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But what's stopping Netflix from replicating this success? To what extent is the success of HBO purely a function of the capital they invest? i.e. what non-financial assets does HBO provide that contribute to the success of its shows? What does HBO bring to the table that Netflix can't?
"We are terrible at putting out fires" is what I read here. And that's not a quality I want in a service provider...
200+ dollars a month for insurance is a big reason I think young people dont have cars
Correct, so that I can upload it in the windows desktop app using wine that's already set up and ready to go. Previously using export2enex, it would create the file but with nothing inside of it.
How is putting your cellphone/Segway away different than putting your Glass away?

When would you know if the public is ready for wearables without releasing a product?

If Google sells hundred of thousands of these, the public is ready.
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Austin isn't small, though. It's got more people than San Francisco.
It's a great point that $5 is worth basically nothing in this scenario, but it would be interesting to know at what point $N becomes worth something potentially greater than $N in this fixed amount of time.
Isn't it crazy that the more education a woman has, the fewer children she has? You would hope that the more educated would have more, since they would be better able to care for and educate their children.

Darwin would get a chuckle out of this.
Ask HN: Anyone remembers the Google-thriller story?
I remember there was a Google-related thriller (fiction) posted by someone sometime back on HN. The story was about someone trying to escape from Google. Finally, he finds some insider who helps him erase his existence from Google. I don't know. I vaguely remember this story from a long time ago.

Anyone knows what I am talking about? The main character's name started with an M I think (Max or Michael).
We can use the data here to normalize against the decrease in auto fatalities across the entire population: http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2012/tables/12s1103.p...

From 2000 to 2009, the # of traffic-related deaths per 100,000 resident population dropped by 26%. Assuming the decay is exponential, that's about 3% per year. In contrast, the # of teen deaths dropped by about 4.5% per year.

So we can reasonably conclude that teenage auto-related deaths are falling at a faster rate than overall auto-related deaths.
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I'm not sure what kind of fallacy it would be that I make decisions based on my rationally derived probability estimates. If there is such a fallacy I would love to hear about it.
These comparisons compare salaries of largely illiterate and innumerate people who dropped out of high school to people who have graduated with an engineering degree. They articles always then declare the difference in salaries to be the value of any college degree. These comparisons are absurd and statistically invalid.

People who drop out of high school are more likely to be mentally incapable of doing high paid engineering work than those who are also able to graduate from an engineering program. The people capable of graduating from an engineering program were capable before graduating. Those who are high school drop outs are more likely to be incapable.

There's a cool study (can't find the cite) where they looked at lifetime wages of people who were ACCEPTED to a given university and then compared those who actually went to college and graduated to those who decided not to go to college after being accepted. The lifetime wages were the same, showing that it was the selection process of getting admitted to college that was simply choosing for talent and not anything that college does to anyone. Those who benefit from burdening the next generation with massive education debt don't discuss this though and claim that it is not selecting for talent. To show that is the case, take people who are in that illiterate high school dropout category, send them to college, and then compare their lifetime salaries to the ones who were not illiterate. This study has not been done. Yes, I am aware there are hundreds of studies proving that college graduates make more than non-graduates, I am not contesting that there are such studies or that they are the majority of studies on this topic.

In any case regardless of whether you believe in the existence of the unnamed study I regret I can't name, I hope it is obvious that the set of people who are high school drop outs and the set of people who have graduated with an engineering degree are not randomly selected people differing only in if a machine called college molded them into a higher earning resource asset. Since they are not randomly selected people differing only if a engineering education has been applied to them as a black box function, it is not correct to assume that salary differences between the two are solely attributable to whether or not they have been run through this black box.
Well Philly is the #5 biggest city in the U.S., so I'm guessing it's out.

I'd say you have to be less than ~350k to be considered a small city.
I'm speechless with admiration.
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>... if you liked House of Cards, check out Game of Thrones.

Is there anyone on hn who hasn't checked out Game of thrones?
The partials each get separated into their own folder based on their model name. So it's not a grab-bag of random partials – it's the same folder structure an application would use for its regular views, but instead with a parent sync folder. ie, if a views/users/ directory contained "_profile.html.erb", you would move the sync partial to views/sync/users/. Having to run an additional process is the best case scenario right now unless we can get websockets into Rails/Ruby land, but I'm a believer that this approach is the best solution for current tooling suits the problem quite well. In regards to russian doll caching I'll have to take a look and verify what's going on under the hood, but sync will work fine with fragment caching outside and within a sync'd partial as long as the cache keys properly account for the resource/scope. When a model is updated on the server and `sync_update user` is called, Sync will render every partial to string in the views/sync/users directory, and dispatch a message to listeners on each channel for each partial. So the sync will only re-render what's contained in the sync'd partial. If you have fragment caches within your sync'd partial, they will only bust if their cache key has expired just like a normal render. Hopefully that helps. Thanks for the input/complements
If you put your cell phone away, it goes in your pocket. If you put your Segway away, it goes in the garage (or something?) It's still useful there since you can access it when you need it.

