skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes I've set one domain up and atm it's via API only.

They do provide scripts that take care of most of the work but ther is still more involved than a web front end.

For example you make changes in batches of records, and they can be create or delete. So to change an IP in an A record you make an XML document with both a delete request and a create request with the new value then poll the API for a sat us of in-sync.
"The query resolution functionality of Route 53 is based on anycast, which will route the request automatically to the DNS server that is the closest."

http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2010/12/dns_amazon_route...
Moniker actually sense out these emails regular like clockwork.

A sample:

# 0 Domains Pending Deletion - [ RENEW NOW ]

# 0 Domains Pending Deactivation

# 0 Domains Expiring Within 7 Days

# 51 Domains Expiring Within 35 Days

# 146 Domains Expiring Within 75 Days

So they actually start warning more than two months in advance.
Amazon, Onlive Developing Netflix-like Subscription Streaming Services
Idle speculation, all but disproved the day before this superficial piece was even written. Flagged.
Yeah, I loved Methods of Rationality, too.
Bread & Circus: Wikileaks makes the TSA debacle go away
As far as I'm concerned, any amount of processed sugar should be avoided...
Based on the web interfaces available for the other AWS services, I'm sure it won't be long before someone cooks up a simple CRUD web front-end.

EDIT: I forgot to ask, what kind of overages are you seeing? With Route 53 you'll be charged $501/month if your zone gets 1B queries.
They just make you want to drink more because of the sugar.

The report (linked above) doesn't mention anything about the existing caffeine consumption habits of those in the experiment. I think that unless they controlled for that, it could possibly skew the experiment one way or another.

Also, one possibility regarding the lower reaction time in the high caffeine group is that they feel jumpier and attempt to compensate for the increased jitteriness by slowing down a bit. I know that this was suppose to be a blind test, but if they gave me this test... I could probably tell the difference.
I’ve given up using soap & shampoo forever
I have no idea how the Twitter algorithm works, but looking at two current trending topics and wikileaks, it doesn't look right.

http://www.trendistic.com/naughtie/wikileaks/thingsimiss
No one claimed it was. There are a lot more potential culprits than the Mossad, though, and plenty of folks in the region who'd be quite happy to have the Mossad blamed for something that benefits them (as the diplomatic cables detailing the Arab nations' opinions on Iran have shown).
For what it's worth, a can of Red Bull has 80mg of caffeine, while a double shot of espresso has 150 mg and a 12 oz drip coffee has more like 260mg.
CyanogenMod 6.1 for Android - what is that?
Link doesn't work on my Motorola Droid.
what does server location have to do with an M&A?
>Oh man are notifications bad in iOS. What is really bad though are the meaningless icon badges that apps use. Gee thanks Twitter, but does that mean I have 2 new mentions, tweets, or DMs to read – oh and on which account?

>I say do away with all icon badges, and work on a system wide notification system that is informational to use, otherwise whats the point of notifying me? The push notification system sucks to, no way of dismissing the message when the screen is locked without getting sent straight to the App. Also have you ever had more than one of these pop-up because that is just the most helpful thing ever, isn’t it?

So... the author basically wants the notification bar from Android?

>For the record Androids implementation sucks too.

I guess being a fanboy means you can't see that the competitor is doing EXACTLY what you want.
Google was ready to offer 6 billion to groupon but couldn't muster 8 billion to buy something worthy like a cheap valued SUN?

Anyway, I guess Groupon is pushing to see how much they can get, I just wouldn't push it too far if I was them.
They're probably using an open source authoritative DNS server which doesn't yet support DNSSEC. If they upgrade to BIND 9.7 or NSD they'll get DNSSEC support for free.
Yeah, I wonder what that would be like.
Another reason I've heard before was internationalization. Not sure how many languages have draconian hyphenation rules like English though.
It's open source:

https://github.com/djangopackages/djangopackages
In all recent browsers. For silly corporate reasons one box I work on is stuck at firefox 1.5 and this displays nothing.
Yes, "Creativity" is very good, although for some reason it didn't 'wow' me as much as when I first read "Flow".

