skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A domain squatter[1] sits on a domain name that relates to trademark (but without abusing the trademark) in hope of a sale on that basis, a "domainer" holds domain names that are brandable, or have keyword value, but are otherwise IP free.

They are often "parked" (those god-awful advertising pages, or worse psedo-content wrapped with advertising) which through type-ins and long-tail search can attract enough clicks to cover the annual cost of registration, or in some cases, many times it. In this way, "domainer" will aim to operate at no cost, or modest gain across a portfolio, with domain sales being the core revenue opportunity.

[Edit to add a reference]

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybersquatting
It wont need to be compiled into CSS—it _is_ CSS?

> EDIT: parent originally asked about the difference between this and SASS/LESS.
Python network programs, especially ones with many connections, should use Twisted.

A benchmark of anything but the best library/tools in each language is pointless.
Probably because people just don't believe it will ever happen to their country, to them or their children.
Being offensive is a secondary concern. The primary concern is that you failed to communicate your point. Even re-reading your comments, I cannot see any indication of sarcasm; I see no indication that you agree with my point that many people who do useful work related to computing use Macbooks.
Sadly, people do, even here in Germany.

When I use this example to illustrate how an information that was once "clean" can become "dirty", they don't seem to understand. They act like that "incident" is soo far away, some sort of horror story(!) that has nothing to do with today. Everything will stay like it is now.

I guess the idea of something like 1933 happening again is so frightening or detached that they just dismiss it.

EDIT: I should add that people who actually lived in the time of Nazi-Germany might have a very different reaction to jgrahamc's argument. I made my observation above mainly with young people.
My laptops usually last me 3-4 years, at least, after a hard drive and RAM upgrade, as well as a new battery.

New hard drive. New RAM. New battery. Probably want a new CPU, but that's not upgradable. Ditto display. Can't add Thunderbolt, USB3, or whatever nifty new interface.

May as well just get a new computer at the 2+ year point, seeing as you replaced half of it and want to replace the other half.

"This here's a good axe. It's had nine handles and three heads."
Pretty neat. I'm going to fork it and throw it against my C# implementation (http://www.alchemywebsockets.net) on mono and see how it compares.
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Are there restrictions or requirements for owners of new TLDs to offer domains for sale at a reasonable price? Or if someone wants a website at myrecipes.food do they now have to pay a premium extortionate amount to the gTLD owner?
I would say don't join because you feel like you need to join to gain some startup. Startups are everywhere these days, prepare yourself :)
The one thing I've learned from HN is that startups are primarily about teams and execution, not so much about ideas. If you are not comfortable with the team or the way in which the members approach the workload, then someone has to change their views and/or behavior...or pass on forming a relationship.
Post-mortem: How did Ski Champion (iOS) do?
iFixit: MacBook Pro with Retina Display Teardown
"If you haven’t already registered your domain with Readability, you have until July 15, 2012 to do so."

They love to give money away, but a.) do not link to the page where to register or tell how to register b.) The signup page only caters to readers c.) The publisher page does not show how to register.

If you search the page, you will find a link buried beside others called "Register"

IMHO that is not the way to have millions of sites to register.

UPDATE: Registered for http://codemonkeyism.com
Now I get $0.18 - Wohooo! Didn't know before that they wanted to give me money. The model seems nice, easier than Flattr but when reading about Readability (and I'm a InstaPaper payer) I thought the model was only for big publishers, not small blogs like mine.
Last time I was in London I did see a bunch of signs trying to convince me the eyes in the sky where such great things that enhanced my safety and should make me feel comfortable...there definitely is propaganda out there supporting them...
Startups are the new graduate school. Well, in some people's eyes anyway. I can see some merit in that position, although I think there is a place for both.

That said, I'm a huge fan of this initiative by Peter Thiel. It just gives one group of people some more options, which is a good thing. And these folks can always go back to college later if they choose. Nothing says college is limited to 18-25 year olds right out of high-school.
Well, I won't buy a system that isn't upgradeable. Developers have needs that scale faster than a consumer, and if I can't upgrade my RAM ... forget it.

