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> as even things put into the public domain can have a catch

This is, by definition, untrue: If something is in the public domain, it is without an owner. It is unowned. Anybody can do anything they want with it, including using it in proprietary software for money and passing it off as their own work. (Assuming nobody is enforcing a code that bans plagiarism, which is totally orthogonal to copyright.)

If there is a catch, then the work is not in the public domain at all. Being owned by someone but released under a liberal license does not put something into the public domain, as the work is still under copyright.

In short: Public domain vs. copyrighted is a binary distinction. 'Freedom' is a continuum on multiple axes.
This would be awesome if you could combine the list with availability of <xxx>io.com -- to know when you could get both the shorter <xxx>.io and the traditional .com
>Half a dozen countries? Please see the countries mentioned in this support document: http://goo.gl/I49QQ

Canada is definitely supported for users.

>Where the customer service is non-existent:
Hi. Any specific problem we can help with?
Mubarak ordered Tiananmen-style massacre of demonstrators, Army refused
It can't really be done trivially. A GPU is a massively parallel (hundreds of cores), very limited type of CPU, specifically made to execute vector operations.
Yelp’s Growth Is Accelerating, Despite Increased Competition
Of course it's emacs. He can actually remember all of the commands, functions, variables, and key bindings.

(Before people get their flamethrowers out, I spend more time in emacs than any other piece of software I own.)
Excellent!

Could you add a check for the name as a .com? For example, next to ace.io display "+.com" for available or "x .com" for unavailable.

[Edit: I noticed these are checked just once per day. Perhaps add a link to check the .com? As in,
ace.io 2011-02-15 (aceio.com?) with aceio.com linked to http://iwantmyname.com/search?domain=aceio.com ]
I mean the cost of buying a domain from a squatter could presumably go down.
Probably number of floating point operations per second.
That was actually my point. For some people, hating Apple is an end in itself. As pg says:

"Rebellion is almost as stupid as obedience. In either case you let yourself be defined by what they tell you to do."

People like this let Apple define them not because they do whatever they say, but because they do the opposite of everything they say.
Some real world benchmarks for GPU vs CPU vs CPUs from helix/biowulf at NIH:

http://biowulf.nih.gov/apps/bioinf-gpu.html

From the summary : While there is a definite speedup from running on 1 cpu only to running on 1 cpu + 1 gpu, the multi-threaded versions generally have better overall performance. It is likely that once the CUDA versions are multi-threaded, running on the GPU nodes will confer additional advantages, but at present the codes are not yet mature.
That's too bad about emacs. I was really starting to like him. ;-)
Another 'behind the scenes' peek into PyCon: How the audio/video is done. Roll the credits!

http://blip.tv/file/3353433/
I was thinking the same thing, then I remembered a fiction story I read about an airliner "outsourcing the wing" (Airframe, Michael Crichton), so now I'm wondering if I had that impression from the fiction, or if I read it in a real-world story about the Dreamliner.
lol, it really cool but i can't help feel silly for being around when the best our civilization can do is throw rocks at bigger rocks to see what happens...
Quora meets SMS - Cloudy, social answers through your friends.
This is why everyone should be switching to GPLv3. Software isn't just there to be looked at.
"""I AM PLAYING A PRIME-TIME GAME SHOW AGAINST A SUPER-ADVANCED ROBOT! This is the coolest thing I will every do in my life by a factor of a million. The future is here."""

My kids think I'm a little weird because I think this battle is so cool (I think the more you understand about the implementation, the cooler this is), but this statement pretty much sums it up.
Here's a crazy idea... what if we changed the rules to Jeopardy so that if the buzzer presses are within a 50ms window then randomly select a contestant.

