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I'm pretty sure they also geo-IP ...
Just FYI, that means butt-agent in Dutch :)
I like watching edited, time-delayed, USA-oriented coverage. Am I lame?

The BBC thing is neat but quite unwatchable.
Snippets are such a simple but powerful idea. Has anyone open sourced a project or created a SaaS tool for this idea? I would love to implement this within my organization.
Machine learning algorithms, at least the ones that I used, needs convex optimization to fully understand them which needs real analysis which is just calculus with more mathematical rigor.
Interesting, but I wish the author gave more details for a bold claim.
I feel like domain names are difficult to find not because they are really being used up, but rather because there is no system governing them. What if we treated domains like trademarks, so if you don't use it, or stop using it, someone else who is using it can take the domain from you?

The thing is, this is also a problem for company names, and product names, and... well just about everything involving names. Almost everything is running out of names. We need to do a better job of recycling old names if any of this is going to be sustainable across any market.
My favorite quote:

What is this board populated with? Unemployed japanophiles and life failures
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This means the second someone loses access to their email account, they lose access to every account on every system attached to it via this method. I'm not sure introducing a single point of failure is a good idea.
Apple should augment a single sign-in mechanism with a transparent 2nd factor embodied in the iPhone. This would result in your being automatically logged into any participating site while using Safari on the same LAN as your iPhone. The mechanism would fall back to the traditional password if you don't have the phone. Bluetooth could also be used to communicate to the hardware.

The hardware would only run signed Apple firmware and be separated from the CPU and most of the rest of the device, except for access to radios.
It could well be - it's gained prominence in my company over the last 2 months, but I'd never heard of it before that. I actually googled it in a meeting with sales people, assuming it was a term native to the ad industry, and I laughed out loud when I read what it stood for. If it's been a common industry term for a few years, then maybe I'm at the "Late Majority" or "Laggards" part of the curve - though I suspect we're a little earlier than that.

It reminds me strongly of MVP - people that "get it" love it (I'm among them), and it changes the way that they think of things. However, it's buzz-word-y, and alienates those who don't. My point isn't that KPIs are a bad thing (or even a bad term), but there's an important subset of people who stop listening when you say it.
I don't know anyone who uses it, so I'm just not sure how this is a disappointment to anyone. Seems like trying to make a big deal out of Apple removing something nobody used. Also Apache is still installed on the machine, so you can run it if you want. It's just not push button.
It is funny that http://www.shanehudson.com/ is the AdvoCare site, same as http://www.advocare.com/ registered on: 22-Jul-95(1), and shanehudson.com was registered on 10-Mar-2001(2). His site, shanehudson.net, has been registered since 26 Oct 2007 17:12:02(3), yet the following domain names are still available shanehudson.org, shanehudson.info, shanehudson.biz, shanehudson.us, etc.

Maybe the Web will become unsustainable when those domain names are registered.

(1) http://www.networksolutions.com/whois-search/advocare.com

(2) http://www.networksolutions.com/whois-search/shanehudson.com

(3) http://www.networksolutions.com/whois-search/shanehudson.net
In my experience, rejections for missing some rule tend to happen very quickly. Not sure about the longer reviews though. Our current app has been in review for 26 hours now, which is the longest I've ever seen one go.
This seems more ideal for mobile devices. Enter name -> email notification almost immediately and use that to log in. I personally think it would be easier and faster than attempting to enter a password using the on-screen keyboard.
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Let it go man. The distinction makes sense for a lot of people and you're just being a stickler and a contrarian at this point.
Not when you confirm the dialog over and over to the point of being conditioned to it - when confirmation becomes an automatic response on the users part, it's no longer serving them.
I think the point is that Japan can live without nuclear power. As a collectivist society, Japanese have voluntarily cut down on energy usage. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/05/japan-nuclear-react...
However losing the nuclear industry in Japan will harm the economy and increase the unemployment rate at a bad time (everytime is a bad time for a debt nation).

Sanity has really little to do with the situation.
> The IOC is deeply corrupt, and the olympics have long ceased to be about sports. They are about selling officially branded merchandise from official sponsors and simultaneously squashing local competition with ridiculous, speciallly drafted laws, which cricitically impacts the local economy even after the games are long over. It's akin to a swarm of locusts, really.

Perhaps on the local level this is all true. But (anecdotally, at the very least) for every viewer I know, it's about national competition between incredible athletes. The excitement about seeing a world record broken, the upsets when an up and coming young fencer takes gold, and the warm feeling I get when my flag is raised and the anthem is played.

