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BATTLE: //url.tld VS http://url.tld
Vote for your favorite below. Or upvote if you prefer sharing urls without "http:", and downvote if you prefer keeping "http:" in the picture.

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Can we agree to drop the use of "http://www.google.com", and let browsers and email clients auto-generate urls from "//google.com" instead?

Which do you favor for use in print, email and advertising?

Option A (http://)

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http://google.com

http://facebook.com

http://mint.com

http://news.ycombinator.com

http://voice.google.com

Option B (//)

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//google.com

//facebook.com

//mint.com

//news.ycombinator.com

//voice.google.com

Option C ()

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google.com

facebook.com

mint.com

news.ycombinator.com

voice.google.com

Let's see where the community stands. What barriers exist to shortening the syntax for http and https resources to "//url.tld"?

If Hacker News supports the shift, Web 2.0 might just might support the change.

One proposed measure of spectacular success: If Google Mail staff reading this thread devote development time to prefilling the "//google.com" link destination to "http://google.com" when users highlight and link text that reads "//google.com", and promote this as a flexibility feature to its 350 million active users.

(If Google promotes "//link.com" as a secure simplicity feature, we'll save ourselves googols of keystrokes, and enable enhanced textual clarity and reading speed for urls printed in-line in emails and on paper.)
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Incandescent (filament) bulbs glow by black-body radiation as the filament heats. Mains cycles are too short for the bulb to flicker (though you can get interesting effects on slower, ~2Hz or thereabouts, voltage fluctuations).

Fluorescent and LED lighting actually flicker multiple times per second, though this can be tuned somewhat.

If you remember CRT displays and monitor flicker, the problem wasn't so much the flicker rate of the monitor, but the interference in rates and timing between your monitor and the overhead office fluorescent lighting. Setting refresh to anything other than (and preferably above) 60Hz (US) would resolve this.
I find the doubters like yourself rediculous. Have you never emersed yourself in anything? Things that seem impossible aren't remotely when you take them seriously and let them consume your every thought. Focus 8 hours a day on memorizing the digit of pi, reading music, speed reading, multiplying four digit numbers in your head, "counting cards" in Blackjack, playing chess without sight of a board, learning JavaScript, playin Tetris, or whatever. You might find that what seems impossible now becomes second nature. You might find that taking something that is second nature to a higher level (speed-reading technical documents, reading symphonies, division in your head, beating level 41, or whatever) is doable in a few more months. Why wouldn't someone who has mastered the basics of a language, perhaps beyond the level of many native speakers in terms of grammar or vocabulary in say three or four months, not be able to reach a truly proficient level in just another month or two? The poster has devised a technique of getting to an accelerated level of learning as soon as possible. If you try, you might find you can do this, too. I won't laugh.
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But for some reason. Apple can't get a decent programmer. Their software sucks. Plain down right sucks. I love using apple hardware but I can't stand any software made by them. (See: Xcode, Itunes, Safari)
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> For starters, I think you will realise that most startups circa 2000/1 were nothing more than litteral "thin air" -- compare that to the likes of Facebook who actually have revenues, hell, they even have a product.

In 2000/2001 Yahoo! was one of the biggest websites on the planet. Its revenue doubled in 1999. Between 2000 and 2001 Yahoo stocks went from a high of $118.75 to $4.05 (though they obviously recovered to an extent and are still a cash cow today). Perhaps that could be a good comparison for FB?

They also spent big on acquisitions in the late 90s just before the bubble burst.
hah. I keep getting told I need to dilute that with more positive entries or something. I'm actually embarrassed that I never gave a final update on Rehnquist; I usually do. I set it to 'bank sparing' mode, and it's been stable ever since. (The spare is standing by, but I have at least as many questions about that hardware as this. Expect some serious entries about burn-in and hardware testing from me in the next weeks; I have a whole lot of used hardware that I'm renting out for unixsurplus as dedicated servers.)
I have nothing to contribute to this thread, but am anxious to see the outcome of it.

I am a 25 year old just finishing up college, and am jumping right into the startup world the moment I graduate.. from Philly.

I'm curious to see how well received your Ask HN becomes, because everything I know about Silicon Valley just though the web. I'd enjoy hearing about your journey how you make it out there!
Ooh! Evangelism time!

