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On the other hand, OS X showed what a modern system built on Unix should feel and look like, while Linux never got anywhere near (not only on the GUI layer).

This feels like a non-sequitur. The nice GUI of Mac OS X has nothing to do with launchd (which is the systemd-like portion of Mac OS X).
> I don't know why any broadcaster doesn't make the same move, becoming the "Internet Superstation".

I'd argue Netflix beat them to the punch when it started creating original, acclaimed content. How many < 30 year olds don't regularly watch TV, but pay monthly for Netflix? I'm one.
So transducers are like .Net/LINQ enumerables?
I work from home a lot, stream spotify, but don't really stream video. I average less than 100GB per month. However i could easily see how streaming netflix or other services could cause someone to go over the 300GB data usage. My largest month of usage was 4TB due to some search engine work I was doing.

I don't like the precedent this is setting and I just hope Google keeps putting pressure on with their Fiber offering to make these other companies compete. In some cases I wish municipalities would step in and stop allowing companies like comcast to be the sole provider in their area.

I foresee comcast marketing their "increasing speeds" in the future. In which you could never actually take full advantage of because of these limits.
What is your opinion on TuneIn? I feel like if Aereo is illegal, TuneIn is just as illegal...they basically provide the exact same service just different sources.

Also, would you consider it equally illegal if I paid "Bill" 6 miles down the road to put up and antenna and stream the feed online for me (and only me) to view?
What legal hack? The content is flowing freely over the air, they are just transforming it's timing and delivery... Just like banks (for current accounts), or like batteries (for electricity).

The model was even opt-in; only content that was already broadcast was available, and if any producer didn't want to be offered on Aereo, they could simply stop broadcasting!
As a developer who makes money with Ruby (not exclusively) I'd say:

1) I'm happy with Ruby as it is now and I don't want to see type annotations in method definitions. If I ever need static typing I can pick one of the zillion languages that have static types right now. I believe that I'll be served better than with a language that got them as an afterthought. I still remember C (without ++) and Java.

2) JRuby does JIT and it's not particularly faster than MRI. After all even the JVM must resolve method calls at every method invocation instead of getting them resolved at compile/link time. Rubinius tries to do some magic there but it's still in line with MRI performances (a little slower actually). Based on the benchmarks I saw for JRuby vs MRI I'd say that only long running programs will get sped up, but after all who cares about interactive programs completing in 1 or in 0.01 s? Development time is definitely more important there. However I trust Matz on that speedup factor and any 0.00x% of speed if welcome.
Well in that case you might as well just scribble `head -c 1000 /dev/urandom | base32`.
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At 5GB it's going to be hard for my grandma to stay under the data limit and she doesn't even have a computer.
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Based on my own personal experience, you are in the right path. Good Luck!
it's called a broom!
I didn't realize you could buy in-game currency with money. I thought it was a one-way process (mining in game -> bits) used to create a real world value for items in game.
I am sorry to say, people still die around you every day, and you still do not know whether you will be next.

We would do well to keep this in our minds.

“Yes, we did it, we killed the dragon today. But damn, why did we start so late?

http://www.nickbostrom.com/fable/dragon.html
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You completely missed the point. It's not about living as in 1978, it's about _not throwing away_ accumulated knowledge. What use is my CP/M knowledge nowadays? None at all. What use is the knowledge I could have of '78 Bourne shell, pipes, signals, vi, ed, awk, grep, man? Not only useful, but still of daily use.
This is going to get major pushback from all content providers like Netflix, Pandora, et al.
I suppose this is why Apple went to 5K for the 27" iMac. It's exactly double the pixel dimensions of the non-5K version, so everything looks exactly the same size but with higher fidelity.

Not necessarily a big deal for consumers, but vital for professionals that have preferred working screen layouts on their old machines and don't want to change that on the new ones.
Doing it in someone else's facility I think is what makes it illegal. IF you had exactly the same scheme but hosted the equipment in your customer's houses, Aero's business model would be perfectly legit. (I think, it's been a while since i read the opinion)
Like hiding important stories that hit on important topics like technology, privacy, the constitution, potential backmail, etc.; The Uber story. I guess ran it's course? I guess the Uber CEO threat story was filled with
your physics lingo? I liked this site better when it didn't have such finicky Moderators, and people who think
HN is somekind of Technology Court, or a way to kiss up to
the right people? It just another site
like Reddit--with fiercely loyal Moderators, and members who
are too quick to downvote anything they think they can spot
that mildly violates the violates "The Rules". I think some
moderators/users need to put away the Code, and take the
Police examination. Officers are great at spotting those
pesky violations--some real, some imagined. As to this tech speak(modern day cliches)--"signal to noise ratio". I once had English teacher spend an entire session on cliches in writting and speach; he finished with, "Just don't use them." You will thank me later in life. While I'm at it
the word Troll, and the act of Hell Flaming; yea--let's all
act like 13 year old girls. Oops--I said a no, no. Block my IP Fancy Boys--you would be doing me a favor.
i don't see how this is different from just vectorising any bitmap image?
believe me I will 'cargo update' always! the problem is those who don't and still go on to publish libraries, what happens when he needs version 2.1 of X while another library needs version 3.4? And thus anyone who depends on these two libraries now ends up with duplicate libs. What if they also depend on other libs with the same problem...

