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HBO as an add-on to cable packages costs ~$20. If HBO were to offer it as a standalone service, they would have to handle billing, subscription management, increased marketing budget to make up for marketing that cable/sat currently offers for them, etc. So unless a critical mass of people are willing to pay AT LEAST $30 per month, this is a lost cause.
On the other hand, this person who fought their way out, could have easily failed if they were sufficiently _unlucky_, no matter how hard they tried, no matter how "intimidating" that spark. Heck, they could have been hit by a bus or something immediately after getting their dream job! A contrived example, to be sure, but nobody becomes successful without at least a little bit of luck. The point of the talk was that even people who fight their way through the entire process should recognize that they were somehow lucky, and that they should strive to help others who might not be so lucky.

I was one of the graduating seniors at Princeton who saw this talk live, and non-Princeton readers have to understand that the line "Never forget: In the nation's service. In the service of all nations" at the end is not just a concluding remark - it is both Princeton's motto and, IMO and according to many of my classmates, the thesis of the entire talk. The entire speech builds up to make this point: you are lucky, and by default you'll forget that you are sometimes... so make sure you remember to help people who aren't.
It is not apples to apples. That price includes streaming and over the air/cable license. I only want the streaming license.
I would too. Absolutely love BBC stuff.
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Do you always analyze who gets enriched before making purchases? For example, how do you purchase anything without enriching the evil oil executives who sell the petroleum products used to transport goods used in the production of the products and services you consume?

Even if you manage to perfectly align your beliefs with your purchasing habits, how do you ensure that those who profit from your purchases don't give their money to the evil cable or oil executives?
$19/month for what 5 TV channels and 6 radio stations? Pretty good deal!
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Part of being a good developer is knowing where the scalability bottlenecks are likely to be as you are developing software, and making intelligent decisions about the algorithms, data structures, and architectures you use. I would never advise a developer to not "factor in" performance or future scalability needs at all. The problem is when you spend significant extra effort building highly scalable architectures that you don't need now and may (likely) never need.
I wouldn't pay a single cent to HBO.

I would, on the other hand, pay $40 via iTunes per season of Game of Thrones.

Networks are outdated. Stop trying to change them and adapt like the rest of us.
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Did HBO ever consider asking some fixed price per simple download? No streaming, no complicated subscription services. Just payments per files. There can't be any logical reason not to offer it, if it's so widely pirated already. They can only convince some of those who pirate not to do it, if they provide the same level of simplicity and convenience. In any case, it can't make it any worse for them, than it is now. It can probably only make it better.
That's about the same price as an HBO subscription, so I can hardly see why not.
Ask HN: What to do after being rejected by a job you really wanted?
About 3 months ago I was rejected by a potential employer (as a designer). The hiring contact I had said I was top 3 but they decided to go with someone a little more experienced. I was pretty bummed. I thanked him for his time and let him know I was still interested and to keep me in mind for future openings.

Since being rejected I think about this job maybe twice a week, just kind of kicking myself for not doing better on the last interview I had. However, I know that won't change anything, so I'm learning new things (Python, taking an HCI class, getting better at my daytime gig as a designer of mostly ecommerce sites).

My question is, I really want to get back in contact with the hiring contact and ask where he stands in future hirings on the design side. However, it's only been 3 months, and I know they just recently hired someone to fill the position I was rejected from 3 months ago. Is it too pushy of me to contact him? Should I wait longer? I told him to keep me in mind, so if he was actually interested he would most likely contact me, no?
They cost around $20, but do we know what HBO's cut is?
Even if you couldn't have overlapping pre-determined button fields for the dialer, apps, browser, etc., just having the keyboard, even in one configuration, would still be highly functional.
As a Princeton '12 who saw the speech live, I entirely agree. I'd add that this was the Baccalaureate ceremony, which was historically the part of graduation that featured an extensive sermon... in other words, a part that is designed to be humbling in every respect.
This issue is where it gets the most complicated for me. I absolutely agree with you that everyone is not of equal aptitude. There are smart kids and less-than-smart kids; athletic kids and those with two left feet. I get that, and agree with it; anyone who doesn't is fooling themselves.

Where I believe we differ in opinion is that kids should be treated differently--especially at a young age--because of this inequality. Different skills develop over time, and although certainly we should have Advanced Placement programs for those in high school, when talking about grade-schoolers, I think that we should let skill first manifest.

Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers had a pretty big impact in my formulation of this opinion: small advantages, over time, turn into huge ones. What seems like a minor issue at first can, through the course of a decade, become many times compounded. This is why the Dutch school system does not separate children into "advanced" and "slow" classes until they are at least ten years old (forgive me if I'm misquoting the text).

Getting a low score on a test, or needing to study for twelve hours instead of six to get an A+, should not limit a child from being able to reach for academic excellence. In the same token, however--and this is where I think many schools fail--the smartest children should not be held back by the less clever ones.

So, in my opinion, if it helps foster learning to build robots and rockets, then all children should. If it's a cool part of an Advanced Placement class that also requires significant knowledge of an advanced subject, sure, keep it for the "smart kids." Let's just not condemn a child to failure because of a bad test, or a bad school year when they're young.
i can't tell hbo because I don't have twitter.

i hate twitter.

my voice shall go unnoticed.
I had similar sentiments as the OP.

I feel I was just humbled in about the most effective way possible.
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I always thought that high blood pressure was caused by destruction of the lining of the arteries, and stiffening of the tissue, rather than water retention.

Control of blood pressure is dependent on this delicate balance of tissues against the pumping of the heart, as well as production of the substances that allow you to be sexually active.

Hence the fortuitous discovery of Viagra whilst searching for blood pressure control medications.
I think you misread my sentence. You are agreeing with me.
I think you might have to go 20 years to find that kind of difference. A decade ago, at least among the techie Americans that are the typical HN reference point, we had PalmPilot smartphones. Now we have some other brand of smartphones. Soon to have magical buttons, but otherwise not that huge of a revolution. The #1 thing to do with them a decade ago was to browse Google Maps and restaurant-review sites while away from a computer. Guess what the #1 thing to do with them in 2012 is?
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“The Art and Science of Low Carbohydrate Living” has a pretty serious chunk of science. (To the point at least where I felt out of my depth)

Did you catch Leo Laporte / Steve Gibson (ala Security Now) covering LCHF diets a few weeks ago?
As a purchaser of the season 1 blu-ray... lets get to the secondary issue of buying.

The packaging of the videos is SHIT... there are ads, I have to sit through FBI warnings, I have to sift through bad menus to get to the content I want, and I have to deal with trying to find features when everything I select says "please insert disc X"

I paid $70 CND and with the exception of the actual quality of the picture (blu-ray is fantastic), the whole experience is VASTLY inferior to the piracy route.

That said, I'll still be purchasing the Season 2 Blu-Ray when it comes out, because I very much want to support the production of this series.
Because this is an act of war against other carries that currently carry HBO. Those carriers can drop HBO and cause revenue to drop much faster than broadband-only HBOGO subscribers will bring in new revenue. It's trading an existing, stable, proven revenue source for one that is none of the above at scale.

Edit: This is a summary of one of HBO's arguments. The dcurtis post examines a couple of other arguments. Positioning is an interesting one: How does HBO convince viewers that $5/mo is reasonable for just a few shows when Netflix is $8/mo for far more content? There are some really tough issues here.
I believe that it's within reason that FB's internal controls are lax (like any other company) depending on what sort of access you have as an employee, contractor or family member of an employee ... or even a friend. It's totally possible for an internal employee to forget to encrypt a drive, or leave a backup somewhere of something. Or if a friend borrowed the password of an employee. I even think it's totally within reason that an employee could be paid off if the (extreme) situation deemed it necessary.

"OK, fine, we'll play along, except we'll let the users decide what data they provide, and we'll try to help them benefit from it as much as possible"

...sure that applies to the outer shell of it, and the official public stance. What else happens internally?

Disclaimer: my comments just are a result of trying to think critically. I could be totally/partially incorrect or correct. I do believe there is a truth out there about it, but that it's not in FB's interest to be super upfront.
Nothing wrong with an old fashioned dedicated account. I refuse to use my Facebook login for, well, basically anything that isn't Facebook.
Yea, but plenty of the cut the network takes of that $20 is going to infrastructure- and marketing-type costs that HBO would have to shoulder if they struck out alone.
I've noticed that images seem to be by far the most popular on Facebook. A recent one I uploaded for my fan page (http://www.facebook.com/ModernSherlock) got 12,000 'likes' and actually reached over 51% of my audience. That was a bit of a milestone for me. :-)

I've also always stuck to only posting once or twice a day and mostly never in the weekends.
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I'm more impressed with how cheap it is.

