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It amazes me how much money sports is costing everyone that doesn't even care to watch it. The sad reality is that no-one would end up paying the prices outlined in this article- ESPN would realise that they were pricing themselves way out of many people's budgets and adjust their fees accordingly. As it is, the confusion over cable TV billing means that they don't have to.

As for AMC and the like, I can't help but feel like their future is in allowing people to buy individual seasons of TV - like you can on DVD, but at broadcast. I don't watch 90% of AMC's output, but I'm glued to Breaking Bad and Mad Men.
I love my Pebble, but I definitely agree with this article. Most people I know don't see the point of it, and I partially agree with them at the moment, as most people don't see the use for a device neither designed for content consumption or creation.

There's a bit of a chicken and egg problem here, as these devices need more 'apps' available to really demonstrate their potential, but those apps aren't going to be created until the devices are more ubiquitous. Hopefully the hacker crowd has enough interest to make things on their own.
Even if there is agreement that this is a problem, it strikes me that it can become a problem.

The standard library should be exemplary, what do you think would happen in the hands of a developer who's "not as smart as he thinks he is?"

Wasn't that part of go's pitch? I never really considered that libraries would go so far as to inspect the types for methods rather than just make those methods a requirement. The fact that they are able means someone else is going to use it, and it's going to bite me. Don't like.
Using Docker as development environment
Because you're never going to find the "perfect" job and there will always be things you dislike or disagree with any employer. This is true of my friends who work at Google, Facebook, defense contractors, and the like. As long as there's more pluses then minuses I'll deal with it. When the minuses start outweighing the positives I will jump ship in a hurry.
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The problem with pi is USB2.0 with 100M NIC located on USB hub. It's a bottleneck for filesharing throughput. So far there's been no good device that offers USB 3.0 with gigabit ethernet. Even the Pogoplug doesn't count because it has bottlenecks elsewhere.
Been watching floobits since you announced it. Very excited to see it launch with bunches of new features!
Should I saw 'wow'?
Or am I missing something?
Didn't a lot of countries manage to make this transition without starving millions of people to death in the process?
I spend probably 90 to 140 on electricity. I seldom use heat, but cooling is quite necessary here. My phone is $45 and I'm still on my parent's plan so that's quite a bit of savings. And I don't have cable, but my internet costs $65/month.
Seriously, people did science before there were cameras, right? I think the drop splatted under the funnel is enough evidence to call it done.
I've imagined one of their primary internal use scenarios to be Googlers with "giant" monitors who are managing multiple simultaneous email and chat conversations. The new interface turns Gmail into something of a "windowing environment" wherein all that multitasking can be managed within the smaller, quasi-pop-up "windows".

I don't particularly like the UI changes, myself. But then, I'm not... well, to cut it short, I'm increasingly aware that I am not / am no longer Google's target demographic.
In some environments (e.g., hospitals, military, probably police and first responders), $1500 is fair market value if the utility is there. Consider the rise of pagers. In 1950, at introduction, they were the equivalent of $100/month in today's dollars.

The Catch-22 for Google was establishing the value adds for wider adoption. They did an amazing job of launching the beta, considering that challenge.
They said he wasn't the target. I doubt they even knew who he was.
I'm not 100% sure that "unfortunately" is how I would describe an approach that is explicitly deliberative and slow-moving, when for instance devices are implanted into people's bodies.
Are there any notebooks left with at least somewhat complete keyboards? I don’t really care about F13-F24 and the like, but PgUp, PgDn, Home, End, Pause, F1-F12 etc. are actually used by silly me.

Of course, if you make the Esc and Del keys slightly larger that'll be an added extra, but even that appears impossible nowadays.

(Currently on a T410s closing in on its third birthday and looking for a decent replacement within the next year.)
> Seems to me like the horrendous part is the bit where you take a citizen, accuse them of terrorism, stick them on a "kill list" (wtf!), then execute them without further due process of law.

That's not what was done with Al Awalki. He was on a kill list because it wasn't possible to bring him in alive, because he was hiding in Yemen. The Constitution has never protected fugitives who hide out in order to evade capture and a trial (the old west "wanted: dead or alive").

The Constitution just guarantees you "due process." This almost always means a trial, but it does not mean that the government has to give you a trial regardless of the circumstances.
well the recent security themed fair that was held in Victoria was for those interested in security and not just recent grads.

PS the geekiest attendee was one of the young guys on the GCHQ stand :-)
Verizon Announces New 'Edge" Early Upgrade Plan
VLC for iOS returns on July 19, rewritten and fully open-sourced
we think that's easier to integrate as there is nothing to install, nothing to maintain. We are also doing some pre/post processing which allow orientation detection for example. We also think that's might be useful for mobile as they are limited in resources. Also, on a PDF, we have an hybric way to perform both to not use slow OCR methods on easy to extract text but that's still quite a young product. New advanced features are coming.
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New ways to collaborate remotely and easily are valuable. Travel time is a waste.

