skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, this article started interesting, and ended in a somewhat scary proposal that universities log students' internet usage and data-mine it using robo-depression-screening software that would report them to counselors. The caveat ("raises privacy concerns that would have to be addressed") does not really reassure me...

My hope is that's just a cynical eye-on-funding thing thrown in, and the researchers are really interested in the science, only gesturing towards this other suggestion as a way of ticking the "potential future applications" box that funding agencies like. But it's hard to tell.
TLD registration is not free-for-all like domains are. I extremely doubt ICANN will accept those. And before people claim "they will for the $200k", let me put your fears to rest: they already keep the money even if the request is denied.
Who said they forget all about me? It's just the most convenient way to contact me.

They use twitter/facebook/irc to ask me out for stuff as well ...
The fact that people still search for facebook on search engines makes this a big deal because once users get used to finding books at .book and blogs on .blog every competitor will have to fight against that mindset.
I don't understand how they correlated what they defined as depressive internet usage to depressive people while retaining peoples privacy.

Also, I don't think and application that pops up and says "You are acting depressed" is going to help very much.
What will you replace it with? That's my problem -- I require Mac OS X.
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Aren't we overmedicated enough already?
if you replace "productivity" with "effectiveness", it feels even more true, with the emphasis on doing the right work, rather volume of work. as programmers, if we do the right work, our software "produces" more, so we readily conflate the two, but in other fields where the product is less animate, effectiveness means your unit of output is the right output, even if near & local productivity doesn't vary much.
But then the press still woul have missed it. And I for example might never have heard of it.

Also, what makes you think one excludes the other? Why berate the one guy who at least a.) paid attention and b.) wrote about it, for not also doing c.) and d.)?

Everybody is still free to file an objection, including the author, and now actually MORE people who would be inclined to do so, are in a position to do it (i.e. they heard of it, instead of this going down in silence).
All gTLD expansion plans are misguided, especially the recent flood.

Being able to register a domain for ~$10 on a first-come-first-served basis (modulo exceptions, which have been handled reasonably well by UDRP) is wonderfully accessible to everyone. gTLDs are prohibitively expensive to most. But beyond the money matters...

The simplicity and restrictiveness of .com made it attractive. The .kitchen-sink direction -- blowing out .net and .org in the worse ways -- creates a mess.
Also in the past we have learned that there is many times a huge gap between how a technology could be used and how it actually ends up being used.
Fair enough. Is there any programming study that you think holds up as science?
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None of this matters at all. The press shouldn't be worrying about it.

If you have a killer product, any number of zillions of domains still available will do the trick.

Or go buy an even better one for $250 to $1,500 from SEDO.

How about a .fm or .ws domain? Or .IO and so on.

No time or effort should be directed toward worrying about this. Put your brain back on your product. Someone owning .books or .meme is no more interesting than someone owning books.com or meme.biz. Either your product is amazing or it isn't.

When you can beat Google by owning search.search (how about search.com), let me know.
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http://www.waybeta.com/uploads/img/20100621/1703/20100621175...

source: http://www.waybeta.com/news/12858/ (very bottom)
> So basically people who are engaged fully in the "web" experience are depressed?

How could you read comments on HN, reddit and youtube and not be depressed?
But then the press still would have missed it. And I for example might never have heard of it.

Also, what makes you think one excludes the other? Why berate the one guy who at least a.) paid attention and b.) wrote about it, for not also doing c.) and d.)?

Everybody is still free to file an objection, including the author, and now actually MORE people who would be inclined to do so, are in a position to do it (i.e. they heard of it, instead of this going down in silence).
Actually, what I think the word Pro means is a contraction of professional, i.e. you're using the computer as part of your work. In that case you probably want something that's very powerful right out of the box, and you're willing to pay for it (or at least get your boss to pay for it. Or write it off as a business expense). Also, Pro probably also means that you don't have a lot of time to spend diagnosing issues with bad memory sticks or fiddling around with hard drive upgrades.
Products matter, not domains.

Google didn't become worth $200 billion because of their stupid name.
That's a cashless transaction. They just deduct whatever requisite amount from his payout.
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Isn't it more like fighting consumerism with replicators? It doesn't solve the root issue of people having desires based on material things, and it's not necessarily going to make them happier, but at least it solves the immediate symptom of people dying.
The whole thing just stinks.

