skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
HBO's equivalent of the digital camera is on-release video streaming. There's a lot of us who just don't & won't have "cable TV", and who are willing to shell out money for access to shows the day they're released. Beholden to the distributor/retailer, HBO isn't doing independent streaming and is releasing discs long after initial release. The public's transition to streaming video is catching on and accelerating, entrenched technologies can be replaced a whole lot faster that most expect, and faced with evaporating audiences the existing distributors will hold HBO to exclusivity contracts. Oh sure it's not the same thing, but I'm seeing & expecting strong parallels. HBO is not too big to fail.

Snippy happens, given a soundbite-oriented medium. No prob. You want room 12A, just along the corridor.
I used Pimsleur for Cantonese in 2010 during a trip to HK and have kind of mixed feelings about it. On one hand, it was good for pronunciation. Many people were shocked by how good my Cantonese sounded and had troubles believing me when I said I'd just gotten to Hong Kong. On the other hand, this caused some problems-- people consistently over-estimated my language abilities, and as a result said a ton of stuff I couldn't understand. Had my speech sounded worse they'd probably have modified theirs a bit and I'd have learned faster. The other wildcard is that I already spoke Mandarin fluently, and definitely had a bit of help from all the cognates.

Another downside to Pimsleur I discovered more recently while working on Swedish. They're all about the same! The dialogues and stories got kind of boring since I'd heard them already in Cantonese.

Ideally, I'd like a resource like Pimsleur plus some kind of podcast (e.g. popupcantonese.com) so that I could build more vocabulary at least at a passive level and understand more of the speech I elicit from native speakers.
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Yep, most A/B tests won't give results. But the ones that do are worth it (provided they were quick and easy to setup). There's always an opportunity and design cost involved with A/B testing, but it is sort of ironical that you can't be judgmental about which A/B tests to run, because if you already know which ones are going to work, why A/B test in the first place?
My friend Paul (one of the authors) just shared this url with me. Anyone have any other examples of subdomains as sentences? I'm just curious.
Yes, we should definitely make this more clear: Once your free trial expires, you can continue using Siasto for free with however many teammates you want, but without the features listed in the paid plans and a more restricted space limit.
ProvoCraft seems to be operating on a razor & blades model, and aggressively suing anyone who tries to provide another source for getting 'blades'.

http://www.scrapbookupdate.com/2010/04/07/provo-craft-sues-m...
http://www.scrapbookupdate.com/2011/03/11/provo-craft-sues-s...

MakerBot, on the other hand, publishes the plans for their hardware so anyone can build it, and maintains thingiverse.com so anyone can design anything they want to print.

I understand why the editor wants to draw a connection, but there are some significant differences in the two businesses' philosophies.
Hey guys, about two weeks ago in a previous post about Lean Domain Search, HackerNews user kanamekun asked "how did you pick the other keywords commonly found in domain names?" [1]

I briefly explain there how I had done it in the past, which inspired me to take a second look at the algorithm and see if there were ways I could improve it. I wound up completely rewriting it to calculate the most popular domain name prefixes and suffixes used in all domain names. This article is about that process and the results.

Let me know if you have any questions.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3789822
OT: Saw spinner for a couple of seconds. Back.
I also noticed this....it also gets easier depending on the language....

I'm learning Spanish right now, and for example, Portuguese and Italian can at times be very similar
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Could you elaborate on what you mean by "correct without having to be write" Within the context of the parent post?

Is this a matter of the problems pointed out are "correct" technically, but they may or may not be the "right" thing to spend time on?
Off Topic but I hate the new blogger templates! They are inconsistent, unresponsive and even overlap with the browser sidebar.
We've been enjoying it a lot at &yet. We use it for daily checkins and developer discussions. Like a private mailing list... without the mail :)

It's helped pull our team together and give a better sense of how people are feeling about their work and progress.

That's been huge for us.
I upvoted your comment but what is weird on Paint.NET? I am very happy with it where I always felt that GIMP was the VI of image manipulation.
There's a big gap in people sharing digital goods and wanting the trinket on demand, and another gap to getting the 3D content widespread enough. Those are big gaps.
I think OP's point is more than just "what if it is less than optional".

Scarier than "a future where it will be impossible to get affordable insurance if you opt out" is one where we get arrested/fined/penalized for making "too many hard stops" (whatever "too many" is, whatever a "hard stop" is and regardless of whether or not having "too many hard stops" makes you an unsafe driver).

We should be wary of Big Data because it is all too easy for people in control to report data that supports whatever theory they are trying to prove.
Not sure why you'd say that. I think Oracle's arguments are completely ridiculous. They're arguing that it's illegal to clone an API, something that has been done repeatedly by every player in the tech world imaginable over four decades now and has enriched us all. It's obscene.