I think this would be a good change for even all human games.
Well said. Even when we don't have the resources yet to hire for a position we'll still be actively looking. Then if you find that person you can begin a dialogue over Twitter, Tumblr, email, etc., to better get to know them.
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Really cool app. Looking forward to an android version and blocking individual users from spamming me with texts though. Keep up the good work!
27 people don't think so
Who wins when Micro-Kia hand away smartphone empire bigger than iPhone
Well that's just the thing - if someone is unambiguously a child pornographer - throw their ass in jail!

WTF are they doing screwing around with DNS registrations in cases where they know that is taking place?

It sure seems to me like some adversarial government entity simply found a knob they can turn to screw with people when they don't actually have the standard of evidence required for a prosecution.
I can't answer any of your questions deeply, but they might fit the Answers on Startups domain better. http://answers.onstartups.com/

How long have you been searching on Google? Is it such a neglected business?
What do you think about this?

Testimonials for each designer. A design someone posts might be beautiful but what if they lack in the delivery department. Some sort of customer reviews would be nice to have and let people know how dependable they are.

-update
Going back and playing around with the site a little more its obvious that your the gateway for each of these designers. By incorporating a rating system for each designer you could be the "Angie's list" of wedding desigers
Isn't the .io TLD too technical of a term for a non-tech site ?
Porsche Prints the Names of 1 Million Facebook Fans on a 911
1000memories (YC S10) picks up $2.5M from Greylock Partners
Yes, but it's very amusing to those of us who love Asimov, and also newly relevant with the Watson/Jeopardy thing happening.
On Pandora Filing to Go Public - An Employee's Perspective
Not exactly. He may gain from the use of the GPL and give nothing back if he doesn't pass along his software based on GPL software. In that sense, the focus of the GPL is not the upstream developer, but the downstream user.

That's more or less what happened at the start of WebKit. Apple got KHTML, changed a lot of its inhards and published the whole thing back when Safari was launched. A lot of KHTML developers complained Apple's code was very Mac-specific and a pain to integrate back into KHTML.
No, I'm sorry, the design is flawed. I own one. Our family has owned the iphone 1, 3, and now 4. Yes, the iphone 4 is the best "phone" of the lot, but 1 and 3 were lousy- far too poor for me to risk using as my primary business phone. Which is why I waited for the word on the 4 before I bought one. The main problem was something I could fix with a case- I use cases anyway, so it wasn't a problem for me. Or so I thought.

Turns out, there is another flaw, one that I never had with a 2006 motorola on the same network and used under exactly the same conditions. The iphone 4 has an echo- some times- that makes it very difficult to talk. When I'm talking on the phone I get an echo in my ear of what I'm saying. If I have any mobility I can manage this by moving to another room or sometimes just changing the direction in which I'm holding the phone.

I love the iphone, it does a lot of things brilliantly, but it has never been a terrific phone.

Besides, they advertised for an antenna engineer just after the brouhaha.

And, in fairness to them, I never dropped a call because of the antenna (in the week or so I used the phone before the case). I actively tried to a couple of times, but it didn't drop.
You hardly hear of things going the other way. "I'm a developer who learned how to make sexy designs and launched something that looks good in 6 weeks." Good job.
> Given that most people are developers, not users

In what universe?
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I live in Ireland and passed around Michael Lewis' original Vanity Fair piece (link below) to friends and family, the majority of whom were in awe of the depth and breadth of insight in this article. There was a consensus of disbelief that someone who was not Irish could, in such a short space of time, grasp so many subtleties about the Irish situation, not just economically but culturally, and with insights about figures in Irish politics that were extremely revealing (e.g. Brian Lenihan). I feel this is a remarkable piece of writing that far exceeds anything that has been written about the crisis by Irish journalists themselves:

http://www.vanityfair.com/business/features/2011/03/michael-...
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Measuring and optimizing io performance (2009)
Oh man, down-voted for that!? I wonder what makes you put a negative twist to my congrats. You should check the demographics of genders with such stories.
You never know what is going to get through to these people. Three disabled people with canes and wheelchairs on the steps of a building in Washington DC may mean more in the media than 80000 people who are able to host their own websites.
Which was the purpose for my second paragraph. But for every person like my beautiful wife, there will be someone (or some fraction of someone) for whom the anntena problem will convince them to make a difference decision.

