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"But if you're going to talk about real issues then you can't use stories like this to illustrate them because it's manipulative. "

A child is using an assistive technology, but may face its loss at a cognitively critical time in her intellectual and social development.

How is that not a 'real issue'?

Perhaps my definition of a 'real issue' is different from yours.
There was a $108,000 "evaluation fee" per gtld, so that's over 11 million USD in fees.
I wonder if we see a change of domains from e.g. drive.google.com to google.drive.

Google can use .plus domain to simplify links to Google+ profile. I would really like to see something like user-name.plus/photos.
I might be missing something here, but in ticket.rb, it has the line:

has_many :issue

and in issue.rb, it has the line:

has_many :ticket

Why a M:N mapping of issues to tickets? Were you planning of future expansion?
Ah http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4104642

That was posted an hour after my post :)
Thunderbolt express dock:

http://www.belkin.com/pressroom/releases/uploads/BelkinThund...

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Interesting to note that Google has applied for 101 TLDs (search for @google.com in that list) including a lot of generic words like car,book, dad, dog, eat, family, film, fly. While some words are related to Google's business many aren't.

A little over $21 MM[1] in application and first year fees. $185,000 for the application fee and $25000 for the annual fee.

[1] http://mashable.com/2011/06/20/icann-top-level-domains/
Skimming through the page, Amazon is going for a landgrab too with 76 gTLDs. Interesting to see how the major web player prioritized this. Microsoft went for 11 highly relevant gTLDs and Facebook for none.
The Dutch government wants ".overheidnl" (govermentnl), not only it's one ugly gTLD, they already have overheid.nl! What a waste of tax money...
> I can well imagine some pros who view upgrading RAM as a very important, even vital feature.

For this laptop? 16GB likely is the maximum the chipset can handle (in hardware) and Apple offers the BTU option. BTU RAM is considered a sucker's games for individuals, pros have much lower a reason to care.
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Since when did reason matter to these groups let alone trying to please all them at once.

Plus any operation at this scale will require all the security if not more of a normal one. It is just too big not to be a target for someone.
I totally agree with you. In fact, we are testing a more user-friendly page. Here is the testing page - http://palet.ly/Architecture/Rustic-Palettes-Of-Provence/Cha....
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Given that everyone is wrong some of the time, wisdom suggests that being involved in both communities will lead to being more right than either of them.
At $108k per domain, that's about $200 million for ICANN.
Perhaps I mis-spoke above. An issue can be associated with multiple tickets, just as a ticket can be associated with multiple issues. The latter is not beefed as much in the code, as I found the use case to be less once live.
I think information is power mostly because you do not have the choice. Only few exceptions can live a life with no relation to information processing machines.

However I would agree that the limit between hardware and software is yet to be defined, maybe using new names. I guess it was the same when defining political power separation.
What you know really matters because what you know will determine what you will do.

What you do matters but how you do it matters more, and that comes down to knowing different and the best way to do it.
Man this is going to be a mess. Guess I'd better get used to the fact that the days of easily rememberable TLDs are gone.
These applications (the Google ones) are registered under "Charleston Road Registry Inc." Anybody knows why ? The mail address is in @google.com, so I suppose Google has some relation to it, but still..
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> I wouldn't like the fact that I'm not able to upgrade memory after few years.

You wouldn't be able to either way, depending on the chipset's hardware limitations. 2010 MBPs won't recognize 16GB RAM for instance.
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It's because Apple realizes that user replaceable components and ports aren't essential features that they make such great laptops. I'm a "pro" in the sense the I do work and coding on my laptop. I haven't used an Ethernet cable in maybe four years. I don't upgrade components, I just buy new machines every year (with the insane secondary market value of MacBooks this isn't even an expensive proposition). I don't want to compromise portability and battery life (remember, a lot of the design techniques to make the machine thinner open up more internal space for battery) for some features I'll rarely I'd ever use.
Upgrading the RAM on a new Macbook Pro is a user-serviceable operation. It consists of four steps:

1) Back up data, wipe drive

2) Sell MBP on eBay

3) Buy new MBP with desired amount of RAM

4) Restore data

Now stop it. You're buying a Mac because you don't like to waste time dicking around with your computer, remember?
Most US authors pay only a few cents per delivery. [1]
Books with lots of images can become expensive but it seems like the images are likely unnecessarily big for an ebook, and that is why his costs are so disproportionately large.

1 - http://www.thepassivevoice.com/06/2012/amazons-markup-of-dig...
> But locking down the os and hardware is not going to he good in the long run.

You do realize all the "new" limitations of the MBP come straight from the MBA right? And that the MBA's been a raging success?
There are many companies applying for .app TLD. Edit: Google is one of them under an alias.