An SSD is on par with a 15K disk, but delivers 10X the perf, throw 10 SSDs in an array and you've got what used to cost $100,000 for about $5K
You can get a discount if you are using either a black and white TV, a TV under a certain screen size or if you are deaf/blind.
I constantly amazed by how quickly people embrace protection racket style tactics over a bloody TV show that they could buy in a few months.
Absolutely.

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It sounds like a problem better solved by triggers, or a few materialized views.
1) The terminal is a conversation; you tell the computer to do something and it answers you (a lot of the time telling you it doesn't understand you).

2) When you want to do something very specific the terminal can be much more efficient, as well as easy to explain. example "copy c:\foo.doc c:\bar.doc"

versus (e.g.):

1) Navigate explorer to c:\

2) Find the file named "foo" with the MS Word icon and click and drag it, staying in the same window

3) Click on "Copy of foo"

4) Press F2

5) Type in "bar"

The shell way is both faster and easier to communicate to someone else (as long as they know how to open a terminal).
We have been doing some tests with http://www.monetdb.org/Home. We saw inserts per second in the range of 50k/sec on a laptop.
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If insects have no sentient attributes like mercy, how can they slaughter others mercilessly?

Easy. Since they lack attributes like mercy, they slaughter without it. That is to say, they slaughter mercilessly.

And, really, In the context of creatures without mercy, such a phrase can alternatively be viewed as a literary device comparing how the ants act to how a human acts. I'm not sure what the term would be... personification? E.g., "The trees wept".
I want to say this gentleman is doing it wrong. If his current set-up is what I perceive from the description he is not going to be gaining any speed or scalability. by moving to one giant table. In fact he might be losing some. It sounds like he set up 12 monthly tables and is inserting data into each one by month then he is querying across all 12 tables and joining the results. You can do that query in one fell swoop using UNION, If you have a significant number of entries the overhead of opening the 12 tables is negligible. If your looking up on a primary key then you will be more then fast enough.

Switch your tables into MyISAM and make a 13th table. insert the current month into the 13 table and query across all 13 tables when you need to get data out. At the end of the month move all records in the 13th table into its proper month table. ( make the 13th table a memory table sync it to disk every few minutes or put it on a really fast SSD )
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How can you possibly claim some sort of moral high ground when you're saying "I like the content you produce but don't agree with the methods you use to charge for it so I'm going to steal it!".

If you don't agree with their distribution methods then DON'T CONSUME THAT CONTENT.
MySQL can do a whole lot more then that too. I routinly get 15k to 20k writes per second while the server is under normal load. You can spike that a great deal higher depending on what else your doing and what kind of table your writing.
Ok. How about if I'm blind AND deaf? Can I get TV for free?
This.

I wrote Goggles. http://goggles.sneakygcr.net

You turn the bookmarklet on and it overlays a transparent <canvas> on the web page you happen to be visiting.

Everybody gets a pen. It works just like multiplayer MS Paint.

Your comment is pretty accurate sometimes. ;)
I just don't understand what some people are thinking when it comes to this issue. In my mind, HBO is offering people two options:

1) Premium price, instant gratification. If you're willing to pony up for cable TV + a HBO subscription, you're able to watch Game of Thrones the instant it comes out. Yes, you're paying a lot (~$100) - but - sometimes that's the price you have to pay for a premium service.

2) Pay a reasonable price, get it digitally, but I have to wait. If the $100/month subscription is a problem for you - no problem! You just have to wait. You can legally gain access to Game of Thrones on iTunes or BluRay for ~$40 for the whole season... about 10 months after it finishes airing.

When I hear someone say, "Why can't I just pay HBO directly for access? They're dumb! I'll just pirate it instead." - What they really mean is, "HBO charges too much for my tastes, and I don't want to wait... so I'll just download it." If that's your mentality, fine... but please don't think you're doing it for some higher reasoning. You just want the show now, and you don't want to pay what HBO is selling it. In every other medium (physical goods, food, dinner, cars) - you'd be SOL. But.. just because it's digital, you can copy it for free.
I'd planned to buy Game of Thrones when it came out on iTunes a couple months ago but I realized that even that still indirectly supports the buzz around this property and the way it's primarily delivered.

Instead I'd suggest fellow cord cutters just skip Game of Thrones entirely, don't pirate it, don't even watch it. Instead spend your money and leisure time supporting content that's provided online.

