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Is there a default domain for these tlds? Let's take .home for example. How will this work when typing it into a browser?

If you have my.home, it makes sense. If you type www.home, it really looks ugly, but I guess it works, and we've spent the past few years moving away from including "www" as a whole.

Typing "com" into my url bar doesn't get me anywhere, so I'm assuming typing "home" won't either. If I bought "apple", is there going to be a conventional or canonical "default"? home.apple?

I really find this confusing.
Is it still to late to register .localhost ?!
Apparently nobody has applied for .localhost yet.
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See the discussion here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4105446
And just to point out you don't have to go the Ayn Rand route to come up with an alternative.....

I believe our virtues are built out of our vices. Selfishness can clearly cause harmful actions, but it can also be a strong motivator for building a common good as well, and these are not mutually exclusive. Indeed every vice I can think of can be built into a virtue.

In this view it isn't virtuous or not to be selfish, but rather the manner in which we are selfish (or lustful, or envious, or angry, etc) that creates virtue or vice. Order your vices and they become your virtues.
.cat is catalonia/cataluña, Spain.

I only know that because public bikes here have https://www.bicing.cat/ plastered on them.
Anandtech has the details. TL;DR: it's not soldered but the connector is brand-new and non-standard. http://www.anandtech.com/show/6003/the-new-macbook-air-uses-...
Someone's going for .fail!
Fair point w/re to most of the UK's omnipresent CCTV cameras being privately owned:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1362493/One-CCTV-cam...

The research involved police community support officers
counting every camera in Cheshire and extrapolating the
results nationwide to provide a reliable estimate of the
level of CCTV surveillance in the UK.

Officers counted 12,333 cameras in the area, according to
a study published in CCTV Image magazine, the majority of
which were inside premises, rather than facing public
street.

The research also found that most CCTV cameras in the UK
are likely to be privately owned, with only 504 of
Cheshire’s cameras run by public bodies.

In a county of about a million people, only 500+ of the 12,000+ cameras were owned by a government body.

Of course, one would think that it wouldn't be very difficult for the authorities to obtain footage from privately-owned cameras.
What's your preferred method of re-selling?
Someone probably sold you a microwave. How easy is it to install Linux on it? They haven't provided you a way to and may have even erected barriers to stop you from doing so. Wouldn't that put any and all embedded device/"appliance" manufacturer in the same boat?

As far as I know, Apple doesn't want people to think of the iPad as a "computer" but as a device or appliance.
The battery is easily replaceable. If you know how to use a screwdriver. Is that too much to ask?
What illness/disability does she have? She clearly understands her mother and navigates a complex UI .
My phone will only pick up my Clipper card (the only NFC tag I have handy) from roughly an inch away, maybe 2 for phone to (powered) NFC card terminals. The tech isn't very long range.
https://github.com/ozten/TLD.js
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They don't, but apparently they do plan on selling Pro accounts: http://blog.jsfiddle.net/post/4255235684/going-commercial.
Well, not only driver development but also controller development. SATA is a standard where you can go buy the standard components. The connector probably has the same data lanes as a SATA connector, just a different form factor. Most of the space saving come from not having an enclosure like harddrives do - something which only words with SSDs since they have no moving parts and are thus dust-resistant.
Err, it's glued in which is considerably worse:

http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/MacBook-Pro-with-Retina-Displ...

Actually, looking through the entire teardown, I think the battery being glued in is worse than anything as levering it out is likely to cause the Li-Ion cells to blow up.

Also consider how hard it is recycling that machine!

Their summary:

1. Proprietary pentalobe screws prevent you from gaining access to anything inside.

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

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

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

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

The whole machine is a joke. PLEASE DON'T BUY ONE!
Yeah, that's what I noticed as first thing when opening that page. They're not even obscured in the html code. I thought ICANN were professionals.
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Just corporate separation of things. They may have thought it would be slightly obscure (if you haven't been around Google much), but the email addresses got printed anyway.

Nobody knows what legal mess these TLDs will cause.

Kinda like how AWS isn't run by Amazon but by "Amazon Web Services LLC."
>Considering ... Azul ...

I would like to consider: what did he say and when/where?
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Yeah, the number of .art applications took me by surprise.
After the initial land grab is over, will these ever reach a price where we can afford them as individuals? I'd like to own a few.
There would be no default, just like there is no default for .com, .net or .org.

