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Chrome for Android supports WebSockets, and the "visible plan" is Google's plan to switch the native browser to Chrome.

Additionally, IE 10 supports WebSockets, and fallbacks exist- such as flash- to give support to earlier versions of IE.

"Production Ready", in this sense, means "finalized enough that you can feel secure about implementation", just like html5 and css 3. Should you rely on css 3 alone for old versions of IE? You need fallbacks, of course. But you can feel comfortable about implementing it (with progressive enhancement or graceful degredation) for support of less-able browsers.
Root your phone and grant superuser permissions to untrusted apps, and yes, all bets are off. Most root user ROMs won't, by default, grant root access to apps unless you manually white-list them.
Someone should get query MYSQL server working on Cuda.
I just pay for HBO. It's one of the few channels on TV I actually appreciate having. That's HBO's business model: they want subscribers. They don't care how difficult it is for you as a non-subscriber.

As a subscriber, HBO has made it incredibly easy for me to watch HBO shows: I have access to virtually all of them online on demand.
I also like the integrations that they're offering (Dropbox, Google Docs, Gmail). The new Basecamp feels like a bit of a step backwards as well in that there's no API for 3rd parties any more (or data export, for that matter), and no optimized iPhone version any more. They'll likely add them back, but those are things I know some of us relied on in the original Basecamp.

Mobile usage is increasingly important too, and that's something 37signals doesn't seem to get. Will be interesting to see if Siasto can one-up them on that front, although it looks like they're not there yet (they did just launch, so we'll have to give them some time :).
What this comment says is that you don't understand why Kodak got put out of business.
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Log data is:

* the largest data source in any enterprise
* increasingly must be stored for long-term analysis ...
* by corporate policy or ...
* by government regulation/demand

Regular open-source tool stacks can't do this without astronomical cost in storage hardware. Various log analysis players have managed to make this data storable and some have done well on the analysis side.

Splunk will do well. I hope this boosts acquisition interest in my old company, http://www.sensage.com, another log analysis company.
Apple’s Flashback Lesson
"They took big chances even when it wasn't profitable to do so."

Its an old story you will see repeated again and again. When you have nothing to lose, you take big chances, when you have lots to lose you mitigate risks.

"Of course, the problem is HBO is just too tightly coupled to big cable."

Given that 'big cable' represents a big chunk of their revenue I don't know if "too tightly coupled" represents it. Basically once the acquisition cost of digital content gets ahead of its marginal market value* the revenue stream becomes more and more at risk to alternate venues (like BitTorrent). My guess is that the 'blind spot' for a lot of companies that started before the prevalent Internet and are still around, aren't looking (or believing) the economics that show how they can thrive by sharing some of the ecosystem with the likes of NetFlix or Hulu or even YouTube. So it is left to a new 'HBO' which has nothing to lose to embrace the current mechanisms and markets and to be successful to lead the way.

* I define the term 'marginal market value' to be the net economic value derived from the difference between the lifetime value of a consumer purchase less the cost to acquire that consumer. Pre-existing structures like cable content agreements can create a revenue stream which is higher than the marginal market value for new customers, and when that happens, unless the company is thinking about it, they focus more on preserving those existing over valued relationships rather than building new consumer relationships to capture that value. Externally this expresses as a company whose margins and customers slowly erode over time until they either exit the market or things get back down to the marginal market value point and can start growing again.
It does not actually require transmission, as others have noted. That BS was added by BGR to increase rageviews.

The law merely requires that black boxes be interoperable with specified tools for reading from black boxes, i.e., by incorporating a standard data transfer protocol (USB, Bluetooth, etc.).
Not so - Splunk has a very sophisticated index for huge amounts of data, and a rather fancy DSL for analyzing it. I've looked at it in some depth as one of our products (http://zetetic.net/software-combine) does log aggregation (and does a much better job with Windows and SNMP than does Splunk), but Splunk is not at all a trivial piece of software.
I can certainly see how you could argue that the APIs should be covered by copyright, but I'm not sure how you could say that invoking them in your code is ok but that implementing them isn't - at least baring specific language in some contract the user signed.
I too am impressed with Firebase, but am I the only one that thinks details like "security" should be baked in from the beginning? I've never considered security to be a bolt on you do at a later time, as often it requires core level changes that could have unforeseen consequences in other areas of your system.
Its working for cigarettes and foods with trans-saturated fats. (somewhat tongue-in-cheek here)
Nice; told me what I already know.

