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My guess is that the timing is entirely contingent on their existing contracts.

My guess is that HBO's contracts with cable providers have terms that are simply incompatible with a direct-to-consumer offering. If they were renegotiated at any point in the last five or so years, I would think it likely that such clauses exist. Perhaps not with every provider, but with enough to make things problematic prior to the next round of re-negotiations.

e.g.
Suppose something in the contract indicates that Comcast only kicks back to HBO a fraction of the cheapest available consumer-facing price. (Protecting Comcast from HBO's turning around and cutting a sweetheart deal with another cable operator the next day)

In which case HBO's $10 cut of the $17ish that Comcast charges [1] would itself erode should HBO make a hypothetical $12/mo offering available.

So even if HBO's cable subscriber numbers held steady, they may well be facing a huge drop in revenue simply by making an economically-feasible direct-to-consumer offering. [2]

Or, it could be a more direct clause simply prevents any direct-to-consumer offering.

But that situation sounds the most likely to me. It would have been in the cable operators interests to ask for such clauses and in HBO's interests to concede. [3]

[1] Numbers based solely on prior articles I've read. I haven't had cable, let alone HBO, in quite some time.

[2] I think we can all agree that even HBO would be dead-in-the-water among cord-cutters at anything north of $15/mo. And anything between 10 and 15 gets debatable.

[3] Even three years ago streaming was not 'ready' to the point of justifying a fight with cable operators. Even now it's anything but a sure thing. Particularly when there hasn't been a real break-out leader in the IP-set-top-box space. They'd need to sign and support a half-dozen deals and platforms to give this thing an honest shot at the moment. Going slow with HBO Go is a very shrewd way to ease into the platform fight before a crush of public interest descends on a hypothetical consumer-direct offering.
Monsanto needs to stop killing people and farms, it's about time that these farmers get their fair share of the injustice they've been put through by Monsanto. Too bad some are already out of business and long gone.
Given Netflix (and to a lesser extent, Hulu and AmazonVOD) explicitly has HBO in their sights, this sort of arrangement is highly unlikely.
I use Google Documents (Presentation) or SlideRocket. SR is very nice for sketching block diagrams. I tend to think more in terms of pictures than words.
If anything, that would make it worse --- it's anything but proper for law enforcement officers to detain people on a whim to satisfy "professional curiosity".
I think the problem is that you also make legitimate use harder, like copy-pasteing an email address from a web page.

In fact I think this applies to security in general. You need to balance the costs and the benefits. Usually in matters like this benefits seem to be implicitly overestimated and costs underestimated, and people just get used to living in the worsened conditions.

It's probably because you can't really see the benefits, so you just imagine them to be there. And you imagine them to be larger than the costs, which you can easily downplay (by saying people shouldn't be so lazy, etc).

I think this kind of thinking is bad and I don't think we should voluntarily make our own lives worse in every possible opportunity we get.
Correct. Square is used to pay copays or balances that may remain after insurance payments have been processed (deductibles, denials, etc.).

The main interface allows for the doctor to press one button to easily pay a known copay, or press another button to pay an arbitrary amount. In the screenshot here [1], the patient could pay his $490 balance by pressing the "Payment" button, or the $20 copay by pressing the "Copay" button.

[1] http://d.pr/i/Ulh5

edit: added a bit more detail
I've visited the Stanford Virtual Reality Lab and tried their $50k HMD and high-precision trackers. I agree with John that latency is currently the #1 problem for VR / AR.

Interestingly, the #2 problem is something you don't realize is a problem until you try: "vergence-accommodation conflicts", meaning that the display fails to render optical depth. The solution is "Fixed-Viewpoint Volumetric 3D": http://quora.com/Volumetric-3D , which is what I'm creating as my academic career and my startup Vergence Labs.
I guess it depends on what else you're doing. If you're in High School still, suck it up and finish with high marks and be done.

As for college, there are two theories on that: on one hand, a college degree from a good school still caries a lot of weight with people, and it's a great networking tool. You'll meet some great people as well, and you might even learn something (though at your presumed skill level, you probably won't learn much of value until your junior/senior level CompSci classes. More valuable might be hitting CompEngineering or Electrical Engineering instead.

There's another theory which says 'skip college, do a startup', and there's lots of good reasons to take that route as well. It'll be less fun, more work, but possibly more lucrative, and you'll have much more 'working world' experience when you're done than your college friends.

As for 'what should you learn?' My MO for that is 'when in doubt, go deeper in the stack'. Those who truly understand the entire architecture of computers, and know how to drive the maximum performance out of it will always be in demand.

