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The content creators aren't compensated when you put rabbit ears on your TV either. They have to make their money sidechannel via advertising. Aereo provides more eyes for that advertising, so you really can't accurately say that the network isn't compensated. They're compensated the exact same way as any other OTA broadcast.

There's one important thing you're not adequately accounting for that makes this situation difficult to analogize. The deal that gives broadcasters access to the airwaves also specifies that customers be able to freely tune into over-the-air programming. As they said in the article, there are a lot of people who don't even live in a place where they can access the digital broadcasts due to coverage issues. Many people in apartments are not allowed to install aerial antennas that might also allow them to access the OTA signals. Aereo helps provide such people with a cheaper way to access the content they are entitled to than cable.

I think there's absolutely nothing wrong with what Aereo's doing. The elephant in the room is that if it gets ruled legal, the floodgates will be opened for cable companies to do the same, and the retransmission scheme will be in peril. My opinion is that Aereo shouldn't be punished for what these other companies might do.
Everything beyond the red/green light falls into the "because we can, not because we should" category.

Does anybody really need a menu bar icon to show them the toilet status? Does this company or its employees benefit in any way from toilet occupancy statistics?
And then Tesla fanboys voted up spam pages like this:

http://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-hy-how-tesla-pus...

Which reinforce the notion that, maybe the moderators banned Tesla over the quality of the submissions after all not some personal bias.
Yes, the difference is, most HN readers aren't stupid enough to complain about this. Or just remember how terrible the site was when every other article was about NSA/Snowden.
I'm just wondering where Instagram comes into play. When I try to go back, it tries to go back to Instagram, which instantly puts me back at the site. Why?
Apparently in order for a home network, with modern appliances to be secure you need to be at least a geek these days.

You probably need a router that runs OpenWRT, Linux or BSD like caramobola2[1], to configure manually in order to monitor incoming and outgoing connections, blocking suspicious traffic.

Then you probably need something that can run XBMC[2] as a home entertainment system (atom HTPC works like a charm, I have one). Then a flashed dreambox PVR which runs linux too and you can do a lot of things but most importantly monitor everything.

So basically, anything that runs proprietary software is a security concern. Strangely, the more corporations try to build walled gardens the bigger the security risk is.

[1] http://8devices.com/carambola-2

[2] http://xbmc.org/
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For some definition of works. I come here from hckrnews.com, which displays all submissions in chronological order, and it surprises me how much very interesting stuff gains 20-30 upvotes and still falls off the front page before older content with similar upvote counts.

Of course, it's ycombinator's web site, so it's their choice, but a lot of interesting articles and discussion are just... lost.
I'm familiar with projective coordinates for elliptic curves, but the funny thing about curves is that, for high-speed software, the math is tricky enough that you don't "need" to grok it: there's an "explicit formulas database" that you can just copy from:

http://www.hyperelliptic.org/EFD/g1p/index.html

Curves are what made algebra 'click' for me, getting me from my high school understanding of "algebra is math about unknown variables" to "algebra is about sets of related objects with operators that have identities and inverses".
I think he's onto something also. There will be some heavily upvoted story that soaks a lot of attention and the top comment will be some throwaway nonsense to promote the "Bitcoin is not serious/is just a scam/this is all bullshit" angle, any reasonable comments will be downvoted in righteous fury, any suggestions that something untoward is going on even more so.

This will go on for about a day, then a couple days later the exact same topic will come up again, and the response will be completely normal and the shill brigade obviously absent.

See this for example, shill brigade in effect;
http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/22zl2w/bitcoin_amon...

And a day later, same subject, shill brigade absent;
http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/23495x/reddit_mods_...

This is not the only time I have seen this happen there, just the most obvious instance.
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Show HN: Real time dashboards with websockets and Scala
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Reminds me a bit of the Trojan Room Coffee Pot http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_Room_coffee_pot
This is a far better 'culture' document then the Airbnb don't fuck up the culture memo.

It speaks to an important and specific norm for programmers. Plus, it doesn't read like the setup for a Greek tragedy, where hubris and self fulfilling prophecy loom large.
What's the reason to use HiveMind over another solution?
Here is an example of doing exactly that: http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u32/program.php?test...
Yeah, given the existence of life at deep-sea sulfuric vents, I wouldn't be surprised if the newly evolved bioorganisms were colonizing the containers at their leakage points.
My understanding of seawater is that uranium concentrations are 0.01 - 0.02%, and that it's not thermodynamically feasible to extract it for energy at those concentrations.
Reddits designed to moderate its self. This has it's downfalls, but for the most part things that aren't related to a subreddit don't make it to the top unless the users want it to. IMO Snowden and the NSA is heavily related to technology and banning those terms was one of the dumbest moves they could have made. The reason they get upvoted is because the community cares about that kind of stuff. Plus the comments in a snowden thread on r/technology actually discuss the technological aspects of it while r/politics commenters focus on other aspects.

