skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of people don't get particular networks because the US recently (June 2009 [1]) switched to digital TV broadcasting. Essentially, digital TV is a transmission protocol which more efficiently utilizes the available electromagnetic spectrum by transmitting compressed video.

The problem is that digital transmission doesn't gracefully degrade like analog transmission does. If you're at the outer part of a transmitter's range, with the legacy analog signal, you might have been able to get an adequate signal with slightly fuzzy picture or static-y sound. But receiving a digital signal is largely a binary affair; you're either in-range and receive it, or out-of-range and you don't. *

Another issue is the economics; most people get their TV through cable. So it doesn't necessarily make economic sense for stations to build new transmitters to make their post-digital range equal their pre-digital range, especially if the new dead zones are in low-population-density areas.

Online streaming is so technically superior to broadcast -- there's no technical reason you can't get what you want, when you want it; and the maximum number of channels we can support isn't limited by scarce electromagnetic spectrum -- that I foresee traditional broadcast TV being completely replaced within the next 10-30 years.

It's still new enough, however, that the social, political, and legal issues still have to be worked out. I.e. FCC requirements to provide broadcast-equivalent service should probably apply to ISP's, but they don't. And companies like NBC should realize it's in their best interest to make content available at reasonable prices "ala carte" online, but they don't.

It's particularly interesting to see that recently services like Hulu or Youtube are running pilot programs for producing original content. Essentially the reason NBC et al can get away with offering customers awful service without having their lunch eaten by startups is that they by-and-large have a monopoly on content that people want to see. But if similar content becomes available from other services at lower cost and/or on saner terms, they'll be forced to change their business or die off. In other words, someone needs to do to NBC what iTunes did to the music industry. There are plenty of people in this space; Hulu, Netflix, Youtube, many others.

Online video is still a very immature industry because only within the last 10-15 years has bandwidth and decoding horsepower sufficient for streaming video become available to most people. Over time the free market should iron out a more efficient solution to connecting viewers, content producers and content aggregators, but many existing businesses are enormously large and entrenched, so the process will take time.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_terrestrial_television#...

* This isn't strictly true; you might get some artifacts in marginal situations, but these tend to be much more noticeable and much less acceptable than with analog. The "in-range" and "out-of-range" might change over time due to weather.
I believe that cyber-warfare, while fanciful-sounding in name, is going to be a part of the future whether we like it or not. In which case, the NSA seems the best positioned to conduct the USA's end of it.
Why should I have to install Postgres to be able to play around with data? This is one less step to think about.
Well, perhaps it is a bug. An addition to the Info.plist in the editor could say, "always safe to open this kind of file".
Who Gets To Be a Geek? Anyone Who Wants to Be.
Synack, a Ruby library for Mountain Lion's Notification Center.
> If you are a "long term" investor you don't sell stocks to capture a few pennies here and there.

Yes, but I'm still certain that high frequency traders are siphoning value off long term traders when the latter have to transact.
Humans are really, really expensive. Even working at minimum wage, the amount of time it takes to get from point A to B in most cities is large enough that the effective human cost (not to mention fuel, insurance, etc) can easily go above $5. Are most people inclined to pay a $5 surcharge on a $10 fast food meal?

Not to mention the costs go up if you demand prompt service, since there needs to be more slack in capacity.

In certain places like NYC they skirt around this by not having on-staff delivery people, and simply contracting the deliveries out piecemeal, on-demand... The trick to supporting this is, of course, lax labor laws (I wouldn't be surprised if most of the delivery people aren't making minimum wage), and an enormous concentration of restaurants to justify the supply of an independent delivery force. This is unrealistic in a lot of jurisdictions.
NBC is owned by a cable company (Comcast).
> I don’t think anyone could clearly define the tastes of Steve Jobs, not even himself. One minute he might be appreciating the craftsmanship of his Bsendorfer grand piano, the next he might be observing the minimalistic teachings of Zen sitting cross legged on the floor of his unfurnished home.

Translation: Author claims Steve was making it up as he went along.
Huh? I'm watching swimming on wnyt in Albany, NY right now OTA.
Nice video, but it is a mixed bag of interesting and implausible. In particular, it's unfortunate that the video had to be mostly wasted on the implausible date scene, with an app reading emotions (such as impatience) and suggesting things to do or say. I'd say that is in fact the perfect example of what NOT to expect in any foreseeable future.
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who the hell is this? never heard of her.
Other things that could help:

1) Group anything with less than 1 or 2ish percent into an "other" category

2) Show an alphabetized table below the pie chart.

3) Preserve label position when possible, only move the lines most of the time.

