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Maybe I'm just a hippy at heart, but that $185k really rubs me the wrong way. It's a step back to the bad old days of broadcasting licenses that only big companies can afford to buy — and given the stagnation of old media that makes me a bit glum.
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Getting a javascript error on ie8, maybe the coporate laptop though.
Webpage error details

User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1)

Message: Object doesn't support this property or method
Line: 28
Char: 5
Code: 0
URI: http://touchwoodsoftware.com/hntrends.js
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How do you decide that a TLD has "failed"? Do the domains still resolve? They are obviously not going to attain a critical mass of public awareness overnight.

If startups are willing to go with goofy abuses of ccTLDs like .ly and .us then they would likely accept or even prefer gTLDs, when there is a rich variety of them available.

The domain scarcity problem will only get worse with time. Unviable options will eventually become viable by sheer necessity.
ha yeah. i was amazed when i found
http://www.ex-parrot.com/~pdw/Mail-RFC822-Address.html

(via http://stackoverflow.com/questions/201323/what-is-the-best-r...)
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I think you're missing the significance of this change. It's not clearly stated in the announcement (in fact, nothing is) but in section 1.3 of the Applicant Guidebook[1] it shows that for the first time it will be possible to have IDN gTLDs, that is, gTLDs in any standardised script. Latin1 is gone. This is big.

Sometimes the anglocentrism (and USA-centrism) on this site worries me.

[1] http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/rfp-clean-30may11-e...
Agree completely, in fact i've just added this link: http://risky.biz/haroon (Lulzsec, Ranum and I Told You So!)
What about just major allergens? Peanuts, soy, wheat, etc, etc? Information that would be given to anyone dining at the restaurant if they asked.
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It was a class at SMU that was not about entrepreneurship - probably a management class.

I didn't mean to say (& didn't say) that no Singaporeans are entrepreneurial. I could have just as likely been in an accountancy class in Zurich.

It was just an example of a moment of realizing that not everyone thinks the same as the people I'm usually around.
What is the point of storing the salt with the hashed value?
> My Founder Collective partners Eric Paley and Micah Rosenbloom spent many months/years becoming experts in the dental industry in order to create a breakthrough dental technology company.

Interesting phrasing, that contradicts the theme. You don't have to be the right founder, you can become it. And, do you really need to love the market? Or is it enough to love solving an inefficiency in it? What is boring can become fascinating if you see a way to revolutionize it. Of course, often the only way to see it is to be in it.
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I found this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=85189
But nobody is on freenode/#news.yc. Is there another hn irc room?
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A technical question, if I might:

Anyone in here that knows how these reminders where targeted? I didn't check GMail yesterday, so I've no clue if they would've been shown to me. And frankly, it would've been the wrong date.

Looking at the mess that is [1], was this rolled out to US people only? Using geoip or information from user profiles? Because I cannot imagine that a global reminder would've made much sense, ignoring the current discussion if it was a bad thing in general.

1: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Father%27s_Da...
Suppose you're the lead technical guy in a 2-3 person startup. You suddenly get enough funding to start hiring a larger team. Since you are one of the original folks, it's easy to see a situation where you take on such a role as CTO. If you went from general engineer of everything to a lead role, you may have never had team leading experience before. Don't conflate a title with the actual job. You can be CEO of a lawncare company comprised of you and a friend. CTO doesn't necessitate something like CTO of google.
Do you expose the underlying data? For example, what are the most hostile articles about Microsoft?
Stop being melodramatic. Since I've actually studied how natural language statements map to logical truth functions, I'm honestly mystified as to why you think an analogy is semantically equivalent to a material conditional.
For the UK do we put United Kingdom or England? E.g. "Slough, United Kingdom", or "Slough, England" ?
I like the algorithm, but the hq4x seems to produce better fine shapes such as eyes and skeleton bones (albeit in bitmap form) - it would be interesting to see some sort of hybrid algorithm taking the best features of both to produce a vector output.
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yep, just submitted my hn trends entry here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2673357

I tried the vs thing to allow multiple things to be compared but tbh it didn't really add a lot on the comparrisons I tried out. I went for giving a summary of the top stories for the search term instead with an indication of where the big discussions were.
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Ah, I broke some stuff making permissions more restrictive. Should be fine now. Thanks :)
Countries have ccTLDs which are "different" from TLDs. The 22 are generic TLDs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_top-level_doma...
thanks, will take a look when I get a chance.
Funny that - Concorde from drawing board to maiden voyage was what - 12 years ? JFK's speech to moon landing - 8 or 9 years ?

