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Awesome quote at about 62 minutes: "...This is all getting boring right? The point of this is: invention is boring. Invention is not a great intellectual breakthrough. Invention is not exciting reconceptualization. It's doing all of these hard little things."

A bit sobering for us folks who think Haskell/Clojure/Insert-high-level-language-here is going to change the world. Not that these tools aren't valuable, as they increase productivity (which is kind of a big deal when good engineers cost $100k a year), but on the flip side, it was then as true then as it is true now that you just had to do the grunt work of experimenting with your product.
I've actually been hoping they would start charging for a long time.

I hate how they only have a few episodes of my favorite shows--obviously because they only do ads.

I'd gladly pay a reasonable annual fee to be able to watch all the episodes I want.
I usually don't get enthusiastic about any combination of "free", "alternate payment", and "social gaming", but this actually would fill business needs for me. It is a competitor to Amazon Turk, essentially -- giving me access to a tech-savvy time-rich cash-poor audience and having them do repetitive data entry for stupidly low sums of money.

I like this because it is an end-run around micropayments, where marginal costs like transaction costs and approving work munch far too much of the value of the transaction to make it worthwhile. Nobody here needs to ever do a micropayment: users get virtual currency in their game of choice, transaction cost zero. I pay the company with my credit card in increments of probably several hundred bucks, where the transaction cost will be negligible. They pay the game developer in a macro-transaction once a month, transaction cost negligible.
sorry jason, your life kicks ass now because you were a miserable nerd at some point. after denial comes acceptance.
I found Greasemonkey helpful for learning Javascript, because it lets you try interesting things on already interesting sites. If you're a product manager, who can program a little, it's a handy way to try product concepts and interesting mashup ideas.

I've enjoyed making some scripts for Twitter for example.. Take a look at this one which let's you view Twitter Bios at a Glance:

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/38797

I have some more scripts at:
http://userscripts.org/users/5204/scripts
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What on earth makes you think that there's a correlation between paying and watching all the episodes you want? I'd be more inclined to believe that they'd throw the existing Hulu behind a paywall and call it a day.

Netflix does a similar thing on Watch Instantly with their relationship with Starz Play - content only exists for a certain amount of time, then drops off.
"That gave us" doesn't always mean "that invented".
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I think that the immutability of Clojure data structures is also a pretty big selling point for the language w/r/t concurrency and using atoms and stuff.
This, in a nutshell, is why I have turned down every offer so far to leave my corp job (attained through acquisition, amusingly) for a startup. The equity offered was simply inadequate to make up for the massive increase in effort required.

Plot the compensation over time, and I'm much better off now, especially considering the other things I've been able to accomplish while not being on a 90-hour week startup deathmarch.
can you tell me how to do that on an iphone?
Maybe this is the American dream?

Don't innovate. Get legal after your business starts going downhill due to lack of said innovation. Claim it's to benefit the consumers.
I think his point still stands: this piece is full of shit. I'm surprised not to see "Sponsored by California Corp." at the bottom.
using the principles of sports in the classroom

Right. Having kids who are inherently qualified for such-and-such activities.
I don't care much for them until they stop fighting with boxee.
They're both supported/opposed fanatically by ideologues?
Which, once translated out of engineering jargon, means "Practically impossible in the general case, assuming you are not willing to accept an approximation."
Bit off topic, but most libraries have an interlibrary loan system that can get you pretty much any book you might need, for free. Sorry, but not using the library is the definition of ignorance.
Your statement is correct. Technology does cause the same problems as cheap labor.

But it doesn't change what I said. We're not talking about replacing men with machines, We're addressing the simple substitution of an inexpensive non-citizen for a more expensive citizen in a job. There apparently aren't machines available for these jobs so business seek out the cheapest human beings instead. If we didn't have our current political structure which attaches certain rights and privileges to citizenship then the USA would be like China where workers are treated like light bulbs.

Once machines can do everything a man can your argument will be pertinent. But remember that, should the time come that machines are the full equal of men, you may need to answer certain questions such as "Does this machine have civil rights or a vote in society?", "Can I trust this machine to do this job?", and "What sort of salary, if any, should I pay a machine for doing this job?". That is topic for another discussion and a real can of worms that I don't feel like opening right now.
You'll pay for it and watch their ads. It's happened twice before, once with cable TV and again with satellite radio.
I have a cousin the Army and have visited one of his friends that was horribly injured in Iraq. If we could build a remote robot to fight our wars, I would support that.
It seems like the big players that give away their content for free (Hulu, youtube, most newspapers, etc) seem to be struggling financially whereas the ones charging for it (netflix, itunes music store, WSJ, economist) seem to be doing well. Perhaps the 'free' business model isn't quite what it's cracked up to be.
> Authors and publishers, and ultimately consumers, stand to lose a great deal if this practice continues and/or grows.

