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I am 25 years old. I have never paid for cable and I have numerous shows that I enjoy. I would GLADLY pay to watch some of my favourite shows, Game of Thrones included. However, as I currently reside in Canada, I can't even watch Hulu - Netflix Canada sucks. I have money; your show is not attainable through monetary means and I will not purchase cable. What is a fella to do?

You do not like the answer.
Robinson Jeffers, from "Original Sin," 1946:

The man-brained and man-handed ground-ape, physically

The most repulsive of all hot-blooded animals

Up to that time of the world: they had dug a pitfall

And caught a mammoth, but how could their sticks and stones

Reach the life in that hide? They danced around the pit, shrieking

With ape excitement, flinging sharp flints in vain, and the stench of their bodies

Stained the white air of dawn; but presently one of them

Remembered the yellow dancer, wood-eating fire

That guards the cave-mouth: he ran and fetched him, and others

Gathered sticks at the wood’s edge; they made a blaze

And pushed it into the pit, and they fed it high, around the mired sides

Of their huge prey. They watched the long hairy trunk

Waver over the stifled trumpeting pain,

And they were happy...

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/176425

While it's hard to fault Jeffers in this judgment, I would nonetheless insist that the chimpanzee is at least #2. Even gorillas are just plain vile. Last month I took the kids to see the gorillas at the SF Zoo, and one female took deadly aim at the audience with a pile of poo - missing, but barely. Perhaps the entire primate clade is just a mistake.
Well they did the right thing...eventually. Sad that they couldn't do it for the right reasons and had to be pushed.
Cable television requires a subscription with a cable company, telecom, or DTH satellite operator.

Broadband internet requires a subscription with a cable company, telecom, or DTH satellite operator.

An "internet-based model" has no impact on the supply chain. Cable companies, telecoms, and DTH satellite providers still sit between the content providers and the consumer.
I'm pretty sure that washingtonpost.com does this now. This URL, for example: http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-us-governments-ou... serves content if you have adblock plus turned off, but a registration page if you have it turned on.
Oh, come on. I'm a "product person". Fundamentally we explain the customer to the company, explain the company to the customers, and obsess over the business model. Fun, interesting challenges, sure.

But the team is the DNA, vision, and culture. And any leader, regardless of background, can guide the team to aim even higher.
They only got a grant for $1.5M to work on this? These dentists are in the wrong business! They should make an iPhone app to share pictures with your friends then they will really cash in!
That was said by Ken Olsen, CEO of DEC, in 1977- At a meeting of the World Future Society, of all places. Granted, he later said that he was referring to large computers common at that time.
1. Facebook would probably need to somehow indicate that a post has been "highlighted", lest they lose legitimacy and breed distrust.

2. Users probably wouldn't want their friends to know they paid to highlight a post.

I'm not sure how those forces can be reconciled, unless people generally don't care about one [logical OR] the other.
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i've applied, sounds good even it done remotely
Github is your friend. Create an account and put some of your code on there (outside of work of course ;) ). I'm sure you could come up some a neat Matlab or Python tool to build.
Well in this case, it looks like the employee was in the right. Just a few minutes ago, the founder (Somrat) admitted his mistake and paid Joshua the full $10k.

Later on when future employers see this, they'll realize that the employee has proper morals, and is a "do-er". I think most employees would suck it up if they lost out on 10k, but this person stuck it out and rode the storm.

Would you hire a passive employee, or a passionate one? Sometimes passion will cause people to do things that may backfire, but at least they gave it a shot. Passive employees wouldn't even bother with the 10k loss.
I have to admit I'm a little confused. Is this so that a company you follow can pay for their message to be highlighted, or is it so my friend who really wants me to know what he had for breakfast can pay for the privilege?
Thanks for the tip; I'll give it a listen. OO has been at it a LONG time as well--definitely listened to him back in the day as well.

Sasha, Oakenfold, and Ferry Corsten around the 1999 - 2002 timeframe were my soundtrack. Some really great anthems from those days!
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Not sure why people are so upset about this.

It's a pleasant mashup, nothing more, nothing less. Like sticking Craigslist and Google Maps together. Not going to change the world, but useful to some and a weekend project to show off. The developers themselves are tongue-in-cheek about it, as you could tell from the name alone.
I'm not sure why there is so much hate for this today as well. To me it seems like a fun simple project that actually manages to make something easier for some people, namely view instagram on their desktop.