4) Animate between samples

But really, better than all this, would be a scrolling, stacked line graph.
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http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4306232

In particular, my friend asked what people use RSS for. At the time, lots of people used it to stay current on news.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4306232
I came to the US last year for a California trip. In-N-Out burgers' double double has been one of the highlights.

We road' tripped it all the way north, south and east. It was quite common to slam on the brakes and hit the exit at the first sight of a In-n-Out.

This just brings some great memories back. Well done USA.
I drove delivery during high school and college, and did food service work as well. I really enjoyed delivery and did pretty well for a younger person working on tips.

I tried working for one of those 'food taxi' companies, who provide delivery from a selection of restaurants that don't have a dedicated staff. There was a $10 charge or $15 for food from two restaurants. The restaurant staff generally didn't care about moving fast for me as a driver as it was relatively rare. And the customers weren't inclined to tip because they assumed that $10 or $15 they paid went to me, which of course it did not.

After these experiences, I just don't think the people that want fast food delivered would generally tip enough, or be OK with paying any delivery fee that would cover costs + profit for the fast food company.

That said, interested to see how this works. It's a novelty because people love In-N-Out, there's a slick web component, and it targets a relatively well-to-do audience in San Francisco.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4306232

What you say is true, but my friend asked what it's used for. At the time, it was largely used too keep up with news.
Hah, when I was a kid, I played an fps game using the nipple. It seems impossible, but after a while you do get used to it.

But my fingers did hurt a lot after playing for a few days, so I wouldn't recommend it :)
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To be fair, not everyone is in a good area for OTA TV.

You can check here: http://www.antennaweb.org/Address.aspx to see if you can pick up an NBC affiliate (or Telemundo, if you're okay with Spanish commentary) near you.
I live in the outskirts of DC and the other day at a light at a shopping center in the burbs I saw a Burger King delivery car. It was branded and everything. I have to say I didn't understand the economics of it.
This is what bothers me the most: why don't hardware manufacturers focus on what they are good at- making beautiful hardware? They put one leg in hardware and another leg in software and then wonder why they're stumbling
It appears some items are being served from player.bbchdsodsecure-f.akamaihd.net -- but even when I redirect that to unblock's DNS servers I still can't watch those videos.

edit: using unotelly.com's DNS for co.uk and bbchdsodsecure-f.akamaihd.net works for me.
Again, I'm pretty sure the majority of hackers don't agree with them, and may even think they're a bunch of morons, but it's still interesting to hear what they have to say.

So, "keep your friends close, and your enemies closer?" :-)

Anyway, you make a good point, and there are good reasons to let the NSA guy have his say. But when you look at the abuses perpetrated by the US government over the years, it's hard to feel good about hanging around and listening to more propaganda from their representatives. And chucking tomatoes at him would send a strong message "don't assume that we are on the same side, or that we are going to support your agenda" or whatever.
H.O.P.E. had its own GSM network, too. All it took to use was getting one of the customer SIM cards.
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There are plenty of positives in the film — the cool flightsim, the lack of need for a physical TV, help with cooking... heck, the dating app was even helping improve the dude's love life up until he revealed he used it at the end. I think the point is that these helpful augmentations, taken too far, become harmful.

But if we really want to improve the world, I like the counter in the fridge telling you how many days each food will stay good. That could be enhanced. What if, when you know you have too many zucchinis, you could click a 'share' button and instantly offer them to friends in your apartment building, so they end up in a neighbor's stir-fry and not the trash? Or let Sight predict your cooking habits for the next week based on past behavior, so when you're shopping, it can beep, put a red outline around the zucchini and say "recommend not buying - likely to rot before use." This kind of tech could seriously reduce food waste, which is a big deal in the developed world. I don't have a citation on hand for how much food gets thrown away in the US, but I believe it's over 25 percent.
McDonalds and KFC do deliver in major Chinese cities. The biggest difference is the cost structure. Chinese cities have a very high population density, which makes delivery much easier. They also have relatively cheap labor (although this is changing). And people here ride electric scooters, which are much faster at navigating big cities than cars. McDonalds in Beijing charges a little less than $1.50 USD for delivery.
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There's a certain price level where delivery is cost-effective, somewhere around $15-20 or so. Pizza and Asian take-out usually meet that bar, but fast food doesn't necessarily.

This obviously changes as density increases.
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> Completely agree - but someone has to keep this compendium somewhere, and why not keep it as a piece of working code, rather than as a web page or something?

I think this would make sense if it was a compendium, but this is an arbitrary subset of everything you could possibly set via defaults, with no rhyme nor reason to what is and isn't in the list other than "this particular guy cares about these particular things".

> Out of curiosity, why is this disastrous? I'm not a fan of the idea, but I can imagine how someone might come to hate com.apple.finder.quarantine badly enough to do this?

