skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I admit, I only had configured only three NS for my domain. But it doesn't make any difference, right now none of the four are available.

Good though, that they have a warning sign attached to their page now. I've been searching the web a couple of times the last two days and found _no_ news whatsover. In the event of a DDOS attack, I would appreciate a warning mail.

Of course if the attack is as bad as it seems, the downtime is not their fault and I feel with them. They are probably working around the clock on that. I wish them all the best to block that traffic out.

But anyway - I have learned that I'll need more than one DNS provider to ensure a reliable service.
Not really, the increase in lung disease due to cigarettes was very noticeable.

These supposed foot problems which supposedly 80% of 40-year-olds have are apparently invisible and symptomless. How is this different to someone telling me that my aura is misaligned or that I have too many body thetans?
Maybe he took the screenshots before voting.
What do you use on more critical pages, then?

And thanks for the advice on freedns.
Doesn't it skyrocket point inflation in the long run with even the most stupid comments getting points?
Yes, you are absolutely right. In fact I had started a chapter about the "far future" where I wanted to elaborate more on the computer architecture change and its effect on programming languages. But I thought the scope would become too large.

If you are interested I gathered some links about the "far future":

* https://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Charles/Jonathan-Edwards-Pro...

* http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/4088

* http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/4090
Ok, how would he have to show they were at -X if he had pushed them up again. That's what the screenshots were for.

No point in contaminating his 'evidence'.

Really, you're reading a lot in to very little.

Argue the case of the downvotes, not the man behind the criticism, of course he could have upvoted them, but he still can, can't he ?
The fork will be contaminated. But for openoffice, Sun (and now Oracle) demanded copyright assignment for all contributions.
As of two-three years ago Slashdot moderation guaranteed that "In Soviet Russia" jokes were always +5 Funny, anything with Linux in it were +5 Interesting and a post with a Beowulf cluster plug was both Funny and Informative.

Meta-moderation was supposed to cure that, but it didn't make much difference. So, no, overall it did not work. Submissions were good, but discussions sucked.
What is easier - to get that to work, or put on shoes?
Counterpoint: when I walk six hours in my flimsy canvas Converse, my feet hurt a lot. When I walk for six hours in my fancypants Saucony running shoes, they don't.

I could try walking around for six hours in my bare feet, but I'm pretty sure I'd slice my foot open on something.
My sens tell me "JavaScript". The rise of the Web (especially Web applications), HTML5, Tablets and mobile applications, Server Side JS... I think JavaScript can make a big move. Learn one language and use it in anything you'll even dream of.

With its' flexibility, extend the language to support any feature you'd like. Make it Object Oriented, Prototypal, Procedural, your own...
It is more fattening if it has more calories.

#1 large you say? McDonald’s website tells me that if you buy that from them (Big Mac, large fries, ketchup, large Cola) you are looking at 1200 calories. I find it hard to imagine that any two of the photographed products on the linked website would have less calories. One Snickers bar – one, not in any way fried – has about 300 calories. A Big Mac has about 500. A large Cola (0.5 l) has 250. A nice portion of pasta with something as innocuous as tomato sauce can get you up to 500 calories.

There is nothing particularly evil about fast food. If that one menu is pretty much the only thing you eat on a day you can easily lose weight. It’s just that something with a high calorie density makes it very hard for you to control your portions. My suspicion is that the submission’s food all have a quite high calorie density, higher than even most fast food.

The worst offender on the McDonald’s menu are pretty much the fries. A Big Mac is relativly harmless because in addition to the high calorie density meat and sauce you also get the bun and even some salad. If you drink water instead of Coke you even push the calories below 1000 which means that you could easily eat two of those menus on a day without gaining weight.
Great writeup -- thanks much! Nice summaries of the talks by Andy, Paul, Andrew, Tom, Greg, Reid, Ron, Adam, Dalton, Mark, and Brian ...