All of your reasons are why it sucks for the host city. That's a problem that can be solved without sacrificing the best athletic competition in the world.
While True, isn't browserID piggybacking on this? Using your email as the "persona"? An accidental benefit would be any service that implanted this would be automatically two-factored for users who have a two-factor system enabled. I like the thought of that.
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I think this is misunderstanding of cause and effect, and correlation does not imply causation. High math skill does correlate with nerdiness, and ceteris paribus, nerdiness does degrade your life chances or overall happiness. It does not mean high math skill alone, if you are not nerdy, will degrade your life chances, but well, they do not have high math skill to understand that. :)
I suspect the usability problems could be solved.
This is true already for pretty much every website that lets you recover password by email, and most allow this. Any that use a secret question wouldn't switch to this scheme anyway. It reduces the hassle, as if your email got compromised, and they change passwords to all your other accounts, you have to regain access one by one, changing passwords back and so on, when with this email system, you can just regain access to the email account and the rest are under your control again.
The diagnostic is correct, domain names are not sustainable. The drug prescribed is not.

The solution I thing will come up is again hashes. Now we have hashes for file handling (in git), hashes for users in Google+, hashes for money (bitcoin). I think we are going towards a world full of hashes (pun half-intended).

If we had a single hash used for identifiying a piece of content (eg a given blog post, the home for this blog, a comment to this blog post), then a web site would just be a hash table, you would ask for hash 3ed44a2d38 and get the content. That may include other hashes. Then search engines would just be weighted keyword->hash tables. Content would be passed along servers and proxies in a p2p way. Because hash is unique to a content, you won't care if the bits are served by X or Y, as long as the hash checks.

Then no need for domain names anymore: Wanna go to BBC website? Search for BBC and pray your search engine has it as #1. Wanna bookmark the home of BBC website or an article? Store the hash.

Issues:

- Over reliance on search engine and links. Answer: we do have this issue already.

- Authentication of content: is this really BBC website? This can be fixed similarly to current certification system, and you would certify your main home's hash.

- BS! That's no real hash! What do I mean? Yes, right, the main issue is that content is changing, so a real hash would be changing too. I said google user id is a hash, that's wrong (or is it?), it looks like one though. I have been fiddling too much with git recently. For me the best of the world is when files, dirs, actions, everything is unique, unmodifiable, and identified per its hash. Any modification of the state of the world generates new content, relations, and their hashes. Infinite history for free. But how to apply this to the Web? Can we? Nearing one o'clock in the morning here: I may clarify tomorrow.
I've found that it is nearly impossible for students to find any math useful until they really understand it. As a simple example, you don't need to know nor understand how to multiply. After all , you could just repeated addition and figure it out. However, there is no need for addition either; you can just count up for a while. point being, the more math you know, the more tools you have. you may never use the quadratic formula outside the classroom, but I use algebra all the time to make my life at both work and home easier. please excuse typing errors as I'm replying from my phone.
anyone explain why we should care?
You may want to look into iDoneThis: https://idonethis.com/

Disclaimer: I'm friends with the founders.
While you wouldn't be able to get them to accept direct payment for this service (since they aren't allowed to sell it to Americans), you could choose to donate to one of the other programs they run that accepts donations, such as this one: https://secure.thebiggive.org.uk/donate/donate.php?charity_i...
Can you please explain what it means to "be a sock puppet?"
Also it tends to shut up exactly the disadvantaged people we want to here from. Personally, I use my real name, but I'm a white heterosexual male. Change any of those and I might not feel so comfortable giving random strangers the means to find me. My fiancee for instance avoids using her real name like the plague of death.
Adding to this... I knew many med-school candidates whose biggest hurdle with MCAT were physics and (to a somewhat lesser extent) chemistry requirements. Now, the way you learn physics is either you memorize a huge amount of rules and equations (which is exhausting and takes forever), or you learn only a few basic intuitive principles (say Newton's laws when it comes to mechanics or Maxwell's equations when it comes to electromagnetism), and then apply algebra, calculus, and trigonometry to extend those basic principles to the problem at hand. Chemistry requires more rote memorization than physics, but even there knowing how to balance chemical equations reduces to knowing basic algebra. Taken to the extreme, I learned first-hand that it is possible to pass college-level physics with flying colors with little or no studying, but it requires being good at math.

TL;DR A huge amount of college-level material, from economics to physics to chemistry depends on working knowledge of algebra.
iOS 6 brings those over (at least on the iPad 3, presumably because it made more sense than #ifdef'ing those bits out of Siri). I keep meaning to just write a non-crap Android stopwatch, because using my iPad as a 10" stopwatch is just silly.
I have to recommend against a lot of the items of this script. Having carefully read through it, I can say that more than half of these are not reasonable changes for hacker defaults. My tweaks are more sysctl oriented vs these, although a few can be useful, but ymmv depending on how you are accustomed to working or if you want some of the new benefits, which I find quite useful, in X.8.
Gitit is a wiki backed by a git, darcs, or mercurial filestore.
For "surprisingly good evidence" the TechCrunch article blatantly ignores the findings of the Carnegie Mellon study linked to [1].

