skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wait. Did I just read that right?
They want to emulate a packet (or frame) based protocol on top of a stream protocol (TCP-Stream)
which itself uses packets? That adds umm... how many overhead? Lets count:

- Data Link Layer (for instance Ethernet-Frames/Packets)

- IPv4/IPv6 - Packets

- TCP-Packets --> TCP-Stream

- SPDY-Frames --> Multiple Streams

- (Edit OK. Maybe not HTTP. Just insert here how they want to transmit the headers)

That way we not only send more useless data. We also have to dis- and reassemble everything twice.

Why not just extend the TCP-Protocol to support multiple streams? There's still unused space in the header
and we have the possibility add additional options.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmission_Control_Protocol#T...

Am I missing something?
I know that applications are not allowed to send raw TCP-Packets on most OSes by default. But most servers
run Linux, which could be easily patched to support such additional features. (And webhosts will have some work
to support that new protocol anyways)

I don't get it.

Edit: SCTP may be a suitable replacement for TCP as mentioned in some other comment.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stream_Control_Transmission_Pro...
Many TLDs already have restrictions, and are not 100% "open for the public". There's been controversy about whether .job is enforcing its restrictions correctly; .edu is strictly limited to US accredited 4-year secondary educational institutions; .gov and .mil are "owned" by the US government; many ccTLDs have restrictions, for example .cn at times has required registrants to have a business license in China, etc.
So Google and Amazon are wasting their money on top-level domains that aren't going to stick… It's not like the situation is any different from being able to grab blog.com first, except you pay a lot of money for the privilege of not having to suffix it with ".com."
I strongly suspect this is Nokia's Windows 8 tablet.

Previous speculation was that Microsoft would manufacture its own tablet to compete head-to-head with Apple with regard to business model.
P2P? Oh, you must be depressed.

Use the internet more often or leave your computer on? Depressed!

Tend to surf the web and a variety of sites? How haven't you killed yourself by now?
Microsoft (Research?) published some stuff in the last year or two that looked really interesting. I don't have a link at the moment and I'm on my way out the door, unfortunately. But I remember thinking that it had promise because it drew conclusions from a huge base of data from actual Microsoft developers working on long-term projects.

Another paper I like is Little's report on data from projects at Landmark Graphics [1]. It's not a controlled study, and shouldn't be treated like one, but it also looks at a large base of data from real projects.

My biggest complaint about academic papers is that they're often conducted with students, using practices out of context, working on projects of trivial size and depth. I like both of the above not because they're perfect, but because they get beyond those problems.

[1] http://www.toddlittleweb.com/Papers/Little%20Cone%20of%20Unc...
Building High-level Features Using Large Scale Unsupervised Learning
I couldn't find it. Link?
Not quite! This is making a statement about conditional probability, but you got the condition reversed: people who are depressed are more likely to be "engaged fully in the 'web' experience".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conditional_probability

To find out the chances that a heavy web user is depressed, you have to also consider the other things that can cause someone to use the web heavily. There's a really slick theorem for calculating this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayes_theorem
>When I say that their "My Documents" folder is a level above their Dropbox folder, I get a blank stare.

I usually rephrase this as "your Dropbox folder is in the My Documents folder" which they DO understand because they're used to making folders and files inside of other folders.
Thanks for the feedback. I'll try warmer colors and see how that looks, I'm definitely not a design guru :)

Can you explain your integration idea a little more? Not sure what you mean by higher availability. Like make it into a facebook app or something?
More effective than spending 30 minutes to take the site down with a DMCA? This is exactly what they're supposed to be used for.

I don't see how giving them a whole load of PR, links and stern looks is going to fix anything given that they're unscrupulous enough to copy swathes of design and code.
> "Wow! I'm paid so much I can buy a house, like, right now!"

After dropping out of Cooper Union... well shit, I wish I could say that! I liked the post though– I'm a year behind you, and share the same gratitude to my fiancées family (parts of my own are still coming around). Many others taking similar paths are making some pretty impressive stuff, so good luck!
Another version with faster CPU... http://store.vizio.com/ct15a2.html
Agreed. If all evils are equal, then he should be rallying for the hangman's death of every jay-walker, traffic speeder or panhandler. By his argument, almost everybody in the world could die, and he'd be a-okay. I believe he is overstating his opinion.

Further, Hitler DID do a lot of good things in his lifetime, they are just typically outweighed by the massive amounts of evil he did later. If he's unable to see that even bad people can do good things, good people can do bad things, and that most people are just 'somewhere' in the middle (hopefully) trying to do more good things than bad, then I believe it is he who doesn't understand the notion of 'shades of gray'.
ASK PG: Do you have a startup idea for me?
Hi PG, hope you are doing well.

