skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"There are a lot of people who bought a 4 between it's launch (June 2010) and the 4S launch (October 2011). All of them are still stuck with that phone. Screwing them over with artificial boundaries is not very friendly..."

I bought an iPhone 4 in july of 2010. It came with iOS 4, which had just been released. A year later, it received a free upgrade to iOS 5. This fall, iOS 6 comes out – the iPhone 4 will be able to run iOS 6 and it will be free for all users. That's 3 major releases over the lifetime of the phone, all for free. And for about a year after iOS 7 is released, Apple will provide updates to iOS 6.

The new iPhone is likely to be released somewhere in the fall, at the same time as iOS 6. Last year's iPhone launch was on October 14. This means that if you bought an iPhone 4 between June and October 2010, your contract will be up before you can buy the new iPhone. And if you didn't buy your iPhone within 4 months of its release, you probably aren't someone who has to have the new iPhone on the first day when it's available anyways.
I get a 404 error when I go to the link; is it my fault? :-s
An Interview with Myke Hurley of 70Decibels
1) Don't be fooled, Google would do the same in the Play store.

2) You can legally jailbreak your device and install any software you want.
Quickly here meaning about 2 years.
No running a registry is not a cheap or easy endeveor (I used to be one of the owners of .coop)
You can't cross the hudson easily.
The fact that the majority of camera is privately owned is not relevant. The question remains: "Is 500 cameras too many, too little or just about right, for a county of 1 million?". I have no idea, but I don't see why the ratio public/private is important.
Doesn't ICS out-of-the-box support the majority of what this app is trying to accomplish?
This would be tricky for LANs. I'm not sure too many corporate network admins would be happy with the amount of work they'd have to do to change up all the DNS entries when "test" no longer routes to "test.company.com" while you're on the company.com domain. You'd have a riot when the development staff has to take a couple weeks to change over all their pathnames.

I'm of the opinion that RFCs don't matter if they're not being enforced. What matters is the implementation that exists in the real world. It doesn't matter what the ITU says 4G is supposed to be when 4G already implemented as something completely different. What would make sense is www.home routing to the default .home domain.
FunnyJunk lawyer "unfamiliar with this style of responding to a legal threat"
Making components replaceable increases volume, weight, and cost.

If you want replaceable components, go buy a computer for which that is a feature - and know that you will get a machine which is larger, heavier, and more expensive (all other factors being equal). Swapable components require additional casing, connectors, testing, sales channels, etc. You're not going to get a 3/4" 5-lb 7-hour 256GB-SSD 8GB-RAM MBA Retina for $2200 and be able to swap out darn near everything; something's gonna give.

Some of us DON'T want to replace components, having learned over the years that by the time we're replacing components we'd rather replace the whole computer outright. If I need more RAM, it's best matched with a new CPU. If I need more storage, I'll need more RAM to throw around more data. When the battery dies, all those other components are gettin' obsolete anyway. I also know from experience that upgrading parts doesn't always go as planned, and time wasted upgrading can very quickly add up to the cost of a new machine outright. I'd rather have a notebook which is very thin, very light, very fast - and just replace the whole package when the time comes as I see fit.

You're welcome to a different POV, and there is a market happy to serve our different needs & desires.

However, just because we have a different POV doesn't make me a f*ing idiot.
There is a simple cure for smart people to not be stupid, they can detect those errors and bias easily in other people thinking, but not in their own thinking because introspection doesn't work. So the cure is to play as if you were the actor in a theater, that is pretend that you are not yourself when you are thinking. You should imagine you are thinking as a known stupid person and by miracle you get smart and not so stupid.
Previous submission:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3594098
See, that's really interesting. I wonder if that's been patched since then.

It just seems weird to have a tld absent a host.
There is precedent. Not in a legal way, but in the judgement of the public. Amazon remote erased an eBook in 2009, ironically "1984", from Kindle devices because the publisher didn't have the copyright and the real copyright holder demanded it from Amazon. It was a PR nightmare! CEO Jeff Bezos had to offer a public apology to mitigate this mistake. I don't expect a big company will make this mistake again.

http://slashdot.org/story/09/07/27/0541212/jeff-bezos-offers...