David Socha from the University of Washington is looking for teams to video for his research into collaboration.

http://davidsocha.wordpress.com/collaboration-in-the-wild/
If he lives as modestly as I suspect, he may be able to easily live off the growth of investments on one or two million dollars. :)
You can't believe in a system of government and also act outside of it.

The system is utterly worthless if you don't believe it can correct egregious errors. It's the mundane errors (parking tickets, etc.) which aren't so important, not the other way around.
Al-Awlaki's son was killed in a different drone strike a month later targeting different Al Qaeda officials. I don't think he was the intended target. But when you're traveling with Al Qaeda that kind of shit happens, you know?
This is the second article I've seen on HN that implies that it's "bad for consumers" for ESPN to go a la cart, be paid for by less people, make less money and be forced to offer a lower quality product.

It's great for me, I don't want to watch ESPN. It's great for me, as my money is allocated towards the content I want to see. It does mean, overall, less money is allocated to TV entertainment creation. That doesn't strike me as bad on it's face either, but for some reason it does to the author.
"Because a title like this is bound to drive traffic to my blog."
Chemist here. We use centrifuging to separate components of a suspension by weight.

Pitch is a suspension. The heavy stuff would drop to the outside, the viscosity would be affected, no experiment.
some langages might not have an appropriate library, some might want to not have heavy processes on their device (mobiles). We also think that's easier to use as there is nothing to install. That mainly depends on your case.
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Given what the NSA is doing, it is the phone book.
Why is this always brought up? I fly several times a month. While the TSA is an annoyance and has silly policies, they have always been curteous and efficient. The only consideration I have for the TSA is that I can't bring knives on the plane and I need an extra 15 minutes for the line. Other than that they are innocuous to me.
This was my experience when I tried Glass - despite knowing it wasn't AR, I still expected it to somehow enhance my experience. This isn't the case - it's merely replacing the screen in your pocket with a screen above-and-to-the-left-of-vision. I'm hoping the Glass team (or someone else) will take notice and create an AR device that can grant this experience that seems to be widely desired.
thx, I am gonna fix that
I would REALLY love a source on that one.
This isn't a fake "cyberattack". It's just a role-playing exercise to figure out what sorts of information the banks are willing to share with each other. From that information they (the company coordinating the exercise) can provide recommendations on where they shared useless info, didn't provide enough info, or (maybe) provided too much.
Constitutional rights are never willingly given up. The "terrists" are winning.
I should have said, for maximum compatibility at the lowest possible cost. They could get several versions of the movie for you to choose from, but it would make things more complicated for the user (who wants to click once and watch) and very likely more expensive as well. The option is available, just not on Netflix, a budget service infamous for poor selection and (although I understand it's improving) picture quality.
Holy Shit, 200K for this. Daimn !

I could have built a better one for the half price.
i love this. congrats. beautiful site. very "do things that don't scale" with the launch strategy.
Probably more like "you're laying it on too thick".
I don't think it's out yet?
It seems that somebody already started this
https://github.com/picosync/workingDraft
Voice-only is the hardest HCI problem left. Just consider the challenge as an English speaker, with 18 years of experience, of traveling from Alabama to New York to London and Wales and Scotland and Ireland to Mumbai and Kerala to Cairns and Sidney and Auckland.
The problem is that you have a complex and exclusionary process to begin with.

The comparison with open-source isn't apt; inclusion in the mainline of an open-source project affects every user of that project. Keeping code that does not fit with the goals of the project negatively impacts existing users of that project.

Not so for SO questions, or for Wikipedia pages; a page or question you never see, but contains useful information you don't personally think is notable (or "constructive"), costs you nothing to keep.

This is just the Wikipedia editorial/deletionist problem. Some people are more interested in enacting and enforcing process and community "norms".
Don't be so sanctimonious. Calling an experiment involving gravity "down to earth" is mildly amusing and is kind of a pun, albeit a feeble one. Much like your sense of humour it would appear.
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They have to be this way because of how we structured the English language. When you act in public, you are, definitionally, not acting privately. There is literally nothing to be done about that short of changing what words we use.

Your movements in public are in absolutely no way equal to your conversations in private. You're trying to equate things which aren't equal, and you're taking an extremist, hard-line stance on what should and shouldn't be private.

It's utterly silly to think that a person can exist in society without anyone else knowing they exist. Soon you'll claim it's a violation of privacy to even look at other people.
> can claim the protection of that citizenship while waging war against the U.S.

