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That's the problem. It shouldn't be tied to a cable carrier at all.

Also, it's not available with all cable carriers. If I subscribe to HBO with Time Warner Cable in Dallas, HBO Go is not available to me.
Twitter used this to bring links and images in from the stream but as far as I know the menu was never accessed this way. It does look extremely similar and probably had something do with the way path implemented the feature
AppSumo's Brand Sumo here.

First, thank you Rob for taking the time to share your experience and about how you feel regarding AppSumo. Feedback like yours—and that of everyone else in this thread—is painful but also important, especially considering many of the comments start with something like, "I used to love AppSumo."

I agree that the quality has declined over the past year, so I wanted to take the time to respond to you and explain that we have spent a lot of time in the past two months gaining insight and clarity into our situation. We came to realize that our copy is overly sales-y and many of the products we feature lack the substance necessary to really help entrepreneurs drive their businesses forward. That's not to say AppSumo is failing; we're still a profitable business and we have many fanatic customers who can attribute their growth and success to the fundamentals they've learned and tools they've found on AppSumo.

We've become beyond obsessed with customer happiness, with taking pride in everything we do (down to how clean we keep our individual desks), and with keeping the fun and quirky attitude we've become known for. Transparency about customer happiness is important to me personally, because it holds us accountable to make every experience with AppSumo memorable—for this reason we publicly display our daily stats on customer happiness at http://appsumo.com/happy .

I think this article, which Tommy was kind enough to surprise us with, is evidence of our new vision and a good indicator of the pride we place in our behavior and obsession with our customer and partner happiness. We're grateful that many here on Hacker News have become part of our community, and I am personally interested in hearing your experiences with AppSumo and how you feel. Feel free to share your thoughts with me at steven@appsumo.com or @stevenkovar on Twitter.
Who really wants all those networks?

I think $12.50 is perfectly acceptable for the second largest and likely most desirable premium network out there.

I'd expect that most folks probably watch fewer than a dozen channels with any regularity. Nielsen says that the average household was receiving 130 channels yet only watching 18 of them in 2008 [1].

I think we eventually get to an a-la-carte system with app-like monthly price points where premium content falls comes in at $5, $10 or more and there are dozens of solid options in the $1-3 range with loads of free (ad-supported) content.

1: http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/wp-content/uploads/2009/...
Your right I screwed up the math in my head I was holding the .375 squared (about .141) and dividing 144 by that rather than the area. That makes the economics a lot better, as a straight up division its only on the order of $3.25 a square foot and certainly as durable as tile in that regard.
The Tiger and the Dragon
Heroku Isn't for Idiots
Self.HackerNews - Just wanted to say thanks
One of my projects - a website I run that provides free content and more in depth paid content recently had a redesign were I took a lot of inspiration from articles I have found on Hacker News.

The design went live almost a week ago and memberships are way up, it is averaging out as an increase of around 300% per day, and although it is too early to say for sure, the churn rate seems to be down as well.

This means almost an extra £40 per day income after expenses and tax with less work than I was doing before.

So listen guys - thanks!
What numbers and a new book tell us about the Y Combinator way
Facebook: Updates to the Graph API
I agree that it will market forces will drastically lower the price, but if the margins stay the same the insurance companies will still make less money as the overall premiums will be smaller.
Disease research lab, DeRisi uses 3D Printing to make custom tools
Does Cassandra support Range queries with the RandomPartitioner now?
It took me a while to parse that statement as well. My thought on the appropriateness (or not) for HN was that it was a moderately disruptive way to produce what is likely a durable floor finish.
There is a local bar that has done this for the bar top out of pennies with the name of the establishment spelled out in nickels. It's pretty cool.

Not really relevant but they also have over 100 beers on tap and the ceiling is lined with tap handles.
An overlay requiring me to "Sign in" before I can even know what the hell the site is about? No thanks.
HBO's typically ~$7-10 on top of your normal cable bill anyway. If the regular networks went down this model, you'd probably be buying all of [Time Warner, NBC, Disney, Fox]'s channels at $10/mo rather than one by one.
Wow. This may make switch back to Firefox from Chrome as my develoment browser.

Bravo, Mozilla!
This also affects the XBox app for me w/ TWC in Dallas (and I presume elsewhere). HBO GO on your laptop works just fine, but if you try the HBO GO XBox app it will fail.

I have search and searched and I still just can't understand how there should be any difference between different methods of delivery. I am not sure who is to blame, but I suspect HBO charges TWC a different price for more delivery options for its customers.

