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For that depression that is environmental, and caused by factors like stress, isolation and boredom, the internet would be a welcome salve. Engagement on facebook and HN reduce isolation and boredom.
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Something I haven't seen discussed: how are web browsers going to handle somebody typing a generic keyword that is also TLD into the address bar? The chrome-style omnibar that every browser has since adopted is predicated on the fact that URLs are fairly easily recognizable.

But if amazon owns "books" and hosts something at http://books/, should browsers navigate to Amazon whenever someone attempts to search for "books"?

[Actually, is it even allowed to host A records directly on a TLD? I've been reading through RFCs and haven't seen it explicitly disallowed, but nobody seems to have done it with a currently-available TLD.]
If the old style sells enough, I think they'll absolutely keep it around. In fact, I'd expect them to back off on the 'transition' and rename the new-style MBP an Air.

After all -- despite the mini, nano and shuffle -- the iPod classic stubbornly remains. Even after all these years. Not to mention the 13" MBP which seems (without the benefit of sales data) to be fairly pointless.

Apple won't hesitate to risk cannibalizing itself with new products. But they don't have any history of forcing the issue, if the old products still sell.
Why should I have to type "canon.local" for my printer name, just in order to avoid an advert to buy a new printer? This destroys any sense of user preference in favor of large corporations pushing their shit further into your face even when you explicitly don't want it.

I've worked at many places where http://search/ was the Intranet search facility. Not now though, nope. Now your IT department will be under pressure to accept Big Search's latest site-integrated intranet search which they conveniently started marketing around the time they broke all your local URLs.
No, now it's saddled with weird arbitrary restrictions and a URL tree that makes no sense.

Sorry for the tone -- I'm a little frustrated.
So, what you're saying is that 640kb should be enough for everyone, at least until next year's WWDC, when Apple releases a new $2000 laptop?
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I use it this way, too. If this feature goes away, I will stop using Dropbox, simply because most of the convenience that gave the service value for me would be gone. I don't think he's overreacting.
Still, we should anticipate some delay before decay. Otherwise it could cause cold feet, leading to a pretty strong backlash.
Direct links are convenient for me, the end user. That's why I use dropbox -- to have an easy way to put files up onto the internet to show others.
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They have not made a formal claim of copyright violation, they have not involved lawyers, they have not sent a cease and desist (to my knowledge).

They did use the word "stole" but they used it in a casual, non-legal sense and followed up with an explanation of exactly what they mean. It's completely different from a sustained propaganda campaign that explicitly tries to equate the crime of theft with copyright violation, which is what the MPAA and RIAA did.

Censuring them for using the word "steal" in this case is just nitpicking. That's why no one's doing it. It has nothing to do with "only applying to creators outside the community"
What would you say about people working on search algorithms at Google? Is that prestigious enough for you to call it world class? Because that seems like an addressed problem and maybe doing it only a little better.

> Using an analogy if you want to be in law enforcement are you going to work for the local big city police department or try to work for the secret service or the FBI?

Do tell me what makes the FBI or the Secret Service more "compelling", "original", or "unique" than a "local big city police department". Because I see law enforcement, full stop. Not Swanky Law Enforcement versus Ghetto Law Enforcement.
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yes, I can't wait for the first company that fires people who "tended to engage in very high e-mail usage.". Although high p2p usage at work may be a reasonable excuse for firing :)
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Very nice site. I'm always intrigued by other people's setup, but I need a desk and proper heigh adjustments. My wrists would die if I worked on a bed or in a coffee shop!

If people are also interested at more in depth setups of people from various fields, this site http://usesthis.com (which has been linked to from Hacker News I'm sure) is along the same lines, minus the photo of their actual setup. It's more descriptive.
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I'm still waiting for Dwolla to produce an RFC on this before I even bother looking into it.
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I'm not sure the researchers are giving enough credence to the idea that the depressive's very next click might finally reveal the secret to happiness and fulfillment. I mean, it might? Right? RIGHT?
Consider when searching "nissan" in Google, http://www.nissan.com/ is the fourth result despite being essentially a parked page that no one would ever really want when making that search.

I would say TLDs are very influential.
I think the complaint was about games where as you progress, the time cost increases until even the most time-rich player isn't prepared to keep paying it. Advertising these as 'free' is kind of disingenuous, even if it's technically correct.
You ass. You can't compare things that are essential to a functioning economy to be compared to annoying background noise like '"social" networking'. It more closely related to TV and online media. Both of which are incredibly draining and mind numbing. Try going without TV for a year and take up a productive/creative hobby.
Have you seen Law Enforcement Against Prohibition - http://www.leap.cc/ ? They appear to be a rare bastion of sanity on the subject. I keep meaning to buy one of their t-shirts.
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Thanks, this is great to hear!

