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"However, executives at Starz apparently concluded that they would lose even more money by giving consumers a reason to subscribe to Netflix instead of the cable channel."

I don't think they get it. The landscape has changed and I'm not going back.

I don't have cable. I don't have satelite. I don't have an antenna for broadcast TV. I have the Internet serving content to my TV via my Xbox, and I use it to watch Netflix.

If your content isn't available on Netflix. I'm not consuming your content. Period.

I'm done bending over backwards. I'm done with schedules. I'm done with managing the space on my DVR. I'm done keeping up with new episodes and seasons. I'm done with movie theaters full of loud other people who aren't me, and the litany of other issues that have been discussed to death from overpriced tickets, to concessions, to 3D projector woes and content. I'm done with physical media getting scratched. Hell, I'm even done with sketchy torrent sites, and different scene groups fighting over who gets to release what, and a billion codecs and formats. I'm done with it. I'm done.

So frankly, good bye and good riddance to Starz. Go climb this hill and die upon it. I never liked the fact that their schizophrenic content releases would appear during a timed window, only to disappear from my list later before I actually got a chance to watch it. I grew to avoid movies labeled with the Starz logo, and my heart would sink when a feature would open with one, because I knew the experience was fleeting and I wouldn't be able to enjoy the content later. So I'm done with that too.
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"Inconsistent startups write 3.4 times more lines of code in the Discovery stage and 2.25 times more lines of code in the Efficiency stage."

This is interesting. Either inconsistent startups (startups that are more likely to fail) over-do development - or - they tackle problems that are more complex and thus require more code. The implication of the later point is that startups working on difficult problems are more likely to make mistakes (like premature scaling) and fail.
Two Suspected Anonymous/LulzSec hackers arrested by British police
Well I've had the pleasure of working with someone who started programming when they were 6, is proud that they did so, and seems to believe that all you need is a belief that it can be done. Said individual was very good at delivering cut-and-paste work and "hacking" it so the page loaded from a straightforward database. But the first sign of a business requirement beyond this resulted in delay after delay, excuse after excuse and promise after promise. Eventually they were let go. The guy could talk the talk all day, and get the first week or even month of tasks done. But beyond that, a total failure, and on increasingly critical tasks.

So, no, someone saying that they've been programming since they were 6 is not a useful indicator.
All that, yet he's still commuting home from work.
Arrington's value as an investor is clear while he is at TechCrunch. Once he loses that megaphone, what value would he bring?

Yes he has relationships but I'd suspect many folks are 'friends' with Arrington to either (1) get TC coverage or (2) avoid his wrath if they're doing something that might be perceived as shady. Do those relationships survive his departure from TC? My gut says no as based on reputation, he doesn't seem a warm & cuddly guy people would want to help just cuz he's a good dude.
Great post and idea.

We're paying for:

- MongoHQ

- MailChimp

- New Relic

- AWS (although not using most of their services)

- Github

- Dropbox

- Skype

Worth a mention although less-involving services:

- DNSPark: http://dnspark.net/

- Dynadot: http://dynadot.com/

And of course our web host:

http://hivelocity.net/
Well, guess I have no choice but to subscribe to starz.

Oh wait, their network is pretty much irrelevant to me, I have watched a few of their movies on netflix and I like Torchwood (although parts of this season have sucked) and Spartacus. Other that I honestly couldn't care less and I won't be spending a dime on their second rate premium channel.

When does their deal with Disney and Sony expire? Can't imagine they would go with starz over netflix.
If you tried to be a service provider advertising 'unlimited' in Australia yet provide limits, you would be slapped by the ACCC (government consumer watchdog) for misleading advertisement [0].

I do not know exactly the rationale behind ACCC's decision, but reasonableness to you means something else to buyers. For example, some people think Google is the Internet and think bandwidth is free.