How? The authors and publishers get their list price. The consumer gets a good deal.

The only one who looses out is amazon/target/walmart, who loose money on each sale.

So what's the problem?

> as a loss leader to attract customers to buy other, more profitable merchandise. The entire book industry is in danger of becoming collateral damage in this war.

Again, exactly the opposite will happen. Books are cheap, so customers will buy lots of them. Publishers and authors will make lots of money. Retailers will subsidize books using other merchandise.

How is that bad? It's great for book sales.
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Wow. Had no idea how ignorant I was. Did you know that you can write books in your field off your taxes?
Better is subjective. The S950 is a 12-bit/48kHz sampler, which is pretty atrocious resolution by today's standards. Accuracy is less subjective, and one can quantitatively prove that a 24-bit/96kHz sample on a modern machine is more accurate than a 12-bit/48kHz sample (most users used lower sample rates to save memory and fit more samples in at once).

I happen to like gritty old sounds, too. Though I've gone even further back...I use a C64 and a GameBoy as my primary electronic instruments lately.
I'd call AllegroCache and Elephant object persistence frameworks, not KV stores.

AllegroCache can store persistent maps and sets, so you could use it as a KV store, but that's hardly taking advantage of its power.
Well, Id say SQL is close to unusable.. it has just enough good design to explain its long life. I do respect it.

SQL is a bit like Cobol - served us well for 30 years, time to move on.
I'm guessing it was part of the plan all along. Lets create a cable channel(s) and deliver it over the internet. We won't have to deal with all of the franchise carriers or split the profit! How to get people interested in the first place? Oh! Offer it free! Once we get some viewers and some interest, bam! subscription fee. Its cable, but with teh intertubes. Its diabolically brilliant if you think about it from the right perspective.

I'm predicting a "return of napster" sized crater where hulu.com used to be.
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They don't call it Taxachusetts for nothing, hmm?
Very true. Especially if the approximation algorithms become well known, people can find ways around them.

I wonder if some sort of game theory and/or randomized algorithms can help...

In any event, the root problem was still giving loans to people who shouldn't have gotten them. Regulation really needs to focus on that...
Does anyone know if there is anything technically that is stopping someone from downloading the hulu broadcasts?

I was talking about this last night I think it is almost time for a DVR for my computer, so I don't have to watch the hulu commercials.
IIRC, they didn't choose PLT (over other Schemes) for any particularly compelling reasons.
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Piracy was never so easy with TV and radio. Once my grandmother knows how to torrent her shows, they've lost.
Hulu's got about the most hard core anti-ripping technology on the web going right now. They're about the only ones out there who have stayed ahead of the curve preventing that sort of thing. The only thing I know of that works right now is a realtime screen scraping thing, which isn't very practical.
This is annoyingly slim on any details that would back up their assertions.

For instance, if programs are apparently fast, and searching is fast, could they not at least be bothered to measure this (versus Vista or XP, or running previously-known-to-be-slow programs, or even measuring a Mac)? Then there is the fact that any clean install makes a system feel snappier for awhile; let's talk again in 4 weeks and see if everything hasn't become dog slow.

And the rest of the article reads like someone who just wants eye candy. 3rd party programs have been able to customize the bells and whistles of Windows for some time, and they don't cost the $200-$400 that a new Windows would.

I do not know if Windows 7 is a great OS, but I do know that this article isn't making that case in any meaningful way.
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Although on the other hand you have to factor in the "General Purpose Technology", even within IT - some things are generally applicable and cause a great leap forward - things like Lotus 1-2-3, GUI/mouse, RDBMS, html/web, etc. (using older examples as the older a technological leap forward is, the more unambiguously you can identify it clearly as being a step change rather than an iterative improvement or of limited applicability). Of course in the same way all these are followed up by thousands of small iterative improvements and boring stuff to slowly creep utility forward while waiting for the next big leap.
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Regulation is helpful when a resource must be rationed e.g. airwaves, right-of-way for roads, water power, clean air.
But the Internet is essentially limitless, bandwidth grows to exceed the ability to fill it (keep on innovating folks!) Regulation should be in the law-enforcement arena, not content nor access.
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HN is not about articles? A List Apart is all about community and discussions. Dig deeper. It started all out as a mailing list, the site came later because so many list-members wrote good stuff. The ral point though: the people. The design-equivalent to HN is ALA, peoplewise. You know, those who get it et al
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Nice. But for it to really be _there_, the tools should sync your present config files, directories, reg settings for each app and optionally apply them after install. I think that's where your premium account potential lies.
Grandma better hurry, with big content writing the next wave of international copyright policy, mainstream piracy of TV and movies will be dead in a couple of years.