These are top level domain namespaces. So in the case of .home. The registrar for that domain can sell my.home, your.home, newyork.home, etc. The equivalent for the .com domain would be my.com, your.com, newyork.com, etc. Make sense?
I guess they made up a new legal entity for that purpose. There are probably legal reasons behind that but quickly, it's a registry which suggest they intend to propose domains under their gTLDs and it's on Charleston Road, just like the Googleplex.
Didn't the last land grab (.info/.movie etc) end soon? Why would this one be different?
US-Mexican War, US-Spanish war. US came out far ahead in bt cases, iirc.
Some faulty statistical reasoning there but I do agree with your sentiment that childhood precocity is a poor indicator of future performance.
.cat is already a (r)ccTLD for the Catalan community.
> strip the input of all apostrophes or double quotes.

This approach will be a hard sell for Father O'Reilly and Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower
.cat is registered by Catalan organisation puntCAT. According to Wikipedia, its intended use is to promote the Catalan language and culture, these pages notwithstanding:

http://nyan.cat/
http://lol.cat/
http://crypto.cat/ (hey, at least it has a Catalan version)

puntCAT can be found at: http://www.puntcat.cat/
I want to know how a doughnut company could get .world
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Remember When Obama Was Going to Appoint a "Team of Rivals" Cabinet?
If you think spammers have trouble getting their hands on real email addresses, you don't really understand spam.
The capability to remove apps from customer's devices has always existed in desktops since the internet, even for those you keep in CDs, as long as you are connected and receiving OS updates.
I think your logic here is very flawed.

I can name a ton of people who've owned only 1 or 2 iPhones since they've released. However that isn't even what I'm arguing about.

Apple makes (in my opinion) a very smart decision to limit some features to only newer phones. Think about when iOS4 came out, it was only fully supported for the iPhone 4 and 3GS. Backgrounding on the 3G was a nightmare to memory and performance... so they cut it. You're saying they automatically lump in apps that make the device seem slow? I think they do the exact opposite. They make smart decisions to keep even 2 year old devices running like their brand new.

Of course they want you to update to a new device every two years (every single manufacturer does, don't just blame Apple here) but they are the only company I've seen that doesn't hold a gun to your head to upgrade just to get a new OS.

One thing I can always depend on with my iPhone, I'll likely see at least 3 major OS upgrades during my ownership. My Android phone (I own both) has only seen 1 major OS upgrade and very very very few incremental upgrades as well. The only reason why I have ICS on it is because of CyanogenMod.
From Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SRL):

Società a Responsabilità Limitata, Italian
Sociedad de Responsabilidad Limitada, Spanish
Societate cu Răspundere Limitată, Romanian

Close enough:

Société à responsabilité limitée (aka SARL), French
The average tuition cost is approximately $16,000 per year. Plus assume another $10,000 in living costs, books, etc. $26,000 in total for a complete cost of $104,000 in a 4 year period. Some people choose to go more expensive by going to a private college and some people choose to go a little cheaper by going public but this is an average. Also, a huge assumption is that its just for a 4 year period. According to the Department of Education, only 54% of undergraduates graduate within 6 years. So for the 46% that don’t graduate, or take 10 years to graduate, this is a horrible investment. But lets assume your children are in the brilliant first half who finish within six years (and hopefully within four).

Is it worth it? First, let’s look at it completely from a monetary perspective. Over the course of a lifetime, according to CollegeBoard, a college graduate can be expected to earn $800,000 more than his counterpart that didn’t go to college. $800,000 is a big spread and it could potentially separate the haves from the have-nots. But who has and who doesn’t?

If I took that $104,000 and I chose to invest it in a savings account that had interest income of 5% per year I’d end up with an extra $1.4 million dollars over a 50 year period. A full $600,000 more. That $600,000 is a lot of extra money an 18 year old could look forward to in her retirement. I also think the $800,000 quoted above is too high. Right now most motivated kids who have the interest and resources to go to college think it’s the only way to go if they want a good job. If those same kids decided to not go to college my guess is they would quickly close the gap on that $800,000 spread.

There are other factors as well. I won’t be spending $104,000 per child when my children, ages 10 and 7, decide to go to college. College costs have historically gone up much faster than inflation. Since 1978, cost of living has gone up three-fold. Medical costs, much to the horror of everyone in Congress, has gone up six-fold. And college education has gone up a whopping tenfold. This is beyond the housing bubble, the stock market bubble, any bubble you can think of.

So how can people afford college? Well, how has the US consumer afforded anything? They borrow it, of course. The average student now graduates with a $23,000 debt burden. Up from $13,000 12 years ago. Last year, student borrowings totaled $75 billion, up 25% from the year before. If students go on to graduate degrees such as law degrees they can see their debt burden soar to $200,000 or more. And the easy borrowing convinces colleges that they can raise prices even more.

http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2010/02/dont-send-your-kids-to-...

http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2011/01/10-more-reasons-why-par...

http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2011/01/8-alternatives-to-colle...
You mean is there a default host for these domains? I doubt it, that's not how domains work. These will be alongside .com .org .gov etc. It's a domain name, not a host name. Expecting to get somewhere when you type ".com" or ".home" into your address bar is like typing "192.168" and expecting to get a "default host" for your local network.
As I wrote in another thread:

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1) Someone uses X (like game mechanics, industrial & visual design or artificial intelligence) in a new or more generalistic way with great success.