So I stand by my point that, in my recollection, Apple handled it poorly, that left a lasting effect on the population, and that lasting effect, however small, means they didn't break all the PR rules and get away with it.
If you remove "to be slightly more flexible" from my previous post, you'll find the real point I was trying to make.
In France at least, credit card are far more often used than wired transfer etc.
Just signed up for every service except Facebook. While Facebook would be probably the most useful service to have enabled, it's really hard to justify turning on the Facebook applications platform for any reason.
I'm one of the founders of Cloudy (I submitted a post earlier and it didn't go anywhere, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2227646), so feel free to comment with any questions or suggestions you have.
I find it astounding the level to which people hate Experts Exchange. Calling them "sleazy" and "slimeballs". Where does all this vitriole come from?

Are you all feeling so entitled that anytime someone wants to charge you for something your automatic reaction is hatred?

Here's the problem that EE solved (a long time ago): "How can I create a Q&A site that runs on a subscription, not an ad supported, model?". The obvious dilemma being that the content needs to be indexed by search engines which necessitates giving it away for free, but when people come into the site you want them to pay for the service.

The solution of having people scroll to the bottom of the page isn't deceptive, it's just an imperfect solution to making people pay to use your site. The fact that you can get the answers for free at all is the anomaly - you're not supposed to be able to!

There's absolutely nothing wrong with wanting to charge for anything. If it works, it works, if it doesn't work, your business fails. EE aren't breaking any laws, hell they aren't even breaking any guidelines. If you don't like it, you don't continue, there's a free trial.

This isn't spam, it's not hurting or hoodwinking or deceiving anyone! This is just a paid service, get over it.

When Mark Bao created a viral marketing campaign to collect a few hundred thousand email addresses and then sell them at private auction everyone here heaped praise on him like he split the atom. Experts Exchange is just running a business and charging a price. If their business sucks then it will die - admittedly there is a hell of a lot of inertia there now because they've been going for so long but WHATEVER! You can't just call people sleazy slimeballs because they're charging for a service rather than giving it away.

Oh and for all you folks saying they don't promote their free signup page enough, look at the fine print below the pricing on this page:

http://highrisehq.com/signup

What a sanctimonious and judgmental crowd we have here at HN!
Many (most?) web server configurations require a 'Host' header specifying the domain to be accessed (which allows multiple domains to be hosted on a single IP).

So in a lot of cases just typing the IP into your browser won't be enough, but thats pretty easy to work around. The greater difficulty is ascertaining where a domain should point to once it has been seized. One solution is to grab the old records from a DNS cache, but then there is no way to update them should the IP ever change.
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how much programming experience did you have before you started?
I was almost completely buying into the theme park and pizza concession analogy. But then I thought of the one exception. You're allowed to buy Amazon pizza outside of the park and bring it in for free, but only if Amazon has agreed to set up a pizza shop inside the park as well.

And I think that's the key point of contention. I don't mind Apple taking a 30% cut of anything I sell from within my app. And I don't mind when they make an editorial decision and make me remove offensive or inappropriate functionality from my app. But compelling me to add or implement functionality in my app or be rejected, that's contentious for me.
It's like saying "congratulations on your promotion to CEO, Fred, and even more so because you're black. Cool that we've started to move on from the whole racism thing in America, huh?"

Regardless of what you meant, you're pointing out the difference rather than just treating everyone equally. Just congratulate the OP on teaching herself Django and developing an app within weeks, not because she isn't your gender.
Think through this carefully:

(As the wise man said,) familiarity breeds contempt.

A lot of familiarity could potentially accelerate the breeding process ;-)

Also, time away from each other's company may provide both of you with opportunities for some fresh ideas.

