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Apple paid $500M in cash to Toshiba for flash memory in 2009. They invested $3.9B this year in some unspecified manufacturer, reportedly buying them manufacturing equipment and tooling. I'm pretty sure that those cash payments will enable the manufacturers to cut prices because they in turn can pay cash to their suppliers. Without the up-front cash and volume that Apple provides, even Samsung itself probably can't give themselves the same price without losing money. And if they do that, my guess is that Apple might take their business elsewhere, and for Samsung the math should be pretty easy on that one.
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A bit odd UI-wise that the largest column is the least desirable.

At least that's assuming that you'll want to visit at quiet periods. If you expanded to include pubs and clubs, popularity might be more desirable.

Perhaps change the graphs instead of being block colour to have a texture of little people - eg something like http://static2.bigstockphoto.com/thumbs/9/8/7/large2/789645.... or http://www.vectorstock.com/composite/49471/statistics-graph-...

edit: also, why can't I search or see a full list of all places?

edit: Also for SEO you should change the URL to something keyword-packed like whenshouldivisit.iamdanw.com/when-is-british-museum-busy and offer alias short links like whenshouldivisit.iamdanw.com/british-museum, etc.
Unless your wristwatch is an iPod Nano, which it easily could be. Or your pocket calculator is a recent-model TI or HP graphing calculator.
Looks like it's an issue on all Chrome installations
Confirmed, Chrome (Ubuntu 9.10)
Should we get rid of namespaces and packages, while we're at it?
1+1 = 11. Inspired idiocy. Or something.
If I own example.com, and you own example.org, how would you resolve this name conflict?
That really does sound awfully like the kind of hyperbole more associated with the nuttier Christian sects rather than technologists.

As Ken MacLeod put it "the Rapture for nerds".
"*and a freakin' barometer?!"

Wow, that makes it really interesting. The huge problem with GPS is height information. My GPS devices have commonly 10-15 m practical error in height on cities (urban canyon effect).

This could be very interesting for tunnel inertial navigation as makes the inertial problem a 2d issue from 3d.
It may be an acronym for "For The Loss/Lose", which would be a corruption of "FTW" (=="For The Win"). They're saying that it sucks that Google doesn't respect rate-limiting with the crawl-delay parameter.
The way Motorola has handled updates for the Droid and the high price will make the Xoom flop.
Erm, is this a troll, a linkbait or simply ignorance? Those "abstract" TLDs belong to real countries. (Well except your .42 - which is a custom TLD that's not accessible through the "official" DNS system.)
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Given that he uses apt-get to install libimage-exiftool-perl I think the title is fine. It's not likely that Matt Cutts requires link bait titles to get clicks or votes anyway.
Good point. Maybe the old namespaces should stay but new registrations should only be allowed on .com
Nothing stops people in other people from registering foo.de, foo.fr ...

And that's a bad thing because?
I'm interested to understand why you would propose removing the ".com" before first proposing the removal of "www."? From my perspective the "more superfluous of the two" is the "www." in this example.
You got a pretty much totalitarian world view. Don't you?

In most countries it's perfectly legal to have 2 (or more) businesses use the same name - provided they don't compete in the same field. In German a Microsoft that deals in software and a Microsoft that produces ice cream can co-exist.

So why shouldn't be it legal for someone in Germany to call his company FOO too? Just because you registered your name in Idaho doesn't mean that a guy in Japan is forbidden to use that name.
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I've noticed an increase in the use of customized and
abstract top level domain (TLD) names, such as bit.ly,
bu.mp, babyli.st, etc. Even Microsoft recently
registered bi.ng

This is especially funny when you notice that his TLD is .si, pedro.si
I don't understand why they only have 4KSamples Storage per channel. The ARM chip should be able to handle more RAM.
Specially for the Logic analyzer part. If you want to analyze some serial protocol (Serial, SPI, I2C etc.) you are really limited with only 4k.