TL;DR the study found "that the proportion of negative postings has decreased on the pseudonym-based forum after the law; whereas, the law was not influential on the website in which real names were being revealed regardless of the law." It gives little insight into what happens when a site switches from being pseudyonym-based to real named.

The Real Name Verification Law of 2007 required website owners verify the identities of users but did "not force websites to reveal [their] real names". Thus, it resulted in pseudonym-based forums that can now link to a real identity if needed and sites which always used real names but can now verify them.

On the pseudonym-based forum, after switching from unlinked pseudonyms, i.e. anonymity, to linkable pseudonyms "the proportion of bad postings clearly decreased...in both short-term and long-term compared to the control group, and they are statistically significant". The switch was "not salient" on the real name board that always used real names. Plus one TechCrunch.

The study readily states that the "proportions of bad postings [on the real name forum] are smaller than those [on the pseudonym-based forum]" across the board. This suggests a real name board will contain less vulgarity.

If one is worried about switching from unlinked to linked pseudonyms, note that the "composition of user groups did not change over the period regardless of the law".

We should also qualify articulating these findings to the United States given that "South Korea’s household broadband penetration reached 95%, which was the highest rate among those of all 57 surveyed countries" and that their political culture tends to be a mark more boisterous than we have here.

[1] http://www.computer.org/csdl/proceedings/hicss/2012/4525/00/...
Please don't mistake this for flame, but instead its intended to be constructive:

As a UI/UX guy, I would say:

1) The homepage sucks. Really. The red color is so bright that it would attract all the user's attention and would make them ignore the important features you have advertised below

Red is used to implement anything important (like call-to-action buttons) and it looks like you are over-using red. Its a very bad sign, especially when the UI is one of the selling points, and especially when you are charging a premium ($20).

2) >A complete replacement for GMail

a) Is going to attract a lot of negative attention,
b) is not ethical

Why? Because it is not a complete replacement for Gmail and never will be.

Why not? Because of various reasons - UI, Features (Some features in Gmail labs aren't available with yours) and finally Price.

3)$20 a month for email is overkill. And there's absolutely no reason why as an end user I should use yours over Gmail, because its free. From what I see, some of the features you claim to provide, which you claim to make your app superior to Gmail fail to impress me. For example, the event scheduling. I'm sure I can do something close with Google's calendar app?

4)If you are targeting Gmail users, then, for what platform? PC? Mac?? Android?? iPhone??? Be clear, right now its hard to digest if this is just a weekend hack or a serious app, because the pitch of your app. isn't clear enough, atleast not on the homepage. (Being brutally honest)

5) There was another guy who tried the same thing - I believe its called Mailapp. It would be good for you, if you could learn from his mistakes, you can find his post here on HN and how much criticism he received despite his UI being significantly better than yours, by many folds. Read what people expect, from the comments here on HN on the mail app, I believe it would help you a lot.

There is a fundamental problem with such apps. Embracing Apple-sque minimal User-Interface design is a good idea only when you know what you're doing and how things should look. There is a reason why important elements like the compose button in Gmail are in red. There is a reason why links are in blue. First try to understand these reasons behind the psychology of colors before you get minimal. Making something/Marketing something minimal doesn't make you smart or superior, infact you will be offending many users because of your poor understanding of UX. Look at the home page, look at the red color for the unread messages. In one sentence - Its highly un-professional, especially considering the fact that you charge me $20 for this.

See, we live in a time where for $50 a year we get an account on a cool photo-sharing site like 500px. Please consider reducing the price if you want to get in more users. For $20 a month, one can run their own VPS (Linode) and run their own E-Mail server..(but not sure why anyone would do that thought, but just saying)

Please do not get offended, I sincerely want you to improve your app. All the best, my friend, wishing you good luck!!
I'm not sure how you can possibly separate the concept of a rebuttal from that of making an argument. And as I've alluded, how you test code does not, in fact, dictate any form of quality or reliability in and of itself.

I suggest watching this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9G77f9_tOSM

Also reading this
https://plus.google.com/u/0/104920553571646483561/posts/fmyZ...
I agree with you.. but, then shouldn't we be asking ICANN to raise the registration fees?

Because right now, registration fees are so low that squatters can register thousands of names, and then demand a few thousand dollars if you won't one of those.

