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I regret using .com for my personal domain now. I'd like to change it, but I haven't decided which TLD to use yet. thepiratebay changed to "se", to I'm guessing Sweden has a trustworthy TLD.

It's going to be a pain as well, there are thousands of links, so I'll need to keep the .com domain if only for redirects.
Why target students? I don't see anything about students on the site -- only in the link above.
I think reddit's code is also openly available
Something needs to be said about people not coming back even though Google is heavily advertising Plus on prime time TV. One cannot imagine the eyeballs Plus is getting versus so many other websites and still they seem to be lacking somehow.
Did you take a minute to actually read into it? It is for the college demographic only - targeted towards users on college campuses.
One person's rational is another person's irrational.
I have a doubt, if megaupload would have been megaupload.hk instead of .com, could the fbi have acted the same way?
How long before they pull something from the root zone using the same reasoning?
The activation link isn't working for me. It takes me to a beagle page with header and footer but the body is blank and I haven't been verified yet.
That's a complete fallacy in my experience developing high-end VFX software for three platforms (Linux, Windows, OS X).

OS X is causing us so much trouble compared to other platforms. With XCode developer stuff, you can only target two versions of OS X, so that's 10.5&10.6, 10.6&10.7 and soon to be 10.7&10.8.

Some of our customers want Lion support. But a lot still want 10.5 support and most of them still want 10.6 support. There's no way of us providing this short of completely separate builds for OS X targeting different versions of the SDK.

And the "consistently better" part is a joke for certain things, e.g. OS X OpenGL support seems to be getting worse despite supporting a later version (3.2) to some degree.

Maybe things are better for more "consumer orientated" developers, but definitely for high-end stuff, it's getting to the point where it's getting more trouble than it's worth to develop for OS X.
As a beagle owner, the title of this project cracks me up.

A beagle (the dog) are not retrievers. They are scent-hounds and as such will ditch you and never come back the second they smell a rabbit.
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Well, I think people are re-implementing everything to run over port 80 with all the baggage that entails to get past firewalls. This will work until somebody comes up with web specific security software, then we'll rebuilt it all to work across twitter or something (think "packets" of 140 characters).
Yeah the amount of moaning is really shocking, I'm disappointed too but I'll be able to get a R-PI eventually. Patience is a virtue
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Awesome, thanks for the update. I was starting to get worried, but I guess it makes sense you're swamped with requests.
People romanticize coffee shops too much.
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I think so, because they also claimed Megaupload had some servers in US. But their case would've probably been weaker then. I think this power to take down .com, .net .org domains comes mostly from the Pro IP Act from 2008 that passed right before our noses, just like SOPA almost did. If we want DHS to stop doing this, we'll need to get the Pro IP Act repealed.
The difference between a corporation and a government is that the corporation has a clear conflict of interest. Also, keep in mind that French governmental organizations are typically less dysfunctional than American ones.
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Does it matter? They make plenty of money anyway and the company stock is doing better than those who attempt to go for the enterprise market.

Sometimes it seems that the business world assumes that everything revolves around it.
Aren't there two elements to the question of jurisdiction here? The fact that .com is managed by Verisign is one (on which this article focuses), but the other is that Bodog was executing financial transactions with residents of Maryland. Thus, by doing business in the state, they expose themselves to that state's jurisdiction.

The big question is whether U.S. jurisdiction can extend beyond U.S. based border based solely upon the fact that Verisign is located in the U.S. For instance, if a Canadian set up a .com gambling site, but only did business with other Canadians, could MD prosecute the site owner based on MD state laws against online gambling? I would guess no. But I'm not a lawyer.
VMWare or VirtualBox are your best bets. I am seeing issues with Parallels Tools as well.
Are they saying that an English company (where sports betting is legal) taking bets from English punters is running afoul of Maryland law? I doubt it. What they are saying is that doing business with American citizens is subject to American laws.

EDIT: An interesting read... http://www.vegassportsmasters.com/?q=article/feds-arrest-eng...
I met Patrick for the first time at MicroConf 2011. Everything he says is true:

- Geeky

- Friendly

- Approachable

- Very open to talking about software-y stuff

I look forward to seeing you again at MicroConf 2012, Patrick.
I got my first iPod around the time Zune launched, and my wife ended up doing some promo jobs for the Zune - and at the end of that summer, got a Zune out of it as a bonus.

To rank my experience between portable music playback devices:

iPhone > Zune > iPod

She swears by her Zune, and having used both it and the iPod, the Zune is far and away a better device on every front. Having said that, the iPhone's interface is just that much better - and has the benefit of in-depth integration with third party devices.