Two quick and easy changes from WGICF:

1. The power of bad/wrong ideas. I used to approach a problem space by first eliminating all of the obviously bad ideas. Johnson makes a compelling case that invalid facts and invalid ideas juice our creativity. Since reading the book, I've made an effort to at least consider the bad ideas and implementations. More than once there has been a nugget of creativity that I would have otherwise glossed over.

2. Liquid networks. I get banged up A LOT (2x - 5x per week) by people who have an idea and want to bounce it off of someone. I used to view these as a fun distraction and would reward myself with a 1-hour coffee only if I had met my goals for the previous week. If I was behind, these meetings were the first to go. Now, I always make it to these, even if I'm hopelessly behind. The idea is that the more you lift your head out of the sand and participate in a larger network of thought, the more creative you'll be.
I think there are some good parallels. The analogy of Dharmesh as Jordan is funny :) although he is a great sensei of course.

I especially agree with disregarding the press and short-term events/wins. Working hard every day builds up over time into something worthwhile.
Americans have had the technology to turn the volume up when commercials start, if so desired, for even longer than that.
The answer to a question in a headline is always the null hypothesis. In this case, "no".
Different type of piracy?
I know, this has nothing to do with hacking.

Still, given the amount of threads dedicated to TSA and Wikileaks on HN, I thought it'd be amusing to point out this little graph on Google Trends.

It fits extremely well with what we can observe on HN: hardly anyone is discussing the TSA issues anymore. Which begs the question: how aggravated are we with the TSA, really, if the scandal-du-jour can so easily makes us forget what we were passionately discussing just weeks ago?
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Jeff Jarvis: Has Wikileaks Killed Secrecy?
Yacc is Not Dead
The native app's loading times are WAY to annoying to use it regularly. The spinner always needs to run for 10 seconds or more on my mobile before showing content. I'm sticking to the web-version for now...
Yes, from the perspective of imperfect information you could (maybe even should) view the development of a feature as research for the question: "Can it be done and for how much?".

This way the sunk costs are just research costs, which makes the decision to stop much easier to accept.
The Wikileaks incident is pretty good example of the risks of a "cloud model". Same sort of warrantless dropping of service will happen to you when something you've built is deemed undesirable (but not necessarily illegal) by the authorities.

Build a web service that people may use to share links related to piracy, or photos that may be pornographic, and you'll experience the same.

Amazon's policy is the Apple App Store all over again.
Much like the early days of search, businesses are overpaying for a new form of advertising. Advertisers are willing to pay ridiculous amounts for a Groupon deal, so Groupon's sales force has evolved to exploit this extremely lucrative source of revenue. That's just how it works early on. As the market matures, I believe the price of deals will stabilize at a level that makes it a better value proposition for businesses.
Thanks for posting this. It demonstrates nicely what is a common phenomenon. I'm also sure it's frequently used in politics and elsewhere to to hide a scandal behind a seemingly more important but in fact less important (or untrue) event.

Nevertheless, in this particular case I think WikiLeaks indeed is the bigger story.
It may have something to do with over valuing ideas, but I don't think HN has that problem.
I have a few other friends who'd experienced similar improvements in health just by cutting out wheat and the surprisingly many foods containing gluten. For the no-grains guy, this was insufficient.
Hopefully, as a security-conscious developer, you are also looking at alternate solution providers to reduce the potential risk of making all your info available to Google.
Thanks for sharing this, it's extremely rare you see people willing to share the nitty-gritty of their efforts in going independent as a programmer.

Cheers and good fortune!
I can attest to that. Before my final high school exams (oral - this is quite serious in our country) I drank a can of red bull - the first of my life. I was so hyped that despite knowing everything I had trouble concentrating - I passed but without the red bull I'd undoubtedly have passed with better grades.