Edit: Apparently this is no longer the case and now it works.
Better than creating something that nobody wants or cares about certainly :)

Also, don't let this stop you. If you really feel like giving up though, consider open sourcing it, I suspect some people (myself included) are interested in this, but hesitant to give our info away to some untrusted 3rd party.
Responsive design doesn't mean what you apparently think it does: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsive_design
Eh, sorry but I can't even read a faq to know what this is before being bombarded with a sign-in alert? Count me out.
> It definitely needs some background, cue from /r/apple might be a good idea.

Please, please no. Its fine the way it is.
I had abandoned TV long ago. I had no idea I was seeing the 1st season of BSG months ahead of everyone else, because most people I knew who were watching it were also torrenting it.
This just made personal search a very interesting space.

Put aside for a moment the fact that you're giving your personal data to (yet another) third party. Imagine you tie all your social online stuff to a service that's good at aggregating/displaying the data from each one. Now I could have a 'dashboard' of my online life as well as being able to query it (e.g when/how did I last interact with Alice or Bob?).

I don't know how good Alpha actually is but if I take the visualisations on faith, then I'm interested to know where they're headed. If I were a startup in the personal data/aggregation space, I'd be paying very close attention.
>> I think cheating is one of the signs of the crumbling of our civilized society.

I think cheating is a sign of an over emphasis or overly large focus on external motivators (or artificial targets) rather than on things that actually matter[1]. People are much less likely to cheat on things that they directly care about or are based in tangible reality. With all else removed, cheating is a great way of meeting the target.

A grade on a test in a boring course is a perfect example of an artificial target that creates an unhealthy imbalance in a students' mind. Since the knowledge itself (or the growth potential from the course) is perceived as irrelevant or non-existent, the only thing left to care about is the grade, and so all else becomes removed...

[1] Ie. Over industrialization or standardization.
Could you explain what you mean? Seems to me that the mouse is best at expressing nouns - well, the things you see on screen...I'm obviously misunderstanding.
In the sense that private censorship isn't something we should be overly concerned with. This isn't government censorship, this is a private business making a business decision. Go into any store and start yelling at the customers like a street preacher. You will be asked to leave. Same thing at any party. That isn't ehrmagahd censorship.
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This article doesn't argue that Pinch-to-zoom should be patentable... This article is talking about the actual patent that was infringed upon, which you noticed in the beginning of your comment. Did HN show prior art that invalidates the patent that details the mechanism for determining the difference between a one finger scroll and a multi-fingure gesture? I must have missed those posts.
To be honest, I knew this was going to happen. Apple made the lawsuit against samsung, but google has a big BIG bomb to throw: Map Reduce. If google whips out map reduce, apple is screwed. Basically without it apple will be VERY hard pressed to do business, it's techniques are used by many frameworks in the iphone. This would be the equivalent of the US throwing the a-bomb on japan. Apple being japan.

Apple, with googarolla's lawsuit, may have actually realized just how big of a bear they hit.

Now, I sure hope the dispute ends, BUT as yequalsx points out this is a dangerous slope. While I don't believe they will form a patent cartel, a 4th party trying to create a new mobile os will be in danger. While google won't sue, Applesoft might.
Is this information available on a web page somewhere?
so, in the hands of a islam adherent, an app that shows any female less than fully clothed is over the line.

why aren't they being blocked? i knew it when i saw it!

(There nothing wrong with this viewpoint - i am just using this an example that there are lot of view points out there and Apple shouldn't be making the call on what is in the lines.)
Isn't this unfair business practices akin to price fixing or collusion? It certainly gives them an unfair advantage against competition.

Not sure if it's illegal, but my feeling is it definitely should be.
Why they didn't tested MongoDB or Riak? Is Voldemort really more relevant than Riak or MongoDB? WTF?!

Sorry, boys, but this paper looks like the result of a ill performed research job, done in a hurry of getting published.
Got an idea? Get it made.
Thanks so much for this bit of knowledge, I was not aware this was the grammatically accepted means of doing this. I always tried to reformulate sentences to avoid nested "expressions" due to the confusing nesting of parenthesis.
Show HN : Chocolate Monster easiest way to buy/gift chocolates
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They identified the Mozilla home page as an example of responsive design, not Firefox. The feature being demonstrated with that example was the ability to "resize" the browser window to see how a page built with "responsive design" in mind would be rendered with, say, a mobile device with a smaller screen. Pretty useful, if you ask me.
HTML6 Should Have Composeable Elements
If you make a one-on-one into a periodic meeting like ben is suggesting, it will invariably end up as yet another pointless formality.

