skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, unlike you to go ad hominem like that. But setting aside your disdain for their choice of content, what do you base the claim "Piracy costs HBO less than 'fixing HBO Go' would" ? The articles we've seen here and elsewhere suggests there is some unmet demand, if we stipulate that a team to 'fix HBO Go' is relatively small [1] then what is the lifetime value of having that content more widely addressable? My intuition suggests it would be higher than the cost of fixing their distribution strategy.

[1] I'm imagining a team of two lawyers and an manager to negotiate providing their content on other services like NetFlix, Hulu, and paid-Youtube distribution. Maybe $550K over 12 months? A $1M?
not really. just pointing out you go on silly rants here all the time. You, of all people, accusing other people of 'bitching' struck me as funny (and somewhat hypocritical). Take it for what it is worth.
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The reason I have not learned coffeescript yet is because I want to truly understand javascript. I feel that learning something more portable is the way to go. As I understand more javascript I think about what problems CoffeeScript is trying to solve.
we write plenty of application code actually, all of us listed there I'm sure, we just dont give a shit about the "features" coffeescript "adds"
Making style points about bland, cliched[1] metaphors adds even less to the discussion. Seriously? "Ivory Tower" (!) is a forbidden term that should be banned from civil discourse?

[1] Now that you've drawn attention to it, I do indeed wish I'd phrased that differently. But certainly not because I hurt someone's feelings...
I'm not sure you followed my comment (based on how you quoted it). The choice isn't between "piracy" and "no piracy". It's between:

"a la carte access either to HBO Go or to individual episodes of GoT as they're released" and

"access to episodes of GoT as they're released only via a subscription to a pay TV service with HBO".

The latter business strategy demonstrably works for HBO today. The former strategy is not only unproven, but based on the math, unlikely to succeed.
>>> Google continues to release a phone each year with an unlocked bootloader

Can I buy any phone, and then wipe it out and add any OS on it?

I think that is what the OP was driving at. And that would be quite something, compared to current state of affairs! :)
I'm working on a project where I have a rails site running on a beaglebone, it is populating its database with data coming from a usb device (~200 byte/s continuous). I am finding that the SD card with all of the data and the OS fails quite quickly (scale of weeks). Are SD cards just not up to the task?
Meanwhile, browsers can't simply treat sites under self-signed certificates as normal plaintext HTTP sites. The user reached the site through an HTTPS URL, which promised them security.

The user reached the site by clicking on a link or bookmark, and doesn't know or care about http vs https.

start by asking what a browser should do when the Citibank Online Banking Login presents a broken cert

It should not show the green "Citigroup Inc (US)" at the left of the address bar.

If I go type "citicards.com" into the address bar, I end up redirected to a SSL site with an EV cert. If my DNS got hijacked, I would probably end up not redirected to the SSL site, rather than redirected to a site with a broken cert. So non-SSL sites are just as dangerous ad sites with bad certs, and should be presented the same way.

how the browser should know when it's OK for a site to present as merely "not encrypted" (ie, HN login) and when it's not OK (ie, online banking). It can't. The browser has to assume that HTTPS sites with broken certificates are sensitive.

The browser should visually distinguish sites that are safe for sensitive info from those that are not. Plaintext and self-signed SSL are both not safe. Site with "EV" certs are supposedly safe. Site with other CA-signed certs are also supposedly safe, but slightly less so.

So, show EV sites with the green name by the address bar, like recent browsers do now. Show sites with other CA-signed certs with the little lock icon, and maybe color it light green. Show plaintext and self-signed sites with nothing at all, and maybe color the address bar slightly red. But, do this identically for non-signed and self-signed sites.
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Gamerholic.com is a competitive gamification platform. Gamers play each other for money online in heads up games and tournaments and we collect a service fee from each game.

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Finding a co-founder is tough. So I'm going to auction the opportunity.
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The next step for me is to get game developers using the Gamerholic competitive high score API for mobile and browser games. I'd also like to get the merchandising side of Gamerholic going, with shirts, controllers and other gaming accessories. The funds raised in this auction will go towards merchandising and legals. If you like the Gamerholic and Dreamybids concepts and want to come on board, funds raised in this auction will apply as your buy in for 5% of Gamerholic (Dreamybids included) vested over 2 years.
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My daughter(6 years old) asked me the other night at dinner when she would learn which which berries in the forest are poisonous, high school or college. I explained to her that she would not be learning these things in school, she will have to learn them from other places like books. At which point she tells me she is not sure she wants to go to college if she isn't going to be learning important things.
My wife always wants the last word as well.
If you want a customer to pay for your product, you have to offer value

And one way to determine if some copyrighted content has value is to pirate it and consume it. It's the very same than me going to a friend's house, watching a movie and buying it afterwards because I liked it.

