skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a much better idea. Get rid of all domain names. Just use some sort of IP-like code that is basically random. (You can't use IP because IP's change and you may have multiple ones, or use a content distribution system, same reasons as now).

Example:
http://ewaouacswkaoieljoewa90d

Step 2: Browsers don't emphasize the domain name anymore. No more bar to type domains in directly, you would have to open a modal dialog to type or paste one in. Since the url's aren't memorable anyway, it doesn't matter that you don't see them. If you are concerned about people spoofing your domain, you're already using certs to prevent that anyway.. right?

3. How do people find your site now!? The same way everybody does anyway, Bing. (Ok, I didn't want to say Google because this system of going without domain names shouldn't rely on a single company like google for it to work, although it does. This isn't so bad, since the internet de facto already does rely on google to function, we just have these short, memorable domain names that aren't necessary also.

Having domain names is retarded. What if you had to get a street address that was also the name of your business?? What is the point of it?
US laws on ownership are retarded. You know you live in a screwed up country when you can sell everything above the ground and below the air(gov't territory) to one buyer and everything below the ground to another.
In a general smart card system, neither the card nor the reader its inserted into, is supposed to trust the other, as either could be a fake.

Further, the mechanism used to establish the trust (eg challenge-response) could be observed by a "man in the middle", so should be designed to resist replay attack.

Yet its scary how easy it is to get this wrong -- e.g. some of the satellite TV conditional access hacks came about as a result of random number generators always yielding a predictable (short) sequence, facilitating a basic replay attack without the hackers even realizing there was an otherwise-passable challenge-response at work.

Even more scary, on a related note, not that long ago I witnessed the implementation of a network security "protocol" for a rather prominent US defense contractor, where the latter insisted that authentication was to be achieved by encrypting an access password with AES256 using a static shared secret, refusing to allow any type of challenge-based auth, and failing to see any problem with always encrypting the same plaintext with the same key (which obviously yields the same result on the wire every time, making it a breeze to replay without needing any understanding of the underlying "encryption").
Github folks: the repos numbered

59337
95472
80221
73599
24616

have no descriptions in the repos.txt files but have had their languages computed. Is it because they are private? Anyway, you maybe should remove that.
you seem to be missing a very critical point in using financial projections.

Yeah, apple will keep gaining share in US but guess who will win in the emerging markets like China, India and Brazil. Microsoft will now start reaping rewards for its years of giving OS for free to these markets (basically by not cracking on piracy).

In these countries, its not about coolness or design. Its about the price.

Want an example? Guess how many iPhones sold in India?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hardest_Logic_Puzzle_Ever
I've heard it called Bus Factor (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor) or Truck Number (http://c2.com/cgi/wiki/wikibase?TruckNumber).
Whats wrong with music when working? I'd say many people who work in "normal" jobs have a lot of time where they aren't actively talking to someone. If listening to music makes their day happier/better, why stop it?
Well, "owership" is very different from "licensed intellectual works". The similarity between "intellectual property" and "property" is purely semantic and without legal basis.
Now just for PGP support.
This is the feature that I have been waiting for! I can finally manage all of my mail in one place and respond to professors in a professional manner through the school email server and keep my gmail totally behind the scenes. Awesome
For people who have little money, and are able to do so, going "freegan" may be an idea...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6933744.stm

...it is better than subsistence on what is often very low quality (i.e. nutritional value) food.
An excellent point as long as you do not need to actually communicate your results to anyone. As soon as you do, it becomes precisely as bound as language is.
heh. no worries :D
I'm sure this will be a great playground for email worm authors.
Ok, this is my second alternative to the current domain name registration system.

All domains are sold for 1 year at a time. At the end of each year, they are auctioned off to the highest bidder, with the exception of domains that are identical in name to a registered and established trademark, and is a .com (for for profit) or .org (for not-for-profit). The net proceeds from the auction go to the previous holder of the domain. If you hold a domain, and you win the bidding to keep it, that money goes to me in the form of walmart gift cards.

Ok, why do it like this? Domain squatting becomes impossible. Since the domains are re-sold every year in an auction, buying domains becomes like buying stock options. Maybe you can make money on them, but you might lose money too, since there is no assurance that the bidder who wins one of your domains will bid as much as you did the previous year to get it. Also, since domains are bid in an auction, you can't wait until there is interest in some domain and then squeeze someone for everything you can get. If someone wants some domain you own, they bid for it. Unless you or someone else is willing to pay more to keep it, they get it for what they bid for it.