If you put Glass away, you basically invalidate the purpose of Glass itself, which is to be an always-available HUD for your life. (At least as far as I understand it.)

And yes, I agree the only way to know if the public is ready is to release a product. I'm not saying they shouldn't do it but I'm pretty bearish on them being able to pull it off. My gut is that there is a product that exists between "cell phone" and "heads up display you wear on your face" that would have reduced the risk of colossal failure. (Similar to how there is probably a product between "E-Mail" and "Google Wave" that would have worked better too.) There are just too many things that have to go right that have nothing to do with technical prowess. If it was just about algorithms and data I'd be cheering them on, but it's not, it's mostly about stupid fuzzy human being stuff, and Google has always struggled with that. (Though they're learning quickly!)

If I was going to make a prediction I think Glass will flop. The only way I could see it not flopping is if they get something out there quickly that genuinely looks cool and doesn't have a huge pricetag. (Not because price will inhibit purchasing it, but because if it is high priced it will immediately be known as showing off, ie douchey, to own one.)

I think the next step towards pervasive always-available computing is going to be wristband/watch type stuff with flexible displays which provides a nice step forward ubiquitous-computing wise, leaves room for creative design that can spawn a array of fashions, will be affordable, and will not require forging of new social norms on the way. (I'm 99% sure this is where Apple is headed.) And lets face it, a slick-designed slap bracelet that you can post to Facebook on is going to be fucking cool, whereas a cyborg-like eye-piece is at the very least going to get mixed reviews.
That might not be an issue actually.

I don't see the CDU necessarily opposed to net neutrality. They are not known for being net-friendly so this it seems obvious that they might be but I don't see net neutrality being in conflict with their ideology or provoking any other problems for them, at least not in a big way. There is no downside for security or copyright stuff to be aware of here, if the don't cooperate with the FDP after the next coalition the business side will also not be a problem. Supporting net neutrality could be a good and fairly painless way to make the more moderate parts of the party and voter base happy, which is something that becomes more and more important after recent dramas.
HBO is already a premium brand, Netflix is not. Although nothing is stopping from Netflix from becoming one, getting over that hump is not easy.
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These sorts of things are really just apples to oranges comparisons at best. By the time you correct for differences in the cost of living to start--let alone differences in the standard of living--it kind of becomes meaningless.
> Technology is making it easier to go car-free

This makes me wonder what the future of driving and personal transportation will look like.

Regarding the sharing economy, pg recently Tweeted "Will ownership turn out to be largely a hack people resorted to before they had the infrastructure to manage sharing properly?"

I'm originally from New Jersey and I'm currently living in Seoul, Korea. Back home in NJ, you literally couldn't get anywhere without a car. Besides getting to NYC, public transportation (buses) was basically useless or nonexistant. Now I live in Seoul which is super densely populated and has arguably the best, most advanced public transportation infrastructure in the world. I've never driven a car in Seoul simply because I've never had to - Subways and buses are faster, cheaper, cognitively easier to use, and I never have to worry about finding a parking spot.

There have been a lot of new startups entering or looking to enter this space - Ridesharing services, parking spot finder apps, Google driverless car, etc. - But which will become the dominant form of transportation in the next 5~10 years and why? I'm fascinated to see what people "in the know" and involved in this space think.
It matters greatly if you're entering a thriving market, or a graveyard market (one littered with tons of failed attempts and no reasonable success stories).

If it is littered with failed attempts (turning one's future personal income into a security, for example), be extra extra extra careful. There's a reason so many people thought it was a good idea, if they all failed then there's probably a reason they all failed too.

The dangerous problem with entering a graveyard is that the reason the market fails is probably something you'll figure out in year 2 or 3 as you're shutting down shop, not something you'll find in your first month of trying.
i wish less older people would drive as well, or at least be re-tested behind the wheel after retirement.
Right, Gmail is not part of Takeout, but there are third party apps to facilitate this:

http://gmvault.org/

http://www.gmail-backup.com/
This is simply magic, I'm kinda speechless.
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Showtime has a similar offering called Showtime Anytime.
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Visual Studio (2012) is one of the first things I installed and it works great.