Have you tried LaTeX yet? I just started using it seriously and I don't think I'll ever go back. It's amazing for writing. And since it's good old plain text, it's highly compatible with git. I love being able to import sub-documents into one large structure; it's like writing modular code, but with papers.
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The matrix didn't go BSOD when Crysis launched, it wont go because of a reverse stream of water...
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We had a big series of bomb threats when I was in high school. One day the principal decided to do just that--ignore it. He was fired the next day.
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Hey Liyan, I would want this as something I, as the developer, could specify. A social site might want all the options there, but for my sites I'm worried about conversion and wouldn't want the added confusion of having upload choices that my customers are rarely going to use.
Agree on the Japanese point. The way you build sentences is just TOO different. You can definitely learn Japanese and speak it as a "gaijin" (meaning using european-style sentences with Japanese words) but speaking Japanese like a Japanese takes tremendous efforts and a serious re-wiring of your own brain as to how you approach language.

I'd seriously doubt if anyone can claim they can learn Japanese to a high level of fluency in a matter of months or even a few years.
You can do this with Applescript as a folder action. You can see how to do this here: http://dougscripts.com/itunes/itinfo/folderaction01.php

I was thinking that you meant live monitoring, i.e. your library would be a reflection of your directory structure with additional metadata stored in unit sections so that it scales better.
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So we get "job creation start-ups", aka bubble businesses. The only winning move is to break the rules of the game by simply redistributing wealth/income to people who don't have it to spend.

Well, that or to build a luxury rich people will pay for.
You made me feel old. As others commented before, the documents at stake were released int he Phrack magazine (which had a HN article some days ago because of a new issue).

The E911 article is:

http://phrack.org/issues.html?issue=24&id=4#article

The funny thing is that after all the noise the FBI and government made, it was found that the same document was kind of publicly available (or easily obtainable by anyone).

Good times those :)
Pandaboard (okay, TI) has gotten pretty damned hacker-friendly. They have a nice schematic set too.

http://pandaboard.org/node/223/
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I haven't used iTunes for quite a while, but my gripe (on Windows at the time) was that it decided what your content was, presumably by file extension. "Please class these files as TV episodes, for my iPod Video, iTunes", to which iTunes would say "sorry, those are movies", and move them into the movie folder... never found out how to stop it from doing that.
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Edit: It's been a while since I followed Amarok developments, turns out it's now available multi platform... Starts download on all machines...
I have seen a lot of foreigners learning French (being French myself, and exposed to international students/professionals in various situations) and I have to seriously doubt that claim as well. I have seen some Americans learning French very fast, in a matter of 6 months, enough to be able to communicate and work in French on a daily basis, but there is no way they could be qualified as producing "clear, well-structured, detailed text on complex subjects".

I trust that some language learning methods work better than others (we can see the disaster of language teaching in schools to understand that HOW you learn makes a difference) , this being said, time spent learning the language is often a critical factor to look at. 30 mins a day, for 5 months is not going to cut it, even with the methods described.

There's just so much the brain can absorb in a short time.
Pretty sure you can just select which ones you want in the options.
I went to school to become an engineer (I'm 24) because I thought that computers and the internet were going to make invention and innovation possible even for people who did not work for industrial laboratories. Maybe the hugely reduced barriers to entry into the technology sector that resulted from cheap computers and good programming tools would lead young and eager people of brilliance to found ambitious companies to finally -- aren't we all sick of being exasperated by the mediocrity of culture and politics in the past 20 years? -- steer human life into better modes of existence and a new frontier of boldness. Sure, the internet cannot do this all on its own, but is such a powerful and promising tool, that maybe it would start things.

I hate to sound all Statler-and-Waldorf on you, but DO-HO-HO-HO!!!!!

Technology is not going to change our social system. Our technology is fine and dandy. Our social system is increasingly shitty.

So the real question is: how do you take anti-profitable activities like fixing our social system (ie: wealth redistribution) and make them profitable?
I really like the ping-pong model here and I think it's the only one acceptable by the privacy concerned masses. I hope I'll remember to use the app every time I'll be curious where ppl are. All I'd wished for is auto refresh.
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I would quite like to talk to your recruiter, my email is brianfarr@gmail.com. Thanks for responding!
Thanks, and I emailed you!
There are a lot of comments here, but I don't see anybody asking one particularly important question (and please forgive my ignorance of Riseup.net). Why did removing one server cause so much disruption? Do they not have back-ups? Redundant servers?

