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> What word do you suggest I use to describe configuring a program to have access to more sockets?

Like I said, "terrifying" is a good one. Reserving blocks of sockets in that sort of size is notably odd and from a performance standpoint it's pretty hard to argue that it's necessary.

> In daemon mode, G-WAN drops privileges to the user and group of your choosing.

I would assume that it would setuid down to something sane, sure, but that's not the WTF part: it's that I'm supposed to run closed-source code by some guy as root on my server machines.
I am probably being hardheaded, but what takes hundred of thousand of dollars in the review process?

(I'd read the link but it seems last updated 4 years ago with data from 8 years ago)
This is, by all means, a terrible move.

I'm all for destroying the squatting "industry" by introducing an unlimited numer of gTLDs if technically feasible. However introducing them only to give some random corporation control over them seems absurd.

I fail to see how these companies could end up not being abusive with the TLDs they own. Better an Internet with open market .com that cost 200000 bucks than one with monopolies over many differen TLDs.
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I dont see why this got downvoted. It's the biggest issue I have with go as well.

It's a royal pain writing go that talks to C code, compared to say, lua or python, and there just _isnt_ a way to make other languages pickup go libraries and run the symbols from them afaik...
>Your C code looks very unidiomatic to me, but I guess that is relatively a matter of taste (still I don't understand why would somebody use C if they don't like to write code in the 'classic' C style as seen in the original Unix and Plan 9 source).

Because we learned a lot about writing more robust and maintainable software since the 1970s. Also the original Unix source code was one thing more than anything: small. Really, really small. Mostly because it did not do much compared to a modern OS.

Things like encapsulation, separation of concerns, etc. only become important once the code grows to a certain size. Unfortunately some people think you need at least C++ for that, despite the fact that for example "private" member variables are way less private than incomplete C types. C is old, but that does not mean it is incompatible with modern software development approaches. Or that you have to write code as if your compiler only parsed the first few letters of an identifier. I think C's bad reputation in some circles can be explained by people only ever seeing 1970s style code.
I don't know much about tuning Twisted, sorry, but maybe experiment with different reactors, like the libevent one?
So then the IT department chose for them not to be able to use a certain online shop. If the online shopping is work-related, then it's the IT department's job to facilitate this and upgrade the systems. If the online shopping is not work-related, you have the option to do it in your own time, with your own browser on your own PC--the same situation as people that do not spend their working hours surfing the web (because they might not have office jobs).
This is big but unfortunately I don't see it solving a main problem. Lots of apps in the app store are merely repackaged web browsers. Although this is prohibited (I think) by the app store guidelines they're in there anyways. They don't get javascript enhancements and are slow and laggy for the most part.

But this won't make companies pull those apps from the store. Why? Because they want to be in the app store but they don't have the time or capital to write a native app so they stuck to what they knew. It's a lot easier to tell customers to find them on the app store and you can include a link on your desktop website that will direct people to the right place. I doubt a lot of people even know that you can pin webapps anymore, so you'd have to overcome that barrier.
Go is superior to C? Damn, I must have missed the memo!
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Large companies lay people off when they change direction or the market shifts.

http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/Apple_Layoffs_In_Educ...

http://gizmodo.com/5164082/apple-layoffs-confirmed-50-let-go...

http://layofftracker.blogspot.com/2009/04/apple-layoffs-1600...

http://www.macnn.com/articles/10/02/19/affects.signature.app...

http://macs.about.com/b/2008/05/02/apple-layoffs-in-elk-grov...
Yeah I think its the same idea - the article mentions Google, AOL and Yahoo are doing it already. It happens to me on my own blog, which has a google adsense banner (but if I click on it then I'm violating google's terms of service).
UPDATE: All BUY and RATE buttons were removed from all sets. Only all-in-one unlock is available in welcome screen and it enables everything forever. I want you and your kids to be happy. Enjoy! New version 1.0.2 should appear on Play Store in moments.

At this point I must say that Android is awesome in a way I am able to provide quick updates. Love it!
The research is just as solid as it ever was, it just minimizes the immediate, real-world effects.
You're not forced to enter a shop, either, but it's mighty inconvenient to be prevented from doing so.
this is a prime example of a maliciously edited title. it shows as "Error Code 451: an HTTP error for censorship" at the moment which is what brsata submitted I guess.

the actual title of the draft is " A New HTTP Status Code for Legally-restricted Resources".

