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That sometimes happens, but often keynote speakers are left alone because nobody's interested in talking to them. Keynotes speakers are often prominent individuals from outside the narrow field of the conference, and often wildly misjudge what conference attendees will be interested in hearing about.
From what little I understand about electronics, I do believe you are right. I think most electronics do prefer the cold. That is my mother's wording on the site. I'll ask her if she would like to change the "warm" to "snug" or "cozy".
The 3d bulbous look is kind of tired and amateurish.

When I first got Photoshop in 96, I had a great time adding dimensions and shading effects to everything. Then I got real and went back to programming.
Incorrect, the CDN is not location aware if it's using DNS. It's making a bunch of unnecessary assumptions about a DNS server's network proximity to the clients it serves. The root servers themselves run on Anycast so that you can get a 'root server' closest to your network location.

A much better way of locating a resource on the network is its IP address, since this is what IP was designed to do and not what DNS is designed to do (resolve names to IP addresses)

DNS is designed to be forwarded and cached. A much better way of optimizing network routes is to advertise a better route, since this is what routing was designed to do. (To pick the fastest way to get from your IP to a destination block. (aka. anycast.))

It's simply amazing how well things work when you use things for what they were intended for.

Why reinvent the wheel at such a high level?
Other ad networks already do this and are pros at it. AdSense is the king of CPC, but not CPA.
Ugly. Maybe that's the incentive to split horizon on a sheevaplug.
At this stage, it's the only way to be sure.
I've been using the Encrypted Google as my homepage for a while now, and honestly, I don't notice any difference compared to the regular search. Granted, I am not a big fan of Google Instant, so I am biased but nohting's really changed as far as results for me. They may be a second or two slower and the auto-fill doesn't always work but those are compromises that I can live with.
Sorry for the slow reply. I can't speak about mongo's user base, but it does appear larger than CouchDB's. Both of them are several orders of magnitude less mature / well understood than MySQL. I'm simply trying to say, that technologies with no problems must have no users.
More pointless wittering from John Gruber.

"Oh, well, it MUST be Google's DNS. It can't be a problem with my precious Apple and how they handle things with their CDN!"
This guy is dead.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/24/health/24radiation.html

Actually, if you look at the author's work, he's been covering radiation overdose all year.

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/b...
Thanks! I knew about CTRL-v but didn't know about line-wise block mode ('V').
Correct, I am saying that $400K is reasonable for a CEO of a venture of this sort only if they do not have extensive experience and/or if they were doing this as a labor of love (Not-for-Profit). If they had significant experience, or knowledge of this industry, they should be making much more.

Someone decided that his background would make him an effective CEO - and once they did, the salary should be commensurate with the responsibilities.

If this were a tech startup, the salary range for a CEO in the valley (for a Series A/B Round startup) would be $250K-$300K with an upside ranging in the 10s of millions.

A guaranteed $400K salary is really not a very decent salary for a CEO. I'll see if I can find some stats to back up my claim.

[EDIT: http://www.siliconvalley.com/salary-survey/ci_12523817?nclic...]

In 2009: The median pay package the valley's boards of directors awarded their chief executives dropped 5.6 percent, to $2.2 million.
It is well known that people rate the opinions of those that are taller/prettier higher than others. So, to adjust for that natural bias it might make sense to treat attractive people's opinions with greater scrutiny.

But maybe attractive people have better minds too? That's a possibility - however (IMHO) outward attractiveness is more to do with genetic fitness (in the procreation sense), than creative fitness (in the meme generation sense). The evolution of ideas is whether the action is now... (at least that's what I'd like to believe)
Seeing 'Haggis' really brought a smile to my face. I wish it were the case but 'Honeycomb' is the name there.
By that logic BSD is also exactly the same thing as Linux.
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An analogy doesn't have to be exact to be useful. The interesting case here is that it's the "retailer" initiating the recall, rather than the "supplier".

And you're completely right - Google is too lazy to bother to check, because the cost-benefit ratio is just too high. Why bother, when there are lots of other suppliers?

If you're a retailer, and a supplier for a tiny fraction of your business does something that makes you process a recall for a bunch of your customers, would you bother working with that supplier again?

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Much of our conception of intellectuals is mired in the image of the Academic. And while intellectuals which come out of academic circles are important, I think we actually need to push instead for a popular intellectualism which is not just independent of academia, but actively pushes it's obsolescence.