Though with 8GB RAM and an SSD, the CPU has suddenly become my slow-point.
Specifically in reply to the battery: I work in an enterprise environment where Macs make up about 50-60% of the installed machines. Of these, about 30-40% are laptops. In my experience, Mac laptop batteries have a high rate of failure, higher than our significantly more dated PC hardware. With the most recent revs, replacing the battery has become a huge problem, since relatively new hardware (1-2 years old) is now completely shot, unless we buy a proprietary screwdriver (not a big deal, but every time they change the screw, we have to find a shop that sells it), or send it to a Mac repair shop. Now, if we upgrade to the Retina Macbook Pro, we will not have the considerably cheaper and faster option of replacing it ourselves. Unfortunately, our userbase is such that they "require" Mac hardware, so it puts IT in a rough position (having to explain why we're essentially outsourcing our work, and spending money to do so).

Now, this isn't necessarily a typical case, but if you were a regular consumer and your battery died, it isn't that hard to buy a replacement battery for the majority of laptops, though this kind of thing is becoming more prevalent. I would also like to mention that it's not just Apple (I'm looking at you, Ultrabooks), though I would say that they are the trendsetter.
It is amazing, though there is something wrong with loading the apps on my iPad?
I'm with you, at least as far as the consumerism is concerned. Maybe we are all fucking idiots, somehow, some way, but I tend to think if you've got a computer in front of you, whatever you're doing, you're in a mighty fine privilege. All computers have incurred their debt upon the planet; to dispose of a computing device because it is 'slow' is an ultimate failure to comprehend the nature of computing: the user makes a decision to use, or not use, arbitrarily.

I have a couple Toughbooks from the 90's, I'll probably never throw them away, but instead keep using them for more years yet, because: fully user upgradable.

http://www.google.com/search?q=panasonic+toughbook+cf25&...

Though slow by 'modern standards', they are still perfectly usable computers, still quite adequate for most needs, which haven't really changed terribly much. Slow-ass Pentium 133's with a nice, tight, Linux distribution, no driver worries whatsoever, and workable for my needs. One is an offline Wikipedia/Doc-dump that can be easily road-tripped, powered from a cross-bike battery, chucked up the cliff and so on, and the other is a general-purpose debug device for various embedded projects back in the lab, where-in such things as standard serial and parallel ports are still .. a bit useful ..

You know why these computers are still in use? They kick ass.

3 Open PCMCIA slots per device. Magnesium-Alloy cases that take a real beating, and can yet still be opened with a coin, in case you want to put a different component into the gel-protected insides. In the lab-bench toughbook there is room for its disk as well as various shields, arduinos, proto pcb's, and so on. It functions very nicely as a carry case in that regard, too: I have room for my DS-one scope, when I need it.

Oh, its got standard strap mounts as in I can take one off a gun and strap the toughbook behind me as I ride off into the desert.

If Apple ever make something like this, i.e. the complete other end of the spectrum, I would be very surprised. There are places, though, an iPad and a Macbook and an iMac and an iPod .. well maybe my iPod would fit along the DS-1 .. but anyway, there are places that the 'elite delicate consumer electronics' can't go.

My point is, there are alternatives to the Macbook cult.

Apple don't have ANYTHING that competes with the toughbook in terms of user servicibility, but then: that is another arbitrary choice being made by the Apple Super-power. Apple is so big now that if it decides to build a walled-garden, then such shall the field grow. If they WANTED to make a computer that could seriously benefit future generations, it wouldn't be out-dated in a decade, or two decades, or even three. It'd be useful for a Century.
I wonder if they'll mail out a cheque for the $1.45 they owe me.
+1 I am with you on this. Although I have a MacBook Pro as a hot backup, I do all of my work and writing using a 13" MacBook Air. For me it is a commodity device that I have no interest in upgrading. If it breaks, a new one can be configured using a Time Machine backup while I enjoy a cup of coffee.