Look at the full list here: http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/program-status/application-resu....

Notice how 70 were applied for by "Top Level Domain Holdings Limited". Go to their website, and click management. http://www.tldh.org/management/

The exe's bio says, "Prior to joining TLDH, Peter Dengate Thrush was Chairman of the Board of Directors of ICANN, and in that role led the process that resulted in the historic decision to launch the new gTLD program in June 2011."

1) Get on ICANN board of directors

2) Convince ICANN to create gTLDs

3) Quit ICANN and create a company to squat and resell gTLDs

4) Profit!
It does appear from Samsung's website that the Series 9 (the NP900X3A variant, anyway) does have user-replaceable RAM and supports a maximum of 8GB.

Dell's XPS 13 Ultrabook appears to have a user replaceable SSD, but not RAM. That Lenovo X230 appears to allow both. Seems other ultrabooks allow one or the other, or none.

While I do like to upgrade things myself (upgraded the RAM and put an SSD in my current 13" Pro) and would prefer notebooks have that option, Apple's targeting an audience that would rather have their notebooks be as thin as possible than have the ability to do something that they'll never care to do. People that don't like that, can just buy something else, in Apple's opinion.
True, but it makes repairs quite a bit more expensive. I have to believe it costs Apple more money to swap out an entire logic board. I know it costs the consumer more when they get slapped with bill.
You're right that it doesn't create any insurmountable problems, but it does matter. It defines new rules for the domain name game, and domain names are an important piece of a company's public face.
"Only after autumn does spring come around" - Unknown proverb

I think it's a good thing. FB has become an autonomous monolith. Talent leaving to create new start ups is a good thing. FB will attract enough mediocrity to keep it running.

Real talent is never satisfied with current achievement and is always ready to take a bigger challenge.

More SHOULD follow suit, taking the FU money with them and do wonderful things. Their duty at FB is done.

When spring is in the air, I hope many new blossoms will bloom.
The Libraries feature is essentially a sandbox for symlinks. It's just that the UI misrepresents the proper mental model.
And when people are used to search on Google.com or look for books on Amazon, other search engines and book stores will have to fight that mindset too. It's very much the same.
But the rules about the application process have been public (and changing, and generating controversy) for years.

Did you really think companies were going to pony up almost $200,000 for a TLD application, and then "share" it with the world?

When Nike gets .nike, or Pepsi gets .pepsi, do you expect them to "share"? (Actually, Pepsi has said they're not going to apply for .pepsi)
Does owning a gTLD entitle you to use the top of your namespace for anything other than NS/SOA records?

Put another way, if I'm Microsoft, can I put my website at http://microsoft? Or do I have to use http://www.microsoft?

I've looked to see if there is a policy from ICANN on this, but I can't find one. Historically, TLDs did not themselves point to hosts (or have other things like MX or TXT records).
Not everywhere in the world has reliable landline connections and other forms of fixed infrastructure. And there are environments where wireless communications can be sporadically impaired due to weather or terrain (or ocean or space). There are also security and latency issues which might cause a user to prefer asynchronous communication.
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The annual rate of sex crime victimization for people age 12-17 is 1/1500. Skout had about 2M users in that demographic, so we would expect about 1300 Skout kids per year to be attacked, or 3.6 per day, in the normal course of events. It sounds like Skout is increasing the rate by one victim per week, which is a risk increase of a few percent. That's actually pretty damn good for a service that connects kids to anonymous strangers.

Furthermore, the kind of kid who meets anonymous Internet strangers without proper precautions is likely to have a much higher than background rate of victimization due to their behavior. So it is likely that many of the Skout victims have simply converted their attack from offline to online.

Skout appears to be conducting a witch hunt against themselves. Whoops.
Some ccTLDs do have A records, though, like http://ac
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There have been many people that have won the lottery more than once. Does that mean they are skillful at winning the lottery? Simply succeeding more than once is not sufficient evidence that the success wasn't because of luck.

All success is based on luck to some extent. It's silly to argue otherwise. Of course there is skill involved as well.
The takeaway ...