2) A lot of people start using X to get the same results.

3) A "consulting" industry starts to rise around X.

4) Someone gets tired of the overused X and calls it bullshit.

5) Everyone that didn't succeeded with X, probably after some kind of investment inspired by the new "consulting" industry, gets in wagon and calls it bullshit.

6) Some time after the "bullshit" narrative sets in, someone finds out that X can be useful. If he tries to defend it he either does it by carefully arguing "I'm on your side but...", or just change it's name.

This kind periodic behaviour seems to deamplificate until it reach some stable state, generally it's absorbed by academia and gets to be taught in schools. From there it can get some amplifications, and if it does the pattern repeats.

---

Pioneers like patio11 popularized this "new field". That would be 1).

New hipstery terms start to rise, so I believe we are now in the transition between phase 2) and 3).

I'm excited to see how far ir goes.
Is there a default domain for these tlds? Let's take .home for example. How will this work when typing it into a browser?

I believe it's possible to set things up so that "home" or "co.uk" on their own will work. As below, my memory is hazy, and I have no idea how many RFCs this behaviour might violate, but I certainly remember us doing so.

My background: many, many years ago, I used to work for a minor country-code tld, and we set up fun email addresses such as: a@cctld or t@cctld (for Tom ;-)). My memory is hazy, but I think this violates some RFC somewhere. Mail still got delivered, though.
I could see pay.barclaycard or apply.barclaycard. shop.bloomingdales and fashion.bloomingdales would work as well. donate.cancerresearch would work, but I'll grant you the money could be better spent.

Basically what these new TLDs are for is to eliminate the .com in shop.bloomingdales.com.
What did you want? The smaller size is a focus of the commercial and is one of the huge text headlines on the promo page.

http://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/

You can only fit so much in a product name.
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Energy input and heat in the "thermodynamic system", versus energy output and heat remaining stays in balance. If energy input (in electric current) is higher than energy output, then heat is added to the system. If energy input is lower than energy output, then heat is lost from the system.

All it takes is the ability to channel some of the light (energy output) away from the reservoir of heat to show that the reservoir of heat will decrease.

Ultimately you'd expect a temperature gradient at the system boundary to start transferring heat back into the system. through the first law of thermodynamics.
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Probably Sociedad de Responsabilidad Limitada. As you said, equivalent to Llc or Ltd.
So basically, we are creating a two-tier internet where people with money can pay a lot for nice names and others will be considered cheap for having a .com at the end? Way to go democratic internet....

I wonder if they actually stopped long enough to consider the actual pros and cons on this.
Very innovative, I love seeing educational apps that make the player think and solve puzzles instead of just repeatedly showing them rules to memorize.
I've had 5 Apple laptops since 2001 and have never had to replace anything. Average time of ownership has only been 2 years, though. Because of the resale value, I've found it's pretty effective to sell the 2-year old and put it towards a new one.
.localdomain would be better.
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> I read somewhere that it weighed almost as much as a macbook air.

You read some bullshit then, it's not even close to the Air in terms of weight. 4.46 pounds for the Retina and 2.38-2.96 pounds for the Air (11 or 13")
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"stuck"? Buy another brand of laptop.
Ask HN: Practicality of an idea vs. entertainment value?
What do you think?

I've personally been working on a little side project for the past few months that really has no practical use, but is instead solely for entertainment value. When I browse HN, however, I see a lot of practical, useful ideas that actually attempt to solve problems. Basically, I'm just curious as to everyone's thoughts on the subject: do you think practicality is more valuable, or entertainment? Are they completely different?

Bring on the discussion!
I block third party cookies and can read Disqus comments. It seems to be working exactly as you suggest because it warns me "Warning: A browser setting is preventing you from logging in. Fix this setting to log in". Unfortunately, adding an exception for disqus.com doesn't fix that in Firefox 13.