I can imagine being annoyed at any number of things, but that doesn't mean turning them off is a good idea.

Security is all about layers, and disabling an important layer (and especially a layer you'll rarely trip over once you have all your commonly used apps downloaded) doesn't strike me as a bright idea. It only takes one bug in your browser of choice to con it into launching an arbitrary executable, or one asleep at the wheel moment to trick you into double-clicking a cleverly icon'd malicious app; the quarantine is your mitigation against such events.
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Not if you're opening it in a text editor.
Your argument doesn't hold. Samsung has already shown that the rates they're asking of Apple are consistent with other licensees; Apple is just refusing to pay. I think this quote sums it up:

Companies who like to get patent royalties from competitors,
like Apple and Microsoft, and who use patents aggressively,
have noticed that if everyone who was in the mobile phone
business before they were sues them over their patents, they
won't be able to make a phone anyone can afford, so they want
to get the courts to force folks like Samsung and Motorola to
accept less than a penny per handset for their standards
patents, while still charging the regular price for their own
later-issued patents.

And really, the purpose of FRAND patents is to encourage innovation and competition. Every class of product has basic functionality that's essential for viability, and patents on such functionality shouldn't be used to cage your competitors out of a market. So, if you really support the principle of FRAND patents, then logical consistency demands that you acknowledge Apple is violating that principle.

Apple's patents are on such basic and obvious product aspects that it's nearly impossible to bring a viable product to market without running afoul. Would Apple's patents be overturned on reexamination? Almost certainly, but only after a long and protracted legal battle. Meanwhile, all it takes for Apple to kneecap their competitors is one injunction delaying the launch of a flagship product, or caging them out of peak holiday shopping season (which Apple did to Samsung last year).
Similar line: FF doesn't support older versions of Mac OS X (can't say the specific version, but iMac would be the case I'm aware of).

Hardware vendor won't provide OS upgrades, SW vendor won't provide app upgrades. So user is stuck on FF 3.6.
Do you have a link where I can read up on this? I'm willing to believe you, but it sounds too good to be true.
Something is off about this story. A brief glance in the iBookstore shows tons of books on Amazon and Amazon products, including books on how to sell your work via Amazon.

We're talking entire books who's sole purpose is to promote or support the use of Amazon. Clearly Apple has no problem with those.
I would be interested to hear the sequence that makes this true. Lets say I put a limit in on stock FOO at $32 and it fires and I get my $32 * n dollars. What did the HFT do to siphon value off my trade? Or off the stock for that matter?
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Where the "document" dynamically changes depending on actions th euser takes within it, which aren't revealed/exposed through the URL, then this falls apart.

It's something TBL has commented on.
Google could do with a little less self-confidence.
No, the homeless thief can be located in person, already within the US, and arrested by ordinary local police under ordinary local laws.
Where Heath Ledger found his inspiration for the Joker. Uncanny.
Or, you can use http://postmates.com/getitnow for a cheaper delivery, at any time (while In-N-Out is open, of course.)

This is a clever marketing wrapper for an inferior service.
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This article needs less Wikipedia links and more pictures.
Under what scenario is it ever unsafe to open a text document in TextEdit? Under what scenario would you ever not completely ignore that warning?

A much more likely threat is a malformed jpg or pdf designed to exploit a decoder, in which case the executable bit is completely irrelevant. Warning the user about the executable bit protects them from nothing, unless Finder is preparing to execute the file itself. It is a warning that is always ignored, and pointless warnings only make the system less secure.

And working with multiple quarantined documents exposes more bugs.

It's not a thoughtfully designed feature. If they ever fix it I would gladly reenable it.
Maybe it's not entirely strategy. I don't know much about web protocols, but I suppose broadcasting a couple dozen live events to millions of people is much easier and cheaper than making recorded events available, which would require sending each of the million viewers an almost unique package in a given instant. Did I assume correctly, or is sending cloned packages not much harder than sending unique ones?
Just tried from Los Angeles, did not work.
No, thanks for posting! Just upvote again when you see the release notice next week. :)
I guess OCR software must be getting really good now!
They are ridiculous, but they are so because what they are trying to achieve can no longer be easily achieved by solving the "visual acuity" problem.

Think of it as an opportunity to create something better. Personally I think shared secret with physical device has longer legs here but it does have a distribution/cost/re-authentication hump that is large. So far that has prevented its adoption but as you can see captcha systems are becoming non-functional.
There's no way for LaunchServices to know, a priori, whether a given executable file's default app is going to perform a safe editing operation, or execute its contents.

