skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Msn.co.uk MX tag..broken? hacked?
just noticed something wierd which i don't understand so figured i'd ask the smart guys n gals around here..

why is the MX record for msn.co.uk set to depot.dial.pipex.com, with the result that attempting to send mail bounces with "relay access denied"?

tried from a few places (http://www.google.com/search?q=nslookup) and it's not just me..

something screwed up in the DNS..? maliciously?

# dig msn.co.uk MX
...
;; ANSWER SECTION:
msn.co.uk. 778 IN MX 20 depot.dial.pipex.com.

# telnet depot.dial.pipex.com 25
Trying 62.241.162.96...
Connected to depot.dial.pipex.com (62.241.162.96).
Escape character is '^]'.
220 addams.systems.pipex.net ESMTP Postfix
EHLO ...
MAIL FROM: ...
250 Ok
RCPT TO: <test@msn.co.uk>
554 <test@msn.co.uk>: Relay access denied
That's funny, I have such a photo on my passport (I didn't care my beard as a student), I can't imagine the scrutiny I would receive at such an anti-Islamic border.

As a side note, I had no extra problem at Buenos Aires even if I made a major custom mistake (I got back into the international area after having received the entrance stamp), they understood I was lost. The Argentina capital was victim of 2 big bomb attack by some Islamic extremists (29 and 85 dead) but seems to not have instated hate and arbitrary humiliations as a security policy since.
no surprise here
The magic word is 'haptics'.
I actually need this sort of service in a major way, so I hope they keep going!

edit: i need the file sharing thing Zecter is advertising, not the wiki thing advertised by Versionate.
In any case, I absolutely loathe the kind of coding standards she is trying to enforce. It sounds like micromanagement bullshit, forcing developers to do stuff they resent. The extreme endresult are those comments on getters and setters in Java:

/
* gets the variable
*/

int getVariable() {...}

I could scream and climb up walls when I see that or worse, have to write that. If you don't write the comment, though, some fascist "quality control" algorithm will show a read flag and make the managers unhappy.

I thought the consent by now was that understandable code is to be preferred over comments, especially since comments have a tendency to become stale.
That would be a fine thing if Silicon Valley was in Canada.
The only two countries that I've had difficulty entering on business trips are the US and the UK. In my experience they appear to be concerned more with people having recourse to public funds and jobs rather than terrorism.

There's something particularly arbitrary about the process at the US border though. I've traveled to the US for meetings from Vancouver, Toronto, and Montreal and I've been refused entry twice -- both in Vancouver (which is also my home town). The reasons weren't entirely clear but at least one of the times they had simply left me sitting until there were no more flights. The other time there was an exceptionally high number of people detained so it's possible they were concerned with something else altogether.

re: the beard. Young beards are probably interpreted as an indication more of slovenliness than extremist sympathies. It's part of the mandate at the US and UK borders to weed out the cunning, young beards in seek of a fresh, clean-shaven start.
No 32GB version?

I'm also curious what this means for the touch, both in terms of price and features.
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while its true that index funds will usually beat out managed funds, its tough to put in such a hard constraint, in this case, of 10 years. it really depends on the business cycles and depths/peaks of the recessions and booms.

i kind of feel like this contest is more of a coin flip and will mostly only benefit the hedge fund people.
Yeah, mine started doing that as well. Something in their load balancing is screwy right now.
Health risk of long-term mobile phone use to be studied by scientists
Moreover, some decentralization and diversity in economy can only bring benefits to the world, monoculture is toxic in the long run.

