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If the libraries removed from Netflix are licensed to competitors, it is indeed Good for consumers, provided the barriers between services aren't too steep. [1] It incentivizes providers like Netflix to continue increasing their value proposition and ensures profits are flowing back to creators/library owners commensurate with their value.

If Netflix fails, at this point, I don't think it'd be too big a blow. There are plenty of services in the same space and the feeding frenzy for Netflix library contracts would ensure the survivors are offering the same library to the same market.

And I'm not sure why you think Hollywood feels no pressure to get their content in front of viewers. Their proper interest is to maximize the return on their libraries, and they can hardly do that if they enable the creation of an 800 lb gorilla in the streaming market that can dictate terms.

Should Netflix be the undisputed one-true-service for digital delivery, that would almost certainly become bad for viewers. What incentive would they have to work with MS/Google on enabling federated/integrated search/navigation? What incentive would they have to work with new device makers as they have?

Netflix fantastic value proposition is a product of how intensely competitive that space is, due its future up-side. Things that preserve that competition are Good, even if they are bad for Netflix specifically, up until the point they are bad for the entire streaming market.

[1] The current division between Hulu, Netflix, ABC, HBO Go, et al. is about as high a wall as you'd want. Different services, same box, same-ish interface/behavior. If you couldn't get multiple services on the same hardware, it'd be too high. And, of course, if you could get XB1/GoogleTV-style federated search/navigation across services, the status quo would be just fine.
the idea has merit, even though this implementation still has a long way to go.

i prefer a desktop reader (newsfire) as it is, but since that is practically unmaintained, a chrome application will probably fill this role nicely.
Swapped to firefox when chrome went crazy and completely stopped working on OSX a while ago (https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=175341 I believe; became completely unusable I suppose is a better description) I swapped back to firefox for the first time in like 2 years.

Still there. Loving it. shrug
Maybe buses should be free
We're slowly but surely collapsing back to the channel model of content.

The bundling the cable services were forcing on us to support ESPN (which accounts for something like $15-20 in your TV bill) and then topping with the a la cart channels (HBO, Showtime, etc). Now, we have a few a la cart providers that stand on their own with original content (in addition to licensed content).

My big fear is that the a la cart streaming channels will eventually start running commercials in the manner of Hulu. Throw in ISP bundling of streaming services, and voila, we're back to Cable Television... only since it's on demand, we can't DVR through commercials.
Unfortunately, Oracle shut down the Wonderland project as well. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Wonderland
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Ask HN: What are some cool Open Source projects that could use a hand?
I want to help on any kind of Open Source projects that are innovative and have to much to do, but not enough people. I've never contributed to any Open Source projects, but this community has given me so much that I need to give something back! Please, suggest me where to start.

UPDATE:
My skills:

- PHP; OOP

- mySQL

- Advanced Javascript

- iOS

- HTMl5, CSS3

Those are a few skills that I use on daily basis and I've worked with on most of the projects. But I am also willing to learn new skills to help and expand my horizons.
I think OP was referring to the people who used Megaupload to store data, not the company itself. But I could be wrong.
Nearly impossible in this kind of project. Even if it spawns out of a commercial entity, these kind of things require a wide community acceptance and contribution to be taken seriously and be really useful.
TIL Nokia's maps are based in the US. Odd...
If the loophole exists because of the law then the practice is perfectly legal and therefore that money was not intended to be taxed in the first place. In that case there's nothing to prevent the IRS from doing something because there's no reason for them to do anything at all.

If the IRS is unable to execute enforcement of the law concerning taxation then that's not a loophole, it's likely a criminal act. That would imply that something could possibly change in the future that would no longer prevent the IRS from collecting the tax, with penalties.

I see these two as completely separate things.

People need to get out of this mindset that the big companies are using loopholes in the tax code to cheat the government out of tax revenue. If the loophole exists due to the law then there is no cheating, just bad law. Public companies are practically obligated to reduce their tax liabilities as much as possible and if the government gives them the abilities to do so, then why is that the company is considered the evil entity in the matter? They are simply doing exactly what the government and the law has told them they are obligated to do.
On an 8gb machine, the browsing being bogged down probably doesn't have anything to do with memory usage. To figure out what is making everything slow, you need to use the built-in profiler with Nightly. I was able to use it to track down browser slowness I very occasionally see to a particular line of code on Facebook.
How did the police react to the evidence of theft? Is there an investigation under way? Shouldn't the guy get charged with that, at the very least?
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Well, it is true in a sense because that's the limitation that they give you. I figured you could manually fight with the xorg.conf (which I did last time I had a non-intel card years ago), but by that stage, I'd already spent heaps of time fighting with the card, and it was a work machine and I wanted to get work done. I just wanted to dual-screen Cinnamon, and the free driver did that with software rendering... with my quad-core pegged to 70%. But I live in the console, so I don't notice it except when I open htop - it was deemed 'good enough'.