Hey wait a second I’m noticing a pattern here.
If a downvote did cost, say, 1 karma point, the downvoter could feel compelled to make an insighful comment on why the downvote if, for no other reason than to recover the point.
GPL doesn't apply to trademarks, which are still the property of the company (Sun/now Oracle), just like Firefox is a trademark owned by Mozilla Foundation.

You can fork the code and make your own brand with it, but unless you offer something different, good luck in trying to get JohnDoe to install, say, MariaDB instead of MySQL or YourOffice instead of OpenOffice.
Since I consider myself a UI/UX designer, this surprised me, but I'm gonna say hire the programmer.

Reason being, you've just started and need to iterate quickly to get something valuable working. It doesn't matter if it looks good if it's not something people want.

Once you're up and running, and collecting user feedback, you'll have the data a great UX designer needs to work with.
PHP? Computing is more than web pages.

I'm rooting for Clojure. Rich Hickey's presentations detailing his rationales make sense and are quite inspiring.
I'd like to second a thank you for pointing out Robotium, since I was trashing the emulator in the first place. I will definitely be checking that out for my next project.
Maybe they should change the name and replace Z with a D.

Python on Dope sounds fierce. Snakes and drugs are cooler than jewels and trains.
Oracle owns all the openoffice.org code. See copyright assignment: http://www.openoffice.org/FAQs/faq-licensing.html#usinglicen...
I would suspect it won't take long until Microsoft simply has to have a Windows ARM build that is also tuned and/or redesigned to consume as little electricity as possible.

Considering the backwarts-compatible bloat that Windows is this might even turn out to be a good thing.
It just shows the differences in views. Even something that is so obvious, logical, rational to you can be so ridiculous and downright stupid to others. But it will be healthy for discussion if they say why they downvote. It is like passing judgement without explaining your judgement. You don't win minds or opinions over from the downvoted person and the downvoter doesn't understand the other guy's point of view as well.
I'm proud to say that my home country of Scotland may be small, but we are world leaders in calorie delivery mechanisms. Examples include:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep-fried_pizza

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep-fried_Mars_bar

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

I'm pleased to see that innovation is alive and well - apparently in some areas people have started coating pizzas in batter before deep frying them!
I don't know how I can answer this. I suppose I could make a comment about how we don't even have browsers for the sighted that can understand the code that some developers throw up on pages.

Or I could say "Find 10 pages, and quickly determine, from only the HTML markup, what the main content is." and then do that for the top 1000 pages on the net. See how hard the problem is. If you solve it, you'd be a hero.

On the other hand, you could use accessibility patterns like UJS, alternative text, skip links, ARIA roles, better semantic markup, and make your site about 80% more usable in about an hour :)
I am using GratisDNS.dk, it's a danish company. It's free and in my experience it always works, for years on end.

Their webpage is in Danish but if you don't want to learn the language, they have an English translation as well.
A Concurrent Language for Non-Concurrent Software
I'm curious about the various intentions of those who took you up on it? Are people looking for an SEO boost? Do the outbound links hurt ww.com's rank?
If you can only watch one video, watch Dalton Caldwell or Ron Conway
What I meant by that is that PHP is admittedly used widely on the web but almost nonexistent in other "niches" like game programming, kernel programming, artificial intelligence, high performance computing etc.

I'm thinking of the ecological meaning of the word niche not the meaning of "something small".
I would add to the list of religious issues posts about Microsoft and its related technologies, posts about Zed Shaw, just to name a few... touchy subjects.

Most of the time I say something negative about Microsoft I append a "burn, karma, burn" to it because I know I'll take a beating.
JavaScript is definately a candidate, but I don't think it's going to be node.js. Doing all IO asynchronously strikes me as very premature optimization. I prefer the way Go or Erlang deal with these scaling issues.
Strangeness of HN members.
Some things I find strange:

* people here are very serious about everything

* they demand that discussion be evidence-based

* they are unwilling to discuss startup ideas unless an implementation has been made

What do you find strange about HN members?
I think we have slightly different ideas about the language core vs. library distinction. In C, for example, printf and strlen are library functions (stdio.h and string.h), while structs are part of the core language.