Seems that despite all the advances in computer modelling etc we're going backwards.
So a single blog post touting something as an 'X killer' is enough to make that product bad?
Learning two products is too hard. This is why I would never use Linux at home since I need to use Windows at work.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=85191
I can't speak definitively, but I doubt the prerendered page needs to be visited before another one can be prerendered. If that were the case, I could open a google search and leave it in a background tab and never ever get prerendering ever again.
Not to be "That Guy," but where you've written "I.e." I think you mean "For example," which is "e.g." It took me several seconds to realize what it was you most likely meant, and it really detracted from the point of your story.

Most people don't care about these things, and that's cool, but clear and effective writing is important in all fields (and Edsger W. Dijkstra said "Besides a mathematical inclination, an exceptionally good mastery of one's native tongue is the most vital asset of a competent programmer." - I don't agree with everything Dijkstra wrote, but this one is relevant and true enough.)

Mistakes like this can really detract from getting the message across.

ADDED IN EDIT: I see I'm not the first: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2673074
It wasn't until you called it a phishing TLD. ;-)
if you used regular-expression to validate websites (and/or emails), you better be prepared.
Gmail's voice and video chat works fine and has a pretty simple UI. I'm not sure it follows those specs completely but there are open-source clients that can connect to it. The Google client itself has pretty good Windows/OSX/Linux support as a browser plugin and with the Google Voice integration in Gmail you get a pretty full-featured UI to call both people that are on Google Talk and normal phones. Unfortunately the Google Voice stuff is still US only.
When designing a system like this you have to have a veil of ignorance. There may from time to time be attacks or defects that mean some people lose a lot of money while others gain some. Not knowing which will happen to you, how would you want the system to work?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veil_of_ignorance
I'm probably going to get downvoted for this, but in honesty, I can't see this idea working, the problem for me is lack of coverage, and lack of users too - it's a standard chicken-egg thing ... Also, you can search menus by ingredients they have, but searching by ingredients they don't have could prove problematic ...

I think I just prefer the hands-on, word of mouth approach in general ...
the morphology of the fish as it is understood by the human is not dependent on the orientation of the fish to its external environment

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posterior_%28anatomy%29#Anterio...

that is, "back" would usually mean the location of the spine. Regarding how the fish perceives or thinks about its orientation I think this is impossible to say!
Cool, they have just broken most of email regexps.
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I pretty well understand both laws of science (PhD in physics) and what PK cryptography is, but you still don't get my point. There is something outside the protocols implementation, that are secure and do the job they are are developed for.
What is this Sierra Charts thing, and how come they have a MtGox feed? Is that something users configure or script for themselves, or has BitCoin already been accepted as an official investment vehicle?
Attempting to hide it somewhere else doesn't really help when your whole system is compromised. Salting+hashing isn't the answer to 'how to store passwords so no hacker can ever get them', it's the answer to 'how to store passwords so it would take a very very long time and a lot of resources for a hacker to ever get them'. It's designed like this to also allow easy authentication of users by simply performing the same process used originally. So the only real thing storing the salt somewhere else would accomplish is greater latency for authentication.
Really? I mean how valuable is a .com domain to an average user? As far as I can tell, most people don't type in URLs at all, they type the site name into Google or have a bookmark.
They mostly don't even look at the url, they look at what the page says. If you want to send the link to someone, you copy the whole thing anyway. If you do a little word of mouth, you probably won't include any TLD at all, so Google is again your target destination.
I don't have any knowledge on how Google weighs TLD, but I highly suspect that they don't care. It's about content, they might even favor specific TLDs like "mybusiness.usa" over "mybusiness.com"

Domains couldn't be more irrelevant right now, and adding more TLDs is only exacerbating the situation.
It was a generalization, there are big differences between the various states in the US, and there are big differences between various countries in Europe, but generally, criminal punishments are less severe over here, and more severe in the US.

Some states in the US have the capital punishment, and some even allow the victims to witness the execution. "To ensure justice was done" is the official explanation, but in reality, it's to satisfy the victim's desire for revenge.

Over here, the victims of a crime are part of the process only as witnesses, and then they're out. There are no juries to sway with emotion, all sentence lengths are standardized by law, and "life in prison" means 20 years, max.

There is no public opinion that we should be "tougher on crime", no political parties are campaigning with the promise to increase sentence lengths or be harder on criminals, some want more resources and money to the police, but that's it.

There's a general awareness that prisons actually harden criminals, that the more time they spend with each other, the more likley they are to return to a life of crime when they get out. We try not to mix people serving a sentence for the first time, with people who are return criminals.