Coffee still affects me strongly even though I now drink a cup a day. I also get a strong come-down effect so the net result is about even. Others I know drink coffee all day long and don't have a come down effect either.
I would agree that different influences make you a better programmer, but perhaps not in the way that you meant. Almost every code base I've worked on in industry has been - and I think that most of my co-workers would agree with me - a steaming pile of code that barely functions well enough to do the desired task and is a nightmare to maintain. I've seen this at small shops and big corporations alike. Most of the really nice stuff that I've seen has been from OSS projects and books, and occasionally some project that a lone developer hacked out from scratch with little oversight and few constraints. Dealing with the ugly stuff has given me a good feel for anti-patterns and things to avoid from the get-go, but it has not exactly been a positive influence.
"Energy, the Subtle Concept", a great overview of the history and physics of energy that doesn't avoid equations: http://www.amazon.com/Energy-Subtle-Concept-discovery-Feynma...

"The Four Steps to the Epiphany" needs no introduction. The first couple of chapters really drove home some mistakes I have made in past projects.
I think this article shows how removed a lot of journalists and media are from the technology scene.

They completely ignore the growing startup scene in New York - Silicon Alley, Digital Dumbo[1] - and latch on instead to a story about a huge, already established company that's buying a building they already have 2000+ employees in.

Tech meccas are born from hundreds of small technology companies constantly pushing the limits of a platform, not from the presence of a single, large employer.

[1] http://www.digitaldumbo.com/about/
This has the potential to do for inland transportation what containers did for long-distance haulage. The problem is the infrastructure. There's a lot to do before the system works at all.

To bootstrap, some "community" needs to decide they want it, and then they need to build a small but extensible version. Extensions need to be able to "interface" with the existing system without necessarily being limited by it.

I can see this working as, say, the main means of transporting physical materials around a new Olympics venue, or a new commercial district.

It's basically an automated high-speed rail system, but underground.
I know a lot of merchants have been bitten by groupon coupons that turned out to be big money losers for them. But this seems to me more like a teething problem for groupon than a long-term issue. With time the system should mature so that ridiculous coupons aren't getting produced any more.
Firefox Extension Development Tutorial
did you read the questions and debate further down the comments? I am not sure it he was so persuasive.
Organizing Your iPhone Apps
Document, comment appropriately and write tests.

The engineer in question might be yourself, six months or a year later, and you will have completely forgotten what you were doing back then.
I've seen a lot of people pointing at 'trending tools' lately but no one questioning whether the tools themselves are valid. What's Trendistic? Where does it get its data? It seems unlikely that it's got a firehose subscription...
Us too, Zerigo has been awesome, and is already API driven :)
This book is only available in the central libary of India which don't have any policy of inter-library loan. So, if google has scanned it why not give it to download ?
Google eBooks: E-Reading Takes To The Cloud
Sales: The Fail Team
We're working on a solution for this. However, the initial phase will only work in Europe as there is no need (except in the UK) for the investors to be "accredited". This venturebonsai.com service is aimed for companies looking for less than 1M€, with a share issue where individual persons can invest starting at 5000€ each. So in order to get 500K€ each investor investing 5000€, you need 100 investors. We actually have implemented the "EU regulation model" in order to take care of all the regulation related issues (like not offering the shares for more than 99 investors per country) and alike. Our blog is currently at venturebonsai.info. We call this (equity) crowdfunding, even though there are many intrepretations for what "crowdfunding" should and should not be...
I meant the linked-to article's author, not the EFF as an organization.
So are you saying that talent is when a person has passion for a subject and works hard at it?
I haven't used shampoo since I was maybe 10. No problems to report.
Screw it, just create a whole new general transportation system. Outfit some capsules with oxygen systems and transport people (who are shorter that 6 1/2 feet). It'd be a hell of a ride.
First of all: congratulations! That was an effective November....

I assume that you are going to be aggressively A/B testing this site.

