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The overload may be due to the caching behavior of Google DNS; if it's not submitting new queries to Apple's DNS then the latter would have no opportunity to balance the traffic.

Conceivably caching behavior could also throw off geolocation, if Google's cache domains (i.e., the geographic areas that get placed into the same cache bucket) don't match the upstream CDN.
not click fraud, but a violation of the TOS of adsense.
> The mistakes in Evanston involve linear accelerators — commonly used for standard radiation therapy — that were redesigned by the manufacturer, Varian Medical Systems, so they could also perform SRS. As the devices became more versatile and complex, problems arose when vital electronic components could not communicate with one another.

WTF, this is eerily and specifically reminiscent of Therac-25. Did they learn nothing?
I think the writer meant "dumb" in the sense of "mute", while going for provocation since it's an obscure meaning of the word to many people.
I'm not sure what you're trying to say here. Are you questioning the veracity of the "likely voters" screen? If so, you should understand that this is not some arbitrary designation. Different pollsters have different methods for applying this screen, and none of them are perfect, but all of them are based on serious analysis by real experts. I'm not a polling expert, but I've read enough about it to have an appreciation for how complex the problem is, and how creative some of the pollsters can be in finding ways to make their polls more accurate. For anyone interested in building an "enlightened layman's" understanding of polling, a good place to start is by reading Sean Trende:

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/authors/sean_trende/

It's not necessarily that he's the best analyst out there (I happen to think that he's at least in contention for that title), but rather that he explains all of his reasoning and processes so clearly.
It is basically an open invitation to use their tools where you see fit. Our web app is built on an open source stack. We are writing software to integrate with the Mac (few attorneys use Macs but its growing). There wasn't any weird limitation or requirements to write MS only applications, we couldn't find any catch.

There are a couple of ways to get support. First, you're basically getting premium MSDN account access, so you get a limited number of support requests, it gives you one-on-one access to their engineers to get technical help if you need it. Second, there is a general BizSpark contact. We haven't contacted them yet, I suspect its primarily for getting help with the parter & investor networking aspect of it.

As far as signing up, go for it! I'd encourage anyone that falls in their guidelines and wants to integrate with any piece of MS software to sign up. (Main guidelines: Your company or startup is less than 3 years old, privately owned, Less then $1M in revenue)
Heh, I was wondering what this was when I first saw it a few hours ago. I've seen 5-6 people I follow on Tumblr use this thing already.

I suggest migrating it to Heroku. Push your code, copy over the database, and crank your dynos up. They charge by the hour, so as an example if you have ~10 dynos running (roughly equivalent to 10 thin instances, but slightly better) for 5 days (or however long it takes for the initial traffic surge to subside), you're only going to pay about $50. Then, you can turn down your dyno count and pay a reasonable monthly fee.
> Should those that are beautiful spend their lives in burlap sacks lest they give offense to those less fortunate (Burka's?).

My brother-in-law's sister was in Heathrow airport. She was in the bathroom with a woman who was initially dressed in a burka. She says that the woman she saw was was one of the most beautiful women she had ever seen in her lifetime.

Beauty can hide - if it hides, is it still beauty? Or not as political?
Unfortunately not, because your redirect would have to use an IP address instead of the hostname, so your browser address bar would look like:

http://1.2.3.4/

Which would send the wrong 'Host' header to the server, and won't serve the right site and/or content through the CDN. :)
If anyone settles with him, that company becomes the enemy as well.
The video isn't all that impresssive, as it's just the same thing in reverse; they can talk Hindi using the translation, but can't understand it.
Your site seems to be down.

Think about moving the code over to Heroku now, and keep scaling to meet demand.

If you don't have the cash, email me and I'll front you what you need to keep it up until you figure out how you want to roll with this. This is not a time to trip over pennies.

Congratulations.
There's one other thing they do. While they don't market books to readers, for the most part, they do market them to bookstores, who can be awfully picky about what they put on the shelves. If you want to get books available on the shelves in Borders and B&N (which dominate retail in the U.S.), it helps to have a sales guy in your corner with the buyers for those chains in their rolodex.

FWIW, here's an author talking about that stuff:

http://www.iantregillis.com/index.cfm?blog=164

His books aren't being advertised to readers much at all, that I've noticed, but the publisher is going to considerable effort and expense just to get them on the shelves. Reviews were good, and readers who could find the first book in the trilogy liked it --- but "folks working on the procuring/selling side of the industry don't know what to do with these books", so they weren't doing anything, and so readers couldn't find it, because it literally wasn't on the shelves. The upshot: they're delaying production on the sequels to repackage the first book with new cover art that will hopefully confuse the chain buyers less.