Some other desktop apps I have installed: VLC Media Player, Notepad++ and Balsamiq Mockups. All work well but you are forced to use the pen (or type cover/touchpad) at times to grab little drag handles (if you're trying just to use touch).
I was shocked by this omission too, just for the shear fact it's a depressant that's usually taken in high doses right before the sleep cycle. I'd be willing to bet, especially in college Alcohol has more effect than caffeine on you sleep schedule.
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Lost count of how many times this was mentioned, but it bears repeating still :

You don't own what you can't control. Even if your name is on it, even if you've given it to everyone, even if you use it on a million other accounts as a means of access and an identity, you don't really own it.

This is why, I still keep a contact@domain for professional work while saving all my personal stuff on Gmail locally via POP.

The nice thing about HN (or the bad thing; depends on your perspective) is that it doesn't need an email. I wish more watering holes were like that. Alas, people are flaky with passwords and need resetting from time to time.
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The point isn't that people improve as you go. The point is that if you're like this author (and many people, including myself at times) are, then when you start working on something, you obsess over the exact, perfect, super-over-engineered version of a something; and you'll rehash that inconsequential something while many prior versions would have been just fine.

Instead, when you've gotten to X ability level, go ahead and make something at X ability level, don't let learning about a new, better way of doing that something stop you from doing it.

There was a saying that I'm going to butcher here from PHP:
"While many people obsess over the little details that don't matter and quibble over language wars, the person that knows PHP just gets things done."

This article is in that similar vein where it's more important to ship than to quibble about the things that don't matter that much.
> Once watches stopped being a functional item (the advent of phones), they became douche status badges

A watch to a man is like a purse to a woman - an accessory (and/or jewellery).
Although I'm me, I'm also in general, so I'll take a stab.

You take notice of the examples toward either end of the spectrum, people like me who say it's the best ever (and he's 15, not a baby), and slobs who beat and neglect their kids. The majority are in the middle, silent, and they love their kids, even if they never say so.

People suck. At least, they can. For the abusers, they probably can't understand that their kids could be the best thing that ever happened to them. And even for the people who aren't outright assholes, it's stressful to be married or cohabitating, especially with kids. Some people don't hold up well. We're not all the same.

I see no reason not to have kids, not by policy anyway. Some people don't want them or aren't suited to it. To borrow the bumper sticker: "Don't like kids? Don't have one." But having kids is undeniably a natural state. Life is hard, and the universe is cold, so why not claim this little bit of birthright?

And yes, I think over-population is not going to be a problem. As education rises, birthrates fall. If anything, population loss will be the longer term problem, as Japan is just beginning to see the first waves. Their problem is not just longevity, it's that fewer young people are marrying and having fewer children. In the end we'll learn to deal with that too, but it will be quite a disruption after centuries of societies that implicitly assume growth and families.
"Google’s engineers determined this single document violated policy and locked down my entire account" -- meaning "no privacy for your documents."
Two things:

Scale -- HBO is significantly larger when it comes to production capacity. HBO can also have far more shows in production at one time. That scale is partially a product of capital, but also one of point number 2:

Experience -- This one can't be underestimated. HBO first started toying around with original content and series in the early 1990s but it wasn't until Larry Sanders that the show really started to resonate beyond the periphery. Even then, the established TV world didn't start to pay serious attention to HBO until the late 1990s, when you had a swath of hits become bonafide cultural phenomenons (Sex and the City and The Sopranos were hits of a massive global scale beyond anything that cable, let alone premium cable, had seen up to that point).

Netflix has had to start from ground zero. They are essentially right now where HBO was in 1997, when HBO started to shift from acquiring content to paying for original content (Larry Sanders) to making the content in-house (Oz).

Now, granted the current world moves faster -- and Netflix is already potentially approaching the 1997 spot in just two and a half years with this strategy -- BUT content is also now more expensive (The Sopranos and Sex and the City were not $100m shows for a total of 26 episodes like House of Cards is), competition is fiercer than ever and the overall economics of television are not as advantageous as they once were.

I would also say that a third advantage is cable. Yes, cable is an advantage. Why? Because cable often serves as free (or nearly free) advertisements for HBO shows and the bundling of HBO for 3 months free or half-off or whatever is a huge driver in subscribers. Now, Netflix can replicate this, but they'll need to do it at a price and obviously they'll need to assess if giving the cable companies 30% of their monthly revenue is worth the advantages of being bundled.

None of this is insurmountable, but just as starting a movie studio from scratch is hard -- pivoting from a pure distributor into an original content creator/distributor is hard too.
What a terrible article...
If the data sets do not match then there is no redundancy.
The Unix command line has a wonderful tool called "diff," which compares files line by line.

