Aye. The cast of TSS has remained pretty close. I don't listen to TWiT anymore, but I remember Patrick Norton used to be (may still be) a regular guest.
If my comment does not add positively to a discussion, I don't hit submit. Comments with no content but just memes, sarcasm, meta-jokes, or in-references are rarely upvoted on HN. Depending on the your point-of-view, QE2's comment didn't meet one or more of the guidelines: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
* Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face to face conversation.
* Please avoid introducing classic flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say about them.
* Please don't bait other users by inviting them to downmod you.
I click the comments link to read useful, insightful, and critical things that others would like to add to the topic. Sarcasm in most cases doesn't fit the bill for me.
Best of all, probably, is humor. Zealots, whatever their cause, invariably lack a sense of humor. They can't reply in kind to jokes. They're as unhappy on the territory of humor as a mounted knight on a skating rink. Victorian prudishness, for example, seems to have been defeated mainly by treating it as a joke. Likewise its reincarnation as political correctness. "I am glad that I managed to write 'The Crucible,'" Arthur Miller wrote, "but looking back I have often wished I'd had the temperament to do an absurd comedy, which is what the situation deserved."
Hacker News is not as consistent as you think it is: http://news.ycombinator.net/item?id=1932278 (Pure sarcasm, no content, 16 upvotes. That was actually a bit of an experiment on my part. I wouldn’t have expected to receive any upvotes.)
That's very interesting. Thanks for that link. Will look into it.
I was more thinking of a commercial product/platform that could be used for a variety of reasons.
So what is the only anti-dote to a DDOS right now? A bigger pipe...no?
Well imagine having a service that you can 'spin up' any number of nodes/machines to intercept all those packets. I am not sure how the economics would work, but in order for it to be a good service with good support it would have to be commercial - not an open source project.
The only issue with that is that if there is one company, it makes it easier for major governments to try and get their hands on it. So for WikiLeaks case, it might not be completely helpful, but imagine the many other cases where popular/large sites are hit by constant DDOSs. I think there could be significant use there. Especially as high-speed & fibre connections become more prevalent and latency (around the world) comes down even further than it has over the years.
I, too, would like to see Mozilla become more agile and cutting-edge. I still hold respect for them, though, as the organization that taught the masses "IE != The Internet".
How many apps are being purchased per user? Are Android users spending an average of $.50 on one app, while iPhone users are spending an overage of $.50 per app on 10 apps?
What percentage of iPhone apps are free? Versus Android?
Without these additional data points, the average expenditure per user is meaningless.
That may be the case in the US, but in most other major markets, the iPhone is no longer exclusive to one carrier. The entire US population makes up at most 10% of the global market. Subtract AT&T itself, and you are left with about 6%. Hardly significant.