For fiction, for the moment, this stuff still matters. For technical books, enough of the order stream may have moved online that it's not worth thinking about. (A harbinger: I was saddened to learn that Powell's closed their physical tech-book annex last spring, due to dwindling sales.) So, consider your market: YMMV.
Me too. It has just the right threshold.
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Hey Shaw, it sounds interesting. Can u guide me about how u started this project and contacted Adsense. I wanna start one like this and make some earning.
This has happened to me a few times and usually the Twitter/social media storm blows over fairly quickly. I suggest getting an extra Linode for now and wait a few days to see what happens. If the numbers do stay up the site will probably be able to pay for itself with ads. Your site is down at the moment so I can't really see what it's about.

Edit: Google Cache got it: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?sclient=psy&...
It's a site where you can ask people to describe you, in three words.
For my midwestern U-verse vendor supplied DNS server, it is trading annoying timeouts from unanswered queries for a reliable DNS response.

But the article makes a good point, and since I have a bind running on my firewall anyway, I'll just take the forwarders out.
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The traceroute family doesn't show DNS info; they show intermediate routers on the path the the resolved destination address. The early servers are the local routers in your ISP's topology, not the DNS server used to resolve the destination address.

A tool such as dig, on the other hand, will show you what server you're using, and easily see the results from an alternate. For example, compare the results of 'dig www.apple.com' (configured DNS) to 'dig www.apple.com @8.8.8.8' (Google DNS).
Are you sure Apple is using akamai for video? They have a substantial contract with Limelight and have long been rumored to be bringing traffic in house that had been previously served by CDN.

With a long term connection that can withstand a little extra in setup time and a custom built client (both things fit apple tv) it's unnecessary to rely on geo dns anyway.
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I think I might have missed this in the FAW but I did look 3 times already. Does it help in anyway to have a lot of points overall for things like, getting HN front page or anything else? Thanks
Slavery wasn't about racism, it was about cheap, unregulated labor. Pure economics. It doesn't absolve the moral dilemma inherent to it, or negate the racism that frequently underpinned public support for it. For what it's worth I'm sure people defended human slavery by saying "that's just the way the world works" then as well. You're not ethically tantamount to a slave owner by glibly justifying using women as ornaments or pawns in your little networking game, but it's a bit troubling that "treating women with the same respect you'd expect from your peers" doesn't factor into your assessment.
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I didn't pick it up either until I read the comments. Feeling stupid now.
To be fair, I don't think the points we're arguing are mutually exclusive. You seem to be arguing that Unix can be infected with viruses. I'm not refuting that claim. I have no illusions of 100% security. I'm claiming that Unix is more secure by design. What I'm refuting is this claim:

> WinAPI is no more hospitable to viruses than Linux is.

I think that implies that all operating systems are created equal (at least as far as security is concerned for this discussion), or that Linux is more hospitable to viruses than Windows. I think the idea that all operating systems are created equal is laughably false. The second idea---that Linux is more hospitable to viruses than Windows---is a much more complex issue. Proving that there is at least one way to infect Linux with a virus does not prove that point. All that proves is that Linux's security is less than 100%, which I agree with (hence the footnote in my previous comment).

In other words, your argument:

S(Linux) < 100%

and my argument:

S(Linux) > S(Win32)

can coexist:

S(Win32) < S(Linux) < 100%

Your economic argument about OS market share is more relevant to your other claim:

> What it is is popular enough to be worth targeting.

Your economic argument proves that claim. I agree. However, being less popular doesn't preclude Linux from being less hospitable to viruses.

> (ps) the congratulatory back-patting is to head off the inevitable Linux advocacy "you're a shill for Microsoft" BS that comes bundled with these discussions.

Fair enough. Those "you're a shill for Microsoft" type comments do have a tendency to show up in discussions like this. I like a high signal-to-noise ratio in conversations, which is why I called you out on that, but now I see you were trying to keep the content-less comments out as well.
There isn't a twitter/social media storm ie- hype cycle. It's genuine growth with no press or even optimization for sharing built in. It can certainly die down, but it's doing it in a highly organic fashion.
Hey Mark, first of all congratulations. Do you have a caching layer? If not now is the time to implement one.
Two hundred twenty thousand. In two hours.
As far as I've seen google DNS respects TTL completely. Even if they didn't, it would be very uncommon for any DNS provider to force TTL over 60 (one minute).

Even if you found a large resolver that was really screwing you by doing something like setting TTL to 86400, you could just custom serve them a large EDNS response including all of your POPs in a round robin list.
User-specific assets are on S3... will need to offset the javascript and CSS there too.