I'm curious if this partially comes out of some residual hate on HN for both instagram and pinterest since they are booming at the moment.
When we were subscribing I was able to use HBO Go fine on 4G (TMobile, Seattle area).

My bugaboo in this area is international football. Getting Premier League games in the states is a real pain. I'm sure there's equally entrenched interests there.
Of course he would say that. The traditional industry is trying to stop legit Internet viewing.

Netflix or some other company needs to become strong and break them.
Thanks.

I oversimplified a bit for readability and I'm thinking specifically of technology entrepreneurs.

I don't believe the value of conferences is absolute zero but the point would be that spending your time building a notable product is far more valuable than spending your time at a conference.

I've spent a fair amount of this year attending conferences (most notably SXSW) and this post was a reaction to my experiences.
The astounding thing to me is that I think these companies actually believe this.If I hadn't met people like this, I wouldn't believe that you can live in such a total circlejerk of like-minded people that you can actually make statements like this and mean them.

Mayyyybe the people at the top actually have some sense of what's going on and are just being strategic. But I wouldn't doubt for a minute that they actually don't.
In case you're wondering, I believe the reference is to this page:

http://dkeenan.com/Lambda/index.htm
There is apparently a post now on his blog from the Miso CEO that they will pay.
Snopes tells me that it was Ken Olsen, founder of Digital Equipment Corporation, in 1977.

http://www.snopes.com/quotes/kenolsen.asp
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So, basically, the company can dictate the exact debts in its exit agreement? And if you disagree, you forego all claims anyway?

This sounds a bit illogical, but I'm not a lawyer. Another poster said it wasn't the practice at all in his years of experience, so maybe your experience does not generalize well.

You're also making an assumption that such a contract was made in this case - and it clearly wasn't, since the Miso people acknowledged their mistake here. So the guy absolutely deserves the bonus payout, even if he didn't submit the administrative form to claim it while he was still there.
Maybe this will be the solution to broken US immigration laws, in 20 years.
For every one line of code you type, write 10 lines about how, why, and where you wrote it.

Rinse and repeat.
When I want to get a message out to friends that rises above the din of day to day chatter, I send an email. Or write a letter and drop it in the mail. Or make a phone call.

I will be surprised if this feature does anything but lower people's friends counts, as they quickly learn which groups they joined or people they friended are merely funded opportunists.
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looks like that's exactly what happened... Somrat just paid the employee $10k.
Whether or not he should have taken legal action against them, the important thing is to get the data out on a wide public forum like HN. Information benefits us when it's widely distributed, not when it's only confined to a private lawsuit.
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Time Warner Cable is actually not owned by Time Warner, which is exclusively (or getting there) a content company.

The issue here is actually that the cable companies (TWC included, now as one of many clients of Time Warner's) provide huge dollars in a lump sum kind of way. The internet is still not a proven business model for distributing shows profitably.

While I agree with others in this thread that an a la carte model is the correct one and would likely work, there is very little middle ground for them (HBO, TW etc.) in between selling their shows to cable companies and going completely independent and distributing through the internet. As soon as they start doing that the cable companies will stop paying for their shows, and then at best there will be a long period of time while people switch over to consuming everything over the internet. Imagine how long it's going to take IE8 to disappear due to the fact that you can't upgrade to IE9+ w/o Vista+. Now imagine the upgrade I have to do is swapping out a cable box for a computer. Will you survive that gap, or will cable companies, wanting to continue to capitalize on the networks they've built, simply replace your content with someone else's?
I'm really glad Miso did the right thing. However, they should have done something extra, either monetary or otherwise.