there can be many reasons, most prominently oldschool broadcasting licenses, that do not allow for global distribution. those have nothing to do with censorship.
Sorry but can someone enlighten me, on why this might be be better than using:
https://github.com/josevalim/active_model_serializers,

https://github.com/nesquena/rabl,

https://github.com/rails/jbuilder
You speak sense. I tend to use apr pools all the time in critical sections.
It's frustrating because ads don't work well for the users and parents often hate in-app-purchases. Really the best way to monetize a kid's app is to charge for it up-front. But that makes it hard to market. You want to get free downloads to build momentum and fans but then you've got to feed your own family (which users never seem to understand). At least on iOS it's easy to schedule a "free for a day" sale to get attention. Amazon has "Test Drive", their in-browser free trial and NOOK has a separate APK upload for a free trial. (I haven't tried the NOOK free trial yet but I suspect that not many users know about it.)
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Those two I'm pretty sure what I would use, but the other applications in between those extremes I'm not that sure...
I guess I might be the only one to say this, but is this a joke? Some sort of prank? Not a single Go program is more readable, and I would argue that they are ALL less readable (and I like Go).

I honestly can't tell if he is trolling or if he is serious.
I agree with it 100%. It's hard to tell when to quit and when to stick with your startup/product, but not having fun for too long is a sure sign you should be doing something else. I currently have the same problem, not having fun anymore doing it. Part of it not being fun is the market I chose, selling software to people I have a hard time relating to (small business owners in France, not familiar with the Internet and web apps).

For my next product, if it's B2B, I'll make sure to first find an audience, people I'd like to do business with, and then find a product to make (incidentally, that's also the approach advised by Rob Walling and Amy Hoy among others, and it makes lots of sense to me now).
I never actually said the lightest laptop of its size, I said it was one of the lightest laptops of its size, and I kind of assumed you wouldn't be disingenuous enough to compare underspecced ultralights with workstation machines.

So I think I'm done with you. HAND.
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Perhaps they won't be up in arms be but maybe they should be. What if American Express owned .com? Ten years from now owning .book might be seriously distorting.

I don't know the solution, but I suspect that having generic TLDs is better. This is like giving big companies the naming rights over cities and streets (the latter they already do to very limited extents). If Chicago became "AT&T Chicago" an that's what you had to refer to it as to get mail delivered or travel there...
Off topic, but does anyone know why we use subdomain.domain rather than domain.subdomain? It's always felt backwards to me.

I think it would make more sense to use com.ycombinator.news or de.google.www. From general to specific, like IP addresses.
Firstly, claiming RMS is a jihadist is a silly ad-hominem. RMS presents a coherent principled position, and fights for it.

Secondly, you might be forced to use Microsoft products, because your government, industry standard, or other is using proprietary Microsoft formats.

I think the question to ask is what the big-picture-effect of allowing/disallowing withholding source code from users would be. We should not use a narrow benchmark of "minimal government interference" or "maximum personal rights", but a "yields best overall outcome" benchmark.
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How this goes against the recent Twitter move to return rendering to the server?
How to find the right balance of client and server functionality?
A few years ago when this was announced I seriously considered setting up shop to host these gTLDs. (I rebuilt the .pro registry, so I have the domain knowledge.) Then I realized I'd have huge risk from ICANN, if they dragged their feet I'd run out of cash. Glad I walked away, the extra couple years this took would've killed me.

Later I realized that, while the tech is easy for me, the sales cycle would be a long, painful slog. Every time I see a story about new gTLDs I feel like a dodged a bullet, as enticing as it is to want to build this product. :p

If other folks are considering this business, buy a beer for someone who's had to work with ICANN. This is one of those many businesses where the tech looks atraightforward but the everything else will crush a techie.
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The excitement is more about being able to carry it in your pocket
You can tell the software bias in the HN community because almost every book recommended is inappropriate if you want to understand the image of the chip shown in the link. Even looking at "Art of Electronics", it's too high level, and my personal opinion is that it's actually a terrible text book (though a good reference book) -- I sometimes wonder if people who recommend it have actually read it themselves (much like people who recommend Knuth).

Instead, what you will want to look at is the topic of VLSI, if are in fact interested in how to read the chip image (though again, you'd need to be able to "zoom" in). I mentioned earlier that often the pre-requisites to this are basically things like circuit analysis, microelectronic circuits, and semiconductor physics, but the reality is that if you want to just hobby with VLSI then you only need a very small amount of this background knowledge, because the software tools for VLSI abstract many of these concepts out into things like "METAL1" and "METAL2", and the tools knows about the underlying physics rules, to where you don't actually have to worry about deriving the spacing rules for metals and such (that is, given an x nm chip process the minimal spacing between poly should be y nm). Indeed, in day to day usage, I think about custom chip design more as constructing "LEGO" blocks + water pipes rather than their underlying physical properties, and at this point I know them better by their highlight color and honestly have completely forgotten what the metals themselves are actually are.