Life used to be different: I spent a lot of time with extensible PCs, tweaking and running Linux, etc. I have come to realize that this "fun" had an opportunity cost that I am no longer willing to pay.

I also tend to replace Apple gear more often but it is easy to find relatives or friends who appreciate being given slightly outdated gear.

I like having an easily replaceable commodity laptop in sort of the same way I like server assets sold like electricity (e.g., AWS, Heroku, AppEngine).

Ultimately time is the most precious resource. The older I get the more I care about using it wisely.
> If this were shrink wrapped software, you wouldn't have this issue.

No. Think about it this way: Removing the App from the App store is like a brick&mortar store removing the shrink wrapped software from it's shelves and not selling it anymore.

If you lose your CD you can't buy it again. But you can still use your copy. The same with an App: As long as you don't delete the App yourself it doesn't magically vanish. Furthermore you can back it up to your computer, you can copy the App to external disks or put a copy on Dropbox or whatever.

> The two things that I'll be doing in response to this:
a) selling my devices that use iOS. b) not buy the new retina macbook pro.

Really? Since when did get hacker news so stupid? This news article, some third party company has a patent and brings action against another third party company, is so disconnected from a Macbook Pro or iOS that I wonder if I am insane or the rest of the world is.

> This sort of story reminds me that the more I am reliant on non-open software, the more I give the power to other people.

I am also puzzled what the constant pleas for open source in this and other comments want to accomplish. The software by "Speak for Yourself" which gave the disabled 4 year old girl its speech back? Guess what. It is closed-source and non-open software which was sold on the App Store for $299 (sic. Two hundred ninety-nine dollars). I find it hypocritical to only accuse Apple now, but not give them at least equal credit that they enabled with their evil closed garden the ecosystem, that SfY was able to sell their product for a high price in the first place (instead of being pirated out of business).
MIT creates glucose fuel cell to power implanted brain-computer interfaces
For most people, college is the time that you discover your interests and figure out what you want to do with your life.

Is there any evidence that attending college is the only avenue to accomplishing those ends? I personally think that it looks that way simply because most people go to college during the years that they "discover your interests and figure out what you want to do with your life." Building a startup strikes me as an equally valid way to explore possibilities, discover interests, and figure things out.
Its not elitism.

Apple is trying very hard to convert a computer into a washing machine. Which is, giving it a specific use, like a TV or a refrigerator and tightly controlling everything behind that use.
In college I loved my desktop replacement. This was before wifi was campus-wide, so bringing my laptop to class didn't give me much more benefit than bringing a pad of paper, so the laptop stayed firmly put on my desk all semester. What was really important to me was being able to haul my computer out of the dorm in one trip. A desktop would require multiple trips and would need to be shut down to move (the laptop lasted and hour on battery and 5 hours in sleep mode). A desktop replacement offers almost all the benefits of a desktop, but with a built-in UPS and a one-piece form factor.
That's the advantage of a deep sea tunnel - it's tricky for even the most committed tree-hugger to do so 3km down!
You are the master of the words and if you are failing to find words it means that I HAVE to get this game. Thanks.
> 1. Proprietary pentalobe screws prevent you from gaining access to anything inside.

Well, there's not much inside for a normal user to replace any more.

> 2. As in the MacBook Air, the RAM is soldered to the logic board. Max out at 16GB now, or forever hold your peace—you can't upgrade.

Just like CPUs and graphics cards have been for years.

> 3. The proprietary SSD isn't upgradeable either (yet), as it is similar but not identical to the one in the Air. It is a separate daughtercard, and we’re hopeful we can offer an upgrade in the near future.

External drive, bro. It's an effing superportable laptop. Do you really need your entire 200GB porn collection available to you at all times?

> 4. The lithium-polymer battery is glued rather than screwed into the case, which increases the chances that it'll break during disassembly. The battery also covers the trackpad cable, which tremendously increases the chance that the user will shear the cable in the battery removal process.

