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I'm sorry, but I think this is post is idiotic.

First off, the author sets up a bunch of straw men to bash down in favor of his point, the most frustrating of which is:

> I watch truly quality TV shows. There are definitely the odd few of those but, if you must, download them and watch them on your computer: without ads and over a short period. At least in this instance you know what you’re subjecting yourself to and you will be doing it for entertainment: not in the background.

This is identical to me making a blog post saying: "Sell all your books: you're better off without them. Sure, you might miss out on some quality literature, but you can always just download them in pdf format and read them on your laptop."

Television is a medium. Every medium has its Two and a Half Men, and the luxury of the modern TV industry is that we have more freedom than ever to pursue programming we prefer. Making a big deal from divorcing yourself from a medium is fine -- of course you're going to have more free time, if I quit listening to music I'd probably have more free time as well -- but doing so with the caveat of 'oh, download some specific shows that you like' is shallow and unfair to the reader.
One could argue that it's a matter of perspective. Granted there are many challenges in life and this is true for everybody, including myself.

Why "fix" things if I consider myself on a successful path? If you don't see that I am, at least respect that I am comfortable with me being me and satisfied.
Needs better search logic & display results.

Clicked on #2 "Safe" and 4 out of 5 were for "Safe House".
Maybe people jump on this comment because initially it was said he agrees with the post, but because John is an SEO by profession the post can't be good!
Most of your assumptions should end with "if you live in the USA".

Yup, life sucks for movie lovers in Europe.
I don't think the non-stochastic setting is entirely appropriate. What we've been discussing is a situation where the differences in conversion rates are constant in expectation, though absolute conversion rates vary. So it's basically a stochastic setting, which should allow more leverage. Also, as I recall for the non-stochastic setting the definition of regret changes so the regret bounds are not directly comparable.
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I'm not too familiar with the inner workings of P2P technologies of torrent and magnets, but is "snooping" possible with magnet downloads ? Like in the case of torrents, MPAA often hops on to a tracker, doesn't send/receive any data, but all it does is log the public IPs of all peers on the tracker. Is this a problem with magnet downloads as well ?
Very well written piece. I can vividly remember driving out of state for a few days of meetings with prospects. Pushing, always pushing trying to squeeze in as many calls as I could then hitting the Michigan line and pulling into a rest area and just crashing for a few hours with absolutely nothing left. Entrepreneurism - it's a hell of a drug!
I wish the MPAA would engage in a discussion here. Who knows what might come out of it.
Not always the case. Some of us simply need a break to clear our heads. I have absolutely no idea what I'll do next, and I like it that way. I know it will come to me in time.
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I'd like to hear some talk about how the post went to the frontpage very quickly, generated some very interesting comments and then got buried (atleast temporarily)?

Was this a result of people flagging the post due to the (some would argue) unethical function of the site?
I completely agree with your point 'the human mind is amazing at pattern recognition'. From personal experience, I can say I am a 'visual' person. (So much so that my startup is entirely based on this premise, because I think our eyes are amazing analytics tools.) But to my point: is that the case for everybody? Is everyone 'visual', or do some folks think better 'visually' than others?
I would love to hear what my drum set sounds like in there. Has anyone ever practiced a musical instrument in a chamber like this? I wonder what the advantages and disadvantages would be.
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Understood. Real power users aren't well served by the current version.

We might go further in that direction, but we'll weigh our legal options first.
Agreed! But http://www.take.fm/ leaves things to be desired, hence our attempt.
> First, everybody cares about privacy.

This is true, but it's also a very broad statement that does not entail that many people care about the Do Not Track header. Everybody has a different level of privacy that they care about. Most people care if you watch them in their bedrooms or bathrooms. Some people care if you know how much money they have. A smaller number of people care if you see their bare skin and thus wear burqas when they go out in public. An even smaller number of people care if ad networks compile a profile of things that are interesting to them.

The problem is that "Do Not Track" is supposed to indicate intent. If the browser vendor indicates intent in one direction when the user hasn't indicated intent in either direction, advertisers can no longer trust what the browser tells them. It's like the boy who cried wolf.
No, everyone did not know. Many had strong suspicions.
A VC-funded startup called WhosHere is trying to steal my social network
I built a somewhat similar product http://www.dexy.tv but it only links to 'legit' content (netflix, hulu, amazon, etc).

nddrylliog, send me an email if you're interested in potentially collaborating so you can list both kinds of content. Really like what you've done on the UI side.
I just don't think the they have the capability. The country is very nepotistic, so anyone in charge got their position because they knew someone rather than purely on merits. The regime is also rather paranoid, so probably they only promote within their own ranks. Combine all those and you get an ineffective bureaucracy. The best they could hope for is all the hype the western media is giving them. Their ability to grow their enrichment facility has basically halted.