What was noteworthy was that many companies seem to be formed for this purpose only. There's "DotApp Inc", ".app registry inc" and a bunch of other names like that.
I love the long ones like '.BARCLAYCARD', '.BLOOMINGDALES' pretty funny. Looks like a corporate suit decision to buy those.

Not sure what the other part of the domain will be for these as well:

"Visit www.bloomingdales!"

Lots of confusion on the way!

I'm not too impressed with ones such as '.CANCERRESEARCH' paid for by the 'Australian Cancer Research Foundation'. What a waste of money.
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I was referring to using something like Amazon services for rendering
Yeesh...in case there was any doubt beforehand that this is a terrible idea, the initial list is now proof. They have taken something that has a valid technical reason to exist and turned it into a cesspool.

Hopefully those in control of infrastructure take a stand and simply reject these "domains" entirely. Shouldn't be hard to set up sanity-restoring filters...let us please just pretend these are spam domains and never acknowledge their existence.

Ironically anyone vain enough to reserve ".<whatever>" is surely ALSO going to keep a death grip on "<whatever>.com" so this will do nothing to improve the size of the name space.
OMFG what the hell is with all the real email addresses listed - its a spammers paradise. You'd think they'd be all throwaways but there's a lot of real ones (eg. banks, communications) and also noticed a smattering of gov domains.
"...we rely more and more on computerized gadgets running programs for most of our activities..."

I have concerns about that trend, but this particular case shows how an application running on a device can expand what can be done to integrate a disabled person into society.

Not just a shiny way of doing something we did before, but a real gain.

Stallman's was a name that I thought of as soon as I read the article.
there will never be anything like the .com grab as fair as domain names are concerned.
A more appropriate but less link baiterrific title would be:

Here comes the greatest Internet terraform in history

I do not understand why the article leads with Schilling making a fortune when it should begin by describing the piles of money that ICANN is printing...
I think it is more a case of the public information security field moving from a small, highly technical niche of hackers (example list[1]) to a mainstream career path that openly trains and employs thousands of people that may not have a traditional “hacker mind-set”[2][3].

BIFF[4] is still remembered by many within the early niche group of hackers. It is likely that similar psychology has been driving the ridicule at hacker conferences in recent years towards mainstream reporting on “cyber” topics and use of buzz phases such as “Advanced Persistent Threat”.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cypherpunk#Noteworthy_cypherpu...

[2] http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html

[3] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/09/what_is_a_hac...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIFF
yes, as it shows what is happening with the economy
This is a follow-up on an intriguing link

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1257229

posted by the Hacker News site founder, pg, 793 days ago. That post was itself a further discussion of a report also discussed in a post from 933 days ago by benzim:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=956770
Do you know an iOS app using this? I see Anki on a quick google. Any good?
The interactive demo on http://disqus.com is pretty amazing.
Kind of off-topic: I've got a T60 with a broken graphics card (Honestly, not sure, but all evidence points in that direction). It still works, there just isn't any image on the internal monitor (and severe problems on external). Can I fix the graphics card? Nope, but I can still install another OS and keep it running until something truly critical fails.
I think you're right, it was just Clinton. Mind you there's only 1794 living Rhodes scholars in the United States and one of them is a former President, so it increases your chance of becoming PoTuS from one in eighty million to one in 1794, and that's not bad.

Anyway, the point of all this isn't to pick on Rhodes Scholars but to point out the unreliability of child prodigies. In fact, Rhodes Scholars tend not to be the child-prodigy types at all. The selection process includes not just academics but also sport, social service and character requirements, completely inaccessible to the kid who has spent his entire childhood locked in a room being drilled on calculus. Rhodes Scholars tend to be smart but well-rounded, sociable and a bit conformist, exactly the sort of people who grow up to be politicians.

A Rhodes scholarship is no guarantee of success, but if I could buy shares in someone's life I'd put my money into Rhodes scholars rather than teenage prodigies.
Yes, I was thinking 1 and 2 while reading it. I'd love to get hold of the raw data!

In case you haven't seen it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2De2cK1mDw
FWIW, in google's list, what the heck is ".srl" supposed to be? (maybe the italian/spanish/romanian equivalent of .llc)

EDIT: I meant, is google really asking for "a domain for limited liability company acronym in some romance languages" or is there something that makes more sense?
Google created "Charleston Road Registry Inc." to apply for and/or run these TLDs.
what, nobody for .js?
I don't like to pick apart articles on a sentence-by-sentence basis, but I have to take issue with this bit:

>In Britain, for example, the government has installed millions of public-surveillance cameras in cities and towns, which are watched by officials via closed-circuit television.

"The government"? Very tricksy linguistic sleight of hand makes us sound like an police-state-controlled surveillance society with no privacy and a tyrannical government.