What's the tech equivalent of punitive damages?
I don't buy bread. I have sandwiches that I would like to make, but I can't eat a whole loaf before it goes bad, so I don't buy it. I would gladly buy half a loaf, but my grocery store doesn't sell half loaves. If they won't make a half loaf to suit my needs and what I want to pay, I should just be able to steal whole loaves?
I have literally never seen a person pull off a fedora. Link to picture?
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It is so awesome the private sector is getting into this. Here's hoping I'll still be around by the time it become affordable (or that I've it pay dirt in the meantime :).
That was an out of context quote by Ken Olsen, founder of Digital Equipment Corporation. In fact, Ken Olsen was a hacker, just like us, and had a computer in his house which he used for work:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Olsen#Quotations
I suspect it's more complicated than that. Netflix is $15 a month, cable subscribers routinely pay $100 or more. And I'd bet that HBO and its properties get a reasonably-sized chunk of that. That "BOATLOAD" has a lot of scaling to do.
My little bit of snopes'ing pulled up an interesting ass covering that Olsen made in reference to this quote, which as time goes on still sounds equally as bad:

> I did make a number of statements and still make statements that people don't understand about computers, or delight in misquoting. A long time ago when the common knowledge was that PCs would run our lives in every detail, I said that if you stole something from the refrigerator at night you didn't want to enter this into the computer so that it would . . . mess up the computer plans for coming meals.
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It's stated elsethread that CA is $7,500. So that adds $2,500 to the cost, still well short of the claimed $50,000.
I dug into to this looking for some greater insight, but found the article a bit lacking.

I looked into the both of them for managing a couple of personal machines, and decided against Chef because of the very heavy stack.

What I found really lacking, however, was the bootstrap process. I want a way to provision a machine from the ground up, automated installation, followed by insertion into the managaed network, and then management following my policies.

Trying to get this into place was quite difficult, and I'm currently stalled in my project. Does anyone have any insights?
Agreed. Plus leather lets your feet breath. Synthetics make my feet sweat.
I always find it odd when I talk to a VC or someone about my startup and they're surprised that we've known each other for 5-6 years and have worked together before.

I can understand having an idea and not knowing how to implement on it, but I can't understand trying to make a business out of that. I have many good ideas I'm not qualified to have. I either take the time to become qualified (how I learned programming in the first place), or just shelve them.

I think that's the same reasoning which caused YC to do the no-idea thing. Ideas are cheap, the team is what's important. I guarantee someone had the idea of Twitter before Twitter.
Actually, I own a server in the US and have the means to set up a VPS.

The point I am trying to make is that I shouldn't have to take 10 steps to watch my favourite shows. It should be a two step process. Pay -> Watch. Easy.
My understanding is that there is research in what you suggested. I'm just saying that I don't believe we yet have the technology to grow a finger. Someday, almost surely we will. Just, not for some time. Or so I think.
He didn't fail it, it was just a bit late.
My brain processes things linearly, left to right, top to bottom. If I go left to right on row 1 and then left to right on row 2, I do not expect to find elements of row 1 hanging down into row 2. I don't mind tiles and I don't mind liquid layouts that realign tiles depending on page width. But when nearly every tile has a different height, it really messes with my brain. Even the two column Facebook Timeline makes me angry. Both cause my eyes to scan the page in a way that goes against what I've been doing for 30-some-odd-years now.
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I see this as doing your former coworkers a favor actually. They might not even know what type of person their boss is behind the scenes. The former coworkers might actually be happy that their boss was called out on shenanigans, to prevent future sleazy behavior.
Exactly the same situation here. I can't consume media "legitimately" in many circumstances even if I wanted to thanks to arbitrary restrictions regarding regions and DRM.
The response I got on this article today was, "I've talked to HBO execs at NAB and IBC. They're simultaneously clueless and shackled to Time Warner."

How do you solve that?
Utter crap. Rewriting history after you get called out is just pathetic.

They owed him money and either through mistake or malice didn't pay him. When he contacted them to correct it they tried to legalize their way out of it. If I wouldn't have anything to do with them before, I'm doubly unimpressed now.
In the game of piracy you seed or you die.
Might he not have a similar quality of life and have access to some other great companies to invest in within an hour's drive and have less investment competition should he choose to move to, say, Louisiana? Or Mississippi? Or Tennessee? Or Texas?

Why would someone in a position to make angel investments move to a random new city just to have less investor competition?
and they very well might owe him the 10k. i was simply trying to consider the other side, which we don't know as much about, and i am assuming they made the best decision considering all the circumstances. maybe not. really, the employee should have collected this bonus prior to quitting his job. this could have been avoided if he was paying attention. i'd have a calendar appointment set for the date i was to receive that bonus, if i was that employee.
Literally comparing apples and oranges.