[0] Telstra and Optus, the two biggest ISPs got slapped for advertising unlimited internet (until 10 GB, etc).
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This is the 'funny' part for me:

"Such moves reportedly violated AOL's code of employee conduct, but Arrington received an exemption."

Back when Sarbanes-Oxley regulations were all the rage, the 'code of conduct' was something the CEO and everyone else 'signed off on' (literally) on penalty of perjury, that employees and management adhered to the stated code. The idea was that not only were they swearing to follow the rules, there was a way to criminally prosecute them if they did not. Some investor backlash from the abuses in the dot-com bubble. In that context the definition of 'exemption' is 'no longer employed here.' :-)

So AOL has gone on record saying that its the 'mostly' code of conduct which some folks don't actually have to follow. So where does that fall on the Sarbanes-Oxley scale? Is this a shareholder lawsuit waiting to happen? I hope not for Michael's sake.

So how hard is it to decide what to work on? Some careers don't have a lot of overlap, things like 'arms dealer' and
'diplomat', really hard to do both. Michael, if you're reading this, and I know you are since you read HN, I advise you to choose and then let the other one go. It will save you so much pain down the road.
Every country gets the government they deserve (and vote).

But what makes you think Assange and his gang would make better decisions given they were in the exact same situation? Power corrupts and wikileaks certainly demonstrated on several occasions just how incredibly powerful they are or can be.

I am from Europe so this might be a bit different "over there" but what I was trying to say was: I do not trust WikiLeaks and Assange or question them more or less than I trust and question my government and I certainly do not see Assange's understanding of and longing for anarchy (see his book) as an appropriate replacement of our current governments. Do you?
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If I'm not mistaken, Michael Moritz of Sequioa was a journalist turned investor. Who knows if Arrington will have similar success, but it's possible.
Because what Google is preventing is the discovery of accidental credit cards in it's index.

You searching for credits cards (via that ranged query) is a flag that the search is possibly automated and they display the warning and catchpa as a mitigator.
Startmate releases investor documents to aid start-ups
I think the access to 15M tracks for free, $5, or $10, makes them seem pretty worthless. That's my issue.
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I'm definitely impressed, I don't think I've seen a Flash game that looks as good.

I honestly don't know much about Unity or the technology but my first concern is performance. Adobe tried the "write once, run everywhere" and while they were successful, performance suffered. How will something much more complex and demanding perform?
Decentralized production of protein, if possible, would be pretty awesome indeed.
Starz was breaking new ground for cable tv content providers. Now they decide to return to the stone age? Of course their internal numbers might tell a different story, but this still seems shortsighted.
I have to agree with this article.

Quite frankly, it's the developer's job to say, "This isn't possible." It's the developer's job to know where the cutting edge is, and to take the time to think about whether or not a completely new design idea ends up being possible to implement after all. If you force the designer to take on this role, it reduces the developer to a code monkey--your job is to ensure robustness--and forces the designer to take on two roles.

I tell my designers to ask for magic and to accept it when I say I can't do this. Their job is to know what affordances are standard and why things ought to be shaped one way or another. That's their area of expertise. My area of expertise is to look at something crazy and go, "Hm, but if I did this then maybe it would work after all."

And when the best way ends up being technically difficult or impossible, we compromise.
The latest official Twitter app on android now supports C2DM. It works well.
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I think we have to distinguish between hard to learn and hard to bring and integrate into a team.

Both are hard to learn largely due to the choice of Strong typing, which is fairly independent of paradigms. Haskell is hard because it adds the purity pardigm, although you could say that is just a full embrace of FP.

Haskell is hard to bring into a team because it is pure FP, whereas Scala has the Java/OO backdoor. But this article points out that it is not easy to get every one to write and maintain good Scala in a team for that same reason. If a team attempted Haskell they would have a true pass/fail test and be less likely to end up in limbo.