Good tip on Unicorn. Any benchmarks on the performance gain over Passenger+REE?
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Cute trick. I predict the bigger impact of this will be that namespace of single-letter modules on pypi will be used up shortly as people realize they want their own, slightly different hacks.
I asked the question to get a sense of what percentage of typical B2B SAAS customers use IE. Also if its shrinking significantly over time.
In my opinion the real problem is this creepy glorification of people for their looks or social status.

Guys who are obsessed with dating hot girls are really just obsessed with how others perceive them, which makes them lame to be around. Same with social climbers.
Holy cow. Just signed up for the beta and watched the demo video from DrupalCon. This looks terrific. Thanks for the heads up! The list of the tech stack they give you is absolutely perfect.
No offense, but putting it on HN in the middle of traffic spike pressures would not help things. ;)

I was able to sign up and see just enough to get a feel before the site became unresponsive. I like that it's dead simple. I can also see how it's incredibly viral as it asks you to ask others to describe you -- very smart. At first glance it looks to me like something that could enjoy tons of traffic, but which would probably be short-lived. The challenge would be finding a way to have that traffic stick around...

I view this as a bit of a long shot, but I would do a few things. First, you've got to have the site handle the traffic. No advice on how, but find a way to get that done. Next, I would try to become known as the place to get a quick summary on anybody -- even celebrities. I imagine people will receive multiple adjectives from different people, but I'd have the site tally the three most popular and promote those as best describing of the user. :) I see a couple of possible pages for "viewer stickiness". The homepage could feature very popular users. Imagine showing the three most submitted words to describe /paulg or /marrington and other users with large responses... Next, on each user's page it could show their "friends" and the words that describe them. The site also provides the most recently submitted three words on the user's page. This might at least make each user curious about checking back at their own profile to see how people were labeling them. As for monetizing, that's probably with ads, as usual, but you have to be careful about when and where to put them. Like I said, probably a long shot, but who knows? Good luck!
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yo mark, congrats. So what are your next steps? Grab an advertising network quick and throw it on there for now.
I am not sure how long it is going to last. i mean you will run out of friends to write about, Isn't it?
Perhaps it also speaks to the fact that the way we analyze the political behavior of other people is too simplistic and reductive? It took a long time to convince economists to stop treating people as rational automatons that always make the best choice available, maybe soon political scientists and historians will follow suit.
First of all, congrats on your problems :) I've signed up, and things are responsive.

1. Implement caching.
2. Get faster servers to handle your 'debutant' phase' ex: EC2
3. bask in limelight, enjoy!
I don't understand why you guys are downvoting him.

Other than the "Pics or it didn't happen" meme, he is raising the issue that the article is hugely anecdotal even though it seems like common sense. That is a valid point.
Rather than get another Linode, for the very short term, I'd just crank the current Linode as big as they go (I assume Linode has super-quick resizing) and tell passenger to run a bunch more processes.
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short term: heroku

long term: app engine (just port it to webapp framework)
FYI: Heroku is fantastic for scaling apps. But if it's your database that's the bottleneck...you've got problems. Because your options with SQL are scaling up or sharding, each quite painful. If you want any advice, ping me.
NoSQL is a terrible name for a technology. Why define it by what it isn't, instead of what it is?

I've pretty much ignored NoSQL because of this, and because I haven't had any data storage problems that aren't easily solved with either a relational database or LDAP.
congrats, you magnificent bastard.
I've seen QC, poked at it a couple times, but never in depth. Any recommendations for resources?

Usually I'm struck by how unbelievably awesome the UI is, and how scores of similar attempts have been incomprehensibly awful. Meanwhile, Apple comes out with QC, a fast, elegant, simple version that goes almost totally unnoticed. Weird.
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I think this article contains pure wisdom. I'm getting hints that many people are starting see this as well. If you have a runaway success, then you're in a position to make that success into something really meaningful, not just for you, but for so many other people, and that, in turn, I think you will find even more rewarding. If you don't know how to contribute, then help those that do.
hey Mark, if you need server capacity I can set you up with four machines on very short notice, let me know. j@ww.com (no charge, help you handle the spike and see if it has staying power without having to get in to long term contracts).
If you treat them and see them like pawns, then shame on you. (though odds are if you see them like pawns, you see everybody as a pawn, female or not. An equal-opportunity exploiter, if you will).

Still, I'd observe this is tied to basic human nature & sexuality. Unlike slavery, as best I can tell it cannot be done away with, short of making it illegal for a man to have a hot woman/entourage of women present (totally not a sexist law, btw)
I second that. Very useful program; pretty much any Microsoft product is available for download and use within the startup.
Imagine all of the wealth in the world was redistributed so that everyone had exactly the same amount of money.

Those in poverty and the foolish would spend their money on expensive consumer items and long vacations that produce no income later, falling back into poverty because they can't/wont work.

