skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not really helpful. As everywhere you can be lucky getting really talented and fair contractors or unlucky with mediocre people. But you have more people to select from and better control mechanisms.

Western devs and contractors usually do not like such market places because of the high competition and low prices.
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Is monetization really considered an optional step in this process? I'm new to this whole hacker/entrepreneurship scene, but monetization seems like it should be a key step here.
This is why the first thing you see when opening Emacs (after the GNU/Emacs logo) is a list of links headed with the Tutorial.

Coincidentally, I thought the tutorial was very well done. It certainly helped me get up to speed fairly quickly without being overbearing.
The "recent tweets" widget shows people tweeting numbers like $10. Isn't HBO as an add-on to an existing cable subscription generally significantly more than that?
Yeah I am not associating myself with that.

The piracy angle, or those particular programmes?
Replacing them with ASCII/unicode equivalents rips the guts out of the language. … What have you accomplished? Well, at the very least you've ruined the superbly expressive nature of mathematics through agreed upon special symbols.

I really don't think the small number of keystrokes is what makes this sort of language expressive. Cryptic notation is a cost, not a bonus. Moving from, say, J to C, having to write

log(…)

instead of

^. …

(or ⍟) does not make me feel like I've lost anything. The things that do make me feel constrained are having to explicitly write out loops if I want to apply that operation to an array of numbers instead of just one and not having a convenient way to use that operation in function composition.
Their Xtradb storage engine has very tangible performance benefits over InnoDB, especially on SSDs.
Piracy of course.
No, he didn't. Native platforms simply don't have the commitment to openness and cross- and backwards-compatibility that the Web does. He described all the advantages of native apps, but the disadvantages, the advantages of the Web, are so uncompromisable they were implicit, so he didn't mention them.

There's a reason that compared to native platforms, the Web has way fewer problems with proprietary standards, walled gardens, dependency and upgrade hell.
$14/month on AT&T. But in some instances they may be cross-subsidized by basic cable, too.
Just checking. (sorry, was just the first thought that entered my head and it made me giggle)
It costs $14.99/mo to add it to AT&T U-Verse if it isn't included in your package already.
Our bodies are full of feedback systems that only work in our natural (i.e. pre-civilization, pre-agriculture, hunter-gatherer, nasty, brutish, short) environment. It should be no surprise that our food cravings are among them.

There are other fun examples. One is that our breathing reflex is based on CO2 concentration being too high rather than O2 concentration being too low, even though O2 concentration is more important! Breathe into a closed system with a CO2 scrubber in it and you'll quickly get loopy and then pass out from lack of oxygen (and then die, if nobody disconnects you) all the while feeling fine. Another is that the iris of the eye responds to visible light but protects against more. Looking at the Sun is normally OK (uncomfortable, but tolerable) because the feedback is set up properly, but during the totality of a solar eclipse (which of course occurred back then, but not often enough to matter, apparently) your iris will crank open and let in tons of UV from the Sun's still-visible corona, frying your retina if you look at it.

It makes a great deal of sense that we'd evolve strong cravings for things which are good for us in small quantities but bad for us in large quantities when those things were scarce in the distant past, and death came early by other means for other people, well before a bad long-term diet could kill. That doesn't mean this must be what happened, but given how much humans love sugar, and how rare concentrated sugar would have been for our ancestors, it's no surprise if sugar turns out to be bad for us when consumed in the quantities we really want.
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There already is a sort of visual successor to Greasemonkey: Stylish, at http://userstyles.org/. As Greasemonkey lets you write custom JavaScript, Stylish lets you write custom CSS. But it’s not exactly a tool for the masses, since you have to write CSS by hand. And you’re lucky if the site you’re styling has a clean enough DOM that plain CSS is enough – I drop to writing JS-enhanced CSS in Greasemonkey when the site has that problem.
I'd rather see people put their money where their mouth is, in a non-hypothetical way.

For example, pick some otherwise random date a few weeks after the DVD set will be released and organize a concerted buying effort amongst "pirates" on that specific date.
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Besides the excellent suggestions by the parent, I might also look at the awesome work done by Jon Kleinberg for a more theoretical understanding. One may start with his pretty concise Networks book:
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/kleinber/networks-book/
Maybe you know different people than I, but most of the non-technical computer users I know, when asked about where is a document, will answer "Oh I saved my curriculum in Word" instead of a folder.
It's not pirating if you download Game of Thrones -- it's paying The Iron Price
The main benefit of low-carb diets for weight loss is that they spontaneously reduce calorie intake by cutting out whole groups of foods (by looking at studies it's been shown that any diet that restricts food choices like this will tend to induce weight loss but is usually unsustainable)

Another benefit is that the low-carb diets provide better satiety. In studies, if people were advised to eat ad libitum, those who had to choose from low-carb foods eventually consumed less calories than those, who could choose from "regular" food.
I don't see any info on how it works? the website is just justifications for tactile interaction
I pay $30/month to watch Starcraft 2 tournaments on GomTV.net.