Now, you could hardcode a list of "safe" apps, or add some kind of "I swear I'm safe" declaration to the app's plist, but that has its own set of problems. A one-time "this seems funky to me, are you actually intending to do this?" is a simple and safe default.
start from what you know. You'll find that the deeper you get, the more you learn about other areas too
Change add notifications, events, and todo, and I might find it worth $20.
Is there a way to report CAPTCHAs for illegibility?
...in this case, poor adoption is useful.
Are you sure cable providers are required to provide free over-the-air stations? I haven't heard of that being a requirement and can't find anything online except vague claims without citations. I've heard of low-cost plans that provide all the equivalent over-the-air stations, but no legal requirement to provide those for free.

That said, this certainly does work for some people. It worked for us for a while after we dropped the TV part of our plan but then one day we couldn't receive any channels over the coax, so I assume they installed a filter.
A better visualization would be a time-series chart with a fixed number of clients (have a fall-out period instead of hiding a client immediately).

Like these: http://smoothiecharts.org/ or http://www.highcharts.com/demo/dynamic-update
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The aggregate effect of HFT might change the amount people decide to put on orders, resulting in their buying higher and selling lower.

So, in the interest of disclosure, do you do HFT? You seem to have an interest in defending the notion that high frequency traders have no overall effect.
I wish, but as far as I know, there isn't. I'd love to know if there was!
I'm completely the opposite; having windows contents jarrigly jump down slows me down significantly as I keep having to scan to find my place. It's one thing that annoys me about vimium that there's no option to j/k scroll smoothly
I'd be curious to see the ability for a machine to solve picture based captcha systems. For example, given a lineup of 10 pictures of pets, choose the three that are cats. I've seen them before, just not widely implemented.
"For a cheaper delivery" -- hah, not exactly. burgerto.me is $10, period. Get It Now may or may not be cheaper -- it depends on how far you are and how much you buy.

This is not to say that Get It Now isn't a good service. I just don't think it's as simple as you're saying it is.

I think I prefer the flat rate, but that's just me.

(edited to be slightly less argumentative ;)
Is Postmates really cheaper?
It not only ignores them but people purposely place these restrictions on them for greedy reasons.

Frankly, in my experience it doesn't take a lot to enable multicast and doing it internet wide _shouldn't_ be that big of a deal so we can handle all the streaming of live events with little worry - but the "powers that be" want to restrict everything online and it's frustrating, angering and downright dangerous attitude to have as a defacto "standard".
Well Google just talked about their code which identified kittens in Youtube videos. (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/26/technology/in-a-big-networ...)
With increased computing power, we are really able to do some amazing things. Unfortunately this also means that spammers also have access to this increased speed and ability to crack OCR based puzzles. But on the bright side, this also allows us to digitize books without humans more accurately (which is one of the primary purposes of reCAPTCHA)
And they are becoming less and less effective. Since they are so ubiquitous, users don't think twice about completing them. Therefore, infected users are going around unwittingly solving captchas served to them by their associated bot nets.
We're watching NBC broadcast right now on a pair of rabbit-ears. That works fine for the popular events if you don't mind the delay.

As long as we're mentioning various grey-hat techniques to view content from the BBC and others without paying for it, there are sites like thefirstrow.eu that carry streams from the BBC and other international broadcasters. I'm not encouraging you to use those, but it is an interesting situation. NBC can't issue a DMCA takedown on those streams because they don't own that content. If the BBC has no interest in shutting down those streams, they may never be shut down.
I'm not in the US but I've been watching the Olympics on YouTube - http://youtube.com/user/olympic - this is the official Olympics channel.

Funny nobody's mentioned this. Is the channel not available in the US?
That's actually pretty interesting. With time the number of computers/processors required to do these tasks will go down, but for now and based on that experiment, it almost seems more efficient to use picture based captchas.
Seems like less of an offering when compared to Pebble for more money.
You might want to verify that your provider doesn't have multiple login schemes. My Time Warner franchise has one account for payment and account services "pay express" and another for service access "my services".

The Olympics requires the services credential.
It depends where you are, but the last time I checked it was about $8 to the Mission and the first delivery is free.
Interesting to read the backstory on the Calculator, since as someone whose first Mac had 256 colors and ran System 7, I always thought the Calculator looked hideously dated.

Gizmo is the most amazingly hideous thing Apple ever came up with. I've never been able to decide if I hate it or love it.
This:

# Finder: allow text selection in Quick Look
defaults write com.apple.finder QLEnableTextSelection -bool true

Combined with "Use OSX Finder Quicklook (Spacebar) to preview all plain text files"[1] is pretty useful.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4230594
Wow, I've never heard of that happening before. That would definitely be an issue... Unfortunately I'm not sure how we would end up solving that issue-- there's always going to be the users that don't realize they are being exploited, to solve captchas or otherwise.