Google first pushed the killswitch on an App in March 2011, a trojan malware for Android, and nobody really complained. Apple on the other hand never triggered the killswitch to date. They also don't have magic powers. Make a backup the iOS device and in the unlikely event the App isn't working on a future OS update or Tim Cook is getting insane, just install the backup again.
Yeah man. Get right to burning 60 hour weeks. You totally won't burn out.
I was gonna but this and install Windoze on it... not sure i'll bother now and save myself around £1000 on a similar spec Dell (albeit without the slimness and super sharp screen)
One of the biggest benefits of Disqus is the size of their network. I'm already logged into Disqus and thus can easily reply to someone, comment, upvote and share. When I go to sites that expect me to make a new account, provide my email to a stranger, or give them auth via my Twitter account I likely won't bother at all. Disqus also offers a full account export (or they have in the past, I haven't checked lately) if you ever really feel like you want to go self-host.
It's worth noting an 8GB DDR3 module of laptop RAM is $50.

A pretty healthy 300% mark up.
I remember one of the big selling points was basically artist blogs, like Lady Gaga. Were those ever updated?
Congressmen tell ITC to lay off Microsoft in Xbox patent litigation
It's not an either-or. The UK has many private surveillance cameras. The UK also has many governmental entities at all levels that have undertaken specific programs to install large numbers of publicly-owned surveillance cameras. If I type "UK to install" in Google, the four autocomplete suggestions provided are all about surveillance cameras. To a first approximation, the UK isn't known for installing roads, or daycares, or traffic lights, or dictators, or shelters for the homeless, but only for surveillance cameras. Congratulations.

The UK just passed a law appointing a Surveillance Camera Commissioner to oversee all the uses of such cameras nationwide. I am not aware that any other countries have found such an appointment necessary.
If this is the case, that is the same reason why I never bought HP machines since opening one up in the 90's and seeing how someone had soldered the ram to the motherboard. That server test machine went back and I never bought anything from them, and now that short list has one more brand in it.
This blog entry does not seem to exist anymore.
Yeah, it's Chekhov's gun: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chekhov%27s_gun
The people that own most of these tlds will then sell domains on to ordinary people.

So give it time and you, too, can have a .fail domain.
It's also included in the cost of the machine. One of the reasons to buy a Mac (or some other pre-assembled computer) is that the price includes services like assembly, testing, and customer support.
How much parts are there in a car
I did the NJ->NYC commute for a couple of years (Parsippany->Soho, 1.5 hours door to door). It was pretty awful. I'm really glad our governor nixed the idea of building another tunnel.
If you bought .renault you'd just be setting yourself up for hardware failures and slow performance :)
Regulations Lag Behind: Few rules to inhibit Facebook's use of data
I think I may pre-emptively confgure my home DNS to NXDOMAIN all of these.
Since the very beginning this entire concept has seemed horribly misguided. I get that we need to expand the range of possible domain names but is this really the way to do it?

It seems like 1 part extortion, 1 part destruction of a free internet, and 1 part orchestrated gold rush for squatters.
A great way to squeeze the last dollars out of domains, now that all are squatted.

The application fees were $5k registration + $185k or $47k evaluation, so they collected something between $100 million and $366 million dollars, annual fees excluded.

I can see two possible outcomes:

1. all conflicts are resolved by agreements/bidding, process goes smoothly. But usage nevers picks up, and in a years'time it's all money down the drain.

2. ICANN backpedals and decides to cancel this stupid idea, while deciding to (legally) keep the application fees. Fighting ensues and we get a new, better management organization. Or worse.
No, I cannot prove it, that's why I said that "it looks like" that rather than "I have proof that it is" that.
The Wilderness Highway Where Women Go Missing
Disqus Upgrades Tools: Faster, More Social, Adds Article Discovery
It's not a doughnut company, it's a VC-founded internet startup!
This is brilliant. You're teaching the mechanics of algebra but initially ignoring "this is math" which lets players avoid the mental barriers they may have erected about that particular subject.