If you have a trademark, you get to renew your domain that is identical in name to that trademark without bidding (you pay some fee, like is the current system). However, you have to acquire the domain somehow. If the car company wants nissan.com, they either have to convince the current owner to sell it to them, or they have to bid on it during it's yearly auction.

Ok, this makes it seem like the current owner of nissan.com is going to get screwed, since he can't pay as much as the car company is willing to bid. However, nissan is likely to be willing to pay lots of money for that domain. Other bidders also know the car company is willing to pay a lot for the domain, and would be willing to buy it and then hold it for a year or privately sell it to the car company. However, nobody will pay more than they think they can get for it later.

This system is purely awesome.
This is like saying that [...] the paper manufacturer steals the paper back

No, it's really nothing like that. Semantics aside, intellectual property is not like physical property: it's not subject to the laws physical property is subject to, nor to the right of physical property.
Also - do a quick google for B17 -- Since this whole chain of comments is a bunch of anecdotes - I've met two people who have been 'cured' of cancer taking that. After chemotherapy had failed / they had been written off.

(B17/Laertrile is banned in a lot of places US/Aus/etc - for links/containing/Cantbebotheredreadingthestudies Cyanide).
Well for one thing, web browsers aren't the only place domain names appear.

Network administrators are people, too. Suppose you had to administer a server; the task would be almost impossible without domain name patterns.

Take a proxy server, for instance. Right now, I can set it up by saying that domains "*.xyz.com" are local to my network, forcing everything else to go through the proxy. If every location were an incomprehensible name (as you suggest), the only way to configure the server would be to list every obfuscated name. It also wouldn't be future-proof; without a pattern, the server couldn't possibly determine how to handle a new machine name, so someone would have to go in and add more obfuscated names to the list.
Living pictures formed by thousands of US soldiers
.05 cents = 1/20 of a cent = $0.0005
I read his book in high school. Masters of Deception. I really liked it.
I'll be happy if people will start blogging about how they like things instead of how they don't. I can write a few lines about Blackberry, iPhone, S60, Android but it won't get me anywhere, apart from spreading bad Karma
Fit and a BMI of 30 isn't obese it's 100m sprinters, NFL players, boxers and heavyweight class martial artists.
Portland is a wonderful city in a wonderful state. I spent several intern quarters there, and have friends from there.

Two interesting tech startups that have connections to Reed College, which is not known as a tech school are Tektronix which was started by a physics PhD candidate who needed the tools (so the story goes) and Apple where Steve went to school. Tektronix is credited with starting the Silicon Forest.

One suspects that this is less well known as part of a conspiracy to guard against Californification of the state.

Speaking of food, does anyone remember the "Heavy Number Taco Company" chain which used old gas stations?
While I haven't found FF extensions to be enough of a reason to switch away from a WebKit based browser, I'm looking forward to Chrome extensions.
Cloud security depends on the human element
> PC's are $700 pieces of crap - check

Ever tried a ThinkPad? The only thing ThinkPad's haven't got, I wish they had is MagSafe.
i'm interested to hear more about having a nutritionist. would you mind expanding on that a little?

where exactly do you go about finding one? how much does it cost? what exactly do they do for you - plan meal by meal?
It was Amazon who made it like physical property by applying all the DRM in the first place.
I'm having trouble imagining why the number of users is a good indicator of product quality. And although I feel like I'm parroting Steve Jobs, but I'd rather be a great cook than a popular cook. In a perfect market, the two are correlated... in reality: not so much. Being in popular locations, having a recognizable brand, and taking advantage of users' imperfect knowledge all go further than having a great product instead of a good one.
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I did not say China has disproportionately more revolutions.

I'm interested why you believe that modern China will not repeat 4000 years of history. It is not an accident that "history repeats itself" is a well worn phrase. I see no reason why it should not apply to modern China any less than the modern China of 1980's (Deng), 1960's (Cultural Revolution), 1950's (Communists), 1910's (Nationalists), or earlier.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_China <- tiny sample.
Microsoft is making the same mistake that Creative made with respect to the iPod as an MP3 player. They are still stuck in the "hard disk size, amount of RAM" rut. When was the last time you bought a computer (other than for gaming) that really required that extra 0.2 GHz?

Even then, MSFT makes an disingenuous argument since they make no PC hardware. So it is all spin.

People are buying solutions, not hardware. This is partly why the iPhone is so successful even though there are literally hundreds of cheaper phones on the market.
Then you have to log in to multiple places, no?
Yes. I would have liked to see in that 91% figure how many of those Macs ended up with Windows on them in some form. I would bet it is large if only for gaming.
I did that, and abandoned it in favor of regular gmail. Gmail for domains did not have (at that time - I don't know the sitation now) all the features of regular gmail and it had a fixed space quota.
"Try to do the same with your criticism."

