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Why would HBO license their content to Netflix or Hulu for a pittance when they could make more money offering it directly?

HBO has already stated that the only thing holding back HBO Go is that its current contracts with cable and satellite providers are still too profitable to cannabalize with a dedicated online offering (and more to the point, are effectively cost-free since HBO does not have to employ a sales/marketing force).
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Thanks a good suggestion; thanks. Can you repeat it via the feedback form (https://www.djangoproject.com/conduct/#feedback) so that we don't lose track of it?
Personally, unless a statement against sexual language is qualified, I can't find myself ever agreeing with it.

Why? Say I'm working in sexual health and create apps and websites around sexual health. Does the sexual language prohibition mean that I must be incredibly careful to not discuss the actual content of my work, even in the most professional way?
Thanks, this looks like a winner. My son and I are using Scratch and Khan Academy. We'll add this as well (I'm not a programmer).
Wow! What a totally crazy and awesome tool.

The "bubble map" you get is quite clever.

Would be even more interesting if you could overlay different commute times, e.g. in 5-minute intervals, and produce something topographic-map-style.
Nobody in their right mind would insure Bitcoins.
Or consider not using a tube! The bottoms fall out if you shake them to shuffle which has caused at least one case of Zombie Dice ending up in all corners of a small bar to my knowledge :|

I'd consider a bag.
Is it a phone, is it a bank?
The restrictions in this context have nothing to do with politicians or the statute. They come from a loophole in the case: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartoon_Network,_LP_v._CSC_Hold....

The case made a big deal about the fact that Cablevision was streaming separate streams to each user, and therefore it wasn't a public performance. The correct answer would've been: IP unicast is never a public performance.
I don't know if it's the case here, but some agencies do defence work and so only hire people who they can get security clearance for.
It is sad that after 20 years of MVC and the 10 years of it on the Web, we are still telling people that to start coding they need to start with HTML, CSS and JavaScript. And I agree with you, this is the place to start today. Yet it is pathetic, that is unless we want to keep the coding just to ourselves, like the doctors do with their field. I recently listened to a presentation on Grails. Honestly wanted to grok it fast. Mind you, I have been a Java developer since it first came out around 1996. No disrespect to the framework itself, but all those extra concepts you need to shove into your head before you even begin to code, this is atrocious.

Out of this resentment I and a couple friends set out to build an MVC system where newbies start with the models (backbone.js) by creating them on a smartphone using only their browser. And once you are done, the app goes live. See it at http://urbien.com and its open sourced client at http://github.com/urbien/urbini

Laying out the main concepts of your future app, and connecting them is not easy for noobs. Hack, even for developers sometimes it is a bit of a puzzle. You need to scratch your head a couple of times when you make the domain model for a new app. But at least this is all you need to do to get the app running with our system.

Afterwards you can start tinkering and tweaking, by changing themes, images, modifying the underlying templates (HTML) in-place, and connecting apps IFTTT-style, with a tiny plug script.

Would you like to review and may be even help us make the design friendly to geeks-who-can't-code?
Unless, you know, you actually want bitcoin. Maybe you want to buy something now with bitcoin (especially something that's more difficult to buy with government currency, like online gambling or illegal drugs), or maybe you just think bitcoin is cool.
so I'm curious-- has anyone ever made or received a job offer via these HN hiring threads?
Great! Was already considering buying GDC Vault annual fee of 500$ to just see this presentation... let's see if the read can spare me this money. :-)
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What's wrong with a little bit of fun on one day a year?
No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame, call me when it has Webvan integration :)
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True, but again, the whole problem is all of these weird, random changes and exceptions that only a small subset of programmers can keep in their heads. If you're going to go down that path, you should pick safe weird, random changes and exceptions.

In this case, they should have turned NULL into a first-class keyword that would parse as an invalid pointer of any given type, and called it "done." In the original C spec NULL wasn't supposed to be a pointer at all -- it was just a more polite way to write "zero." As endless Internet debates have shown, it turns out that it would have been better to reserve it for use in pointer expressions.
It's not really that fun, though. The 'jokes' are so over the top that it's annoying.
"And I think the ethics-free engineering-and-business-focused open-source movement is important."