When I'm listening to music on my computer though, I actually came to use the Zune desktop software. I have a rather silly process of downloading music, tagging it with MP3tag, dropping it into iTunes (to sync to the iPhone, & to organize the files into folders based on artist & album), and Zune Desktop picks up on the changes to my Music folder and catalogs them automatically.

Zune Desktop blows away iTunes for music playback. iTunes is perhaps a better music/app/video store, but the interface sucks, it's laggy. It looks out of place because it's using dated Mac aesthetics in a Windows environment. For a company that prides itself on style, it sure screws that pooch in the software department.
I used to work for an online editorial in Spain, which did exactly that: charge for scraped content. You can't imagine how many customers there are for this kind of thing.
Ask HN: Should I market when gauging interest?
I've set-up a LaunchRock page to gauge interest on an idea for a mobile application. If there are a lot of sign-ups then I'll probably proceed into development.

My question is: should I attempt to drive as much traffic as possible to my "pre-launch" site?

Is the formula for gauging interest as simple as number of signups / number of visitors?

Thanks!
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Heroku Dyno's were down for a lot of clients for several hours on saturday. One site that I use a lot, Intercom.io, was completely off the grid because of this. I was wondering why there was no news about it here.

https://status.heroku.com/incident/308
Remember their are also publishers in the mix. Hopefully all of the payments for out-of-print books are going to the authors only.
There's no cost to post or download, but we are currently building a system to filter out inappropriate tasks. For now, we're monitoring manually.
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Perhaps my understanding is wrong, but I thought Verisign is the only registrar and operator for .com domains--other registrars like GoDaddy or this Canadian company simply resell Verisign registrations, which they get at a wholesale price.
If X has skills that could be of use that will already be recognized he'll be brought inside the gates when necessary.

... in a world with perfect management.
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>or hope 32-bit disappears

sadly, this might take another 10 years or so...

For the legacy problems, I found a VMWare + old OS in virtual machine solution really usable. Especially when some magic is applied to window management to have it seamlessly integrated in the host OS.

It would free MS from so much pain if they'd bless this setup and get rid of the administrative hurdles (licenses, registration, genuine check etc.).
Heh. I think they are going the right way, too, but they're up against the types of those who think Facebook or YouTube should never change the UI and leave it alone forever.

Apple is slowly converging OSX and iOS into one platform, "inspired by iPad", etc. Microsoft isn't doing that. They are smashing the two together at once, when they should really have created an OS that ran alongside the PC market until the proverbial train tracks merged. This way, everyone melds into a comfort zone rather than being shoved into it (not comfy).

I don't know if Apple initially figured this out intentionally but they are surely proud of it today, because people want iOS features on OSX – least to a degree. Apple incentivized the experience through the needs created by developers. Microsoft is not answering these needs (API) directly, instead, just supposing they should exist and that will translate into useful applications.
Thanks! That's exactly what we're thinking and hoping.
Fair point, their announcements are like clockwork and always involve a major product release.

But at the end of the day isn't it just another gadget? Smartphones and tablets have been mainstream for a few years now and can you honestly say that our lives are so drastically different/better in any meaningful way? They do have a large amount of goodwill coming from their customer but they don't create that goodwill by building anything significantly different from all the other hardware manufacturers. They do it by packaging it very nicely and making the keynotes into events that are very consumable by the media as well as Joe Shmoe the consumer.

It certainly doesn't hurt that these events don't have to appeal to h/w distributors at all since Apple has all the distribution channels by the balls way before their products are even announced.
You're right; sorry. I was stuck (as my comments indicate) on thinking of the classical setting of calculus, where functions can differ by a constant; but, since your functions are implicitly extended by 0, they cannot so differ! That is, unlike the constant function 0 : Z -> R, the 'constant' function 1 : N -> R isn't really constant once we regard it as a function Z -> R.

P.S. I am a mathematician; Python convinces me of nothing but special cases. :-)
You would have to pull a whole TLD if you're removing something from the root zone.
I'm not arguing that they don't offer improvements - they do, especially at the lowest levels with improved stacks, drivers, etc. The problem is that what the user sees hasn't improved in any proper way, and has in may ways actually regressed.
AT&T's plan to charge developers isn't crazy - yet
Now I'll concede and say you may be right so long as the contract or ToS reads that way. My intuition would tell me that when a user agrees to allow youtube to use their content as a revenue stream in exchange for a cut of the revenue then that is what the uploader/owner is entitled to.