That, or, she better read up on Tor. :)
That's where he above mentioned "clear line of authority" comes in, I guess :-)
To be clear, HTC was legally required to provide the source code and it apparently took prodding from developers of the code they used to make it happen[1].

They may be more developer friendly than other Android packagers, but I wouldn't consider the release of this code as evidence of that.

[1] http://www.phonenews.com/htc-releases-hero-source-code-for-d...
I religiously upvote "Critique My Startup" type posts. Anybody who has worked hard on a project deserves to be seen first, and before any article, op-ed or tutorial. There is a human being on the other end of the line actually waiting for my feedback.
Really? It's just Flash video, isn't it? What's to stop me from yanking the data out of memory?
Indeed. The most difficult thing about concurrency in Java to me is that mutability is idiomatic in the language. The fact that you have to use refs to mutate state in Clojure has provided me incentive to find functional ways to write code.
Thanks for getting me 5 minutes of extra sleep tonight!
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Alberta, on the other hand, might have some luck with a press release.
Really?

Guess he must've read different editions of all those medieval philosophers than I did.
AVG gave me a malware warning on this link (could be a false positive -- just noting).
I think it was the netkas pc_efi bootloader. They have been using it for a while it looks like: http://netkas.org/?p=62
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It actually looks like a modern multimedia webpage now. I rather like it.
The companies who are charging have spent years developing solid business models that will give people reason to open their wallets.

I think many of the free companies had decent business models when ad revenue was plentiful. Now that the market's crashed, however, they're being forced to go back to the drawing board.
Putting the dumbheads who upvote to express agreement aside leaves us with the real reason to upvote: you want to highlight worth-to-read stuff.

I've read your text and frankly it didn't give me much. I thought the Heidegger == 'The existentialist datapoint interesting for my internal map of everything.
It contains metareferences to numerous studies, which somehow I doubt were all funded by the wifi group.

If I had ever seen a study that led in any plausible way to the conclusion that it was dangerous, I might start caring about the source, but right now it just isn't an issue. The studies have been done. They have all come up negative. It's time to stop calling for studies in the vain hope that they will prove something that isn't true. If Wifi is dangerous, pack it in, you've only got minutes to live, because you won't believe how dangerous all the bacteria living inside you at this very moment are.

Or do you have some actual study that shows... anything? Anything at all? Or anybody proposing even a faintly plausible mechanism for damage?
Assuming intelligence actually is a gift, it's a gift that is, at best, an amusing anecdote if not taken advantage of. If I don't use it, the world isn't really a worse place, but I am definitely a worse person in comparison to who I could have been if I had taken advantage of it. That isn't in relation to some other person's expectations of me; that's in relation to my own expectations. Sure, those could have been ingrained into me at a young age. There's probably a number of things that I consider to be my own, as far as perceptions, that sprang forth from my youth and my interactions with others. But that doesn't mean that I have this drive to do more with my intelligence because of what society dictates.
If it's flash video you can just capture the FLV stream like this with a http sinffer: http://superuser.com/questions/28241/where-to-find-a-youtube...
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I think the problem is largely standardized teaching - you set a syllabus that works for the median pupil, and depending on the deviation in ability most students might be in the range that it is ok. But at least a minority will be bored as they pick up the concept first time, and then have to wait while everyone else is walked through a number of iterations to ensure it sinks in. Meanwhile another minority is out of their depth, and can never keep up no matter how hard they try, and eventually they give up and/or become troublemakers (which can happen at the other end of the spectrum as well).

I remember the only time in school (5-16) I actually enjoyed it - instead of learning from the board, we had a year where the maths lessons were all taught from little booklets each with 10-20 pages, with a number of different subjects - about a third of the books were "core/basic" that everyone had to do by the end of the year, the rest you could move onto if you could pass the mini tests you could ask for once you had read it.