All the language core needs for Unicode is reasonable support for tagging string literals (i.e., U"blah") and a binary-safe string type. It's best if there's either a standard or de facto community standard library for doing Unicode string ops, but it doesn't need core support anymore than the Linux kernel needs to know about parsing HTTP.
I find it interesting that he says Go's syntax is ugly, but that Clay programs look so good and readable. The two languages have a very similar basic syntax, and some of the Go's differences are an improvement in my book: no semi-colons, fewer parentheses.
I don't know that many people (if any) could be truly un-biased to choose one or the other. I like Python but I learned Ruby first. Every encounter with Python gets compared to Ruby in my mind. "Ruby doesn't do things like this. Is this better or worse than what I'm used to?" I'm sure a Python developer looking a Ruby does the same.

Unless you ask just the people who looked at Ruby and Python at the same time, I think your poll will be weighed to whether readers were Python devs first or Ruby devs first.
Well... Since I know a bit of Ruby an I regard myself as proficient in Python, I would go with Clojure.

I find Ruby's syntax a bit "magical" and that it makes groking RoR a bit hard once you go beyond the basics. I would recommend Python over Ruby for a Java/PHP/C# expat willing to learn something different.
There was a post linked here a couple of days ago where JWZ was bemoaning the lack of #!/usr/bin/javascript - and it's still not possible to use JS as a general purpose language a la Perl, Python, Ruby, etc.

I know it has all sorts of negative stereotypes, but the combination of JavaScript and PHP is the new Visual Basic - something that will let someone who isn't an expert quickly make a useful GUI application. And it won't go anywhere VB didn't go.
I'd like to add that I already count Javascript as a "big language" as I wrote:

As we all know C, C++, C# and Java are these big mainstream languages of today with “recent” additions Python, Ruby, Javascript and, especially in the Apple world, Objective-C.

I totally agree with you that Javascript is going to get much bigger but to me it is already big so it doesn't even need to contend against the other languages in my blog post ;).
Thanks for the advice, I probably wouldn't have considered a danish site otherwise^^ Unfortunately the English translation doesn't work - it only gives me fewer danish options. Anyway, I understand enough words to roughly figure out the page.
Doesn't every comment start with 1 point, though? People trying to game the system could still do so simply by commenting a lot (maybe on older, less visible submissions that won't get them down-votes). Maybe every comment should start at 0 points?
I upvoted this because I'm for any change which can help fix the downvote problem, which I think negatively impacts a healthy commenting community. However, my preferred solution would be slightly different. I would rather have no karma awarded for story submissions. I can understand offering some form of thanks for story submission initially, when a site is just beginning, but I think HN is large enough that great topics would be submitted without karma awarded (this might even help submission quality). This way karma is only awarded for commenting, and even new people to the site can make it to the moderator point threshold. For current members whose karma points already include story submissions I'd add in an account age requirement to retain moderator status.
As someone else already pointed out in the first thread google separates subdomains from the main one so no mixup there.

The biggest advantage I've heard to date was 'shortcut for over the phone', and I can see how that would work to your advantage.

xxx.ww ctrl-enter and a redirector to your homepage would be all it takes.

The funniest thing about all this is that after my 'down with url shorteners' post of a few days ago I now find myself with a url shortener of sorts :)
D is just a sideshow. The community is too wracked with infighting over Tango vs Phobos. There aren't going to be a viable platform and ecosystem anytime soon. Pity. The "real work" crowd has, well, real work to do, they - we - can't hang around forever.
Thanks, but that's the wrong way around. I don't want to resolve a domain name, I want my domain name to be resolved - ergo I need a DNS provider for my websites, not a DNS resolver for my client.
We don't pick our tools to fit the job? The next big language will be determined by the needs of the largest computer user groups. The particular needs of these groups will determine the languages that eventually reach critical mass.