The world goes boom! exponential overload!

... at least it get's really frustrating after a while, twice the space, twice the compilation time. And you'll know at least one of the libs has bugs lurking in it that have been fixed elsewhere except in that lib:(
> What is the additional cost to Comcast of the connection being used at, say 95% of capacity instead of 50%?

The marginal cost to Comcast is close to zero, the question is how to account for upgrades if everybodys usage goes up enough to exceed network design capacity.

Regular folk unexpectedly think that the cost of normal network upgrades are included in this so called "monthly subscription fee", but Comcast has real accountants with actual hard copy degrees on their walls that tell us that we need additional "bandwidth usage fees" and "overage fees" to pay for it in the US.
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Do you have Ruby SDK or I should use plain HTTP requests?
This is interesting, but wouldn't it make a counter intuitive result? => Throwing visitors away by making them think we target high sellers ?

By keeping the logic, 8-10 modules would be around 350 $ / month. But now, I have to justify this difference!

I could offer the possibility to choose how much time per day their instance is resetted, and even setup the service in a dedicated server ...

Well, thank you for the feedback, I'll think about it ! :)
you sound like a pretty sad little dude to not want to help vets get healthcare. people find stuff in libraries. keep APIs from having copyright. checked out your little tech services you provide in BC. Good luck with that. I hope you get a positive client and change that little eeyore attitude you have.
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I see a github Python SDK repo, but it's empty. No Ruby also... only Java: https://github.com/sttc
Luckily there are us who don't mind minor details like that. For me it was so much fun to complete this and to get Swordmaster to say "OK, you win. Well...I hope you’re happy."

The best lunch for a while.
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More to the point, they sell USB->Digital TV Antennas adapters and software to turn your computer into a DVR.

I had one (eye-tv) with an antenna, my computer is essentially a DVR (You subscribe to a program guide too, which makes picking programs to record tivo easy). I don't use it anymore, the computer died and I pretty much stopped watching tv.

At the very least, if the court said Aereo was a cable company the other brances of government should have at least respected that and given them the license to be a cable company.

What else is going to made illegal when renting a cloud computer?
How many requests per minute this server can handle? If I need to generate a few hundred IDs per minute, will it work?
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Known good HP DL380 G8 pulled from production, ECC RAM, monitoring, SAS disks, full hardware test and memtest86 pass.

Nope. Not that.

We don't buy crappy hardware or not test it.
I agree with you when you say ideas are actually worth something. When investors say ideas are worth nothing, execution is everything that's very self-serving. The idea wasn't theirs, so of course they want you to believe the idea is worth nothing. Also, the suggestion that all co-founders should start with equal shares, regardless of how much work they put in and whose idea it was, this is also very self-serving. This just makes it easier for the investors to boot one of the founders if needed, and does not serve any other purpose. This video should be taken with a grain of salt.
No, it stopped. I just tossed a 10 year old CRT with a 2560x2048 resolution. The key is that tech switched over to favoring LCDs which are finally catching up, and in some cases, passing CRT.
Has anyone got any tips on networking? I'm not really sure how to do it. I'll meet researchers at conferences and introduce myself, but they will have surely forgotten about me once the conference is over.

There's two things I'm trying to do to help with this. The first is to get as many collaborations with different people as possible. Most of my work so far has a lot of different names on each paper, and I feel this is useful in that co-authors might remember me when they're starting a new research project. The second thing I'm trying is to create an online presence. I was initially opposed to this for a long time because it feels like "tooting my own horn" but at the same time, it's starting to feel like a necessity. So I created a LinkedIn, a ResearchGate page, and a little personal webpage.
Very nicely done, bookmarked!

My imagination would have called it Constellations to refer as stars identified and grouped by tags :p but Astral is pretty cool and shorter =D
With Assembly (YC W12), anyone can contribute to open-source and get paid
Trust is not a binary value. When large sums of money are involved you don't want to rely solely on trust.
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I'm not sure that's a good argument for usage-based pricing.

Also, common carrier phone services only had usage charges for long-distance service.