There is potentially a common thread in Morozov's discussions that would rally against this sort of statement. Arguably the article is just such an assault.

The notion that technology can be unbound from ethics is a very libertarian one.

At risk of incorrectly paraphrasing Morozov, I would think he is taking issue with a hijacking of language with neutered terminology. Worse, the neutered and euphemistic phrasing, while more palatable, is forwarding another ideology.
Deduplication is just an extremely efficient form of dictionary compression. Surely they're not storing raw ATSC.
Maybe that's what @Horse_ebooks [1] actually is: an encoded/encrypted real-text readable logging system.

[1] https://twitter.com/Horse_ebooks
Nope. As noted in the article, it actually works. Tried it a few times where I had svn around, but not git.
You're not the only one.

Google Images drives me NUTS -- up/down work totally unexpectedly, while space-bar works well. Cmd+Up/Down is broken totally. Why Google Images feels like the scrolling paradigm that has been used everywhere else, ever, doesn't work for rows of images, is beyond me...
Google Reader is perfect. Need implementation for Google+ pretty soon too...
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I didn't disagree with your comment but pointed out that it doesn't address this "no UI" concept and whether people actually want that. While it is likely that in the future more things will be automated, it's not going to converge to people not controlling anything. I do believe systems will become better over time, just not necessarily through not having any interface.
I think the obvious question is "why now suddenly, of all times"? First, it smells like a "me too" mentality, second, the Django people were savage animals before that?

What's with all this code of conduct stuff jumping at people from the weirdest places? Will the day come when I go buy a loaf a bread and a sticker will be attached to it saying "You're not allowed to cuss while eating our bread"?
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I would consider the Silk Road to be fairly large. Obviously, it's tiny relative to the entire USD drug market, but bitcoin is also tiny relative to USD. But the point is, you simply cannot deny that there is actual demand for bitcoins caused by the fact that the Silk Road only uses bitcoin.
As a non-lawyer, the fact that we are still trying to halt the progress of technology in the name of protecting anachronistic business models is the most troubling part. The problem is not what a "public performance" means; the problem is that we are still thinking in such terms.
I was at a presentation about the logistical aspects of production during PAX and 3D printing is almost illogical. The current machines aren't fast enough, and the quality isn't there compared to what you can get for an injection mould.

From what the panelists were saying, the closest thing to 3D printing could be useful for would be to use a high resolution printer to create a few masters from which you could create your moulds instead.
The fact that the internet is free from geographical restrictions doesn't mean that copyright holders don't get to impose whatever terms they want on your right to view the content they create.

> Red flag laws did not stop the automobile; why should copyright stop innovative uses of the Internet?

Terrible analogy. With red flag laws, the obsolete industry was just getting between the transactional relationship between car manufacturers and drivers. In this case, the "obsolete" industry is creating the thing that's of real value, the thing that people want: content.[1] There is nothing stopping internet-savvy content creators from allowing their content to be distributed over the internet under liberal terms, other than the fact that people don't want that content, they want the big name content from the big name content producers. And internet companies, like Youtube, etc, who make money off other peoples' content have tremendous incentive to make it seem like a battle of "progress versus outdated industries" when what they want is to be able to make a profit by inserting themselves in the middle of these transactions.
I'm using a Jenkins build to run Sphinx on my Python projects. Having to move the changes into the gh-pages branch is a bit awkward, but it's working pretty well.
I've considered contributing to Django in the past but assumed I wasn't "good enough" to do so. Seeing immediately gives me encouragement to try. I think it's good.
I agree, but the correct approach is more akin to feature detection in web browsers than user agent detection. i.e. Check for the presence of a disorder like sickle cell anemia than checking the ethnicity and inferring the probability that such a condition exists.
It's nice that you blog your thoughts, but I think posts like this are more suitable for twitter than HN. What are others going to learn from this post? You are just announcing that you are doing something else, there's nothing interesting that others could garner from this. If you posted about specific things you learned that weren't already part of the HN reader canon, then maybe it would be worthwhile to post.
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I am trying to use it but the "working" image is still spinning. Anyway, what happens when /if Youtube shuts you down? Google is getting into streaming music and has Play so they might consider you a competitor.

