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I have yet to hear a statement from HBO that even suggests the line of reasoning I'm about to lay out, but I think HBO is doing a great job of maximizing their current business model, while preparing for a coup of epic proportions.

HBO is building a robust streaming media platform. Everything about the system would work as a standalone service, save one component: authentication and authorization.

Stop and look at the moving parts for a moment. HBO isn't letting cable providers deliver HBO content through cableco apps. HBO has their own dedicated service and applications. When I want to view HBO content, the experience is HBO from beginning to end; save the login page to my content provider. The cable company's role feels a lot like an OAuth provider.

HBO is in the content business, and they know it. I wish I could find it, but I recently read an interview with an HBO executive where he very eloquently expressed the current HBO business model. Essentially, cable companies serve as channel sales agents for HBO content. HBO knows that consumers want their content, but opening a direct channel risks their current (and very profitable) channel.

Now take another step back. If the cable companies are merely a sales channel for HBO, what does that say about HBO's long term positioning. Keep in mind that HBO is doing a great job keeping the cable providers in that role, even from a technology standpoint. I think that HBO is putting themselves in a position to jump from one sales channel to another as soon as those channels are capable of supporting their business, or at least capable of mitigating the significant risk posed by alienating the channel that currently delivers 89% of their operating revenue.

EDIT: Here is the article I was recalling: http://dcurt.is/hbo-forbes-journalism. And a relevant excerpt.

> What you don't want to do is to pursue a distribution channel over here [ed: the internet], where you think, well, let's go around the affiliate and we'll get a couple hundred thousand subs. But the promotional, and packaging support we get over here [ed: the affiliate networks], which, by the way, is the foundation of our 30 million subs and enables us to get 10 million transactions, if that dissipates, and that shrinks, then we will lose a lot of subs over here. Because with 10 million transactions, you have to generate a lot of subs every single day. You can't afford to have that machinery slow down. So we'll gain a little over here, and we'll lose a lot over here, and we think there will not be a net gain, there would be a net loss. So it's really about economics and a business issue.

Meanwhile, HBO puts themselves in a position to leap when the economics are right. Very savvy, IMO.
You should add a note on the page that lets people know that checking a password takes a minute or two.

EDIT: Actually never mind, seems like it's much faster now.
My password is not in the list, not idiotic but not super-hard . I doubt this is the full list. I hadn't changed mine in years, so maybe this is from a certain period of time?
In that case, I'll readily admit I was using "survival" in the hyperbolic sense of "NYC survival skills" than the literal sense of "wilderness survival skills". I'll downgrade it to "crucially significant determiner of success" if that's easier to stomach :)
An old trick for convincing (some) shells that your script is an sh-compatibile shell is to use a colon on the first line. Support for this trick was added to fish back in 2007: https://gitorious.org/~ridiculousfish/fish-shell/fishfish/bl...
Oh, no. I just want to buy it on iTunes or similar. I'm saying I'd likely pay whatever they asked.
> I stopped using fish a while ago, when it would crash whenever I opened a console session (so I couldn't do anything when X didn't start)

This is why I launch my interactive shell from a failsafe /bin/sh instead of using chsh. If zsh ever messes up horribly, I end up back in a good old bog standard shell prompt.
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I've always thought of Youtube as a social platform, although maybe not a social network, and that's probably Google's fault because they never saw it like that. But to me a social network has "made it" when it's being used in revolutions. Facebook, Twitter and Youtube were the major sites by far being used in revolutions over the past few years.
People that are pirating the show aren't willing to pay. If they were then they'd be subscribed to HBO.
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Some people have this thing against sending their private passwords in plaintext to third-party websites...
I don't know if I have the correct file:
http://www.mediafire.com/?n307hutksjstow3

mbf041:Downloads shephard$ wc -l SHA1.txt
6143150 SHA1.txt

My password hash which was last rotated July 5, 2011

.,7^R8Cl}g1}Ze6f

Was _not_ found in the file (with/without 00000). I have, of course, changed it today. Strangely enough, the previous password is also not in the list.
Maybe they don't have TVs/cable?
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If they have cable, and they're pirating - you would be correct. It would however be incorrect to assume that someone who doesn't want to pay 80 dollars a month before being allowed to pay for HBO would pirate it if given the chance to just pay for HBO directly.
same problem on Chrome 21.0.1165.0 canary.