There have been scenes, areas and movements of popular intellectualism in the past. The Lower East Side in the 1910's for instance.

I think Chomsky is an incredible political analyst and thinker, and I appreciate the work he's done immensely. But I think it's important also to consider how important it is that we do not separate ourselves or others from "The Intellectuals", that we don't acquiesce to a certain academic dilettantism instead of building a culture of intellectualism for ourselves and others.

The major steps towards that are to first drop any pretense that intellectualism comes from a specific context, whether academia, the middle classes, white, male, etc. Wholeheartedly adopt, instead, the idea that anybody can and should be encouraged towards intellectualism.

In short, replace The Intellectual, with a culture of intellectualism.

Secondly, to encourage the importance of facts, the complexity of the world, and infinity of ideas. Intellectualism doesn't thrive when people choose strict ideologies, and argue them stubbornly. Instead, encourage people to accept being wrong, to revel in it, even, and to put their ideas up to scrutiny like a scientist.

The internet puts us in an incredible point in history where facts are non-exclusive. We have all the facts we could ever need, and it's gotten easier and easier to locate them. This major barrier to being an intellectual, historically provided by academia, is almost completely gone. It's time we learned how to move forward with the rest of it.
Not true. Actually nkurz was right - margins are generally fixed to be 20-30% in pretty much every single chain restaurant. All else being equal, restaurants want you to buy that expensive steak because their profit is the highest. ($20 steak - $5 cost > $12 pasta - $3 cost)
Chomsky is an incredible writer. His style reminds me of Orwell (what do you guys think about that?).

This is interesting, and something that (rather importantly) shatters many Americans' world views :

"It surpasses belief, that is, unless we look at the matter from a more historical point of view ... No one would be disturbed by an analysis of the political behavior of the Russians, French, or Tanzanians questioning their motives and interpreting their actions by the long-range interests concealed behind their official rhetoric. But it is an article of faith that American motives are pure, and not subject to analysis".

This ability to shatter a world view is why I appreciate and support Noam Chomsky and Wikileaks and Colbert and anything else that challenges the duping.
This post depresses me. I'm a man and certainly no feminist, but posts on the usefulness of attractive, female RoR developers leaves a really bad taste in my mouth. I was going to comment on the nature of our field, but it's probably the same almost everywhere, from banking to bricklaying to hacking.

I'll be in my terminal.
I'll trust UCSF over TSA's bullshit any day of the week.

http://news.ucsf.edu/news-briefs/details/ucsf-scientists-spe...
Mine says this with the default DNS settings too. It starts a few minutes later anyway.
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Is it me or does it mean a lot more snooping by you know who?
"This major barrier to being an intellectual, historically provided by academia, is almost completely gone."

Wow, what an amazing conclusion. Well said and thanks.
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She wasn't a developer of any description and as a matter of fact doesn't even work in tech. She knew of Ruby on Rails because as someone she was dating, she wanted to know what made me tick.
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I've heard about BizSpark before.

But if I didn't, I would know pretty quickly that ridiculous buzzwords like that could only come from a place like Microsoft.
Here's where regulation for the internet should start and end: All customers subscribing to internet services should sign a waiver saying they understand that the ISP and US government is not responsible for content on the internet, but that the content creator is and any concerns about content should be addressed to the content creator and not your local government representative.

Why not just teach the US Constitution in school and/or mail a copy of it to all citizens? Your statement follows directly from the following two "premises":
(1) U.S. Constitution.
(2) The Internet is built atop private property.
Seriously, a big issue that the article missed is the obvious safety issue associated with having a bunch of kids on a bus with metal latches attached to 3 ft long strips of canvas: kids beating the crap out of each other.

I grew up in the country town with a 1 hour bus ride to school, with kids ranging from K-12. The superintendant personally cut the belts out of our bus after a fight resulted in a broken hand inflicted by a swinging belt and a broken window.
Which is what Chomsky points out constantly in his writings -- how often Western "intellectuals" cheer and march under the drum beat of government propaganda, when one would expect them to expose and challenge the lies.
This guy has it all wrong.

Here's a possibility: author feels especially confident when beautiful women are around him. This confidence/happiness projects to other people (via mirror neurons / the amygdala / etc.). People find him more enjoyable and approachable.

