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Aha! In a word: status.

Status is such an interesting, and compelling, enticement for behavior. Even entirely synthetic status, like D3, has it's advocates. In that case, we can say that the dopamine spikes occur during status events.

Perhaps that's D3's real problem - the dearth of status events. Perhaps PvP will sove that problem for ActiBlizzard.

(Personally, I don't think I'm motivated by status events. I'm more motivated by puzzle solving, and although D3 has some puzzles, particularly in the meta-game, they aren't particularly compelling to me.)
That has the same problem. For every Netflix+HBO subscriber gained, they could lose several cable+HBO subscribers.
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In the spirit of HN, where would you go if you wanted to pirate the screencasts (the most recent ones of course, the old ones are all over demonoid)
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Funny, I went back up a post and noticed it was Marc Andreessen who proposed the img tag: http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1993q1/0182.ht...
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I will have to experiment with this. I can't get a Comcast rep to explain how a static IPv4 address (which doesn't use DHCP) plays with IPv6 access :)
The people who are complaining don't have cable, so they'd have to pay $50+$15 per month for three months.
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Someone better warn the Buddhist monks, they've been at it a while and if only they'd known they might have lived a bit longer.
If your point is that investors are willing to fully fund notable, proven founding teams, I suppose we do agree.
You're ignoring the cost of the cable subscription in the first place (unless your 'television provider' is the government and you don't pay anything).
I don't really get the anti TV people. Like any medium there is good and bad. TV definitely has its share of bad, but there is also some pretty good entertainment. Books, magazines, websites, etc... there is always going to be more crap than not, but for some reason I never read about people bragging about giving them up.
Sure, and the guy you originally replied to never said anything about a RAZR-type phone.
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Which, really, should be "ActiveRecord is an anti-pattern"
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All great advice! As a fellow habitual migrator of billions of rows in MySQL, a few things I'd add:

Do several chunked LOAD DATA INFILE queries in parallel. It's counter-intuitive but you'll get a performance boost. I usually chunk large data sets into 100+ pieces and do 40 concurrent import queries. Mileage may vary, depends a lot on your hardware and data set's sweet spot.

Don't use mysqldump for the export. SELECT...INTO OUTFILE is faster, especially since you can apply the exact same parallelized chunking technique. Do this on a standby slave (ie, one not receiving reads) with replication stopped, so that you get a consistent dump at a point in time.

The TSV dump doesn't need to be in your database directory. It can be anywhere mysqld can access. It can be beneficial to put it on a separate volume entirely, so that you're reading heavily from one volume while writing heavily to another.

Be mindful of disk scheduler choices in Linux if you're exporting from a faster disk to a slower disk. There's some definite edge cases that can lead to starvation of core processes. Also, be mindful of disk scheduler choices in Linux in general. Avoid use of CFQ on your database data volume.

Watch disk utilization with iostat or another tool of your choice. If you're coming close to saturating one or more volumes, that probably means you're on the right track :)

As other commenters have mentioned, the row count in information_schema (or equivalently SHOW TABLE STATUS) is an estimate, due to how MVCC works. If you need a more accurate count (but not quite perfect count for a specific moment-in-time for a growing data set), do that in parallel chunked SELECT COUNT(*) queries.

Happy migrating!
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I worked on several commercial digital music projects in the time span between early napster and entrenched itunes. One regularly repeated meme of the era was that people didn't want to pirate music, they just wanted it "as easy" or "no drm" or "ala carte" or "all you can eat".

While statistically these were all guaranteed to be true for at least some users, in aggregate they were red herrings. The industry was in the process of significant decline due at least in part to online infringement. Over the course of several years mainstream services that more or less broke down all these barriers appeared but they failed to reverse any of the macro trends.

While many of the reasons are nuanced and disputed, a number of observations are relatively uncontested. Online sales severely cannibalized physical sales but failed to significantly cut down on online infringement. ASP dropped much faster than production and distribution costs. New, powerful intermediaries formed that dictated sales practices to the labels instead of the other way around.