Also, work on the people skills. Learning to be a better communicator and how to connect with people will never be wasted. Negotiation is a skill to work on as well.
Thanks — didn't know the Brand Resource page existed.
Web exclusive shows.
"The long tail is still missing in action" - plug&play arriving onto the API scene is going to change that fast.
Question for the more experienced: does that seem like a LOT of issues recently, or are they simply being presented at a more granular level than for other similar services?
>Microsoft's variant has a clear advantage for the user in at least the short-to-medium term.

The approach also often comes out on top when the client is a business and accounting considerations take the lead, as opposed to B2C situations.

When you divide the cost of a Microsoft license by 7 (number of years a business will be running XP on a workstation) it turns into a really great price.

The reverse compatibility mentality is universal in the enterprise.
HBO's risk now it two-fold:

#1 Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, or (gasp) Google start outspending HBO on serial shows. The next show of the caliber of "Game of Thrones" or "Sopranos" is not offered through HBO.

#2 Consumers fail to see why they should be paying for HBO, or even want it. You could say a #1 3-4 times, combined with a failure to produce a notable show for a while, would kill HBO's desirability as a brand.

What HBO's management is doing is managing for death. This is what you do when you have a company with a passing business model to keep it as profitable as possible for as long as possible. In some ways you could imagine HBO as a porn company 8 years ago that primarily produced DVDs. Their business is still profitable and glamorous, they are mostly ignoring the pirates, but their real enemy is right around the corner.

HBO still has the possibility of transitioning. People care about HBO, thus all these stories about it. What they've done is tell their competitors "come get us." (alternatively HBO could just be calling their bluff and has full plans ready to switch to a web/mobile version)
Good points. I also feel people tend to tweet that they are enjoying everything, simply to make themselves look like they are always going to interesting things and thus worth following. Similarly, no one can say anything negative, since they are essentially going behind the speaker's back (...in public...)
We need more hard data like this on the API ecosystem. ProgrammbleWeb is a great source.
I would add a timer. The end of the time, no matter how long it is, it shows the next 9 things and the timer resets.
> While the concerns is valid, flow control looks like overkill to something where a per-channel pause control frame could do the same job with less implementation and protocol overhead.

Coming from messaging world I can say: nope. "Pause" frames are a very, very bad idea and lead to more problems than they solve. Windowing is much better engineering choice.

> Also note that TCP provides the URG channel for exception messaging.

Which doesn't work.

> 2.6. Push ... The client has the option to read and discard this information, but that may be a costly waste of bandwidth.

It's worth noting that caching and Push don't play together.
Quality, yes. Cost, hell no.

Dr. Horrible cost over $200k. Game of Thrones costs upwards of $60 million per season.
What's crap about these outages is that custom 500 error pages that you've created aren't shown.
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Both those things could be useful in the future, and probably not in the way you think.

I'm not advising you to go "play around" so to speak, but opening up and learning how to get people to like you would be an invaluable asset if you ever get involved in the startup scene.

Heck, I think it's useful in everyday life.
I'm curious as to how they know he is a developer on the project? Is he vocal about his participation?
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Hey, who can blame HBO, they like their business model. It works, it's made them millions.

Except if they don't get ahead of the curve they'll find that most people have gone down the routes of waiting for it to get to NetFlix, pirating it, or not giving a damn at all. Bye bye millions.
Wow I enjoy this idea very much.. It will give an instant incentive to want to check back. Thank you very much Macsenour!
That's only superficially accurate, working in the same way as the first graf of Spolsky's "Architecture Astronauts" post from several years back:

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000018.html

In reality, SPDY and WebSockets have two very different goals:

* SPDY is a transport optimized for the HTTP request/response service model, down to specific features to compress HTTP-style headers.

* WebSockets is a transport optimized for tunneling bidirectional application-level protocols over an HTTP-style transport.
There is no technical difference between a laptop, console, desktop either. But who would want a tablet that is as thick as a laptop, with fans and 1 hour battery life.
You can't just stick a i7 and quadcore GPU in a tablet. Your iPad is good for casual games. People are playing lots of casual games but those games are unrelated to games like COD, Battlefield, Elder Scrolls, GTA, FIFA, Madden. It's like comparing a TV show to a big blockbuster movie.
Find non-profits and other worthwhile organizations in your area who need help with fairly simple things and donate your time to them. This will get you experience and build up your CV.
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My password is in the dump, and it was changed mid October 2010. I remember because I changed all my passwords when my laptop was stolen.

The MtGox hack was in June 2011.
On June 1st (this month) they've had routing errors. On June the 5th (the day before yesterday) they again had routing errors.