You know, I still disagree with you but I think you're arguing from a completely biased standpoint.

I looked through your all of your previous comments and noticed that ~85% of them were on Apple related submissions.

So while I'm not going to blatantly call you a Fanboy, but... where there's smoke...

As for Microsofts revenue decline, they had a bad product with Windows Vista.. they did the same thing before with Windows ME and I'll hazard a guess that they'll probably screw up several OS's in the future.

The fact is, sometimes top tier companies make products that don't gel with consumers.

Recent examples? Microsoft with Vista, Apple and the Apple TV, Google with Knol...

While we're looking at company's failures, lets just ignore Apple's track record when Jobs wasn't there shall we? I mean, its not like they've had any bad products before </sarcasm>

Even still, Vista was released in January 07 (source: Wikipedia) and Microsoft managed to have at least 1 full year of high growth during that time, which is assumed to be during the "bad time" of Vista. So you could realistically argue that this years numbers were a result of recession.

(I'd suggest that Microsoft's OS and the budget PC market is more sensitive to financial downturns than Apple given it's marketed towards people who have smaller incomes than your typical Apple consumer, thus people are less likely to buy Windows based PC's when times are tough. That's just conjecture on my part though)

Microsoft isn't on a long slow decline, it's a bump in the road, plain and simple.

This article was nothing but propaganda (or blatant fanboyism, take your pick).

"The core of Gruber's argument is that Apple's market share (not Google's) is growing quickly, whereas Microsoft's is falling."

He compared Google's revenue growth to Microsoft's (6th paragraph), so I figured it was fair game to compare the two. I never compared Apple's revenue to Microsoft's simply because I haven't bothered to look recently.

I just know these figures when I looked to verify or disprove a Google fanboy's comment previously on HN

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=671770
The post is intended for a young person planning his or her life in 2009.
http://stats.wordpress.com/g.gif

It's apparently a tiny image used for stats tracking.. contains the domain and referrer as url variables normally.
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In fact, I think that on HN a sethgodin post is more likely to piss people off.

BTW, I think that it's a bad sign how quickly these shallow dismissive comments rise to the top here. If you prefer arguments to be presented in a a logical form fine, but the information remains the same. It's not patentable, but it's worth thinking about if you feel like thinking about that sort of thing. Here's the translation:

A brand is presented as a brand. A way of of thinking about a collection of things (people, products, procedures, history) as a single thing. It is the psychological equivalent to a legal entity. A kind of Anthropomorphism. You can say: "Apple (the brand) did X" when obviously the reality is that a bunch of people or policies 'do'. This is a useful metaphor for letting customers interact with you. When you leverage a brand, you are working this metaphor to your advantage. But you can't say we (the brand) have excellent customer service & still say they (individuals making it up) are responsible for that bad product.
If I could carry around all of my kindle books and a pdf of my homework assignments

New kindle supports pdf (and anything you can translate into pdf).

Amazon is remotely deleting books that people have legitimately purchased

If you defined "legitimately" as "gave money for", yes. Legally, no. Just because I pay money and think a transaction is legal doesn't make it so.
Wolfram Alpha claims copyright on answers produced
I wonder if the authors consider it thinkable that even given the negatives (which exist), I'm (sometimes) willing to give up some rights for the convenience of starting to read a book immediately and having it always available?
I interesting benefit of GMO is (or rather will be), setting a benchmark. Better example then GMO is artificially fertilisers & pesticides.

An organic farming technique is always compared to one using those artificial methods. Once the benchmark is there and there is a market for organic, it's a good recipe for improving organic farming technology.
This is great news. Now, if only the iPhone web app of Gmail supported sending from different accounts this would be perfect.
Hi, thanks for the plug!

It looks like my second prediction was wrong. I said that Boeing would release a statement in 3 weeks with a delay of 6 months. It took Boeing 5 weeks to issue the statement, and the delay is TBD, but sounds like 10 months. At least I got the multiplier right (maybe).

Prediction 1 (there will be more delays besides this one) is still TBD. So is Prediction 3 (first non-test delivery to a customer in Fall 2011) is also TBD. Let it ride. I will keep my money on those.
I think he expects that google voice will be available on the iPhone way before five years are up.
I believe you missed my point which was that people do not speculate that the Renminbi might be replaced by the US dollar. And that this might happen because it would retain the currency controls presently afforded by the yuan being distinct from the external currency (RMB).

That -is- new, but unlikely for the reason I gave.
I’m furious with Apple and AT&T right now, with regard to the iPhone
For physical books, you're wrong. See the first sale doctrine.

