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Did you read what raganwald wrote? He's saying that reading comprehension is not typically about memorization, it's often about model building. As a human reads they don't just fill up big bin with data, they build up models. When reading a narrative we will build up ideas of characters. We'll fill in more and more of their details. And when probed about the story we will fall back to our knowledge of those characters, and it may take us a while, if we even can, to figure out exactly which events in the narrative contributed to each aspect of a character.

In this case the object of the narrative is a microscope. And as people read through the text they aren't memorizing sentences or facts they are filling out the model, or character, of the microscope. But people who already have an accurate model of a microscope from personal experience will have an easier job doing so. It's similar to the way standardized tests can be racially biased. If I put forth a "story problem" about the rules of football, being familiar with those rules already gives one an advantage.
$500k? When are they going to get serious?
My Nexus 1 does this with the dock too.
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To be more correct... it is more of a "hey your product kicks total fucking ass... but I disagree with you business model. I'm going to consume your kick ass product anyway... but you're not getting my money" thing.
Sure, but the fact that you have to play through the (boring, repetitive) easy mode to get to any sort of challenge takes all the fun out of it. 'Go through the game once without any sort of difficulty before we actually give you something worth doing' doesn't fly with me. If your game isn't fun or challenging on the first play through I'm not interested. I don't want a 'practice run', I want an actual game.
A very good example of I/O scaling that Node (and any proper event loop concurrency implementation) can perform real well.
Diablo 3 has some issues (mainly rareness and badness of legendary items and excessive difficulty/frustration in Inferno), but I've still found it the most fun game I've played in quite a while. The most important part of the game - skills and combat - is really excellent.
Jason, seems you've taken this personally. I apologize if I offended you or other YC companies in any way. That was not the intention, but may be picked up from the post.

I'm not saying that every investor that invested in YC companies did so blindly, I'm saying that it's not normal that every startup that comes out of YC has these high valuations, and that is unsustainable for the ecosystem.

Often times investor demand picks up based on the brand and that drives up the valuation, while some other really awesome companies don't get the deserved attention just because they don't have the brand. Those could be big winners and are also cheaper. I'm not saying that investors that invest in YC cos are tricked and that they're not smart. They try to lower their risk basing on the fact that PG vetted and formed those companies, which is completely understandable.

Again, sorry if you were offended. Would love to debate more if you want, I'm pretty easy to get a hold of.
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I also pay an Rdio subscription and enjoy it, but I still buy the records I find myself listening more often.

My reason is simply this: http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2010/how-much-do-music...
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So would my Nexus S if I could find a dock for it.
I'm not sure exactly what you are trying to compare. Rather try to compare those who simply pirate the stuff as soon as it's out with anything of the above. I think if they'd offer something around $2-$3 per episode right away (without any iTunes), they could gain more from those who don't pay anything to them now.
The problem with voting with your wallet is that you and your friends are usually the only ones doing it. Feel free to vote with your wallet, but unless you have the momentum to overpower everybody else who consumes the show and doesn't care, it's not even going to bother HBO. Unfortunately, standing upon principle and not participating in HBO's distribution just ends up costing you some good entertainment, just as with taking a stand against DRM. Very noble efforts, which I used to be involved with, but ultimately there's just too much good stuff out there for me to keep letting it pass by. I guess I'm just unprincipled.

I respect Top Gear a lot, and Jeremy Clarkson was on 60 Minutes last year. I'm paraphrasing, but he said something similar to "if we paid attention to everybody that got offended, we'd make a bland show". I'm sure HBO is completely aware that you are offended by their distribution model. I'm also sure that for them to continue being as successful as they are, they simply cannot care. There's a lesson in that for entrepreneurs.

I still wish DRM wasn't a thing, but I enjoy the pants off of TF2 and most Steam games. I think you can be both, and it's not a binary world view.
You're probably right. Did you know that dihydrogen monoxide kills thousands of people every year? That substance has been found in the blood of every terrorist and serial killer in human history. Scary stuff if you put it that way.
Oh no, you did not contradict it at all. It is one of the vital point that was pointed out in the paper, and I wanted to make sure anybody else who don't having interest in reading the actual paper to have an opportunity to get this particular point across. I'm a researcher in a neuroscience lab, and this is one of the foundational paper into modern understanding of reward mechanism. Kudos to you for linking it here :)
My thoughts exactly. "I can teach you to scale to millions." Site dies with large amounts of traffic...
I got to hold it last weekend! Surprisingly light - felt around 5 kg. Sadly it doesn't have a trigger in the slot you'd expect it to have one, just a (safely covered) switch.