Anecdotally, among friends and colleagues no one I knew significantly shifted their behavior. Everyone bought at least some music, and I don't think I knew anyone who refused to touch anything pirated. 12+ years on that really hasn't changed much, I still get emailed songs from rights holders or people who sell music and my friends with shared raid 5 arrays with all_the_music still buy downloads from their favorite bands.

The thing that did change is the reasons for piracy. Instead of the previous concerns people were now unwilling to support the majors, or wanted higher quality encodes, or simply thought that IP sales were outdated and believed that music acts should shift to solely making their money through touring and merchandise sales.

Whether these are reasonable new barriers or not I'm not at all interested in debating. I've thought many of them were compelling at various times. Rather what I think is interesting is that some number of objections always seem to exist.

There was an interview with a researcher on NPR yesterday that I caught. The discussion was on cheating (on things like taxes, etc.) and how in controlled settings almost all of us are small time cheats but few of us are huge cheats. The researcher attributed a key part of this to the idea that we all want to be the good guy - and that cheating within a tolerance allowed us to continue to view ourselves that way, but cheating too much made it hard for us to view ourselves that way.

While he didn't make any connection to reasons or extenuating circumstances, it seemed to jibe well with my own unscholarly impressions. That many of the reasons for intellectual property theft are constructed to allow a person to continue to see themselves as the good guy while doing something they consider immoral.

"Well, I want to pay them, but [barrier X] won't let me" is almost the perfect storm of this type of mental construct - pretty much unassailable, at least until barrier X is removed.
iTunes only has SD though right?
I don't think this question is asked in good faith, but I'll try to respond anyway. The answer is we don't live in a perfect world, and we all have to make pragmatic choices. If there was an alternative to petroleum that involved painlessly breaking a wrongheaded law, I would do it in a heartbeat. Choosing to pirate Game of Thrones is a win/win. I get the content I want and I don't enrich cable executives who not only try to monopolize local municipalities and fight progress, but who are striking at the heart of the internet itself with crap like SOPA.
PDO doesn't handle mapping of nested relationships, though which is where it falls down when compared to ActiveRecord implementations. For example I want to fetch an author and all of the author's books in a single query then loop over and print out author name, and each book. A standard ActiveRecord ORM will give you an array of authors where each author contains an array of books, where as with PDO you're still left to manually detect a change in author by a change in the primary key which is more complex than just writing a nested for loop.
I wouldn't care about the show at all (I haven't watched real TV, with the exception of Dr. Who at other people's houses because I'm impatient, for about 5 years), except that it has a genuine constructed language in it, and a darn good one. I'd like to watch it just for that; but just that isn't enough to make me go get cable, so I content myself mailing lists and David J. Peterson's blog.
Very interesting and a bit scary. Think about it, a screen that can reach out and change its shape. That almost guarantees some (software) application misuse if they are given access to screen control. But on the other hand, gaming would be more interesting with something more to interact with than just what is displayed on screen.

It will be interesting to see what becomes of this.
As several people have said, Netflix or Hulu would probably be happy to do the billing and management. The marketing is definitely an issue, since cable companies can efficiently market HBO to existing cable subscribers.
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2 things)

1 - But since the product has zero economic value to the owner from you (they refuse to sell it to you) -- In the case of Game of Thrones, you are refusing to buy it (either via HBO subscription, iTunes, physical media, etc.)

2 - Fair use is a legal defense used when you get charged with copyright infringement. It is not an excuse you give upfront. You can only claim fair use after you have been charged.
Were I to receive such a ludicrous document, after I got over the shock my first course of action would be to double time on the number of books I bring home for him/her to read.
That's probably true. However, like I said above, our agriculture is also unsustainable. Most of the increase in crop yields over the past few decades have come as a result of fossil fuel-based fertilizers. Without oil yields would plummet. Overpopulation is the problem.

