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The visible fingerprint might also be there to prove intent or add circumvention charges in court.

I don't think they need to prove that a certain individual stole it. The party which received the advanced copies likely had to take on liability, so HBO can go after them. Of course, that doesn't mean they won't turn around and lean on the actual culprit, but whether or not they catch someone HBO will have their due.
How about a scheme where some selection of 16 shots throughout either are or aren't missing a single frame?

You could number 65k unique distributions that way and the overall length would rarely be affected by more than a frame or two.

It could be implemented with a pretty easy python script.
Viewership numbers in the age of time-shifting are worthless

Do Comcast/TWC/DirecTV/Echostar feel that way? If even one person that was planning to subscribe to HBO over cable/satellite to watch this season decided to bail and watch the torrent instead, then the leak has economic impact. DVRs are irrelevant.
Picky or not, they are valid complaints, and a lot of people (me included!) share them.

It's frustrating because the kindle does a lot of things right, but it could be so much better with just a little thoughtful attention.
You might be underestimating the happiness factor of the SA middle class.

A few years ago two SA college professors hired me to remotely tutor their daughter in computer science. She seemed very content with the status quo and her prospects for a happy life. I have to admit to some surprise about her attitudes, and I realize this is only one data point.
And then at Twenty-one, they ran out of good ideas ....
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Personally I have a NAS that gets a Time Machine backup every day. I have a handful of important folders on my hard drive that I mirror to the NAS manually (various scheduled solutions have failed me unfortunately). Every few months or so I do some housecleaning and take older projects, personal files off my laptop HD and archive permanently on the backup drive (which is RAID and mirrored)

I have cloud services for anything I share with clients or friends but I honestly don't trust them for anything critical. I actually back up Dropbox to the NAS too. Problem being that the sync strategy across multiple clients can wipe a folder shared between them. It's also a beast to recover from a cloud backup

The trick I'm most proud of is at the end of each year I buy a new external backup drive (now NAS), copy the old one to the new drive, and then label the old drive with the year and store it somewhere safe. It costs a few $$ each year to archive the drives but well worth it - they have saved my butt more than once. I also buy a new laptop workstation every 2 years or so and preemptively migrate everything to the new machine before the old machine dies, and keep the old one around as a spare.
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This whole thing is silly. They have no choice but to pump and get as much revenue as they possibly can. They are starved for cash.

OPEC does not really set enforceable quotas and nobody in Saudi plans out oil prices. OPEC is about flying around to five star hotels and taking credit when the oil price is up.
Citation for Audible's business tactics? How could it be done better, given the labor outlay and legal coordination required to record an audiobook?
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I think being forgotten while working remote can be a concern, but it can be mitigated by the type of company you're working for.

If you're one of a couple people working remote and the rest of the team is at the office, you'll likely have a more difficult time being promoted and feeling included. If your company culture depends on remote workers it's not as big of a deal.

We have group chats, and video conferences that make it feel much more social and connected and being part of the team. Some roles require being in the office, but most developers and engineers can be successful remote with all of the modern tools we have for communication.
> We're talking about national cultures, stereotypes and statistical averages.

Exactly, stereotypes... and no, they're not true. I live in Italy and know Russia well enough, and Russia is much more corrupted than Italy. How much northern than Russia can you go?

Cultural problem? Yes. Latitude-related problem? No. Linking this to latitude is like linking problems to the color of your skin: you can't change the color of your skin, nor your latitude. Culture, on the other hand, can and does change.

BTW Italy has indeed a big problem with corruption, but one funny thing is that most Italians like to publicly bash Italy, so the relative perception of corruption is even higher than it actually should be, especially vs countries where most people think "right or wrong, my Country" ;)
To be fair, this is happening because of the wide spread "open office" movement ruined office work in the US. Who thought that putting 10-20+ people in the same space without boundaries is going to increase productivity when we know that humans are not good with context switching at all. Now, working in an open office environment is a series of continuous interruptions from different sources. I am not surprised that working form home fixes this. :)
There must be a corollary to Conway's Law here... the dysfunction of the code produced by an organization reflects the dysfunction of the communication structures of that organization.
I see how this could be a problem. Luckily where I work, everyone is a remote. And I think this is something to watch out for, make sure remote working is embedded in company culture before accepting the role.
I also found that keeping weird hours / working weekends / moving shifts (not my choice, in my personal case) really messed with my social life and happiness. Not being able to hang out with people or do things because of having to stay up all night on a 12-hour shift on the weekends was pretty rough, and the constant rotation meant it was hard for others to remember when I'd be available. Lots of shift swapping on the team further confused the situation.
And the obligatory HN discussion I was trying to find but couldn't remember the name of:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6292750
The same day as Eduardo Galeano. It's a very sad day indeed.
Focusing too narrowly on immediate improvements can constrain scope to bug fixing and building the best version of the current product possible rather than adding new features and directions for the product. It makes the product vulnerable to competition that better meets the ever-changing needs of the market.