That I get way too many emails and I reply to way too few.
Good shout with Wings 3D! It's definitely weird and awesome. For starters, it's a desktop app written in Erlang. I recommend people bookmark it if they think they will ever need an intuitive way to do basic-intermediate 3D modelling.

http://www.wings3d.com/
> How to legally watch Game of Thrones: 1) Turn on the TV. 2) Change channel to HBO. 3) DONE.

Yeah, except for 2 not being an option for about 95% of the planet.

oops.

Thankfully torrents are an equal-opportunity distribution channel I guess.
Oracle will say it's the same book, there are always grey areas. You can't copyright a love story between a boy and a girl, but you can copyright a particular book on it. So if the API is copyrightable, then even though it was implemented differently, isn't it using their property?
Google Drive Interface Leaked in Employee Presentation
Some expect Chrome for Android to become the default browser (http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/02/chrome-android/) and if that happens the WebSockets will be supported. Firefox for Android also supports WebSockets.

I can't 100% confirm Chrome will become the default but Google are very pro WebSockets so it would be very strange for them not to support and encourage their use.

There are fallback options in place that mean WebSockets can be used on Android but that tends to mean Flash lite also has to be installed.
Ditto. The new design looks too bland, like a gazillion other 'designed' sites. Keeping the mom&pop look is important.

I'd keep the old layout, but fix the colors. If you get a designer to improve the colors and the gradients so they are less Windows 95-ish, it would be much better.
Sprint hit with $300 million lawsuit over unpaid sales taxes
http://www.alchemywebsockets.net (a friend and I built this.) Handles a ridiculously large amount of connections thanks to an awesome threading model. MIT licensed. Supports the RFC version and some older versions.
I can see that argument if you consider the API design to be a significant intellectual contribution which Oracle can prove considering the popularity of Java and it's ecosystem.
cxz & pud -- If either of you guys want, some friends and I developed a pretty comprehensive collaborative recording suite a while ago that I just couldn't get off the ground.

I've since taken it offline (minimal active users + a couple hundred a month for hosting != sustainable), but if either of you want to take a look at the source code, let me know.

Here's a TNW article detailing what we did, from back in 2010:

http://thenextweb.com/apps/2010/07/01/youphonics-has-just-ch...
HBO is making bank. Until we as consumers vote with our wallets and change our behavior by canceling subscriptions, nothing will change for HBO or their bottom line.
This isn't new. Cisco hasn't really had a lot of success with their own products, but has had a lot of success buying other companies and re-labling them into the Cisco ecosystem. I've been a customer of some of those companies and it's always a bumpy, but also amusing ride.

The first one I remember them buying was Crescendo, who made some of the better FDDI gear at the time. Cisco bought them around 1993 because their own gear was worthless. You can see a list of all the companies they've bought here: http://www.cisco.com/web/about/doing_business/corporate_deve...
Not sure if this is the case or not, but certain templating systems make it really hard to remove extra whitespace/lines (I'm looking at you Jinja2) and they get added when you use standard templating stuff like "if/then" statements.

Removing them after the fact with a HTML tidier would work, or you could just not care and let gzip handle the compression.
Where results is the same as the many dozens of times people have written about the effect of being on hn, reddit, digg, slashdot etc.... the always unexpected "you get traffic".
Isn't this 12 years late (or 11 years)? Or perhaps 988 (989) years early?
Right. List comprehensions even perform better.
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I actually agree thats dramatic, but its easy to see what they meant.
And no, not a downfall. A downfall does not convey the idea that measures were taken by other parties to actually bring down the entity in question. A downfall can be self-inflicted.
So not war, but not downfall either. :)
15 days free trial doesn't seem to be comparable with a free plan... either that or there's actually a free plan but not mentioned anywhere other than "Try Free".
Once I had a friend check out my site. However, he spelled it wrong and went to a domain parking page. He had just said, "oh it looks nice," before I cut him off and told him the right spelling! :D
Why didn't they? They could have avoided being sued, this again goes to Oracle favor for this lawsuit, they wanted Java's advantages as a virtual machine implementation and not bare metal programming like C/C++.
The science of mind reading is further along than you might think
Yep, makes perfect sense. There are lots of people who want to know more before signing up, and our site is definitely a work in progress.
How to check memory cards, usb drives good or fake?
Live flight tracking site shows crash of circling plane
I worked at Kodak. I was at the status meeting where they explained they didn't want to tick off film retailers - at which point it was obvious the company was doomed.
True. And if one can build a better platform for them to monetize their content, they should just do it.
I'll add my endorsement. Pimsleur was the most enjoyable audio learning experience I've had while commuting, because I actually learned something that has kept with me.