In any case, the AMD drivers, at the current time, require stupid shennanigans to go beyond basics and the nvidia ones don't. The domain knowledge you need is quite high, and the target shifts so rapidly that the search engines are filled with out-of-date cruft.

Thanks for the info, by the way - I do appreciate it, but there is already a replacement card coming...
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I think you're making the same point I was when I asked the OP how much traffic she/he actually thinks will originate from being featured on one of these sites.

You'd be lucky to get 100,000 requests. Still, assuming there would be disagreement about that, I wanted to be generous with the number to show that even if we're extremely liberal with total daily traffic, we still are dealing with extremely small sustained load per second and small burst traffic.

As I said earlier, because we've all seen sites knocked offline by this kind of media attention, there is a widespread belief that the traffic in question is huge. It is not. Rather, the traffic some sites see as a result of being featured in this way is simply the first time they've been tested with any sort of concurrent usage. If during its development, the application was only ever been tested by a few users, it might not have been designed or deployed all that well.
Not sure if by now all Excel sheets have been "consolidated".

Pardon me while I wipe tears from my eyes.

Not only are there plenty of spreadsheets still wandering about, but I wouldn't be surprised if many decade-old Java applications have reverted to spreadsheets, formally or under the table. ("Officially we have this website, but since the website guy left the company John actually tracks the definitive list of receivables in this Excel doc we keep on this shared drive; it crashes less often and it makes it easier for us to hand-build the new-format reports that have been required since 2010.")

Spreadsheets are actually great: Far more flexible and useful in the hands of "non-programmers" than any other software I've seen. I can't imagine spreadsheet-based prototypes vanishing from the earth anytime soon, though in the places I work for there is a noticeable tendency for the things to migrate from Excel into Google Docs.
When you combine Hanlon's razor (Never attribute to malice that which can adequately be explained by stupidity) with Clarke's law (Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic) you get Grey' corollary (Any sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from malice).

Anyone who has sufficient exposure to any large bureaucracy will have examples of the last to share. Which then raises the possibility that (as is happening currently with Bank of America) the possibility of advanced stupidity is used to cover actual malice.
I actually didn't say that one needs to be "inside" a community to criticize it, merely that all human communities tend to respond differently to criticism from within than from without. (For instance, Seinfeld's dentist Tim Wotley converting to Judaism "for the jokes".)
What losses? We talk about data here. The disks used were not available for future business, that are only potential losses, not a further and further amount of high costs piling up. Besides, in which state is it legal to destroy evidence, especially before the trial?
EMC acquires Israeli storage startup, Scale IO, for $200-300M
The NCAA is pretty scummy: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/10/the-sham... but what pro sport requires a college degree?
Yes with hindsight I wish I had written it in JS, but writing the BS compiler was something I wanted to get done fast, and I'm more proficient with Ruby.

BS has the #x{foo} syntax for htmlEncoding, or did you mean that should just be the default?
EMET is a good thing to be running too - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2458544
I'll have to look into that. I run Ghostery, Adblock and Reddit enhancement suite, but that's it.
The slogan was probably more about not being like Microsoft, which was the top example of a successful software firm at the time, and was considered pretty evil.
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C needs to be adopted as an intermediate language like JS is for the web. C has the best ecosystem of all.
This kind of tool is the right thing, and for once I like to see the focus of the author on embedded systems rather than large scale systems (both worlds are very different from an implementation standpoint, especially around memory management).
I doubt it. They could've at least give a warning "hey if you don't way us within the next 10 days we're going to delete everything".

I'm sure they expected the backlash, too, if they were going to do it without warning. So this looks like they were forced to do it in some way.
Now if they would just offer free email....hint.
Sort of a microscale map-reduce.
That's a pretty early acquisition for these guys no? they just raised their series A a couple of months ago... nice!
#1 Its good to see a post using statistically significant sample sizes. Most articles on this topic that I have read either include sample sizes so embarrassingly tiny it raises questions if the author even understood his statistics class (30 to 300) to simply not including numbers at all.