If this stuff is so gosh-darn important, I feel these users have put their faith in the wrong hosting organization...
There's a great idea I read once (can't remember the book), where space mining smelters inject nitrogen into the molten metal creating a foam. This drastically changes the thermal and density characteristics of the material and allows tons of the material to be dropped from orbit into the ocean without causing an accidental extinction event.

Here's some links on it

http://dailyreckoning.com/foam-technology/

A better question is that this seems to only make economic sense for relatively rare materials, but the sudden flood of material would lower their market price potentially pushing them too low to be economically viable to support space mining.
Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3834492
It's only the comments in this thread that have made me realise iTunes is infuriating for everyone.

Having never been an Mac OS user, I had always assumed they put all their effort into the Mac version, and then did some kind of nasty port and hacked away until a windows version worked. Not a conspiracy theory, so much as a lack of interest from Apple to make a decent windows version.

On windows, I use winamp. It supports my iPod, and actually allows me to listen to and manage my music collection.
More particularly, subways drive up real-estate values, thus pushing people out of areas served by subways -- unless you convince the government to spread subway access universally throughout the entire sufficiently-populated area.

Compare Europe and New York's Tri-State-Area to Boston or BART.
Thanks, I will definitely try to updated with the results and everything I learned, so other east coasters like me can have the chance, if they want it. Good luck!
Thanks for the feedback! The UI is just a webview that refreshes from a server. This is so I can iterate on the UI without going through the app store, but I agree native would be better. I'm thinking of actually using clutch.io in the next version.

I agree with the rest of your feedback as well. Good stuff.
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> The UI is just a webview that refreshes from a server. This is so I can iterate on the UI without going through the app store

Smart :) Good luck with this, I dig it!
Sure, but Facebook is like AOL or Yahoo in the 2001 analogy it seems to me. Real companies at the top which are overpriced which leads to hyped prices for lots of other companies like Pinterest ($7.7 Billion price tag as per Forbes), Instagram etc. Is it 2001? No, because there's that lesson to look at and learn from, but it's a bubble 'we're' in.
Don't forget the "tables" used for layout.

Oh wait, my bank still does this.
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Seems a bit too obvious to not have been considered/eliminated as the most likely cause all along. Or was it just too hard to confirm without the Sensor data so that people instead spent all that time discussing outlandish explanations?
There's only one way to know if he is lying or not. A Skype call between him and native speakers in the languages he claims to master.
I will definitely check it out. Getting get to sync whith MS doc was certainly a pain.
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Haha, nice pitch - wonder if VCs would buy it! ;)

Hilarious story btw. :)
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Yeah, that one. That dragonfly is effing amazing and I <3 it. I have proselytised for it for quite some time now and I'm still depressed more people don't use it. I actually found it when I started contributing to refinerycms.
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Hey Aaron,

I built a POC site a long time ago called FindFacetime (before Apple started using the Facetime name) that was focused on geolocation within a person's forage area, then connected the space on that person's forage map to their available time.

The goal was to find facetime, or spacetime, or the portmanteau (sfacetime) or (spfacetime).

Facebook optimizes on screentime. What service exists to match calendars and offer you a menu of possible options for real-world facetime? Noonhat was the last most interesting entry I saw (and part of the inspiration for Find Facetime), if only there were user account management, and I could invite all my friends to sign-up, and optionally invite strangers.

I hope someone out there runs on this idea and builds a free site that outcompetes Facebook on connecting me face-to-face with my friends, helping us match up our respective forage areas or radii and black out all but our mutually available time blocks.

I'd be happy to invest in the business myself.
I care about real privacy and civil liberties issues. Compared to drug dog probable cause searches, this is a tinfoil hat concern. My guess is that many of the people denouncing EDRs the loudest have EDRs in their cars and didn't even know about it.

If you feel like I spend a lot of time shouting down civil liberties issues, consider that maybe that has less to do with me --- a liberal ACLU supporter and donor --- and more to do with the tenor of civil liberties discussions on HN.