When your friends talk about GoT you'll need to have a few canned response-pivots like "is that about orcs? Lawl, hey did you guys see Lilyhammer? It was totally not godawful."
"Xenophobia" has a strong denotation of unreasonable fear. Most fear of insects is rooted in truth- flies are repulsive because they transmit disease and seek rot, spiders can be poisonous, fleas and ticks suck your blood and spread disease- so I'm not sure whether xenophobia applies.
Thanks for commenting and awesome page-- I just liked it and that image. I have to ask though, why have you chosen not to post on weekends?
The video can be found here:
http://vimeo.com/43431035

I really dislike the voice-over they have, but that might be personal preference. It just sounds like a regular person imitating a professional voice actor to me.
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Interestingly
GoT seasons 1 and 2 are available on iTunes in Australia. The latest episodes only take an extra week to show up from when they're first screened in the US. Even so, Australians apparently pirate the show in greater numbers than elsewhere.

Could be because it's $3/episode or it's only standard def or it's a week late. My guess is people find it just as easy to torrent it so don't even bother to look at paid options.

So if Australia is being used by HBO as a test market (quite common for US companies in the past), the stats on offering a paid online option in parallel to cable to reduce piracy don't look compelling to me in this case.
Well, most of them come from the well-off portions of those places, so it's a lot less than half the planet. But yes, you seem to get my point, which is that the population in SF is not representative of the globe at large.

I guess if you wave your hands some you could call it a flavor or corporatism. But I think your description of those groups as privileged is pretty rich. From a certain angle it's technically correct, but in a way that aggressively misses the point. You might as well call them lucky duckies.
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HBO is already taking my money: http://www.amazon.com/Game-Thrones-Complete-Season-Blu-ray/d...
No it says "I think I'm entitled to your content and so I'm going to probably be a shitty customer"
Some of the responses are obvious trolls and he still doesn't catch them.
The "Extra" taste is called Umami: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umami

Also -- despite what you may have learned in school -- the taste buds aren't mapped to areas: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions (Search for Taste for links to the relevant sources)
Why do you think it's going to be faster to do a UNION query against 12 (or 13) tables than it will be to do a non-UNION query against a single table?

It's also unclear to me why you're suggesting the author switch to MyISAM. Presumably they're using InnoDB because it's actually ACID compliant, and even if they're not, according to MySQL's own benchmarks InnoDB is as fast or faster than MyISAM for heavy read workloads, e.g. as described at http://www.oracle.com/partners/en/knowledge-zone/mysql-5-5-i...
I am sure the first generation is going to be fraught with problems, but this looks so good that I would badly like to own part of this company. Massive game changer, with the sort of technology I thought to be 5-10 years out. Unqualified thumbs up from me.
With the 20% discount it's only $5 more now that it was yesterday. (The coupon code is '2ndEd'.)
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$18/month? If I got all content that was produced for the entire history of the BBC, and all future content, then yes. I'm tired of having to wait for new episodes of QI to show up on youtube.

But keep in mind that content production is a fixed cost, so if you increase the number of subscribers you can lower the cost per subscriber.
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I took the liberty of thinking that if I'm too busy to Facebook in the weekends, then everyone else is too. (Yeah... I know it doesn't work like that).
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The message I get from posts like these: "I am entitled to watch show X right now. If the owner of show X won't sell it to me instantly, then I have the right to pirate it."

Is there money to be made here? Sure. I might even say that companies who don't offer popular shows on demand are making a dumb move. But nobody has the innate right to take whatever they want right now just because they can't wait until it's available legally.
Perhaps the issue is that with their business model they want people to pay $x per month for years on end?

Since people who are paying a sub are way less likely to cancel than people who make a 1 off purchase are willing to come back?

Perhaps they don't even care that much about piracy because their money is already in the bag from cable subscribers?

Once everyone stops using cable they will change their tune.
You're correct. HBO is offering people two options.

However, there seems to be a significant amount of people who want a third option, which HBO considers itself structurally prohibited from providing.

It is precisely no one's fault but HBO's that HBO has painted itself into a corner.
I actually discovered that I am able to pay HBO for Game of Thrones. HBO decided to air GoT here in Brazil simultaneously with USA. I called my television provider, added HBO for R$ 30,00/mo (around $15.00) and after the end of the season 2 I just called there and removed HBO again. I am planning to do the same for season 3. Is it so hard for people around the world to do the same? (real question, not being sarcastic)
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