Do you have any idea for tech-savvies who wish to be a billion dollar entrepreneurs?

You have listed a list of ideas in the old days, and if you believe there is a list of ideas that can make a big buzz these days, I am into it!

Personally, I believe that the best time to start a startup is now.

Waiting for your answer and thanks,
Regards,

Ahmed.
I always think about how technology is supposed to be helping me do the things I want to do when I see people arguing about which many-thousands-of-apps ecosystem is better. Of course a huge ecosystem means that it is likely to have the apps I crave, but I don't find arguments about 1 million vs 2 million particularly compelling.

It's also sort of interesting how the dialogue around internet sites focuses on how frequently a user visits a site and how long they stick around, rather than how much value they get out of each visit. I suppose that's what happens when attention is being sold, but the incentives don't necessarily line up in a friendly way.
I fail to see how will the new gTLDs affect the Internet's freedom or competition.
You don't seem to see the distinction between being able to see the source and being legally able to reuse that source.

Copyright still applies.
How haven't you killed yourself by now?

Lack of opportunity?

It turns out thinking hard that "I wish I were dead." is not actually lethal?

Because this is a bullshit study and a lot of the measures are things I correlate with high IQ and boredom?
This reasoning is flawed. No one said that there weren't teenagers who were the victim of a sex crime and also happened to be Skout users. Rather, the issue is that the platform was being used by sexual predators as a tool to facilitate initial contact with teenagers they otherwise wouldn't have had access to.

Additionally, it's likely that an overwhelming proportion of those represented in the statistic you cited were victimized by someone they knew rather than a stranger over the internet. For a fair comparison, those victims would need to be excluded. Not to mention the question of what portion of those 2 million users are active enough on Skout to even represent a realistic target. Multiple cases being reported (in the US alone) within a span of days is unlikely enough to warrant drastic action.
What you heard is incorrect. See http://forums.construx.com/blogs/stevemcc/archive/2011/01/09... for an incomplete list of some of the research which have been done, and which conclude that a 5x-25x variation exists.
A lot of the progress in LuaJIT has been sponsored. http://luajit.org/sponsors.html
For me it isn't weight as much as size; anything over 13" tends to get uncomfortable IMHO (I've gotten used to being without a desk). After that the 13" Air is a better machine than the 13" Pro in a few points (standard SSD, higher resolution, better battery life, less heat, no DVD appendix) so its an easy choice.
It's no longer a level playing field. It used to be, what, $5 secures you a .com name. Nobody could get a top-level domain, you could only get second- or third-level domain names, and anyone could get one. And importantly, TLDs were neutral. They weren't belonging to any company (although operated by one, usually)

But now, you have the poor man, who can afford a $5 .com, but he can't get a second-level domain on the new TLDs since they're owned by a company, and it only lets people have them for a high price or with special conditions. The poor man also can't afford the $200,000 needed to get a new gTLD.

This creates a two-tier Internet: The rich, big companies can get shiny new huge chunks of domain space, whilst the smaller companies, organisations and individuals are simply peasants, subordinates, who can only register on the second and third levels.

Furthermore, it introduces a huge level of corporate control we haven't seen before. Yes, .com is operated by VeriSign, but they have to let other people register .com names. They can't just do whatever they want with it. On the other hand, Google owns .google, and they can do whatever they want with it. It's theirs. They own that part of the internet, at the top level, and they have complete control. If they own .book, and they don't want to give you a domain, so what, they can not give you one.
I will mention it again since it is still being discussed:

I wrote something out of concern for this issue and posted it here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4109759
I'm not PG but I'd imagine he'd tell you you're chasing after doing ideas for the wrong reason.
Here we go again!

This community almost universally finds copyright infringement to be fine, but plagiarism to be not-fine. There is nothing inconsistent in this position and, while you don't have to agree with it, it's an entirely reasonable opinion to hold.

In other words, if you redistribute stuff without permission, it's generally not that heinous, but if you take credit for it too, you'll get severe looks of disapproval.
Can you just rename it Audora.js? Quick bing search didn't turn it up. It contains "aud" from audio, plus "aurora" is kind of wussy sounding anyway with no hard consonants.
I've often felt like the internet is a gathering place for people who are stressed out by the real world and seek a refuge. It's a symptom. When the real world causes a certain level of anxiety, this can lead to depression.

If you imagine how people you might label as happy and social IRL use the net, they're online either to work or reinforce their real life connections. For them, the net is a tool rather than a destination. This article is a broad overview, but it seems to make sense in general.