Using 5 universal criteria that characterize good programming languages is the wrong approach. For example, in safety critical systems his metric of conciseness is worthless. Ada may sometimes take more lines of code to accomplish a specific task than C but the requirements of safety critical platforms demand the extra effort and cost. The metric is worthless because it isn't picked to coincide with the needs of the users.

No one cares that the strong typing or other features in Ada can slow down coding and annoy programmers because this practice eliminates many bugs in the final product. The needs of the end-user for bug free code outweigh their needs to ship quickly and please developers. It is a tool used for a specific job that it handles quite well.

Evaluating a programming language with 5 universal metrics ignores that they are tools used to solve the problems of a particular group of users. If you want to figure out what the next big language will be ask what platform will have the most users in the near future and what the needs of those users are. The languages that meet them best are the top choices.
Miro is different
Microsoft's David Cole emailed Phil Barrett on September 30 1991: "It's pretty clear we need to make sure Windows 3.1 only runs on top of MS DOS or an OEM version of it," and "The approach we will take is to detect DR DOS 6 and refuse to load. The error message should be something like 'Invalid device driver interface."
I don't agree when he says that knowledge is one of the most important things to combat fear. In my case learning just makes me feel better because I think I've done something towards the wrong direction. But often there is fear although you probably know very well what you're dealing with.

By the way, I found the "one fear gets replaced by a bigger fear" theory very interesting. It's a very logical explanation but I never consciously thought about it.

In this case, even though it isn't fun and sometimes very painful, I'd suggest a brute-force approach. Try as many ways as possible and discard all the drafts & don't feel bad about it.
I'm not trying to criticize the OP. My point was that downvoting isn't a problem if people are pushing them up again. If a comment is sitting at zero and you are capable of pushing it to +1, then there isn't a problem yet, assuming the comment deserves to be at +1 (and in my opinion, +1 is a fair score for the first two).

In other words, it's not worth complaining about downvotes until good comments are getting stuck in negative territory and you can't do anything about it. When that happens, I think that this is a discussion worth having. I don't think we're there yet.

Argue the case of the downvotes

I did, in my 2nd and 3rd paragraphs (the majority of what I wrote).
It's funny that the examples you provided, although they look like foo, are actual forks. MariaDB was initiated by the original Mysql author, too.
I suspect that Vibram was encouraging people to discuss running barefoot, because it's inevitable that they would get mentioned in the ensuing discussion.
I am currently paying for Hulu Plus and can't figure out whether it's worth it or not. Things that bother me are (1) commercials despite me paying, (2) the fact that I can't reliably play the videos on my Ubuntu boxes since they use Flash, (3) lack of content from certain networks (e.g.: Survivor is only available on cbs.com, not on Hulu which makes it kind of useless to try to build a media center PC around Hulu), (4) all the silly clips of shows they have: I am trying to watch full episodes and think that clips are for YouTube, and finally (5) the fact that since I started paying they pulled a bunch of content (e.g.: first season of Glee, first season of Modern Family, etc.) despite the premise that you pay for that content being available.

On one hand I'm still actively using their service. On the other, I am trying to figure out the most effective way to tell them that I am not satisfied with it. Canceling will lose them $120/year which is measly. Anybody got any ideas of how to make an impact on what they do?

Alternatively, does anyone know of (legal) alternatives to Hulu? I have no problem with paying for a good service, just can't find someone to give my money to.
Tell HN: iCombinator instapaper links fixed
Hi HN

iCombinator users may have noticed the add to instapaper link stopped working. Just pushed out an update that uses their embed API. It's a little heavy since it loads an frame for each link, but it doesn't look like there's a better way (if there is let me know!)
> and if it's a country that doesn't have good rules, you can emigrate.