"AT&T's "Toggle" technology, meanwhile, works with any Android device from versions 2.2 to 3.x, as well as iPhones, and can be installed after a user buys it. Moreover, the technology is somewhat separate from AT&T's cellular division and can be used with any carrier"

"Toggle is mostly targeted at employees bringing their own phones to work, although it could theoretically be installed on employer-purchased devices as well. A corporation must pay $750 for configuration and training to get started, plus $6.50 per device per month, with a minimum of 20 licenses per order. Ongoing support costs another $1.50 or $2.50 per device per month."
If Aristotle said it, then it is almost certainly wrong. Is generally a good rule not to trust the opinion of someone who can't count the legs on a fly and who also claims that menstruating women cloud mirrors.
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You just need to configure them as static mappings in /etc/avahi/hosts.

http://linux.die.net/man/5/avahi.hosts
Hah, my own anecdotal evidence has been in favor of smaller teams for the communications reason you cite. Probably a bit of a bad analogy but it made me think of 3 Unix processes vs 30. Way harder to manage IPC between 30 processes as opposed to 3.
The best thing that could come out of this, is the developers and engineers that actually build the Internet, Web, and mobile Web, and make it all matter --- demonstrate that this is all bullshit by ignoring the new domain expansion and showing that it isn't valuable or necessary.
Chris Martin is quoted here[1]
as saying the bands are costing GBP 400,000 (USD $640,000) a night. $20 a band!

Looking at the teardown[2] there's a radio receiver chip, microprocessor, couple of discretes/inductors/popcorn, then the plastic case and band with hi-bright LEDs and a battery. I'm thinking most of the cost is in the LEDs and battery need to drive those LEDs for two hours.

[1] http://blog.chron.com/celebritybuzz/2012/06/coldplay-spends-...

[2] http://hackaday.com/2012/02/19/ask-hackaday-did-you-catch-th...

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> I'm not sure if I want to walk around the street with people high on bath salts and cocaine.

People probably wouldn't be using mystery-chemical-x-mixed-in-some-bro's-tub bath salts if they could get cheap cocaine from a well established business.
one can argue that the three are in fact very similar to the standard layout and design of twitter bootstrap
Hmm... I can't agree. "Business value" is a useful term for describing sources of value beyond revenue. It's extremely fluffy and usually unmeasurable, sure, but it's still a useful way of talking about things that are worth doing that don't produce revenue, such as competitive differentiation, market research, brand promotion, philanthropic efforts, and relationship building. For software that doesn't produce direct revenue (the majority, in my experience), what better term is there?

I don't know why you say business value is actually about power dynamics, unless you mean that people use the term to promote their pet projects. If so, I think that has more to do with human nature than the term "business value."
Yes, a beautiful job description. However, for me these two statements are inherently contradictory:

"You consider critical thinking to be among your core competencies."

"But technology is a means and not the ends for you, and you don’t flinch at the idea of writing largely PHP for a living."

I interpret this as "think critically, but don't criticize the technology choices we have already made."

Yes, technology is a means, but that does not mean that it's something to just mindlessly accept. This is particularly true in the realm of software where there are so many technological possibilities to choose from.
If http://74.125.225.68/ ranks before a .book domain when you type whatever in your browser edit box. Then that's where most people will be going to. Doesn't mean domains are meaningless, but they mean very little, and the better google gets, the less they'll mean in the future.
I haven't read Bossavit's book. I have read McConnell's writings. Chapter 30 of "Making Software: What Really Works, and Why We Believe It" is by him, and edited by Andy Oram and Greg Wilson. The point of the book was to collect scientific evidence. I know Greg, and his high standards, so I strongly doubt that McConnell's evidence of weak.

I'm immediately suspicious of the statement you quoted: "Not a single one of the references is to a replication, in the scientific sense of the term." Strict replication is not and never has been a requirement to good science. As a trivial example, how do you replicate a supernova observation? You can't. But you can make models and test the models against the observed data and against future supernovas, and you estimate the reasonableness of the model effectiveness.

If that quote is indicative of Bossavit's views, then he is a poor judge of what's good evidence.

Going on with more quotes you gave, "which we can safely expect to have wrought major changes in programming practice." That is a conjecture, not a statement of fact. It seems like he's saying that once upon a time there was 10x difference, but the Internet makes everything different now there isn't. However, without evidence to back it up, I don't know why I should believe it.

What tests has Bossavit carried out to show that this is the case?

To the contrary, L. Prechelt "An empirical comparison of C, C++, Java ..." was both carried out during the internet era, was done with good rigor, and shows a large spread in the overall time to complete the project. That's a small project, granted, but it's another data point in the overall trends.