Being able to "do" first makes explaining the "why" later much easier and more interesting.
confluence was probably some MIT grad in like 2005 who still cant find a job
"Cognitive Radio" to enable smarter use of wireless spectrum
My take on productivity (it is about productivity after all, right?) is that it matters: a) What you choose to do, and b) How well you do it. The second is affected by the domain knowledge you have. Most people don't leave their domain for their whole worklife (they might have secondary domains because of hobbies), and should become experts no matter what (and therefore do well in point b)). Multi-domain genies like Goethe, Da Vinci (, Jobs, Feynman?) have to constantly learn hard to gain enough knowledge in many domains for them to be successful there. Also, I am convinced that such people can do better in a domain they have mastered because of the cross-domain analogies they can apply.

Still, what you choose to do (point a)) is as important for productivity. I can be a multi-domain genius scientist and still choose to spend all my time recapitulating achievements of other people, instead of developing a new physics model. Or I can spend years making one app completely bug-free instead of writing 10 new ones.

UPDATE: One thing I am really wondering about is: How deep does the knowledge within one domain reach for such personalities? Did Jobs know everything about OS's, or just as much as he needed? My hypothesis is that they all learn just as much as they need to achieve the goal at hand NOW (not hoarding knowledge for the sake of it).
Sure, but I think the issue is that if you ever want 16GB, you have to buy it now at Apple's price: $200 for an extra 8GB.
"Guge" is apparently the name by which "Google wants to be known in China."[1]

[1]: http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2006/04/guge.html
.dot would be funny, imagine telling people to go to dot.dot or even slashdot.dot
The Jobs Act: If You Build A Funding Portal, Will They Come?
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It might be important to note that government owned cameras are by definition pointing to public property (where everybody passes), whereas private cameras should be targeted at some private property (enforced by law, at least in some countries).
If this distinction remains true in practice, it would at least seem that privately owned cameras are "morally" a bit more in their right. (You submit to the house rules when visiting vs being filmed when doing something that is nobody's business, like just passing by)

Regarding the "processing" argument in the original article. It seems to me that government owned cameras are a bigger concern, if we assume that they can provide a general combined view (while privately owned cameras provide a lot of isolated views).

EDIT: spelling
The hypothetical self-hosted version would be a perfect candidate for OpenID auth I guess ...
Out of curiosity, I wonder what it would have taken for Google to provide all of the updates it's provided to the Android Maps app these past few years. Was it just Android and iPhone competition? I feel like there's probably more to the story.

I've switched from iPhone to Android and back to an iPhone again, and the only things I liked better about the Android were Swype and the Maps. The iPhone app is at least now servicable. The 6.0 will break it for me (I use transit directions all the time), so I'm left hoping Google saves the day.
> you have got to be a fucking idiot to buy one

Whenever I get the urge to write something like that, I ask myself: "Am I in the target market for this?"

A product built to these tolerances is not one that a rational person (even a competent one, with experience fixing computers) should want to crack open. Make the professionals worry about getting in and out of it, and enjoy the fact that they'll be liable for anything they break in the process.

"Not user serviceable by design" != "disposable by design." You're not wandering across a post-apocalyptic desert wasteland with this thing; take it to a f'ing Apple Store and grab a coffee while the infrastructure wrenches on it.
You just need to understand that you have become an edge case.

It's called the Macbook Pro. Firewire is huge in cameras still. Optical drives are still big in AV work. Ethernet is still important in corporate networks. By default, professionals are not mainstream. This is a 100% consumer laptop. Calling it "Pro" is just disingenuous when there's not a single professional aspect about it.
In the 1920s being Jewish in Germany was perfectly legal. Not long after it was not.