Or, there's Git, which is even better.

What I'm getting at is that we are the first line of defense when it comes to our data.

I'm sure you've heard the colloquialism, "don't keep all your eggs in one basket?"
There are more and crazier ones: exclusive windows for airplanes, hotel PPV, &c.

When you're frustrated by some lacuna in a video service's offering, 99% of the time the feature is missing, the reason is "licensing". Content ownership is going to devolve into small offices of tens of attorneys and support staff, managing these licensing deals. Universal Studios et al will simply be licensees of Jaws properties for their theme parks.
sounds great. I live in san francisco, every time there's a ballgame (today) at AT&T park I have to contend on my bike with hundreds of suburban drivers who think bikes are supposed to be on the sidewalk. Aside from that, I drive my car about once every other month.
As long as you refactor, or are allowed to refactor, later.

And so on
Tearing at the cloth is just so... satisfying.
On windows, I just do..

python evernote2enex.py -m 10

Not sure if Linux is different, but you might try and leave off the part where you specify the output file?
Heh, I think we're arguing inches from each other at this point, with nowhere to go until a landmark opinion presents itself. gg
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Gmail and Yahoo Mail and Facebook Mail and my personal mail server all stand in contradiction to your claim.

Stop making things up just because you want to complain about the Google. Nobody will fault you for a simple "Fuck Google, they're demonstrably evil and have access to way too much data now," which is what it seems to me you're driving toward.
I can't imagine what these would be used for. You're most likely looking for business clients that are going to be hard to find. The lowend market is much larger.

The most important factor is cost. Most VPS hosts will sell several dozen instances per machine. At $1-10 each, it takes several months to even make a profit. With just 2 instances on a $500+ box, you'd have to charge $50-100 per month and still be in debt for a while.

Resources:

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/forumdisplay.php?f=45

http://lowendbox.com
Unfortunately, where I live, (smallish city in southwestern Arizona) a car is a requirement. Grocery store? Nine miles. Hardware store? Four more miles.

Oh, and it's 120 degrees outside in the summer.

That being said, parking is abundant, gas is relatively cheap, and traffic is very nice. So it's not too bad. I would never want to have a car in the city, though.
I tried so hard to tear that last line, but just couldn't.

Awesome simulation by the way. Just getting into js myself (yeah, I know).
This is better than popping bubblewrap paper.
Amazing job.
Does Visual Studio upscale automatically according to your DPI setting or do you have to fiddle with the font settings? Also, is it possible to increase the font size for the menu fonts?

I'm genuinely curious.
Ahhh ok. I get you, re: the caching.

This is very cool. I have been waiting for something like this, to dive into the real-time web. Wading into client-side JS frameworks has been low on my bucket-list, but I am glad I can finally get something like this to add some 'rich interactivity' to my app.

I definitely agree with everybody else, this should be baked into Rails core - for sure.

I would have thought that with Basecamp Next and the direction that DHH said Rails was going (with aggressive caching and pushing only JSON down the wire) that this implementation would have been included in Rails 4. I was disappointed when it wasn't.

Thanks for doing this. Really appreciate it.
I know it because I actually read the article you linked to.

Funny, Netflix seems to 'afford' it just fine.
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Excellent point - I was going to add brand to my above reply but didn't in the interest of time (and because I'd probably attribute brand to experience).

HBO has a quality seal of approval that has taken 15 years to cultivate. That can't be bought or earned overnight from one show. HBO consistently gets more Emmy nominations than every other network -- once Netflix is able to counter in that area, then it will happen.

Still, getting over the hump can happen. Look at AMC. Before Mad Men and The Walking Dead, they were best known for the terrible original series Remember WENN (don't ask, it sucked and I was in 7th grade when it premiered). Now it's easily one of the best networks on TV. Same for FX. Justified, Always Sunny, Sons of Anarchy, Archer, The Americans are all fantastic and this was a brand that was best-known for playing Fox reruns until about 7 years ago.
Absolutely, if it's to set right the ratio that has been skewed due to the history of women's lack of equality. The stats don't lie in this case, women are getting screwed.
Sigh.. is any publicity better than none? I'm not sure. I am a little bit disturbed that sites that promote illegal or NSFW material are the ones that are quickest to adopt Bitcoin. It's already well-known for being associated with the Silkroad.

We need local businesses, or even corporations to start adopting Bitcoin! When this starts happening at a large scale, I think we'll see a tipping point in Bitcoin adoption.