Maybe that is Haskell's best point: It is hard to write bad Haskell. I have seen it- code littered with IO, poorly named variables/functions, and passing large amounts of arguments and configuration state. But that is very rare and re-factoring even that is usually at least very safe and sometimes straightforward. So it is difficult for a novice to do a lot of damage. But instead of intentionally limiting power to prevent a programmer from doing things, Haskell gives you a great deal of power- just in a way that greatly prevents it from being abused- the novice can eventually harness it.
That point is underlying the whole article. ;)

What it tries to clarify - and well, it might have failed, of course - is that we should stop to simplify the problem as "designers should code", because not all designers should. But yes, all designers could, and if you feel that way, or you are prepared for that, or if you want that, you can learn to code. Exactly like a developer can learn how to design.

In either case, exactly like it's wrong to say "developers should design" but it's correct to argue that a developer with design knowledge will be better at its job, it's equally wrong to say that "designers should code", but it's correct to argue that a web designer with developer knowledge will be better at its job. ;)
Its been in the research stages for a while but I fear that even if they could 'grow' you a filet mignon the anti-vax* folks are going to go ballistic against it. It would certainly not be 6 months from now, and I suspect not even 6 years from now even if instant steak was demonstrable today.

* The anti-vaccine movement, also known as anti-vax, is filled with vocal, litigious, people who do not care for the science or the facts. They would have the human race become extinct because it would be 'better for the planet.' (note this is hyperbole but not far off from some of the more extreme elements of that movement.)
I watch a goodly percentage of my content through Netflix instant, and I actively avoid the Starz provided content. It's never in HD, and even for that the quality varies from middling to almost poor. I've watched a couple of things from Starz, but mostly it's because I didn't notice until I had my heart set on watching it.

So, I don't really care if Netflix loses this. I hope it lets them be more aggressive at doing new deals to get movies.
Haha.. A little ominous but also kind of encouraging. I started at 27 and am now 29. My path has been biotech grad in industrial lab, kindergarten teacher in Japan, handling manufacturing and accounting for a Japanese toy camera maker, PHP hackishness and now joyfull obsession with ruby and JavaScript.. By all accounts I should give up now but it's just too much fun. Oh, and when I was 6 I mainly liked Lego, futzing about with a chem set, digging trenches and searching for frogs at the river and exploring forests with 2 dogs. Not exactly career enhancing activities but I'd say it was time well spent.
I recently got into building with grid beam. (Found out about it at a Maker Faire.) Consider grid beam an open source version of Erector Sets or a life-size Lego Technic. Building your own standing desk out of grid beam would be the super cool thing to do. Grid beam is a very old idea, but I think it's due for a comeback. Maybe DIY standing desks is the killer app?
We recently moved to Linode from AWS (after the recent AWScalypse)

However, the problem we currently face with linode is that the Disk spaces are puny and "attaching" additional storage is very costly as compared to AWS. There is no reduced pricing for Yearly contract either.

Love their sub-minute support times. Can't beat dat!
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Well, two (out of about 26 devs) isn't a lot, but we like HN and would like to find more here.
I suggest you to read the About page over that article then. ;)
Hello. :)
Ok, I'm in Australia, so that would make sense :P
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Prepaying for a year saves you 10%, prepaying for 2 years saves 15. If you already have an account, just open a ticket and you'll have the discount in minutes.
Judging from the title, about 6 more months.
The point is that we should stop to say that designers who can't code aren't valuable.
Of course, and it's exactly the last part of the article, if you can code it's better. ;)
Show HN: A CLI battery monitor for OS X
I have a macbook pro that doesn't have a screen, and couldn't find any shell scripts that would monitor battery life for OS X/Intel. So I wrote a trivial one. Suggestions are appreciated, my bash skills are pretty much nonexistent.
So I guess mikkohypponen is the responsible for those searches not to work. Interesting...
Hey, Steve Gibson is a good guy. His long-running show is by far the most worthwhile on the fluff-based TWiT network.
My understanding is that Linodes aren't really "for" storage. IIRC it's often more cost-effective to just upgrade to a larger Linode than to add additional storage.