I'll dig into the code for sure, i just started webgl and this kind of things is perfect to learn.
I've never understood why the herd mentality is so prevalent among investors.
There was a discussion about this a couple days ago which included a video of the CEO discussing why economically it just doesn't make sense for them to offer HBO as a standalone product: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4071963
A question from the cryptographically uninitiated -- how (and how easily) can these hashes be linked to a user's account name/email?
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Same here - mine was all alpha characters, seven characters, and the hash with five 0's was in the file. Guess who just changed their LinkedIn password today? And included some numbers?
Ok. That's fine. But I now fully consider piracy for HBO to be a business decision and I don't want to hear any moral condemnation and cries for government intervention from them.
Some folks are willing to pay for exactly what they want, but they're not willing to pay an additional amount to get content they don't care about.

Same thing that happened with the music industry: people don't want all the filler bullshit on some albums, they just want the hot single. Let folks buy a single MP3 and they will, or they'll pirate if you only provide the entire album for sale.
Is the element you are binding chosen to visible from the start? I'm finding that chosen does not like to be bound to an element until it is visible.

I tend to do a lot of setup on render of fields that are hidden and displayed later in the same view, but chosen throws an error on 'searchfield[0]'.
We had to enhance it to allow "New Item" in case you had to add a new item to the existing list.
I'll give you an example. A friend was over a few days ago and wanted to watch a particular episode of Community. One quick google search and we found the name of the episode. One quick search on iTunes, a couple clicks and it's downloading. A moment later and iTunes suggests that we can start watching immediately while it finishes downloading.

No worrying about when it shows, or if I'd remembered to set something to record it or even managing local storage. Also, once you've bought a tv show it looks like iTunes now lets you redownload it whenever you want.

There's still some work to be done to bridge that experience onto the TV smoothly, but the experience is already much better than any cable experience for me.
From my understanding, this feature wasn't tied in to any sort of advertising or nefarious information gathering, it was just a poor/insecure implementation of a vaguely convenient idea.
> For instance, the monopoly beverage contracts that every restaurant has with Coke or Pepsi. As a consumer, you don't really have a choice in what to drink at a (fast food) restaurant, as that decision has already been made for you.

Most people don't care enough, but if it's that big of a deal for you, go to a different restaurant. There's your choice.

If watching HBO is more important than having an internet only option, then pay for HBO. Otherwise ditch HBO and go internet only through Netflix or something.

Having choice doesn't mean you get to decide what all the options are.
Lol yeah, we blew our bandwidth quota :) Service restored.
I don't see how this can translate to the title "Zeolite retains heat indefinitely". After the cycle of heating and cooling has been repeated some finite number of times, parasitic heat loss to the environment will eventually remove all of the heat added at the beginning.
How long are your lastpass passwords? What's the default generated length, do you know?

I've been using password composer (http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/1341) but it generates only 8-character passwords. It's site also seems to have been taken down. So I need to plan a migration. To do that I'll first need a sense of how many sites out there still have password length limits.
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http://www.sftransit.us/ - an easier way to get San Francisco real time transit arrival times on your smartphone.

Itching for thoughts/feedback/etc from people...
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Indeed. The rumor I've heard is that Google thought about putting Time into their Maps development cycle but decided it would probably be a waste.
Yours has been updated with the same video.
The OP is a parasite, abusing his landlord's resources for gain. Also, if he hasn't declared his 'rental' income for tax purposes then his problems are only just beginning ...
No, but I would like to see evidence that a majority of consumers really do want such a thing.
So is Couchsurfing the bittorrent of lodging?

Sometimes capitalism gets in the way of distributing goods and services. Usually when people try to decide what other people shouldn't and shouldn't do with things they sell to them.
Yeah. We got hit pretty hard. It doesn't actually take a minute or two, unless you're doing a few hundred at the same time. Fixing. (-:
Can someone filter out the low-frequency noise in these videos?
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If I have to move that pixel one more time…
That is a problem, I'd agree. In my case at least, those companies provide the option to buy internet without having to buy the other crap.

Also, here's a moble MVNO which does a lot of things right:

https://ting.com/

Now if only you could easily bring your existing phone onto their service...
The hardware kit hes talking about - Oculus RIFT. Kickstarter coming this month!

http://oculusvr.com/?page_id=2
People are willing to pay, and they're not responding to customer demand.

How many of these people don't have cable or satellite? Really now if you already have cable (and I know very few that don't) then you already have the ability to pay, and get HBOGo
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Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes has long been one of the biggest voices behind “TV Everywhere”...Bewkes would be going against everything he’s talked up for years

Doesn't this boil down to, "The CEO would be willing to see his business fail rather than admit a mistake"?
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Not exactly but its a good start. But some interesting ideas come to mind. Using a conveyor to carry Zeolite to the top of a CSP plant and take the resulting stuff down to the reservevoir where its dumped into steam generators for turbines. If it replaced molten sodium as the working 'fluid' then that would make construction of such plants somewhat less challenging from an engineering perspective.

