skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was proposing for them to be prepared before it happened not for the trial.
So if Aereo were just in the antenna rental business, and some other entity were in the cloud DVR business, and consumers paired them together it would be just fine?

Edit: having read the decision, it seems there were companies that provided antenna services back in the 60's, and congress amended the copyright act to forbid them. The ability for Aereo subscribers to choose which material is transmitted is key to Aereo's argument.
Targeting agencies is easier than you think - I got the top uk 100 in an hour from an awards site and then just ran through twitter, companies house and LinkedIn till I got the names of the top people. I followed a couple and then made cold calls based on what I knew - worked ok but I stopped filling my pipeline because I was a fool

It's quite doable
I've mentioned this before on HN, I'll say it again: Aereo should now do a pivot, becoming a hardware reseller of TV-signal-receiver/streamer devices like this one: http://www.hauppauge.com/site/products/data_broadway.html - it can stream either over your local Wi-fi, or across the interwebs so you can watch remotely when you're out of the house. Broadband speeds are a bit slow, but they're getting there (slowly) - until then, rely on your friend who has Google fiber or something :). Basically you have Aereo service without the service fees (except the initial hardware cost and internet service cost). I'm especially in favour of this because it's putting back the power in the hands of the end customer -- finally, they own the device, they're not relying on the cloud, they're not facilitating another rentier operation.
Best Practices when using Jetpack on client websites
It doesn't look like Krebs knows.
Don’t Want Google in Your House? Some Home-Tech Startups to Watch
Indeed, sad.

As a teenager in a country with conscription, you do what you can. Had I had a choice, this letter may have been targeted at Google.

For the record, I think conscription is a bad idea for many reasons.
Russia is building their own internet
Russia is building their own satellite-based internet in order to break free from US dominance. The system will involve a grouping of 130 satellites that will be launched within the period of next 5 years. Project codename is "Cheburashka" - a well-known Soviet cartoon character known for its big ears.

The news in Russian: http://nsn.fm/2014/06/24/rossijskij-cheburashka-ob-edinit-unikal-ny-e-otechestvenny-e-internet-razrabotki/

Video of the press conference (in Russian): http://nsn.fm/2014/06/20/chto-my-poluchim-v-rezul-tate-realizatsii-idei-rossijskogo-interneta-cheburashka/
This seems to be the nut graf of the decision:

"This Court recognizes one particular difference between Aereo's system and the cable systems at issue in
Fortnightly and Teleprompter: The systems in those cases transmitted constantly, whereas Aereo's system remains inert until a subscriber indicates that she wants to watch a program. In other cases involving different kinds of service or technology providers, a user's involvement in the operation of the provider's equipment and selection of the content transmitted may well bear on whether the provider performs within the meaning of the Act. But given Aereo's overwhelming likeness to the cable companies targeted by the 1976 amendments, this sole technological difference between Aereo and traditional cable companies does not make a critical difference here."

So, if I understand this correctly, the Court is rejecting Aero's argument that it provides private performances because it gives users the ability to control the rented antennaes, and only transmits what the individual user requests.

I'm a little baffled by how this differs from how people use DVRs. To me, it seems like the Court is hung up on how similar the end result is to the cable providers', even though the means are different.
Really nice design! Very well thought intuitive product for web and mobile optimisation !
>What is the concept of crime if we believe our actions are predetermined?

That's a rationalization of society's reaction to people's behavior. If you need to make up things that you don't absolutely believe exist in order to justify actions that you're taking in the real world, that's bad.

>Would a person still be pleased and surprised to get a nice birthday card if they believed it was the inevitable result of the clockwork universe?

Not believing in a soul or spirit doesn't give you precognitive powers, other than in the fact that your reasoning about the future doesn't involve magical effects, so is generally going to be more accurate.
Intellectual property law is the pride and joy of our legal system.

Really.

Patents, Copyright and Trademarks are all American inventions that have spread everywhere in the world. Many Americans think it goes too far, but in the fraternity of lawyers and judges, IP rules.
Rebar and Erlang.mk are both very easy to use for dep management, and relx is exceptionally easy (one-line config to generate a simple release, which is portable & standalone)
You do when they first create it.
Gmail should make you type your password again in order to open password-reset emails sent by other services.

This would close the "I accidentally left my account logged in" hole.
Just because others do it, it doesn't mean it's not impressive.
Not really. There's such a thing as the "spirit" of a law, and the technical details of a law.

The intention of the changes to the Copyright Act (which Shivetya has detailed better than I can[1]) was to stop basically what Aereo is doing, albeit back in the 1970s with cable companies. The legalese reflected the technology of the time. Aereo found a technical loophole that allowed them to continue to do it, but all the while they were violating the spirit of the law.