(If you don't like the small project size, another example, given by McConnell, is the large productivity difference between the Excel and Lotus 1-2-3 teams, which produced roughly comparable spreadsheet programs but with about an order of magnitude productivity difference across several different metrics.)

Multiple independently determined data points which all trend in the same direction strengthen the likelihood that the ~10x hypothesis is a useful model. That's what scientific evidence looks like.

McConnell even has a section in his chapter on "how meaningful it is to speak of an individual programmer's productivity", along with all of the caveats and cautions that everyone here is bringing up (some programmers produce negative lines of code, the best programmers tend to get the hardest problems, the effect of teams, etc.), and concludes "So while I see the value in measuring individual performance in research settings, I think it's difficult to find cases in which the measurement effort is justified on real projects."

Edit: I see that Bossavit wrote in response to McConnell's chapter. McConnel's reply to Bossavit is at http://forums.construx.com/blogs/stevemcc/archive/2011/01/09... .
He's certainly trustworthy, just not on anything material.
Admittedly this article a high-level overview, but I see a lot of hand-waving use of statistical terms.

For example, how is “30 percent of the participants met the criteria for depressive symptoms” in line with “10 to 40 percent of college students at some point experience such symptoms”. It’s not: 30% have depressive symptoms now vs 10% having symptoms at some point? One of those two numbers is way off, or they are comparing apples to oranges.

There is no mention of how strong the correlations are (though one would expect such in the full paper). This is a small number of people – around 200 – all of which are of a similar age & occupation.

The idea that this evidence would lead one to consider monitoring implies a certainty and generality about the results which appears unjustified.
You must be new here. That's the whole point. So that regulars who don't have time to read HN every day can get a curated weekly list of the best content we may have missed.

PS - the difference is attribution.
He means un savy users will literally type "google" into the URL bar (not understanding that typing a string there will google it) and click on the first result to get to google. Then they perform the query they originally intended
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Maybe we (or our software) needs to start requiring the period on the end of fully-qualified domain names?

That way "test1" is a local name (relative to the default search path), and "test1." is a TLD.

In theory, that's already the way it works, except that most software treats the trailing period as optional.
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From the article ...

"As Microsoft more tightly ties Windows Phone to Windows — starting in earnest with the Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8?Windows RT releases — the fortunes on one platform seem pinned to the fortunes of the other. A common look and feel and toolset is good for customers and developers when a halo effect convinces users happy with one platform to try its sibling. But if one of the two platforms stagnates, that halo becomes an anchor…."
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From the article ...

"As Microsoft more tightly ties Windows Phone to Windows — starting in earnest with the Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8 & Windows RT releases — the fortunes on one platform seem pinned to the fortunes of the other. A common look and feel and toolset is good for customers and developers when a halo effect convinces users happy with one platform to try its sibling. But if one of the two platforms stagnates, that halo becomes an anchor…."
You know, gTLDs, as well as more and more draconian internet legislation, are making me want to stop using the Internet as we know it, and switch to something else.

Maybe it's Tor, on top of the present internet. Maybe it's an entirely new non-Internet network. Maybe it will be some new P2P network.

But if the Internet's freedom and competition disappears, something must surely replace it.
"This is not amnesty. This is not immunity. This is not a path to citizenship. It's not a permanent fix," Obama said to take on conservative criticism of the step.

Which is a pity, because a path to citizenship would be highly desirable.
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Add a decent markup (perhaps $100) for the added marketability. After all, unlike other used laptops out there, this one now has a brand new battery that's guaranteed to hold a charge for years to come.
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The government sees everything as a Constitution-free zone, until forced by the courts to acknowledge otherwise. The Internet is no different.

Eternal vigilance, etc., etc.
well, the internet is as the biggest unofficial open source project ever, just because you can do view-source on ever website there is. copying parts (even big parts) of a site you like is not only common practice, but also great for innovation. just imagine how the web would look like if tim berners-lee would have chosen a flash like technology for the web? (my guess: we would not have the internet, we would live in the microsoftnet (as they are great in getting market share in closed source economies))

yes, they could have worked a little harder to give their site a little bit more "originality", but other than that, it is the internet way.

i have cloned (parts of) hundreds of websites, any my websites (and parts of it) were cloned even more often, even before github.

be flattered, move on (with your great magazine).