I miss the days when this stuff would show up in the Edmund Scientifics catalog.
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Mine was not in the list. I had a non-dictionary password with letters and numbers, 8 characters, and it was at least several months old.

(If we can collect enough data points of whose passwords are on it or not, how old they are, and how complex the password was, we should be able to narrow down a potential date range for the list and the odds that the compromised list is full or partial.)
The project "rationale" has a lot of holes in it.

> Instead of forcing your users to scroll through a giant list of items, they can just start typing the name of the item they were looking for.

Who's forcing? Modern browsers allow a user to type (in lowercase) text to find in a select element while focused and will scroll to an exact match inside of it. It would require some instructions, but deviations of that behavior have been around for a while.

> Because chosen replaces normal html select fields, you don't need to do anything special to make it work for browsers without JavaScript.

One definitely needs to do "something special" to make them work. Limiting options to massively bloated libraries like jQuery and Prototype is a big problem, especially for graceful degradation (impossible with both).

I'd be interested in something that works without a DOM library (definitely not impossible). Support beyond IE 8 would be a great idea as well.
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"We found that 100 percent of the [mild cognitive impairment] patients with plasma caffeine levels above the critical level experienced no conversion to Alzheimer’s disease during the two-to-four year follow-up period"

These are truly amazing results, in my opinion.

Alzheimer’s mice given caffeine alone or decaffeinated coffee had a very different immune marker profile.

I wonder what makes the combination of coffee and caffeine different than either of them individually.

A study tracking the health and coffee consumption of more than 400,000 older adults for 13 years, and published earlier this year in the New England Journal of Medicine, found that coffee drinkers reduced their risk of dying from heart disease, lung disease, pneumonia, stroke, diabetes, infections, and even injuries and accidents.

I find the decrease in injuries and accidents particularly interesting. My guess is that it's because coffee makes us more alert, but I'm still surprised it can make such a difference.

About a week and a half ago I gave up drinking coffee due to the withdrawal symptoms I experienced if I went a day without it (fatigue, headaches). It feels a lot better not to be addicted, but now I'm not sure whether I should resume.
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"We were put here as witnesses to the miracle of life. We see the stars, and we want them. We are beholden to give back to the universe.... If we make landfall on another star system, we become immortal." -- Ray Bradbury, Speech to National School Board Association, 1995

"People ask me to predict the future, when all I want to do is prevent it. Better yet, build it. Predicting the future is much too easy, anyway. You look at the people around you, the street you stand on, the visible air you breathe, and predict more of the same. To hell with more. I want better." -- Ray Bradbury, "Beyond 1984: The People Machines", 1982
And I'll again point out that most cog-in-the-machine can't-talk-to-people tech people are successful by the standards of majority of North Americans, let alone the world :)
Completely agreed. I don't mind skimming through OSC's books now but they are just fun reads (plus I'm always looking for some of his more vile opinions to seep through, though that never really happens).
One suggestion: make the input box have a type of 'password'. I was only a bit put-off by seeing my plaintext password staring me in the face!
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links to some relevant Fraunhofer pages;

http://www.igb.fraunhofer.de/en/press-media/press-releases/2...

http://www.igb.fraunhofer.de/en/competences/physical-process...
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"Runners maintain that it’s hard: it’s not. It’s a lie."

Running is not hard for some people, but for many it is very difficult.

I know a fair amount of runners and they are all the same - very slender, very light. I know some might say that they are this way because of running but I think running is more accessible for people with these traits already.

I am a large individual, not fat (although no longer skinny) and have always been terrible at running. I'm 6'4" and bulky. My thick legs make running a lot of work and therefore not fun at all.

"If you manage to get past the first week of training, you will not stop. Your life will actually reach a stage where it becomes easier to run than not to run."

As someone who did Couch to 5k[1] and had the goal to complete a race (an accomplished), I can say it isn't easier to run than not run and it's also just as easy to stop. Sometimes running for enjoyment isn't enough to keep you going and without an external goal (losing weight, looking good, getting healthy) you just aren't going to bother.

I will say that running is the best home gym ever. Cheap and convenient, and until you are a slender individual great at weight control.