I'd recommend storing bulk data on S3, but as you said, you're wary of AWS :)
Agreed. As a carnivore with a conscience I'm all about jumping on the lab meat bandwagon. But as someone big on natural foods and skeptical of the current state of nutritional knowledge, I would be hesitant to base a substantial part of my protein requirements on this.
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If you find the conflict around frequentist and bayesian methods entertaining check out Jaynes' Theory of Probability, which profiles lots of great arguments and personality profiles. Also you might learn a few things about maxent, statistical physics, and my favorite: the mind-projection fallacy.
Sony movies are already off of Netflix, and Disney owns a decent amount of Hulu, so I'm pretty sure you won't be seeing either of them back on Netflix outside of a Starz-like deal.
Really, I got the feeling you guys had hired more from here!
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Unless they've got a better deal with Hulu or someone else, they've just cut off their nose to spite their face. Old media are amazingly good at being blind to the paradigm shift that will kill them, even when they have the opportunity to make money from that paradigm shift.

The options Starz (and every other premium cable provider) have right now are these:

1. Get that content online, now, in a convenient form that is cost competitive with Netflix and Hulu or at least Amazon Video on Demand.

Or:

2. Stagnate and eventually die, because the subscriber base for pay cable is going to do just that. Only old people are going to have cable in two or three years.

There are no other options. Without Netflix or Hulu, if Starz doesn't have the ability to launch their own effective pay service online, they will never see any of my money (they probably wouldn't anyway; as others have mentioned, Starz videos tended to be ones I avoided due to quality problems). I have never had cable in my life...but I pay to consume premium content online. I have both Netflix and Hulu+ accounts, and I spend an average of $10 a month on movie rentals and purchases at Amazon. I'm a new customer; an entirely new revenue stream. I didn't cancel cable to use Netflix. I used Netflix because it was the only way I was going to watch TV and movies at home. I'm where their growth could come from, and they don't want it.
Google Talk uses Jabber which has support for group chats. Hosting your own jabber server isn't a huge deal. You could use IRC for group chats and have multiple rooms there as well. Again, it's not a huge deal to setup your own IRC server.

It'd be nice if there were some free/open-source software services listed there, but oh well.
How much have rents surged in a year?

I had a place in Sunnyvale from summer 2009 to late 2010 and was doing ~$400 for a small room. The highest rent a roommate was paying was just under $600 for the master bedroom w/ bathroom included. And this was a pretty average place overall.
And, even if you prepay, you can still cancel and get a full refund. Even if you know you'll only use the server for 1 month, prepaying for 2 years is a smart move!
I've seen a lot of recent college graduates work at a startup for a year or two as a cto. I would still hire them as junior developers. Working with engineers with a lot more experience and tech stacks is an invaluable experience.
http://www.businessinsider.com/reed-hastings-heres-why-netfl...

Reed Hastings replies:

"Because we’ve licensed so much other great content, Starz content is now down to about 8% of domestic Netflix subscribers’ viewing. As we add a huge more content in Q4, we expect Starz content to naturally drift down to 5-6% of domestic viewing in Q1. We are confident we can take the money we had earmarked for Starz renewal next year, and spend it with other content providers to maintain or even improve the Netflix experience."
As a vegetarian, I'd eat it, but hold off for a while atleast to look for potential health consequences. I'm not too worried about nutritional imbalance because I don't think this will ever be my primary source of nutrition.
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Yeah but what does that mean:

- the No.de instance is not good enough for that traffic

- Node.js can't handle the traffic

- the game doesn't scale
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I hope that this frees up some more capital for them to do direct deals with production houses (like their Lionsgate deal). I know that Sony already bolted from Netflix (via Starz), but perhaps directly dealing with the studios (and more money) will help Netflix start to get more current movies faster.
This is probably a reasonable assumption coming from the world of ISP "all-you-can-eat" packages where they're saying "unlimited" but in reality it's not, because unlimited starts affecting other customer so it's "unlimited (T&C's apply)"

This is a completely different scenario though:

* Transferring stuff to linode isn't generally an end in and of itself. There are far fewer use cases for it. At the end fo the day you probably need to get data back out of it.

