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You, probably nothing. Me, with an older low-end TV and no PS3, it'd be more useful.

Separating things out from the TV is preferred, as far as I'm concerned. If there's a credible Netflix competitor in 3 years, your TV isn't going to support it. A game console works if you have one, a streaming stick does the same if you don't.

It's for people who want an easy way to watch Netflix, don't have a smart TV (or have one that's out of date and no longer useful), and aren't interested in spending hundreds of dollars on a console that takes up a lot of space and wastes a lot of electricity just to watch videos. I suspect that's a pretty large market.
Seems to work! In fact, it showed me 6 people, but I didn't sign up fully.

Sadly, my verified followers mostly are made up of companies I've worked for or companies I've complained about/used Twitter as customer service with.
“They have a pattern of job hopping and they have no respect for the investment that companies have made to train them,”

The article is obviously not talking about software developers. :-)

When was the last time you worked for a company that had any sort of training for developers?
Bad idea, ads are also a way to support the site/service you are using. Automatic ad clicks can get that site banned (i.e. Adsense will surely do that) so that's a sure way to kill the site. Google for instance wouldn't have existed without ads. Lots of people on HN saved millennia with help from Stackoverflow (ad supported) and so on.

I'm now "ad-aware" so I know how to differentiate content from ads, but I will click on an ad if it's something that's of interest to me. I support the publisher this way and also get some value out of it.
I don't like sites filled with ads but my way of "punishing" those is to avoid visiting that site.
> Combine them with ST2's ability to do a search and place cursors at every found location, and I can get a lot of weird stuff done quickly.

Combine this with excel (use \t and \n in sublime for row and column respectively) and you get really powerful, really fast when it comes to converting information into a useable formats.

I've also made use of excel's data validations to create drop downs in cells for making hundreds of lines of complex config for a rules engine in a few hours. Enter the configuration in excel, export to csv, use a ruby to import csv into a database table via existing orm. (Why not use the UI? The app is too slow.)

I turned what would have been a week long data entry task into an afternoon of copying and pasting out of a another spreadsheet. (Why didn't I used the other spreadsheet? It was in a non-machine readable format. I had to convert the data to the proper format using my knowledge of the system internals.)
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Someone throw this in a docker container and make it easy to play with.

/lazyweb
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While this may be of little concern, compared to your PS3 this will use significantly less power. Comapred to your TV is is very possible that the ecosystem for this product will be larger.
Exactly. This is way more harmful for websites than a simple adblocker.
I tried a lot of the popular Backup solutions (like Acronis and others I don't remember now), but none of them really worked for me.

I'm using HardlinkBackup for incremental, local USB backups (periodically creates a new folder with a full snapshot of the entire disk but de-duplicates across snapshots with NTFS hard links).

http://www.lupinho.net/hardlinkbackup/

For Cloud Backups I'm a happy Backblaze customer.
I don't understand this, they say it prevents tracking but, actually, this helps ad companies track you since they will now know you will click their ads whenever you are visiting a certain site.

With ad blockers that prevent the HTTP request, those third party sites aren't able to track you. The publisher can always track you but that won't be shared with their advertisers or networks.

Disclaimer: I work in the adtech industry.
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There's also Hubic - by the guys behind OVH.

They're the cheapest ones around with plans starting from EUR 1 / month for 100GB. https://hubic.com/en/offers/

They have data centers in France, so that's one more barrier against governmental snooping.
I really don't understand Amazon's strategy here at all.

Every large company goes through this stage where they switch from actively building their business to essentially being afraid that something will come along and kill them. It happened to Microsoft in the 90s (although, in fairness, the Internet did almost kill them). It's happened to Google (Google Offers anyone?). And it sure as hell looks like it's happening (big time) to Amazon.

Amazon is really good at two things:

- selling you stuff

- oddly enough, cloud services.

Several years ago they, for whatever reason, embarked on a strategy of wanting to be in online content and mobile platforms.

Amazon Prime was (and is) a hugely popular service. Yet it's been bundled with Prime Instant Video, essentially a Netflix clone. Why Amazon felt this was necessary or even a good idea is beyond me.

As soon as you force bundle one service with the other it makes the latter worse and hides the deficiencies of the former. Good products and services sell themselves at a certain point. If Amazon Instant Video was really great, why can't I buy just that? Why make Prime more expensive? Amazon is creating room for a comeptitor here.

And then we get to the Fire tablets, phones and now media sticks. Amazon decided to treat Google as a competitor here so none of their devices come with the Google apps. This is a curious move because Amazon obviously sees itself as a competitor and rival to Apple, Google and Microsoft here. Why exactly?

