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I certainly understand the motivation for this but HBO is actually in a difficult position.

- HBO drives a lot of cable purchase

- Some of that money goes to the cable companies for data carriage

- The cable companies know HBO sells cable

- Any alternative distribution means risks the cable companies losing income

- Cable companies losing income means that HBO risks either being dropped from the cable companies or having to offer them a bigger slice of the pie (since distribution is now non-exclusive)

It is a huge risk for HBO to jeopardize their cable subscriber income with a direct-to-market model.

That being said, I won't pay $100+/month to watch just HBO so do the math on that.

What really annoys me is that this goes so far as affecting, say, iTunes releases. HBO only releases shows on iTunes (if they release it at all) just prior to the next season starting to drum up more interest. That's a trap and I'm not falling for it.

This all goes back to why a la carte cable will never happen (given the current power structure and regulatory environment). It either means people will spend less on cable or things will be more expensive so it won't be worth it. Either way the cable companies lose. Content creators also lose because no one wants to take the risk of losing what is otherwise guaranteed income (a slice of every cable bill).

Years ago, Hollywood went through a shakeup splitting content creation from distribution [1]. It's really time for the same thing to happen with all content industries. We need to separate:

1. Content creation: studios like HBO;

2. Distribution: cable companies like Time Warner and Comcast; and

3. Infrastructure: the actual last mile, cable or fibre infrastructure.

Of course the political likelihood of that happening is essentially zero.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Paramount_Pict....

EDIT: to clarify this point, I don't believe cable companies would pursue the nuclear option of dropping HBO. However what the cable companies have now is essentially an exclusive arrangement with HBO. With implied or otherwise, HBO earns a premium for this in terms of how big a cut the companies get. Providing a means to bypass the cable companies would sooner or later result in a higher cut being paid to them, less marketing of HBO by the cable companies to its customers, etc.

Basically there is an economic cost to breaking exclusivity whether it is explicit or not.
Besides client side (javascript) encryption, Braintree supports Transparent Redirect (https://www.braintreepayments.com/developers/api-overview) which lets you post data directly to Braintree.

The nice part of sending the data to your servers with client side encryption is that you can do validation before sending to the payment gateway. For example, if you want to ensure everyone enters a cardholder name, you can validate the non-encrypted fields before eating the cost of calling a payment gateway.

You can do some of these validations in javascript, but javascript is error-prone (firebug) and not as flexible (have access to a lot more data server side).
UC Santa Cruz does Tesla coil demos with a person dressed in a Faraday cage, and IIRC they said that (like someone else commented) the skin effect due to the high frequency means you probably won't die from it going through your heart, but the fact that the current is limited to a very small depth into your skin means the current density actually is quite high and will likely cause damage.
sort of off topic but I used to work at LinkedIn and created the foil wrapped logo'd chocolates being photographed. we used them as a giveaway back at CES in 2010 in the blackberry booth.

its cool that the images is offered under CC license and has been included in so many articles about LinkedIn, he should get a photo credit
What should you look for? A lawyer.

Any smart company has legal counsel. They probably won't be offended if you also have legal representation, especially if you explain that you are trying to protect both sides of the arrangement from any potential future ugliness. If they are still against you having a lawyer review the contact, then you'll have to decide if it is worth the risk. Personally I would consider that to be a huge red flag.
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It's not purely an issue of TV being "crap". Books, magazines and websites just aren't mass media in the same way TV is. For many people (maybe not for hackers), talking about TV shows is like talking about the weather — it's a common bond that helps you get comfortable with someone you've just met. I'd guess those of us who watch less/no TV feel left out of those conversations. But we still want to make connections, so we look for others who made the same no-TV-watching choice. It's a way to find reassurance that our choice didn't completely isolate us.