Now unfortunately, unlike Computer Science, it's hard to find good books that can serve as a textbook rather than a reference tome. I am not sure why this is the case. It's also really hard to find a good book that is positioned correctly. Most are either way too extreme on the Physics side, or too quickly switch to VHDL or high-level chip languages, assuming that the software will generate the chip "image" for you. Another problem is that VLSI chip design is hugely proprietary; the open source tools are decades away from incredibly expensive tools like Mentor, Cadence, Synopsys, etc -- and you will get a nice throwback to Motif and X11 since usability does not seem to be a strong suit of these tools!

So, unfortunately my recommendation is to simply "search for VLSI" or maybe "VHDL" if you want to start more on the software side as a starting keyword for books and pick something that is the appropriate mix of what you are looking for.
so the author is upset that he might not be able to register http://benwerd.book
when he can just as easily get http://benwerdbook.com only 3 characters longer?

People are failing to realize that if google weights these gTLDs then some could be screwed. imagine if .book is penalized over .author or .read ?
It's also possible that microsoft sees itself as next Apple, that is combining HW and SW vendor (and they always had HW division with xboxes) and wants to lower Nokia's price so it can buy it.
Does it run OS X?
Stop upvoting this crap, it was submitted YESTERDAY for crying out loud.
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same here, I would also be very unhappy without opera's instant backward/forward navigation.
yes, 20 years ago nobody could've dreamed about that.
Thats one of the things that helped kill poptel who built the .coop domain :-(
I actually tried hacking reCaptha via audio and the Google Speech to text API a few days ago. It didn't work unfortunately, it really frustrates me at times when I have to refresh reCaptcha 10 times to actually be able to read the damn thing!!
This is great, a really nice way of sharing snippets. It's not the prettiest site, and it's a shame the Gistify button tries to load a popup (Which Chrome blocked), but the idea is really useful. And integrating with Github can only be a plus (Wouldn't mind seeing even deeper integration, user accounts or listing forks etc.)
What if HSBC owned .bank? and these gtlds take off - would Barclays or Citi be happy to have their sites running on an HSBC-owned subdomain.
I'd be willing to wager that Google has many different versions of ReCaptcha sitting on ice, to be shifted into production if a flaw in the current system is found. I've noticed some different image captchas floating around too.
It's stuff like that which makes me happy that I have never owned a Facebook account.
Another option is Kyte (YC winter class grads):

I've used it quite a bit, really like the product. Smart guys too!

https://www.kytephone.com/
I wouldn't mind at all if Gmail was a traditional multipage app that works without JavaScript.

Google Maps is probably a much better example.
Not sure if you can classify the BBC as a "private business". It's a company which has a Royal Charter, and its governing body (the BBC Trust) is composed of twelve members appointed by the Queen.
you are not the user, you are the product. but it's for free;)
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Any of the videos you guys recommend?
Are you seriously judging a patent by its title? This patent requires a touchscreen and a context-sensitive memory with strings of text. It's not just a keyboard mapper. http://www.google.com/patents/US5920303?hl=en
One of the things that makes jsfiddle somewhat more useful is ability to play with Canvas and SVG from browser. Is it just me or when you make an interpreter run in the browser without any visual elements the whole thing appears a bit meh.
Which in turn would open a can of worms, because Google themselves have applied for their own gTLDs.

I'm worried about the long-term implications, not my immediate realities, fwiw.
"Facebook isn’t giving any advertisers information about users"
So there's no evidence for the inflammatory headline here.
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I believe UUCP mail did it that way.

At any rate, this is an address. There's a convention here. Do I write addresses as "1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington DC, 20006, USA", or "USA, Washington DC, 20006, NW, Pennsylvania Avenue, 1600"?
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Now here is some serious hacker's news! Was getting nagged by 'what NewEgg can/can't do' posts off late.
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For those of you too young to remember and not from the UK... we used to do it that way here. It was called the JANET Name Registration System and we had addresses like UK.AC.OX for a machine at Oxford.

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

The DNS system from the beginning has the names the other way around (see RFC 882 from 1983). Since JANET and ARPANET were largely disconnected from one another the systems were able to develop separately. Ultimately, TCP/IP beat out X.25 and the Internet protocols took over.

One side effect of this is the the ccTLDs are drawn from ISO 3166 which would have the UK specified as .gb. But since we already had a whole addressing system based around UK. it was easier to switch to .uk and ignore the ISO 3166 standard.

Worth noting that for a while there were mail gateways between JANET and the Internet that did all sorts of fun flipping addresses so that someone at Stanford say could email foo@cam.ac.uk which would turn into foo@UK.AC.CAM at the gateway and vice versa.
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I think you need to say why TC And Pando are deserving and no disliking MA is not a valid reaseon
I don't really feel this... I guess this might be a horrible thing to say but "I don't really care".