Everyone got to go at their own pace, the teacher just handed out and marked tests and answered questions as needed or helped out those most in need to get the basics covered.
And if you agree with Mises' reasoning Communism doesn't even work in the ideal world http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_calculation_debate

(interesting link in there to Project Cybersyn too by the way! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Cybersyn)
Each page seems to have less stuff on it than before, which is a good thing. Now it's much less cluttered and more logically organized.
My #1 request from is that they give me the option of text/video for every article that has video. When I'm watching another video or listening to music I don't want to turn it off just to see the story. They don't appear to be fixing this.
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What I meant was "why would you downvote my comment?" Is not giving you much a good reason for downvoting? Seems ok if it is, but I only would downvote things that are stupid or obnoxious, and I don't think my comment was either....
Very nice. I was just starting to work on nearly the same idea. You must have had the idea before me. It looks good guys. Nice job!
In addition to military costs, the Dutch were hurt financially by trying to keep up with Britain and France's colonial expansion in the new world, which they ultimately couldn't do either.

Case in point: New York was founded as New Amsterdam before the Brits took over. Wall Street is named such because it's where the original Dutch wall stood.
We have yet to see the outcome of the current copyright conflict. I think there's a point we're nearing soon where technology makes tracking impossible.
For a while you could use rtmpdump and a perl script but then they started encrypting part of the data and it doesn't work anymore. I think some of that came out of their fight with boxee (who voluntarily removed it, but Hulu took other steps as well).
Same thing, but I switched from WordPress to webby to Movable Type. It's somehow easier for me to make posts in MarsEdit and publish them immediately rather than creating a new text file in TextMate, writing, then going to terminal to type "webby deploy".
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The droid's release date got moved up I think to the 28th.
Only if technology also makes paying unnecessary. Open WiFi didn't happen because it makes the owner of the access point appear liable; IMO the only way we're going to get around this sort of effect is to build One Big Mesh, which doesn't look likely to happen soon.
Yeah, I got that too. Not sure if the problem is with Truecrypt, or if we need to wait for another update of MacFuse (which was apparently updated for 10.6, so not sure what's missing).

Starting to think I should just use encrypted disk images (.dmg).
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one technique i often use when trying to understand someone else's code is to add in comments myself in my private branch (of the form "I think that X works like Y and Z"), or even better, adding in run-time asserts that I think ought to hold, and then running tests to make sure they do hold.

Of course, i never check in my comments/asserts to the main branch, since i'm not sure whether my understanding is correct
I would especially recommend the chores thing - maybe this is relating to watching something on BBC3 where they dumped a load of 18-25 year olds still living at home into a house and essentially simulated them having to live on their own, manage their own budgets, cook their own food, do their own shopping, do worklike tasks during the day, etc. They obviously completely failed in every way imaginable.

It is very easy with all the labour saving devices we now have for parents to just do pretty much all the chores, rather than expend the possibly greater effort of browbeating the kids into do them regularly. The other part is to mix it up - they all need in the end to be able to iron, wash clothes, put out trash, help with shopping, etc., so ensure they all do some of each rather than one "easy" chore they like every day/week (some are age dependant of course, but you have a decade or so to cover everything so that shouldn't be an issue)
On the how bit: there is no such thing as reading code once. It is a simple matter of reading a method/object/what-have-you, then rereading it until you see it called/referenced etc and don't ask yourself "wtf does foo do". Trace various code paths often enough and you'll 'get it'.

As for the why: I used to decide I didn't like module X, then decide I was going to implement it myself. After some time I would end up with something looking like X, but not nearly as refined. As such, I learned it's better to read others' code and understand it -- much faster than reaching the same conclusions as the original authors w/ crappier code. Of course if after understanding you decide you still think it's crap -- have at it :).
What does it mean then? One example: Energy Efficiency. I draw attention to this because:

Energy efficiency has ALWAYS been a concern of industry. And James Watt has done more for industrial efficiency than the entire state of CA will ever do. Sorry, but that's a fact. Even if you discount the low-hanging fruit of efficient steam-engines, then companies like Toyota are still at the forefront, not California. I am simply pointing out bullshit where I see bullshit.

And Freeways? Really, freeways?

EVERYBODY, and even the ignorant part of American society knows that the US freeways were years behind Germany. I'm just pointing out gross stupidity. Nothing else.
SYNC APP. Done. That kind of shit has been done before and it's not a problem at all.
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