HTH
HTML document viewer - isn't this a browser?
To add the social stuff, what about a browser plugin.
This sounds like a joke.
Why having another window in a window?
What do I do when I want to put a presentation online? I publish a website.
Some publishers relieved, others irate over Apple subscription plan
I'm surprised no one is talking about the fact that this is one of the most complex projects ever undertaken by human beings. It was being designed and orchestrated in the only way we know how, and it broke down. I don't believe bringing in the people 20 layers below the top management and giving them a paycheck that says 'Boeing' on it would solve all the problems. They were building something too complicated for their basic process (blueprints, documents, proposals, etc.)

Many of the problems such as parts that don't fit and supply chain problems could be solved by current machine learning techniques. Too bad Google and Facebook hire all those people and sets them to work optimizing ad placement.
My understanding is that DNSSEC neither helps nor hurts in this scenario. It mainly enforces the accuracy of the registration database, which in this case is being modified at the request of DHS.
If so, then more of us should go work for ourselves. Put our money where our mouth is.

If we're truly creating so much more wealth for these companies than we take in salary, it should be easy (ish) to turn that into more money for ourselves, even if large companies don't want to do that.

And if working for ourselves doesn't instantly turn into way more cash, perhaps we're not creating as many billions in actual value as we think we are?
That's a good point, I may be able to implement that this evening.

Edit: Right now iwantmyname.com is too bogged down for me to get the data... :) I'll have to wait a bit
Be careful here, you are talking in absolutes.

If you are b2c you should definitely take a close look at facebook as a part of your marketing strategy. No, not for your friends / family but so you can pay for targeted facebooks ads to show to your potential customers to get them to like your page.

My startup now has over 35,000 'likes' on our facebook page, all in our target demo / market. This is huge. We now have a captive audience we can market to. I would put this just as high as building an email list and consistently marketing to that list.

YES it drives revenue, and more importantly awareness.
I left a comment, but it didn't have to do with monetizing.

You might be able to monetize it by, once having the designs completed, making it a one stop shop for doing the rest of the printing too.

However, this could be a logistical nightmare if you've never done printing before, so... tread lightly.
Good luck for them, the service seems nice.
DNS is bad enough, but you really want these people in charge of your healthcare too?
> First of all, it does not do the same work. OOXML includes hundreds of pages covering spreadsheet formulas, giving mathematical definitions of them, sample input and output, and detailed descriptions

It's very detailed, down to mandating that you reproduce some old bugs with certain dates that come from Excel.
Yes, I think thats a good idea. I can add that in later this afternoon.
Tracy is one of the best designers I've ever met and incredibly driven. When we were working on WeddingType (I was her cofounder) and trying to get into YC, she jumped head-first into learning to use Django and Python. I'm very happy to see her latest project, it looks wonderful!
According to some Aurora forecasts, today is just "quiet".
Maybe the spot is not correctly aligned with us? I know the original article says earth was "in the crosshair" but still. Anyone is more knowledgeable on this?

http://www.gedds.alaska.edu/AuroraForecast/Default.asp?Date=...
What "entire class of applications" has a hard dependency on GPLv3? Emacses?
I like what Greplin is trying to do, but I wont sign up for an account. I am uncomfortable authorizing one service to access so many of my accounts.

Edit: Greplin doesn't request usernames or passwords. I updated my comment accordingly.
Dataviz, democratized: Google opens Public Data Explorer
That's a fascinating article, and you may be right that little more need be said, but the author wanders WAY off the subject when he gets to the benefits of Java. Claiming that you can use the time saved by having garbage collection to make your program more efficient in other ways does not make a convincing argument when you're discussing fine points of performance.