Which is, of course, legal. Until it isn't.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7944081
Obamacare was closely based off Republican proposals in the 90s (including Romney's implementation of it in Massachusetts).
So then where is the line drawn? Am I not allowed to put an antenna on my roof? What if I put it on my neighbors because it gets a better signal?

I'm honestly curious what is wrong with renting an antenna from a company and streaming the signal, regardless of location.
Don't their antenna's cost 10 cents or something really cheap like that?
I really like the design of this one, great work!
>Facebook only knows what you tell it. Put up a profile, don't post too much or at all, don't download the app (use the mobile version), don't use facebook connect, and don't use any facebook apps.

And don't use any websites that use any of Facebooks third-party script embeds or use something like HTTPSwitchboard and make sure you never load anything from any present or future Facebook property.

Also don't use any services Facebook has bought or will ever buy (I personally got bitten by WhatsApp and Moves).

Sounds easy. Thanks for the advice.
Looking at their getting started page, it seems to be much simpler to integrate in terms of getting the barebones map up and running.

I haven't had time to dive into it yet so don't take my word for it but I suspect it would be similar in feature and performance.
> ...while keeping most of the working set in RAM

So if the benchmark's about data being served from RAM, how come Redis isn't a part of it? #onlyasking
Bear in mind, the U.S. definition of liberal is still far to the right of what the rest of the world considers liberal.
Now we know that it was not actually conforming to the law.
I would describe the scripts they're written in as European. The languages themselves aren't, obviously.
When are we going to be finished with raw speed tests? I get it that faster is better. But I've always been a believer that good design will get you farther than choosing one software/hardware/infrastructure over another.

Also, I get the comparison of MongoDB and Couchbase. But why Cassandra from DataStax? It's a completely different technology with entirely different strengths and weaknesses. There are certainly overlapping use cases, but it seems like an odd comparison.

The better comparisons would seem to be comparing Couchbase to vanilla CouchDB and Cloudant's version of CouchDB. I guess you could throw in MongoDB, but MongoDB and CouchDB have different strengths and weaknesses. Raw speed alone doesn't exactly leave any technology in the rearview mirror.
Consider adding some makeup so survivors can make themselves look like zombies in the hopes the actual zombies will leave them alone. Otherwise for $199 this kit better come with some serious armaments and ammo or it's useless.
People who regularly watch the court know that judges falling into "Left" and "Right" camps are the exception, not the rule. There are typically splits were some of the "Left" judges agree for reason X and some disagree for reason Y, and/or some "Right" judges agree for reason Z and disagree for reason W.

And that's a good thing. This isn't a sports game where I should root for "my team." The judges shouldn't start from the end position they want and work towards that.
The conservative Justices generally favor looking at the plain text of the statute, while the liberal Justices are more willing to look at the broader implications and view a situation in functional terms. So it's unsurprising that the liberal justices, and Chief Justice Roberts who is less textualist than the other conservatives, were willing to look past the technicality Aereo was relying on to see that it was functionally equivalent to any other television streaming service.
Yes- they are renting me an antenna in the locale the performance is being broadcast, and providing connectivity to that antenna. That is not a loophole- that is the letter of the law- that an individual can receive a broadcast performance of a work, but that it cannot be duplicated. It meets the letter of the law- unlike a system that received the broadcast signal, captured it, and provided the same copy to many users, which would violate the 'public performance' section of the law. Renting me an antenna makes it my individual private antenna, removing the public aspect of the performance, and making it perfectly legal.
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One goes against us (Aereo), one goes for us today. The reasoning for this decision is pretty easy to understand and only takes a minute or so to read the first two pages.
And the World Cup Security Centre’s WiFi password is…
No kidding, if there's any Microsoft acquisition that makes sense, it's this! :P
Ask HN: Is there a place I can stay with other entrepreneurs in London?
I'm from Australia. Looking at staying in London for a few months, checking out Tech City, networking, and doing a bit of work on my side projects.<p>I'd like to stay with entrepreneurs. Is there anything like the AirBnb hacker hostels of Silicon Valley in East London? I can't find anything so far - feels like a great business opportunity considering the number of entrepreneurs coming across from Europe. Otherwise, does anyone have a spare bed - or know where to find entrepreneurial flat mates?<p>Thanks!
"Half the shouting and social upheaval on the internet today comes from entrenched groups who are outraged to learn that their opinions and views are not universally agreed upon; the other half comes from those whose silence was previously mistaken for assent."

That seems to imply social media is going to quiet down a lot after things shake out.

I facebooked real hard in '09 or so. Was high traffic but it was an utter waste of time, like no positive effect on my life whatsoever despite a spectacular demand on my time, so I stopped and didn't miss it. Restarted this year because one of my kids is old enough to get an account and wanted to "friend" his dad, so how can I resist? I created a new account (had deleted the old one) and refriended a whole bunch of people and frankly FB is dying in terms of traffic compared to 5 yrs ago. I donno if its paranoia at being data mined or a lack of newness or its just had its time and is now done and over.