(I'm one of the three guys behind GetCloak.com. We're always looking for feedback, positive or negative -- and we're easy to find. Cheers! ;-)
I think the author assumed ICANN wouldn't allow private entities to bid on new, generic TLDs.
Here are several: http://paulgraham.com/ambitious.html
Yes. Tonga turned their TLD `.to` into a domain shortener, although because of the browser issue you mention it generally had to be accessed via http://to./

However, it hasn't been available for a long time now.

EDIT: As pointed out below, http://ac/ points to a real website
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When your phone has 1280x720 native resolution, it's a little hard to accept the same resolution on a tablet.
Don't be ridiculous. It applies where the word "steal" is deliberately abused and it was not in this case.
It would be simple to create a program to log the usage and recommend the user seek counselling, without having to log thousands of peoples internet usage.

I don't get why 1) everyone has to be HAPPY, and 2) why the high ups seem so intent on making sure we're HAPPY.

Here's reality: life can be utterly fucking shitty. People get depressed. Then you get over it and life goes on and eventually someone will die, or your S.O. will dump your ass and you'll get depressed again. Then you get over it.

Fund proper counselling problems to reach out to kids at high risk of suicide and stop giving a shit if everyone is happy. 99.9% of depressed people aren't going to lynch themselves otherwise there wouldn't be a human race.

A very slim number of people get depressed and try to commit suicide. Normally there are a shit ton of signs that everyone around them ignore. If everyone around them actually paid attention to these depressed people before they became suicidal, you'd cut the suicide rate to 1 in 1000 of what it is right now.
If that is a hangup for you, then the entire genre of near future fiction is probably out for you.
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It would need to start happening in a country that's in a position of defying the United States, or happening in the United States itself.

So long as the policy is perpetuated by people who are elected by those who still sheltered from the worst of it, I wouldn't expect any change.

Particularly not now that there's a robust military-incarceration-industrial lobby with a strong incentive to maintain the status quo and no limitation on their ability to make 'campaign contributions'.
You're bang-on. A lot of overweight people go for a walk or a light jog every day and genuinely try. But they only burn a few hundred calories, then turn around and eat a Quarter Pounder with fries and Coke and think they're coming out ahead. You can lose weight by not exercising but eating less than you burn. But you can't lose weight by exercising and eating more than you burn. A pill won't help this.
Very well said. The media generally doesn't specify and inter-relate the problems or state them as plainly.

Having a gigantic drug war going on right across the US border in Mexico is a crazy thing to begin with. Add to that it's about owning territory to import drugs into the US, to feed a large demand.

Plus the cartels make bales of money on marijuana sales, when it could easily be a huge cash crop for so many US counties. Job creation blah blah blah.

I'd support legalization and taxation of marijuana, it seems like the honest thing to do since it's everywhere anyway and doesn't seem to destroy people's lives like crack and meth.
Speaking of photos, I plugged in my iphone today, and itunes pops up this big "Send all your photos to Dropbox auto-magically" advertisement.
does this factor in inflation?
This raises an interesting question: where is the line drawn between 'freemium' and 'free trial of a non-free service'? Your mention of prompting after a set number of logins suggests that you're offering the free tier as a taster, rather than as a serious service.
There's a way to set up finder so that everything is sorted by kind. This means that all the folders will but up near the top together which would help you most likely. I think the problem is the way that files and folders are treated in Unix systems versus the way that they are treated in Windows, but I could be wrong, it's been a while since we talked about windows in any of my classes.
Too bad you giving up on arguing so quick.

Juror can say whatever they want to but the bottom line is is that when you in front of jury, they need to judge you based on your case merits, not whether you did or did not do something good or bad in your life. This is simple irrelevant to case in front of the judge.

Check the case of Casey Anthony, for example. She has been giving sleeping pills to her daughter while partying carelessly in the town. She is a bad person and was terrible mother, but yet importunately there was not enough evidence to sentence her. The jury judged based on evidence presented, not because whether she was a good or bad person. And I believe its a fair system. Otherwise one could have a spat with another and become a priest, teach and help people for 50 years, then blew his opponent head and be found not guilty because he did so many good things in his life. It doesnt work like that.