#2 If your audience is already pre-sold on your product when they visit your site, landing page changes won't be as meaningful. Possibly relevant to Jitbit, in this case.

#3 When you do conversion optimization, eventually you hit a number that simply becomes unbeatable. Stating the obvious, you can't convert at over 100%. Depending on traffic source/quality/intention you may find that ceiling to be lower, around 60-70%.
This is the best post I've ever seen on Hacker News
Not necessarily possible even with the private keys. If you use an SSL cipher with ephemeral keys, such as the DHE_* or ECDHE_* family of ciphers, then an eavesdropper with a recorded but not MITMed conversation cannot decrypt it even with the server's private SSL key.

See http://vincent.bernat.im/en/blog/2011-ssl-perfect-forward-se... for example.
> There are extensions I like which have no equivalent (that I know of) in Chrome

Can you give an some examples of useful extensions you use that are available in Firefox but not yet in Chrome ?
Well played. An explanation for others: (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculus_of_negligence)
So will the case simply be dismissed now, like Daniel Ellsberg case was dismissed when the court found out the government was illegally wiretapping him?
The MySQL build team has a script that updates the license header in files that require it. Since the "different license" is actually the license of the documentation, from which the man pages are generated, it is possible that the script failed to update the licence text in the man pages.

Source: Ex-Oracle MySQL engineer.
At the time of this posting, Berkshire Hathaway stock is trading at $172,750.31 per share and Seaboard Corporation is at $2,765.00/share.

Of course, other than those two, I think the next most expensive stocks are in the google/apple $400-1000 range.
You can take advantage of multiple cores using a single process with threads.
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I don't see developer convenience and user experience as mutually exclusive. If an application is simpler and more consistent, that can save time for both users and developers.

(I also don't see how a one-process-per-DOM model prevents any other forms of sandboxing inside the browser. The OS doesn't understand webpages and cannot isolate them from each other - the browser does - so sandboxing pages is the browser's responsibility...)
I'm sure, everyone here would love to hear what's wrong with it. No, really, if you do that for a living, you most certanly have something to add to the discussion.
There are a lot of economic breakdowns showing that a la carte pricing doesn't do much to reduce cost. Chris Dixon did a quick breakdown: http://cdixon.org/2012/07/08/how-bundling-benefits-sellers-a...

Also, I'm not sure the fallback to channels is a bad thing. I've been spending a lot of time in the YouTube ecosystem and finding good regular series on a topic is a HUGE challenge. If there was a well curated food channel or educational channel on YouTube I'd pay to subscribe — It's a huge time suck searching, especially using the current tools.
What if the police had to keep the convenience store closed until the trial? I believe that's a more accurate analogy.

The convenience store owner would be furious about the lost business from having to shutter the store for months or years, watching as formerly faithful customers just walk on by.
Had roughly the same experience with Logitech when my MX518 died. They asked me to email a phone camera pic of the label with the serial number and shipped out a brand new G500 right away. No hassle over troubleshooting, no wasted postage mailing back a broken mouse and waiting two weeks.

It's nice to be treated like a customer rather than a fraudster, and I definitely factor in warranty claim friendliness when I buy new hardware nowadays.
I'll readily admit that my Scala isn't 100% idiomatic, I'm still learning!
There is a scandal in the sense that the people running the schools earn significant benefits at the expense of the students: they charge the students substantial tuition rates, leaving the students with horrible debt, and a low probability that their education can be applied to cover the debt (more likely, the students' own tenacity will help them overcome the debt). You might argue that the students willingly walk into the trap, but I'd argue that the university has a duty and responsibility to guide the students towards a successful life path, and these days, that would legitimately mean advising their students to attend other schools.
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So how much trouble would it have been to spin the disks down, take them out and store them in a closet somewhere and tell Kim "We know you're having financial difficulties now but you can have them back for $X when some of your funds get unlocked"? It's not like his troubles were a secret. That would eliminate the majority of the daily cost of keeping the data online.
Lest we forget how great it is to be a student
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in the places I work for there is a noticeable tendency for the things to migrate from Excel into Google Docs

That's basically Spreadsheets in the Cloud. They are upgrading to modern cloud-based software ☺
Yeah, I'll allow the usage of "bricked" if recovery requires opening up the device and connecting via JTAG. That's effectively dead and unrecoverable by any normal consumer.