I highly recommend reading Learned Optimism. It's not just some empty feel good self-help book, it has scientific rigor and explanations of the causes of much of depression.
Breaking the Code Theft Brain Drain
I think the triple or quadruple agent dialogs on the mesa were what did me in.
Could always try that they are able to use it completely free with a small watermark for your site in the corner. Free advertising for you and you get some value from your free users.
I'm a bit surprised by this; I'd expect spy satellites to be able to spot a rogue 747.
This is very similar to the Pomodoro system. http://www.pomodorotechnique.com/
Here's what McConnell writes on the topic, in chapter 30 of "Making Software." (The rest of this comment comes from McConnell.)

Some people have objected to the "10x" label, making an argument like "We had a super programmer on our team once. He was so obnoxious he alienated the whole team, and overall productivity was actually better without him.

In general, any practical definition of a real 10x programmer has to include the effect the programmer has on the rest of the team. I have known super programmers who were obnoxious. More often, a supposed super programmer with an obnoxious personality was really an average programmer, or worse than average, using an obnoxious personality to hide a lack of performance. The true super programmers I've worked with have generally also been cooperative team players, although of course there are always exceptions."
I, for one, would never use this while it remains incompatible with a large segment of the web-browsing public.

So, yes, I think it would be a big deal. IE8 would be even better. But with IE9 compatibility, at least it would be feasible to start using this when IE8 fades away.
i see a distinction, but a too strict interpretation of copyright is bad for the web and innovation. i'm glad there (still) is a view-source option in every browser, and i'm glad people still use it.

view-source is how i started into webdevelopement in the nineties (remember, there was no github), and i'm glad people still use it (i do).
If the pill works with to significant downsides, who cares?
"The owner wanted the student to pay for the smells he was enjoying. The student was stealing his smells!" - pg
You're being intentionally dense or missing the point.
Oh no... :(

http://i.imgur.com/FlPXf.png
Totally; some companies may use it to identify depressed employees just to fire them (because they think depressed people is less efficient).
Here is a good wapo article about the story. This is more unbelievable than I thought.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/icann-departures-draw...
PirateBay has advertising, and thus a tangible financial gain based on copyright violation.

Are they to be condemned?
X-Tags could be made self-hosting with a name registry and a simple "missing x-tag" tag. In other words,

1. Visit the registry for a tag.
2. Start using it in your markup.

Assuming the registry's CDN is available, of course!
See also the xkcd comic “YouTube Parties”: http://xkcd.com/920/. It’s similar to the comic you linked, but was written independently.

In my one experience of a YouTube party (in real life, not on Google+), it went exactly as depicted in those comics. I disliked the party more than I enjoyed it.
If you read carefully, you'll find that there hasn't been a claim of copyright violation. The accusation is "ripping us off", and it is made in front of the audience that both sites appear to serve.
This study found that almost 1 in 3 students at the Missouri University for Science and Technology, who have the spare time to take part in psychology research, are depressed. Then this study tracked the internet usage of those depressed students to see how depressed people interact with internet services differently than non-depressed people.
Bingo. Or the news in general. If you're not depressed to some degree you're probably oblivious to what's going on in the world at large, or (possibly worse) don't care.
For me, it has helped to turn to do lists into a religion. I use fog bugs for everything. I have super detailed, nested tasks. It takes time to get everything in the system, but then you can just start going down the list and checking things off.
The accusation is "stole". It's right there in the title. In what way do they have less than they did before?
To be fair, that strategy worked pretty well for Unix:

>We went to lunch afterward, and I remarked to Dennis that easily half the code I was writing in Multics was error recovery code. He said, "We left all that stuff out. If there's an error, we have this routine called panic, and when it is called, the machine crashes, and you holler down the hall, 'Hey, reboot it.'"[0]

[0]http://www.multicians.org/unix.html
Out of curiosity, what was your rationale for choosing Google Drive over SkyDrive?

SkyDrive:

* gives you 7GB vs Google's 5. (and 25gb if you ever used it before the client got released)

* has a sick feature where, from skydrive.com, you can browse your entire computer and download files. So if you forget to put a file in the skydrive folder you can still access it remotely

* supports more platforms than Google Drive

* doesn't destroy Office documents

Yes, I am affiliated with Microsoft but I am genuinely interested in why you chose to migrate to Google Drive over SkyDrive. Did you not know about the things I listed or does Google offer something you care about more?
Not pg, but check this link:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4106762
Ramaze uses (or has as an option) regexen for mapping URLs to controllers, which is quite nice.

It's also a good Rack citizen, as each Happy controller class is also a fully functional Rack app.

Very neat.
heh. yahoo had that on live.yahoo.com a long time ago. of course they killed the team that did it.
about the "4) profit" part

there won't be that much profit, because of inflation. don't worry, just wait by the sidelines and watch the new bubble.
Ideas are easy.

How about a backpack that charges your phone, tablet, mouse, laptop(?), mobile hotspot, toothbrush, and other electronics? I have a prototype.