Then you realize that your pirated copy plays without all the trouble of the DRM copy and you stop buying content altogether, which would cost more because of DRM anyways. People don't like being controlled and will always work very, very hard around this. The more someone is able to think critically for oneself, the least they like being controlled.

The fact that a large portion of today's content is created solely for the purpose of making profits certainly doesn't help. I'm pretty sure if we fired everyone supporting DRM and used their resources to create quality content instead, the problem would simply fade away.

Some of the games I previously bought were impossible to play with DRM; either they refused to start because I had a virtual disc emulator installed (to read linux images, of course!) or the DRM checks made the game slow. Getting the pirated copy gave me a much simpler installation process, no complains about my virtual disc emulator and no performance drops whatsoever.

In the end, DRM really is an anti-pattern.
>I don’t have analytics in Timer since I’ve had a hard time finding a good analytics provider that doesn’t do shady things with the data they collect

Check out Parse. They aren't an analytics provider. They provide a generic backend API that you can use with your apps to store and fetch whatever data you desire. For the number of user's you're probably working with, and the number of events you'll want to log, you will most likely stay under their 1,000,000 free requests per month (and if you don't, the $200/mo expense will probably be acceptable to you given your app's monthly revenue).

>If Apple provided a reliable way to determine who had already paid, I would have just automatically disabled ads for people who had paid.

Two things here: first, you should have only shown the adds to new users. That would have been the safest play to avoid backlash from existing users. Second, this is why it's a great idea to track "firstLaunchDate" in the NSUserDefaults in 1.0 versions of your future apps. With that single piece of information you would have been able to target exactly who sees the adds and who doesn't.

Edit: I wanted to add I think you might be making a mistake backing down at this point. It seems that all of the problems you mention in this post relate to some small (yet vocal) percentage of your existing users being upset with the recent changes. That's a temporary problem, and probably not that big of a deal at this point since you've already absorbed the majority of the backlash you're going to get. If you think the changes you made in your latest version are the right direction for your product in the long run, then I'd stay the course.
Good report, thanks! I'll keep that idea in mind to delete tables to save $$.
The main difference there is with stylus / jade you basically have two states, tag and non-tag, rule and property, so it's much less ambiguous. Once you get into lots of logic in either however they similarly ambiguous, there's no doubt about that
Plenty of jobs don't have set schedules or require you to march lockstep. But even CEOs of tech companies can't say to potential clients, "sorry I missed that meeting and didn't call, I wasn't feeling good..."
There is Deuce [1], a project to port Emacs to Clojure. Specifically, the goal is to port the C core entirely to Clojure and replace many redundancies with JVM primitives; also, source-to-source transformation from Elisp to Clojure allows the editor to interpret Elisp on the fly.

[1] https://github.com/hraberg/deuce
I'd put that in the first paragraph of the home page if I were you. It's quite a vital fact.
>> In place wait is probably a bug and should be fixed soon.
> ...aaand fixed!

Doesn't look that way; it still doesn't regenerate health and force.

> Not sure about non-numpad numbers though; their topology is far from being useful...

True, but it beats not having diagonals at all. I've gotten used to playing roguelikes with the number row, and it becomes quite usable after a while.
I'm from the whole country of thieves, looters and cheaters, (in common folk's popular culture these considered virtues) or, at least, from what it became to be in last few decades.)
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I once took an IQ test (complicated reasons) that contained a visual acuity/processing test. My visual processing skills came in at the third percentile. 97% of the population has more brain ability to draw/"see" than me.

Strangely enough, I'm not blind or anything, I just tend to miss a few subtle facial cues or miss the paper I left on the desk, things like that. And I can't really draw worth a damn without employing a whole lot of technical practice.
And yet the airlines move a huge volume of people from point A to point B safely, reliably and inexpensively every day, at speeds and scale which would stagger the airline moguls of the 1930s.

Does that make airplane nerds like me who think the DC-3 is a good approximation of The Perfect Airplane (rugged, reliable, beautiful) sad? Sure it does. But all those passengers aren't sad. A DC-3 trip from New York to California was a bumpy, sixteen-hour flight with multiple stops for refueling. The same trip on a 757 is a smooth ride above the weather that only takes a few hours and has no stops. And it's cheaper too -- that 1930s trip would have cost more than $4,000 in today's dollars. The 757 ride costs around $550.

This is what happens when industries mature: they become safer, cheaper, and boring.
My mind is racing with all of the creative and fun software possibilities that this type of hardware can enable. The video showed some great examples. At $70, its within a reasonable price point to take off.