[1] http://www.coolrunning.com/engine/2/2_3/181.shtml
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What do you use to remember wtf is going on? Orgmode? RTM? Yellow paper notes? How do you do it?
The wear and tear argument was not made along with a vetting argument. Vetting is one issue. Wear and tear is another issue. There is some ground between the perfect tenant and the idiot who burns a place down. There are all those people in the middle that go about their lives and little things happen. But have you ever heard the saying "drive it like its a rental"? People will naturally be slightly more careful with things they own or have a direct responsibility to take care of. The more people you have using a space that are not directly responsible for its care, the more likely those little things will happen. We're not talking about the catastrophic damage. We're talking about things like the extra nicks in the banister caused by someone dragging their suitcase up the stairs. When you have a new person dragging their suitcase up (and then back down) the stairs once a week, the chances for additional nicks goes up. Eventually all those little things start to build up. And it is pretty easy for a one of those rotating guests that caused a little more damage to just move along since its not their apartment building. People who live there and have a responsibility for the place (and coincidentally have been vetted) are more likely to notify the landlord to get it corrected.
My password hash was in the file and it was cracked. It was a combination of 8 upper and lower case letters, digits and special characters. This is the case where size does matter and apparently passwords like my old one can be broken on GPU in minutes or hours nowadays.

Quick sample from persons I polled: 2 password hashes were not in the file, 1 was there and cracked, 1 was there and not cracked yet.

As bad as it is, this can be a great case to raise the awareness of good password management.
What do you mean? Why do you think people use Microsoft's software?

Without sounding too snarky, I think a large portion of Microsoft's users are either corporate users who are locked-into the MS ecosystem, or are users who are unaware of the benefits of other (IMO superior) OSes. I mean to say that Microsoft has benefited from being the de facto default OS for most normal consumers. This is changing as OS X and Linux distros become more mainstream.
[node -e] evaluates a line of node.js source from a command line argument:

$ node -e "console.log('Hello, world.')"
Hello, world.

[xargs] allows you to pipe the output of one command as an argument to another command. By default it will show up at the tail end of the second command's arg list, but if you want to interleave it you can use -I flag:

$ echo /usr/share/dict/words | xargs head -5

A
A's
AOL
AOL's

$ echo petard | xargs -I {} grep {} /usr/share/dict/words
petard
petard's
petards

[xargs node -e] therefore allows text from STDIN to inserted into a script to be evaluated by the node interpreter, accessible via process.argv:

$ echo is dog this yes | xargs node -e "console.log(process.argv.slice(1).sort().reverse().join(' ').toUpperCase())"
YES THIS IS DOG
Hello Nan, thank you for collecting those links, I know that it took your personal time to find those and we'll definitely make sure that you're credited properly in them.

All of the posts appear to have an 'image credit' or 'photo source' link back to your Flickr profile, but we understand that this isn't good enough and from now on will be moving image sources into the body of the article.

Please accept our apologies for not crediting it more clearly and thank you for the great shots!
I see your point. How about an Australian startup that does paypal's job?
You choose how long you want the passwords LastPass generates for you are. I like mine to be 24 characters if possible.
Zee Kane, CEO of TNW is correcting the issue:
https://twitter.com/Zee/status/210444016016306176
https://twitter.com/Zee/status/210444266185560064

Thank you all for your help and support!
I think its safer to test yourself than randomly typing your password in on websites =)
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I'm starting to think it might be wise, if you intend to reuse your password on multiple sites, to salt it yourself. By using a form like "<site name><user name><reused password", you protect yourself from rainbow tables without making your username harder to remember.

And yes, yes, I know you shouldn't be reusing your password across different sites, or using a dictionary word anyway. And teenagers also shouldn't be drinking, doing drugs and having sex. It doesn't help anything to pretend that people are going to behave optimally.

Of course, the preposterous restrictions that websites put on passwords, like maximum password length, will make this idea harder to put into practice.
The website is down now.

Also, how do I do a top level reply?
HBO isn't some critical drug that you need to live, it's an entertainment channel. You don't have a need for HBO that gives you a moral right to make an unauthorized copy of it.

If you want to make a copy of it, fine, but don't try and pretend it's anything other than lack of self-control on your part by trying to gloss with a "moral high ground".
Pretty broken when browsing on android browser... The standard ones work much better.
Ask HN: What is the best Laptop you have ever used for development?
Regardless of price, what is the best portable machine that you have ever done programming/development on?

I'm going to be looking into purchasing a new machine for development soon and I'm curious what other HNewsers think is best. I've been looking at the Lenovo T4xx series and they seem promising so far.
I've got some foggy memories about this from talking to a nutritionist a few years ago. A quick google search brought up an abstract to a study from some time ago.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/00319384909...

Indeed, the most important finding concerning MSG showed that motivation to eat recovered more rapidly following a lunchtime meal in which MSG-supplemented soup was served as the first course (compared both with the effect of unsupplemented soup and no preload)

Regardless, MSG is exactly the sort of "industrial edible food-like product" that I'm avoiding for aesthetic reasons, if nothing else.
Now there's a great idea! Provide your password to some random site purporting to check if your password's been compromised.
When you factor in "on demand" services that most cable providers offer these days, does it still seem easier?
Just to be clear, this only applies to an opt-in feature of the app.