* The vast majority of cloud hosting and hosting providers in general's bandwidth is outbound. People download from the web. These hosting companies provide a lot of the web's main infrastructure. You're probably looking at a ratio of 20:1 or 30:1 here.

* Linode doesn't pay for uploads and downloads with it's carriers / ISPs. It pays for circuits capable of synchronous upload and download speeds. Using the ratios above, if they, for example, have 300Mbps of traffic outbound, then they have a lot of spare inbound capacity.

* Abuse here is difficult. Downloading movies, music etc. are consumed at home. It's difficult to imagine so many usage scenarios where huge data volumes would be consumed so easily on a linode server without having to be downloaded again. Maybe someone can come up with some creative suggestions here though? :)

* Bandwidth allocation and contention is very different within a hosting providers access network than an ISPs access network. ISP last miles, local DSLAMs, AP's etc. are huge points of contention. Inside the data center, I imagine most hosting providers "last mile" are 100Mb or Gig/E here straight to the servers with gig or 10gig/e uplinks from access switches.

The basic crux really is though, they have shedloads of free inbound bandwidth and why not give it away for another USP.
I've loving the 1 bedrooms in mid-range San Francisco neighborhoods going for $3200. Market rate is $1900 max.
I swear another cloud provider did this recently..

Oooh yeah. AWS did back in July. http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2011/06/30/aws-ann...
I kept getting my hopes up by seeing decent movies listed on Netflix, only to then realize that they're low (visual) quality Starz movies. Good riddance.
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agreed, why waste my time and money waiting on their schedules to watch movies. Im not necessarily a netflix loyalist, but Im definitely not going back to cable.
It's pretty straightforward - find a high-water mark for customers in terms of their inbound data, that 99.9% fall under, say, for linode, 99.9% of their customers pull in less than 16 megabits/second sustained, which is 7.2 Gigabytes/Hour, 5 Terabytes/Month.

And then explain to your customers that 99.9% of them use less than 5 Terabytes/Month bandwidth, and that effective now, the first 5 Terabytes/month of bandwidth is included in the cost of their VPS, and for those 0.1% of customer who exceed that 5 Terabytes, they'll get a very reasonable rate of $0.01/gigabyte ($10/Terabyte) for inbound data in excess of the 5 Terabyte initial allocation.

Realize that linode is probably paying less than $4/megabit @ 95th percentile - but the vast majority of that is likely downloaded, so they have an asymmetric allocation that they are trying to utilize with this "unlimited inbound" offer.

I just want the HN audience, in particular, to realize that the statement ""This means you can upload an unlimited amount of data to your Linode without having to pay for any of the incoming data transfer."" should not be taken at face value if you are putting together a business plan.

In general - bandwidth is priced @95th percentile on the internet, and any time you run into the phrase "unlimited" you should take it with a grain of salt and get something in writing before you rely on it.
Oh... indented assembly language. Is this, like, a 21st century thing? Everybody I know (including me) who started in the 20th century just naturally writes their assembly language out at the same indentation. I'm rigorous about my C indentation, but it never occurred to me that it would be useful for assembly language too. (And in fact I'm not sure that it is :)

I'm not quite sure what this might mean.

Probably just that I'm old.
From my brief experience with unity I would say that it probably has a ways to go before it rivals games like Infinity Blade (which uses Unreal) on mobile devices. I would say that there shouldn't be any performance issues with console or computer games built on unity.

I would agree, this is a good looking game.
Amazing feedback. Thank you very much. Gave me some interesting food for thought:)