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"Microsoft announced the Skype acquisition on May 10 and plans to connect it to Outlook e-mail, Xbox game console, Windows mobile phones and corporate-phone software."

This is phase #1 of Microsoft's usual "embrace, extend, extinguish" strategy. Right now they embrace Skype and build it into some of their products.

The next step will be to enhance the Skype protocol with extra Outlook and Windows Phone options; these protocols will be proprietary, patented and certainly not published.

The final step will be to discontinue the Skype clients for OSX and Linux ('because their increasingly incompatibility with rich features the Windows platform offers Skype users'), update the protocol even further so that current Skype clients will stop functioning, and gradually remove the 'Skype' name and logo from their products, and eventually, from history.

The idea is to disadvantage any competitors, and to make Skype users switch to Windows or a Windows phone.
And to kind of expand upon what phektus said regarding someone else always being better:

Surround yourself with these people! There's an old saying, "if you're the smartest person in the room then you're standing in the wrong room."

I crave knowledge and challenges. If I feel like what I do is too easy then I need something else. I try to find folks who are doing something above and beyond that and begin talking to them.

Never stop learning. I'm probably going off topic again. It's been a long day.
That should be from loading images over http which will not trigger the warning.
Entrepreneurship is of course everywhere and all around us. Look how complex and developed of a black market we have here in the U. S. of A.
This is pretty much how I 'cured' myself, but expanded upon a bit in another reply. Great advice all around.
Anyone think it's a coincidence that ICANN does this just after plans are announced by major browsers to eliminate the URL address bar? Are they rushing to sell-off?

Also, what about the possibility of disputes? What if both Facebook and twitter want to purchase '.social'? Who will resolve the dispute and on what grounds?
If you want to do something similar with an iPhone, you should check Milestones, http://alandair.com/milestones. Keep and share geolocated notes, possibly with photo, via Twitter/Twitpic and email (KMZ for Google Earth). Backup as a Google Fusion Table, with photos sent to Picasaweb. (Disclaimer: Milestones is my fault. Working now on recovering from the Fusion Table backup, and adding social awareness.)
You can always down-vote my other comments if this make you fill better.
A good background to Erlang is Armstrong's thesis, it really reads like a popular book http://www.erlang.org/download/armstrong_thesis_2003.pdf. He discusses many of the points raised in the slides.
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This is precisely what I mean by people do not grasp the entire concept of a mathematical law and how it relates to public key cryptography. There are man made laws which are invariably prescriptive, and natural laws (not in the legal sense) which are invariably descriptive, and fallible only to the extent that this is not the case.

There is no authority needed to enforce these natural laws just as there is no authority needed to enforce gravity, it is a force of nature, public key cryptography relies upon mathematics which is also a force of nature. If the math is incorrect the system is insecure, failing that no authority is required to uphold the mathematical dogma of public key cryptography lest faith in the system be compromised. You're working from a set of premises and assumptions that simply do not apply here.

These laws do not require enforcement by an authority;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laws_of_science

Read this for a primer on public key cryptography;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_key_cryptography
I've done my best to skim over the (huge) Applicant Guidebook and as far as I can tell, you don't need any reason per se to be granted a gTLD.

You have to be a corporation or organization with good legal standing and financial stability, and you have to slog through an epic and expensive beurocratic process. Your application can be rejected on various specific grounds, some technical and some political.

But I don't see anything that explains the purpose of gTLDs. So essentially, if there is no particular reason for you not to have one, you can have one.
It's called behavioural retargeting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_retargeting and it's becoming a lot more popular with advertisers. I get it all the time...
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Geohash also doesn't require a database to lookup hashes - all you need is the formula. The only disadvantage seems to be the slightly longer URLs.
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I thought Google had refused to add this feature in their Goggles project due to privacy concerns? This large-scale face recognition systems for auto-tagging would probably be switched off by default.
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which for many big companies is a drop in the bucket for marketing... :(
Yes, thank you. I can see by the points I lose just how much everyone wants to tell me it's an analogy/metaphor/imagery not actual logic.

I read stuff all day long where people say, "your analogy is wrong". That actually is part of an argument.

I assume Derek would like to be a better writer -- we all would. I assume Derek would like his articles to carry weight -- we all would.

His analogy/metaphor/imagery is probably bogus and stopped me in my tracks.

I understand how stating my position that I could not get further than that brings down the hammer at HN.

Ironically, my stating my own opinion that I cannot buy into his analogy/metaphor/imagery and that his metaphor is wrong AND the consequent hammer of downvotes as HN readers hate on me actually makes Derek's point.

I think I get this, thank you.

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Sure, but they are not the only possible security problems.
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The necessity of this, the price for which it is offered and all those other matters aside...

Iirc if you run your own DNS-server/bind-instance (for DNS lookups, not just responding to internet DNS requests), you have a options file which contains references to forwarders for all the TLDs.

How will managing new TLDs from a server/bind-perspective play out? Will there be a new, hidden ".global" TLD you can forward, or "default" forwarder you can configure to handle this?