What rot. By far the vast majority of CCTV in the country is owned and operated by private companies on their own private property. This is a huge difference.

>In a campaign slogan for the program, the government declares: "If you've got nothing to hide, you've got nothing to fear."

Come on now. That's almost cartoonish levels of sloppy writing. No such slogan has ever been used by either our government, or, as far as I know, any organisation concerned with security.
This tool is great. I have an NFC sticker on my nightstand lamp now so when I trigger it, my ringer/notification volume goes to zero, alarm volume goes way up, and I set an alarm to wake up the following morning.

I used to be really sloppy at muting the phone at night and this cures that. My wife is a light sleeper and I can now make sure I am not waking her up at stupid o'clock in the morning when I get an email overnight.

I bought a bunch more tags from Tagstand and I am looking forward to finding more stuff to do with them.
Settling all conflicts might well be that expensive.
I'm curious why some of those rows are colored blue (IDN, KIDS, UMMAH). I also wonder what effect this will have on domain squatting (probably very little, all told).

Anyone have any favorites? I see .DOT (dot.dot, anyone?), .WINNERS, .SUCKS (more desirable than .SEX), .NINJA, .MATRIX (registered by L'Oreal rather than HP, sadly), .IRA (financial planning and domestic terrorism in one convenient location), and absolutely no sign of .CAT (what do you think the internet is for, anyway? (No, wait, .PORN is right there.)).
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I am quite a fool.

I've just tested this with a Yahoo! email, and the password recovery works, and with a new Gmail email, and it works too. Looks like it's just my email account, which indicates a problem with my Google Apps and/or domain setup, as correctly pointed out by a few commenters.

I owe the person I contacted at YC an apology.
it is only a serious debate between computer nerds and those so diluted by financial reasoning. It all sounds scientific. Its sad really.
Yes, but he was talking from the context of division of labor. He also believed free markets would bring prosperity only if you have equality. And on division of labor in the same book he says that division of labor 'will make a human as stupid as a creature can be'.
My guess wasn't that it'd be spun off into a separate line. Rather that Making the macbook pro thinner would make the only major advantage in the Air's favor price. That'd lead to an eventual merging of the two.
>If you do have very specific goals in mind during your stay in college, $100K isn't going to sway you away anyway

I dunno. To a naive eighteen-year old, $100K is a lot of money, easily enough to sway them into making potentially dumb decisions.

Mind you I assume Peter Thiel can't stop you from ever going to university, can he? [Can he???] So at worst you're putting it off for a few years.
Nope but you can grab another T60 with broken screen or chassis off ebay for a few dollars and do a frankenstein job (takes about 30 minutes):

http://www.ebay.com/itm/IBM-T60-MOTHERBOARD-BASE-FRU-42T0116...
No offense taken :)

>He wasn't the only one, but was one of those guys who created this device that's giving this child a voice in the first place.

That's a matter of happenstance, though. Jobs and Apple didn't create a device altruistically to be used by the disabled, they created a very popular piece of consumer electronics.

Nothing more. Any other light touchpad device with a similar app would fit Maya's use case, which could just as easily have been a Galaxy Tab or a Thinkpad X.

This is going to sound really bad, so please don't take offense, but what you're saying sounds very similar to Apple marketspeak. "The magical, world changing device" and whatnot. Let's try to keep perspective here.
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What happens when several companies want the same one? There's a whole bunch of companies going for .app, so who gets which domains?
Has that really been considered 'sound advice' all this time? Getting the best CPU/GPU I could understand, but up until now PC's have been so easily upgradable, that I've never heard someone recommend maxing out the Hard Drive and RAM during the ordering process (unless it was to your average consumer). I've always heard (and likewise, advised my 'power-user' friends) to just buy systems with the baseline HD and RAM options, because those components really tend to be a lot cheaper via third parties...
car companies seem to be on board, I can see brands for ford, general motors, fiat, toyota, audi, nissan.

No french though, quick, let's grab .renault!
I fail to see how only porting some _new_ features is screwing them over. The device will continue to do everything (+more) it did they day they bought it and signed the contract.
Unless you think that Apple is immune to injunction, the mere existence of the capability to remove apps from customers' devices is a sort of attractive nuisance. Now, it could be that precedent will be established that removing infringing or other undesirable content or applications from third-party computers is not permissible. Until that precedent exists, though, the risk seems high that precedent will go the other way.
So who wants to register a new country called... JavaScriptLand?
I still use my G4 PowerBook every day.
Do you realize that, regardless of how it's abused now, in a world with zero patents no little guy would ever be paid for his idea? Big companies could just see the idea, realize the value and task 100 people with copying it exactly.