Distribution is hard. I don't have a way of making more than one at a time.
The five stages of PixelJunk 4am
great example!!!

i just tried to submit

http://ac/

to hackernews. guess what? it didn't work.
Day Z hackers slapped with global bans
How much would an IBM 5100 in similar, functioning condition be worth, actually? I imagine the fascination with Apple alone would be enough to spark interest in the Apple 1, but is there mich of a collector's market for old computing antiques in general?
If your job is causing you to lose interest in the things you love, you might need to get a new job. I've been there, many times, and done that.
I'm not sure IE9 is such a huge win. This already supports IE10, and every Windows 7 computer will be auto-updated to IE10 (if Microsoft holds to it's decision to automatically update from now on).

XP users will never get IE9 or IE10, and IE8 can't be supported unfortunately. So I guess Chrome Frame will be necessary to target IE8 users.
I think a better point is "Apple charges $200 for a major repair of a $2200 item".
Here's a pdf of the paper: http://web.mst.edu/~chellaps/papers/12_tech-soc_kcmwl.pdf

It's interesting seeing my alma mater show up here. I wouldn't be surprised if Rolla students exhibited a higher rate of depression than the norm. Having spent 4 years there, I knew a lot of people that were bitter about being there. It's a small state engineering school in the middle of nowhere, without any particular pedigree or notoriety, known mostly, at least among other students in the midwest, for it's St. Patrick's Day festivities and drinking culture.

At any rate, I'd certainly want to see a sample from a different or at least more diverse population before I would think my browsing habits said anything about my general mental state. Beyond what was mentioned about, the sample at Rolla was presumably first- and second-year students living in the dorms as the rest would not be sharing an internet connection in a way that makes monitoring per student feasible.
There are Android phones with screen resolutions equal or superior to that of the iPhone. They may not do as well in less concrete terms like overall quality, but when it comes to common specs with numbers on them, you can do better on Android.
Whois Charleston Road Registry?
Hmm. I wonder if that would be possible to do without risking lawsuits. Wouldn't depression fall under a medical condition?
http://www.imperialviolet.org/2011/06/16/dnssecchrome.html

Using DNSSEC we can host the fingerprint of the cert in DNS at which point an CA is not required.
Django and the Real-time Web
There's another possible point here: preventing people from signing up as teens ups the difficulty for targeting teens.
LPA's don't require a name.
As many times as he wants, he bought a computer.
I read the article didn't see any claim that these patterns of usage caused depression. The emphasis seemed to be on using them as a signal for diagnosis of a pre-existing depression.
"Only after autumn does spring come around" - Unknown proverb

Round and round
With love we'll find a way just give it time
Round and round
What comes around goes around
I'll tell you why

- Ratt
The law does no work like that. You only broke the law after the conviction, up until that point it's in an undecided psudo quantum state. Due to things like mens rea http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mens_rea

So, for example if you buy a trunk at an estate sale that contains cocaine, open it realize it's cocaine, then call the cops. You did not break the law even though you where in possession of cocaine which is illegal. Work though some variations of this and you could literally be walking down the street with a suitcase full of cocaine and not actually be breaking the law while doing so.

PS: There are a relatively small number of strict liability crimes where intent is considered irrelevant. But, extenuating circumstances still come into play.
First chunk of Meteor auth now in GitHub
Wozniak: Siri Was Better Before Apple Bought It
I wonder if engineering school students are more depressed on average. It was certainly my impression while attending one that the students were more stressed than they average college student at other schools.
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Does google prefer certain domains over others? Ie .com over .info as a rule? If so I wonder how this plays into that.
Things like torx have such benefits, but does Apple's crazy pentalobe nonsense really have any benefits besides being uncommon?
"OTHER characteristic features of “depressive” Internet behavior included increased amounts of video watching, gaming and chatting."

So what uses of the internet would NOT indicate depression??
SCTP requires OS support... putting SDPY on top of TCP/IP is just like any other protocol and doesn't require adding an entire new protocol that will have to be firewalled, will have to traverse across different devices that may or may not have SCTP available (such as older consumer routers).
I was shocked that they threw in the part about developing an application to alert people that they may be depressed. This is the one amd only study on this and they have the nerve to pitch a software idea at the end? Honestly, at this point using their application to detect early signs of depression is like going to a phrenologist or getting your palms read - and taking it seriously. There needs to be more studies with reproducible results. What ever happened to science?
Theoretically elegant, the best kind of elegant.
Digital game sales are up but still can’t touch Call of Duty (infographic)
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The big one was the file upload limit. The fact that I have X amount of storage and can't split that up any way I want always struck me as a bit silly.

Another one was that I'm already heavily invested into Google's ecosystem (apps, android, the whole nine yards), so splitting that up with another company didn't make much sense.