner at the end.

As I was trying to say in the last paragraph of my post: when you get people stick to your service, it broadens the realm of possibilites for monetization. For instance, the online collaborative studio could have some premium features (specific editing tools, extra storage... I am thinking out loud). Another example: when you get half-million users coming back every week, music labels or festival organizers might be ready to pay to get their advertising to the right audience (musicians, music fans) - see Pitchfork or Rollingstone.com.
VLC is the media player that can play anything!

Well, when it couldn't play something, it was very memorable to me.
So what you're saying is that in one of the top intelligence organizations in the world, the person who handles document classification status for technical reports just stamps papers willy-nilly?
Am I right in thinking that would involve taking advantage of the memory corruption to inject code by using an appropriately constructed cert?
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Completely agree with you. I was very excited when I heard about the HBO Go app and was looking forward to paying HBO for their excellent content. Similarly I was frustrated to find you need cable TV and Comcast to use it. Still trying to figure out a way to see the new season of Game of Thrones.
I guess I'm a fickle customer. I buy things when I'm not sure if I want them (especially clothes and shoes) but I have no trouble taking them back to the store and saying I changed my mind. I feel I'm taking a risk and if it works out the store benefits from it. I end up spending a lot in stores that follow this and avoid others that have given me hassle. I spend a lot on amazon for the same reason.

EDIT - I'd like to add there is very little rational or reasonable going on in the head of most shoppers!
Tell HN: You know what's the best? When a stranger tells you about your product.
So I was at Starbucks earlier a few hours ago, drinking coffee with a friend and some of his coworkers when we began talking about iPhone apps (one of them recently bought a new iPhone and asked what apps were recommended). So we talked about most common ones like Instagram, flashlight, temple run, paper, etc when one of the other guys mentioned that he recently signed up for an app that was coming soon he thought was pretty cool. He started to describe it and I almost choked and snorted on my coffee- he was talking about our app! It was an amazing moment, knowing that someone out there that you don't know is talking about your product. Any similar experiences out there?

link: http://www.prsna.me
Sshh, don't tell them about view source!
On target perhaps, but overly sensational - any valid points they have are drowned out by the "CHEMTRAILS!!" "9/11 WAS AN INSIDE JOB!" "UFOS!!!" that surround it.

A much superior source is the one you linked - factual and free of sensationalistic spin.
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Part of it might be that people who really really need something are more likely to convert even if a design is a bit ugly. By improving design you get more of the less serious people to give it a try, but then they are not as likely to convert.
Wonderful post. You've given voice to how I feel.
The cache link was crazy long. Would HN have auto-shortened it?
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I think it is too early to judge. I've never done A/B testing, but I think the point is to do it continously; not for a week and decide it is stupid.

Let's say Patrick would continue this for 9 more weeks; so far we've seen 10% of the whole test. Let me illustrate an edge case: after 10 weeks, the new site has made 134 sales, the old one has 125. 13/13 after 1 week seems about right, but 134/125 is more than 7% increase.