That said, I think it's true that Oracle's slides have the better evidence. There are all sort of (admittedly out of context) incriminating statement from the Google people which indicate that Google really wanted a Sun license and tried really hard to get one. That certainly looks bad, but again I don't think it speaks to the underlying law.

Edit: I should point out there's a flip side here too. The fact that Sun wasn't willing to deal despite Google's attempts can be an argument that they weren't negotiating in good faith. If that was the case, then there are no damages to award. Obviously we don't have any juicy emails or quotes from discovery in Google's slides, so there's no way to know.
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This seems deeply fictional to me: a group of adults appear in a bar. Why would a manager ever contact a matching agency? Maybe the internet has made me too cynical, but the bar for truthiness has fallen rather low.

That seems bizarre, but of course is to imply a certain opportunity and efficacy in the product in a very salacious, shareable fashion.

I don't buy it.
You're assuming that people would drop cable and buy through streaming as opposed to maintaining the same 28M subscribers and ADD additional streaming customers. If they charged $9/mn, I have a hard time seeing how that could be a net loss. Even if some subscribers switch from cable to streaming, they wouldn't lose revenue.

The only way they could lose revenue is if current subscribers dropped cable and didn't go with streaming, which seems unlikely to me.
Learning a second language allows you to appreciate the commitment that it requires. People who has never gone thru the process, don't appreciate it and they think it is a matter of studying six months one hour a day. I had a supervisor who said that he was going to learn Spanish (at 55) so we can tell him stuff that we didn't know how to say in English. I have been learning English for 23 years since I was 21. I felt this was insulting. Somehow he thought he could do it; may be he felt he was smarter than us because his English was fluent. Of course he was never able to say anything in Spanish.
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You have to think of it as writing a P2P app with no "trusted" server. Each client needs to be suspicious of all content created by other clients, and handle it accordingly. There are many services where a trusted server doesn't really add any value.

Consider for instance Facebook and Twitter. What if each user had full control over their own data:

Search: Each user would register a link to their data in a shared namespace so users could find each other. A single user could add/remove/edit their link, but only enumerate/search others.

Follow: The consumer traverses the link from the registry to the data and consumes it.

Friend: A asks to be B's friend by writing a request into a write-only namespace unique to B. B grants or denies access to protected data.

You get the idea. Nearly everything can be made to work with multiple clients that cooperate but don't trust each other. A trusted server isn't really required.
So what would really kick things open is an open-source Cricut device. There has to be a way to make a cheaper rotary cutter. I've seen the Cricut in stores and it's crazy what they're charging for pattern cartridges.
I just don't believe his claim: "C1 fluency in French in about 5 months" if he started from 0 unless he didn't do anything but learning the language in the target country. C1 is a damn high fluency:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_European_Framework_of_Re...

"Can understand a wide range of demanding, longer texts, and recognise implicit meaning. Can express him/herself fluently and spontaneously without much obvious searching for expressions. Can use language flexibly and effectively for social, academic and professional purposes. Can produce clear, well-structured, detailed text on complex subjects, showing controlled use of organisational patterns, connectors and cohesive devices."

I'm a long-time foreigner in a German-speaking country, learning German after already speaking two more languages apart from my mother tongue, not knowing German before I came here, so I know how many nuances a living language has. Had he say A2, or B1 if he's a language talent, I'd believe him, C1, I can't imagine. I can only guess he didn't actually try to pass some formal verification tests, or he didn't start from 0, there simply must be something he avoided to say. Or he simply lies to himself (and us) that it's actually C1 what he reached in five months.
Language lives, meaning of words change.

If the mainstream decides to use the word "hacker" for something that you don't like, there is probably not much you can do about it (especially on HN, I thought Life Hacker was the wrong guy?).
The ethical discussion is, to me, more interesting because there is a big gray area. A lot of people are framing something as a dichotomy (get HBO or pirate) when there is (to me) an obvious third option, which is waiting until the content is available.

As far as a business decision goes, HBO is making a choice that may or may not be the right business choice, but it is well within their rights. Maybe they will fail, maybe they will win big. Whatever.
we've been using it within our team for a few months, it's pretty great. it's easy to use for the non-dev folks on the team, and i think probably the thing i like about it most is it's basically a team forum where people feel comfortable talking about whatever and it DOESN'T have all the other project management stuff and so forth.
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I think you can modify the code easily (it's an app script, the code is at the end):

https://developers.google.com/apps-script/articles/gmail-sta...
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The analogy is better if you use dictionary.

The language must have words with meaning (API specification).

A dictionary is a book of words and their definition (API implementation).
You can have two different dictionaries from the same language. They both have their copyrights, and they don't infringe each other copyrights.

Harmony's Java API implementation (used in Android) and JDK's Java API implementation are just two different dictionaries for the same language (Java API specification).