Pretty cool to actually see it after months of noticing parts Rob left on tables at the local hackerspace...
Agreed (although this article appears to contain some original reporting), but their neglect for proper image attribution is especially egregious. It is most bothersome to me because all they have to do is mention the guy's name and they get to use his image free of charge, but instead they resort to some sort of half-hidden generic link-back.
Google Maps didn't even launch publicly until 2005.
I'm comparing the amount of money HBO would get from people who only watch Game of Thrones. If you could get it without subscribing, a lot of people would cancel HBO.
Where I work, that's almost enough to pay for two person years of work (inclusive of all overheads). In other words, it's pocket lint.
>>A few years ago, my dad mentored some college kids who were incredibly smart and eager to learn. But he complained that they had almost never touched a machine in their lives. They didn't know how to design the parts properly. He had to teach them.

This happens because no matter what you learn and how much you know in general, that doesn't say anything about ability to deliver in practical areas of work in a small narrow fields.

You can learn everything general about programming. But pick up a new language and you will be hitting the manual very often even to do some very trivial tasks. Or you will like to read existing real world code in that language, to learn the idiomatic way of doing things.

When you spend time solving real world problems in any field using any tool. What you are basically doing is turning yourself into a 'human database' of problems and solutions to a wide variety of problems. And you get that only by practice and experience.
How about $3 an episode? http://www.amazon.com/Winter-Is-Coming/dp/B007HJ84ZK/
Why isn't HBO's business failing a palatable option? Businesses fail all the time, why can't HBO?
Funny how the attitude of HN users change their mind about content piracy when it's closer to something like what they work on.
And a stretch goal at that.
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Oh, right. execve replaces the existing process with the invoked one, so I'm not sure that use case makes sense. Usually execve is used with fork, too.

If you're concerned with Windows portability, mmap(2) is a bigger problem. Otherwise, not sure why you're asking...?
The interesting thing is that this seems to imply that HBO makes most of its revenue from people who don't use their product. This in turn implies some economic actors here are not acting rationally (for example, there are a significant number of subscribers who are willing to pay more for cable bundles containing HBO, but then don't actually watch HBO).
Thanks! Yeah, so the title should appear by default on the video page (with the option to remove it), and I did have the description toggleable at one point but chose to remove it. I'll add in the option to display it.
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Isn't this more like a donation?
Replying to both your comments here.

Agree on your point that barrier to entry is higher for G+ than FB Search (if it launches).

Regarding Search: I would ask, how many people overall use Google search and how many use Facebook in the world. I would guess that the number is sort of equivalent, with google search users being slightly more than FB users.

And if that's the case, then what is to make people not use google search and shift to FB search (which is yet to be, BTW!), unless the quality is vastly superior. Which in my opinion is not an easy thing to achieve.

Also regarding any generic feature X, I doubt if people who are very new to Internet can start flashing their credit cards, if FB asks them to. Yes, they could be perhaps made to click on any thing, which again means just Ads. But, even in this, I think, we could be underestimating the intelligence of an avg. Internet user.

Also Google Adwords has a strong knowledge of user intent. And hence the Ads are useful for sellers. Over here, they are like TV Ads, but with a difference. And that difference is they can be ignored.

edit: minor rephrase
Wouldn't you lose one of the advantages of PHP which is that every request is stateless and that when it fails it doesn't fail hard killing the application?
That's an interesting point. Maybe those ISPs who are also cable TV providers could bundle HBO with their high-tier Internet offerings instead of TV channel packages. In this case, one shouldn't petition HBO but the likes of Comcast, Time Warner (HBO's parent) and Verizon.
Disclaimer: I work for fb.

Do you really think Facebook employees are wandering around town with backups of user data? That's completely ridiculous.