But of course no one in media mentions that, because that goes against the narrative they want to play. That's until we go there and mess everything up, then we'll hear all these data the was there and everyone glossed over. Deja vu Iraq.
Just out of curiosity, how old are you kids?
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?strip=1&q=...
you should add collections like can be found on whatcd and passthepopcorn[1] that users can link to and search

[1] http://i.imgur.com/PXFRE.jpg
I would like to see a slider for minimum number of reviews counted in the tomato rating. A movie that has a 100% rating but only 3 reviews is something I'd like to be able to filter out.
Nope, the stuxnet crew had a couple of zero days in their pocket. No need to do anything but stick it in. Limited user account? Doesn't matter, it performed a privledge escalation.

All IT is just gum and bailing wire. I don't even think its possible to truly secure a non-trivial OS. I'm just surprised at how infrequent stuff like this gets found out.
This feels more like an argument against cable/satellite television and not necessarily an argument against having a television.

I think he went a bit overboard. I don't have cable but I still have a TV that I watch a few downloaded shows on.

There's quite a difference
And if waiters asked restaurant patrons if they wanted dihydrogen monoxide used in the cooking of their food, most people would say no. That doesn't mean we should stop cooking with water.
The only shows I really watch anymore are the Daily Show / Colbert report, and some HBO offerings(Game of Thrones / True Blood). I tend to catch them online, anyway. There's always Netflix if I really want to watch a movie. I get all my news from the internet.

I'm reluctant to throw mine away since I won two 23" TVs in raffles(i.e. I put in $5 into a hat). The only other use for it is for my Xbox 360, and I don't play video games nearly as much as I used to in college. Instead of watching a bunch of different shows, I happened to find more interesting hobbies to fill the void such as running and flying airplanes. When the weather is too poor to do either of those and no one's around to hang out, though? I'll put a game or a show on and relax.
I gave up TV 10 years ago.
I love it.
Very interesting. I have been thinking about Sign up buttons/titles as well. It does seem more intuitive to click on "Sign up free" vs "sign up".
Surely you don't expect the WP article to list every act that might be compatible with the idea of a "cold war"... I feel you are trolling a bit. Sabotage is still a plausibly deniable act--contrasted with, say, rolling a tank across one's adversary's border.

Stuxnet is a weapon of sabotage, it is fairly direct, and yet it is not the same as an open declaration of war.
Agree. There are plenty of ways to free up more time to do more enriching things aside from selling the TV.

From the OP:
>> I’ve decided that in the future, wherever I am, it’d be better not to own a TV. It’ll save me the temptation and free up so much time.

For many people, cutting back on "connectedness" to the Internet would do the same. For some people, social media is a bigger time suck than the TV ever will be.
You might want to ready my answer to this question on Quora: http://www.quora.com/If-I-have-a-website-with-millions-of-un...

Where I explain how we did this at eBay when I was working there.
eBay is quite unique from the fact that millions of new URL's get created on a daily basis, with a short lifespan.
Yes, I realized after posting that this is probably a better paper to link to: http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~yfreund/papers/bandits.pdf
The algorithms for the partial information setting are sometimes surprisingly similar to the algorithms where you see all the results. The algorithm in the paper linked above is essentially the same algorithm but with a small exploration probability. The regret bound gets worse by a factor of sqrt(N), however.
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Better solution. Just drop cable, save a LOT of money: http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2011/05/06/mmm-challenge-cut-...

(I have only enough cable to make my internet connection cheaper because of Comcast (ugh))
I'd agree with you if you replaced seo with adware/popup ads. Even google has an seo guide, you shouldn't lump best practices in with spammers and hackers
Most antivirus products simply check for signatures.

No, I don't think a single AV product can be described this way for many years now. But people like to repeat it.
Likewise, I'd like to try this... it seems cool as hell!
So how does that limitation interact with non-personnel warfare, such as viruses and drones and spying?
Movies.
More or less where I'm at, as well, so I don't have too much more advice :(. I've read all the books and done all the tutorials, so I'm strong on the easy, fundamental stuff but now I'm really not sure how to progress all that much further.
Humble and understated announcement of what is arguably the most important part of making online education sustainable.
I was lucky enough to listen to Souders talk at Fluent this past week. He talked about Front-end SPOFs and specifically an experience in Beijing where Business Insider didn't load because of a third party widget (Twitter, in his case) being blocked.