I pay $0/month to watch Game of Thrones, Veep, Girls, and True Blood. I will continue to pay $0 until there is an option that does not involve enriching evil cable executives.

Your move, HBO.
I have wondered how people discover Dropbox. It seems to have penetration into the realm of non-techies, but I am not sure. Is this true, in your opinion?

The iPad I completely understand the appeal. It does not look like a computer. It looks like an Etch-a-Sketch. It's basically a handheld game.

I would love to read more about what your users want. It is interesting and educational.
Because it was and still is a dumb idea.
From a wired article:
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/al...

"Before yottabytes of data from the deep web and elsewhere can begin piling up inside the servers of the NSA’s new center, they must be collected. To better accomplish that, the agency has undergone the largest building boom in its history, including installing secret electronic monitoring rooms in major US telecom facilities. Controlled by the NSA, these highly secured spaces are where the agency taps into the US communications networks, a practice that came to light during the Bush years but was never acknowledged by the agency. The broad outlines of the so-called warrantless-wiretapping program have long been exposed—how the NSA secretly and illegally bypassed the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, which was supposed to oversee and authorize highly targeted domestic eavesdropping; how the program allowed wholesale monitoring of millions of American phone calls and email. In the wake of the program’s exposure, Congress passed the FISA Amendments Act of 2008, which largely made the practices legal. Telecoms that had agreed to participate in the illegal activity were granted immunity from prosecution and lawsuits. What wasn’t revealed until now, however, was the enormity of this ongoing domestic spying program."

Its a recent article outlining what's ahead (and presently implemented) for the NSA. Given what is already known, the U.S. Govt already has access to your e-mail, and they have the capabilities to decrypt it should your e-mail become high priority.

I'm sorry, but the sky is falling.
Except Chrome OS is developed by people who are motivated to hold your data for you. I don't have a lot of faith in Chrome OS's ability to be independent of a server model when it so much in Google's interest for you to be effectively tethered to their servers.
How to get Free Internet on Flights
So I'm sitting here on a flight back home to NYC, trying to get through my normal pile of emails. Almost tempted to purchase an internet flight pass, I realized that there might be [a free] another way around it.

I fired up PacketPeeper (wireshark would work just as well), kicked my NIC into promiscuous mode, and let the packets pour in. It wasn't very long before I saw a steady stream of connections to facebook, directed at some other computer in the network. So, I copied that computer's MAC address, spoofed (what a dirty word) it, and renewed my DHCP lease.

Voila, free internet, courtesy of the man in 10C (not really.)

I couldn't possibly be the first person that figured this out. So why does a major company like Gogo not patch this loophole up?

tl;dr - I spoofed the MAC address of somebody who had actually paid for the internet. Why is Gogo not doing something about this?
Have you guys thought about how many people are already paying for HBO ? Is HBO hurting for money?

Or is it just a bunch of geeks trying to get hbo for cheap? I know anti-piracy is not always popular but they are creating popular and original shows, why not support them?
Also, take my money, Showtime!
Judging by the video, it looks like the layout of the buttons is fixed, only their presence is toggleable.

If so, that's a bit of a bummer.
$16.99/mo on Fios for HBO in FL if you don't the cable box/ cable card rental free required to access the encrypted channel.
Why is one side of the circle more red and the other more blue?
One of the issues I've run into in the past was a MySQL problem where their system was creating tons of temporary tables, and because of the massive amount of traffic they were getting, it was killing their database server because it was choking out the disk's I/O, and the server was at 80% iowait most of the time because the disk cache was paging things in and out like crazy.

I went back and forth with them about optimizing the app, but it was apparently some huge labyrinthine monstrosity. They insisted that they didn't have the resources to do any of the significant rewrites that it would require to fix the app to do proper queries (or at least, not enough to be worthwhile).

Eventually I gave up. /tmp was mounted onto a separate partition, so I disabled ext3 journalling and set commit=30 so that it only sync'ed to the disk every 30 seconds. Since no temporary tables lasted that long, the VFS layer never wrote to the disk if it didn't have to. /tmp became an in-memory cache, and CPU use dropped to 5%.