You will use a dictionary (API implementation) of a language - its symbols and words and the rules between them - (programming Language and API specification) to write a book (programs).

Both dictionary and book are subject to copyright. The language is not.
Rosetta Stone worked great for me. I learned Russian in about 6 months, my wife says my pronunciation is perfect. Well, she wasn't my wife when I met her, and she didn't speak any english, so it was motivation enough for me to learn to speak Russian. It helps that I have someone to practice with. I'd say if you are going to be doing Rosetta Stone, it helps if you do it every day without fail for a minimum of 30 minutes a day. When I was studying, I did 30 minutes twice a day. Any periods longer than 30 minutes, and I found that my brain didn't retain as much. But, if I took that hour and split it into two sessions about 3 hours apart, that did the trick. It also helps to study right before you go to bed. Now it's not very difficult for me to speak Russian. I don't think of the english first and then translate it - I just think of the russian words and how to say what I want. Sometimes I don't know the word, and I have to describe what I want to say.

Anyway, I am at a point now that I am learning new words every day just by speaking.
In the end: users/customers don't care.
There's nothing special about this.

This works with any domain that has *.example.com pointing to the right place.
> You keep questioning my statistics skill,

I have not done that anywhere yet. On the contrary, I keep assuming you have them; perhaps I should stop, as you ignore what I write, and your only arguments are "but CPI=BPP, and even krugman says so", completely disregarding everything I write. Is my explanation that CPI can only equal BPP if they were constructed to be so wrong in any way?

> but you are the one who used the anecdote of your personal purchases as evidence.

No, I brought this up as anecdote. I did bring independent evidence (from a seekingalpha author) that agrees with shadowstats analysis - which you conveniently ignore.

> For every case like this, there are 100 where the professional consensus was right, and the lone dissenter was simply a quack.

This is a meaningless statement of appeal to authority. I'm not debating thousands of cases. I'm debating one case, with some support, which you conveniently ignore.

> You guys haven't proven beyond a doub

Who are "you guys?"

> You are also accusing BPP of fudging their numbers, and admittedly they aren't open about their data sources, but here's the rub.

Sorry sir, you apparently lack both statistical skills and reading skills. I am not accusing BPP of anything of the sort. I would urge you to reread what I wrote, but I have done that already, and that is useless.

For the benefit of others who actually read (if anyone still is) - the BPP index cannot have been constructed other than to have a value similar to the CPI. They do not have to be fudging or part of a conspiracy to be wrong (a fact jshen conveniently ignores)

> You could easily create your own BPP type index, make it open with the code in the public domain, and show some real numbers to prove that the BPP is fudged. Right?

"Easily?" Are you aware that BPP is the only (semi-)independent source of this data, and when they were about to close down there was a lot of outrage at the lack of any alternative.

In fact, there are millions of dollars to be made in knowing the difference between the officially published CPI and the "analyst estimate consensus". If you think it's easy, do that and you can retire on the first time your CPI collection disagrees with estimate consensus. Similarly for NFP numbers, PPI and others.

"Easily?" - one of us is living in lala-land, and it isn't me.

> side note: shadowstats is not transparent either. They haven't produced the data sources plus the code that generates their numbers.

Neither does the BLS, by the way, only very vague descriptions, and parts of the data are based on interviews asking people to speculate "if you were to do this, how much do you think you could earn / how much would it cost".

There is NO WAY for anyone to independently verify significant components of the BLS' CPI number.
It's mentioned in the guidelines as something not to do: Please don't bait other users by inviting them to downmod you.
Is't that option just called buying the shows from iTunes or on DVD?
They prepay for their first round of drinks through Grouper. It's on the "how it works" section: https://www.joingrouper.com/
They'll be saying the same of XML in a few years. All attempts at a "universal" format for data interchange end up ludicrous.
I'd gladly pay for HBO. The rest of the cable sub? Not so much.

HD Cable + HBO sub = $70/mo, $840 per year.

6 quality HD shows per year @ $35 each season on iTunes = $210.

Of course everyone is different, but I'm only watching 1-2 shows at a time every season, and for people like me, "just paying for HBO" would cost me 4x as much as I should be paying for the amount of content I'm consuming.

EDIT: Whoever down-voted me, could you at least explain why? As a consumer, I don't feel like subsidizing a bunch of content I won't even use. Yeah, I get that's their model, and as such I don't see their content. It's a pretty fair non-transaction.
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The funny thing is, if that were true, you'd have no problems getting an O-1 visa to the US for example.
Your only accusation of wrongdoing (either ethical or legal) seems to be that Google "acted in bad faith," but I have no idea what you mean by that. I believe that phrase normally means "used deception and subterfuge," but I don't see how Google did anything duplicitous.