(I don't watch TV, but the above is my best attempt to explain the greater phenomenon behind posts like the GP's — not a personal statement.)
This is why I think the time limit on such tests should be eliminated. For many well-paying occupations, correctness is far more important than speed.
For an outdated network they sure have managed to create a product that is so awesome that sane, rationale people can't even wait to get it.
If you want a gang for $500K, please step over to the postdoc aisle. You might be able to get 4 or 5.
HTTP Pipelining has its own issues, such pipeline requests being processed FIFO and stalling queued requests.
I'm not sure if this answers your question, but HBO produces incredibly high-quality content that a lot of people fear would go away.
That could be true, but the problem with that is that they are cannibalizing their previous posts, not allowing them to really reach their true reach or engagement.
I've built a Tesla coil (inspiring me to major in electrical engineering later on) and have been shocked by them on a couple occasions. Sadly, the skin affect doesn't apply to human skin -- it only applies to materials which are conductors at high frequencies. Due to the water content + the resistance inherent in the material, human flesh doesn't exhibit skin effect properties.

If this hits your skin, you probably won't feel it due to the high frequencies involved, similarly to how you won't hear sounds over ~20khz. Your body wont' be able to process it neurologically. You will, however, get a really nasty burn from it, which can get bad if you don't sense the initial shock. If it hits your torso, you could potentially experience heart rhythm issues, but unlikely.

Voltage and frequency dangers are funny things. The most dangerous voltages are from about 50V to 1000V because it interferes with your nervous system -- lower and the current is too low to affect you, and higher causes you to reflexively release. The most dangerous frequencies are ~1Hz to ~10kHz. They're most likely to mess with your cardio rhythms in a bad way. Funny thing about this is that the most dangerous voltages and currents are found in household voltages -- 120V@60Hz (220V@50Hz in Europe).
Completely agree with you!

Its a frustrating market for sure, but there is lots of money to be made, with the right strategies, and very little money with the wrong strategies.

I was doing a similar thing to you for a year or so, by piggybacking off Atlassian JIRA, as opposed to building my own products. This definitely made selling the solution much, much, much, easier!
That's a good idea for an OSS currency - lint. Just like bitcoins, but with some modifications. For example, Linus can print as much lint (Linus + Mint = Lint, get it?) coins as he wants. He can give them to whomever he wants, for example he can give some lint to his release manager, or he can "hire" some product people to talk with IBM and co about what features they want.

As for the exchange rate, the holders of lint are under no obligation to sell it for any particular price, it is theirs. All of the transactions are public, so the total amount of outstanding lint is known at all times. A limit could be placed on the amount new lint per day.
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What does this investment actually buy them? And what does it go toward?
Theft and copyright violation are not comparable. Both may be illegal, but they aren't the same. Would it be illegal to build a replica of the Porsche for myself?

The GP's example was bad because he mentioned taking a product or service, rather than making a copy of something and keeping it. I'm assuming he didn't mean it the way it reads.
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True... just like the thumpers vs atheists debate it may be a overreaction to the anti-anti-TV people.
I have real relatives who are incredulous when I tell them I don't know anything about American Idol or Snookey or Justin Bieber or the most-annoying current commercial (and don't care to know).
A bit infuriating and tempting to brag about not having a head filled with garbage.
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Wow, this could be a troll.. don't know.. clever.
As a long time skeptic of the NoSQL craze that seems to have (happily!) peaked, I have to say that no, I'm not very surprised by this.

Databases (real databases) are using indexing technology that's been proven over not just years but decades of use and refinement. log2(500000000) is still only 28. Double that and it's only 29. And these databases' indexes are typically btrees with much higher branching factors than 2.

One of my favorite articles on this is Dennis Forbes' "The Impact of SSDs on Database Performance and the Performance Paradox of Data Explodification" (http://www.yafla.com/dforbes/The_Impact_of_SSDs_on_Database_...).
It's less a matter of security and more a matter of consistency. MS's/Apple's rules are geared towards ensuring apps don't affect battery consumption too wildly while in the background. Android has no such restriction, and any app you have installed can decrease your battery life significantly even if you do not open it.

The advantage of this, of course, is platform flexibility. The disadvantage is inconsistent app behavior (battery is drained by background apps).
I somewhat agree that not all "take my money" calls are honest. While not deliberately untrue, the reality of what it costs will simply be above what some who say this are willing to pay (and some will lie to themselves and others that they would pay).

As far as cheating goes, I would put it this way: humans seem to have an appetite for risk. The irony of cars becoming safer is people drive faster and more dangerously. Every person has a different tolerance level. I see cheating as being in that same dimension, at least to some degree.