Isn't it kind of Orwellian to know your government is spying on you, yet go to the biggest tech forum on the net and no one is even talking about it?
This is a fairly general issue if you're looking at "competence". Without disagreeing with anything you said, let me ask the following:

Assume you're going to collectivize agriculture. How well do you think that will go? What's the best achievable outcome?
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Usenet never stood a chance. It was invented in the days when net access was something of a privilege that could be revoked if a user did not behave in a socially acceptable way. As such, it was acutely vulnerable to spam and abuse. What proportion of Usenet traffic consisted of porn and pirated binaries in the late nineties? Is it any surprise that ISPs ,fearing they might be held accountable for distributing such material, started cutting off their Usenet service?

The good news are: Usenet still exists. There are free NNTP servers that host most non-binaries groups. Many groups are abandoned, but some are quite lively. Every time I visit, I am struck by the fact that no website forum approaches the ease of use of a good threaded newsreader, and I am amused when I see each new generation of coders, ignorant of the past, trying to re-implement an incomplete, flawed replica of what once existed.
Funny how getting reddit to take action in their most toxic communities had traditionally been a teeth-pulling affair, but censorship actually gets them to move fast.
> because it's using someone else's content for free

Um, the TV channels are already broadcasting their content for free. You know that, right?

> They don't themselves create or provide anything users actually want to buy

They're no different from an antenna and DVR of your own. You buy those, or you buy Aereo -- same thing. Both cases distribute the signal. You're not complaining that people shouldn't be able to buy their own antennas because the antennas don't "create anything", are you?

> do so without compensating the people

You do realize that broadcast TV comes with commercials, no? The channels have been compensated for decades this way, and it's not like Aereo is stripping out the commercials.
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First, most poor people also have access to computers --- as in, have them in their homes.

Second, stipulate an aristocracy of permanently wealthy people and a majority underclass of people living at a technical poverty level. Assume that price competition is going to continue to improve the standard of living of that underclass.

Exactly what will prevent those people from designing and selling clothes, fixing and modifying cars, or doing social work?
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All "cargo cult" means is that you're doing something associated with an outcome that you want, rather than understanding the mechanism by which what you're doing would lead to the desired outcome.

A common example: towns that have a lot of tourists have a lot of parking. Therefore if we tear down buildings to make more parking lots, we'll increase tourism!

I'm pretty sure that what 99.9% of developers (including me) are doing with SSL is cargo cult.
Aereo’s CEO on the future of Netflix, TV sports and the public airwaves
I always click the "unsubscribe" link, first. If I get anything else after that, then I mark it as spam. (I don't buy into the 30-business-days bullshit, it's 2014.)

I also have catch-all addresses at my domain, so I register for things as SERVICE@mydomain, so I know exactly where spam is coming from.

Except I've been doing this for years, and 90% of garbage still just comes to my plain ol' gmail address that I've been using for over a decade, which suggests that businesses finally have wised up to the fact that sending garbage to everyone who puts their email address into a form is a bad, bad idea.
I strongly disagree that this would be "a cinch". If AWS were suitable for this, why would Aereo themselves be using rooms full of transcoders instead of the cloud? I think the only people willing to make the investment in Aereo-like infrastructure are existing cable and satellite TV companies, looking to escape retransmission fees. But they it seems unlikely they'd want to unbundle that from their non-OTA content.
Yeah, it's a shame really because American reliance on cable distorts the technology market: at least part of the reason that tablets and phones don't already have TV tuners in them has to be that one of the biggest markets isn't interested.
That was used to host the picture of the Lego model, which is odd because other, larger, images were hosted on their S3 storage.
What's the best smartphone? That's the wrong question.
my contention was IQ degradation, but the IQ system seems inherently obfuscatory anyway.
Spaces are fine in the SSID so they already had to cope there. I agree with your hypothesis that something probably went wrong in their dev/testing, and then they ran with it making things worse and worse.

Compounding things by keeping customers as far away as possible ensures that lessons are not learned.
The hacker mindset is to do things just because they are possible. Efficiency and benefit are rarely as important as the pure joy of creating or doing things just because you can.