I'm not saying it can't be done, just saying that you have to be careful when managing scope. And that isn't even a unique concern to a consultancy-based model, it just has different pitfalls.
Oh man, this guy is a genius, just make each file different so it cost 10 times as much to make...

It never ceases to amaze me how smart people consider their selves and how stupid consider the rest of the world are.
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I meam, it's already been done in the industrial area. Factories are mostly packaged around machines. There is still a human component but that decreases per iteration. The real challenge is to make the automation as safe and non-obstrusive as possible. Since humans tend to err on the wrong side of the average intelligence scale. This calls for an approach that requires changing everything that has been done up until now. A self cleaning bed is no longer a frame with a mattress and some sheets. It is now a sophisticated machine that is able to move itself in an algorithmic manner to achieve a defined goal. Think about it
Beds are simple technology. Thisn would turn them into something as complex as an elevator.

If we move away from engineering for humans to machines, all of this will be more feasible. Problem is that it will take decades before that happens. Even if the singularity even happens because smart machines cannot overcome human stupidity and greed.

Saying that robots are about to overtake people in most jobs is like saying that humanity has evolved to a point where it doesn't mind losing money or changing it's ways.
I currently work from home, and I find actually starting work is hard for me when there's no-one to force me to get to the office by 9am.

(Then again, on the handful of occasions I have actually worked in the office, I've really noticed the office banter - it's probably on par with whatever distractions I have at home.)
Same. My job is fairly low-intensity and does not require a full work day. Honestly I could do my full days work in about 4-5 hours each day, but I have to spread it out over 8 hours. In an office I spent a lot of time looking busy. We certainly had crunch days that were more like 100% of the day's time investment, but those were not as common. It was very stressful being in the office, looking busy when there's no work is tough. When our startup was purchased and my new manager was now two states away, I decided to stop going in. I do like you now, I work from home, or anywhere I am traveling to. I enjoy my job more and feel more aware since I'm not dulling my senses with busy work. My productivity has risen as proven by my stats. Were I to suddenly have to go into an office tomorrow, it would force me to look for a new employer. I just don't think I could do it again.
The problem is that they don't really have any competition. I had a weird sudden wish watching the Pepple Time video on kickstarter that they would expand into e-readers. They've already got the experience with the screens...
Ah, ok - that seems right. I too can name a single woman who has blamed herself at least once, which defeats his weak man (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man#Contemporary_work).

However I can't easily refute a pretty trivial steelman (http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Steel_man) of his position, namely "women are less likely to blame themselves than men".
It's a deterministic process, but it still has inputs. You'd have to know those inputs or test for every possible set of inputs to whatever blurring method was used.
Terrific insight.

My situation at present has taught me many of these lessons... New comers to start-ups, do take heed!
Engineers don't help the problem when they treat management like glorious god-like perfect beings either.

When your management is bad, there is nothing an engineer can do. They can attempt to bring their concerns to leadership, look for another job, or play the fiddle while the product burns to the ground.

Speaking of bad management, I was very surprised when he claimed that the situation where you are asked to "...make architectural decisions on the fly without knowing anything about what their problems are" he had never experienced before. In all of my experience, it was standard practice.
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This is a problem because the certificate handling is not in the hands of process managers, but in the hands of the sysadmins, who do not generally work on a rigorous business-cycle type of schedule, and who don't already have tools in place to keep track of such things, and have a hard time justifying creating a tool that would, assuming they just have one or two certs to manage, be used only once every two years (and thus would probably take four years to troubleshoot, by which point something about the assumptions would have changed, meaning the reminders/warnings would probably fail and the cert will get overlooked).

It does make me wonder, though... why don't web servers have options to warn their admins (via logging or email or what-have-you) that the certs they are using are near expiration? Or do they?

Alternatively, some good samaritan could set up a service to scan the known SSL web for near-expired certs and email webmaster@ or other scraped addresses of the issue.
The pervasive mindset is that mailings, tv/radio ad spots, and other traditional media platforms have a known and predictable return on investment. Using the web for organizing and fundraising is the new kid on the block. Despite the impressive showing in 2008 and 2012 on the Obama campaign its not a known/repeatable representative showing.

Every dollar spent on your web presence needs to return 5$ or more to funnel into these more stable predictable forms of outreach. Its not enough to be self sustaining or slightly profitable.
Do you actually know that or are you speculating?

I wouldn't be surprised if MP4 (or other video formats) provided a mechanism for tweaking the timing of a given frame. Of course, if you're using such a primitive watermark you might as well just add a note in the metadata...
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I don't tip a doctor with money (because it is strictly forbidden in Austria), but it's not unusual to give him a small gift (fine chocolate and similar things) and I would definitely do that after an operation if I had one.
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Here is my brother's pet theory on why the price of oil fell.

Saudi Arabia wanted the USA to intervene against ISIS. The USA wanted the price of oil the fall to hamper Russia and Venezuela. Russia because they are getting aggressive and doing things in the Ukraine and Syria that we don't like. Venezuela because they are the center of anti-Americanism in South and Central America.