During Roman triumphs, a slave would whisper in the ear of the winner that he was only mortal. Someone needs to whisper in the ear of all the social media folks that in the late 70s, 10% of all cars on the road had a CB radio. The CB experience is coming to social media, eventually, like it or not... Or going back a few more decades at one time virtually 100% of home entertainment electronics was based on radio reception...
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While I generally agree, this opinion split down ideological lines and it also strikes me as curious.
you do realize that sample 10% nonsense is simply untrue if you have a way to get the stream for the X,000,000 most popular accounts on a daily basis right (it has to be because getting streams for a specific account has to have all the tweets, not 10% of them)? Forget the bots, just focus on the active users.
The user involvement bit is addressing the Cartoon Network case regarding Cablevision's remote DVR architecture that Aereo is based on.

Cablevision designed a remote DVR system that made transient, user-specific copies based on the user's pressing a button on their set-top-box remote. In their defense against Cartoon Network et al., Cablevision made the "volitional conduct" defense that Scalia talks about in the dissent here- essentially, that the user who pressed the button was responsible for making the copy.
Cablevision won at trial and on appeal in the Second Circuit.

The biggest difference between the Cablevision case and the Aereo case is that Cablevision has and pays for the broadcast licenses that Aereo was trying to avoid having to obtain.
Your non-devs FAQ is still not quite informative. You still don't explain to laymen /why/ what the sites are doing is wrong, you just say "You should never see your password".

edit:

Maybe something along the lines of:

> Modern cryptography allows websites to save passwords in a form that is un-decryptable even to the site itself. This works because to check the validity of logins, the unencrypted (plain) version of the password is never needed. The fact that a site stores the password in a decryptable format and decrypts it to show it to you means that an attacker could potentially decrypt the password in the exact same way. Or even worse, maybe they never encrypt it in the first place! This potentially compromises the safety of the password you use because it lets an attacker steal your password.
Since there are a lot of components involved, let's consider them separately instead of discussing the bundle as a whole. This also helps as M-E-A-N are very independent by design and can be used independently. In fact, we are currently using AngularJS at frontend and PHP at backend.

MongoDB: is a NoSQL database designed for handling huge amounts of non-relational data. In comparison, MySQL excels at handling relational data but does not scale as well. If you need a lot of joins (relationships, user roles, etc.) then MySQL will be better and if you can benefit from the ability to keep arbitrary columns in your database tables without the need for running ALTER commands or other database hacks (CMS fits very well as most CMSs hack MySQL a lt to get the fleibility they need) then MongoDB will suit better.

ExpressJS: is akin to Django. While I am not experienced with ExpressJS, it seems more oriented towards single-page apps. Django has some good support for templating which comes in very handy for traditional websites. Single page apps don't fetch a lot of HTML from backend anyway, so this capability is not of much use.

AngularJS: has no direct counterpart in LAMP stack with Django. Angular is a frontend framework used for building single page apps. In fact, if you are building a single page app, you would want to use a frontend framework like Angular or Ember even if you use Python/Django/MySQL at backend. As mentioned earlier, we have recently built a single page web app with Angular at frontend and LAMP(PHP) at backend.

Node.js: is actually (to some extent) a counterpart of apache server and not python or django. nodejs is a performance oriented server with asynchronism at its core. While it is definitely desirable for high workload applications, it does take some getting used to. For example, even though you I was quite comfortable with AJAX at frontend, writing database queries in an asynchronous mode felt quite unnatural at first.

Overall, depending on the kind of application to develop and the kind of time luxury to learn new things, you may want to adopt MEAN partially if not fully. If constraints permit, spending some time with M/E/A/N should be intellectually and professionally rewarding.
The "log in again to do something secure" is a rabbit hole, where suddenly you have to log in again to do anything it all. It could become a login nightmare.
Of course the letter worked in the technical sense.

In the business sense -

The letter was sent as a PDF to a contact I had, who promised to print it and hand it to the relevant recruiter. I never heard back from them, but I did get accepted somewhere much better, and I have good reasons to suspect there was a man-in-the-middle involved.

I'll try and extract the text from this PDF. Of course I lost the source years ago (_in a thunderstorm_, no less).
I see so if you want to be "hardware rental" you have have a bad UI but if you have a good ui you are then SaaS..

WTF
I know the Astyanax driver from Netflix supports a "token aware" strategy. Here is a link to the docs:

https://github.com/Netflix/astyanax/wiki/Configuration

Depending on how the consistency level is set it could potentially save a "route" to the other host.
Everything following this comment is a horrible derail. And would be expected from the plain text of the comment.
Why do they pay for the right to broadcast, though? Because they want people to watch, right? Isn't receiving their signal and transmitting it to more people who can watch it more easily and with higher quality doing them a service?