One site he mentioned (and great for testing) was webpagetest.org.

Here are the slides from the talk: http://stevesouders.com/talks.php

He blogged about the issue here:
http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2012/03/28/frontend-spof-in...
My parents indoctrinated me with Kipling's "If." It's certainly as good a list as this one, for better or worse.
Ari Emanuel Responds To Google On Piracy
Gazelle really is bad. Is there an alternative? Maybe Ruby or Python?
Indeed. I seriously think this is a sly attempt at crippling DNT and boosting ad revenues (also, remember: Microsoft owns a significant stake in Facebook, whose "Like" beacons would be adversely affected by legislation regulating DNT).

As a bonus, they get to look like a modern, privacy-conscious, I've-got-your-back company while they're at it. From a business perspective, it's really smart.

Disclaimer: Used to work for Microsoft, though nothing web-related.
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Maybe this is crazy shit but what do yo think of idea to quit programmer job to get any non-programmer one in order to find out problems of "normal" people from theirs perspective. This could be method to find good idea for startup. What do you think?
1 & 2: Good reasons. Useful, didn't know that.

3: I will admit, I had read his other responses in this thread, and intentionally chose to provoke a dismissive response by presenting something on the verge of being immaterial. I even apologize to anyone at the Cambridge Security Lab for any disrespect.

I don't apologize for being irreverent towards tptacek and the Cambridge Security Lab. I still think my core point, "This security lab's tendency to exaggerate the seriousness of the security problem they've identified is exactly what is in question here.", was a totally material response to his original comment, "Cambridge Security Lab is not fucking around.". I also think (and intended) that even though I was trying to provoke him, my response was totally congenial and had a material point and therefore acceptable, while he should not have been so dismissive in response, to me and to everyone else.
I and my two sons are currently homeless. One of our big complaints about many of the programs intended to help us is the assumption we are incompetent, lack agency, should be "grateful" to a degree that amounts to agreeing to be their bitch, etc. Kudos on being involved with something better than that model.
Interesting, I guess if I had more than a few followers I'd feel the same. For now though, I just go ahead because I figure nobody's going to see it anyways.
My grandmother got a virus, and I don't appreciate you calling her an idiot.

Really, just stop and think before making claims like this.
Because most of them only work if you're in the USA and/or use Windows and OSX.

Torrented files have none of these arbitrary restrictions.
Definitely. See http://hackerne.ws/item?id=4055215.

Magnet links don't protect you, they're just a simple and standard way to refer to a torrent.

Thankfully, an IP address can't identify a person: http://torrentfreak.com/ip-address-cant-even-identify-a-stat...
"And the other bad guys wouldn't be able to do this?"

Yes, absolutely. Part of the fear is that they indeed have. But your average bad guy isn't an intelligence agency. The antivirus vendors can outclass the guy in a basement, or even a few guys working in a basement, and right now our threat profile is such that stopping those guys is still a big gain. There is definitely a large class of threats they can prevent.
This is beautiful. Thanks! <3
THIS IS HUGE! Wow, an amazing move by Udacity. I love (as others commented) how understated and under-hype they've made this announcement to be.

Talk about closing the loop further in enhancing the viability of online education.

I consider this one of the biggest turning point in Udacity, if not online education space as a whole.
YES! Thank you! I have been thinking about building this forever, but have never actually implemented it due to the fuzzy legal issues (read: it's totally illegal) and imminent shut down.

Love the interface. Love the simplicity. Love the graphics. Love the lack of [unnecessary] technical details and inclusion of details about the actual movie (rating, genre, summary, cover photo, etc).

Only thing I can think of to improve this is including a trailer on the download page. Yeah, IMDB is linked and that has trailers, but not quite as cool :) Also, related movies would be awesome.
If Hollywood made this exact same product but with pay buttons, why would I as a user choose it over movies.io.
Bottled water?
Format shifting is not legal in some countries, notable the UK.
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> A non-copying GC, because LLVM doesn't currently support copying GC satisfactorily

This is a shame that this is so badly documented. I stumbled upon this way after having coded the whole code generator of my Z3 project (https://github.com/raph-amiard/Z3 - Ocaml bytecode -> LLVM compiler). The fact that you have to explicitly handle live roots with stacks instructions defeats a lot of the purpose of LLVM IR.
Actually ideas are very much like armchair political solutions. Often easy to state, and often very hard to do. There is even an axiom that goes "For every difficult problem there is a solution that is both easy to do and wrong." or something like that.