While this is true, it'll be years (probably decades) before starting technology startups anywhere else in the world is as likely to succeed as it is in the US (particularly Silicon Valley, but Boston will do, in a pinch, I guess). You're damned if you do, and damned if you don't. But, hopefully, some of the Brits and Canadians and Indians, etc. who come to the states to build their startups will strike it rich, and go back home and help develop a startup friendly culture. It'll still be decades before any place is as big as the valley, but it'll be a start.
Federal Reserve and ECB are in no mood to save us from the consequences of our debt
Bedding: Bed Linen, value for money soft and home furnishings from Dunelm, including curtains, blinds, rugs, bedding, lighting, cushions and gifts
Youtube is not about Video Revenue, Its about Video Search
Bed linen, huge range of quality bedding
Apple MobileMe
Better links:

http://www.iphone.com

http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shop_iphone/family/iph...
I would really have liked to have seen a micro-sd slot somewhere. I may be picking one of these up, need to hear more reviews first.
Because with those numbers, for each percent of your life you spend playing with a Wii instead of a PS3 you save $1/year in electricity. "Save $30/year by playing Wii 8 hours a day every day!" -- might not get good traction as a sales pitch.
somewhat silly map. If you go to the income tab, then there are almost no differences in median percent of income spent on gas vs. median income. Even gas prices are correlated with median income (maybe the oil companies do have a heart and having the higher income regions "subsidize" the lower income regions... actually it probably has a lot to do with gas taxes).

That being said, I was a bit shocked that some median people pay 15% of their income in gas. yikes!

Come to think of it, I bet they just divided the median spent on gas with the median income instead of actually finding the median of % income spent on gas (e.g. maybe lower income people drive less than higher income people so the median will be lower).
beanstalkapp.com - We used it for the last Six Hour Startup Project and it worked well.

Also it is supported out of the box with the pretty Versions program on OSX.
stock price is down 4% at the moment. been quite volatile today though

http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=aapl
Ask YC: Is vim worth learning and why?
Being a computer nerd, I am constantly being bombarded by fellow hackers singing the praises of vi/vim. I tried it out a few times, mostly from having to edit my nethackrc file on alt.org, but it doesn't feel very good. I feel trapped, like I can't see all my code at once, and I can't easily search around or explore. I can only edit and type at about 1/20th as fast as I can decide what I want to do. I can deal with hjkl being remapped on dvorak, but it's yet another annoyance.

I know that if I chose to learn all the nuances of vim, this would get better, but is it really worth learning? My editor of choice right now is gedit, and it's not meeting my needs, especially as my code files get larger than 4000 lines. I would be willing to spend some time being frustrated and annoyed learning a new editor if it was worth it in the long run.

Any suggestions? Should I hang in there until I learn all the nuances of vim?
I've had positive experiences with:

Roundup, FlySpray, Trac, and RT

We currently use FlySpray, because it integrates with our Joomla website reasonably nicely. Roundup is probably the most comprehensive issue tracker of the lot, in the sense that extending it is trivial (just add whatever you want to the db, and the UI adapts). RT is probably the most mature and FlySpray the least so, but all are stable and work reliably.

Trac, of course, is the only one of those that integrates with SVN.

All are plenty fast and easy to install (all have a dependency or two or three, but nothing onerous).
Fast Inverse Square Root Function - Seems to have been created for Quake
The PDF: http://www.lomont.org/Math/Papers/2003/InvSqrt.pdf
it's been dragged down by bad news from other firms afaik.
It's iPhone, not Iphone or IPhone
Please follow title advice
Cool idea. A couple of good points made in the comments:
1. Flexible hours
2. Privacy/Safety issues

The first point is common to all ride-share including mass-transit. I think you need to consider a mobile strategy that addresses a scenario like "I'm ready to go. Anyone going my way?" or "I'm headed out. Anyone need a ride?"

Privacy/Safety is implicit but important. You partly address that via gender specification but it needs to go further like "I'm a girl is only willing to share with other girls".

Anyway, a nice start. If you're serious then there is much work ahead.
I have not used vim very much. I have a friend who does and it is his editor of choice. I personally use (and prefer) Notepad++. Its got a decent stable of shortcuts, loads up quickly, and works reasonably well with many languages.
I was surprised that the last outage was mentioned in the BBC's financial news. However, it was significant enough to affect the share price. Further outages could adversely affect Amazon's market value.
some people like it, some people don't. if you don't like it, don't use it as your primary editor. it has its perks and it has its shortcomings.

however, whether its your main editor or not, learn the basics of vi so you don't flop around like a fish out of water when you need to use it, and you will need to use it sometime if you use *nix to some degree.
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Why not learn Emacs instead? Emacs is incredibly extensible, and has a big community writing things for it to make code management really easy (which seems like a concern for you). Vi/Vim has lots of this too, I'm sure, but for me it's a no brainer to use Emacs. Oh, and if you're curious about Vi, there's viper-mode for Emacs that acts like Vi (http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/ViperMode).