Part of it is also social constructs. Divorce once had a huge stigma. Now it doesn't. Now people get more divorced. This is of course a simplistic example and by no means demonstrate definitive causation but fundamentally it's reasonable to assume that the difference between being ostracized vs "nobody cares" has to have a significant effect.

It's also I think why law and order is such a tenuous thing. In the West where there are strong states, relatively low corruption and relatively strong enforcement (compared to, say, African countries). This keeps most people honest as the risk of getting "caught" is sufficiently high to stop such behaviour. In more lawless countries there seems to be a tragedy of the commons in play where many more people think to line their own pockets at the expense of the state because everyone else is doing it.

How you get above the line to sufficient conformity is a bit pf a mystery once you're below the minimum threshold.
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I flagged this comment because it is completely off-topic and therefore equivalent to spam.
Frankly, the hype was so high that nothing could be a worthy successor in the eyes of fans, no matter how good it was.
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Yes, you're getting it now.
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This is only tangentially related but I really don't understand why anyone cares so highly about their contact list. Does it really matter? Why does it matter?

Concerns about spam seem anachronistic (in that you have to deal with spam and services like Gmail have become pretty good at countering it). Is it just privacy? If so, I'm confused.
Would you hire someone who was facing charges of abusing children to look after your children? I probably wouldn't. The charges sometimes stick, no matter what happens after they are filed.
As for Assage, I assume you're aware of the way some US politicians have behaved.
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If Samsung worded it "We're donating $500k to support the great work the Linux Foundation does with FOSS" then I might give them a nod. But to say they are investing $500k (a paltry sum) to battle iOS is kind of sad. Why even say that, it sounds so petty.

So your only motivation is to attack Apple? It's not to simply support the legion of open source developers that have been giving you free software for years?
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When you are born in luxury, you have to do nothing else in life. All you need to do is to ensure you continue to stand where you are, and others stand where they are(To keep your advantage). When that thing gets disturbed, people feel uncomfortable.

From a poor guy's perspective he has to 'rise' no matter how. From a rich guy's perspective he is supposed to stay where he is no matter how. Most rich people think, the poor are poor because they don't deserve to be rich. And they are rich because of a special gift, like a unique blessing which only they are supposed to have as it was given to them at birth.

This is not just restricted to money. This sort of a thing also happens in many other things like for example born-with talents Vs Gathered skills. Naturally talented people don't like others gaining their skill through practice. Because they feel their born-with skill was a special gift they have, some kind of a unique blessing. And you are supposed to get only through that special gift.

Lets say you are a kid with the costliest video game in the neighborhood. You got it because your rich Uncle Joe gave it to you. You pride around telling you are the only guy who has it. You also know nobody else can have it because no one near has a rich uncle Joe. An year later you find another guy having the same video game, which he bought after selling lemonade on the footpath.

Now not only does he have the video game, but he has it without the rich uncle joe. In other words your rich Uncle joe isn't a special distinction you have anymore.
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2003/feb/13/the-fut...

Supposedly Crichton got it wrong at the even smaller scale
You are not alone. I think I don't tell folks about mine out of the fear of judgement on the products I've built.
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I do not know if it is Firefox, NoScript, RequestPolicy or just me but the AppleInsider page looks like the default mobile formatted version of most websites.
I think maybe he's actually deliberately going for a little humor.
My ISP still hasn't deployed it, but I have a he tunnel, which works quite nicely. If nothing else, it's nice to be able to easily run several webservers with SSL on the same machine without feeling like an address hog.
>>So "luck" largely took Bill Gates from millions to billions, a 100x to 1000x multiplier.

I never denied that. I am just saying you have to first make to those millions.

And making millions is not easy.
I agree with you on the selling point, but the product still matters from a functionality point of view, just not from a design or quality point of view.

If the business requirements are not met, everything else is a mute point.

A manager is still going to be focussed on meeting business requirements (not pretty interfaces), this is their job after all, and it is their head on the line if things go bad and there is a big hit to productivity in the workplace for whatever reason, design is the last thing for them to worry about in the big scheme of things, and to survive in middle management in a typical enterprise organisation, you HAVE to think like this. The higher up the food chain this is escalated, the less people will give a crap about design, and the less of a chance you have at inking a contract.

It simply does not meet very many business requirements at all in the enterprise, and is a complete unknown entity compared to say the likes of IBM or HP (who both provide enterprise project management portals (or did).