The reason ideas are so cheap is that they are only the reflection of an action, not the action itself. Often folks take what they 'want' and then ponder a way to 'get' that and poof! idea. Like "I 'want' to work on my car's engine computer, all I need to do is take the engine out and mount it on an engine stand and hook it up to my laptop!" Simple idea, remove the engine and instrument it, but actually doing that is a lot of work. (doable, just a lot of work).

But this can also be a useful tool. Ideas that aren't a lot of work to implement but seem to have high value are usually useless. And if you can't tell why they are useless then it is sometimes worthwhile to pursue them enough to understand where the real work is.

But take something that is pretty much pure software. Let's take electronic publishing briefly. You have no doubt read a paperback book, you've no doubt read one (or looked at one) on an e-reader. All words, no pictures, just chapter breaks, perhaps the occasional font change to represent internal vs external dialog. Why can't I cut the spine off my old paperback, feed it into my Fuji Scansnap1500, and have it drop a .epub file that works on a kindle/nook/ipad/whatever ? The scansnap will give me a nice PDF of that book, even searchable. Caliber will convert it into a horrendous epub file. Why isn't this a no-brainer? I'd pay $20 for that software, no problem.

Idea, no execution. Marginal return on investment (while I would buy it if it worked well, there is no assured market here) There are bodged together ad-hoc solutions out there. Clearly there is some demand but as Gabe called out, you need passion. You need to want to build this because you want it to exist. And that, that passion, is not there.

I tell armchair politicians, hey run for city council. Solve problems. If you are good at it people will give you bigger and bigger problems to solve. If you aren't you'll both have an appreciation for what politicians are up against and a compassion for what they do get done. Not nearly as fun though. At a Tom Campbell said at a fund raiser once, its hard to appreciate the job from the outside.
>> Not sure what you would call it

The funny thing is that the migration of movie theaters from film to digital projectors is basically turning them into giant TVs.
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This is exactly it. The cost of new construction in urban environments is dominated by capital, not labor. So there's no reason not to design a custom house or building vs. buying a prefabricated one. And that drives down the volume of manufactured housing, which drives up its cost and hurts competitiveness further.
How does any of what he said sound like it's from the MPAA? I don't like piracy one bit and I try very hard to find legal solutions to my media wants (not needs): Netflix, Amazon Prime, CrunchyRoll, Zune, Vudu, Red Box, Hulu, iTunes, Sony's Video Unlimited (not completely out yet?)

What is so bad about honestly getting permission to watch things you want to watch?

[edit: added more to the list]
What do you mean by "the law [is] divided on the issue"? As far as I know, this is very clear-cut in the law.
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When I moved into my current apartment, I decided not to buy a TV but to instead spend extra money that would have gone toward a TV on a nice large monitor.

This particular monitor lets you also watch TV on it (although I never make use of it; prefer watching digital content), it is possible to hook up video game systems, and I can play DVDs via my computer.
Magnet links are great for trackers dodging liability, but the risk to the user is still the same, correct? The RIAA and MPAA can still monitor connected peers.

I think Mike might be making more of a reference to non-private trackers.

I wish I had your great interface for trusted communities I'm a member of...
In retrospect, you're right, we probably should blacklist Twilight from our DB.
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Because you want to support the making of more movies of the same kind. Because you have a conscience. That said, there will always be those who shoplift in stores, or pirate movies. I don't believe those people constitute the majority of the population.
"Lambda" is often used in french as an adjective for "average", "ordinary" or "typical".
"...and not in the spirit of good clean business and technology practices we should all be aspire to"

Its not a business.
Employees are always a bad idea
I find your comment disingenuous. I cannot take you seriously when you argue that you are not "interested" in the very thing you enable and are focused on.
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I think it is a decent idea or, if you have other skills outside of programming you could do consulting and get ideas from there.

I am a developer but ran my own computer repair shop for a while and seen a problem that I could solve which lead to my idea for a web app/software as a service.
I think this guy means "cancel your old-school TV service". My TV is just a large display connected to a PS3.

I'm eliminating:

* scheduling my time around the broadcast schedule of (increasingly sparse) shows I want to watch
* going to (increasingly rare and distant) stores to rent movies
* going to (increasingly hostile) theaters