That's the only example I need to convince me that the government does not need to know everything about who am I and what I do and what I think.
See section "1.1.2.10 String Contention" of the applicant guidebook. In the guidebook it ultimately may come down to "community resolution" or auctioning.
> this will do nothing to improve the size of the name space

It opens new options for "local" addresses:
biketour.berlin
biketour.paris
antics.london
etc

wether this will stick is another story.
These sort of questions always put me into "hold on, think about it" mode and statements like "Your first response is probably to take a shortcut" are simply not true. I'm actually more vulnerable to over-think a problem rather than provide a quick wrong answer.
Your assumptions are completely wrong, and it only shows that Apple target customers are not really doing any kind of serious computing. Sometimes your processes are not CPU bound at all, sometimes they are I/O bound. Sometimes in RAM caches can increase performance quite a bit etc. This means swapping HDD and putting faster SSD is enough to speed certain things up. Also, updating RAM only is enough to speed things up in certain other criteria.

Besides it is well understood in technical circles where Apple is headed. Make no mistake. Their goal is to kill general purpose computers, and replace them with appliances they control.
.local is already spelled out as a reserved word in the application guidebook.
Hmmm. Interesting that you point that out. I think if we were presented with a math formula (symbols), we'd have aced it.

I think the reason why my wife did it so fast is because it was fed to her as text only - in fact, I just read it to her. She's a lawyer and she's much better at interpreting text than most people.
This article suggests that ICANN is selling them at cost!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-13835997
More specifically, "Gǔgē" is the Pinyin rendering of "谷歌", Google's name in hanzi. The characters literally mean "valley song".
As a professional computer user, I'd much rather buy the computer with the RAM and not worry about upgrading it later. Professional truck operators buy the truck already customized for the job they need it to do, and don't just walk on to the dealership, buy one, and then weld shit to it.
Very cool. This actually intensely reminds me of Ed Yang's logitext sequent calculus tutorial: http://logitext.ezyang.scripts.mit.edu/logitext.fcgi/tutoria...

You don't have to know the rules of the sequent calculus, you can just click around, but the theorem prover will ensure that you can't break them. Then, by fucking around and reading through the tutorial, you can pretty much learn how it works.

I think that things like this are the right way to start designing interactive education. Create a play space, enforce the rules, provide lessons that act as hints and tips for understanding how the rules work.
Plus, if politicians have nothing to hide, why do they fight Wikileaks? Why don't they publish all administrative documents, accountancy books, meeting reports, etc? Those who push surveillance policies refuse to eat their own dog food. They're hypocrites.
Well it's up to whoever runs the root DNS for the domain I guess. But I've never heard of a domain with a default. edit: oh never mind i'm being thick :)

And this isn't necessarily about people wanting to find apple's main website. Apple would have control over all subdomains and hosts in the namespace. They could give a subdomain to every app in the app store. So if you want the Pandora app, you don't navigate to Pandora.com were you might see ads for other mobile devices. https://www.pandora.com/everywhere/mobile You would go to Pandora.apple and only see the iOS mobile app.
http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html

Have you read that?

Even if the piece wasn't written by Microsoft's PR, the fact that it's written by someone with a heavily vested interest in the health of the Redmond colossus slants it in such a way that makes it generally worthless for those outside of Seattle.
5 Differences Between C# and Java: Data Types
The line between desktop development and web-based applications has been all but obliterated in the last few years. With the advent of smartphones, especially Google’s Java-based Android operating system, developers are scrambling to jump onto the newest technology, while fearing that the skills they have cultivated over the years may become obsolete.
And even if it were a doughnut company they'd still have every right to apply for it. No one has gotten anything yet. :-)
That's because you don't care about having a thin, light computer, or you see the trade-off as being not worth it. Other people feel differently. Sorry.
I don't see domains like .movies or .brand-name working at all. On the other hand, new two-letters domain could be useful. Like .ng ("runnin.ng"), .ay ("pl.ay"), etc.