The moderately intelligent would continue to manage money reasonably well and would spend their money conservatively until various circumstances whittled down what they had until they had to go back to work to stay afloat.

The rich (those evil bastards) would be clever and would save their money, work hard although they already had pleanty of money, invest it well, take risks, employ others and acquire money from the other two groups.

In a matter of 5 to 10 years, the poor, middle class and rich will shuffle themselves back to their respective places. And you will have to redistribute wealth again so that things will "be fair".
Can't McAfee/TrendMicro/Microsoft just scan all Internet packets and filter out the ones that contain viruses?

In seriousness, it's rarely just a simple sequence of characters. I'm unfamiliar with GSM/SMS data structures, but based on probable similarity with other systems, it could be anything from malformed headers to certain characters which aren't in the phone's character set and/or crash the font rendering system. Most phones probably have multiple vulnerabilities.
Shouldn't the title be "80% of Americans do not want the net regulated"?
Ah, you're right. This is literally an MVP I threw together in 4 hours.
Haha I recieved links to threewords.me before I even opened HN this morning. I don't know how to solve your fires but I've been asked to tell you to let the text color be customised because otherwise you can make unreadable on certain backgrounds. Maybe you should setup a getsatisfaction-ish feedback/support area?

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I would imagine the real problem is getting a blacklist that is comprehensive enough to be useful.
Just cranked it to 2048MB. Cranked Passenger to 55 workers in the pool. Using 400% CPU still. Linode's probably not happy.

EDIT: Cranked to 4096
The fools do not exist on their own in some sort of vacuum.

If society is showing symptoms of rot and great inequality then it is a statement about the society as a whole. It is everyone's shared failure.

Despite how things may seem, it is not at all necessary to live in the kind of society that we live in now. There is a difference between squandered opportunity and opportunity that was never there in the first place.

All children in America should have the same opportunity.
Ah, whoops - thanks for the correction.

Quick question: dig (with no @server argument) turns up my router's IP. Is there a way to get around that?
We are a bizspark company.

It is a great way to get noticed by Microsoft. If you do not already have lots of contacts at high level, this will help.

All you can eat software really helps.

I develop in C# because my visual studio ultimate edition makes it extremely convenient. I can write code directly as a result of creating a UML model.

Bizspark accelerates startups by removing software barriers. We integrate with Exchange and Dynamics CRM, so for us it was an obvious strategy.

Bizspark One is like an incubator.
minimize the server work;
get some cheap nodes at rackspace cloud;
use one node for sessions in memcache;
use two nodes for mongodb (master/slave) read from both;
try to minimize xss/html/js and gzip everything;
cache as much as possible;
maybe even queue inserts/updates with redis and a cron;

thats how i survived a mini fb app thatwent from zero to 44 million users in 7 days... rackspace cloud + memcache + redis insert&update queue + round robin.
after a month i even killed the rackspace cloud interface and api with over 80 nodes and growing. had to get the memory limit on my account raised twice. peak were around 40k req/sec. after the second month we moved it to four bulky servers (16 core, raid5, 32gb ram) each cost around 12k dollar.

the whole secret is caching. everything, everywhere and as much as possible.
That's why I use google appengine. It would have handled what you describe without even going over the daily free limit. Of course, you wouldn't be cool as rails.
I don't have any experience with Pair Programming as it is typically prescribed by "agile" project managers, but from my understanding of Pair Programming, I believe that there are more cases like this where Pair Programming doesn't work than there are cases where it does work.

I've also run into a fundamentally flawed hiring scheme at every company that uses Ruby on Rails in which I am flat out not considered if I do not have experience working on an "agile" team doing every day pair programming. There are a lot of job descriptions that back this issue up.

I learned Ruby on Rails on my own and have successfully developed and deployed two significant applications during my spare time using Ruby on Rails in the last 3 years. The applications I've written are not open source and they are not public access sites, and until I do get something written within the public facing / open source realm, I am convinced that I probably won't ever get considered for a full time rails job.

I've mostly just about given up on ever expecting to get hired by a company that uses Ruby on Rails. It is all total bullshit in my opinion. I will continue to use Ruby on Rails on my own and ignore Pair Programming because I see Pair Programming as a form of micromanagement and not an opportunity for programming productivity.

I have plenty of experience working with other software developers on the same piece of code, in front of the same terminal window, for two or three hours at a time - always initiated by myself or the other developer, not prescribed by management. The fact that I don't do it every day is irrelevant in my opinion.
Depends on the niche and the website. I have made a blogspot blog and brought it to 4% CTR and $20 CPM. That's +$200 a day.
Yeah really. And this particularly applies to guys justifying sexism by saying "that's how the world works". If you're not doing anything to change it, that's part of the problem.