Whether he was orphan or not, studied to rank 15th or not is truly irrelevant. There is hundred million people throughout the modern world history in similar position than you never heard of (orphan, no parents, brilliant, good grades, etc). But the big different is that Gupta is a sentenced and convicted _criminal_ and they are not!

Further, I cannot compare Gupta's life to Hitler's, because the latter is dead, and Gupta is "not done yet", so its like comparing apples to oranges. But let's play this game. If we would jump into Time Machine and went back in time before September 1939, having the same conversation you would be beaten down by 90% of voters that were with Hitler. I don't know about you, but surely I wouldn't like to stand against 90% of population of a country like Germany. Probably by the end of day number 2, arguing with 90% of population you would be hanging on the pole with hands tighten behind your back. But I agree what happened next, that's a different story.

> But I sense that we are different people, so arguing further with you will be moot.

We all not that different, my friend. We all had the same grand-grand-parents.
I meant a link on the page itself but thanks :)
They've always been at least "Applications" on the Mac, which is probably where the NeXTSTEP team got the file extension. On DOS/Windows it was and still is "Executable," though people are starting to casually use "App" everywhere.
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I suppose it depends on what kind of rock star.

Words never heard backstage = "That's the banjo players Ferrari", "That supermodel is sleeping with the drummer"
Because Apple and Microsoft aren't using their revenues to kill thousands of people. If cutting off their revenues diminishes their ability to do that, it'd be irresponsible of us not to worry about it, or at least consider it
That's a major problem with many (maybe even most) psych studies. I don't think anyone who's thought about it at length really thinks these kinds of populations of convenience ("recruited N students at my university") are a good way to do science, but they are... convenient, so they keep getting used. At some schools, psych students have to participate in a certain number of studies for credit, which makes it easier to get participants, while likely further biasing the participant pool.

It's part of the traditional split between quantitative and qualitative psychologists (and sociologists), each of whom gets one side of the equation stronger. The qualitative side typically goes "out into the world" and tries to interview a target community, building an understanding and iterating to fill in gaps in the understanding. They often succeed in quite good coverage, but don't produce statistical results. The quantitative side typically wants to measure statistically significant results on pre-specified, narrower questions, but often does so only on populations on convenience, rather than going "out into the world" and really understanding the populations that are out there.
Nolan here. I opened this and was reading this when I realized.. I know these guys, I lived with them!

congrats to you and erika, didn't know you were engaged.
Your response means so much for me. I know you hear that all the time, but you keep inspiring me!

What about modernized craigslist? you mentioned that in a previous old article.

Also can you write more about replacing email? Or any source that can guide me to the todo list thing?
Having too many tabs open at one time can definitely hurt my concentration. I can remember multiple times in the last few weeks when I just wanted to look up some specific information or send a single email, but upon switching back to Chrome, ended up answering other emails in my inbox or looking at tabs I had left open with articles that I wanted to read.

I've started making sure I use an app (Pocket) to keep track of articles so I can close the browser tab immediately and read one article at a time exclusively, and on my schedule (e.g. sitting in a taxi or on the subway). For emails, I guess I should write them in a text editor before switching to GMail, so I just have to copy, paste, send.
I should have held on to my old Apple IIe. That was such a great computer. My first word processor ... Bank Street Writer.
Absolutely. In a world where .xxx bombs, I don't think there's much to worry about, as a practical matter.

That said, it still reflects horribly on ICANN. Particularly with a former director flipping over to shameless gTLD profiteer.

And it still reflects poorly on the tech press for not having at least pointed any of this out.
Your argument would carry more weight if Apple had a much larger chunk of the market than all others.

For "Retina"-class displays, they absolutely do.

It was easy to see this coming years ago, and it was indeed inexcusable for everyone else to be caught flat-footed. Any fool should have been able to see exactly what was going to happen the minute they laid eyes on a non-Retina iPad.
Can you file a bug (at bugzilla.mozilla.org) and CC me (":khuey")? I'd like to figure out what Arch is doing here.
"There is no Moore's law for software."

That's because software comes from the realm of biology, not physics, improvements are path-dependent, historically determined and can quite easily get stuck at local maxima rather than finding globally optimum states.
The economics of replacing an entire device are finally starting to make sense.