The only thing I'd be concerned about is arm strain that results from holding your hands in the air like that. After a few minutes, its probably pretty uncomfortable. Does this work even if you rest your elbows on the desk? I assume it would, but the question of arm strain and comfort is the only thing I wonder about.
In the end it's another syntax, another compiler, several new plugins for your editor, another dependency, a bunch of new abstraction, another unproven technology, another black box, etc. It's not so simple, the choice shouldn't be made lightly.
Looks like forever. If it's not taken down by the hit rate from a top slot, it won't be taken down. It's gotten slower, but it's alive.

Nice work.
Yes, SD cards are not designed as disks. 'SSD' drives work by selling you 4 - 10x the amount of flash as 'advertised' and replacing failed pages from the excess over time. They are more like light bulbs than switches in that way (finite lifetime).
you are right, for some reason I read "piracy costs less than HBO"
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I agree with your analysis, and that doesn't even include the value of your time.

However Time Capsules run hot and have a nasty habit of burning out every two years or so. I presume the Pi + external drive would run cooler and have a much longer life.
Whoah, sorry! I didn't realize my comment came across as critical of you. I do harbor some disdain for Game of Thrones (which I pay for, via my subscription to HBO), but then, the first CD I ever owned was Phil Collins "No Jacket Required", so trust me I'm nobody to talk about taste.

The problem with "fixing" HBO Go isn't logistical; it's that the revenue from distributing GoT directly over the Internet would have to offset the revenue (and operational cost savings) HBO achieves by serving its content over pay TV systems, and by serving as the anchor for comparatively pricey recurring-revenue "premium" pay TV subscriptions, and by serving as a cross-subsidized draw for basic cable subscriptions. And it's just unlikely to do that.
Your face is a silly rant here all the time.
I don't really think you can dismiss what's presumably the key point as merely "problematic" ;)
Yes it does. I would be very grateful if someone could point to some more convincing proof of this.
Most don't read blogs for education. If I start reading a blog article that I think might be a lot of nonsense then I will stop reading it.
There's a third way here ... and that is to buy the content, keep your proof of purchase, and then download/rip/torrent the content in the manner that works best for you.

It's win win.
I've seen it happen at individual federal agencies, but the culture there keeps people from abusing the lists. I do like how some companies keep spam lists, like Zynga-Spam was like a targeted comedy feed.
There's mod_spdy for Apache 2.2 developed by Google employees:

http://code.google.com/p/mod-spdy/

And a spdy patch for nginx from one of the main nginx developers:

http://nginx.org/patches/spdy/

Wordpress and CloudFlare both use the nginx patch so it should be production ready.

I use mod_spdy and haven't had any problems.
Economic theory says that either a bundling or an a la carte pricing strategy can work on its own for information goods, but if some are doing one and others are doing the other, there will be a ruinous price war. See http://www.dtc.umn.edu/~odlyzko/doc/price.war.pdf for details.

Due to historical circumstance, the content providers are stuck on the bundling strategy. Consumers seem to prefer a la carte. Any startup that tries to deliver what consumers want, given established providers and the economic theory, is going to fail.
Here's a link to the TACK draft:

http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-perrin-tls-tack-01
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Hopefully, test driven development will be one of them. I don't know what will replace it, but some day we'll look back and say "I can'r believe we used to spend so much time writing so many tests"
I'm willing to bet there's plenty of small PHP shops out there still using SVN.
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From what I can see, Mercurial actually has more flexibility when it comes to branching: http://stevelosh.com/blog/2009/08/a-guide-to-branching-in-me...
I'd give 3 more possibilities:

#4 pretty much the only advantage of CoffeeScript is saving a few keystrokes, not worth spending time on

#5 most of your day is still spent reading javascript, the mental overhead of switching between JS and CS all the time makes it unappealing

#6 using javascript makes for writing better javascript libraries than coffeescript
I figured as much, thanks for the input. It would be wise then for the OP to make sure that noatime (turns off date accessed) is set in fstab for the filesystem, you don't want to write to that SD card on every read.
So instead of telling people "you're safe unless Joey cries wolf", tell people "you're safe if Joey says there are no wolves".
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>This is why I think RIM is essentially doomed. If they deliver an absolutely stunning operating system nested in a peerless hardware chassis that just nails it perfectly...they will have provided an answer to the wrong problem