Are you planning to share the results with us? I know I, for one, would find it very informative.
You can also build pretty much the exact same visualization in Google's public data tool: http://tinyurl.com/2az8dm2
Said TV is CRT from when LCD/Plasma was fairly new technology.
more analysis here: http://bubbloy.wordpress.com/2010/12/05/twitter-is-censoring...

the "manual" test:
http://swizec.com/blog/twitter-censoring-the-wikileaks-debat...
I don't see the point of having a no procrastination setting on Hackernews if irresponsible people link to captivating etexts like Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality.

That's book is really grabbing me at the moment.
Thanks for a new update kreci - I love your attitude and always look forward to your blog.

One question I have I haven't seen answered. Most would agree that some apps are more ad friendly mediums than others. Since you're targeting ad income and making a variety of applications, are you picking application types or making design choices based on their ad potential? Any thoughts to share along those lines about designing for ad revenue?
Pure Reader: Amazing Google Reader Mod
I think some of my better ideas have come from just wanting to solve problems--either mine or those of friends, family, or co-workers. Those ideas always seem so much better than anything I just sit down and come up with based off what I think would make a lot of money yet is a stupid idea fundamentally. Plus, ideas that solve some problem seem as if they're easier to stick with (for me, at least).
If you mean, "I've learned my lesson" then yes. However, they still need to clear things up because not everyone else is going to know they do this and others probably have more important, revenue generating domains than mine ;-)
Feedback executed.
It would be nice if they supported vanity nameservers.
Writing a Successful Essay Paper
The writing of the essay paper should not be taken lightly. It is a formal piece of writing which should convey the message required in the proper manner. By adhering to the format and other requirements students will be able to write and submit a successful essay paper.
Hehe. I was considering implementing exactly the same thing, but currently I am working on other projects. Anyway, I wish you luck and I'm curious to see how it works out.
Well done! So now you've gone from building a successful startup in your spare time, to building another one in the spare time left over from the first one! Very impressive work, inspirational :)
I found the audio on the video really hard to hear. A good quality mic and a little mixing makes a huge difference.
We get this every 7 years or so - 'a vaccination for tooth decay is on its way!' then nothing comes of it.
Military intelligence from serial numbers
The guy is on the record about a whole bunch of details that make it plausible that this is the case short of inspecting the input data to the algorithm as well as the algorithm itself (or by using different datasets and the algorithm as a black box) I don't think you're going to get much proof that this is anything other than what they say it is.

I would assume that if someone did order a wikileaks specific change that it would be leaked in no time.

If I worked at twitter I'd file a ticket because it appears to be a bug. Maybe they use 16 bits to store their counters ;)
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I apologize: you know us engineers, 95% of the schedule goes to the engineering and we leave the 90% of the project that remains to the last day. I'll eventually have that video professionally redone.
Canada too. I see it all the time.
Ah yes, but the text of the bill uses the word 'loudness' which maps more accurately to dba's, which is perceived sound intensity. This takes the ear's frequency response into account as well.
Ycombinator S2011 and missing FAQ's
Hi Guys,

I just have found ycombinator a few days ago. I was studying the FAQ but still missing some answers or well, questions about this. Maybe you could help be out a bit.

1. I would like to apply for S2011, is there already a date when applications will be accepted for the second round? Just don't want to apply late yet for W2011.

2. What means moving down to Silicon Valley? What are the teams supposed to do? Do we need to rent offices and/or apartments?

3. How does the day to day look alike at ycombinator? Do the different startups work at their rented offices or are all working at ycombinator HQ in SV?

4. Funded money - Let's assume we have been choosen for the seed fund of $17.000 ($11000 + $6000). How is ycombinator involved to it's spending? I understand that the money should be pay our living cost. So $17.000 should buy 2 founders their food and pay the rent for 3 months, correct?