My apps triggered errors left and right and I was bashing my head against the keyboard because I noticed the errors earlier than their status update and I believed it was our fault.

Plus this last week the latency of the requests have been incredibly high, while the traffic to my apps have not increased. Again I assumed it was my fault.

I'm contemplating moving back to EC2 or Linode.
Hulu has some great originals such as Spy and Battleground. Reward them!

This is HBO's loss. They could be making money by partnering with the likes of Roku, Microsoft and Sony. Instead they are going to let dinasaurs like Comcast and TWC drag them down. I tried writing to HBO a while ago. They did not bother responding. I cannot help but feel quiet satisfaction knowing that they are losing so much money.
I agree with you completely but you're omitting that Steve & Steve and Richard, and almost all the mythical entrepreneurial successes had found a way to fire their boss and landlord (in some form) so that they could focus on what they do best. Everyone's situation is different so if making an early YC exit is your method (or plan) to achieve this then it shouldn't be gainsayed.
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I can not agree more with this. if you don't know it.. say you don't know and then be ready to say how you would research or find the answer.
For one obvious reason, SCTP won't make it through firewalls. Part of the design goal of SPDY is to minimize changes at every other layer of the web protocol stack.
when I was 8 or 10, I learned c with if and for loop and most basic of the language. I made a working chess text game using only ifs and loops, without even using any function etc. and well, I and family members actually played it a lot. and I think I have been programmer since.
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The app looks useful, if I was on the west coast I would buy it. Have you given any thought on expanding east?

Just looking at the screen cap you could increase the design aesthetic by using a solid frame instead the wood. The wood makes the titles hard to read.
While I'm generally the tin hat wearer in my circles, it's perfectly logical that he was just curious.

If he had computer science experience he may have had a legitimate interest in it. That said, he may not have been a programmer, thus the open source part eluding him.

If it was the government they could just...look at the source.
Get involved in academic research. You'll be able to use your skills, and they've usually got money to throw at talented young people. If you can find a local university with a Human-Computer Interaction Studies program, you can get useful UX experience, if you want to get into the big-boy numerical stuff, you can look at Physics or Engineering departments, I'm sure a Computer Engineering department would love to have you, the list goes on.

If you're not hell-bent on being a capital-E Entrepreneur at 16, why not step outside the web development box and hang out on a college campus where you might have some fun?

My 2c.
Yep, I guess that's a big part of what's missing still. Mass use of platforms to make it easy for anybody to do this.
Would be interesting to know what application it's actually going to be running? what task it's going to be doing?
Because it's not zero-sum. There are plenty of incredible sources of leisure, entertainment, or culture outside of what HBO produces.

Not to mention one can wait for the shows to be on Blu-Ray.
What would really help in these situations is a failover to our maintenance pages or some other static page we could provide instead of showing the Heroku "Application Error".

This is probably harder then it seems, especially when the outage is related to their routing infrastructure.
There's a big difference between having a closed, proprietary protocol and releasing something as open source with a public spec.
I don't see the "major upgrade" here. As a doc you can already use Square to process payments, and you can look up "real time insurance information" easily already via the web.

Breathless pronouncements from a supposed technical company that physicians will use their app because it "makes them feel modern" are a trifle annoying. Docs will consider using an app like this when (if ever) it is demonstrated that input/dictation of specialized vocabulary is robust on pads, and when (if ever) there is something at all good to say about trusting a commercial third party to store a practice's protected health information remotely, eg when (if ever) questions about security, access levels and logging, deletion, and backup policies of remote data storage of protected health info are fully addressed.
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I posted this article on HN.

There is an underlying tone in the community but some of us make a living thanks to Microsoft.

I am impressed that they have done this, which is why I posted it.
For comparison, you can now get < 35-watt Intel Ivy Bridge processors, with 2 or 4 physical cores. Would not be surprised to see them outperform on a performance / watt or performance / $ basis, especially if you're running OpenCL accelerated computations on the GPU.

http://ark.intel.com/products/65703/Intel-Core-i5-3470T-Proc...

http://ark.intel.com/products/65735

http://ark.intel.com/products/65714/Intel-Core-i7-3517U-Proc...
I just finished building out a 271 interface for medicare and emdeon - the error rate is higher than I'd like, but isn't terrible. Response rates are typically under 20 seconds for us...