I want to make sure we're on the same page here. A child who is not on any kill lists, a boy who according to the laws of our land does not have the capacity to make rational decisions when it comes to having sex, looking at people have sex, drink alcohol, vote, smoke tobacco, rent a car, drive a car, I can go on but it's getting boring? A child who isn't able to do any of those things ... can nevertheless wage war against the US and be executed for treason without due process or even a sham trial? You even get those in Russia, of all places.

Oh wait. They didn't accuse him of treason. Collateral damage then? I guess that's OK.

I would say something offensive that might be construed as treasonous at this point, but the NSA is reading.
Deliberate misinformation has a pretty long history. Here's a good report about the CIA manipulating the US media from Carl Bernstein (yes, that Bernstein) circa 1977:

http://carlbernstein.com/magazine_cia_and_media.php

I agree this is causing a great deal of damage to democracy around the world, I'm just pointing out that it has been going on for a very long time.

Thanks to the Google News archive, you can see lots of examples of those CIA "journalists" advancing the interests of the CIA throughout the '50s and '60s. It is fascinating to compare that known manipulated media content to what is now contained in the historical record about those same events. You'll also see many striking similarities to the way every modern story is reported and commented on in the modern media.
It is generally believed that Watterson has been painting in his retirement. The fact that he hasn't tried to make a splash by selling his art should come as a surprise to exactly nobody.
This is a fantastic idea and I'm really excited to start using this - I wanted to develop this kind of program for a while.

This is my use case:
I work with designers who are hesitant to use git and make changes really quick and test them on a live WP or similar site. Often times we have two or three people needing to edit a single css file and everyone has to open/close the file often to not overwrite the changes of others. Maybe there is a better workflow, but a collaborative editing tool like this will go a long way in streamlining this process.
I would say that Poettering could have gotten all of this go a lot smoother had he just contacted the rsyslogd devs and worked out something with them before embarking on writing a new logging daemon. Not doing so probably cost him 6 months of adoption, and was probably caused by a personality flaw.

However, the technical reasons why a new one was needed are very valid.
But it totally had a functioning democracy when the President had a team of henchmen breaking into the offices of his political opponents, during an era where the Joint Chiefs had a plan to depose the President if he was unwilling to abide by impeachment.

Certainly, democracy must have flourished during the time where the administration waged an undeclared war in Central America that sponsored death squads and brokered arms deals with the Iranians, in part as an effort to undermine the campaign of the preceding incumbent President.

And democracy was no doubt stronger during the era of the Vietnam Draft.

And it absolutely had a functioning democracy during a time when the House had a committee on "Un-American Activities" that subpoena'd citizens and had them testify under penalty of perjury --- a penalty that actually imprisoned Americans --- for merely sympathizing with the aims of Communism.

And surely we had a functioning democracy during the times where voting was controlled by literacy tests --- "Question 13: Spell Backwards, Forwards" and dogs and firehoses greeted people who dared challenge enforced, legal segregation.

The idea that it's never been worse in American, because some government agency might be reading your Facebook posts, is lunacy; an insult to people who actually stood up to real malignant government power. It's an easy mistake to make: it's the availability heuristic. You understand the implications of worldwide Internet surveillance, but barely remember (if you even knew about in the first place) HUAC.

I don't know what Carter's excuse is, though; he surely knows about Watergate, Iran-Contra, HUAC, Tuskegee, COINTELPRO, and the Hoover FBI. Carter is just being a coot.
You're ignoring the obvious justification: the strike was targeted at different Al Qaeda officials that he was traveling with: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/16/world/middleeast/yemeni-se... ("Airstrikes, believed to have been carried out by American drones, killed at least nine people in southern Yemen on Friday, including a senior official of the regional branch of Al Qaeda and an American, the 17-year-old son of a Qaeda official killed by the United States last month, according to the government and local reports on Saturday.").
From the title you can automatically tell that it is for a government website somewhere. There have been examples of this posted on HN in the past like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5327184
ReSharper 8.0 from JetBrains is now available
Actually ESPN doesn't create much original TV content-- they are so expensive because they pay for the rights to sports events. A la carte ESPN likely means less money for pro athletes, and if you spend the saved money on actual channels, more money for TV content.
I would classify this as the most rational "insider alarmist" version of the anti-unbundling argument. There will certainly be discomfort upon the arrival of unbundling, but this article ignores long-term adjustments of the ecosystem. Here's five gaps that aren't considered:

1) Bundling will still exist, but just not in the current 100 channel, one-size-fits-all variety. Media conglomerates will bundle directly to consumer - that's how Disney gets distribution for the SOAP channel, they bundle it with ESPN to the cable provider. Various channels may team up. Bundling across media types will happen (MSNBC + NYTimes; Fox News + WSJ). Massive direct-to-consumer marketing groups will be formed.

2) Sports Rights will cost less, not more - Sports leagues know hoe much ESPN makes, and they make sure they get their cut. Eventually, costs will decrease.