They use spaced repetition and native accents. I hear what I should say in my mind when I want to say it instead of trying to think of words on paper I've learned. Of course, it has its limits (you don't learn to read or write), and only gets you the basics of a language, but it really helps you nail them in a way that makes you feel like you're naturally learning a language like a child does.
WePay's Hiring Strategy
Like CISPA, then, the bill would be a no-op; at worst, a missed opportunity to add more privacy to the status quo.

Unlike CISPA, however, it means assholes who drive 70MPH down residential side streets in Benzes will be accountable when they cause accidents (Benzes don't have EDRs now). In other words: unlike CISPA, it actually does what it sets out to do.

That's enough of a win for me.
I've worked in the past for Mentor Graphics. That's a very hardcore, complex, pure domain related problems in electrical engineering to implement in software.

I had passion for both the domain (although not my own) and code.

There is passion in everything, even in billing or accounting. I was able to drive myself to love electrical engineering, and although now I'm back in Web, I still talk about EE with a spark in my eyes.
Step 1: Build a social networking application built on someone else's platform.

Step 2: Spend lots of someone else's money to acquire users.

Step 3: ???

Step 4: Get acquired by a larger company. Still not profitable, but your founders and investors walk away with bank.
I have access to virtually all of them online on demand.

Can most people subscribe to HBO? Or do you need to buy it along with lots of other stuff? If all people need to do is pay the subscription then I struggle to see what all the fuss is about.
He already has a big realm of possibilites for monetization. He just doesn't know what to choose. And you told him, hey you know what, you could get even MORE possibilities and then everything will solve itself and money and stuff. Reminiscent of the "2. ????" before "3. profit".
The majority of the article is doing touch up work to a woman, which is a very common task. There is nothing sexist about this work, and it's idiotic to claim so.
Just get a pair of iPhone earbuds (with a microphone). That way you can pretend to be on the phone.
Haha I thought this was a bad word, but it's actually pretty cool, nice job
Have you looked into cross-origin resource sharing? It doesn't support all browsers, but it may be a great solution for browsers that support it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-Origin_Resource_Sharing
HBO is not in danger of being put out of business by their equivalent of the digital camera, is what I'm saying. (Piracy is not the digital camera of content; digital contracts didn't break contracts, promises, or the law).

But: I said it snippily, and ineffectively. I apologize.
Security Snags That Expose The Database
As an American who speaks multiple languages, the thing for me was learning the first. When you learn another language you get a true understand of your own language that other people don't understand who are not bilingual.

After you learn a second language, others get much much easier and the learning curve is much shorter.
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The "email" box in your profile is not shown publicly. If you want to put it in the "about" section, I'll email you :-)
As a startup idea, it's probably worth mocking up.

There have been several meta apps like this in the past. Spockeo comes to mind (http://www.spokeo.com/) These guys are focused on data retrieval from mostly online sources. What gets interesting is mashing it all up and putting it in a narrative, tracking format. Going for a job interview tomorrow? Take some time today and read a narrative of how this guy spent his days for the last month and gain a bit of an advantage. Welcome to the 21st century.
This is the model I suggested to one of the Firebase guys:

* User registers client-side with a username and password; username and password are salted/hashed to an auth key, which is then sent to the server and put into a server-side key-value store with the username.

* User logs in to the client; auth key is reconstructed and stored to a cookie to be sent with each Firebase access.

* Whenever a field in Firebase is created, an associated "owner" property is set to the username of the user who created the field, and an associated "group" property is set based on an optional API parameter with a default value of null.

* Each field has pseudo-chmod-style permissions settings of the form read/modify/create for owner/group/world; everything is "777" by default, but a simple administrative Web UI allows the developer to define database schemata and assign permissions settings.

* Groups are implemented as server-side lists of usernames.

* When a client attempts to perform an operation through Firebase's API, first the "world" permissions are checked; if the operation is allowed, it completes normally.

If the operation in question is a "create" operation, only the "world" permissions can be reasonably utilised, so if the operation is not allowed and the operation is a "create" operation, then no change is made to the data and an error code is returned (or printed to logs or something).

If the operation is not allowed and not a "create" operation, then the owner's auth key is retrieved from the earlier key-value store and compared with the auth key from the client; if the keys match, the "owner" permissions are checked to determine whether the operation is allowed; if the operation is allowed, it completes normally.

If the keys don't match or the operation isn't allowed, a search is performed to determine whether the username associated with the client auth key is in the appropriate group; if so, the "group" permissions are checked to determine whether the operation is allowed; if the operation is allowed, it completes normally.