For claims, we're using http://x12parser.codeplex.com/. It's still pretty cumbersome, but I think that's more a symptom of the format itself.
My apps are finally back up, how's everyone else doing?
DTrace in the zone
They went down literally the moment our demo thing started. I swear this is because of me.
The beauty of SimCity is in the details
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As someone who is not remotely as comfortable in a presentation setting in front of a crowd of people as I am one-on-one, one of my biggest issues is a lack of attention. It's pretty easy to see who isn't giving their full attention, and I end up immediately thinking about that instead of the actual presentation. I end up looking for someone who is paying attention and just start presenting to that individual to ease my way through it. And I'm at most working with ~30 people.

Can't imagine having to put up with it on a much larger scale and severity.
I have 4 apps on 20 paid dynos. All of them down.
Make sure to have some paper with you to write down names or questions. Sometimes you will hear a technology that you can research after and reference in your thank you note. It shows interest into what the people are doing and that you can grasp new concepts.
Tell me when a tablet can play the latest blockbuster AAA titles on max settings on a big screen.
keep in mind that most laptops can't even do this.
Your scenario might come true if game publishers stop developing AAA games that require very resource intensive games.
I believe it's more freelancers screwing over companies from my own personal experience. (6 years). I've had stories from colleagues of them flaking out from personal reasons, disinterest, etc. More of those stories than them talking about being taken to court.
There was the 20% of the population that actively opposed the revolution many of whom were attacked had their property seized and were eventually forced to move to Canada. As well as the majority who really just wanted everything to carry on peacefully

Alternatively it could be that 100% of the population fully supported the revolution leading to a universal popular uprising of the oppressed - just like Russia in 1917!
I'm still in High School. It's extremely boring.

As for the "deeper in the stack bit", I've gone all the way down to assembler (don't ask, I wanted to program for the Game Boy; wouldn't do it again even if someone paid me a lot of $$$)

Never been too good with people though, but I'm working on it. :)
agreed there is not enough metrics on what is out there, where the opportunities are? I know John and the team @ PW is working hard to track on all of this, but its good to see more detail get pulled from someone external.

If anyone else wants to help slice and dice and make sense of it all, ProgrammableWeb has an API....
Angry on TCS
As a newbie, I've really enjoyed deploying on Heroku. However these outages really terrify me. Is there an easy way to host a redundant version of your app outside of Heroku?
When I look at django apps they are often similarly hideous to me. (edit: such as - when hundreds of objects are pulled into memory, then filtered further, or processed one at a time, when the entire thing could be done in one query. They'll do this not only because the Django ORM isn't capable enough to do the work out on the query side, but also because the programmer isn't SQL-aware enough to know that's even how it should be done. Django's lack of capability is matched by the developers lack of awareness, and the conclusion for such a developer is "django works great!" This is why SQLAlchemy users get annoyed by Django and Django users get annoyed by SQLAlchemy. There are two totally different ways of looking at problems going on).

This whole thing is about where you're coming from and what software development traditions you subscribe to. We know full well django isn't going anywhere and you can rebut all you want, the alternatives aren't going away either.
I'm 18, and you seem a bit more experienced than me, but here's my advice: find something you're interested in working on and do that. You've already found this — your open source work — and that's great.

I spent two summers during highschool working at a physics lab. I understood very little of the physics but learned a huge amount about programming — data collection, shipping, and analysis in particular. I'm sure any lab would love to pay you for your help.

Something else you could do is take a look at the Hacker News Jobs board [0] and look for a company that is working on something you're interested in. Even if they're not advertising for an intern, it might be worth it to send them an email. That's how I got my current job.

You're clearly very good at both programming and impressing people (these are both important skills! [1]). If you're really in need of some money to fund your side projects, turn to Craigslist and offer your services as a tutor, maybe in more things than just programming. Again, this is something I did that worked well — adults will easily pay you $20/hr. if you know what you're talking about.

[0] http://news.ycombinator.com/jobs

[1] http://carl.flax.ie/dothingstellpeople.html
He didn't just plant Roundup-ready seeds. He took advantage of the fact that they were Roundup-ready.

The way Roundup works is, the seeds confer resistance in crops to an herbicide. The herbicide is easily obtainable and cheap; the only thing interesting about it is that if you plant special Roundup-ready seeds, you can easily use it to kill weeds without killing crops.
"The vast majority of Americans is probably still more afraid about terrorists than they are of this trend in Government, therefore the trend will continue."

Government border checks are a bigger problem than religious terrorists?
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The way you phrased your comment can only lead to arguing semantics of the word “terrorist”. As risk to the establishment, a “subversive” can always be framed as a terrorist with a little bit of creativity.

Can you volunteer a significant difference between Franklin and a modern-day terrorist from the establishment ruler's standpoint?