I am hoping that you have a plan B and didn't spend all your time and savings in this.
I overlayed this map on a heat map of 2013 rents in Boston: http://imgur.com/oZoCDtV

It's not 100% accurate, but it gives you a rough estimate of time to the Hub vs. rent. In general, the biggest selling point for Boston apartment seekers is proximity to the T and time to commute to the the Financial District (near Goverment Center). Areas near colleges (BU, MIT, Havard, Northeastern) are also high rent because college students eat up most of the housing.

As an active apartment seeker in Boston, the original heatmap data source is generally pretty accurate: http://www.jefftk.com/apartment_prices/index
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This is precisely it.

Also if the author wanted he could simply add in some cheap d10s that each player could use to keep track of their current planet values.
Yes it means exactly that - There was a recent talk about sexual health that was canceled because it ran against that rule.

http://violetblue.tumblr.com/post/44107008572/what-happened-...
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you're assuming that the upfront fee is either more than the cost of the hsm or the cost of the hsm.
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Just call it a rental; after all, renting DVDs is legal. But precedent has shown that it's not necessarily legal to outsource something that would be legal for you to do yourself.
Sorry if it seems sudden or ill-timed. The truth is that we've been working on this for quite some time (long enough I've forgotten when exactly we started). Like most things in open source, we worked on it when we found time, and released it when it was ready.
Fortunately, there are companies offering private mail boxes and forwarding services in most medium-to-large cities, so obtaining a billing address in the market of your choice isn't particularly difficult.
This sounds really cool. Congrats on shipping it!

I'd love to check it out, but I don't think I'd enjoy it very much due to my being color blind. Have you given any thought to designing the images to not be dependent on color?
i wonder how many people get social engineered to give up bank account info, proprietary information and etc because they all miss the point of people using their public available info they posted online such as emails, geolocation data, phone numbers.

enough ruin some peoples lives… but yeah, keep calm carry on nothing to see here…
You may be right. I'm looking at an MAIG report, and while I trust their analysis even less, it clearly points to newer incidents that I was previously unaware of. This may be an overlap on the data, as I'm quoting a fairly old study, or it may be that the study was incomplete.

I might be looking at a full on amendment here, or there may have been more statistical jiggery pokery that somehow excludes findings incongruent with the expected results. Either way, I'll do more research and get back. Thanks for the correction -- while the link you posted isn't necessarily conclusive, it did spur me to freshen my data sets at the very least.
You're just noting the difference between a centrally-managed currency and one that's not. The value of bitcoins tends to move quite a lot lately, so it's like trying to price something in AAPL stock or something right now--you have to peg the value to a slower-moving reference currency. (And that's typically how BTC-denominated goods are priced, for example on the Silk Road the product prices are pegged to the USD.)

But that's not to say that centrally-managed currencies don't fluctuate either, because they do--just, typically, in the other direction. If I tried to find a gas station that would sell me a gallon of gas for $2USD today I'd be out of luck, but 2-3 years ago I'd be able to go anywhere in America and get that deal.
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> Judge Walter also seemed unimpressed by Zediva's argument against an injunction. "Defendants claim, without any evidence, that an injunction would significantly harm, if not destroy, their business," he wrote. He ruled that the harm to movie studios from lost revenues outweighed any hardship Zediva faced.