But c'mon, a device that you can fix by sticking in a USB drive with a patch is not bricked.
No word yet on why the source code for the MySQL documentation is no longer publicly available. Was recently and silently made unavailable. This is much worse than a few man pages.
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Could just run OpenBSD, where instead of blocking malware, you just don't let bugs rot in the software....
> Depending on your social circle, this gets done with kids a lot

Ha! At first I thought you meant "done with kids" as some people make'm so they can say they have one.
Why are you specifying such a small block size? bs=1M or more is much quicker for that sort of thing
According to google finance, it seems like their stock actually went up from this headline.
Also the number of the affected PS3s is not large both according to Sony and neogaf's lack of a rioting. But, I think such exaggerations in the news are good to catch attention of the people who might be affected by this.
That's the second time I've seen someone use GPG and the first time I assumed it was a mistype and they meant "PGP", so I looked it up. Just in case anyone was in the same boat as me:

http://gnupg.org
Thanks man. I tried this out to no avail. When I realized that I was faced with a hefty RMA bill, I tried both removing the battery and letting its settings RAM clear overnight as well as booting without a hard drive. Both had no effect unfortunately.

In my opinion, it's a poorly designed update mechanism that makes it prone to failure. There should be some redundancy built into the process so that the machine can always force itself back to a "known-good" state and at least access the recovery menu.
I don't see why not, but you would need a machine with a built in pod dispenser to make coffee "unattended" The machine in the article grinds coffee beans.
"Pingdom but reversed" crossed my mind as an option :)
More analogy, what if it was one of those storage space services and one customer rented half the storage units to store other people's stuff, then got arrested and no longer paid for the storage units. And the storage units were gold-plated and cooled and cost a fixed amount a minute they're used.
The NFL does not require a degree, but does have an age requirement which occasionally comes up as a hot debate point:
"The NFL Eligibility Requirements
NFL rule requires a player to either be out of high school for three years or have finished three college football seasons before joining the league. (Lupica, M. 2004) The NFL is the only major professional sport that prohibits the drafting of players who have not completed three college seasons or who are not three years removed from high school graduation (Gehring, 2004; Nieporent 2004). The NFL claims that this rule is in the athlete's best interest. The NFL argues that this rule protects player’s physical safety. However, the NFL and the NCAA benefit by capitalizing on amateur athletes."

http://www.thesportjournal.org/article/age-requirement-profe...
I personally see no reason someone couldn't understand the process of natural selection and all the phenomena you refer to without compromising a belief that God created man and the world. I especially don't see a reason why that one difference would be the primary reason to not vote someone in for office if you have no bigger disagreement with their politics.
vimperator is probably the most useful web extension i've ever used.. and it doesn't have a good chrome equivalent

http://www.vimperator.org/vimperator
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Startups are doing pushups for charity
I am also in favor of having applications closely integrated, but just not inside the browser (which is a completely awful, broken, weak, and insecure evironment) but inside emacs.

I'm still using Newsbeuter right now, which is a separate app, and it does take me a context switch to go from it to w3m running in emacs when I want to view an article.

However, I'm in the process of transitioning to having an email client integrated in to emacs. That, along with rss2email should give me complete integration as far as web browsing and rss reading go, since w3m (my web browser) is already integrated in to emacs.

As for youtube, I am more than happy to sacrifice integration to avoid using its crappy web interface. Also, I prefer downloading youtube videos so I can archive them for future viewing (which is important, as way too many videos disappear from youtube after a while).

I don't use Twitter, and hope I never have to. So that's not an issue for me. I do use IRC, for which there are emacs clients, and I may transition to using those in the future.
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> building itself less like a university and more like a for-profit corporation

This concept was discussed recently on the EconTalk podcast
http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2013/06/pallotta_on_cha.htm...

"The way we think about charity is dead wrong" http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pallotta_the_way_we_think_about...

Uncharitable: How Restraints on Nonprofits Undermine Their Potential
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1584659556/
While true, I'm more hopeful for the market to deal with that as it is much easier for a competitor to show up vying for your entertainment dollars since they don't have to compete on the infrastructure level. With the cable companies you often had no competitor to switch to until the satellite options gained popularity, but they quickly turned into the same as the cable providers because there wasn't much competition on that front. Just like laying cable, it costs money to launch satellites.

On the other hand, a direct competitor to Netflix is much easier to pull off as there's no cable to lay nor satellites to launch. What I would worry over is if a company like Netflix starts pushing for exclusivity in certain markets using local laws much like how the cable companies obtained their stranglehold on their markets. I don't see how such a thing could be done but never underestimate money and lawyers.
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