Facebook takes privacy very seriously. You Facebook data is no less safe than using Gmail for your email (as an example).
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I'm a privacy researcher, specifically focusing on government access to data held by Internet companies.

Google, your employer, will not confirm, on the record, what they will or will not disclose when they get an NSL. The NSL statute does not authorize the disclosure of transactional records.

18 USC 2709(b)(1) states that the government can only get "the name, address, length of service, and local and long distance toll billing records"

Furthermore, a 2008 opinion from the Office of Legal Counsel at DOJ specifically confirmed that the FBI cannot use NSLs to get email to/from data, even though the government has asked for it in the past. See: http://www.justice.gov/olc/2008/fbi-ecpa-opinion.pdf

NSLs are gagged, and so Google cannot confirm when it gets NSLs, or for which customers the government is seeking data. However, Google could very easily provide information to the public confirming what it will and will not deliver to the FBI when it receives an NSL. I have asked Google's legal and DC policy team for this info, repeatedly, and hit a brick wall.
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Key phrase in OP: "at the same time as the show airs"
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yeah, i fully agree with you, and i have for the most part opted out altogether - i don't pirate and i don't buy the dvds due to the fundamental brokenness of the model. however, if you do want to watch the show, and if you want to support the creators in some way (and, sadly, support their multifarious parasites as well), the only real way to do it is to buy the dvd (so you have paid your money to the smallest possible superset of people who deserve it) and then pirate the show (so you actually have something watchable).
This is an excellent suggestion and something that I had actually implemented in my original version. After using it for a little bit, however, I wasn't a big fan of the long, garbled URLs. I wanted the URLs to be as clean as the site itself. But maybe I should add that functionality back in. Thanks!
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it's not going to happen for a while. this web site won't make it happen.

the detailed reasons start here: http://johnaugust.com/2012/why-you-cant-get-hbo-go-by-itself

the short version:

"to say Comcast buys HBO in bulk is an understatement. Other cable companies, too, (and satellite and AT&T/Verizon/other telecoms doing video) have profound purchasing power. They also heavily promote HBO to their hundreds of millions of customers. So HBO gets a lot more from Comcast for its $7.27 (or whatever it is Comcast might pay) than it would get from me or you for our $10.

HBO costs $10 per month because it’s bundled. It’s not the fair market price. Untie that knot, and you have to untie everything."

not going to happen, kids.
Great perspective on price. It is still a success, but perhaps also still overpriced.
Interesting idea. Might have to incorporate it into the next release of the Mootu.be Chrome extension.
> There's a reason that compared to native platforms, the Web has way fewer problems with proprietary standards, walled gardens, dependency and upgrade hell.

Compared to proprietary platforms like Windows or OS X, sure, but free platforms like Linux and *BSD avoid all of that except maybe upgrades, and that's only a minor inconvenience since package managers are pretty good. Plus, you have the advantage of not being beholden to the web app provider's upgrade schedule, where you can almost never revert to a previous version.

And while web apps (at least in their state today) are necessarily open in the front-end, they're usually very closed on the server-side, which is definitely a step backwards from Linux/BSD.
Can somebody confirm if GoT Season 2 is available in Australia iTunes? US will not get Season 2 until the disc release next year.
On the topic of Comcast's ipv6 capabilities, does anyone know if DD-WRT will work with getting native ipv6?
I did not downvote, but I don't think your idea about "all info will fit in a small space" holds up.

One problem is that sensor sizes are increasing at similar rates to storage sizes, for mostly the same reasons. Same goes for our ability to process data into novel forms, and in general to create new data.

Moore giveth, and Moore taketh away. Good for our line of work.
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Did you even read the link? I'm sorry, but I can't imagine a worse time to invoke the editor wars. Shame on you.

Look, I love my editor just as much as the next guy. I have tremendous respect for emacs, and you can take vim from my cold, dead hands (and no, I will not start those wars now, either). But a beginner has far too much trouble just getting shit fucking installed and working consistently.

Case in point: the reason why a menagerie of tools and scripts for setting up programming environments make the front page of HN every week is because it's a total schlep to try and get your environment set up. And this is an audience of experts. That 30 second fabric deploy script is literally the most convenient that process will be for anyone, ever. A beginner might have a hard enough of a time touch typing.