The primary purposes of prisons is of course to lock people up, to remove them from society, to ensure they can't move freely or do work or business, but there is a secondary explicit purpose, and that is to rehabilitate as effectively as possible, to give the prisoners as much help and support as possible, to make sure they don't commit crimes again.

It is very common over here that people who commit murder are sentenced to forced psychiatric rehabilitation instead of prison, and you do psychiatric evaluations of everyone accused of violent crimes, so there's an underlying general sentiment that criminals are sick, not evil.

Of course a lot of people mistrust former convicts, of course a lot of people think criminals deserve to be put away, but there's a lot less of those sentiments over here, compared to the US. Our prison population per capita here in Sweden is also 1/10th of the US average.

So, given all this, the news that a lot of criminal behaviour can be explained by brain malfunction isn't devastating at all. Quite the opposite, it means that you suddenly have more ways to rehabilitate criminals, if you can remove a tumor or fix a chemical inbalance, that's good! It means even less people in jail, and less violent crime.

But if the primary purpose of your justice system is to ensure the victims get their revenge, then it's not helpful, it's not good, because it will "rob" victims of their revenge.
> my .screenrc is 4 lines. My .tmuxrc is 26 lines

You should see my screenrc.

> all it tries to do is get a behavior comprable to screen

So, veering from the tmux defaults to change them to the screen defaults takes more work in tmux than in screen? Go figure! I never would have guessed. (Hint: It's easier in screen because they are the defaults)

I've never used tmux and I find your post to be biased towards screen. tmux isn't being touted as a 'drop-in replacement' for screen, but that seems to be how you are evaluating it.
The self-righting property would be completely unaffected if the surface imperfection is smaller than a certain threshold value. This value is a function of the "equilibrium-ity" for any point of the surface.

Close to the stable and unstable equilibrium points, any imperfections create additional equilibrium points, like someone else mentioned.

The threshold will grow with the distance to equilibrium points, so in some places, an eye lash, a grain of sand or the inscribed logo makes absolutely no difference.
You're not the only one who has studied such things. I, too, have studied how natural languages map (or don't map) to the logical constructs in math, and I've also studied (informally) rhetoric and similar topics.

A bad analogy spoils the narrative and undermines the point. It seemed perfectly valid for jerrya to raise the question, and raised in my mind the ancient Chinese tale of Zhuangzi and Huizi strolling on Bridge Hao.

Zhuangzi: "Look how happy the fish are just
swimming around in the river."

Huizi: "How do you know they are happy?
You are not a fish."

Zhuangzi: "And you are not me. How do you
know I don't know the fish are
happy?"

Huizi: "Of course I'm not you, and I
don't know what you think; But
I do know that you're not a fish,
and so you couldn't possibly know
the fish are happy."

Zhuangzi: "Look, when you asked me how I knew
the fish were happy, you already
knew that I knew the fish were happy.
I knew it from my feelings standing
on this bridge."

We don't know if the fish know about water or not, and claiming such ignorance really does undermine the point. The points about not noticing culture because you are immersed in it and have no basis for comparison are true, but a poor clichéd analogy is a bad way to start.
Yes, that's what I'm afraid of. It's not clearly stated if that is or isn't the case. Their wording is ambiguous. I'd test this myself using the dev build of Chrome, but I can't install it where I am.

Anyone else?
Funny, but email validations should already just check that the address contains an @ symbol and leave it at that.
Wow, you really addressed all my counterarguments with that one. Doesn't really change your overestimation and doesn't really change the fact that there are no significant numbers of nutmeg deaths and many hard drug deaths.
> Does anyone else smell a less free Internet approaching closer?

Hmmm ... any chance Lulzsec is really a false flag operation?
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Wanting to avoid single points of failure doesn't seem that strange to me. It's an engineering decision, not a political one. Central authority is just a central system to hack, or become corrupt.

You wouldn't let your business become reliant on a single-supplier part, why would you let it rely on a single-supplier currency?

Regulations are only worth as much as the authority regulating them, if that. Just look at the USA. All the laws required to stop the recent mortgage meltdown were already in place and could still be used, but won't be. What value do those unused regulations have? It's better to have less fake regulations and simply not depend on a non-existent safety net.
The main reason it is $185k is because the process has dragged out so long; ICANN _must_ make back any money it spends on the process. The last round was $45k and in the future when next round comes around it will probably be less than $185k, but most likely more than $45k. All the background checks and due diligence costs money.
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Can it work farther back in time? interesting if there are longer term trends. Happiness particularly can be indicative about the overall satisfaction from HN.
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Imagine Batman login to his gmail account and then seeing this reminder…
How many developers are you managing, exactly? Are you a developer yourself?
Some random advice:

On timelines:
-> An old guideline is to try breaking each deliverable into individual, atomized tasks. Put an estimate on each task. Add it all up and double the final amount.
-> Use something like pivotal tracker, or redmine, or Jira.