I use now the Logic Analyzer from http://www.saleae.com/ It's a dumb device and everything is done on the PC. But for simple applications it works fine.
I have the impression the author does not understand a lot about TLD, so his proposal isn't well thought through either.

First, TLD cannot be changed freely but are fixed, mostly assigned to countries.

Second, we now do have TLDs and I don't see a way how we could get rid of them. 'kinder.com' may be a US website promoting friendly neighborhoods, but 'kinder.de' may be a German website about children. What should 'kinder' be?

The only change I would encourage but which I don't see happening is having the TLD at the front: http://com.ycombinator.news just makes more sense (at least to me).
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You're right that they should stop trying to copy Apple, and instead try to make something better. To me, Android is only more open and flexible, but it's not better. It might be good enough, though, just like Windows was good enough and more "open" than MacOS.

But without the right product, no amount of marketing is going to get you any real volume. And without volume, no amount of supply-side management is going to get the great product margins.
Yes, we need this for the DMV.
Or (as long as it's performant), an auto-complete as you type so that both "java" and "javascript" show up in the auto-complete's suggestion list when you type "java" in. In the above example, a person would type in 'rails' and see the 'rubyonrails' auto-complete, and (hopefully) choose that instead.
The only way to censor unencrypted satellite channels is to either ban the dishes for your own citizens, or go to a foreign country with lots of guns and persuade them to stop broadcasting. Neither is a very attractive proposition.

Regimes like the taliban and saddam hussein's iraq do ban dishes, along with almost everything else.
If you haven't noticed, many website urls don't include the www.
Both my wristwatch and my pocket calculator are my Nexus One, which has 4G of storage space (500x the top of the line System/360) and a 1 GHz processor (200x the top of the line System/360). It was free for me, but retailed for about $550 (1/2000th a top of the line System/360).
Little bits of history:

Compaq shipped a computer with a 386 before IBM did. That was quite a coup at the time and helped establish Compaq as a top-tier computer maker instead of just another PC-clone vendor.

Compaq was also, in a way, partially responsible for Intel taking marketing and branding more seriously. When computer buyers were polled with the question, "Who invented the 386?" the most common answer was "Compaq." Intel responded, in 1991, with their "Intel Inside" campaign to get their logo and brand on the outside of the computers where it could be seen.

Cyrix, an Intel competitor at the time, boldly parodied the "Intel Inside" campaign with their own "Cyrix Instead" campaign.
I don't agree. With virtualisation systems such as Xen it has become easier to use specific operating systems for specific tasks, either as hypervisor or VM.

If the GNU Hurd people can prove that, due to its modularity, it is really that more secure than current OS approaches, I can certainly see some uses.
1) you're making the assumption that people haven't.

2) a noisy, black, flying thing that's bigger than any bird won't draw attention, clearly. Why would it be less freaky?

3) totally agree. But your average person does tell other people. Do you think Spielberg made Close Encounters because he was visited by aliens? Or a significant number of the many many many other alien books / movies?
One advantage of the article's method is that it works if your workstation doesn't have a public IP address or is behind NAT / a firewall. It also works if you move around. With the article's method, you could have your laptop at home update your website, then go down to the local coffee shop and update your website from there.
That's pretty sweet. But $500 is where it'll catch on, not $3,600.
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Although git usually has faster performance than most other VCS, that doesn't mean it can easily handle terabyte disk image files. :P
All of the main "volunteer" Linux distribution websites are terrible in terms of design. Gentoo, Slackware, CentOS (ugh!) and Debian all leave a great deal to be desired. Every time I visit the CentOS homepages and have to navigate their ugly menu, I die a little inside.
Wow, that's exponential salary growth :)

How many switches have you made?
Next step is a Ringworld?
I don't know if he meant that he git pulls from his workstation. I git push out to a bare repository on my server, and then I ssh in and git pull from the local bare repository into the project's working directory on my server. This doesn't leave the keys for my workstation on the server, but I still have to log in and git pull in the wd.
It's probably worth checking out NestaCSM (http://effectif.com/nesta) if you're interested in doing this.