Basically I'm not sure how this will play out with my bind-setup and if it will require any action from me as a server-admin, apart from "apt-get update". Anyone here have any inside info?
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I agree that the answer to that question is almost always "no". But I think this case is a rare exception where the answer is "yes", or at least "probably".

--- a GNU screen user who intends to switch over to tmux at some point.
I can't login to my gmail account now... damnit!

Can anybody help?

I filled out one of google's forms but I'm afraid it'll just be bot-processed :[

Edit: Here's what happened:
I got reports that my gmail account had suspicious activity so I had to reset my password. Unfortunately I already had a different password, and when I reset it, I changed it to the one that was hacked (I didn't know it was hacked yet). So google, trying to be awesome, made me change my password, and now I can't get into my account... I'm kicking myself so hard right now.

My gmail account's got six years of my life in it... whoever's got it has every tiny detail about me... and it's terrifying.
Depending on the company, ATMs in Japan do this too (not sure about other countries!)
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Everytime I see "GNU Screen killer", I think it has the same chance of surviving as "iPhone killers" or "iPod killers". It might be better, but being touted as something which will "kill" something established, it's almost always doomed to "fail", that term (also) being warranted or not.

I still see little reason to part from screen after all these years, and despite various offers of "better" options troughout the years. On the other hand, I did ditch my iPhone for an Android-phone. Although it was an Android-phone not labeled as an "iPhone killer".
The gesture system, for me at least, is also far easier to pick up visually by glancing .. it's much easier to obscure which numbers you are tapping.
First thought: will have to rewrite my email regexps...
Can I get .movie and sit on it until the movie industry pays me millions for it?
This is an interesting paper. Though I only read the abstract, it seems like real-time performance could be achieved by utilizing GPUs for B-spline calculations. Would be awesome for video games if real-time performance can be achieved!
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For at least one DNS server I've setup (I don't know much about it, to be upfront) all requests for which that server did not have an authoritative response were simply forwarded to an upstream ISP server. Maybe this is an atypical setup, or I'm describing a different problem to the one you're envisaging.

"Make it your upstream provider's problem" isn't a very helpful piece of advice if you're running that provider, I suppose!
Yes, I was also worried when I saw the suspicious activity flag had been tripped on my acct., but apparently that doesn't actually mean that anyone actually tried anything, just that our e-mails appeared in the list.

Luckily I never reuse passwords for important stuff like e-mail or anything that touches money...
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I was speaking to a business school class here in Singapore. I asked, “How many people would like to start their own company some day?” In a room of 50 people, only one hand (reluctantly) went up.

I live in Singapore, and I wonder which school that is. I can't imagine 98% of students in that room not wanting to start their own company some day, at all when they are in business school.

I remember 4 of us planning to start a business when I was in school in Singapore more than 10 years ago and all 4 of us were in electrical engineering.
If you trust the Mt. Gox folks, they're now claiming that there was no server hack, just a database copy that some consultant had that got stolen.

If you trust what they're saying, which might be questionable since their business is pretty much going up in flames at the moment, so they are probably desperate to make things appear better than they are...

I hope for their sake that they actually have enough USD and BTC on hand to deal with the mass withdrawals that are coming...
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Won't be as much fun if you control all the parts of the domain name, since there's no need to be "clever" with a ccTLD.
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I tried ooVoo recently as my significant other had problems getting Skype working. I must say I can't see it as a competitor to Skype. The UI is borderline unusable due to all the flashing ads. What's worse is my contact list of one got deleted, and it was impossible to re-add my GF. That was on day 2. A few days later, she was back on my contact list. I don't trust it, and it's a pain to use due to all the ads and the general UI.
I've spent some time in Malaysia (around Penang), and most of the chinese malaysian I knew wanted to start their own business and considered being an employee to be something almost shameful... I've never seen a community of people more entrepreneurial.

I always assumed that it was the same in Singapore.

The part about people living with their parents is completely true though...
Non JS users are statistically more likely to be bots than blind, so I don't see why that should matter.

And anyway JAWS use IE to read the page for the user, so it does support javascript.
Facebook fatigue? There's another explanation...
So yep, I'm not too concerned about this. ICANN aren't a great organisation, and they seem to mainly bring out new TLDs to get more money.

ICANN is a non-profit whom CEO gets ~1M/year. Executives earn a bonus of more than 50% of their base salaries if specific goals are reached, such as adding a new gTLD.

Source: http://www.thedomains.com/2010/02/11/nonprofit-icann-release...

I really hope this top-level domain thing isn't going anywhere.
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I found it easier to pick up visually as well, and thus more difficult to hide from anyone who may be trying to see it.

On the other hand it's really hard to describe your gesture to someone if you're lending them your phone, unlike a PIN which is easy to relay verbally; you really need to demonstrate the gesture.
No, generally Malaysians are definitely way more entrepreneurial than Singaporeans.

