skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if they will also go after Google which hosts everything that ThePirateBay does:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:eAYXcZa...

If you don't use torrents, then you must understand TPB don't use 'torrent files' any more. They use 'magnet links' which are just hyperlinks with the seed info embedded, so when Google caches their pages they cache this info too.

You can initiate torrent downloads from that page exactly as you can from ThePirateBay.
The question is, do they use these services proportionally to their corporate income or even over-proportionally, as often implemented by progressive taxation? Considering that they make money by advertising, I bet the infrastructure use is heavily sub-proportional.
Well, in the US as a whole, businesses can generally reject employment for any reason, no matter how petty. There's a small, finite list of reasons that are illegal -- race, sex, and the like -- but these have to be specifically enshrined in the law.

Local governments can add their own laws on top of this, of course. Discrimination against sexual orientation has become illegal in many places within the US.
Chrome Sync is crashing my Chrome every minute or so.
This is pretty much my theory as well, though I am agnostic on whether it ends up as a set top box or a full TV. Maybe both: If they go with a carrier subsidy model, they could hand out a set top box at a price of more or less free, and offer some gorgeous TV with their usual margins. With the subsidy subtracted out, the sticker shock might not be outrageous. (Just pay no attention to the two year "Apple TV" contract...)

But assuming Apple does this at all, the big picture I think is nearly inevitable: Apple allied with the carriers, offering a device with a UI completely controlled by Apple, providing both traditional and "app-style" television, backed by those big data centers. It's certainly technologically possible for them to end up recording every channel in the U.S. for playback on demand, and I suspect that's where many of the tough licensing issues come up. How much control is Apple willing to cede to the networks (and vice versa) over "viewing windows" and what have you?
Huh? Not that far off?

That's totally off. There's no renegotiation going on of the social contract.
Chrome is crashing over here too.
It's working intermittently for me.
My Chrome crashed a few minutes ago too, no Gmail open, but I do use an extension which checks it for me.

Edit: Looks like Chrome Sync is causing the crashes.
"But people buy TVs not to run software" - at the moment. Maybe that's the secret. After all, people bought mobile phones for while but didn't buy a lot of content or apps because the interfaces were horrible.

I'm not suggesting this will necessarily happen - but I think Apple is likely to play to strengths - app infrastructure and interface design - as much as anything else.
Chrome just crapped out for me too - I suspect it was polling the mothership or the like, but can't be sure
Do you actually understand what homeopathy is?

Pills with active dry ingredients are not homeopathic, no matter what the label says.

http://skeptico.blogs.com/skeptico/2005/06/if_it_has_any_i.h...
I'm getting a 502 Bad Gateway error.
I just watched Penny Arcade's excellent summary [1] of how game genres should be broken down. If you find this article interesting, I highly recommend you check it out -- it pretty much carries off where this article left.

1: http://penny-arcade.com/patv/episode/aesthetics-of-play
I've had Chrome crash on me twice now with GMail trying to open.
I think it's a pretty large outage. https://twitter.com/search/realtime?q=gmail&src=typd
Let's speculate:

- People gaming the system to inflate "downloads" or whatever metric is used to determine payouts.

- Politicians pushing their views on others reaches a whole new level when they decide which media should be produced.

- For technology products like software, government has generally proven to be inept in the face of change. So entire industries would be held back due to bureaucratic "management".

- The entire export value would be ruined when products are released at no charge. US GDP declines.

This just sounds like a recipe for waste, cronyism, and job loss.
Probably not the time to rub people's face in it, but I host my own mail server because of crap like this.

Thread from the other day:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4886236
I can confirm Chrome crashed around the time of Gmail going down too.
This literally went down about 45 seconds ago for me. Check again?
Wow that's amazing. #1 news on HN already? This is pretty cool.
Not to beg the questions, but why are they fighting over money loaned to them?
It's back up here
Mobile devices enhance in-store shopping
Google Now also appears to be having issues (at least for me).
Awesome, on my birthday...guess people were sending me too many bday emails!
Chrome crashing due to failed sync problems with google servers and gmail is down.
For ever 1000$ sold in the music industry, the artist gets 20$. I don't see how you see the "middle men" portion ridiculous.

The music scene would be optimized for musicians if there was a 100% piracy/distribution rate and artists sold their own tickets/merch/ringtones/etc online.
I have all the IPTV apps on my phone (BBC iPlayer, 4oD, Sky etc...) and I use these apps to play video on my Apple TV.

I feel like Apple have completely nailed how IPTV should work

I think that using on screen navigation is awkward because

a) Navigating an on screen keyboard with directional keypads is very painful

b) If you have a keyboard on your remote, it's still awkward to type as you have to constantly look up to make sure you hit the right keypad

c) Using a remote to navigate on screen menus leads to really basic on screen menus (you're essentially limiting yourself to grids or lists)

However, by using my iPhone as a remote, I use that TV Channel's app to browse their library right in the iPhone, then just hit play and see it appear on my screen instantly. I can also watch a video on the way back from work, get home and continue on my screen.

The great thing is that companies have already developed all these apps, and they are instantly compatible with Apple TV without any extra work from the developers.

I reckon the next move from Apple will be to have a TV folder, which is similar to the way that the Newsstand folder works, you subscribe to TV shows and new episodes will appear in that folder, which you can then play on your TV.

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Whatever happens, I reckon that this model is the future of on demand TV. Google will have Google TV/Android, Apple will have Apple TV/iOS, Microsoft will have XBox/Windows Phone (or maybe iPhone and Android apps too).