Ideally, animals should be raised either on land that's not suitable for agriculture, or on the farm, eating the inedible plant parts and providing more of a closed-loop ecosystem.
I recently spent two weeks in the bay area and the first thing I noticed was "what's up with the massive numbers of homeless people here?" seriously driving through SoMa it seemed like everyone on the street was homeless.
Since New York Times recently reported that Stuxnet is a US State Sponsored Cyber virus - which if you recall was accidentally released into the wild and affected and attacked innocent end-user machines as collateral damage, and with the ongoing US-Israeli state sponsored cyber warfare weapons of mass destruction (operation Olympic Games) including the more recent releases of Duqu and Flame virus.... can Google clarify if through its detailed analysis as well as victim reports if Google will apply the same exacting standards and warn end-users (both in the US and abroad, example: Iranian users) of these domestic (US) state sponsored attacks as well? Even if Google was to choose to go the higher route, wouldn't this kind of undermining and subterfuge (however unintentional) really go unnoticed by its host nation? Or are exceptions of convenience made in these cases due to the close ties that Google has with the US intelligence agencies and the confirmed but secret and classified collaboration that the Google has with the CIA and NSA in regards to GMail and Google Accounts? No doubt there is a clear conflict of interest going on here. To me this smells more like Google catering to State Sponsored Propaganda than really caring about the security and privacy of their end-users.
You should set up a simple cron job to backup your history file (to somewhere else in your home directory) on some schedule (hourly?) and then when this happens just have an short alias that restores the last backup.
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> "It’s unlikely, given its reputation, that the service is using it for any nefarious means"

yes, of course, and CEO Mr. Reid Hoffman hangs out at 2012 Bilderberg meeting [1] (that officially does not exist, and its just a "conspiracy theory") only because he adores a company of a bunch of old farts.

move along, nothing to see here!

[1] http://theintelhub.com/2012/05/31/bilderberg-2012-official-p...
That really isn't a discussion. It is one CEO explaining their decision to make their products available online. Kessler has a different idea of how HBO is going to position themselves online. Why is Newell's opinion on his business model any more valid than Kessler's?

I never understood this thing about "easily copy-able" being a reason to strip a business of their distribution rights. Yes, the actual string of 1's and 0's is easy to copy. But physically making a 60 minute episode of Game of Thrones is not so easy. I think the work they have put into making their product has earned them the right to control the distribution of their product just as much as any other business. If you don't like the way HBO distributes Game of Thrones... you don't go pirate it... you go film it yourself (although I suspect that would not be allowed either).
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HBO is ~$15/month or ~$180/year if you don't cancel. A season of Game of Thrones is $30-39 on iTunes. It seems pretty obvious.
Kind of off-topic, but it's really use for HBO to bring this entire operation down if they want: the domain name contains their trademark, "HBO". In these cases it's much better to have a generic domain name (i.e. "takemymoneycable" or something like that), than to do trademark violations.

I've had to learn this the hard way, unfortunately ...
They would not be able to drop HBO. It's too valuable to their customers
I've read the article - and I completely agree with Gabe. From a business point of view - you (and Gabe) are probably right. It might be absolutely, completely stupid of HBO to not offer GoT online, 24/7, for a reasonable price.

However, just because they may (or may not) be making a poor business decision, it doesn't excuse what people are doing: illegally pirating content.
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I'm only one data point, but:

I used to pirate (all of my) music. I have bought a grand total of one CD ever. Now I happily consume most of my music through a paid subscription to Rdio.

Similarly, I pay for netflix. I (grudgingly) go to theatres occasionally. I don't own and have no desire to own a dvd player, and pirate movies occasionally when they're not conveniently available.

Similarly, I pirate Game of Thrones, but would happily pay up to $5 per episode if it were an option. I will not buy the DVDs, as I have no desire to see it again. If I could buy the DVDs at the same time as the show airs (without getting off my couch), I would happily do so.

It is quite literally all about convenience for some people.
On the contrary, I would much rather pay HBO directly rather than go through Apple as an intermediary.
This is off topic, but the next web really needs to make an effort to properly credit images. They've been called out on this a number of times before, but the way they credit image sources is just plain wrong. In this article, for example, at the very bottom of the page is a generic link that says SOURCES: IMAGE CREDIT. With this particular image, the photographer very clearly says "please, kindly credit me (Nan Palmero) with the photo and link back here" - nowhere do they credit him by name. A quick check of all of the other publications using her photo do properly credit her by name, but the next web can't be bothered.