Singapore has a much more stable environment and state-managed vibe. Over decades, this tends to encourage less entrepreneurial spirit in people here. This is changing recently, especially with the younger generation here though.

But I'd still be surprise of that kind of response in a business school here.
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A question, usually when you have some debt and back taxes the usual choice is to start a small business of one that is solely designed to make money fast via contracts, etc to pay off that debt and taxes.

Can you tell us why you choose not to do that?

No, not being harsh just curious of the thought process.
The phone leaks password data? It tells an attacker that the password contains only numerics?
Good for him, this will help him convince the authorities at

(a) He is a "nice" guy
(b) As sign of their appreciation, they might block quora at least sporadically.

I don't know, but I would think that top chinese VC have a personal relationship (dinner invitations, red envelopes etc) with whoever is in charge of the great firewall.
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Are there any implementations of it that actually work well through NAT and which have a UI that non-technical people can use? We use Skype a lot - iChat would be fine, too, but seems to require port forwarding on both ends, which isn't going to happen anytime soon. Facetime forces you to use video, which isn't always what you want.
It does at least say that you need to run a registry. So you can't just squat a gTLD. But I don't know, in general, how the prices and policies of the registrar are evaluated and enforced. It might be in there somewhere but it didn't jump out while scanning.
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IANAL. You have no obligation to disclose your personal finances. If they asked and you lied it might open you up to liability though.

I don't think you have any moral obligation to tell a potential investor either. You do have a moral obligation not to let it interfere with your company though. Don't ignore it and hope it goes away. Face it and turn it into a predictably annoying problem instead of a scary unknown one.
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The post title is sensationalist. Jixin is being quite forward and explaining how things work in the PRC. He doesn't say anything about how foreign web sites are 'harmful'. Only that the PRC feels it has an obligation to protect the people from 'harmful information'. That information can be from inside or outside the country.

Of course sites that work within the PRC system of government censorship tend to stay unblocked. ;)
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What I've gathered is that they require licensees to run a registry for the given TLD. If you are not operating a registry or are administering it poorly, they may revoke your license.
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.mail would be excellent, really. All we need is $185,000, a stomach for paperwork and an established company looking to expand into the registry business.
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I was trying to determine: what portion of that, if any, is refundable should an application be turned down?
If you ever want to extend the analogy to include the perspective of the water here's one to read:

"Over the last few years I've regularly been cornered by nervous publishers or broadcasters or journalists or film makers and asked about how I think computers will affect their various industries. For a long time most of them were desperately hoping for an answer that translated roughly into 'not very much'. ('People like the smell of books, they like popcorn, they like to see programmes at exactly the same moment as their neighbours, they like at least to have lots of articles that they've no interest in reading', etc.) But it's a hard question to answer because it's based on a faulty model. It's like trying to explain to the Amazon River, the Mississippi, the Congo and the Nile how the coming of the Atlantic Ocean will affect them. The first thing to understand is that river rules will no longer apply."

Since you're currently holding a magazine, let's think about what might happen when magazine publishing is no longer a river in its own right..

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I would want it to crash and burn - so much potential would be freed, no companies who could afford to buy senators.
"The Board approved a plan to dramatically increase the number of Internet domain name endings [..] from the current 22, which includes such familiar domains as .com, .org and .net"

Where do those 22 come from? doesn't each contry have its own TLD?
The IRS will accept any amount per month if you get on a plan. Like $30/mo if that's all you can do.

They will also SOMETIMES agree to accept a lower amount of money. Usually nothing less than the principal you owe (e.g. they'll remove some penalty and interest fees). They may only do this after a year or two of you making tiny payments. They must believe you will never be able to pay it all back.

They absolutely will garnish your wages and/or seize any bank accounts you have. Call them immediately.
Agreed -- if anything, it will just make .com domains even more valuable. The average Internet user won't understand these new TLDs.
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*.local is used by all Apple devices for Zeroconf (Bonjour.)

Imagine your Mac's hostname is uranium, uranium.local will automatically resolve to the current IP of the laptop.
Your DNS server will simply ask the root servers. Those are listed in a file (root.hint on BIND) and will tell you which server is authoritative for the TLD in question.

I'm not aware of any setups explicitly storing the TLD servers themselves (of course, they'll be in cache.)
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Earlier comments:
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http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2578706

Some of the previous discussion isn't great (squabbling about dupes, not being able to download the pdf). A common comment was "hasn't this been done before". Many existing tools output higher-res bitmaps, this tool outputs vector images. They did run comparisons to a variety of algorithms, including potrace, which also generates vectors.
Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2601347
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So yes, it "leaks password data". ;)
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Erlang is also used to power Facebook-style social games at Wooga: http://www.erlang-factory.com/conference/London2011/speakers...
Someone also wrote a rebuttal of sorts: http://pastebin.com/DfuG9T1W
Also read Tom de Marco.

Try to put your developers closer to your customers. It always helps to put a face to the problems they are trying to solve.