If you're going to be in the phone business and competing with someone, do you really want to be beholden to the platform that company produces (ie Android)? Sure they can fork it (and have) but you know they'll be taking updates too.

I really have to wonder if Bezos has gone all Howard Hughes lately. He seems to feel this strategy is deeply important yet, as best as I can tell, these products are mediocre at best and no one has really articulated why this is important to the future of Amazon.

Disclaimer: I work for Google. These opinions are purely my own.
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Instead of defrauding ad networks and legitimate sites that have ads, there's an even easier way to deal with annoying ad policies: Don't go to sites that have them.
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CrashPlan - I love it.
Starcraft is a product of Blizzard. If you wanted to draw a parallel it would be with a product of Ferrari, so a Testarossa say. And it's only the suffix that's duplicated.

So to get close to a car analogy [it's still poor] it should rather be "try giving away plans for a car called a 'Triangolorossa'".

The real chance of confusion is pretty close to zero but no doubt a motivated lawyer and a legal system corrupted to favour mega-corps would still be able to decide it was a genuine trademark confusion.

If it's a clone then there are copyright issues. If it's not a clone then having a similar but clearly distinct name is not a genuine point of confusion for the public.
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The list from your edit is great. I didn't even know that alternativeto.net existed.
I bought a FireTV. It wouldn't work with my TV and Netflix would constantly stop and buffer (I think it forced an HD stream). I returned it and got a Roku and it just works perfectly.

I wonder if this will have compatibility problems. The TV reported as meeting the requirements and my computer finds and configures it as a 720p monitor.
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IT departments in most organizations devote themselves almost exclusively to preventing their users from causing inadvertent damage, and not enough time on enabling them to use the tools provided. Most IT organizations would benefit from sending staff out to work with users, see how they work and identify ways to help them better wield the laptops and software with which they've been provided, instead of hiding behind ticket systems.
Honest question: how is this better than just googling for "React.js [other keyword]"?
It definitely is, and is a powerful tool in the determination of mass for very massive galaxies and galactic clusters. That being said, I don't think this contradicts anything I mentioned in my post -- gravitational lensing doesn't affect galactic kinematics.
While I agree that this can be a problem for the webpages you visit, see that the point of the extension is:

" [...] to obfuscate browsing data and protect users from surveillance and tracking by advertising networks."

So while it may be a negative side effect the point of the extension is not disrupting online advertisement, but disrupting online tracking. Even though you will be effectively doing both.
From another perspective, it's a way to punish publishers who work with ad companies which do not respect your privacy.

I wonder if it can be disabled for ad networks that don't collect user data.
I need to replace the Roku 2 in my bedroom as it is getting long in the tooth, but this won't work for me until they support NHL Gamecenter Live.
As someone who runs an ad-supported site, I would really prefer if you just blocked my ads and did not register fake clicks on them.
So does that make it better or worse than just blocking adds?
Agreed, form factor got me to try the Roku stick, but I went back to box with the Fire TV after getting fed up with performance and terrible wifi signal (dongle basically touched the mount) I did get a great signal on unmounted tv upstairs but the slow UI & stream starting persisted (5-8 seconds between screens). I'm going to hold off on sticks for a while, but $19 does sound pretty compelling. I'm sure this reflects a recent pricing lesson regarding the Fire phone.
It is there on checkout, but not in your cart. There is a banner at the top that states this on the product page, but it's pretty easy to miss as it looks like an advertisement.
Interesting that they mention Netflix before Amazon Instant Video in the description.

"It's an easy way to enjoy Netflix, Amazon Instant Video, Hulu Plus, YouTube.com, music, and much more"
Yeah, prolog. The declarative language where you just specify what you want, and still have to learn the underlying unification algorithm to use it[1], and sprinkle very procedural cuts around your code in order to keep the algorithm from taking unnecessary paths.

> Functional programming is as you say using functions and avoiding side effects. See Haskell, see ML, see LISP, I do not see declarative languages among them.

Heh, so you're saying that functional programming is not declarative because it is not prolog et al.? No, functional programming is also considered a declarative style of programming. It doesn't matter that it isn't logical programming, or excel.

(If you think this argument is a bit just-so, well it's a reply to the same style of "argument". If you want to claim that FP is not declarative, please argue why it is not declarative.)

[1] Which is often more effort to learn compared to the conceptual evaluation model of FP, since the FP evaluation model can often be viewed as a more restricted version of evaluation used in imperative languages.
Oh, I am nowhere near expert with SolidWorks. What I end up with are fairly brittle constructs: I first build components (parameterized), then plug them into assemblies, then add key parameters to the assembly, and finally set up component parameters to track those of the assembly.