You seem to think I'm "rushing to Google's defense as if they've been acting altruistically". This is incorrect. I don't know what your motivation is here, but I don't really have strong feelings about Google one way or the other. I'm just calling 'em as I see 'em.

All Google did is create its own implementation of a programming language. Never before in history has this been considered an evil thing. It happens all the time. I wouldn't call Rich Hickey or Guy Steele evil for "stealing" Lisp from John McCarthy, so out of consistency, I can't call Google evil for doing the same thing with Java. I also don't see how Google was deceitful in this, as you claim. They seem to have been quite up-front about what they were doing.

In fact, I'll go further: If any party acted in bad faith, it would have to be Oracle, which supported Google and Apache's alternative Java implementations up until it sued Google and gave Apache the middle finger.
They exist. This one is "Open" in that you can cut images you design in vector software like Adobe Illustrator, but has its own drawbacks. Mostly horrible software interfaces that act as intermediaries.

http://www.graphteccorp.com/craftrobo/
as yuvadam said above, there's nothing special about this, though. you can do this to any site. for the site above, you can just go to *.withdjango.com.
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Look at the menubar next to the dropbox logo in the video.

It's the Google Drive app running.
I have a TV, but no cable. I wish I could access HBO the same way I access Netflix, on my Roku box. I would happily pay the same amount as cable subscribers pay for HBO.

However I suspect that since they are owned by Time Warner, it won't get any better. Big cable companies are actively trying to prevent themselves from becoming dumb pipes.
Thanks for sharing your lessons. The biggest takeaway for me is this:

> Literally schedule in specific time to think & be creative– you need it.
Sorry, but no. Photoshop's interface is not particularly easy to use (discoverability issues), nor is it efficient (too much modifier key usage). Photoshop users are overtrained on a suboptimal way of working. What we need is something with photoshop's engine (which is very powerful), but a better UI. Gimp is not that though, and it never will be (good UI must be designed like a cathedral, and gimp will always remain a bazaar of features).
Totally agree. Lack of easy, but robust 3D authoring tools are the biggest gate on wider spread 3D printing, IMO.
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I read about Spriter last week on some gamedev forums. There is definitely a strong need for the functionality Spriter will provide within this niche, hence the successful Kickstarter. I thought the video was also very compelling and well-made. I'm looking forward to the release of Spriter.
Yes, IT departments should worry about Google Drive
How to Use JRuby for Rails Apps on Cloud Foundry
With just a few configuration changes, now you too can get your JRuby Rails apps up and running on CloudFoundry.com. This post by the CloudFoundry team describes the steps you need to take.
Clever way to get people to use Google Docs. Instead of providing a page within Gmail, force people to use the Docs tab and set up their own spreadsheet. Evil genius.
The requirement to defend ones IP generally only applies to trademark law, not copyrights or patents.
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CPS is best suited for intermediate code, it's not something to be written/read by humans as it's basically the same as goto.
Don't forget Game of Thrones which is superb.
>Doesn't inspire confidence, and shouldn't.

Having qualified university expertise on something should inspire SOME confidence, all else being equal.

But I wrote that for another reason: to show that one doesn't have to be an "idiot" to argue that, as the parent implied.

>Correct. They can (and should) be dismissed by observing that they contradict reality.

They should be dismissed IF they are found to contradict reality. And that's not as clear cut as the existence of gravity or the water becoming ice at 0 oC.

>The guy was alleging that there exists a small cabal of uber-rich who control the world. That's pretty clearly not the case.

Well, it depends on your definition of "small" and of "control". If I remember correctly, a small number of people do have a disproportionate amount of the total wealth, in the US and globally. A power-law distribution basically, right? And that wealth surely asserts lots of control. Surely SOPA and PIPA, for example, weren't proposed/passed with the insistence and for the benefit of Joe Sixpack or Joe Hacker.
if a software engineer ended up on the jury of this trial
would they be percluded from ever working for google or oracle?
Neat idea. How do you plan to monetize?
I don't think they are idiots, I am just upset that they won't take my money.

I would be happy to pay them for a subscription. It's just basic cable that I won't pay for.
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One of Oracle's slides quotes the licence statement in the Java Specification (http://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jls/se7/html/jls-0-legal...). It states that you are allowed to use it for developing applications, but not for developing "non-compliant" implementations. So I guess their position is that Google's implementation is an infringing copy of part of the specification (namely the type signatures).
The author explained in this thread why he used Erlang:
http://nendowingsmirai.yuku.com/topic/6327/FAQ-Why-Erlang#.T...
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We try to track our users level happiness by using basic metrics like time on site, times people share. We're still working out our own formula for doing what matters means to us. We think we're getting there.

Would be interesting to hear about pitch decks that include a "happiness quotient" or some metric tied to the emotion level of their users.

In the long term, I'm curious if focusing on this sort of metric is good for business.
There's a war on non-linkbait blog post titles.
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