Sinatra in front, but all your posts are managed by Git and can be Markdown/Textile/HAML (or anything supported by Tilt iirc). Push it to Heroku if you want easy/free hosting.

Takes care of publishing an RSS feed, tags/categorisation, and a bunch of other nifty things beyond just generating a static site.

Example:
http://blog.peepcode.com/

(disclaimer: I used to work with Graham who created it, but I genuinely think it's awesome and use it for almost every site I build now)
There's a lot wrong here.

First, there's no such thing as an "abstract TLD". The closest analog would be generic TLDs. The author actually manages to get this completely backwards since the gTLDs are .com, .net, .org and their brethren. The TLDs the author calls "abstract" are all actually country-code TLDs (ccTLDs), and they all have a proper meaning. .ly is Libya, .st is São Tomé and Príncipe, and .ng is Nigeria.

Just because these governments don't traditionally care too much about who uses them doesn't mean they don't have a meaning. They aren't abstract.

The address bar in Firefox will actually redirect you to google.com if you type just google, however what I am proposing is to actually get rid of the TLD for some websites.

This is pure fiction. What actually happens is if Firefox can't resolve the address, it assumes it's a search term and passes the term into a preset URL (defined by the keyword.URL setting).

Back before version 3.0 (I think; don't quote me on that), this preset passed the "I'm Feeling Lucky" flag to the Google search URL. As a result, if you typed "Google" into the address bar, with no TLD, Firefox would effectively search Google for the term "Google" and the "I'm feeling lucky" feature would redirect you to the first result, which is obviously Google.com.

Since 3.0, the preset doesn't have the "I'm feeling lucky" parameter, so if you type "google" into the address bar, you'll actually get a page of google results for the term "google". I, and I'm sure many others, have since tweaked the keyword.URL setting to again use the lucky flag, but on a vanilla install, the author is just plain wrong in his assumption.

One final nitpick:

* After this recent surge of custom TLDs, I am beginning to think, that they are not a limitation, but that we can change them, almost freely, presumed we have the knowledge to do it (Please, correct me if I am wrong, and forgive my ignorance).*

Perhaps English isn't the authors first language, and if that's true then I apologize, but I simply was unable to parse that paragraph. Commas just don't work that way.
Hey tibbon, this is my first post on HN, but could not resist the urge to add to the thread.

My current position is Operations Manager at a company called Dreamstar Cash based in Altea (Spain), owned by Steve Matthyssen, a good friend of mine for many years.

Back in the day it all started with a TGP called gals4free.net. In Nov 2008 Dreamstar launched 4tube.com that is now ticking over with around 1.6M visits a day, 9 weeks ago we launched a new project PornTube.com that we're very excited about as we're using our existing tube model on a valuable/trusted/recognized domain that has historically outperformed/converted any other domain we've seen. Steve has built a solid reputation for himself over the years by not ripping off content. PornTube is 100% DMCA compliant, we believe the way forward is to work with, and not against the content producers.

Our current site has been designed with usability best practices in mind, as well as SEO (We're working with a highly reputable firm in the UK), scaleability, information architecture/semantics, MVT/CRO/LPO. Currently in the process of implementing rdf tags for some of our "starlettes" studios and movies, video sitemaps and dynamic rss feeds, social features...

As a small team it can be very hard to stay focused, develop all these features and ensure HA while managing +100k videos, security, performance and the list goes on. One of our goals for Q1 2011 is to review our SCRUM methodology and how we can improve our existing processes to stay on top of the game.

We worked VERY hard on setting ourselves a good foundation for growth, if there is any interest regarding the actual technologies used please forward your questions and I'll get our CTO to reply.