... I mean, if you care enough to consider why I'm on the other side of this issue. If you just want to yell at me, that's fine too. (Really, it's fine; I'm not being snide).
Thanks, you actually hit on my #1 question: whether people will remember to use the app. I guess we'll see now that it's out there.

Also it should auto-refresh whenever it gets an Apple Push Notification. If the push notification is delayed, then your clicking refresh could show new data.
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In fact it doesn't even have to go to European tax rates to pay off its debt. All levels of government in the U.S. currently take in a combined 27% of GDP in taxes. In Germany, it's 41% (not to mention Denmark at 49%), which leaves quite a lot of fiscal headroom for the U.S. to raise additional revenue while still remaining a relatively low-tax country.
Man, I've never heard of Evernote before but it sounds exactly like a service I was mentally designing (which I tentatively dubbed "thoughtbank"). If only I'd started executing a few years earlier I could be a billionaire!
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Speaking of bandwidth... Are you really not losing money on $1.15/mbps overage? How many 10gbps ports did it take before you got Cogent down that low?
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Can you cite any examples of this ever happening? I am curious now.
Awesome!! This sounds great!
Right, that's the revenue they have to play with, and yep, that's what I meant by opening up the throttle :-)
Oh, there's a much better example than that:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wabi_%28software%29

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> I wouldn't sign this unless I had equity.

Great point. Do vesting options count here, or are you talking real equity?
It's been eons since I've been there, but I believe a reproduction of this is set up at the Boston Science Museum.
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Even if the result is in a certain sequence, why is the calculation required to be done sequentially?

With the map builtin deprecated because of LCs, wouldn't it make sense to exploit concurrent-like behavior with the nicer LC syntax? It makes a lot of sense to execute strictly in order for generators, but it doesn't make that much with LCs and I never saw code whose correctness depends on strictly ordered causation of side-effects.

Obviously, being that much multiprocessor-friendly makes little sense under a GIL, but CPython is not the only implementation of Python.
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I would prefer more disk per dollar though. Besides that I'm a happy customer.
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If it does fly, Oracle is going to have a lot of fun.

For instance, Oracle copied SQL from IBM years before it was a standard. There's also Sun's involvement in Wabi. I'm sure Microsoft wouldn't mind extracting some cash for that "infringement".
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I actually find the iTunes store on the iPhone to be quite terrible as well.

It takes longer than any other app to power up and then greets you with a "Loading..." routine. In case you get over this it will do it again every time you switch to a different item on the menu, e.g. Search. It's like it's not sure of itself and must phone home before displaying the UI to, I don't know, show a user the "Purchased" screen. Same deal with the App Store and Mail apps. All very clunky.
I've heard this explanation before, but never with this degree of certainty.
Google recommends the opposite:

http://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/cppguide.x...

I prefer this since unsigned underflow (which is an easy bug) produces a value which is still a valid size and is not detected by IOC or -ftrapv. Also, it requires you to use unsigned loop indexes, which will simply lead to more bugs.

The fact that your program contains no individual objects whose size is > INT_MAX should be a sign that you should use int for their size.
The question is irrelevant, there is already a standard. Browsers use http://, dead-tree material uses nothing, and no one uses //, because that's just weird.

Typing in http:// is never necessary, so we're already saving as many keystrokes as possible.
On Prezi, only http:// links are translated into links. Screen real estate is precious in a powerpoint presentation. Why can't "//link" get translated into a hyperlink?
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SF [1] is the only (yes, only) chain of movie theaters in Sweden and between 23.30 and 07.00 their online purchasing system is disabled because they have to sync their systems. It's annoying being forced to follow an set of opening hours that exist simply because SF has a inferior tech platform. Even more annoying is knowing that they have zero incentives to improve this because they literally have no competition. Is it possible to disrupt a dying industry? ;)

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If you're reading a dense paragraph of text,and you come across a google.com link, your eye does not immediately recognize it as a link. But if you're reading a paragraph and you see a //google.com link... well now, that's a link!

Everything that's new and not normalized with a smiling, attractive face beside it gets written up as weird, until it gets normalized and becomes commonplace.

I'm asking HN: Can we collectively make this "//link.com" syntax not weird?