BTW, top-down building (e.g. starting from the assembly) has never worked for me. I always end up with an unmaintainable mess — but that could be my poor skills.
For the uninitiated, it's named after Pu'er Tea[1], a fermented Chinese tea that was made infamous by a previous imperial taste for the stuff and originates in the town of Pu'er[2] (recently renamed Ning'er), in Simao prefecture[2] (recently renamed Pu'er), Yunnan Province[3], China. The area is at the historical frontier of China, bordering Tibet, Burma, Laos and Vietnam. Ning'er is notable for its specific altitude and soil. The same variety of tea was also grown in Yiwu, Xishuangbanna, a town so small and otherwise without note that it lacks a Wikipedia entry. Last time I visited, they had a wild monkey locked in a cage, probably for sale for the (no bullshit) Chinese delicacy of live monkey brains.* The second area was probably traded through a different, more easterly route to the north via Jianshui[4].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puer_tea

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ning%27er

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puer_Prefecture

[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jianshui

* I lived in the area for 2.5 years.
I was stoked when an old friend became a VP of technology in an interesting field (meanwhile I am still just a dev). I gained an important contact! I proposed to do a small side project with him and that is going along nicely, it may lead to other things, who knows? Meanwhile it is another opportunity to have fun.

Do you want to be a technology evangelist like your friends? I mean, if you have specific goals there are effective ways of achieving them and there are poor ways. If you lack specific goals maybe you should get some, develop some specific interests that stretch you.

Get concrete - submerge yourself in the details of the mastery of your specific interests. It can be tangential to your current work. Grab time from your current work to add to your goal work.

As you immerse yourself in your concrete, goal-directed work you find you have less time to immerse yourself in negative thinking.
For me, the best link you gave was coinsecrets.org.

Most of the listed blockchain metadata seems to point off to one of these three:
https://github.com/OpenAssets/open-assets-protocol/blob/mast...
http://coinspark.org/
http://www.proofofexistence.com/
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Weird. You're right; it doesn't work. Must have something to do with the layer Plover's using for keyboard output. That's frustrating. I'll bring it up with the developers.
It's a shame this is even receiving front page publicity. This is ultimately terrible for everyone except maybe a few anarchists that think they deserve every websites information for free while sabotaging the publishers who work to develop the sites. And if it actually were to take off, it would then be bad for the anarchists who no longer get that free access to the information they wanted. Who wins?

Edit: Seriously, how is this a good idea? You disproportionately harm the sites you actually visit, and ultimately the result is A) Big ad networks shut them off .. or B) Independent ads think their ads aren't converting and pull them.

This is how you kill the sites you actually visit. They don't magically find a new business model before hosting/payroll/whatever catch up to the fact that their ad revenue has been shut off. I can't fathom what you stand to gain from getting their ads shut off instead of just hiding them for yourself with a standard ad block that is much more acceptable.
Can't get through to the server, but I agree with the title.
Can someone explain now clicking an ad link prevents tracking?
I hope that the same dudes that are against this aren't the same douches that were for the fappening.
The new web APIs are promise-ified by default rather than using the callback model of the past. So rather than register(callback), it's register().then(...).

Whether this is a good thing or not is another question I don't know the answer to.
I use mine mostly for Youtube. Or rather, my son does. He loves to be able to browse Youtube on any of his moms iPad, his Android tablet, any of our laptops, any of our phones, with the convenience of a proper input device, yet get the video onto the TV.

I've just gotten an Amazon Fire TV (not the stick) and while you can get Youtube apps for it, I'm not sure I'll be bothered for this reason - a tablet or my phone is a superior interface for deciding what to watch. And frankly, I'm more likely to know where either is than where my TV remote is, while it'd be hard to turn around without seeing a couple of devices that can control the Chromecast in my house...

I also use it for Rdio, and (very occasionally) I cast a Chrome tab.

I have no interest in the smart TV's because of the lifetime of TVs: I've owned the TV's I've had for 5-10 years each. In that kind of timeframe, how I've wanted to use the TV has changed drastically each time.

I prefer my TV to be dumb in most ways, and instead replace the devices I use to control. The only functionality I wish for from my TV would be the ability for input sources to request volume changes, change input source, or turn the TV to/from standby.
Totally agree. There's something quite mean spirited about this.
Is it sad my first thought was: There goes any chance for Amazon Instant Video on Chromecast and/or Android TV for the foreseeable future?
I looked at a range of backup solutions - http://alicious.com/cloud-backup-solutions/ - for a simple one-folder backup from a work computer. I too settled on duplicati.

