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Well, statements like "skill in coding isn't important unless it leads to tangible business results" seem to suggest that there is a way of linking the two. But there isn't. So it's misleading to talk this way. In practice, people just use it to confirm their prejudices (specifically about who is and isn't productive), which they've arrived at for other reasons.

I think "business value" is a particularly bad phrase because it sounds like something that can be quantified and has a clear implication about which class of people will do the quantifying (namely, business people as opposed to technical people). In reality, it can't, and the term is really about power dynamics within companies.
The takeaway ...

"Yesterday the Nokia share price fell 18% in one day, the biggest fall it has ever had. The share price had climbed 11% in the first 5 months when Elop was in charge, when he executed the previous strategy. After his magnificent new strategy unveilled in February 2011, Nokia share price has fallen by 74%. Today we heard that Moody's has joined the two other ratings agencies downgrading Nokia to junk. All three ratings agencies rated Nokia one notch below perfect when Elop took charge. I think we can see the pattern here. The Captain sees the iceberg. He knows he could save his ship. But he would rather go fire 10,000 engineers and buy a Swedish company. He's rather rearrange the deck chairs. Full Steam Ahead!"
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Not from Canada, but go to any music festival and you'll find Moonshine is quite common.
Agree with the change in mindset sentiment. Using a pill to fight obesity is sort of like fighting consumerism with more consumerism.
Namespaces exist for a reason. For example, what do you call your network printer after http://canon gets reserved by the printer manufacturer? Same with http://epson, whatever. And is http://printer1/ safe? Only until someone writes a paragraph justification and shows up with $1m.

The entire process is a money grabbing farce.
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> Drugs for personal use are legal in Mexico, so the violence itself is not related to the criminalization of drugs

That's a recent development, plenty of violence before that desperate measure.

The entire supply chain needs to be legalized before the violence will end. Killing will stop, former murderers will be caught, and the American drug use rates will stay as steady and unaffected as ever.
This is a real significant milestone for a company that's disrupting the financial system.

They talk about replacing ACH but the end result is more than that - it's replacing the ubiquity of credit cards. It'll take years to do but these folks at Dwolla are smart and working with the right people (from Kutcher for investment to the Federal Reserve for compliance to credit unions to serve).

Cheers to Dwolla!
Oh, so now copying is theft?
I agree with you Jach.

I think the advice needs to be abstracted one more level out to make it useful: deeply internalize what other people are saying, and the feelings that might be behind what they are saying.

If everything flows from there then you can adapt your listening-style to each individual. Some people really like to hear that you understand them. Others just need to feel that you understand them.
No, they don't, domains are essentially a meaningless string. Nobody cares about your domain; I mean, people search for "google" in Google!

It's no different than Barnes&Noble owning books.com. Meaningless.
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I want to run an online bookstore. Dare I say I want to start an amazon competitor.

Then ".book" is the least of your problems.
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Simply regulating dosage and purity would be a huge safety improvement.
Perhaps in theory, but realistically this makes no sense. This is not a pornography site, where there is some taboo prize for lying about one's age. It's a social network, only as useful as the number of connections a user has on it. What is the likelyhood that a teen, and enough of their friends, will sign up again under a false name and somehow work out a system for determining the false names of all their friends? The benefit to the staggering minority of teens that would have been receptive to a sexual predator awareness message from an _iPhone app not at all sexual in nature_ is far outweighed by the overt protection of all teens using the service. How popular do you think it will likely be amongst pedophilies without potential victims?
I'm sure instead of going to google.com you go to http://74.125.225.68/ because domain names are meaningless.
The HN readership does not hold one consistent set of opinions, so pointing out the irrationality of the behavior of the group would seem to be a waste of time.
I'd really like to see wildcard TLDs, and none owned by corporations. I don't know if that's technologically feasible, but I would far prefer that to this mess.
I've been preaching for years that we need to get rid of TLDs. If we truly want the web to be a global/borderless place, get rid of the extensions and let us do http://companyname/ (I know it currently can't work like that, but I'm sure all the great minds out there can figure it out).

Ideally I would've liked to see it evolve into a more clean/friendly structure all together... web//companyname, yourname@companyname, etc.

Yes we'd get the clashes of people that currently have different TLDs of the same name, but maybe solve that by making the new structure an optional extra, so people buy the "new" domains from scratch (and if you currently own all major TLDs for your name, eg Microsoft/Google/Apple/etc, noone else can register your "new" domain). First to buy the new one, gets it. Person who had the differing TLD finds a slightly different one.