I think Zed's entire point is to dissuade beginners to listen to people who are proselytizing as you are now. Let the beginner find emacs when they're ready. Trying to move them into that habit up front might be beyond the opportunity cost of programming for that individual. And then a community which is attacked left and right by ignorant people in power trying to legislate it away will have have lost an ally do to pithy zealotry.

Any amount of editor or environment advocacy on your part is really just injuring the signal to noise ratio.
People ascribe "evil" motives to Blizzard because they have clearly changed since merging with Activision. They can claim autonomy all they want to but since the merger it has been one terrible decision after another with these guys. Without an auction house or the requirement to connect to the internet for single player, Diablo 3 would be a very worthy successor.
Yeah, it doesn't sound like a lot, but in terms of what the Linux Foundation actually does I think it's fairly significant. It is the price that the Linux Foundation has set for a platinum membership. If they needed more money, they could have priced it higher.

Other than Linus, the linux foundation doesn't really pay developers. They are just an advisory and steering board, doing a bit of marketing. Samsung contributes much more directly by actually paying for Tizen OS development.
I still pirate all of my music, but I give money to and promote artists that I listen to.

Rdio, Spotify, and other 'legal' solutions give pathetic amounts of money to the artist. I'd rather have a copy of the music in whatever format I want, on whatever device I want, played with whatever software I want, and spend a little extra time figuring out how to compensate the artist fairly for their contribution to my human happiness.
Let's hope that they manage to destroy the correct planet - their record isn't too good
it's a form of signalling herd membership. compare people bragging that they are bad at maths - people are bad at all sorts of subjects, but mathematics is unusual in that people are proud of their ignorance of it, because they are essentially signalling that they are part of the "non-geek" tribe. similarly, people are uninterested in all sorts of media, but are proud of a lack of interest in tv because that signals their membership in the "non-mainstream" tribe.
Just dive in man. Get some datasets, intelligently break them apart, and just try to start predicting who should like what movie. It isn't too hard if you've gone to university for a STEM degree or learned the math some other way.
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I think this article was more newsworthy when they accidentally quoted it as 500M instead of 500K (thats how I saw it on my Twitter feeds). The update to reflect the correct amount makes the title feel out of place.
Thanks, most commenters here have dogmatically refused to see HBO's perspective.
As someone that never played Diablo 2, I find this to be very accurate. Skyrim was much more enjoyable and habit forming.
Chinese kids selling their organs to buy iPads is straight out of a cyberpunk novel, as you say many things we read about 10-20 years ago are already here, but it's human nature to find the present the most boring place to be.

But as the article duly notes, -punk is about counterculture, and counterculture is timeless. And when you look at how many people still code in neon green on black background, or read those books, there still seems to be a need for these topics. The conversation is not over yet.

I'm a fan of the daydreaming induced by cyberpunk novels, although I don't understand why, since it's something we experience daily already anyway (and I can take or leave the leather coats, shades, matrix rain, and all other visual hallmarks of cyberpunk). But I think a modern cyberpunk work of fiction can be done, and I hope we will see it done someday.
Excellent book. Definitely recommend if you want to develop a deeper understanding.
Does $225 include radio, or is that a separate license?

And is a black and white teevee cheaper?
How does your action result in a win for the thousands of people (actors, extras, film crew, set construction crew, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, musicians, etc.) who worked on Game of Thrones? If everyone followed your lead and nobody paid a cent to HBO they would all be out of a job. It's only because others are willing to reward the creators for their work that your freeloading is possible.
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This always happens with technology videos. You can project a flat image onto a transparent screen? Call it a hologram! You can create fixed buttons? Suggest that it morphs into anything.
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Indeed, the brevity that comes from a glyph-oriented syntax is orthogonal to that which comes from having array-oriented semantics (e.g., making loops implicit). You could have a word-based syntax, and still have very concise code.

q uses words for its single-argument operators, using "til 10" rather than "!10". It certainly makes a better first impression, but I'm not convinced it matters after a few days. My experience as an enthusiastic k novice is that I recognize idioms from symbols (e.g. "{x@<x}" more directly than I do in words ("fun x at grade-up x end"). Perhaps it's like reading poetry in Kanji, rather than letters?