If the group is null, the user isn't in the group, or the operation isn't allowed, no change is made to the data and an error code is returned.

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He said that their current security model is influenced by Unix and somewhat similar to mine, but currently it requires a server, and they aren't yet sure how the client-side security will turn out.
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>Will they ultimately need to let app developers deploy server logic on their infrastructure for the security solution?

Right now you can write a client in node.js on your own infrastructure if you need server logic.

Otherwise, you could have one of the clients "act" as a server, and have another client take over if the first one leaves. For example, if you are making a game and you have a non-player element (such as a ball in pong or if you would add actual asteroids to MMO Asteroids), you need just a single client to update data for it.
> "I deserve to have something RIGHT NOW"

Is it acceptable for someone in Region 2 to buy a Region 1 DVD?

Why is it different to buy grey market product (which may well require law breaking to be able to watch) than it is to torrent something and then buy it legally for my region?
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Could someone smarter than myself explain what the possible targets for a mining mission would be?

The only ones I can think of would be Luna, Phobos, Deimos and the Asteroid Belt beyond Mars' orbit.

Are these really viable targets? Aside from Luna, they're all pretty far away, or am I missing some obvious asteroids that are known to be within convenient distance of Earth?
I'm not sure I see what you mean there. If the API design is a significant intellectual contribution, and I'm inclined to say it is, that would be that the API is copyrighted. But that would mean that the API is copyrighted, not that its copyrighted for some purposes and not for others. Oracle seems to be saying that the API is only copyrighted for the purposes of implementing them, not invoking them, and I can't see what basis they're using to make that distinction. There may be something I'm missing, though.
Israeli politics? Clean? By objective standards, oh dear God no. It's immensely corrupt.

But it's not captive. Israeli politicians give away favors and embezzle because that's what they think they get for winning the Politics Game. American politicians don't (didn't?) actually embezzle that much from the government, because American politics are really just a rich person's game in the first place; why embezzle when insider trading is legal for legislators?
I believe you may need basic cable.

In fairness to this thread that I just barged into and started shouting on (per usual): I have to concede that if you're one of the people that doesn't want to own a TV, it is annoying that HBO won't just let you pay for a subscription directly (that I know of). They could just sell access to HBO GO.

On the other hand, give them some time. HBO GO is very new.
Largely agree, but I don't think the "loner vs social" distinction is important. You can be a creative thinker, explorer, and builder with any type of social alignment.
One could argue that it affects your Google organic search traffic. The better your HTML, and lighter your Javascript, the more likely the mighty Google will send people to you.
If anyone is wondering about the Progressive device I can give some information. My girlfriend actually asked for one.

They gave her this thing that she plugs into her car's diagnostic port. The incentive is that if an insured driver agrees to use the thing and wants to "prove" they are a good driver they can. In return the user gets an insurance discount if their driving stats are good.

The little object does something very basic: It counts the number of "hard stops" in every trip and uses cellphone networks to report the data. People can then go look up the stats online. 2 hard stops for this trip, 7 for this trip, etc. It's neat to see your stats.

Eventually it turns into a sort of game to eliminate the hard stops from your driving routine. You pay more attention to driving because of it and therefore become a more attentive driver.

At the end of 6 months you send the device back and your insurance is adjusted (or not).

This is a huge win-win for software making people behave better:

1. Girlfriend gets a lower insurance rate

2. Progressive has evidence she is not an insane driver

3. Most interestingly, the device has forced her to be (seemingly) permanently more conscious about her driving and has made her a better driver. Not only does the device find bad drivers, but it can convince many to become better drivers, possibly without them realizing it!

Literally software has consciously and unconsciously made her into a better driver and literally every party involved (her, progressive, people near her on the road) are better off for her having used this device.

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All of that is good, as far as I can tell. But all of it was optional, too, and I understand that the topic at hand involves what happens when it becomes less-than-optional. It is not hard to envision a future where it will be impossible to get affordable insurance if you opt out.
Great tips! Another fascinating (Creative Commons-licensed!) framework I have heard about recently is Language Hunters. http://www.languagehunters.org. Their methods involve playing games with native speakers, in person or via Skype. They claim someone can reach fluency in a few months.
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What's the point?

Call yourself a hacker, a brogrammer, a rock star, a ninja, whatever -- churn out cool stuff and I'll be impressed.

The latest trend of 'you're not a hacker, I'm a hacker!' smacks of juvenile hipsterdom.
Keeping the mom&pop look is important for what?
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Patrick, why chose 50% as the split for the new design? Were you concerned with about confusing customers if the new design tested poorly and you switched everyone back to the old one?