Edit: viper-mode acts like vi, not vim
The posting describing XCVB, the replacement for ASDF that is in development at ITA.
Surprisingly, AMZN isn't tanking right now... it's down, but the whole sector is down.
I hereby volunteer to help the author set up a word press blog. Interesting stuff, but worst web page ever.

There was no email address on that web site, so maybe someone could forward my offer please.
I guess I should have made the tongue-in-cheek humor a bit more obvious (my reply was referring to the sensationalist headlines) - I actually have two brilliant women working for me and their coding is awesome :)
The more people move to Silicon Valley to start their venture, the more time will pass before its easier to do so in their hometown. Moreover, maybe the Silicon Valley way of thing is not the only way to bring innovation, maybe Nigerian people have another economical system to do this, maybe there can be a Spanish way of doing thing things, a Brazilian way etc.
I'm sure that the best way to do things the Silicon Valley's way is moving there, but where's the innovation apart from the product ?

But I have a Silicon Valley tale : Steve Jobs, if he distorts reality and makes his twisted ideas of reality become the real reality, it's not by conforming to established things. He creates his battleground, convoke his enemies on it and then fight.
There's some "second order" risk to take : not only you risk to fail in your venture, but you can take a higher risk by failing in the way you start your venture. Going to a rural area, taking money from other people than VCs, and doing something that's neither electronics nor a web 2.0 website (nor a traditional business, of course). And with this additional risk, comes a reward.
But doesn't this "fact of life" just mean that developers should spend some time learning to market? Not getting great at it, but at least competent?
I'd recommend learning your way around both vim and emacs. I'm primarily an emacs user myself, but vim comes in very handy once in a while.

You can edit code in an extremely productive manner in either editor, but you will be able to (pretty much literally) bend emacs to your will (allowing you to edit more or less however you want to) within a month or so of using it.
A NASCAR = 1/2 PBR and 1/2 Redbull
> there is no singular "hacker music" that's best suited to programming.

Heathen! Your playlist should consist exclusively of death metal, '70s rock and 160BPM techno. Any comprehensible lyrics are distracting and should be banished.
As a passionate vim user: Yes! yes! yes!

Vim can do so many things, got so many features, you will easily forget about them the minute you've finished reading about them.

In my experience, the best way to learn your way around vim is this: If you have to do something, say, indent a dozen lines, instead of doing what I did for a long time–'I-tab-esc-j-I-tab-esc-j' etc etc–which obviously should be easier to do, google for a solution or look it up in the help file, and you will learn new tricks such as: (indent this and next four lines) 'V4j>'. Voila!

Else you can be stuck navigating with hjkl for years, and then it's not much fun.
This is David from Versionate. We are not dead :)

I apologize for the lack of updates on the blog. We've been working hard to develop a new product that solves problems in similar space as Versionate called Zecter. It aims to make file sharing and collaboration simple, and directly from the desktop.

As for Versionate, we are still supporting it, and may integrate some of the features of Zecter back in the future.
TechShop: Where do-it-yourself inventors do R&D
Here's the full announcement - apparently it's proposed, not completed. Still worth keeping an eye on.
I think this looks really promising - I personally found learning to work with ASDF to be one of the more challenging aspects of working with Common Lisp.
Interesting that Warrren Buffet should make this bet. He, of all people, should know that extraordinary managers are able to produce extraordinary returns (1.5x to 2x the average?) over time. I think this is reflected in the fact that he only figures he has a 60% chance of winning. It seems he is hanging the bet on the extraordinary fees that hedge funds claim, and hence saying that they would do better over time - just not after the fees.

