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johnbatchon Show HN: Six Degrees of Wikipedia

Found 2,318 paths with 3 degrees of separation from Firebase to Precipitation in 16.80 seconds!

https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Firebase&targe...

johnbatchon Netflix is getting huge, but can it get great?

I use trakt.tv https://trakt.tv/shows/miami-vice looks like it’s on NBC.com for free. (At least in the US)

https://www.nbc.com/classic-tv/miami-vice

johnbatchon Widespread impact caused by Level 3 BGP route leak

It's not anymore, it's now CenturyLink, they closed their acquisition on Nov 1st.

johnbatchon Facebook to Open Startup Garage at Station F in Paris

it looks similar to this Citrix office http://www.raleighrealestatenews.com/files/2014/10/Citrix-Sh...

johnbatchon All quiet in the IPv4 Internet?

Sometimes last year it looks like Xerox split the 13.0.0.0/8 Selling a /11 to Microsoft (13.64.0.0/11) and a /14 to Salesforce (13.108.0.0/14)

johnbatchon Apple ][ Watch

Woz linked to this instructables page on his verified Facebook account the same day as that comment. https://www.facebook.com/thinkbig/posts/989165078413

johnbatchon Why Sweden Has So Few Road Deaths

The Wikipeda article is quite good. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2%2B1_road#Sweden

all the 2+1 roads in Sweden have barriers.

johnbatchon Show HN: Fed up with WebEx, so we built a way to screen share in under 20 sec.

Join.me does have an iPad and iPhone app... but this is a lot easier.

johnbatchon [dead]

http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/fall/ is pretty awful also

johnbatchon Website outages and blackouts the right way

You can go to his about page. https://plus.google.com/u/0/115984868678744352358/about "I work at Google as a Webmaster Trends Analyst. This is my personal profile.

What do I do at Google? I help webmasters build better websites, so you'll see me talking to webmasters on our and other forums, writing blog posts, saying things like "I'll ask internally" and the like."

johnbatchon Microsoft launches an HTML5 version of Cut the Rope

Loads fine on my iPhone, and plays the audio, but the swipe motion doesn't work, it just wants to pan the screen from left to right.

johnbatchon Jon Stewart skewers Freemium iOS Games [video]

Parental restrictions allowing you to disable in-app purchase were released the same time in-app purchase was released with IOS 3.0.

johnbatchon Motorola secures Europe-wide sales ban on iPhone, iPad

"Tho" is in the dictionary http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tho

johnbatchon Apple Submits Updated Campus 2 Plans to Cupertino

Doesn't look like much has changed from http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/13/apples-new-headquarters/ which has links to scribed uploads.

johnbatchon Apple Submits Updated Campus 2 Plans to Cupertino

There are 2 levels of parking underneath the main building. http://www.scribd.com/doc/62205913/FloorPlan-Cross-Section

johnbatchon "Curiosity" - Launch 7.30AM EST (Live)

also a mobile feed (Mobile optimized, lower quality) at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nasa-mobile

johnbatchon Proxy server for Siri

You can also setup an APN Proxy using the iPhone Configuration Utility.

johnbatchon http://(Type any keyword here).jpg.to

getting an error on http://facebook.jpg.to/

johnbatchon Google Music now available to everyone in the US

Works fine if you change your user agent to iPad.

johnbatchon Google Music now available to everyone in the US

Since it's run by the Android team, I guess there is never going to be an iPhone app.

johnbatchon Amazon Kindle Fire Teardown

isuppli did a "preliminary virtual teardown" listing a BOM of $209 http://www.isuppli.com/Teardowns/News/Pages/Amazon-Sells-Kin...

johnbatchon Microsoft spends $7.5m on IP addresses

These are "Legacy" IPv4 addresses, that were allocated before the formation of any RIR

johnbatchon Europe's Web Of Debt

The source is from Bank for International Settlements, which has a nice interactive web app for doing your own analysis. http://stats.bis.org/ The data in this table is almost a year and a half old.

johnbatchon YC Interview Advice From a Guy Who Got An Interview and Didn’t Get Accepted

They do this for some domains already ( tumblr.com, blogspot.com, posterous.com, etc.) I have the same issue with plus.google.com.

johnbatchon Show HN: AI tool reads privacy policies, tells you which sites sell your info.

I'd love a site that stored diffs off all legal docs for large organizations. I was trying to find old TOS of amazon.com the other day, and couldn't find them anywhere.

johnbatchon $19/month cell carrier Republic Wireless overwhelmed on release day

The support policy is interesting.

"If You need support after the Activation Date, You may send us an email at service@republicwireless.com. Unlike other communications companies, Republic Wireless actually will respond to You promptly, but You will be charged a support fee of $10.00." ...

also: "REPUBLIC WIRELESS RESERVES THE RIGHT TO IMMEDIATELY TERMINATE SERVICE AND, IN ADDITION TO ANY AND ALL OTHER APPLICABLE CHARGES UNDER THESE TERMS OF SERVICE, CHARGE A MINIMUM INAPPROPRIATE USE FEE OF $500 AND/OR CHARGE $0.05 PER MINUTE FOR ALL CALLS MADE DURING SUCH PERIODS OF PROHIBITED USE, WHICHEVER IS HIGHER, CHARGE $0.04 PER SMS FOR ALL SMS’ MADE DURING SUCH PERIODS OF PROHIBITED USE, AND CHARGE $0.09 PER MB OF DATA CONTENT FOR USAGE DURING SUCH PERIODS OF PROHIBITED USE, AS WELL AS ALL APPLICABLE AMOUNTS DUE PURSUANT TO THESE TERMS OF SERVICE AND THE SERVICE PLAN. (WE DO NOT REALLY WANT TO CHARGE YOU THESE FEES AND DO NOT EXPECT THAT YOU WILL DO ANYTHING THAT MAKES US THINK ABOUT IT. PLEASE BEHAVE.)"

looking at a copy posted at: http://a.slickdeals.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=747242&#... The TOS should be at http://www.republicwireless.com/legal/terms

EDIT: TOS are back online at http://www.republicwireless.com/legal/

johnbatchon Google Street View now includes interiors

Yeah, that face detection blur kinda fails when it's a crowd of people.

johnbatchon Google Street View now includes interiors

Looks like he caught himself on camera here http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Gruhn+Guitars+Inc&hl=en...

Edit: and here http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Scream+Sorbet,+Oakland,+CA&...

johnbatchon Google Street View now includes interiors

The Guitar Shop is awesome, http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Gruhn+Guitars+Inc&hl=en...

Go outside and lots of people walking around with blurred faces.

johnbatchon Sending back my iPhone 4S. Siri is useless outside the US.

It does say "Siri may not be available in all languages or in all areas, and features may vary by area." at http://www.apple.com/iphone/features/siri.html