But I don't know if those are included in the new tlds?
Dell used to make mini-PCIe video card on some of their laptops. No idea if they still do. I know on my Inspiron E1705 I had in 2006, I could swap the video card for a new one provided I could actually source a new one. I don't know anyone selling mini-PCIe cards outside of eBay, but it is possible to make a modular laptop.

Newegg actually sells barebone laptop kits.
There seem to be to exist to competing theories for success: 1) plan where you want to be in the future, and work your way up there, 2) do things that interest you until somehow, randomly, you hit something big. It is interesting that both models appear mentioned by "successful" people (by whatever definition of success you use), even if they are contradictory in some way.

Is the truth somewhere in between? Or are both valid models for leading a fruitful life?
Your assumptions are completely wrong, and it only shows that Apple target customers are not really doing any kind of serious computing.

Um, you missed the last line of the post you replied to.
WWDC 2012 - Day 1 Impressions
No need for profanity. Why the strong emotions?

To make a laptop this small and thin with this much stuff inside, you have to get rid of certain elements. Before calling people names I'd suggest you check if it is at all possible to fit two (you'd want TWO, right?) SODIMM slots in the space available.

Same goes for the battery — when I saw the first pictures of the internals, I said "well, they finally got rid of the integrated battery pack": you have to, if you want to get that much mAh into that little space.

It's a natural progression — an externally replaceable battery takes the most space, an internal (but still a single one) battery pack takes less, and a bunch of cells glued all over the place take even less.

I think it's a good compromise. I'd order a laptop with the amount of RAM and storage that I'll need over the next 2 years, which is the time I amortize the purchase over.

And — if you don't like it, just don't buy it.
I have a deep unease about this. It's brilliant that the kids learn the manipulations (although it's unclear if they'll be able to follow the rules when not enforced by the app) but it's detached. It's unconnected, and there's no sense that it's actually potentially useful.

It will be fascinating to see where it goes, but I'm worried about how it will translate into actual solving of problems, which is what algebra is about. Too many people think algebra is about mindless manipulation, and this seems to reinforce that.

Yet to be seen. Interesting times.
WWDC 2012 - Day 2 Impressions
I've personally always thought that tlds was dumb. I never understood why things needed to be partitioned like that. Is there any technical reason to have them?

Also, it's very bothersome that domains are backwards. It's always irked me.

That being said, the amount of money required for a gTLD is absurd.
donuts.co is a domain registrar (and/or holding company). They're probably a broker for a large number of other companies, because various other @donut.co email addresses for a multitude of other custom TLDs are present on this list, with the email address username generally matching up to a slugified version of the applicant name.
Second law of Thermodynamics. It takes additional energy to move heat up a temperature gradient, and you're not accounting for that.
You can't move heat from a cold source to a hot sink without paying for it somewhere.

edit: I don't mind a downvote now and then, but I would really prefer a discussion or explanation to a fire-and-forget downvote.
This is more or less exactly my approach. gnome-term, vim, and since this is a web app, a testing environment of Apache, Chrome and/or Firefox, etc. Between proper usage of vim, shell tools (grep, find, etc) svn, etc. I can put together the best of breed tools to form a really, really good development environment.
Car companies were late to the internet game the first time, and probably don't want to be left out again. Some car companies paid through the nose to domain squatters, others were unsuccessful (ie. nissan.com)
Possibly. But say I'm starting a video-sharing website - I'm at a big competitive disadvantage when my customers need to type and remember an extra domain-name level compared to my competitors (who own '.video', '.movie', '.youtube', etc. while i might own '.bobsvideo.fail').
Well, that's not fair.

They aren't charging you for an extra 8GB module, they are replacing your 8GB module with a 16GB module. What's the price difference between a single 8GB stick and a single 16GB stick?
Just so that I know — how exactly do you (I mean yourself) recycle Li-Ion battery cells?

I'm curious, because I never tried to do that at home. I always returned the whole appliance for recycling.
I've always liked retort, "If I have nothing to hide, why do you chase me?"
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