More like; I buy a loaf of bread and I am never around to eat it. The whole loaf goes mouldy so I don't buy it. My friend gives me a piece of bread when I want it at 12 am, I would GLADLY pay for it but he doesn't accept money and he only complains.
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I am curious to find out what files are being installed and where on my hdd when I install a program on my HDD. I am wondering if there is a way to start a 'monitor' before the installer runs such that it will show hdd/filesystem activity and that will show what new files/directories were created and which existing ones were touched modified.

Atleast in Windows, I knew where the files were install most of the time and if I wanted to remove something i could clean up manually what the uninstaller left out. AS for OS X i have no idea where stuff goes when a installer is used. I understand that straight forward apps are packages/directories themselves and contain most the files. But what happens when the program comes with a installer (say ms office or something like that)

Does OS X apps follow a certain structure like linux where configs go in one location, binaries in another and so on.

If anybody can point me in the right direction or explain what goes on when a program is installed that will great. Thanks.
I would love this. Here's to hoping it takes off.
Here in the Texas area, Verizon's FiOS service is easily $80-100 a month. That's for the base internet + tv package, with no special channels, too. That does not include HBO, or any other movie channel. At one house that I lived at for a year or so, we paid $180 a month for TV + internet, no phone line. That was simply because we wanted HBO and some sports channels, and good internet, with like two extra DVR boxes.

I consider $100 on TV + internet to be pretty average, if not lower average.

Edit: deleted message said something about $100 being way more than he had seen for TV and internet bundles.
Someone else already said this, but thanks for the news.
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Is there an upside to making a statement like this for a guy in his position? I am trying to think because the potential downside(becoming the laughing stock) in future seems huge.
No you shouldn't steal a whole loaf, but you shouldn't be prevented from seeing a loaf and then going home and making your own loaf.
I'm not so sure that his actions would be considered "disloyal" to his former employees. If anything, his former employees might be happy that their founder was called out on a mistake, to prevent the founder from doing other sleazy tactics on current employees.

I'm not going to defend my boss if he did something morally deficient, and I would be happy if my coworkers has the cajones to call him out.
That's a lot of boilerplate code. Okay there are macros to wrap such things, but I guess it's things like this that would make the future reader of the code puzzled.
Yes but at some point there will be a physical limit. Earth's energy income will always be limited by the Sun's energy output. So no, not infinitely. (I imagine making plastic out of air would take a lot of energy.)

Before you tell me how much energy the Earth gets compared to how much we use, I'm going to pre-emptively reply "Exponential growth".
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Yes. A credit card processor that said they wouldn't act while he was disputing a charge --- but oops did. A credit card processor that makes it hard to contact them. A credit card processor that cannot be bothered to pick up the phone and call the customer.

Might as well be random.
I hate to break it to the guy, but I can't remember the last time my browser was at 100% zoom, so his perfect pixels will never look perfect on my screen anyway...
Actually he is literally comparing bread to piracy. It would be a literal comparison to apples and oranges if he had, literally, compared apples and oranges. "Literal" means "just as the text says it", not "definitely". "Literal" means it is exactly as it is written, it is not an exaggeration, expression, allegory, or analogy; it LITERALLY happened, meaning it happened EXACTLY AS WRITTEN.

You probably meant "definitely" or "certainly" comparing "apples to oranges". It's an expression, it's not literal unless he LITERALLY was comparing apples and oranges, where an apple is a fruit from an apple tree, and an orange is a fruit from an orange tree. Such a comparison may sound like "most apples are red and fat around the middle, most oranges are orange and evenly round".
Yes, and "only humans use tools...blahblahblah".

Next, they will be teaching them sign language.
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That analogy doesn't hold. You could always freeze half the loaf when you get it. It's not the same with cable TV.

A better analogy would be that you wanted to buy a loaf of bread, but the grocery store forced you to also buy hot dog and hamburger buns with it along with some bagels. Say you're a vegetarian or don't like hot dogs or hamburgers, and you'll never use them, but you have to buy them anyway.
Wouldn't Maven suffice?
Oh yes. I agree. And I have suffered to set up an american PayPal account just so I could pay for media services which restrict access based on where your PayPal account is (IMHO, they should not even be able to get this information, but I digress). Then PayPal found out and basically blocked my account, along with the little amount of funds it had.

It is just crazy how many conditions they impose instead of just taking my money, then complain when people who are less patient than me just go ahead and pirate the damn thing.