Which is exactly what happened. We bombed ISIS. The price of oil fell. Russia and Venezuela have been hurting.

There will likely never be proof whether this theory is correct. But leadership in both Venezuela and Russia have come out with the same theory. Articles like http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/04/world/middleeast/saudi-ara... make it clear that the USA and Saudi Arabia are playing the geopolitical angle with Russia. And our current efforts to normalize relations with Cuba sure looks to me like an attempt to strip Venezuela's closest ally away from them.
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Fair comment; I was thinking on health costs (I have a chronic disease and I tend to view everything indexed to health).

On an individual basis, I will rather be dead than unable to have an autonomous life, but this is completely a personal preference.
I forgot the other one: "epic." I can't put my finger on exactly what it is, but it really disturbs me. It's just too serious sounding, like it's presumptuous to declare any component of your program as "epic" before it is done. I can think of very few software systems or components that I would refer to as epic.

Are you writing the story of the flood? Is it the oddysey, the iliad, the history of your people? No, it's just some crappy new feature that's going to take your team a few months to complete. That is totally not epic.
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"With that kind of money raised, the founders didn't get "nothing". They got a salary, probably a decent one, for however long they were running the thing. Which is more than many startup founders get out of businesses that fail. If they don't have personal debt, or didn't lose relationships or friendships, they came out ahead of many startup founders who started a business that failed."

Well, you should always consider the alternative cost. I don't know the founders but I can assume that if they would have work somewhere else they had much higher salary/ benefits etc
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"...you become vulnerable to company B that was willing to take crappy VC $$$ and is now able to kick your ass on price, right down to the freemium, eyeballs-are-value goose-egg giveaway."

If that's physically possible, if price is the differentiator, you probably don't need to be in the business anyway. (Now, I'm not saying that you're wrong, in most cases, but....)
I tried to convey this with gnashing, which is also something that literally happens when you chew nuts as well as idiomatically when you fight, when you gnash your teeth out of anger.
Some old-timey 1800s wild west fonts would do well for a "WANTED" poster effect...
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It was a Tor relay, not an exit node, so I'm still curious why it would have to be blacklisted. And I guess I cannot rule out completely that either my home computer or - more likely - someone I granted access to my wifi has been part of a botnet.
This is not anywhere near as socially tone-deaf as "wearing sweatpants to a wedding" -- it's more like showing up in a tux when everyone else caught the note on the invite "ironic dress only, please wear trash". The situation the parent described was the presentation of a plan of complete absurdity, which he advised against after realizing it was serious.

I agree with you that developers would be well-served by making a stronger effort to play along with the superficial niceties of corporate politics, but like I said, this transcends that and gets into a professional duty to advise against. If the workplace is so corrupt that reasonable opposition to a blatantly silly implementation plan can only result in the correct subordinate getting shuffled around and possibly fired, it's a liability for professionals to continue employment there.
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I think you missed the rhetorical question. The world has been trying to move away from fossil fuels since at least the 1970's. We've spent billions (trillions?) on research, tax credits, ethanol in gas, etc and it seems like we've barely moved the needle. WTF?

It's interesting to read about a new super efficient solar cell on HN every few months, but at some point shouldn't we try to figure out what'll it really take to solve our energy problem?
Sourcefire significantly clamped down on the openness of Snort. Pushing out new versions with less-free licenses, and changing the alert format regularly.

NB: I'm not saying they were wrong for this, because they've got to make money.
Seems to me the future has always been 15 years away, yet usually fails to materalize.

These problems that are being solved are non-trivial. We don't really have the computer vision, the robot dexterity, the high capacity batteries, the fuzzy logic, etc to make this work. We dont have it today and we probably won't have it anytime soon. Heck, we don't even have a useful home robot yet! Where's the Apple //e or Commodore 64 of robots?

If anything makes sense, its to build an automated hotel from scratch, not try to shoehorn in solutions. Self-cleaning toilets, self-making beds, roomba-like devices, etc so that a majority of the housekeeping work is done. In other words make your problem fit the limits of technology and don't be afraid to break from tradition. We didn't build robotic horses in the early 20th century. We built cars with four wheels and we paved down expensive roads to drive them on. Dirt roads passable for horse and buggy were a non-starter for cars. We all just ate up that expense for the convenience of owning a car.

The problem here is that housekeeping labor is dirt cheap and robots are crazy expensive. What's the incentive here to do these things? If there's an industry that's dying for cost savings, it won't be the hotel industry. Now look at, say, unionized auto manufacturers or unionized public sector workers. Lots of trivial easy to automate jobs there. Why aren't city buses driving themselves? Or drones writing parking tickets? Or robots laying down asphalt? Or robots walking a beat? Or teaching a class? That's where I could see some advancement. A lot of municipalities are looking at their retiring baby boomer workforces who negotiated very generous pensions via a corrupt political process and now don't want to fall into that trap again.
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