Someone else just needs to come out with better and cheaper services. Comcast sucks and is milking their monopoloy.
Ideeli has also pivoted from designer to more low-cost goods.
What a strange, myopic view that a language should be judged primarily by how easy it is to parse. Writing a parser is something very few will have to do compared to how many will use the language itself. It seems self evident that the language should first be judged on how easily it lets you express what yourself.
Don't believe the rhetoric. American troops are in other countries to protect American interests, not to protect the rest of the world.
Let's say PulseAudio is really good now (I can't disagree). It was initially released 10 years ago. So 6-7 years after initial release ("3-4 years ago") it was causing people grief.

I'm not sure that's a great vote of confidence for the road ahead of systemd (given that systemd presumably has a bit more to it than PulseAudio). To quote the article, "I do honestly believe this will end up being the start of a rocky period for Linux".

Ubuntu 14.04 will keep me happy for ~5 years, then I can take another look at what the current state of things are.
Oh, it is fun and brings back memories, for sure. But it'd be even better with the dots. :)
It becomes even more bizarre when you consider that the NSA has been caught tapping foreign nationals and diplomats.

Two countries in conflict may hack the US as a proxy to get at the others communications - with no direct interest in the US at all.

This is a factually possible scenario. It's the unchecked blank check bureaucratic process. This the natural output given such input parameters.

We need a way to make this more real to people:

Dysfunctional projects of grandeur is how organized people respond to no oversight and unlimited funding. They will invent justifications to perpetuate their purpose. This happens through an utter failure of discretion in governments, startups, not-for-profits, wars, corporations... everything.

Preventing it is Our Job to make a functional society.
>it's a little too esoteric for my tastes

Yes, we're still in alpha. Not ready for prime time yet.

>Do you know of any Linux distros that a) don't use systemd, b) are vaguely active / supported, and c) run on UEFI?

Gentoo? I use Debian most of the time, which of course uses systemd now.
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You actually watch 200 TV channels? Also, why would apps be required? If they did this it would probably also work on the web. Take a look at BBC iPlayer/ITV Player/4OD in the UK. On demand and streaming via the web or mobile apps. Works pretty well.
If you look at each project's page, for example, https://crates.io/crates/gl_generator was the first when I loaded up crates.io, on the right there's a "Keywords" section.
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Filed! https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io/issues/56
Maybe it's the jet lag talking but it seems like the tenses are all messed up in this article, for example "was now" is used in places where they're speaking about the present status of the malware.
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Yes. We are truly lost as a species. Not only are we creating banal organizational apps, but we're also taking the time to try to make the author feel bad by decrying its lack of higher purpose in a HN comment.
Yes, changed the world by making it legal to build a business off someone else's content that you got for free through a legal hack.

So did cable television which, in the early days, was notorious for not paying for broadcast network programming they could get over the air.

That was solved by introducing a compulsory licensing scheme: any cable company could retransmit an over-the-air broadcast network, so long as they paid up.

Which also solved a massive logistical headache of each cable provider potentially having to negotiate a license with the parent network (for its programming) and each affiliate (for the local programming such as news or local sports), by creating a consolidated administered fund to collect and distribute the payments.

All Aereo really needs is enough money to buy itself a few members of Congress and get a similar scheme set up. That is the real, literal legal "hack".
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Nastygal is not having a tough time if you solely read Sophia Amoruso twitter's feed:

https://twitter.com/sophia_amoruso

I think there's a big problem when CEO's become more concerned about their personal brand than the company's brand. And in the case of Sophia, I posit that she has done so. Her book and her attendance at conferences seem to be her major focus these days.
Yup, you're absolutely right. There will be processes like these eventually.

Naming conventions are currently "the same as Rust identifiers".
It's not like there's much they can do as they aren't Comcast's customers.
If by "voluntary and consensual" you mean "involuntary and imposed by statute and regulation", then sure.
Are there any current methods of detection? What about this warning of "any app that required a security update to be installed before it was run" - what is that going to look like? A standard Android warning/request dialog?
Like snarfy, I think that it's a good idea to add a third plan priced higher.

I would have limited the first plan to eg: 3 modules / 1 theme with a reset every 48 hours.

I think that you should move the visit statistics to the second plan too.

Otherwise, good job, looks great!
It's also companies leaking your address to any third party like crazy we have to worry. Seriously, WTF.
> Also, common carrier phone services only had usage charges for long-distance service.

Not really true. Maybe within an exchange--don't really remember. But there were certainly usage-based charges even within an area code.
Thanks for the answer. Indeed Ruby in general has the limitations inherent to its "non functional" nature. However regarding 2) Enumeration can now (in ruby 2.0) be lazy and thus take each item one after the other through the whole chain.

(1..Float::INFINITY).lazy.map{|a| p a; a*10}.map{|a| p a+1}
# => 1 11 2 21 etc...