5. Timeframe - Well, we submit our application and get in X day's a message back for an interview. So we are flying to the USA (we are from a foreign country) for the interview and we are getting at the same weekend a confirmation if we are getting funded or not, is that right? So we are getting a "Go" from ycombinator but what happens after this? Are we supposed to stay their now for three month's or how many time is between the interview and the start of the 3 month's round?

I am sorry if this has been asked somewhere already.
Thank you so far!

Best regards
Jason
Posted 5 days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1959624
Interesting reversal: I have a Daytona 675 and wanted a CGI model of it for CFD testing on cheap ways to reduce drag. But the only CGI model I could find online was over $100; far more than I'd expect to save in gasoline costs over the life of the bike.
Cool story, bro.

It kinda makes sense; soap is for dissolving stuff that you can't rinse off your skin. The bits of your body which are covered by clothes generally don't acquire much such gunk, they just get sweaty. He still washes his hands using soap, so I'm not too concerned about his health. I'd like to see him maintain his "no soap" rule after a day spent working under a car, though.
If a US Senator is not good enough then I don't think I'll be able to meet your exacting standards of proof.
I agree. I had the book on my shelves for a year before I finally started reading it, because it looks so amateurish.

It's absolutely riddled with spelling mistakes and grammatical errors, but it's still one of my favourite books of the year for the content.
OnStartups.com always takes forever to load the actual article. The difference between this and sites that generate static HTML for their posts is incredible.
Yes, that's our experience as well. For a qualified candidate it's a no-brainer.
The first of the Lymond Chronicles, Game of Kings, is in the running for best (fiction) book I've read, never mind best fiction I've read this year.

However, yes, entrepreneurs in particular will love Niccolo.
Thanks in advance guys. I mean this sincerely: I probably couldn't have done it without you.

I don't generally ask for things on HN, but just this once: y'all know that links my website gets gives me more ability to rank for search terms of importance to me. If I've said something which helped you or you otherwise want to go give me a Christmas present, please take a few minutes out of your day, go to your blog, and write up a few sentences with a link to the front page. I'd really, really appreciate it.
Congrats Patrick!

A small piece of feedback. On this page: https://www.appointmentreminder.org/a/calendar - I am wary of testing it because I'm not sure who'll see my phone number if I do. In other words, it's not clear if this demo is just for me or if this is a "demo sandbox" for anyone to use.

BTW, love the outrageous enterprise pricing that makes the small business plan look better, as well as the blatantly fake "HOT" tag - you shipped today! it gets hot fast in Japan! ;)

Not so sure about this "All questions are answered by our lead engineer. (Your business is too important to trust to a call center..)" - smells a little bit fake. I like Garrett's style better: http://sifterapp.com/support (scroll down to the green box).

Just my quick first impressions. Congrats on a new beginning!
The signup links are redirecting to the coming soon page.

Example: https://www.appointmentreminder.org/coming-soon?plan=small-b...
Won't somebody think of the chandlers!
Boycott Amazon? Not doing it.
I hated this book.
It was like a kitschy, easy digestable, consumer friendly version of other (much) better south american writers.

It was like a Borghes book told by the author of Harry Potter.
> I don't see the point of having a no procrastination setting on Hackernews if irresponsible people link to captivating etexts like Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality.

There goes the next two weeks of your free time.

Sorry.
These dudes making a Bose-Einstein Condensate out of photons might be able to give us coherent light at UV or even X-ray frequencies, which would be rather nice for communication: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v468/n7323/full/nature0...
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It's a quality differentiator. You may pay a bit more, but you're guaranteed to get excellent code.

(This is what they'd say, at least. I like pairing, but I don't know if I'd be comfortable making an absolutist statement like that.)
Presumably because the copyright holders are not willing to allow them to do so. Google doesn't decide these things on their own, of course.

Now, why wouldn't the original copyright holder waive the rights? I'm guessing that, since the title seems to have been published by a local government, for purely bureaucratic reasons rather than ones of ideology.

Are there really no other libraries that have it? I'd be shocked if it's not in the Library of Congress, the British Library, or Widener.