Disqus can also be blocked by NoScript, Ghostery and similar/equivalent addons or plugins so maybe that's the reason, not third party cookies.
I'm surprised the US government didn't go for .dot, as in Department of Transportation. You could replace www.michigan.gov/mdot with mi.dot.
Hardly. Chandler was slagging SciFi by making a reference to perennial loser Barney Google, well known through newspaper comics and music in that day: http://www.stlyrics.com/songs/s/spikejones9866/barneygoogle3...
> consider how hard it is recycling that machine

Tell Apple and they'll send you a shipping label. Just like any other Mac.

http://www.apple.com/recycling/gift-card/
I saw the DRAM chips in the WWDC keynote video and my first thought was, "Oh boy, the hackers are going to have an aneurism when they see this." I don't find it all that surprising.

Apple has been slowly migrating all of their devices in the direction of appliances. The mass market doesn't upgrade the device, they replace it. That is where Apple is headed: the mass market.

It's hard to argue that they're wrong when they're selling so many units as everyone else is in decline.
"cracked" is a bit of a stretch, isn't it?

The engineers used their knowledge on speech-synthesizers to make a similar app. Just like an Airport engineer leaving Apple to build wi-fi devices, or an iPod engineer using his knowledge of hardware and interfaces to build modern thermostats. Hmmm...
FWIW, it makes sense in French, though the canonical acronym in France is actually SARL.
You'd be wasting your money as it is one of the exceptions listed a reserved word in the applicant guidebook.
Well, this is really getting down to a philosophical level. You can't technically "own" any land at all in the United States, for example, the most you can get is unlimited use rights in perpetuity. Stop paying your property taxes for a few months and you'll find out who actually "owns" your land real quick.
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I'd like to here the Australian Cancer Research Foundation's reasoning behind registering it.
Shine a bright light on the internal monitor -- a much more likely explanation is that the invertor or backlight died. If that's the case you should just barely be able to make out what's on the dark screen if you look closely.

It's relatively easy to replace the invertor. There are service manuals on the Lenovo/IBM site that tell you how to replace all things that are replaceable.
I think the main issue is being trapped in an airless tunnel several hundred feet under the middle of the atlantic ocean. That is a far cry from 'train stopped on tracks in the middle of a field'. Frankly a stopped train sounds like a great place to ride out an earthquake - far better than many buildings.
Can you imagine what would all these look like in 5 years (even 2 maybe)? It is going to look messy! I mean I like the idea of it and surely it would looks elegant if it weren't abuse...but I think this is not happening..

People are pouring money into these TLD as well...
Sad to say, but I see a totally different future, these are totally different to real estate, this is a digital world, maybe these .com, .app thing won't even needed, no address at all in the future, replace by something else, like on Facebook where you type say Dropbox, then suggested site just come out
This is a complete and total mess. Worse, when registering with one of these corp tld operators, how much can you trust they'll be around in XX number of years to keep your domain name alive?

Google will win big out of this, not because of the number of tld's they will own, but because the browser's address bar will become useless without a search engine.

Good opportunity for next-gen domain name resolvers!
Brute forcing the password on a terribly insecure hard drive
Go through Michael Hartl's Rails Tutorial then pick something you want to make and struggle through it.

My first project was a golf statistics/handicap site. (http://www.golfingstat.com) It took me a ton of time and it was super frustrating at times but I learned a shitload just running into a brick wall and googling/posting on StackOverflow to find answers.
And thus my question about a conventional default. It just seems to me that buying the gTLD will leave users fairly confused.

If you want to access Apple (generically), users will still go to apple.com because even if they know that there's a .apple domain, what's the root host?

My best guess is a conventional default emerges shortly.
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Also .local

"Despite not being a valid top-level domain in the Internet, considerable DNS traffic that queries the local domain exists in the public Domain Name System.[1] In June 2009, the L root server received more than 400 such queries per second,[2] ranking 4th in DNS traffic of all TLDs after COM, ARPA, and NET." [1]

Scary potential for mischief-making. Hopefully ICANN would reject applications for these domains, but I'm not sure I'd take that level of competence for granted.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.local
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Trivial example: a traditional suit-and-tie, senior manager walks by a junior programmer's cube and sees youtube on the monitor and immediately assumes junior is slacking off, abusing company resources. He subsequently spreads negative commentary about junior to his peers.

The problem is both senior's prejudices, AND the fact that he's missing context. Junior might be watching an instructional video. It might be a break after 10 hours straight work. He might be creating videos for the company and uploading them.

In other words, just because you have nothing to hide doesn't mean someone who looks is going to see the whole true picture.
Ask HN: Book recommendations for online marketing?
What books would be good for someone who's interested in startups and wants to learn a bit more about marketing?
We'll see whether Apple Maps is actually better than Google Maps. I have doubts, Apple has always been a bit lackluster in online services. Even Siri is rather unreliable.
No - that's how hard it is for YOU to initiate the recycling of the machine.

The actual recycling bit is considerably harder.