Sadly, most of the time, they can't. Many times it's not even no other country would take them in, but their own country won't let them out.
> our hunter-gatherer brethren had lifespans not unlike hours

Sounds like a fairly short lifespan to me ;)
I use dnsmadeeasy.com - fantastic service for $60 a year. There is even a plan for $30 if your sites doesn't get many hits.

Their support is excellent as well - guys who do support are true tech geeks who know what they are talking about and happy to help setup things etc.
Wattvision (W09) Energy Sensor: Now shipping
Open standards = the ability to compete.

The reason Microsoft is in the market ownership position it's in is that it owns two thing:

- The only dependable way to run Win32 ABI applications

- The MS Office formats (.doc/.xls) and even the new Office OpenXML formats (.docx/.xlsx) which are non-validating XML wrappers around their proprietary binary data blobs.

While we do have Wine/OpenOffice that can do a percentage of these job, people get roped into Windows/Office because they need one app, aren't aware of alternatives, don't want an interoperability hassle, and thus the cycle becomes self perpetuating.

Compare/contrast with other more open formats like HTML, PDF, etc. and the innovation and flexibility surrounding them.

Supporting closed formats = giving one company a cash cow.

Supporting open formats = supporting innovation and competition.

Say what you want about the GPL and other licensing - open formats are the only sure-fire way to ensure open marketplaces.
I downvote comments that don't add anything of value to the discussion. Why would I want to comment on something like that? By the very nature of commenting, I'm only doing the same thing the downvoted comment is doing: adding a post that adds nothing to the conversation.

Voting should have nothing to do with whether you agree with a comment or not. It should be indicative of the value of the comment to the discussion of the topic at hand.
In pictures: Mandelbrot's fractals
List of Upcoming Tablet PCs
No, Facebook's directions were good so I copied them a bit. I expected people to notice.
I think he realizes that.
Funny you should consider async i/o to be premature optimization. To me it looks like the only reasonable way to build a non-trivial system.

Threads on the other hand, are the often the wrong optimisation -- processes are the right one.
I second that Grails advice. Jersey, Hibernate and Maven isn't that bad, but Grails beats that anyday if you don't mind Groovy.
While Play framework is cool too if you want to stick with Java, but it is not as mature as Grails or any other Java frameworks.
am I too late? kw.ww.com => www.kaliware.com
I've been here roughly as long as you have. It seems to happen in waves, and definitely depends on the subject matter. Knee-jerk voting and comments in threads about the iPhone? You betcha. About compiler implementation? Not so much. ("LL(1), fool!" "SSA all the way!")

On HN, it's a given that every few months a new "Oh no! We're turning into Reddit!" thread cycle happens. Worrying about that is in HN's genes. After a couple years, though, I'd say the site's immune system has been reasonably successful.
Hmmm... I'm confused because my node.js+net script also doesn't call setEncoding() and looks the same as your node.js+net script. The node.js+net+crcr script of yours is a nice optimization though on my test box it reaches 23,224 queries per second.

We are getting closer to open sourcing SXELua :-) It would be great if we could think up a better benchmark then the "Hello World" benchmark :-) What do you think about the suggestion described higher up in this thread?
This was due to a trademark conflict with another product called "OpenOffice". Instead of choosing something better, they tacked ".org" on the end.
Modeling relationships in Google App Engine
As long as the Oracle parts are distributed under the GPL, Oracle can scream all they want and accomplish nothing.

GPL shields you from their legal dept.
:) you are correct.
Yeah I don't care to be anonymous.
I don't work at the moment, I'm building connections and learning some business chops at an incubator to start a business.
If you want to change life on earth as we know it, you know where to find me.
Tell HN: What's your Tumblr blog?
If you have a Tumblr blog, please post below! I've been reading more and more great posts from fellow HN members and it'd be great if we can all have one central place where we can find our other blogs.

Mine is at http://datainsightsideas.com/
DynDNS is wonderful!
Which linguist worth his money doesn't believe language is really bendy?
No mention of Arc here? Its the language behind HN after all :)
the loser has the least number of friends.
no, you can't friend yourself.