Ruthless efficiency comes into play once you are the owner of a company, but for the engineer the real joy comes from just making stuff.
I said that the idea came from CABForum because that's what Langley said. Moving from 250k to 2.3M still wouldn't put your blog in the lifeboat. Also: the CRL entries in the CRLsets are manually curated; someone is doing that work for you, for free.
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> And a reason why the west survived the onslaught of the Axis powers

The reason the West survived the Axis onslaught is because Hitler and his cohorts, unlike Stalin, were morons. Only an imbecile would open a second front with a country with which you have a non-aggression pact [1].

This highlights the frailties of intelligence nicely. Stalin was so thoroughly convinced that this was such a profound stupidity, that he refused to believe it even after receiving intelligence reports confirming as much.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov%E2%80%93Ribbentrop_Pact
why can't the users and "knights of /new" sort that out? isn't that what feedback is for (and what makes sites like reddit great)
It was less the "censorship" and more the complete collapse of the mod team that led to /r/technology's removal from the default set. See the SubredditDrama recap [1] for more information about the situation there, and the leaked notice from one of the reddit admins [2] which gives the reasoning behind the action.

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/23dyes/recap...

[2] http://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/23aunv/rtech...
For One Man, A $50 3D Printed Hand Beats A $42,000 Prosthetic
The freedom of choice is actually in the hands of the end-users.

The end-users choose which email providers (Yahoo, Gmail, Hotmail) they want to use. The email providers are motivated to provide a good user experience, which includes blocking unwanted email because they make their money through user engagement.

The key to delivering into the inbox is sending mail that your recipients both want and expect. Provide a good user experience, and you'll build a good reputation. Push the limits (for example, use a "pre checked" checkbox on an order confirmation page to put people on your sales mailing list) and you'll be putting out email delivery fires all of the time.

Most of the things that you describe (SPF, SenderID, DKIM, PTR, MX) are all technical requirements, which are just the baseline for delivery. These are required, but any sender of unsolicited email can configure them. They don't earn you access to the inbox. Just like properly formatted HTML does not earn you great SEO results.

I like to break email delivery down into four areas:

* who -- send to people who requested your email and are expecting it

* what -- send something of value to these people

* technical foundation -- (SPF, SenderID, DKIM, Feedback Loops, etc.) required, but having it does not give you any points

* monitoring -- (open ratio, complaint ratio, ISP response codes) you need to know when something goes wrong

(My company, www.drh.net, has been providing email server software, services, and deliverability consulting for over 10 years.)

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[edit; added the below]

Another way the freedom-of-choice is in the hands of the end users is this: the big ISPs (yahoo, gmail, hotmail) make most of their filtering decisions based off of end-user behavioral data.

For example:

* what percentage of your email is opened

* what percentage of your email is complained about (the "this is spam" button)

* what percentage of your email is deleted without reading

* how long is your email read

* how much is forwarded

* how much is replied to

* what percentage of your email that was placed in the Spam folder when seen by the user received a click on the "this is not Spam" button.

This is the end-users voting on if they want your email or not. This isn't the entire email deliverability equation, but it's a huge part of it.

The ISPs treat this data so importantly because: (a) it's hard to game unlike content filtering, and (b) it directly correlates to good user experience which they want to provide.

[edit to make bulleted list look right]
Supreme Court to hear arguments on Aereo this week
DBAN (Darik's Boot And Nuke) is my favorite solution. You can put it on a bootable CD, bypass your OS, and just wipe the disks easily.

Here is a link to a bunch of other solutions as well:
http://superuser.com/questions/4678/securely-erasing-all-dat...
If you give a reason, there's a small chance that you may have to defend that reason legally. Therefore, it's best to not give a specific reason. It's harsh, but protection of the business is more of a priority than potentially hurting someone's feelings by not giving a reason.
A proper filter must have an infinitesimal chance of a false positive. A blanket-ban on the Tesla keyword will ban many legitimate articles.
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Interesting that Balaji Srinivasan talked about this concept of Silicon Valley as the enemy at startup school last year. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOubCHLXT6A
Why are TLS block cipher constructions still MAC-then-encrypt, 13 years after Bellare and Namprempre proved that was the wrong way to do it? Because standards are hard.

You can blame the browser makers as much as you want, but among them as a group, nobody has worked harder on making TLS better and safer than Google. But here you are berating them for the effort.
For one man, a $50 3D printed hand beats a $42,000 prosthetic
The invoices that http://invoiceable.co generates work well for me. But that tool doesn't handle the actual time tracking, just the invoices.
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Random Hall (a dorm at MIT) has/had a `bathroom server' that did exactly that and also a `laundry server' that tells you whether the laundry machines are busy. The bathroom server used to be at http://bathroom.mit.edu (seemingly offline now) and the laundry server is at http://laundry.mit.edu
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I can't help but think of this scene from Soylent Green: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOV8mBjHHYg
Does it help tonsay that Disney resisted the advent of home video because they would not be able to tell how many people were in the room watching the movie and thus would not be able to charge them?