That is ridiculous. "You are right, it would destroy your business, but it might hurt their bottom line a little bit".
Painting these debates as "trying to halt the progress of technology" is utterly absurd. Nobody is going after Aero for setting up a television streaming service. People are going after Aero for setting up a television streaming service with their content.
No, not parody. They've been discussed here on HN many times before, here's just one example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4454852
That is a good point and that is a big weakness of bitcoin. Fact of the matter is this crazy appreciation is not very good for the currency. It encourages hoarding and discourages commerce. For all the stories about appreciation I do not hear many stories about bitcoin actually being used as a currency. And why would it be. Most people holding it believe it will go up in the future. Why would they spend their bitcoins on commerce if they think those bitcoins will be worth ten times their value in the future.

Currently bitcoin is not a currency but a very speculative investment.
Not quite haiku, but this is my favourite poetry-twitter-bot.

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>What they want is to see their system up and running.

This would be a good chance to take a step back and think about what's more important: using Heroku or controlling your up-time?
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There are similar problems with XEN. aws and linode getting early access etc.
Awesome talk. I was just thinking about AR and it's possibilities from this invasive code post ( http://www.verious.com/board/iNVASIVECODE/augmented-reality/). It seemed like the first salvo towards VR, but it's good to hear they're progressing in unison. Will Doom 4 impress us to the next level?
Google Reader? Could they have picked a less-used product? I know no one who uses it. I wish Google would just put it out to pasture already, it's taking up precious navbar space.
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> In order to get a real growth of 4% be it per year or per century in such a scenario, you need to find a better use of resources so that with the same resources you may produce an output which is 4% greater than before

Let's work through an example. I buy 100 seeds for $1 each. I plant them, let them grow, and harvest the result. I now have 104 seeds. My real growth is 4%!

Now I want to sell the seeds back to recoup my investment. But I discover that prices have dropped by 4%: seeds now go for 96 cents apiece. My 104 seeds now are worth $99.84! I would have been better off not buying seeds at all, and instead just holding on to my money. Real output is reduced.

This illustrates how deflation inhibits growth.
It is open source. If you are so worried about the SLA you get from this open source software, maybe you should a) pay for better support or b) fix it yourself.
Speaking as someone who's on the relevant mailing lists: this has been in development for quite a while now. It's just that now it's reached the point where broader public feedback is solicited.

And to be perfectly honest, there's an increasing amount of evidence that measures like adopting codes of conduct do have an effect on how friendly and welcoming a community is seen to be, and do have an effect of bringing in people whose contributions are absolutely worthwhile, but who likely would not have joined in previously.
Choosing the options might be seen as a sign of commitment to the company and taking the cash might be seen as a lack thereof...

...or it might be just seen as choosing cash over options.

The interpretation is going to depend on the culture of the company and the personalities of management.

There's no canonically correct answer.
Ask HN: Will Work For Equity?
I've had the opportunity to work for a few startups over the years in a variety of capacities given that my expertise spans both project management and enterprise software development. I've worked in both an advisory role for management or technical operations, and also as a contracted software engineer or even once as an interim CTO.

That being said, I've picked up a little equity from some small companies here an there (not much, but a good amount) and was wondering how many of you had done something like this - worked on the side for a startup in exchange for equity only. Any success stories?

I do what I do mainly for the love of it, and being able to learn new things. I'm starting my own company now and having worked with these people over the years I have learned a ton. Money was secondary in my ambitions while I was doing this work. I was fortunate enough, as an independent contractor, to always have enough work to pay the bills while I did these projects on the side for startups in exchange for equity only.

What are everyone's feelings good or bad about something like this? I see it as sort of like an investment of human capital for a startup in lieu of a pile of cash.
The mistake here is thinking that property rights only extends to physical bits. Property rights have extended to non-physical (e.g. the right to do things under a contract) things for literally hundreds of years.
> You can't buy groceries with gold or silver coins, but they're a fantastic store of value and time-tested investment.

Real value of gold:

http://static.cdn-seekingalpha.com/uploads/2013/2/18/1019887...

That is very much not my idea of a "fantastic store of value." Not unlike bitcoin, its value appears to vacillate wildly. The S&P 500 looks tame by comparison, and also has the added benefit of a much higher long-run rate of return.