Raising it to (say) $25 keeps names affordable for everyone, and would raise the cost to squatters substantially... which should make more names available.
Seems like this shouldn't be a particularly big deal now that OS X Server is a $20 download from the Mac App Store.
I have a mixed opinion about hellbanning.

It works. I see that it works. It helps sustain a community. If you browse with showdead on, you don't run across a lot of dead content that doesn't deserve to be dead.

However I've personally been hellbanned by an automated script. (I think the problem was that I was posting fast enough to be mistaken for being a spammer.) But it turns out that there are people who browse with showdead on for kicks. One of them saw that I had been hellbanned, replied to me saying that I had, and told me to talk to pg about it. I sent pg an email, he confirmed that I had been hellbanned by accident, and he undid it.

Unintended mistakes happen. I am proof of it. If a mistake happens to you, it really helps if you are an established member of the community. But the automated scripts are improved over time, and I suspect that the error rate goes down over time. And I think that the mechanism on the whole does improve the site.
It's not a class, just a repost from Stanford Ecorner single 1-hour long lecture.

Here is the original: http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=1554
One thing I don't understand is if "real name" means that I have to use my real name or that my username must consist of a made up first name and made up last name...
I wonder if there is a phone out there that just boots into a minimal android software stack with a Vim interface to the typical phone features, calling, texting, notes, etc. Touchscreen with a physical keyboard would make this the ultimate hacker tool.
Could not agree more. I'm not completely convinced that "sensible defaults" for a hacker necessarily means disabling animations, etc. We're really past the point with machine power where this sort of thing is necessary, and I can't understand the continued insistence on doing things like that.
I really expected this list to relate to things like git settings, etc.
The author links to the official results page[1] where the 7th place contestant is called "16Systems" (the domain name of the author is 16s.us, and the blog is "Copyright 2012 16 Systems".

Clicking on the PGP key of the 7th placed contestant[2] shows that person did things that match what the blog claimed.

Additionally, the software the author used is linked in the blog post.

Exactly what "more details" do you require?

[1] http://contest-2012.korelogic.com/stats.html

[2] http://contest-2012.korelogic.com/stats_CCDF04C80A00F55B.htm...
I think "actual mathematics" was used to refer to abstract and/or high level mathematics, the sort a math major might take in college. While "school mathematics" was used to refer to arithmetic and algebra.
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Why We're Supporting Gittip
"A sockpuppet is an online identity used for purposes of deception. The term -- a reference to the manipulation of a simple hand puppet made from a sock -- originally referred to a false identity assumed by a member of an internet community who spoke to, or about himself while pretending to be another person."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sockpuppet_(Internet)
The course is based on a talk that Marrissa gave at Stanford for the Entrepreneurial Thought Leader Speaker Series. I subscribed to the spaker series via iTunes as a podcast. Here is Marrissa's talk: http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=1525
I’m sure some people used it, but it’s not as if it was such a great interface for managing Apache. If I remember correctly (already upgraded to Mountain Lion), all it could do was start and stop Apache.
When you have 5 employees, maybe. If they are good at being really condensed and writing clearly.

When you have 20? 100? 1000? The number of snippets one has to read goes up linearly as the company expands for each employee. That means that waste goes up geometrically for the entire company.

And forcing each employee to read from a few select people will never scale either. Soon you will want to add the head of research and then the head of HR (or just the HR guy, if you only have one) so that you can tap into everybodies network for recruits.
I don't like the idea of taking names from people who are otherwise maintaining the requirements for the name simply because someone else has a trademark for it. Also, multiple companies can have the same trademark in different industries (not to mention different countries).

Why not just raise the price for domains? If the fee were $25 or even $50/year, a lot of people (including myself) would drop domains we weren't using. And that's still a pretty low bar for any name that is even slightly valuable to the domain name owner.
I, for one, am curious about the details of how he did it.
> Don't be the no in your life.

That's some wonderful advice - thanks for sharing!
ICANN are selling TLDs like .pepsi and .sony - if we really run out can't we just open that up to the general public at a low cost, the same way anyone can get a .com? Then all the chip shops in the world can use harrys.chips, johns.chips, etc. Other companies could register their own TLDs as well, with the added advantage the URL is a single word which is the name of the company. The only reason this is not already possible for all but the biggest companies is ICANN charges such a high fee for a TLD - IIRC it's about $180k, with no guarantee you actually get it.
Right. I actually did use it sometimes, so it's not quite true that nobody used it. No typical user used it, certainly. If Apache is still installed, though, any "web developer" worth his or her salt should be able to handle "sudo apachectl start" and "sudo apachectl stop".
there are lots of engineers who are at SevOne that don't have degrees. Send me an E-mail and we can talk about it. we are always looking for talent regardless of their background.