Originally I was using it with Microsoft's online cloud storage (skydrive I think they were calling it, it's changed now due to TM action) but that stopped working and now I use gdrive instead (or whatever that is now, gapps storage or something).
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Great intro. I'm a Django developer myself, and getting things going with a new framework (even if it is in the same language) can be tough.
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I realize this won't be popular, but I really have no feelings for ad networks.

- They allow shoddy security on their servers

- They track users against their will

- Info on me is sold w/o my knowledge or consent

- Ads are a poor business model since they can be blocked

- There is no moral imperative for me to view ads since I've paid to access the Interwebs

I block all ads, tracking cookies, beacons, all of it... I whitelist my bank and my email provider. Everyone else gets nothing from me. I lie about my browser agent, I disallow scripts, CSS history, I disallow HTTP/S referrer, DOM storage, I use a European proxy where I need to. This all works great for me, as I have the right to move around the Internet as a customer, not a product.

I think if anything, this extension makes ad companies sit up and take notice. I won't be installing it, as I don't need it, but kudos to the authors for throwing the cat in among the pigeons. Ad revenue from most of these sites is based on tracking people and this is something I am against 100%.
I notice that in their comparison grid that they don't list Google content.

No thanks, I don't want a streaming stick for each online service, so I think I'll stick to my Roku.
Are the permissions fine-grained enough to give users the power to say Yes to useful content and No to intrusive marketing messages?

Or is the option to include that choice going to be left to site designers?
This would require a vast, vast upgrade of client power to achieve the same communications performance. If you could achieve it all, SSL would also likely decrease reliability over a spotty GSM link.
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You have my upvotes, while you may think "well now they know nothing because they think I like everything!" instead it will be "I just told every ad network that I visit this website, another notch in the information about me belt."

You cant get around that fact, and the information is not some firehose they cant take or something ( also this kind of behavior is eminently detectable by the ad network, nobody clicks ALL of the ads).
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There isn't any "sidecoin" here. One of the slogans for sidechains is "altchains without altcoins". The idea is that you are in some sense still using bitcoin tokens, even though you're doing so in an unorthodox way.
I often wonder what the internet would be like without ads. First of all, you're right that it would totally kill sites. Let's say it happens. What's next? I would be ecstatic if sites like BuzzFeed and Gawker died. That'd be great[1]. But it also kills good sites like Stackoverflow. That sucks.

Right now people don't have to pay for content. Almost everything is ad based. Because of this people almost never pay for the really great premium content. Well what if there was no free, good content? Would that lead to more great content? Probably not... but maybe! What if suddenly people expected to pay a small subscription fee to a small number of sites in exchange for great content. That'd be, well, great!

How do you guys think it would play out?

[1] I think they literally make the world a worse place but that's a separate discussion.
It's explained on the site. If every ad is clicked by everyone, tracking data is useless.
Not sure what might be the exact point. I mean while that would make useless extracting information about your add clicking habits, they would still know what webpages you visit. So it may be counterproductive compared with a normal ad blocker.
I too am a little confused on that score. The advertisers continue to know your interests (i.e. the sites you visit) and can build a demographic picture of you based on that.

The only thing this deprives them of is your ad preferences. But given how few ads most people click on, this information is sparse regardless.
Application error on Heroku.
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Basically it's an O(n^2) algorithm... well-known story about that here:

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000319.html

The design of strcat() itself is partially to blame for this - the return value could've been more useful, like the number of characters in the resulting string or a pointer to the end of the appended string so it could be used to chain concatenations, but instead they chose to return the exact same pointer that was passed in as the source.
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It feels like a parody video but sadly its serious.
Nice. I had a very similar idea to this a few days ago: chrome extension for DDOS'ing ad networks. Instead of just blocking the ads, send 10x requests to the networks.

Not a nice move, but good social/thought experiment.
Lots of people feel this and there isn't an easy answer--this has plagued humankind as long as we've had writing. Heck envy is mentioned by most (all?) major religions. There are pieces of art older than a lot of countries depicting envy as something that ruins people in the form of snake or fire or poison.
In the UK at least, all the major channels have apps that provides reasonable access to shows you've missed. E.g. I have BBC iPlayer installed on my Fire TV.

So while it's certainly not exactly the same, here the available apps covers the 80% use cases, which presumably makes it much less attractive to take the cost of adding lots of local storage to support the remainder.
I keep looking for something that will make me replace my iPad2 with an HDMI adapter, and this doesn't do it. The app support on the iPad is much better, and it is a great way to use an aging device. Even the iPad2 plays videos very well.