Further no company would bother with R&D because as soon as they make a breakthrough everyone else will simply steal the idea and sell for pennies more than cost of production. R&D costs could never be recouped so no one would ever do it again.
It is actually $185,000 for the evaluation fee. There is an annual fee ($25000 or a % of each domain registered) and other dispute resolution fees.

Section 2.2 on the FAQ page
http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/applicants/customer-service/faq...
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> That is just a rephrasing of "they are used to imperative programming". The question is why.

I answered it. They are used to it because it's the first paradigm there was and being the first thing gives you a good leg up.
Also consider this with regard to other open source projects:

Proprietary PostgreSQL vendors often contribute a heck of a lot of source code back for a reason that seems obvious when you think about it and applies to something like Linux too. The basic issue is that if you keep your own private fork and maximize what's not shared then you also maximize the work you have integrating what everyone else is contributing. By giving back as much as you can, you cut your costs down the road. That isn't to say that EnterpriseDB gives back everything but they back quite a lot.

When it comes to a proprietary vendor like Microsoft, it is much harder to get the QA done, and get updated drivers out to customers.
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I've been working on this on and off for the past month or so trying to make iOS app dev simpler for basic apps. I took a lot of the comments in the thread about Spry to heart, and did some R&D to try to push the state of the art further.
The problem I have with the "nothing to hide" argument is that it is aimed at secrecy and hence invalid. The issue is never about secrecy, it's about privacy, and that's a huge huge difference.
"I dont need privacy because I have nothing to hide" doesn't make much sense.

I have long looked for a more crystal clear way of formulating the importance of privacy and why it's different from having something to hide.
In this much-discussed subject, I'm surprised that two huge points never arise:

1. The "if you have nothing to hide..." line is predicated on the viewer having final say about whether something is right/wrong, thus subordinating the subject to the viewer. This is repulsive to the notion of liberty as protected by the American "4th Amendment" right of freedom from governmental inspection without an adjudicated warrant. To wit: it's not that I have something to hide, it's that someone else is going to be obnoxious if they see it.

On a related but semantically distinct note...

2. Those pushing "if you have nothing to hide..." have suspect & ulterior motives. Their existence (income, job, power, prestige) depend on finding something "wrong". They are, by job description, hostile to me. If they derived nothing from inspecting others, they would not care whether anything was hidden or not. Remember: they seek the power to punish, not just what they find wrong, but what they cannot inspect. Your exposure nets you little, but gains them so much they want to reprimand you for any concealment.
I disagree. Sometimes I can afford the best CPU, but it's twice as much as a CPU that's 90% as powerful. It doesn't make sense to buy it, even if I can afford it. I can wait a year or 2 and upgrade and still save money over buying the best.

The same goes for memory, hard drive, and other parts of the computer.
> individual self-interest at one level drives communal benefit at a higher level

Something important is missing: this individual self interest must be "well pondered" and long term. If not, you get a McDonald-like catastrophic result.
The list appears fear-driven to me. High probability the investment will not pay off, but everyone is afraid of not taking part in this historical moment that MIGHT change users' assumptions and behavior.
What's the racial connotation? The fact that black people refer to themselves as thugs in music and culture in a quasi-romanticized way of expressing who they are? The term is significantly less racial than words like "goyim" which explicitly refer to race, yet are completely benign in everyday speech. The only difference I see is that if a word is tangentially related to black culture, it's racist for non-black people to use them.

The phrase in question, "thug life", is an attitude and a way of life. It originated from 2Pac who defined it as an acronym meaning "The Hate U Give Little Infants Fucks Everyone" as well as a code to live by (which gangs such as the Crips and Bloods signed a peace treaty based on). It never had anything to do with one's race. Of course the majority of the gangs that were attracted to this phrase were african-american, but included white, latino and asian members.
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I cannot recommand enough "The Art of Multiprocessor Programming" by Herlihy and Shavit.

Seconded. Its a great book, possibly my favorite book on the subject. I also like "Patterns for Parallel Programming" by Timothy Mattson, Beverly Sanders and Berna Massingill.
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Unlikely, as the aforementioned SSD add in exists in the same depth. It is also a 3D space so the idea the whole body would need to be increased by the depth of the ram/connector is overly simplistic. If there were issues, they could have persued engineering solutions (different connector? single sided ram?) that could have maintained upgrade-ability.

This is the (top line) pro, not the laptop bought by people who want it because it is silver and has an apple logo. And it is not 'just' third party use, it is no upgrades, ever. So i think plenty of mac pro users would have preferred the imperceivable (<1mm) thickness increase necessary, if it even was.

For most here considering this, I imagine it adds $200 on to the cost, because they will feel the need to top up the extra 8gb to future proof themselves. NB +8gb sodimm is ~$50.
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