This is a worthwhile addition to the debate of index funds vs. the best of actively managed funds - most participants in this debate are awfully black-and-white. I have seen several critics practically say that there is no such thing as a better-than-average investor - just a normalized distribution of investor luck.

Hasn't anybody done a survey on this? It shouldn't be too hard to determine with statistics whether the world's top investors are better than or on par with the expected variance in luck. I strongly favor the position that a good investor can beat the market over time..with the caveat that it takes 10 or 20 years to determine who these investors are.
It is at the point now where I click on the comments for every scribd.com story to see if someone has pasted in the original pdf url. Never fails.
Gordon fucking Ramsey is a fucking Micheline 3 star chef with 9 restaurants, tv shows and is a fucking multi millionaire and says "fucking" every other word.

Get your head around that

Malc
I wish there was one of these near me.
Invest in Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing instead! ;) Seriously, watch any screencast of a coder, and you'll see the thing that probably slows them down most is simple mistyping. The benefits of typing "<esc>:%s/replace/me/g" vs "<ctrl+h>replace<tab>me<enter>" are pretty minimal, I think. Anything that has a decent macro recorder and regex search-and-replace should be adequate.

The big win with vi seems to be that every shitty server in the world has a copy, even if you telneted in to some remote box in uzbekistan and the admin on the box feels that text editors are an unnecessary luxury. Still, other things seem more worth investing time in. I'm using Sublime Text (pretty, windows, python scriptable) as my main text editor. It's just nice to use something pretty. I think if you spend half your conscious life staring at it, make sure it's worth looking at. ;)
Vim is worth learning for the profound enlightenment experience you will have when you finally switch to Emacs.
I've noticed everyone likes the PDF version. It's trivial to add it as a comment since I have it copied in the clipboard from creating the submission - it's my standard practice now.
How did THIS get to the front page?
Because not everyone is a smart and talented overachiever like you. Some of them just want to find themselves in a comfortable situation, with the least amount of work necessary.

When "normal" people bail out on a startup, they go find a regular job because they have to. If there was an option to just live at the other's expense, they'd just go on to do it.

Also, the 21% percent of people who say they would start a company, but don't, are probably more afraid of the possiblity of failure than unable to cope with the consequences.
That new price means you won't be able to sell your existing one for very much.
Pillows | Bedding | Curtains | Crafts
Sure. I still think it's ugly though. It reminds me a lot of an old coworkers code.
He decided to simply expose one method to his subsystem - .execute(String what, String[] args)
Then you would pass in strings to specify what you wanted it to do. It made my brain hurt for weeks.
y'see, this is the problem with vi users ;)

how on earth does 'V4j>' feel better than selecting the lines you want to indent, then pressing tab?

This is also where macro recorders work a treat; something like

<start macro>
space * 4
home
down
<end macro>
<run macro> * 3
$199 for the 8GB phone itself, and then plans start at $70 per month including unlimited data and basic voice (450 minutes).

Its very tempting, but I've read that many people are disappointed with the features. Everything seems great to me, any complaints here?
still waiting for android phones to surface... anyone else? Then again perhaps I can get one for $200 and still wait ;)
Ignore the constraints of the form A>10. Only consider the constraints of the form C=3. If many of your queries are of the form C=3 and many are also of the form C=3 AND D=4 and some are also of the form C=3 AND D=4 AND E=5 then create a compound index of the form (C,D,E)

One index of this form will reduce a some of the full table scans to more specific range scans. Create permutations and variations of this type index to cover all common cases.

Next, what storage engines are you using? Do your queries have any ORDER BY clauses?
From the URL: http://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~aldous/

The bottom of the page has his contact info
Please. It's far more efficient to post a news story when Twitter is up.
This is bad PR.

If it's not true, shouldn't it be deleted?
Apple Iphone 3G Review
sometimes I wish HN had a bury feature...
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Sure fire way to get karma it seems.
$199 iPhone? Sure, with a 2-year contract
Because I don't have to remove my hands from the keyboard to fool around with the mouse, and it's extremely powerful and you make clean cuts (eh??).