3) Sports providers will differentiate their product offering, and be free to sell different subscriptions to different tiers of fans (TV, internet streaming, mobile devices, value add services). The same, to a lesser degree, will apply to other genres

4) The average cable bill may be $40, but the key is what is the LTV of a cable customer (including all services - cable companies make profit in other areas like internet and phone that help keep that number down.

5) Companies will manage their bottom lines, revenue be damned. If ESPN can cut costs (rights, headcount, production, distribution) as it loses revenue, there's still hope. Maybe its not as huge of a profit, but it can hang pretty close and probably become significantly more capital efficient.

*I worked at ESPN as a Director of Finance & Strategy, and founded Fanvibe (YC S'10) that partnered with the NBA, NHL, and Comcast. And I can't wait for unbundling.
In this case it sounds like it's the quality of Apple's default music player that you appreciate.

Imagine if their default music player was disappointing, and you couldn't change it... the lack of options would be a detriment, not a feature.

People don't like that Apple doesn't let you change things, they like that you don't need to because the default setting is good enough.
I don't get this. The current release is meant for developers, journalists and "technologists." Google was very up front about this. It's not intended to be a consumer product. Complaining about it at this point seems akin to someone getting a console devkit and complaining there's no games available and those cost 10s of thousands of dollars.

Really, the alternative is to not get access until the thing is done or to create some sort of secret selective list for early access.
Snowden reveals HAARP’s Global Assassination Agenda
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And his next film Chappie, "a $60 million contemporary sci-fi movie due to begin shooting in Johannesburg in September" according to the article.
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On a related note, there's http://www.voodoojs.com/ (it seems to be somewhat broken right now).
Why not?

(I'm playing with it as an augmented reality device and have written a calibration library to get the display aligned with the camera - see https://github.com/matt-williams/Optometrist. I've been working on hooking this into OpenCV which I'm hoping to upload in the next few days.)

One valid answer to "why not" might be power/heat - if you run it for a long period of time, your battery dies and your hair sets on fire. ;)
Also consider that in professional environs, various pros get away with all sorts of silly attire and add-ons - from scrubs and stethoscopes to other uniforms and utility belts. You look ridiculous, but you have a job to do.
Totally. I kind of want to start every comment on every thread on HN with "Glass is not an augmented reality device."

I've worn one (very briefly) now, and let me be very clear: you can not superimpose labels or images on anything you see in daily life with Glass. This is a physical limitation of the hardware, and it is absolute. This hardware will never, ever, ever be able to do that.

And it's unclear to me if the hardware for Rainbows End/Halting State augmented reality will ever (or at least in this generation) exist if Glass-like heads-up-display hardware can not be successful in its own right.
Screenhero is great for a lot of things but it's laggy if you just want to jump in, and start typing on the remote system. VNC, etc, all of them suffer from this.

But with a lightweight protocol like ssh with tmux/vim things feel much more responsive.

The responsiveness is the problem I assume they're trying to address with the individual editor plugins..

I described a similar solution to remote pair programming about a year ago :
https://gist.github.com/aantix/1999816
Virtual artist will sell physical artwork for bitcoin
Laturbo Avedon claims to exist only as a digital character. Now she has a gallery show in New York, where she'll sell sculptures based on 3D renderings in exchange for bitcoin. I'm curious what people make of this...
The Dorner example is actually very apropos. Many people were cheering on the LAPD in that case. Some people were appalled by the cowboy run-and-gun methods of the police. I think very few people, however, would call their actions unconstitutional.
OT, but life-long learning / education is usually attributed to autodidactism (which can be represented in http://degreed.com/). Thanks for the post though. Anecdotal articles are hard to enjoy but this one was ok.
In the Hunt for Dark Matter, Promises to Keep?
bias aside, app is looking pretty clean and smooth...
systemd's philosophy seems to be “bundle everything, attack anything we haven't assimilated”. The source is relevant.
I was admittedly being glib; obviously bone has different characteristics than fat. But characteristics can definitely unhappily change and I'd want an expert involved too.
What I learned about ethics when I walked away from a billion-dollar valuation
"Are the trams really still not finished?"

About a year from them actually running properly for passengers :-|
1. Everyone's a socialist, so using it as a pejorative doesn't really work.

2. There aren't enough "welfare claimants" in this country to really have a big influence on anything themselves. The vast (vast) majority of people claiming benefits are hard working people who do 40 hour weeks but still don't earn enough to support their family, so they claim Working Tax Credits. This was Thatcher's doing, by the way.
Are they really more efficient, for real world uses?

The way I understand it, the argument goes something like this. To reach orbit you need to accelerate to very high speeds (Mach 25). To avoid crazy drag losses you therefore want to get out of the atmosphere as quickly as possible. So being able to use oxygen from the air on your way up is a marginal gain at best, and almost certainly not worth the extra complexity.