On getting reliable estimates from developers:
-> Each dev is different in their estimations. Get to know their quirks. Some feel that everything is easy and tend to say "two days" for everything. Others will try to buy as much time as possible and will tell you "a week" for something that will normally only take them a day. Knowing their tendency will let you make adjustments.

On getting to know the devs:
-> Start by getting to know the difference between estimated and actual time on smaller issues.

Quick Daily Meeting:
-> Spend 10 minutes at the start of each day to get a status update - what is each member working on? Are they facing any problems? Is anything taking more time than it should?
-> Make adjustments to your timelines accordingly if you have to.

Try not to micromanage. They should let you know when they face problems. That said, radio silence is bad... thats what the daily should help alleviate.
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An issue you might want to think about, which is not related to the particular choice of words:

When you say something along the lines of "we're not lying", in my mind you are implicitly reminding me "this is a situation in which we might reasonably be expected to lie". Thus, an attempt to inspire confidence may in fact be subtly undermining it.

Okay, so lying might not be the issue, but something negative is the issue. Do be careful that the message you want to send, might not be the same one that is received.
Isn't 2-letter for countries? I think other TLDs have to be 3 or more.
These 22 are only gTLDs, which are not the only type of TLDs. There are also ccTLDs.
Registry fees alone will cost you a minimum of $100k a year even if you sell no domains. You also need to submit business plans and "proof" of economic viability; without those your application will be rejected. One factor that most people aren't aware of is that ICANN will require you to have enough money in reserve to keep the registry alive until a new buyer can be found in case things go bad; this can be as much as $4 per domain sold in cash as reserves. If you predict you'll sell 4 million domains you'd better account for the fact you'll need to keep $16M in the bank.
It's just propaganda. Their job is easier when they can manipulate people into incriminating themselves. Of course they want to scare people out of coming with a lawyer.

Just always remember: with a lawyer you can get away scott free even if you did murder someone.
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They should also check that neither part is empty. But other than that you are right.
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Shame they aren't allowing www - then we could have had com.foo.www to remind us of JANET addressing.
It seems to be a common mistake that non-native speakers make. For instance, I myself have just recently learned (thank you HN!) the difference between i.e. and e.g. (somehow I always thought that i.e. == for example), and since then corrected some friends in that matter.
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Banking eradicates many of the supposed gains of decentralized money - not all, but most. I just dig a quick Google for "benefits of Bitcoin" and it seems most people agree on the following:

- Anonymity/trackability. Gone if you are with a bank. Sure, possible to sidestep by going through the song-and-dance that is withdraw-send-deposit. We can do this IRL also, but there's a reason people do not.

- Taxability. Welp, if your BTCs are in a bank, the IRS can easily get you.

- Abusive/coercisve government action (e.g., freezing). Well, yeah, if you're with a bank that can happen too.

- Lack of fees. If banks become standard (and if BTC takes off, yes, they will become standard) then kiss goodbye to this benefit - the same way cash right now has no transaction fee, but bank transactions do.

In fact, the only major sell of Bitcoin that remains:

- Inability for government to arbitrarily expand the supply of money.

Still a win, but suddenly Bitcoins have lost a lot of charm, especially for the everyman for whom the above 4 points are much more salient than that last one.
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PE firms like this focus more on leveraged buyout than growth capital - the people taking their money are generally looking for an exit.
Google has just added WebRTC to the Chrome source tree. WebRTC (real-time communication) consists of Jingle, VP8, some voice codecs and other audio software they bought, and various NAT traversal algorithms. The IETF is standardising it and Mozilla and Opera are committed to shipping it. Somewhat interestingly, a bunch of Skype engineers seem to have been involved in it too.

http://sites.google.com/site/webrtc/blog/firststeptowardchro...

http://tools.ietf.org/wg/rtcweb/charters

I don't know how usable it is right now, though Google is apparently rewriting their Google Talk stuff to use it. But it seems like the future.
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I think you've missed a couple of IDN gTLDs, some launched more than a year ago, i.e. http://www.thewhir.com/web-hosting-news/111710_470000_Domain... .