In case that wasn't clear, he claims not that garbage collection is more efficient, but the saved programmer time can be used in some hand-waving way to improve efficiency. Likewise he wanders off into wooly territory with the claim that very large Java programs can be written more quickly. These would be perfectly fine if he were posting the reasons he thinks Java is better, but in a technical discussion of all-out performance it's just offtopic.
A) The quarterly pooled MEAN metric does not necessarily tell you how the majority of venture firms perform over any sustained duration. Looking at the MEDIAN vintage year performance on page 7 does (at least a better job of it). From that, it appears most vintage years haven't made money since 1998.

B) We have data for vintage years, but not necessarily firms. I don't think its a terrible generalization to say that the last 10 or 15 vintage years represents VC firms now in business, else there are funds that have been open for 15 years and I believe they usually have a fixed lifetime of less than that.

C) Given points A and B, do you still believe they are drawing their conclusion (and poorly so) only from 10 year returns?
Crazy 3D browsing experience works in Safari and some versions of Chrome
I'm really curious what the status would be of third-party content applications. Let's say that Amazon exposed reading functionality in a Kindle Web API but not purchasing functionality. So I implement an iOS application called kReader which can read Kindle books.

I wonder where I'd fall in Apple's rule restrictions then, since I'm not offering anything for sale either in-app or out-of-app.
replacing the private key is the hard part. it's the kind of thing where you don't discover that the new private key for your server isn't on your backup laptop until you need to login and don't have access to a system with they key.
What to expect if your startup is featured on the front page of Hacker News
"If you’re learning a new language, don’t do tutorials verbatim — take what they’re teaching, apply it to a different product, and you will learn a lot faster."

By the time you're done researching how to apply the concept to a slightly different problem, you've learned much more than the tutorial is covering.

What about going the other way? I'm a developer that is intimidated by any kind of ui design... What do I do?
I don't see any reason for the market not to sort it out in this case. Thresholds for starting an IT business are low nowadays and access to the information about the market is pretty easy.
I'd say the overwhelming majority of programmers everywhere are underpaid. I'm basing this on the fact that I could roughly double my current salary if I quit tomorrow and spent a year working my way up as a welder and my salary is pretty much in the median range for the area I live in.
First of all, I don't have the requisite karma to down vote you. Try not to take it personally.

Second, have you considered the demographics are affected by pervasive sexism in several world cultures? Not to go on a tirade, but walk through a toy store some time and tell me why you think there aren't more female programmers and scientists. The point is, culture- NOT gender, is to account for the disparity between men and women in the field. While numbers may be numbers, its still a backhanded compliment.

Like I stated in my above comment, I realize it may not be the intent of your statement, I am just sharing with you how it may be construed amongst the fairer sex when we "dare" to cross these imaginary gender lines drawn in the sand.
We already know that computers have an advantage over human reaction time. We don't need Watson to tell us that, my laptop can press a button faster than I can. This is like requiring each player to run a mile before being able to answer the question... and then letting one guy drive a Corvette instead.
The link is not working for me; going to http://twitter.com/NokiaPlanB/ only shows the following quote: "there are no 'nine young investors', just one very bored engineer who really likes his iPhone"

If this is the case, then I guess that explains the anonimity.
We don't actually store usernames and passwords. We're all OAuth, all the time, and you're welcome to revoke access whenever you like. We'll also delete all of your data as soon as possible when you ask us to.
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The 15 year ago vintage class does have amazing returns.

However, assume for a second we can take different vintage years and say that return(t-20 to t-0) = return(t-20 to t-15)*return(t-15 to t-0).

Then all the money was made from t-15 to t-10 since the t-10 vintage class has basically zero returns and the t-20 returns are approximately the t-15 returns annualized over 20 years instead of 15
Every service I connected (Twitter, LinkedIn, GMail, Dropbox, Facebook) uses OAuth, so Greplin never sees your passwords.
I agree with the difference you point out, however Apple does not bar free content. So if you're in the business of giving pizza away, you are free to have your customers take their pizza into the Apple theme park without setting up shop within the park.

As you point out, you are required to set up a shop within the park if you also have a shop outside the park.