Ideally, in a well-run company, an employee should be able to easily walk to the CEO and talk about any problem/grievance/suggestion/new idea. But it is much more efficient to keep such meetings adhoc/need-based and not periodic, since, more often than not, the employee will either have nothing to talk about or will have a lot of pressing things to talk about and not like to wait till the next one-on-one.
This is wrong for reasons given here: http://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/cppguide.x...
Letting people access content they want to see is killing the industry.
Link to the documentation: http://chirpify.com/api/v1.0/docs
"You automatically grant and assign to CL, and you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant and assign to CL, a perpetual, irrevocable, unlimited, fully paid, fully sub-licensable (through multiple tiers), worldwide license to copy, perform, display, distribute, prepare derivative works from (including, without limitation, incorporating into other works) and otherwise use any content that you post. You also expressly grant and assign to CL all rights and causes of action to prohibit and enforce against any unauthorized copying, performance, display, distribution, use or exploitation of, or creation of derivative works from, any content that you post (including but not limited to any unauthorized downloading, extraction, harvesting, collection or aggregation of content that you post)."

By posting, you're agreeing they can do whatever they want with your data and prohibit others from taking it from their site. Morally and legally, I think they are in the clear. There is no moral right to be able to scrape someone else's site and use their data because you want to.

I don't think they encourage people to scrape their data at all. They have a long history of blocking people and stopping people from doing exactly that.

Their data, their rules. It's not like Twitter where they pretended to be developer friendly and screwed over everyone. Craigslist was NEVER developer friendly. They were pretty upfront about it. PadMapper knew what they were getting into, even acknowledged they were in the wrong, and continued to do what they were doing anyways. How Craigslist gets portrayed as the bad guy is shocking to me.
Phones will get all charged up about new Ultrabook feature - wireless charging
I actually don't know, I always believed that Vodka was a Polish invention.
I'm not giving up. There are a few things they totally missed here like the fact I have to give away all my data and that it's not platform based (I can't build on it). I would like to be able to ad-hoc query and visualize my social data on my own terms locally. Not much written yet, but I will probably be open source.
Walk back 6 years, and virtually all smartphones were sold by Nokia. Of those that weren't, the majority were made up of Sony-Erickson and Motorola. Samsung was an also-ran at best, and (almost literally) no one had heard of HTC. Now they're #2 and #3. How are they not "newcomers".

Of course, Apple too is a newcomer by that metric. But nonetheless I don't think it's incorrect or inconsistent with the grandparent's point. I suspect if Nokia had shot first in 2009 and gotten an iPhone ban on something equivalently ridiculous, you'd be pretty upset, right?
> I find #2 and #5 to be silly on the grounds that no one should be eating in the workspace to start with.

Why? So long as you're respectful of others I don't see what the problem is.

When I'm eating by myself at my computer, whether at home or a coworking space. Otherwise it's wasted time. I either get work done, clear out email, or do distracting things like reading HN instead of doing it when I should be working.
Paying more per-show, but only paying for the shows you want to watch, will likely encourage higher quality shows.

When you have, to steal some words from Pink Floyd, "500 channels of shit on the T.V. to choose from." Then the next channel of crap will always capture marginally more money, and will be profitable if costs are low enough. So what you get is in-your face lowest common denominator crap designed to draw the attention of bored channel surfers.

On the other hand, if shows need to generate buzz around the water cooler, such that people are proud to have discovered the show and announce to the world they're paying for it, the focus needs to be on quality.
I noticed a comment in another story earlier today that it's a kind of call-to-action, which apparently is getting more popular. But then again, so is overlay pleading in general. "Shut up and give me your email address."
Sounds like the Flying Saucer - except the one in Addison, TX has the back of the bar decorated with pennies behind plastic. I always thought it looked fantastic, and will be doing that to something if I ever own a house.
Ah! Thanks. So if I say "responsive" in relation to a computer, are people now going to think I'm talking about webpage layout?

To me, "responsive" means the amount of time between when I issue a command and when the computer has completed what I asked it to do.
So, as far as we could tell, there is actually no way to turn off sequential source port assignment. We reproduced the vulnerability in a number of environments in the wild (including several shared hosting providers and a Mac OSX system), and dug into the relevant kernel code. The only kernel I know that has TCP source port randomization as a feature is grsec: http://grsecurity.net/confighelp.php/. Without patching, your kernel should be vulnerable -- I'd be very curious to hear if you're seeing something different.