Personally, I don't care about an ecosystem because I don't use third party apps at all. An excellent piece of hardware running a fantastic OS would be great. In fact, the 9900 I have right now is pretty close. However I do believe that the ecosystem is of significant concern for the general use case. So what if they were to hire or contract a number of developers (or entire companies) to build something like the top 50 iPhone apps for BB10 and have that ready to go at launch? On top of that, make them free for a year and have the top 5 pre-installed on the device. Would people still complain about the ecosystem? What if they made their team of developers responsive, so that they are constantly building the most searched for and unfound apps? I can't believe that a perfect phone and perfect OS wouldn't be a very solid position from which to regain a decent stable market.
Pretty incredible what can be done in the browser these days. Anyone find out what happens if you get 100%? I only managed 58%.
A couple guys at my college (Claremont McKenna) were somehow able to copy all of the student web addresses into an e-mail and proceeded to market their on-campus moving company, then later that list was abused to advertise parties and people angry about their name being included on these threads...
Sure, I was talking about my situation.

And of course, if mercurial could give me more features, I'd probably think twice. However, it's practically equivalent to git.

I was comparing git and mercurial, not giving the one true testament to comparison of every possible version control system.
In other words, people are bitching because they'd love to pay what they think GoT is worth, and not what GoT is demonstrably actually worth to HBO.

Pay TV will eventually lose in the market as people (again, like Netflix) figure out how to have compelling content created for the direct online audience. But it won't lose until that happens.

Incidentally: I'm not the one who keeps bringing up Game Of Thrones.
Less than 1-in-5 of the fastest-growing and most successful companies had VC
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> Strangely, they seem to have managed to disable the browser's built-in zooming.

I believe it captures all keyboard input. But if you click the URL bar, you should then be able to zoom in and out (since then the page doesn't get key events).
You can rant about "entitlement" all you wish, but the way to getting people to stop pirating content is to provide an alternative method of distribution than the one currently in place.

Steam, iTunes, Netflix, and perhaps one day HBO branching off into their own content publishing business.

A season's worth Game of Thrones Blu-Rays costs what, $50?

To access a year's worth of premium cable content would cost ~$1000 to ~$1500.

"I don't know the statistics but I'd have to guess at least 80% of nerds like us pirate content every single week, and nobody wants to think of themselves as an asshole. Rationalize however you need to."

This is pretty much the antithesis of rationalizing. You're fine with the system in place. Others are dissatisfied with piracy and want to support the creators without the "luxury" of dropping more than a thousand bucks a year for the one or two great shows worth watching on television.
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I'm not a very experienced Node.js developer, but I have taken the time over the last couple of months to learn how to use it. I find working without CoffeeScript to be much more productive.

Then again, that may change when I get a lot more comfortable using Node. At the moment I just prefer to know exactly what's going on under the hood.
It's also the nerdiest show HBO has made in the last 10 years, so it has special appeal to the demographic least likely to ever pay for HBO to begin with.
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Yes if you re-frame the whole discussion as pay for value then the concept of best or worst is irrelevant. What additional value does expensive cutlery provide over the bargain bin equivalent? Surly durability and use are comparable so it comes down to a subjective valuation of aesthetics. At the same token springing for quality stainless steel cookware can provide a lifetime of service vs. the cheap stuff.
Ha, no problem. I agree it's a breakthrough. You ever see the TedX talk on 3d printing architecture. Talk about totally disrupting the construction market :)

Here's a link: http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2012/08/12/this-giant-3d-pr...

Hope you've got some rest!
I can't buy the Blu-Rays as each episode is released, so I'm not sure how this is supposed to work.
If you don't want to deal with certificates just keep using HTTP 1.1.

If you want the speed and security improvements of 2.0, certificates will get cheaper and easier to obtain. Most of the certificate authorities' costs are one-time (validating identity). Issuing subsequent certificates costs them nothing. Pricing will adjust accordingly with increased demand (and in some cases already has).

A fixed dictionary for header compression is a lot better than no compression dictionary. Negotiation would be added complexity/latency. Sure you could argue either way but it doesn't seem like a big deal.

Google has done a great job on SPDY. It's proven at scale and performs really well. Making it a standard is a great move.
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The Pro might not be a "hit" but it might be a good fit for enterprise since it will run full Office -- since most companies think they need that. But the RT still has a chance in the consumer space at $499.
That's an upgrade. The lowest "non-upgrade" version I can find right now is $79. But your point stands.
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I don't care for overaggressive email validators myself, but if you are registering with my service using an email of ""()<>[]:,;@\\\"!#$%&'*+-/=?^_`{}| ~ ? ^_`{}|~.a"@example.org" I'll probably want you to enter something more reasonable.

Anyway just because it is valid according to the RFC, doesn't mean that it's actually a valid user's email address.