Optimizing isn't about a checklist, it's about looking at the system that you have, understanding what it's doing and why, and understanding how the other systems around it behave so that you can resolve the issue. Moving onto another database server wouldn't have helped them. Moving onto a RAID would have reduced the impact, but their load didn't scale linearly so they'd hit their limit in a few months anyway.
Not significantly more, at the end of the day I'd have to guess HBO likely sees less than $10/sub.
C0mrade hacks Lohud.com, USAToday.com, and Microsoft Employee's
Hacker, ".c0mrade" strikes again.

c0mrade managed to get into Habbo, Law.com, Freemasons.org, and Navy.mil in the same week.Now he comes to us with a couple new intrusions. He managed to get into Lohud.com, USAToday.com, and two Microsoft Employee accounts.The pastebin can be found here

http://pastebin.com/nRCcAFpQ
This is a misleading statement. According to Chris' founder story, they had customers at launch and he was the sole programmer.
> Criticizing legitimate American counter-terrorism and counter espionage and suggesting that it's equivalent to China's suppression of thought of its citizens (and people in occupied zones like Tibet) are disingenuous.

However, what is not disingenuous is characterizing American behavior vis-a-vis the propaganda it espouses. That is a good test for any institution or country. Don't even need China here. Compare what happens in US and what US does internationally vs. what US govt and many of its citizens believe or tell others about America. "We are a beacon of democracy " that's a common idea. So now let's see how is the power distributed in US? Does the average citizen have the power to make decision and is that comparable to what the propaganda fantasy is promoting. How about another one "US Constitution protects us from unreasonable searches and severely restricts the power of the government from invading our privacy". A lot of people believe that (doesn't matter if they are Americans or not). Is that true compared to the number of people believing in that? I say it is not. A lot of people are living a lie, believing in a fantasy about the government that is not based in reality. I say that is unhealthy.

Something similar is happening in China or other repressive governments. People are lead to believe in things that are divorced from reality. "We are a paradise". "American Imperialists are out to destroy US" and so on.

There is actually one difference. In some countries (and I can speak for the former Soviet Union during its last days) people knew propaganda was lie and they laughed at it in private. We knew the image we were supposed to have about our country was false. Many Americans are not aware of it. The brainwashing is so effective, they actually believe we are exporting democracy in the Middle East. They believe we have the best health care system . Heck, many believe evolution is a big lie. There is a great amount of self delusion and self censorship. That is unhealthy.

So going back to the comparison. You are right, comparing US to China in absolute terms in certain areas, is like night and day. Say, when it comes to freedom of speech. You can grab a megaphone and go yell out crazy conspiracy stuff right by Obama's front gate. But if you look at the level of delusion, the situation, I think is not as great.
This was a good write-up of an interview with the HBO co-CEO: http://dcurt.is/hbo-forbes-journalism

Worth reading before spouting the typical "I don't understand why HBO doesn't want my $5 a month."
I don't think the issue is that HBO costs $10-15/month right now, but that there's also the cost of the cable subscription and the cable box. Aside from the programs on HBO, the vast majority of what I watch is over-the-air, so it's not too much of a stretch to say I'm paying $60+/month to get HBO legally.
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Here's a brief article about Tactus: http://www.theverge.com/2012/6/5/3064674/tactus-technology-p...

Looks like the button locations are fixed for now, but they're hoping to make them adjustable in the future.
Would you pay $225 a year? That's how much it costs a Briton. ("The annual cost of a colour TV licence is £145.50")
Lots of reasons :)
Also, the evidence against a vegetarian diet is
overwhelming.

If the totality of evidence currently available clearly indicates that vegetarian diets result in premature death, it should be very easy for you to link to a dozen or so clinical studies that have produced such evidence. Please proceed.
A bummer. Now, that is classic.

I remember using public payphones just a little over a decade ago. One time some kids had put Vaseline on the earpiece. That was a fun time.

Now we have a phone in our pocket that we can talk to and have it do nearly anything. By next year, it will have buttons when we want and no buttons when we don't.

Vaseline on your ear is a bummer. This button-no-button stuff is not a bummer.
There is a difference between people saying they will pay for something versus all of those people actually handing over hard currency for it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromatic_aberration
customers with internet > customers that pay for cable

Volume wins?
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You should still be able to dynamically change the symbols printed on those buttons. This still looks exciting to me. :-)
The trouble is not that HBO is too expensive, but rather that there is no way for this "bunch of geeks" to pay HBO directly.

If you look at the current tweets, people are offering up anywhere between $8 and $20, which I imagine is considerably more than HBO's take based on their current revenue model.

The whole point of this website, I gather, is to convince HBO that their product is worth considerably more to the end user than what they're currently making, and that they can tap into a lot more revenue if they let people subscribe to their products directly, without the cableco middleman.

[edit] My impression of HBO pricing is completely wrong. It doesn't seem like HBO would stand to gain a huge amount based on how much people are "pledging".
I agree that the tools could be improved.