Contract law is extremely clear on what is necessary for what's called "consideration" and allowing one party of the contract to willfully provide that consideration to an unauthorized 3rd party without the contractual party's consent opens themselves to lawsuit.

Again, I'm going to go on the record here and admit you're probably right. Contracts by youtube and the like will be as vague as possible providing the maximum power to themselves in order to run the system. I would fully expect terms of the contract to provide the uploader with next to 0 rights regarding their content once its handed over.
What is the safest ccTLD be for businesses to register under? .se?
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We think that college students are more motivated to run around doing tasks for each other, a little more desperate for quick cash, and there's already an existing community at every campus. Eventually we'll spread beyond colleges, but for now it should be a good way to spread.
Oh no, I don't think the internet can take another 'so fast it destroys everything you know about interneting' node.js project :(
What languages did you use and what was your learning process?
> that's why apple won't find much traction in the business world. backwards compatibility is very important.

By all appearances they don't care to be in that market, and for that very reason. So, the system works.
Compare this to administering machines yourself: Your "admin console" goes down every night for 8 hours while your sysadmin is asleep.
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I see two major problems being solved here:

1. "too many cooks in the kitchen" design-by-committee crap

2. "sunk cost" pressures to deliver on investments

What's interesting is how few people are involved in making decisions, given the size of the company.

As an engineer, I wonder if I would feel more or less significance over my own decisions, given the constant executive feedback, and what the relationships with "the EPM/GSM mafia" feels like. My sense is that it's probably fine, given the talent level of the design group.

I also wonder how many of these startups have been killed. I have to think that keeping things secret means that the execs can halt projects without reporting this to investors.
Which is also ridiculous. American citizens are subject to American laws; the person making the bet.
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Has anyone at any wealth level ever simply stopped making money because he was upset about taxes?

Yes, it happened to Ronald Reagan. When the top tax rate was 90% (he was an actor at the time), he chose to make only two movies/year. He saw little point in making more movies since he wouldn't get paid for it.

http://toomuchonline.org/the-tax-that-turned-ronald-reagan-r...
Soon enough it will be on all motorola set-top boxes. That part of the acquisition imho was more important than the mobile device manufacturing business.
So you're saying it's taskrabbit, but for college students? I'm curious as to why you picked this demographic to target. From my own personal experience, college students seem to have less money but more time than your average person. They could be a good fit for this ecosystem as those who complete tasks, but it seems like it would be much more difficult to get them to post.
Sure, using an old VS is the obvious workaround, but that doesn't really make VS 2011 better. And well - good for them if they can afford to just cut old ties, unfortunately many of us don't have that luxury. I thought market of XP is down to 20-30% by now and falling (but maybe that's only true for typical gaming systems), but that's still a rather big market share to ignore for now.
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It indicates that anyone using a .COM domain must either: 1) Not do business with American customers. or 2) Be aware of every U.S. law to avoid allowing their American customers from breaking one of them.
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Apples design secret is it's almost omnipotent vertical integration.

Not to take anything away from Ives who is an amazing designer.

But he would not be doing the things he's been doing in another company. It simply wouldn't be possible because other companies assemble components. And that is why no one is able to make better products than apple are when looked form a holistic point of view.
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I'm not affiliated with these guys, was just basing it off their 'about' page that they are for college students.
I don't think they contradict my assumptions so much as hit it from a different angle.

Reality TV is sort of a more professional way of users creating their own content. The cameras/production and the like are still controlled operations but they're seeking out non-actor types who are willing to expose themselves for a chance at riches and fame. This leads more towards people who are inclined to take that sort of route instead of "earning" it through work. (Earn might be poor word choice here)

The other side of the coin to look at too is the type of people on those shows. It isn't a secret that they finely tune who is invited to participate and the show producers will obviously elect to cast people that are more "drama prone" or capable of providing that level of entertainment value.

Maybe if we take a step back and look at it from the meta level we could say that an indication of the general population "becoming more dumb" is the idea that we are willing to suck up this form of entertainment more and more. Is it a sign of being dumber when we more inclined to watching people generate meaningless drama, fight or expose themselves instead of intellectual stimulating programs?
Well, that's kind of the point of Brave New World; most people are happy to occupy the place they're given, take the drugs they're given, and only misfits question the validity of drugging the whole population to produce an artificial state of euphoria.