Nonetheless we do realise that their is much room for improvement, so any feedback would be very welcome, we're always looking to improve.

(We're also currently hiring ;-) feel free to pop over to http://www.dreamstarcash.com for more info or send your resume to jobs[at]dreamstarcash.com)
Will they need to? We have search engines and other QA sites like Stack Overflow. The information is more likely to be found if it's valuable, and more likely to be spread beyond only HN than Usenet posts.
It'd feel awfully strange riding a bike without my hands out in front of me. Also:

* My crappy commuter bike probably costs between 1 and 5% of the price of this thing.

* How's it deal with rain/dirt?

* Sometimes I do want to just lock it up. Imagine going to the grocery store... at 22 pounds you don't want to haul it around inside. I have a lot more peace of mind locking up my cheap commuter bike outside.

Still, it looks like it's beautifully engineered.
Humanity Accomplishment: Dyson sphere sensor.

Next: Dyson sphere itself?
[in response to edited comment above]
My point exactly - this thread was a massive distraction from our core tasks which is why I asked for patience.

Doing a "hit and run" response to comments on HN between other tasks takes far, far less time than writing a concrete, specific, water-tight technical document on security. No one on this thread was happy with the one we rushed out before and rightly so. We're not going to repeat that mistake :)
For example, it makes the internet less safe - people remember just the company name foo, foo.x is the real site, somebody enters foo.y and lands on a scam site
Love it to see a true "I hacked this together" post. Looks great, glad to know the node.js crowd is growing. :)
note my point about squatters was specifically that allowing random tlds to registered, by anyone who wanted to at all, would prevent new national tlds.
Am I the only one who sees this and wonders why there's such a large discrepancy between the right and left halves? Were they taken days / weeks / months apart or something? It kind of defeats the point of "stereo" to do so.

Specifically, why is that white splotch in such a radically different location (remember, diameter of the sun as Google states it is 1,391,000 km, that's gotta be near 100,000 km difference).
Practice, practice, practice. Duplicate. Practice. Duplicate. Create.

If you aren't feeling very creative, duplicate the work of others. Heck, even if you are feeling creative, duplicate anyway. Try to copy the iTunes interface. Figure out exactly what methods and techniques are used to design certain buttons. Then move on to other parts of the interface. You'll learn about subtle gradient use, shadows, insets, opacities, font, color palettes, and more. Before you know it, you'll have duplicated the entire iTunes interface and picked up a huge skillset along the way.

Then do the same with the most beautiful websites you can find. And the whole time, tell yourself it's not impossible to design that beautiful website because somebody already did it. If you get stuck, google the specific problem. Somebody was in your place before. The only way to really learn design (or anything, arguably) is by doing. When I browse the internet, I subconsciously examine every single piece of the design and figure out how they did what they did. For most websites it doesn't take more than a few seconds because they're remarkably simple once you know a little bit about design. For those tricky ones, I look a little closer and can figure it out within a minute or two, sometimes resorting to opening the source and looking at how the images are sliced up. If something's really busting my brain, I'll fire up Illustrator and give it my best shot.

Eventually you'll figure out what works for you and what doesn't. You'll gravitate towards certain techniques and ditch others. If you're smart, you'll even end up with a "graveyard file" containing all the little pieces that you might be able to use in future designs. With that graveyard file, designing gets exponentially easier - it's like having a box of magical tools at your fingertips.
My routine isn't sit down shut up (Did you just assume that?)

I just think you said something that didn't need to be said. The second piece, "how he came off in the story" is almost my exact point: I don't really see how your opinion on how he came off is valuable, unless your really going to delve into some psychological reasoning, use an anecdote or note a similar example - which you didn't. HN is for intelligent discussion i.e. value, not how you thought the guy came off.

Maybe if you'd have made a REAL comment, i.e. "hey, seems like a bumpy ride but it sure does seem like persistence prevails. [enter your comment here]" then it would have been fine.