So some people felt that a movie night with friends is exactly the same as running a cinema and wanted to charge everyone who was watching a screening.
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If you were to remake email from the ground up, how would you solve the spam problem while keeping it as decentralized of a system as it is now?
>And it makes me wonder how well Americans would be received by the locals once people start coming down with cancer and other horrible diseases that we essentially are the direct cause of.

Except the United States has already poisoned their own people with all those nuclear weapons test in Nevada. As I've pointed out in another comment here. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7620859)
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And I don't get a picture at all with a $50 amplified antenna. The local ABC affiliate hasn't put any transmitters in my area, so I'm SOL without cable or a service like Aereo.

(more info: I'm in Greenville, SC, which is part of a TV market that covers a large, mountainous area and has 4 cities in it. The stations actually based in my city (NBC, Fox) come in very clear; the stations based farthest from my city (ABC) don't come in at all.)
HiveMind is for building web apps, as opposed to being just a generic IDE.

You can read the docs or just download and try it out...there are a lot of interesting ideas implemented on the platform.
>This sort of vague comment

Not sure about "vague comment"s but anyone who has run an email server, used an rbl/rhsbl, and followed the logs <http://www.postconf.com/docs/spamrep/> would say the same. Having done so for years and run reports on dozens of servers daily it is clear that blacklists are the most effective form of spam blocking, by at least an order of magnitude.
Aereo has to maintain the pretense that they're just "renting out" a time-shifting DVR. That's why they need rooms full of transcoders. But the premise of the comment 'evan_ made is what if the law was changed so they didn't need to maintain that pretense? In that case, Aereo's costs would go down, but it would also become ridiculously easy to start a competitor.
Then use greylisting only.

I've never had a case of a false positive complain but yes, they can happen and I don't terribly mind because that means the sender's mail server is blacklisted and they should know.

Also in any case my recommendation is to use a 3rd party mail service, for deliverability reasons mostly.
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The "It's politics" thing is so very bogus.

Snowden's revelations set off a broad distrust of US tech products and services and have a multi-tens-of-billions impact on the tech economy and investing. Whoever can fix this will make a more valuable contribution to tech than a smart watch or smart TV ever will.

Questioning whether Tim Cook is capable of running Apple is OK because he didn't help start disastrous wars, but questioning the thudding tone-deafness of putting Condi Rice on the DropBox board is "political?" Or is it sensitivity over DropBox acquiring some YC companies?

Because the politics of it is so intractable, it is very likely that the privacy issue will have a large technology component. That is, mass surveillance will be reconsidered only when mass surveillance isn't valuable.

Overall, the biggest threats to tech and investing in the US are the surveillance/security state, over-militarization, wars, and the things like education they prevent being properly funded.
How about a PKI system were one or more authorities can sign keys and the email server admins can approve public keys based on its combined score coming from the authorities. Authorities could be universities, engineering organizations and other non-profit entities.
On the other hand, the article implies that the broadcasters are not very good at... broadcasting. A big challenge for Aereo was finding a location that gets all the signals:

> "It's striking to me," Lipowski said, describing missing signals at many places around the city, no more than a few miles from the current broadcast center on the Empire State Building. "You would not get the channels that the FCC said you should be able to receive. ... It was just gone, you could no longer receive television signals, you had to do something different. That's not fair."

Some Aereo customers use it because they can't receive signals from the broadcasters. The broadcasters seem to feel that these customers shouldn't use Aereo. Instead, the customers should pay ComastTimeWarnerMegaCorp, who can then pay the broadcasters.

i.e. Not only do the broadcasters not want to spend money improving their infrastructure -- they want to get money for not broadcasting well.

The sense of lazy entitlement among broadcast and cable operators is pretty stunning.
This.

More frequently, I've been taking to /dev/nulling entire domains for crap. Usually recruiters (no, I'm not interested in your underwater basketweaving SEO marketing position in south-west Obscuristan, it's well outside my search and skill parameters).

I haven't got around to writing a good set of whitelisting scripts, but that's next.

Figuring out if I've subscribed to something, and/or how to MAKE IT STAHHHP really isn't worth my time.
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A safe storage locker. I travel frequently for work between a few different cities and it's a pain to constantly have to pack and re-pack, and buy and re-buy those things which I cannot pack.

I just want a locker where I can feel safe leaving my stuff in the cities that I travel to most frequently. This means I'm reasonably assured they wont get stolen as well as being afforded many of the same rights when you own or rent property.
Love the design. What are you using to make your graphs?