If you look back before cable TV, broadcasters transmitted their signal and the only people who could watch it were those with suitable equipment within range. Broadcasters competed to get as many people as possible to watch. Each new eyeball (preferably in pairs) meant additional revenue for them with no additional cost.

Then comes cable TV. In addition to access to new channels, it also provides the benefit of being able to watch regular broadcast channels even when you couldn't receive them over the air. That means more viewers for the broadcast stations, and thus more revenue. Why, then, should broadcast stations get paid for distributing their signal to more people, which is what they want anyway?

It's clear to me that this is what the law says, and since the Supreme Court's job is to interpret the law, it also seems clear enough to me that they made the right decision here. But it doesn't seem like a very good law.
For me, just using NERDTree and ctrl-p combined with basic skills from the tutorial made me love vim :)
The loss of Aereo sucks, but this is a much heavier positive ruling.

I wonder if this extends to the NSA's warrantless collection and to what extent.
Aereo is a company that setup 1000s of DVR's with 1000s of antennas on a New York City rooftop. They lease access to these DVRs for roughtly $5/month and the DVRs stream to your computer.

In the US, broadcast channels are free over the air. However, there is a law that says if cable companies want to retransmit the broadcasts, the networks can charge the cable companies.

Is Aereo "retransmitting" the broadcast, or just renting personal antennas? That is what the Supreme Court was deciding.
It's a fair question, and you should not be getting down voted.

Wonga started out as an iPhone app. No one with a luxury smartphone is actually poor - just bad at managing cash flow. Hence the original term payday loan.
>Dev Bootcamp initially was a 10 week program for 20 students,

Nitpick: it was actually 8 weeks. I was in the first cohort.
In what way? I have seen several examples of C programs that implemented a form of interfaces using structs of function pointers. The GIMP code base does it, as does the Linux kernel's Virtual File System layer. This is a good overview: https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
Recovering deleted files on ext3/4 systems using either file-format-matching tools or the journal http://linux.sys-con.com/node/117909 (also https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/File_recovery)
I find the use of "innovation" here irritating. There's nothing "innovative" in 2014 about a service that streams TV over the internet. The only thing "innovative" about Aereo is its legal strategy of exploiting a loophole in the law.
3 and 4 are similar enough, and the wiki has a porting guide, so it shouldn't make much of a difference. Besides, 4 is probably too new to have a book, anyways.
Sorry, I'm still confused what you mean by "be prepared before it happened". Are you saying they should have pursued a different strategy/loophole around copyright law? That they should have realized they had no chance and not pursued funding? I'm not trying to be argumentative, I just genuinely don't understand what preparation you're saying they should have taken.

For the record, I work at a company with a lot of former Navic Networks employees (the company Chet Kanjoia founded before Aereo) so there's plenty of talk about Aereo and I'm pretty familiar with their model.
Yes, there actually already exist hardware solutions that let you do what Aereo does, except you don't have to pay a service fee.

I really hope they do this. I commented on this on the other thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7944241
GLMap.framework made for offline maps on mobile devices. Most of it written in C++11, and we can't port it to JavaScript + WebGL.

As far I know Mapbox works on WebGL map rendering solution.
Now we need a peer to peer network to watch broadcast TV...
Well the other part of weak passwords is for many websites the users care less about account security then the website operator.

There are many sites which contain none of my personal info but I have to setup an account just to view website content. If my account gets hijacked, it might be used for spamming. But still If I could make a throwaway account with a blank password I would because I don't care about that accounts security. So surely some restrictions need to be in place if you're going to require signups.
That's the only difference between Aereo and the original CATV companies. Original CATV was one giant antenna on a hill piping the broadcast to homes that couldn't get the signal; this is thousands of antennas intelligently provisioned on a hill piping the broadcast and providing DVR functionality to homes that don't necessarily want to deal with using the crappy tv antenna -> computer hardware available.
You could compare them by total payback/amount lent, or cents on the dollar to pay back. Much simpler! Or change APR to divide by week instead of year in the calculation.
Slingbox seems to have a strong position in this market. It's tougher to stream video from a person's home than from a data center. Most homes with broadband have limited upload speed that makes it difficult to stream good quality video. I'm hoping newer compression algorithms such as HEVC will make it possible to get decent quality even on connections with less than 1 Mbps upload bandwidth.
That's a fairly ungenerous interpretation. It's very much possible to know, on an intellectual level, that it's useful to split up a problem into its component parts so as to get a grip on it, but that doesn't mean you're actually going to do it or have formed a habit to do it. And perhaps education can help there, but actually being faced with a big problem and finding out that without approaching it step by step you're going to get nowhere, seems like a pretty good way to internalize that lesson too.