It costs 100k to get a tld. So if Amazon takes .author then what about .writer? Or what about biographer, columnist, composer, creator, essayist, ghost, ghostwriter, ink slinger, journalist, originator, playwright, poet, producer, prose writer, reporter, scribbler, scribe, scripter, word slinger, wordsmith, work-for-hire, writer?

Is amazon going to take all of them? So what if they do? Does that suddenly invalidate FirstNameLastname.com/net/me/us/co.uk or FirstNameLastnameAuthor.com/net/us/co.uk?

I'm worried about the opposite trend. That is to say Amazon (or any other company) REQUIRING people to buy a certain tld before allowing them to use certain services (want to sell in the apple store you must buy a .apple tld, want to publish a book you must buy a .book tld)
What problems did you run into when trying to use the speech API? It's quite an interesting avenue for bypassing these in the future as speech recognition gets better. Also highly entertaining when you use Google's own service against them.
Perhaps brestfeeding children are looking for some variety in their milk? This could be a significant untapped market.
This is completely wrong. Patents are supposed to protect small or individual inventors from having their work ripped off by larger manufacturers. Large companies are not the reason we have patents. They don't need patents because they're hard to compete with anyway. Patents are for the good of society by helping individuals, not by helping large corporations.
More specifically, it punishes the savers who have their saved wealth in cash. Those that store their wealth in productive assets, like ownership in a company or real estate, are free to raise prices to keep track with or even exceed the rate of inflation.

Then you can take it one step further: If you indebted in cash or cash equivalents to buy productive assets you get to double-dip: your debt gets reduced by inflation and your productive assets aren't any less productive and their income/growth will adjust. Your overall buying power will greatly increase.
Not maliciously edited but you are right. I've edited title to "A New HTTP Status Code for Legally-restricted Resources", the original title. "Error Code 451: an HTTP error for censorship" is from boingboing.net: http://boingboing.net/2012/06/13/error-code-451-an-http-erro...
You can still play on nightmare and early hell with crappy items in diablo 3, just as you could play on nightmare and early hell with a crappy skill set in diablo 2. The only difference is now you can take your character from suck to non-suck by grinding it, while in diablo 2 you had to start over and grind it.
Agreed that JSFiddle is one of the coolest things ever... This is more about the backend code and showing off Ruby.
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I've not used Kyte phone but they seem like different products. Kyte is for giving a smartphone to your child to use as theirs, while Famigo is for giving your phone, temporarily, to your child. Both cool ideas, but relatively distinct use cases so they're not really interchangeable.
Good point. That would definitely be a good use for this code, and the real title is more politically correct. In the poster's defense, though, the tone of the document really does seem biased toward government censorship activities.
Yes, the money is spent on the review process, which is another way of saying that ICANN spends the money on itself.
And is still well liked. My reaction to the burning platform rant was to immediately buy another N900 to leave in the box, because it may be a long time before we get another decent GNU/Linux phone. The presales on the Vivaldi tablet are giving me a bit of hope, though.
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I've always felt like physical mail addresses were written backwards too. As it is, every word is meaningless until you have read what follows.

It would make a lot of sense with internet subdomains, too. Although to me, WWW seems far more general than DE, so it would we www.de.google. Which they will probably take when this goes live, so...
He was pretty irritated by what happened. I don't blame him.
I don't see how 'I skilled and use these skills, they skilled and use those skills' is that different to 'I use these skills, they use these skills'. Except for experimenting with own builds is much easier now, so the motivation for following a cookie cutter build is weaker.
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> It seems that with Backbone people have forgotten this practice

To be fair, Backbone's events hash idiom is implemented using event delegation straight out of the box. It's not forgotten at all.

Although to your point: since Backbone offers no OOTB mechanism for sub-views, it offers no OOTB support for event delegation on a parent view. I just wanted to clarify where that line is drawn wrt event delegation being "forgotten".
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I'm not at all familiar with IETF and the creation of new codes. What are the chances this becomes a real, widely used HTTP code?
what's the market for this thingy?
you need a larger storage, a wireless keyboard/mouse, and assuming a hdmi-display is somewhere ready for use, with all that i could just bring a 7" tablet or a 10" netbook, or a smartphone.
the only place i see is schools, every student can carry one and use it in the computer lab for projects., but then it might get lost, and you probably end up with more management issues comparing to a thin-client setting or a multi-head configuration.
in short, i don't see a good market for it, no matter how cheap that is.
That's a good point.

Even then, I wonder why would Google choose a gTLD over any other TLD. For Google, content only matters. It doesn't matter what your address is. If your meal (content) is good, then spidey is happy to munch it and send it's recommendations (traffic).
Okay true, trivially for me is not trivial for all. However, VPNs are already familiar to a large group of users who've used them for business, including a lot of straight forward guides on the internet. If you can work out how to follow the instructions you're sorted.