So it can work with streams & so on...
But I know (from a Jessica Kerr presentation) it also has limitations there.
A lot. Its a fairly common topic of conversation with the <30 demo when you move calling comcast/time warner and requesting "Internet without TV or phone".

Most sales people get kinda bent hearing this. Hearing some of the deals they throw at you is hilarious, "We'll throw in channel package XYZ for only an extra $15 a month more then your internet." "Why would I pay more for something I'm not going to use?" "Well you own a TV don't you?" "Yes and its connected to a computer."
The New Yorker has always been pretty good on this front. As other publications decline, their content quality has mostly remained as good as it's ever been.
This was a troll account too. It seems that other responses here took it at face value, which is unfortunate as the troll got a sincere reaction out of some Hacker News users.

The original comment has since been removed but it was a few lines done in the style of a stereotypical Reddit user: A smug, pseudo-intellectual, Fedora wearing faux-gentleman. This stereotype is widespread on reddit as a mockery of the kind of people that supposedly use the site, even if the parody has been blown out of all proportion by people parroting its in-jokes.

I'm not sure how much overlap there is between Hacker News and reddit users, so for the benefit of anyone who isn't familiar with the parody, this was just a parody and a troll. They do this to try and deliberately discredit the site. The comment section for almost any external link posted to major subreddits, particularly YouTube videos, rapidly fills up with parody accounts doing this. All doffing their hats, scratching their neckbeards, and professing their atheistic allegiance to reddit's intellectual paradise.

Given how serious some HN users are about preserving the quality of the comments section you probably seem like a pretty enticing target for provoking. If you see someone referencing reddit, Fedoras, and the tipping of those Fedoras, probably best to ignore them.
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Yes, I am specifically calling you a nerd. Not the 1000s of nerds, including myself, who regularly congregate at Hacker News to read about things of interest to nerds.

So despite all the evidence to the contrary, I actually meant to call chad_strategic a nerd. Kudos for figuring that one out.
This is a well thought out and complete response, it's just unfortunate that an image illustrating an overcomplicated system to solve a simple problem has elicited this censure; instead of the comment, in response to another user throwing a personal insult against an OSS hacker, where I call this user "a coward".

Your position about the place we want HN to be is clear, but I still believe the image is not insulting or offending anybody in any way. Those who flagged it, could they have misinterpreted it as an insult to the developers? An insult to the users? An inappropriate "scabrous" picture based on the URL? Or just as an attack to a program that needs our praise?
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They also appear to allow cashing-out the in-game currency, breaking another of Mojang's conditions.
Maybe we shouldn't be using a document format based on a fixed size of a page then... I even know about a good alternative...
It would be nice if tags could be added faster, e.g., by dragging them onto repos. Adding tags by clicking on a repo, pressing "editing tags" etc., takes a bit too much time for my liking.

Good idea though! I'll be using this.
Perhaps. But on the other hand, then I would have been hunting down the moving dots and spending less time on the actual insults. And I probably wouldn't been able to finish it in reasonable time to call it a lunch break.
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That is hugely misleading. It's only reasonable if the data are actually independent draws from a normal distribution. IRL, they're not.
Everyone complains about Comcast, but how many people here have an option in their area and still use Comcast?

I have RCN service at my house, but most people I know here and in DC still use Comcast. Some of that may be because the smaller providers don't advertise as well, but there must be some people actively choosing Comcast service.
What observations? You say that it's not good marketing, because moleskine did not contribute some 'grand technology' to the project.

I say you can't possibly know if it is good or not, because you don't have the research and data behind it, and you most definitely cannot predict how it will affect their revenue and/or brand loyalty.

My opinion is that it will pan out really great for them. I would tell you what position I hold and the size of the company, but I'm sure that will only lead to some "appeal to authority" comment on your part.
Here's the clickable link :

http://uncovr.it

(I don't know why it's not in the question).
DISCLAIMER: Former Aereo employee. Views do not reflect those of my former employer. Blah blah blah.

This all goes back to the core of the argument though: Is Aereo a content provider or an equipment company?

Obviously SCOTUS disagreed with several lower courts and determined that we were infringing. But to paint it as a black and white issue strikes me as a gross oversimplification.

Just out of curiosity (I'm legitimately not trying to start an argument), do you think Cablevision* should have been overturned? If not, how do you reconcile the fact that their RS-DVR doesn't publicly perform, but Aereo did?

*I seem to recall seeing you comment on Aereo stuff a bunch in the past and knowing a fair bit about the case, so I assume you're familiar with the Cablevision decision. Apologies if I misremembered or assumed incorrectly.
Yes, I'm sure the deal was structured so that Andreesen Horowitz and other late stage investors won't have to take an immediate 99% loss on their Fab investment.
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You are right, moreover, time is not money, you cannot have it back!