Its a brutal market, the only way I see their strategy working is by targeting smaller businesses primarily and servicing enterprises on the side (like Yammer have intelligently done, which seems to be working well for them)
NSA ability to sniff traffic at major telecom exchanges is real. NSA ability to break $cipher or $hash based on the hearsay journalism involving an interview of (ex-)NSA employees (who would certainly be barred from talking about any real non-public attacks) is not real [1]. It's possible the NSA is setting up real systems that will brute force or factor or find collisions for known borderline algorithms/keysizes. Maybe they have a collection of old DES-encrypted traffic and they are building enough computing resources to do large-scale cracking of DES keys.

The idea that they can create collisions for hashes or crack ciphers believed to be relatively secure in the near to mid future is paranoid speculation.

However, if you're going to be paranoid, direct your attention to RSA and DH (plain, not ECDH). In Suite B, which the NSA recommends for use by government, RSA and DH are absent. If the NSA knows of a weakness in anything currently believed to be secure (I think that's unlikely), I would bet that it's RSA and DH, because the NSA no longer recommends them. I think RSA and DH are superseded by ECDSA/ECDH simply because of speed at comparable key strengths, not because the NSA knows something the public doesn't. As an aside, it indicates that the NSA has a fair amount of confidence in ECDSA/ECDH.

I do not think the NSA is stupid enough to play chicken with the public crypto community by recommending encrypting classified information with ciphers NSA knows to be weak. The public could discover those weaknesses tomorrow. The most sensitive information inside the U.S. government and military is presumably protected by the NSA's Suite A algorithms, but other important information is not, notably military communications between U.S. allies, for which Suite B is recommended.

[1] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/03/can_the_nsa_b...
The reason that people would potentially shift to a facebook search would be for simplicity. Instead of having to go to google.com they can just search in a box that's on the page they're already on. Of course, this isn't so easy anymore as there are many ways to search google now. So I don't think just having an internet search box on the page is enough. But I don't think it has to be much more. Just the fact that you could search while remaining on facebook might be compelling enough for a non-trivial amount of users. Also a "socially informed" search could be a key feature, even if its trivially implemented. Just having a "trusted" friend's icon next to certain results could seem useful to a naive user.

The point is, I don't think facebook has to do anything fundamentally better than google to win many converts. The results just can't be obviously worse. And for what most people search for, I don't think this is hard. Celebrities, sports, products, etc; I'd say that's low hanging fruit considering the amount of brainpower facebook has on its payroll. The long tail search that google is famous for isn't likely to matter to the facebook user targetted here.

An obvious case study to a company leveraging their userbase to grow out of their original business model is Amazon with its kindle. It was a great product certainly, but the benefit having it advertised on the top of their landing page can't be overstated. So many people are intent on putting facebook in a social box and saying "well they can't monetize social so they're doomed" is short-sighted. Social is just the hook, there are literally endless ways they can monetize all those eyes.
Also our understanding of UX and psychology as applied to video games has improved. Developers now hire people who are formally trained in architecture and form and narrative and psychology and flow, instead of kids who were quite handy with computers.
I doubt that cable companies will drop HBO. They are the primary channel that cable companies have in pushing higher priced channel packages and would have to deal with consumer revolt.
I'm guilty (though I consider it a positive quality) of using "we" when describing both success and failure.

First, I believe it builds trust in the department and not the individual. Conversely, failure is is spread among the team (and its resolution) as well.

Of course, this is important when communicating outwardly, and acts as a firewall from politics and tension. Giving kudos and warnings are still necessary, but, overall, team accomplishments, even via the "we" pronoun alone, are beneficial. (Let's be honest: those involved knew their role and weight)
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I haven't heard of that story about decoupling exits from liquidity before. At where I live, the mantra is that if you take money, you must have been looking to an exit. If someone put money on you, they must be eyeing for a quick exit - there's no way around it. In fact, I've heard many "mentors" and investors explicitly tell me exactly that.

Is this separation that Phil talks about a common knowledge in the Valley? Or anywhere else?
Why would they choose to transmit the data in plaintext rather than use SSL? Lazy?
Freenet attempts to provide a sort of distributed internet.
I don't see Samsung coming out and phrasing it like that in the linked article or in its linked Linux Foundation release.