I'm almost never touching the mouse. I do a lot of stuff in the terminal, or using QuickSilver or memorizing all the ridiculous shortcuts different apps have. That way I can work at an incredible pace, and let the mouse sit in the corner.
My biggest hold-back from forming a startup has been Health Insurance. The pre-existent condition clause will pretty much ensure that I can't get my own health insurance, and leaving my 15 month old without insurance is just unacceptable.

Once my wife gets out of Masters that will all change :).

Thought I must disagree with the universal health care point. The government can help regulate the way insurance companies operate vs give universal healthcare which by empirical evidence is failing in European countries.

Now my quick point on risk: You WILL fail (hence RISK) but sometimes you will succeed. All you need to ensure is that when you fail you can still have enough money to eat. Have a friend who didn't realize this point.
And, I think what's important is, that 'V4j>' seems a lot more difficult than selecting the lines and pressing tab. But when it becomes habit, you just do it, without putting further thought into it.

.. in the beginning it's horrible, though.
I love mine. I had a Blackberry before and this (for me) is far superior. If there's an easy upgrade path to this new one then I'll upgrade. Disappointed the camera has stayed at 2mp though - I could have done with that being a higher res
I'm the guy in the blog photo, and I swear I'm not actually that bad at Tetris. I was asked to stack up the pieces like that for the photo.
http://www.last.fm/user/xenoterracide/ easiest way to find out what I'm listening to.
I don't see how it is more like message passing than an ordinary method call? Only difference AFAICT is that since JS don't support "catch-alls" (yet), you can't handle missing methods at the receiver. But that does not seem to be relevant here.
Definitely. After a few hundred it doesn't really matter though.
If it's not in Google, it doesn't exist: Why Google is the gatekeeper for offline commerce too
Sprint, Social Networks and a Bad Reputation
The summary is that Google doesn't know that a brand-new $400 million shopping mall exists, and refuses to give directions to the address. It's wild that being in Google is now a prerequisite to offline commerce too.
I think Google's strategy is much better. Apple has tied itself to a device, whereas the software is really the important part. Obviously in the best of worlds, you would want to sell people the device+software like Apple is doing now. But in the long run, Google will probably benefit more because it doesn't matter what phone the Android is on. It will probably benefit users as well since you could switch between Android phones without a problem.
Too bad, I've been hoping someone would come along and drive Confluence out of where I work. It is an "enterprise wiki", which is to say it adds tons of features that get in the way of work, but that management likes. It takes days of emails just to get all the permissions changed to allow someone to see a page you wrote.
Life Insurance For Old People
Life insurance over 50, or even over 75, can still be affordable.
Apple's funny that way. Keynotes revealing new products and quarterly meetings announcing record breaking quarters usually drive their stock down. There was a time around 2000 that is was like clockwork. Now it isn't quite so reliable, but still a good bet.
Has the Android software actually been adopted by any phone providers? Until any big wireless corporations do, I'm not holding my breath.
Spam. Delete it.
More Spam. Delete.
Thanks, I sent him an email.
I heard this will not be rolled out till July 11th
I still don't like it in terms of taste. I guess one question would be how does it handle a typo in the string.

If you call a.destroooooy() then you'll get a js error, but if you call a.execute("destroooooy")...
I am just interested because quite a few possible Twitter services would depend on such a thing. Perhaps going through summize could be an alternative in many cases, though.
I'm really impressed that proper GPS has been added. I think this will open all kinds of applications.

Battery life on iPhone 1.0 is already fine for me. In practice, I dock it with my iMac about every 3 or so days and the battery never drops below half. Mainly I SMS my wife, and surf the web though. The 3G iPhone sounds even better.

For me though, the biggest surprise of the keynote is that only 4000 developers are out there.

I would expect this to rise as iPhone sales take off. $200 is a much better price point than $400.
Oh my goodness, a developer at a developer conference?
Benefit how? How is Google making money from Android?

Apple's making money hand over fist from the iPhone. How's Google going to beat that?
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