There is no battery removal process. And you know what? That's okay! I'm over 2 years in on my 2010 MacBook Pro, and checking the battery right now I see its designed capacity was 6,000mAh while its current, fully-charged capacity is… 5,786mAh. The sky has steadfastly refused to fall, and the four horsemen have failed to ravage the countryside.

> 5. The display assembly is completely fused, and there’s no glass protecting it. If anything ever fails inside the display, you will need to replace the entire extremely expensive assembly.

Wow! If an expensive thing fails expensively, it's expensive! Please tell me how this situation is any different than for dozens of other devices you currently possess, including your HDTV display and the engine in your car.

> The whole machine is a joke. PLEASE DON'T BUY ONE!

Your whole post is a joke. If the machine doesn't meet your own personal criteria, that's awesome. But you appear to be taking it personally if other people have a different metric of value. Chill out, for fuck's sake.
This is real email addresses of wealthy people who are open to a rather risky idea. I'm not thinking spammers...
To me it seems a logical progression would be for webkit to include SASS/LESS in the tool chain, instead of trying to re-invent the wheel.

Possibly some sort of solution where the browser receives SASS/LESS files and compiles them into CSS on the fly?
I seriously doubt that any executive at Apple has given 5 minutes thought to Bitcoin.
Apple also has WebKit Nightly Builds where it might appear sooner: http://nightly.webkit.org/
Apple, Public Transit Data and iOS6
Top applied for generic top-level domains
http://swaaanson.tumblr.com/post/25005539624/kindle-notes-in...

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I've always thought the simplest retort to this argument came from Bruce Schneier:

Privacy is important because without it, surveillance information will be abused: to peep, to sell to marketers and to spy on political enemies -- whoever they happen to be at the time.

Privacy protects us from abuses by those in power, even if we're doing nothing wrong at the time of surveillance.

http://www.schneier.com/essay-114.html
Just getting sent to court can be a punishment too, though. It makes you waste money hiring a lawyer, or waste time going to court yourself. I got sent for being in a park after dusk the other day, something police never seem to enforce around here, but suddenly started doing in one certain area because there was a shooting a while back. So selective enforcement basically let them nail everyone who spent any time in the park after dusk when they decided it suited them. Maybe not with jail, but at least with court time or lawyer fees.
I took a look at the network traffic between the iPhone simulator and their servers and it appears they're using a proprietary variant of protocol buffers to encode the data.
As soon as somebody figures out how they tweaked the encoding, the rest should be relatively easy.
Beat me to it with this comment, a very solid point.

Having nothing to hide now doesn't mean you'll never have something to hide in retrospect.
"Your assumptions are completely wrong, and it only shows that Apple target customers are not really doing any kind of serious computing."

Yeah,... Astro-Physicist here. 90% of my colleagues use Macs and we write most of the software that controls satellites and earth bound observatories on Macs.

Just an old science, entertainment, with no real or useable results :o).
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question:
are they still making money from ads after google rolled panda and stuff? directly typing address, yes, but from search result?
And what percentage of users actually use the full keyboard support? I mean, with Android tablets we're asking "what is a low percent of a tiny number of people", but still. Being able to use an external keyboard with your phone/tablet is a very, very niche activity.
This is part of the same argument that allowed the FBI to start whacking GPS trackers on people's cars willy nilly.

The difference is that the real person costs a lot which mean its guaranteed to be small-scale and overseen and they couldn't keep it up indefinitely nor go back over their old recordings.

A cctv camera represents a completely different threat and has long-term implications compared to a plain clothes policeman.
Ha. You actually don't get $0.18 though, because the minimum payout is $50.
A lot of the two-character TLDs are already associated with countries.

The .ng extension is Nigeria's, and goes for a whopping $50,000 per year. [1]

The .ay TLD belongs to Adygea (a republic within Russia). [2]

[1] http://www.101domain.com/ng.htm

[2] http://nationstates.wikia.com/wiki/.ay

Edit: Formatting
second in a month? I stopped using rails in favour of sintra+activerecord. Active record might need to go next :(
You are so smart Zach. Like, the smartest person ever in the world.
>>Since the overwhelming bulk of computer users(including pro users) have no interest in fiddling with their computer specs post purchase, Apple are simply making a product that fits the market.