These new .whatever really piss me off. It's making the web a messier place, and confusing the average users even more, all for the sake for some greedy fatcats to charge stupid amounts to companies that can afford to throw money at it.
Exactly. And, more to the point, if they're kept private, they become less novel as people very quickly learn to equate them with Amazon or Google, etc.

The gtld idea only produces significant value when the tld's are used for public registration and diverse use. At least that's my claim/prediction. Otherwise it becomes just a sideshow. Heck, even with open registration it might. Look at .tv or .mobi or .me or any other "valuable" tlds that current exist. They really don't seem to be as disruptive as some may have expected.
One of the common refrains from this is that it is a money grab by ICANN, but all ICANN is doing is implementing a multi-stakeholder consensus policy that was ratified by the various community groups 5 years ago, and doing so on a cost-recovery basis. While the costs may end up being conservatively estimated, any excess will be returned back to the community.

ICANN itself has no vested interest in this other than executing its policies, and if the consensus policy had ended up being "no new gTLDs, there are enough" then it wouldn't have embarked on this program.
They could/can already treat those companies domains preferentially. Nothing substantial changes in that regard.
Compare to alcohol prohibition.
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How far into it did you get? It's bleak throughout, but it gets less depressing when the plot starts picking up.

I found it much easier to read on an eReader than I did in paper, if only because the footnotes were easier to seek to.
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This is the best example I've seen. We've spent the last 20+ years training the public that ".com", ".net", etc equals "website". Now that anything could be a URL, it's going to be a lot more confusing for people.
Opium Wars - there is at least 1 President who had connections in some way or another to this earlier form of the drug trade.

FDR (via his maternal grandfather Warren Delano).

There are others who also became President, (starts with a B) who are alleged to have been heavily involved while in a secretive government position.
You have a dev box on your network called 'test1'. You can host a dev environment there and navigate to it at http://test1 . Works great, until somebody registers 'test1' as a gTLD. Then you get namespace conflicts.
This whole article is based on the premise of bandwidth scarcity. I don't buy it.

I also don't buy the complaint that suburbs are already suffering from too much interference. I live in a dense urban environment, and while I can see a lot of networks, I can easily get enough wireless bandwidth to max out my upstream connectivity.

Yes, radio spectrum is a scarce resource. But we keep getting better and better at using it. While there's an upper bound on the amount of data that can be sent over a shared medium, you can redefine the medium. Imagine if your wireless router only broadcast a low-rate unidirectional rendezvous signal, and then targeted each associated device with a focused high rate beam. Etc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.local
Are you contemplating a change to the new Retina model at all or are you going to stick with the lighter airs?
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If you want to double down on hyper-referential and symbol-laden and keep the guns and stuff from Stephenson, try getting through _Gravity's Rainbow_.
The material recycling value is very, very small in any case. A beer can as 15g of aluminum, and the MBP has maybe 300g. So the same aluminum as 20 cans of beer. The respective economic value is orders of magnitude different.
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I think he's trying to say that a domain name means little in comparison to one's site.
As do I, but it's really really heavy! It's almost consistent weight training carrying the thing around.
In my past job I was building online banking for a small Los Angeles based bank. I'm pretty sure they offer the service you seek. The online banking service I was helping build is still in beta but I think you can request to be added to the beta. Try City National Bank (cnb.com).
That's just a technicality. :P

But seriously, I think this sort of service would be aimed at employers looking for long term professional employees, not some temporary code jockey. In that case, dismissing a proven employee in order to save a years' salary would be counterproductive.

However, your criticism is valid, and measures would have to be taken to keep employers like that at bay.
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I've really been working hard on this idea too: http://chatwithvideos.com ... I don't know if anyone has done it right yet. I even used the same terminology.
OpenVPN supports all ciphers supported by the OpenSSL library, so you can for instance get 256 bit AES-CBC if you want. I´ve seen benchmarks with one tunnel running >400 Mbit, so you can certainly get some nice performance.

PPTP* is broken, and should only be used for anonymisation, never to ensure confidentiality or integrity of the data in the tunnel. PPTPs encryption scheme is MPPE which is based on RC4, and tunnel traffic can be decrypted in a matter of minutes unless the key is sufficiently strong. This is almost never the case since the password is the only thing used for key material. IMHO this is pretty much irrelevant anyway since you can do a MITM attack to hijack the connection or downgrade the session to not use encryption. So basically the encryption doesn´t matter.