For digital goods, the precedents are mixed.

Despite the claims and agenda of copyright lobbies, US law has always had limits and exceptions on a rightsholders' ability to dictate all terms of their works' use and reproduction.

The resolution isn't fixed; it's up to us: what we tolerate, what we legislate, what we build.
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Most would naively call them "crackers," although hacking in the 80s for some kids weren't just about phreaking. Back then, some would do anything to get on telenet and tymnet for discovering weird and wacky systems. They're not from academia, so expect "crackers" as their sir name. Even after 20 years, some systems in these networks were so sensitive in nature they will never see print, but you certainly do get a glimpse as to what happened before operation sundevil in the article.
I'm not sure how much of IE & Safari's recent quality is dues to this competition. But if it is as much as I suspect, they already have.

An interesting result will be if we have 4-5 significant players + mobile variations + (maybe) netbook/tablet variations.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=733369
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Anybody know if this will work w/ 3rd party email clients?

For example, if I use smtp.gmail.com, but I construct the from address appropriately, will it relay to smtp.mydomain.com and put a copy of the message in my sent items folder on my Gmail account?
The article makes even more sense if you ignore hardware geeks, PC gaming enthusiasts and case modders. I don't see tons of teenage gamers lining up to buy new motherboards and 3 PCIx graphics cards for their Mac Pro.

ref:
http://www.anandtech.com/
http://www.tomshardware.com/us/#redir
http://www.overclockersclub.com/
http://images.google.com/images?client=opera&rls=en&...
I made the mistake of buying an umbrella in Portland after living here for about a year. The sales clerk grinned slyly at me when I was checking out and said, "So, you're from out of town, eh?"

You just don't really see that many umbrellas here (especially outside of downtown).

[edit: basic grammar]
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I'd love to finally use emacs 24/7 (rather than randomly jumping between (ubuntu) gedit, gvim, vim, emacs and (osx) textmate) but arg I still can't figure out how to force emacs to: Never insert a tab character, ever.
When I press tab, just always insert the freaking spaces instead of apparently not believing me that I want to indent there.

Honestly, am I missing something? I don't leave trailing whitespace in files because, well, it's our convention and I think it's pointless anyway. So I go into a function to add some code in the middle and it's impossible to get indented the right amount without hitting space 12 times since pressing tab just does nothing. I know I could go onto a previous line and hit C-e C-j to line break + indent but do you know how often I just try to insert code in the middle and realize it doesn't work? Google has not been my friend on this issue.

/rant
Poor kid. Went through all that trouble to get some schoolin' and he still can't write proper English.
Thanks for the link; that is a really beautiful airplane.
At the bottom he suggests that "These words are designed to kill advertisements" works.
> Care to provide some more details for your statement?

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Super-size_me...
Tell PG: I hate that job listings have no comments
Letting people ask questions about the job and requirements seems like it would be really valuable, not to mention discussing interesting ways of finding new hires, like this DivvyShot post:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=733578

Is there any chance we can get comments on job listings?
I wish I could migrate my normal Gmail account (all received email to date, current labels and rules) to my Google Apps for your domain account.
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Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.

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That first sentence is beautiful. Well said.
I ate the trash and sat on the refrigerator :S
agreed, and think of it as the new spam haven also. Honestly they are digging for revenue and something to slow the decline in myspace userbase..
I upgraded my company from 2003 quickbooks , to 2008 manufacturing addition - its actually very polished. But yeah I understand the feeling ' from the older versions they were lacking.
I live in Gainesville, Fl which is pretty much the cheapest place to live and drink, and $20 is still the norm. $4 cover + 3 beers x $4.00 a piece + $4 tip = $20. Now, recently I found a good bar without a cover charge and if I drink straight Old Milwaukee then I can do 4 x $2.00 + $4.00 tip = $12.00. Even so, doing this once a week is about $48.00/month which is more than the OP paid in food costs per a month.
Agreed. Comparing something like a laptop on just memory and hard drive is ignoring a huge list of other aspects which affect the quality of the user experience such as battery life, keyboard and trackpad, and heat(Apple is just as bad here if not worse than some).

To extend the GM analogy, it is like comparing sports cars based on horsepower alone. You can get an American muscle car with a ton of power cheaply but it will handle like crap or you can get a more expensive sports car with less power but is actually pleasant to drive.
Nerds are leading indicators for some things, but not everything. Once something has become commoditized, nerds may be leading indicators of what a small niche will prefer, but most people will compare that commodity primarily on price. Reversing commoditization is difficult and rare.
Tell ryanwaggoner: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=363
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