Exactly. The distinction between a "device" and a "component" is no longer particularly interesting or important. We're dealing with pieces of the 2001 monolith here, for better or worse.
I guess now they will have to change this tutorial of querying one's friends in the Facebook Query Language [0]:

Determine whether the currently logged in user is friends with another user, Bret Taylor (Try this query):
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[0]: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/fql/friend/
Are you on Windows? I eventually tried in Opera 12 and it does not seem to be fixed.

Now I’m not sure why you say it doesn’t work in Chrome at all. Because at least on my platform (OS X), it does, and it looks beautiful and hi-res.
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Processors have barely became faster in the last couple of years.

That's true in the low/mid-range market, but the high end is a different story. A Sandy/Ivy Bridge chip with 4+ cores is ridiculously fast compared to everything else. Meanwhile, today's low-end CPUs are no faster than the mid-market parts of 5 years ago.

The gap between the low and high end of the CPU performance spectrum causes problems for those of us who have to figure out what to target with new products.
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Bret is a badass. Congrats and good luck!
It's not a tough crowd at all, the comments are all extremely reasonable and should be insightful to the job lister.

HN really should allow such comments, it would often help companies get feedback about why they are not finding the people they think they need.
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According to most of the freemium gurus, freemium and free trial are not the same thing; the former is defined as having a level of service that is free forever. Obviously free trials are by definition not free forever.
Yep, sounds like a recipe for startup death, doesn't it?
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I actually started writing shorter lines of code once I got my large external monitor. I've found it's really convenient to set my editor to take up 50% of the screen vertically and have either a command line or browser on the other half of the screen (and reference windows on the laptop screen). In this setup, the editor is actually slightly narrower and taller than when full-screen on my laptop.

Switching between screen sizes really made me realize the importance of making sure all my code breaks at column 80, which makes it easier to read in terminals, on other people's screens, etc. as well. Good practice, I think.
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I don't really know what social media is well enough to say I would go without it. I am simplifying it and getting off Facebook though (Strangely about a month ago I just quit signing on-- I suppose I should announce to people that I am no longer going to be there.)

But social media can be a larger thing. Email lists, discussion forums like this, blogs, etc. Some of those are central to my ability to stay informed and some are central to my actual productive work. I don't know you can separate email lists from something like Hackers News.

So I am separating things into three piles.

1) Discard: Facebook
2) Check 1-2 times/day (HN, a few blogs)
3) Check occasionally (LinkedIn, etc)

I haven't gotten on the Twitter bandwagon, so I don't have any experience with that.
Because Microsoft and Apple's retail employees don't do drive-by shootings of each other's storefronts.

No one here is claiming that selling drugs is legal. Some of us think that selling drugs should become legal, in the hopes that businesses that are like Microsoft and Apple, i.e., don't assassinate judges, etc, will outcompete the cartels and decrease the cartel's revenues, hence decreasing their ability and participation in such undesirable activities.
It's easy enough to demonstrate that Google gives significant weight to domain names that match the search query. It's not entirely clear how that might be influenced by the TLD, though, whether they'd explicitly favor nissan.com over nissan.biz for example.
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Excellent! Looks like a mod took pity on the English language and changed the title to match the linked article.
No, www.nissan.com is popular because of Page Rank. It really is little (if anything) to do with the domain name.

The Page Rank is high with nissan.com due to its lawsuit with Nissan Motors. They even have a link at the top of their page with information about the lawsuit.

Many tech articles have been written about www.nissan.com. This is more a study about Page Rank, Public Relations and the Streisand Effect than anything.
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Thank, I've tried trello, and it's actually pretty nice. But then I got over-ambitious and the list got ridiculously wrong. Tried dividing it up into four quadrants like the 7-habits book said, and well, there are stuff on that list from 6 months ago. Only time that list seemed to help was when I had my assistant checking on it and nagging me to get things done...
no, they don't (unless your site is hosted on a spammy pseudo TLD like co.cc), but in general google does not prefer one TLD over the other (they stated this a thousand time, you just have to trust them, if we annoy matt enough he will probalby even stated this here once again) - google does not prefer one TLD over the other - but people are.

people search for [nissan.com], so that domain has navigational search demand, which is very likely a factor for google.

people link to nissan.com (yes, they do https://www.google.com/search?q=link%3Awww.nissan.com&pw...) without even checking if it's the right domain (and sometimes out of other reasons than we think, i.e. lawsuits

(CMS also tend to convert every .com pseudo urls into an link, so this is also a factor)

people tend to click on official looking search results, .com looks official.

google prefers what people search, link, click on. so (sadly) .com matters.