* I´m told the exception would be to use PPTP with EAP-TLS which is certificate-based. However I don´t have any experience setting that up, so I´m staying quiet on that one.

As for data retention, I don´t see how VPN providers have any obligation to log. And even if they did perhaps a little bit of collective civil disobedience might be in order?

Full disclosure: I run a VPN service.
I think it will raise security issues with phishing. Imagine someone registering .con .orgs or .couk to impersonate a .com .org or .co.uk site.

I think it raises usability issues. .com (and it's ilk) identify a particular string as being a website address. With .anything how do you know if this string even refers to a website?

I think it will create bugs in some programs that assume that URLs have only a certain small set of TLDs.

What problems does it solve?
I go to whatever address Firefox has configured for "Google Search". Couldn't care less if it's google.com or 2a00:1450:4003:800::1008

But in any case, my point is that any domain is fine, not that domains as a whole are useless.
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I'm glad it works for you, as I remember back when I felt that way, but at this point I am done with building my own machines.

As a counterpoint, I'm always wondering which part on my self-built machine is going to fail or is failing, and whether I can do anything about it aside from junk the part in question. (I imagine the weird care guarantees for individual parts are weirder still than such as a 1 yr mfg warranty.)

Meanwhile, as a concrete example, neither of the Win7 machines I've built will sleep properly, and troubleshooting PC hardware issues is near the bottom on the list of ways I want to spend my free time.

I sort of miss having the time do to do that stuff. I have respect for those people that enjoy it. But it's so not for me anymore.
I think you're making the same point as me: "Facebook supports existing friendships. It doesn't create new ones." That's my experience too: Facebook did not turn my acquaintances into friends. But the person I replied to claimed otherwise — he posted an ice cream invite and 3 people he'd never met offline came.
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Even if I made a million dollars a year, I wouldn't want to be needlessly gouged by anyone.

I'm fine with vendors charging way more than the ram is worth, as long as I have the option to purchase my ram somewhere else.

There's no denying that the new MacBook is a very nice machine, it just sucks that they either had to make huge concessions to get the form factor the way it is or they wanted to.

Does anyone know if the Samsung Series 9 allows for user upgradable memory? If so, there is no excuse for Apple.
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All it takes is for Amazon to do a big marketing campaign and teach users that typing "horror.books" or "action.movies" to cause real problems to other retailers. People search google in google because they don't understand how the internet works, if an advert from Amazon explained how "action.movies" was a way to find action movies and "anything.movies" works too then you can guarantee behaviour will change.
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.local causes chaos if you're running Bonjour/Avahi on the same network
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While I like the idea of services (webbased or not) that are about quality and not speed, I don't think this service qualifies for "quality".

The world needs more great content, whether it is on the web, the television, the movie screen, on paper, or listened to. But as long as people refuse to pay for it and as long as people give things away for free or basically free, it won't happen.

Vinyl albums used to tell stories and create an epic range of ambience. They were often art, like The Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd. Like a meal at a sit down restaurant, you put it on and waited for the side to be done. It was a bit of a pain to have to go lift up the stylus and try to land it on the specific track. The 8-track and then cassette then had fast forward. So the CD with its awesome quality let you even more easily and cleanly jump songs, killing the continuity. The CD inevitably lead to cutting to wavs, mp2s, then mp3s, and then it was all over. The story was gone.

In the same way, we've allowed the news to be shared in pieces and the pieces are important. Blogs and tweets beat thought out articles. Although we subscribe to and enjoy the local paper and the Economist, I'm addicted to HN, Google News, and get my music thrown at me in pieces by Pandora. The stories in life are gone and replaced by pieces.

So slow web, you sound great. But what are you? Who can afford to sit down and spend a few weeks writing a great blog post? Who can afford to spend the time to read a book on a new technology? Whatever you write about becomes obsolete or old news so quickly.

Now I know this isn't telling the whole truth. There are a number of people out there that focus on quality. But web culture is not a quality obsessed culture, and I don't know how it can become so. And I don't know how to slow down.
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.

I always thought that was an Tanenbaum quote? The Wikipedia[1][2] citations use the word tapes but I seem to remember that DLTs was used instead of tapes.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneakernet

[2] http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Andrew_S._Tanenbaum
Looks like the entire population of HN is in line for some Zoloft.

That and I can now refer to the number of tabs I have open as my flow duration entropy number.
I think you'd find the conversations of every board member right after a board meeting at a high profile bank very very interesting.

I think Rajat just had the friend who got caught or he might not have realized (unlikely) what Ratnam was doing with the information or he thought he'd never get caught because its pretty normal behavior on wall street.