But as it was, you just attacked him personally based on what you read in that post. Maybe its just a lesson in looking at things from other peoples perspectives, I'm sure I wasn't the only one who thought what I thought.
Sounds great, whilst we aren't focused on the recruitment aspects we are looking to work with some recruitment startups/companies to keep our focus on the creation of a CV.

I just @ replied you.
It was either going to be you or I who responded ;)

My biggest concern when I saw this originally was the emergency braking scenario. Which basically involves doing a face plant and using your nose and forehead to slow you down by embedding it in the floor.

One of the selling points mentioned in the article is, "you can jump forward off the bike in a crisis; there’s no hardware in your way". Which seems strange as every accident I've had or come perilously close to has been hitting something head-on (from the cyclist perspective... such as peds who walk out in front of you, or cars coming out from a side street).

The weirdest thing I find though is just the speed. These things tend to be speed limited as this helps classify them separately from the soon to be coming breed of electric scooters and motorcycles. Obv' electric bike manufacturers do not want to be forced in complying with that set of regulations and all that it entails. But the speed limiting is such that even a commuter on a cheap bike is going to be going the same speed, and a fit commuter will achieve a higher average speed than someone on this thing.
and this is a problem why? i can see taking issue with allowing unicode tlds. where some russian characters are almost identical to a latin based char-set for instance, but if you can't tell the difference between bankofamerica.com and bankofamerica.cn, you probably also fall for a lot of other scams offline too.
Two. And they both included a "break" in between, eg. I went to college between my first and second real jobs, and I founded a startup between my second and third. (Side note: if you include my high-school internship, the pattern is still doubling every job, just with a lower base. I didn't because I was paid hourly for that, and wasn't working full-time. Plus I didn't include college internships.)

I have a hard time believing it will double if I switch again, because that becomes the salary no-mans-land. At this point, increases will either be piddly 10% raises, or they will be rather nifty 10x raises. ;-)
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It might be more inherently viral if anyone could pick a picture for anyone.
Sure, we can allow that, but it makes the internet more confusing and less safe. When anyone can register microsoft.x, there is the legitimate use case for the ice-cream manufacturer microsoft, but more likely it will be a scammer or a phisher or something like that.

If we give up these nationalized namespaces (which aren't really enforced anyway, see .tv and and .ly etc) then we have one canoncial name for normal web sites, and microsoft ice cream could be found at microsofticecream.com

By the way, I don't mean "allow" in a legal sense. Everybody can run their own DNS system and be happy with it, I use the word in a technical sense. Everybody can call his company how he prefers, this is about DNS.
jpegoptim --strip-all, also optimizes for size without degrading quality.
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Doesn't look good in Opera:

http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=2nrkivp&s=7
You can buy regular bicycles with little electric motors on them here in Japan for about $1,000. That seems a lot more reasonable than completely redesigning the bicycle...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_ascension
What metadata is typically found in your sensitive images? What about images in general?

Camera model? Camera serial number? A link to the facebook page of the owner of the camera?
doesn't

mogrify -strip *.jpg

work just as well?
I'm rather fond of the Culture - forget resource allocation through messy things like economics and rely on manners and good taste (not to mention the indulgences of God-like AI entities).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Culture
> We are indeed small and insignificant, but alone? Doubtful at best.

I often read this, but I have no idea why this should be the case. Since we only have a single data point, we can only really infer that the probability of life naturally occurring on a random planet is greater than zero.

We do know however that there are a finite number of stars in the universe, let's say 10^24. If turned out to be the case that the actual probability of life occurring on a planet was say, 10^-40, then we could very well be alone in the universe.
I don't think Google Adsense is good for such kind of traffic. Google Adsense works better with targeted traffic (Search Engine traffic mostly). You may want to write a blog post and to advertise a product (affiliate program) that might interest the HN crowd. If you sell 15 copies of it, with $10 commission, that's $150.