Maybe depression is a natural state that shouldn't be interfered with. It certainly leads to great works of art and literature. For all we know, it may be necessary for the fitness and survival of the species. It may be a prerequisite to civilization. So now, because society grants a license to psychologists to play God with patients' emotions, and just because you, and they, and even the patients say they're only too happy to be "cured" of their depression, that's supposed to provide a valid mandate for a license to play God?

See if you can answer this question directly: By your logic, is there any reason people should not be lobotomized if it produces a happier or calmer patient?
Okay, it should be working now. Thanks again.
They may be trying to target a different demographic of users initially but I see no actual differentiator between the two? College campuses are not remote islands so why would I go with beagle - a marketplace with a smaller user base - when taskrabbit exists?

Its an honest question, I'm just wondering whats their angle.
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Probably .info, it's not managed by any national government.
This first run is not the educational release. These are specifically for hackers.

The educational release will be later this year, and will include cases, power supplies, and an OS for the same price. This release is lacking all those.

This early release is for hackers to play with, develop projects, and write tutorials, so that there is an ecosystem already in place for the educational release.
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Thank you for the reply!

My question for point #2 is in the line of the need to perform data migration actually.

Let's say you have a bug on your code in a way that the data stored currently are wrong and you need to fix them up by performing a batch update. Would that hurt you in terms of cost? How would you handle such situation?

Or let's just say that your user profile data model needs to be re-jiggered to support a new feature (adding columns, changing current columns, etc).
I disagree that we will ever see a FULL fusion of desktop and touch OS's. Sure the OS may present two interfaces and they will be married closely but honestly I don't ever want to see "one interface to rule them all".

Fact is we're used to doing things on desktops that are precision. Pointers are very accurate and we can manage large amounts of data on-screen very well. Touch UI's are different by design because simply put our fingers are fat lumps of meat. We need to alter the UI when it will be a touch experience to account for that lack of accuracy.

To try to ultimately merge these two I think is a mistake. You're bound to loose some of the qualities that make each UI ideal for its intended use. I don't want to tap tiny icons with my finger, I don't want to scroll huge tiles with my mouse. I don't see why it's such a bad thing to accept that they are two completely different use cases with different capabilities.
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Just speculating, but could you update an SQLite DB with JS and use an API to commit the change? Or would that be ineffective since the API keys would be publicly available? I'm assuming the db access would be infrequent, like a blog that used Disqus for comments.
How is this even remotely relevant to "Hacker News" ??
I think you have this backwards. What do people want then? I mean, my TiVo is getting old and it's time to look for a replacement. I'm looking around the field and as you point out, they're all pretty much the same. I want OTA TV capture and a reasonable interface to streaming content (currently using Netflix, but I'd be happy to jump ship).

It's a commodity market. No one cares about the UI[1], they want the content. So while I certainly agree that Google isn't going to get a huge win on this, they will certainly be a player.

[1] Though it has to not suck. I'd be very suspicious of a streaming app packaged with my TV. Google has a rather better track record of producing solid consumer software than, ahem, Vizio.
So if you use the information that you know well you will raalize that you need o much more convinced?
I learned from my own mistakes, not Rails per se. (not really, I knew I was doing it wrong the whole time)

I built a bank/credit card company using Rails (back in 2005/2006). I didn't know much about Ruby or Rails by then, I was in a hurry (startup hurry). No one close to me was using Rails, so I was pretty much on my own. God, did I do Rails wrong. We managed to fix some things by 2008 but the mess came back and we now are stuck with this:

~ 4k models, 5k controllers, 7k views: Ruby 1.8.7 and Rails 2.3 stuck.

It is our fault that we got to the point where technical debt is making us build from scratch a new app while the existing one is perfectly functional. There are so many common design problems in our app that we are lucky it works so well.

We are almost finishing a new app in rails 3, we are having some trouble, but it's not the same I hear people complaining about:

- Our routes.rb is hitting 2mb, reminds me of my old struts.xml

- I do love REST, but it bites. specially large, complex applications.

- Testing times :(

- I need a EJB3 replacement, not activeresource. I need a way to share remote models to many other rails apps in a NON-RESTFULL way.

- My peers love url helper methods, I don't.

- i18n could be improved: currency

I had similar problems with Spring, Seam and JSF. So...
I would like to know if there is a way upgrade from the developer preview to the consumer preview? I have been using Windows 8 as my primary OS for last 4 months and don't want to do a clean install...
True - I just assumed multinationals given that the discussion is on sponsoring units of account to compete with sovereign currencies. I should have been clearer about that.
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