But it gets easier if you forget about trying to emulate the native look & feel. The most popular apps on iOS are moving away from stock widgets anyway.
You do realize that without those evil cable executives and their funding these shows wouldn't be on the air right now?
This discussion reminds me of non-technical users. They will tolerate incredible sluggishness. It is amazing what Oracle and the free alternatives get away with. People, including engineers/developers, not only tolerate sluggishness but when something actually works on the first try they think it's amazing.

I've witnessed this tolerance for mediocrity for years and it still continues to blow my mind.
I up voted you, but don't really support the "evil cable executives" line.
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If it was the only way my wife and I could get the content we would pay. We would even pay a lesser fee for the ability to stream some of their shows they don't allow to stream outside of Britain.
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> I will continue to pay $0 until there is an option that does not involve enriching evil cable executives.

Wouldn't a standalone HBO GO subscription enrich cable executives? Wouldn't any paid solution enrich cable executives?
Would I pay $19/mo for BBC content? Yes
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My telemetry table is >2B rows and growing. 5B is starting to worry me; .5B, not so much. This is even backed by ( not much ) spinning rust.
very true very true. Seems like alot of really dumb ideas make money sometimes though
Beyond the other listed benefits: Percona also provides support contracts quite inexpensively, which can be worth their weight in diamonds. I bought a support contract after our Percona instance started to slow down, and the level of quality of the analysis and the results blew my mind. And I've been doing SQL for 25 years.
try APPYnote (www.appynote.com)...it is a Javascript APP platform that is well suited for education.
We pay around 100 USD/mo in Brazil for cable + 10Mbit internet, and HBO has always been a premium I don't have access.
Now I just wish that AWS would generate estimates more frequently.
Sigh. Not this ultimatum again...

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...
I follow Taubes, Sissons and Robb Wolf approach (paleo in general) because it just works for me and I love the food. I am thinner, stronger and with much better health eating tasty food and doing minimal exercise. I think Guyenet's approach may work too (maybe there is not only one right answer) but I think low-carb is easier to me and I dont see a reason to change it. My life is much better after limiting (almost banning) grains and refined sugar.
Unrelated to the OP, related to the extension, but doesn't this sort of thing attract Amazon's wrath, having an Associate ID set without any referrer from the project site itself?
I caught it at least as far back as October. It's a fundamental disconnect with providing content. Strangely enough, I ran into it from a HN link. I wrote about it at the time, for what it's worth.

http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2011/10/01/blogger/
But I only want ONE show! :)
HBO definitely thinks piracy is enough of a problem they're willing to hurt paying customers to try to stop it: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120418/08405618545/hbo-de...

At the same time they don't provide an option for legitimate "over the top" Internet video users to watch their programming without a PayTV subscription.
I see his argument.. but why not just partner with ISPs? If HBO doesn't want my $8 directly, then why not let AT&T (or whoever) charge me an extra $8/mo along with my DSL (or whatever) bill and get HBOGO? It would be nearly identical to their current model, but with different types of subscriber organizations distributing their content for them.
I think your post was tongue-in-cheek, and it is maybe one of my favorite HN posts ever. That said, I get a little bummed that there are no Back to the Future 2-style hoverboards, that I don't have a personal flying car, and that I still have to shower every day. I'd love a polymorphic phone screen, and am bummed that this display isn't that. Just out of curiosity, I rubbed some Vaseline in my ear just now, and must admit that it is more of a bummer than the lack of polymorphic phone screens.

"Everything is amazing, and nobody's happy"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r1CZTLk-Gk
I would pay that in monthly installments, provided it is ad-free.
Well, if Wired says so, I guess I'll stop encrypting my email.
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I'm willing to pay the Gold Price but I don't want to wait several months until they decide to air it in my local country.
How frequently, and how would this help you?
Profit isn't inherently evil, so I assume by his comment that the "evil cable executives" would cease to be evil if they offered a product considered reasonable by him.
Very good blog post. Not sure I'd watch the full video interview, but it was worth the time to read.

What I took away from it is this: A lot of our paying subscribers don't actually watch HBO, and we don't want to compete against the sources that deliver those subscribers to us.

(Every single discussion about this should always include a mention that Time Warner owns HBO, saves a lot of mental hamster wheeling.)
I doubt that inequality amounts to much. Outside of the tech crowd, if you have cable internet, you pretty much have cable TV. Their salespeople are relentless, and most people [in the US] really really really really like TV anyway.
Actually it is:

customers that pay for cable + HBO > customers with internet only.

Hence why they have no current desire to alienate big cable to cater to the small number of users who loudly complain they can't watch HBO online when they want.
It's hilarious that they apparently need to specify "colour" ;).