No one here is saying we tear down our laptops and assemble them back three times a day. But if something like a RAM gets toast on my machine, I would like to get that replaced instead of replacing the whole machine.

Why, you might ask. Its because it works out cheaper that way. And besides, I don't throw away my car if some thing little goofs up! Why should I throw away my computer.
"Nobody reads from just 15 or 20 sites a month. People read from hundreds of sites a month, creating a vast long tail of publishers."

And somewhere out there Ted Nelson is saying, "I told you so. We needed transclusion, transcopyright, and micropayments in our hypertext from the beginning!"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Xanadu
(p.s. not a xanadu zealot, just fascinated by the history)
It's one of the best interactive walkthroughs I've seen. Executed incredibly well.
RSA keys under 1024 bits are blocked
New Macbook Pro Teardown Scores Low on Repairability
Types of startup metrics
Xanadu was a fascinating idea, but they still don't have a product I could put a user in front of and have them use it to read things.

If they ever had, I'd have some sympathy/respect for them.
"If you registered as a publisher with Readability, we’ll be sending you any remaining money your site has earned by July 31, 2012, regardless of amount."

Ha ;-)
vim but .. No cscope? I am disappointed. cscope is a power tool when it comes to editor-integrated development.

http://cscope.sourceforge.net/cscope_vim_tutorial.html

I have cscope+vim+make/build+gdb+logging windows on auto-open for my developer desktop terms, and spend a lot of time navigating large codebases with cscope in all its incarnations. If you like this article, but haven't heard of cscope+vim, give yourself 30 minutes to check it out ..
> Why can't it cool down more than ambient air? You put in X amount of power, and you get out 2X amount of power as light -- therefore additional energy is being taken in as heat and converted to light.

Light is a more highly ordered form of energy than thermal noise; it can be used to do work. If you could convert thermal noise into light and beam it away, you could use that as the cool side for a heat engine and have a perpetual motion machine.
New TLDs, Who Wins?
.blog, .lol, .foo: Google, Amazon top list of global TLD applications
http://virus.exe seems totally legit.
What are the best "_____ walked into a bar" jokes?
Static files always help, especially if your using something like Nginx to serve them.

Cache is also great, I make use of MemCache and Varnish on most of my applications.
When I saw the title, I thought "would it not make more sense to use trigonometry to beat Angry Birds?"

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1043491
I wouldn't have minded if it didn't cost $240 bucks just to upgrade the ram...
This would be solved if ICANN raised their fee to $50 per year. Suddenly, domain squatting would not be profitable and it would free millions of domain names.
thanks for correction. I am sorry for confusing the issue.
Windows 8 'hackathon' at Microsoft/Mountain View
What do you do if you're stuck?
Their current model seems to be they want a 30% cut whenever a developer so much as farts. If you don't give them their 30%, they kick you out.

BitCoin not being a real currency probably jumps over their legalese a little and would allow somebody to make an in-app payment without giving Apple their "dues".

I frankly think the whole situation is ridiculous. God knows how Apple (and the others, to be fair) justify hogging 30% developers' revenues but conversely, what idiots are going to put their livelihoods on the line with something as changeable as BitCoin? It's not just that its rate can crash but that Apple can very swiftly make you an ex-developer.
Wow, settle down. No need to freak out about this, just don't buy it.

I'm getting one with 16 GB of RAM. Pretty sure I won't want to upgrade that before I upgrade the whole machine in ~2 years.
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Visualization of gTLD applications
I created a simple visualization of gTLD applications using Graphviz. I used the domain of the applicant's email address to group common applicants, unless it ended with "mail.com", so that it handles gmail and hotmail addresses. It reveals some interesting connections and conflicts. There seem to be only a few major tech players, and the rest are traditional business or marketing firms.

You can download it here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/8krmao3nujyjtpx/tld-fdp.svg

(I tried to find a SVG-compatible image hosting site, but I could not)