If the author of this article is reading - PLEASE CREDIT THE PHOTOGRAPHER
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Is it just me, or is the site 404ing. Good joke whomever put this all together.
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I may be being a bit stupid here, but how do you advance the slides on that link? I've never been able to figure out how to use InfoQ presentations. I must be doing something wrong...
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I don't even own a TV, let alone a TV subscription. At the bare minimum, I'd be looking at $65 a month for a single TV show.
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Also, I just want to make it clear that I'm not trying to bash vegetarians. Just the opposite - I think it's great that people care. Eating ethically is very important to me. I've given it a lot of thought, and that's precisely the reason I eat local pastured meat.

I have to recommend http://lierrekeith.com/vegmyth.htm again for anyone who's interested in this issue.
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Samsung emerged as one the top vendors and gets revenue in order of billions due to Android. Hence it would be surprising if they don't invest in Linux.
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I don't have facebook account and I don't want to signup for facebook. How do I use airtime ?
If facebook started charging 75 cents a month to use it, it would be abandoned so fast it would make movement from myspace look glacial. Facebook might as well just convert their users accounts to Google Plus accounts - it would make everything less painful.
>However, just because they may (or may not) be making a poor business decision, it doesn't excuse what people are doing: illegally pirating content.

Look at it from the other direction. Pirates are gonna pirate and there is fuck all anyone can do about it. Moralize about it all you want, it doesn't change the fact that people will get the content for free, and MORE people will get the content for free if they feel ripped off or cheated (regardless of how legitimate those feelings might be)

HBO can make a relatively simple change to capture a good deal of that market, or leave money on the table. Currently they're pursuing option #2 due to poor positioning.
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It absolutely depends on your audience. I've seen a football news site that posts updates and commentary on their page between 60 and 100 times a day yet their engagement, clickthrough and like stats are really good.
Thank you for such precision concerning statistical semantics.

But I also find the non-experimental data compelling. I think more long term data will clear this up eventually.

It is urgent that we solve foundational debates in statistics. The health and economies of the world hang on this very point. So far Judea Pearl's work is the most compelling I've found. Do you have any references you'd suggest?
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Obviously it's illegal.
So it looks to me like the premium feature is automatic rebalancing for mutual fund portfolios. 25 Basis Points (.25%) a year seems pretty high for this kind of thing - usually it's done quarterly by your typical advisor and the asset classes are actively managed (stocks in the same class swapped in or out based on research etc).

OTOH the private wealth management business is a total freaking mess - a lot of the advisors charging 1pct + just throw you into mutual funds for large cap etc which is inexcusable. I'm glad to see some innovation in the area. Does the rebalancing etc take into account gains/losses to minimize tax burdens etc?
The progress of our species depends on the passing of knowledge to the next generation. So "sharing information" has become an evolutionary trait.

We started with language then writing, then the printing press then telegraph radio, and phones and now digital information.

We'll eventually get to the point where all of the worlds digital information will fit in devices the size of dice. And we're not far off either.

I actually do agree with you that we tend to rationalize our actions, but that's not some kind of epiphany.

Edit: If you're going to down vote the least you can do is rebut.
Awesome post. Whether or not you'd like to sell a company for millions isn't the point - the point is that buckets of money won't make you happy, and it's really not what drives most successful entrepreneurs. Good entrepreneurs look at the money primarily as a scorecard and validation of their efforts and ideas. Is the money great? Sure. Does it buy some comforts and remove some stresses. Absolutely. But never mistake it for what really creates passion and happiness.

It's funny how as we grow we always move our bar and expectations. I remember when I first started my company, I thought "If only I had X orders and $X in revenue per month! I'd be set!"

Well, now I do have $X revenue. And I don't feel any different, just like he discusses. I simply have created a new "if I only" in my mind that drives me forward.

I think the trick is to continually be pushing forward toward growth and improvement while realizing that if you can't be happy with what you have, you likely won't be able to after a large, multi-million dollar exit.

Easier said than done, right?
Microsoft - a company that is making such a big push with touch in Windows 8 should be the most interested in this company.

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This god-awful meme assumes 'payment' is made only in cash, fails to grasp the nuances of marketing, sweeps aside the subtleties of non-cash transactions, and is such a silly oversimplification that it is almost entirely meaningless.
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