I'd bet its the latter. Insider trading is much more prevalent than people think.
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'Apps' always makes me think of my old archimedes as that is where I first saw the phrase widely used. http://toastytech.com/guis/riscosoldlook.gif

Also, Sage didn't use the name as their attempt to revive their trademark application, which in their filing they describe as "International Class 035: Operating on-line marketplaces for buying, selling and exchanging computer
software and on-demand applications", was denied. In 2006.

[edit] I could buy apps for the archimedes in a store. An app store is somewhere to buy apps. Technically speaking the apple app store is a package manager with ecommerce functionality. Very much like the linux predecessor CNR, in other words. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNR_%28software%29

[edit] Wikipedia, that fount of shaky, but vaguely accurate hearsay says that RISCOS was released in 1987. Archimedes computers were widely used in the UK due to being in pretty much all state high schools. Steve was not responsible for bringing the word into the public domain, no matter how much you wish it so.
Which was the reason why bit.ly and del.icio.us never took off.
Fascinating stuff. Just today I was looking at the 30-40 tabs I bring up each time I start Chrome and I was wondering: doest having all this data in front of me help me remember to do various internet chores? Or does it get in the way? Better still, is it a sign I'm actually experiencing some other condition that shows itself in my context-switching? I think there's something to this.

Having said that, I found this worrying:

We hope to use our findings to develop a software application that could be installed on home computers and mobile devices. It would monitor your Internet usage and alert you when your usage patterns might signal symptoms of depression. This would not replace the function of mental health professionals, but it could be a cost-effective way to prompt people to seek medical help early. It might also be a tool for parents to monitor the mood-related Internet usage patterns of their children.

One of the things I've noticed over the period of creating a lot of applications and sites is that any interaction with a computer can be interpreted in the opposite way from which it was intended. (I nominate this as Markham's Law of Technology Reciprocity) Upvote an article on HN? You're not just tagging articles for quality, the system is also tagging you to see what kinds of articles you upvote (whether or not that information is used or not is not important here). Have a lot of tabs on your browser and switch between them? You're not just engaging sites with the browser; the browser is also engaging you on how you spend your time. Show Facebook who you would like to invite to be a friend? Facebook is watching who you pick as folks you want to associate with socially. You are not just interacting with the net; the net is closely watching you. It's a two-way street.

This can lead to some scary places. Having a computer monitor my actions and "help" me identify my emotional state and mental health could be awesome -- or it could be a tool that lets outsiders climb inside my head in ways no human has ever dreamed of before. If you think keeping your DNA information secret is important, you'll be having heart palpitations when you start thinking this stuff through. There's this world of data mining out there that mostly has to do with your internal thoughts, beliefs, and emotions. I'll repeat: I think this is a good thing. But hell if I'm happy about the trend in general.
Exactly.. So basically people who are engaged fully in the "web" experience are depressed?
I've made tons of acquaintances into friends. Facebook is a great facilitator for that.

Hell, my current girlfriend-like person was initially just an acquaintance on Facebook.

You need to put in an effort. Consistently including online people in your offline life, will eventually turn them into close friends. You talk to them online first, meaningfully, you invite them to offline friendly gatherings and eventually they just become one of your group of friends.

I mean ... it's the same as offline stuff. All your friends were acquaintances at first.
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YMMV. I have bought fully-loaded mid-release-cycle Apple laptops for the last ten years, starting with the Rev. D TiBook. Each lasted for several years of heavy use. At year 3, they started feeling dated, and at year 4, I generally replaced them.
I'm hardly "singling out" the 10x claim. If you knew me, you would know that I readily criticize programming studies [1]. At any rate, the prevalence of poor science in software development is no reason to be silent about this particular case of poor science.

I'll admit to being guilty of using anecdotes to describe my experiences with software development. (That's not quite the same as folklore, but whatever.) You won't find me claiming that my anecdotes prove anything, though, and I try to be clear that my perspective is based on experiences, not objective truth.

[1] For example, this comment three years ago on reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/7dkjx/rescuing_...
It would appear that THN has been previously called out for plagiarism by Attrition.org back in January:

http://attrition.org/errata/plagiarism/thehackernews/

CSS and HTML aren't the only things 'Mohit Kumar' copies, it would appear.
Agreed, but I think the point is that while the growth curve may indeed be 'bending down', for non-upgradeable components like cache memory, memory controllers, GPUs, AND CPUs, the growth curve certainly hasn't leveled out.