Incidentally, there's a relatively recent RFC on TCP source port randomization: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-tsvwg-port-randomizati.... There's a decent amount of mailing list traffic on implementing this for Linux, but it doesn't appear anything has been mainlined here yet.
I'll try to find it later, but: a video showing a two-handed version of pinch-to-zoom (and navigate) on a fixed, non-mobile display, from the early 1980s. I don't believe it was Pike's "Blit" (a/k/a Jerq) interface, but an earlier article.
Do I have to fill a lengthy form? In addition, I would like to see what are some featured products that you have made. That will give me confidence if you can pull off the project.
As a quick overview, Napkin is a wireframing tool inspired by Balsamiq, Mockingbird, and Axure. It allows you to quickly mock up individual pages, known as screens, by means of a drag-and-drop interface. What sets it apart from the competition is its interactions. Rather than creating a prototype and telling others where a certain link leads to or that some page requires authentication, you can directly show them. The elements that you can add to a page have these interactions built in, and you can see them in action when you preview a given screen. When you're done working, you can export a whole project to a node.js express application as a baseline starting point for development.

Napkin was created as a Mozilla summer intern project. You can find a presentation about it at http://ventures.karthikv.net/napkin/
If only there was already some P2P network that facilitates the illicit sharing of multimedia content.
I see you've been reading Apple's Genius Bar manual.
one word: synchronization
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ctrl-l in most terminals will also clear the screen. Ideally they'd apply most of the features from GNU readline which IMO is the de facto source for 'standard' shortcuts on unixen.

http://www.bigsmoke.us/readline/shortcuts
There’s a Lift for that
Well you need new lawyers then in any case. I'm curious when you started your relationship with these lawyers. I ask because they had a conflict of interest the moment they agreed to represent you and Apple and would have settled the issue then not now. (Well any decent lawyers would and Apple tends to hire decent lawyers so by association I'm going to guess they aren't some sketchy organization)

That was why when I read that statement from you, in my head I read it as "The lawyers have made up this story to get out of representing these guys." which I admit was uncharitable to the lawyers. The more charitable interpretation would be "Wow, these lawyers are so clueless they didn't bother establishing ahead of time that a person publishing in the Apple App Store might come into conflict with their marquee customer Apple? It sure is a good thing they recused themselves since if this was representative Tsunami is better off without them."
TL/DR: Is it scriptable?
Jquery is not a monad
Agreed. Very cool.

I do wish it had better integration with the web console though. It just seems strange when you pop-up the web console tab to have a JS prompt for entering javascript directly above a Browser prompt for controlling the browser.

It'd be nice if you could just go into a javascript entry mode on the browser prompt itself and see the output appear in the web console. Even something as simple as adding a javascript command where the argument passed into the command is javascript would be useful (perhaps someone could create an add-on that does this)
In that case just move your mouth and the camera should use facial & mouth movement recognition to know what you want.
It's hard to ignore that I've just granted someone most of the permissions available to my facebook, but I totally agree that if I could get an aggregation of all my social data in one place and pipe it into some visualizations to create a dashboard it would be pretty formidable.

I just wish I could have that without having to sacrifice my privacy. Why not have a standalone app like the days of old?
Really? I think the price is great, assuming it's a high quality stream with no ads, new episodes are made available promptly, and you intend to watch at least two or three HBO shows.
Instead of running the migration from your laptop, log into a server (with tmux) and run it from there.
The whole "patents kill new entrants" idea has kind of been exploded by the fact that two companies that didn't make phone OS's 6 years ago and didn't have a lot of mobile IP now have close to 90% of the market.
You don't think horrible is a bit of an exaggeration?
Regarding implementation, he says "All the algorithms are straightforward. How might you implement them? You’ll first want to choose data structures for each of the three coordinate systems. I recommend keeping it very simple and transparent. All the coordinate systems I listed have an integer u and an integer v, and some of them have an annotation like L or W ; in Java use a class with public fields; The next step is to implement the algorithms you need. The simplest thing to do is to write functions (or methods) that take A and return a list of B. "

Atleast in Java ( and therefore in Scala, Clojure etc), the data-structure of choice is a general path, and all of those algorithms have built-in implementations, mostly on Path2D or other concretes. Also, instead of dealing with squares, hexagons & triangles separately... a square is just 2 isosceles triangles, and a hex is 6 equilateral triangles. So if you have a Triangle2D class extending Path2D, you get all of the algorithms and the you can handle all 3 face types. The transformation between cooordinate systems is handled by affine transforms

Path2D: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/awt/geom/Path2...

AffineTransform: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/awt/geom/Affin...
Thanks for the feedback! I made this as a way to play around with node.js and the facebook API, but you're right that it would be helpeful to have twitter / linkedin / other sites involved.
Yep.

While there are plenty of people who don't have a console, tablet or a streaming set-top, seemingly everyone has a smartphone. A smartphone which presents an easy, smooth and and generally painless way to consume content on-demand.

These devices are putting perspective to the horrible experience offered by the archaic Motorola set-tops and broadcast model that most cable consumers suffer through. Google is smart to dump that business [1].

1: http://allthingsd.com/20120829/google-reportedly-looking-to-...
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