To clarify, I don't claim that being surrounded by bad chicks isn't going to make you feel better about yourself. I suspect that possessing other kinds of cultural capital can do the trick.
Yeah that's one of my worries/complains about shareware. I don't have the time and/or anti-cracking security knowledge to prevent it, so I guess I'll just have to deal with it. It's an app directed at "normal people" and not tech nerds, so hopefully that will help.

It sucks that a SaaS/webapp type pricing plan isn't viable, but again this is a very desktop oriented thing that wouldn't work elsewhere. So I'm just trying to figure out the BEST way to release this.
It's not a responsibility of intellectuals, it's a responsibility of individuals to think critically about what they are being told and for the most part ignore appeals to ethos and pathos. In theory the sophists were wrong, but in practice they were right. Assume that when a person speaks it is for their own personal benefit. Most people are talking their book.
That's the "backstory", the main joke is just about how the chess pieces move, i.e. that the bishop can't ever get into a black square and that the knight can't ever get to the food. I think the rest of the dialog is just the scenery of a world where game pieces talk.
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So how do you turn off google DNS? (If it is even on)
The author is an SQL language and MySQL database consultant, and he writes an article questioning NoSQL. Fair enough, and I agree with his point that different NoSQL datastores have different strengths and weaknesses and it can be difficult on a new project to know up front which CAP tradeoffs may be OK to make (e.g., HBase may have better tuning for faster consistency but Cassandra is likely easier to set up across different data centers; MongoDB is very easy to use in simple master slave or replica sets setups if no sharding is required; etc.)

Personally, I use PostgreSQL and MongoDB for most of my work but make a real effort keep up to speed on CouchDB (actually, BigCouch is more interesting), HBase, Cassandra and a few RDF datastores.
Pol Pot is the best example of anti-intellectualism so if anyone should be his admirer it should be you.
That's how the world works. Deal with it.

I have a friend who works in the call center at a day trading firm in Chicago. He's a sailor and the owner/founder of the firm has a boat so he gets long stretches of unfiltered time with the guy outside of work. The guy regularly affirms that they intentionally try to hire only HRI's ("hot russian immigrants") when they hire women because it boosts morale, makes hiring ambitious men easier and apparently exploits a small dip in the local hiring pool where the the immigrant women have a slightly harder time getting jobs at most places than the non-immigrant hotties they go up against elsewhere. My friend's firm found that going the extra mile to help them with visa status stuff meant they could get better looking women on staff than their competition.
Excellent, you take care of the citizens who value security over personal freedom and I'll handle the politicians willing to exploit that fear and we'll have this problem all wrapped up in a neat little package.
You could also arge that adopters 'sql style RDBMS' end up building a NoSQL datastore.

If you find you are using a lot of EAV, polymorphic associations, multicolumn attributes, trees, graphs it might be a better option to go down one the on of the many NoSQL routes. Key/Value, Column Stores, Document and Graph databases. Sometimes you can make huge gains in design simplicity because you persistance and/or queries map far more cleanly.

An interesting example of "NoSQL" on top of an "RDBMS" is Salesforce [1].

A huge upside to RDBMS in my view is that they are 'well understood' in production, and operations know how to deal with them.

It is a big design space out there, and you can make a lot of tradeoffs :)

[1] http://www.infoq.com/presentations/SalesForce-Multi-Tenant-A...
What does it have to do with legislators? They don't define what's right, fair or moral, they just make laws.
Apple's CDN is Akamai, which is definitely not "naive".

Google DNS is broken as a concept, and shouldn't have been released until they were anycasted in either all Google CDN POPs (where ever www.google.com is proxied from) or had talked the major CDNs (AKAM, LLNW, L3, etc) into supporting their proposed DNS extension (http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-vandergaast-edns-client-ip-...).

As it stands, using Google DNS is optimizing exactly the wrong thing -- it may be "faster" than your local ISP (which I've actually never seen), but you're trading a couple of ms on an easily scaled distributed system (which every single ISP in the world provides) for a huge hit on network performance because you get a non-optimal CDN pop.

I'd even go as far as saying that Google DNS is ruining the network experience for anyone outside the US (and from Gruber's article, apparently in the US too) -- the very problem people pay CDNs to solve in the first place.
Anyone seen any problems with OpenDNS? iTunes Store has been running extremely slow for me over the last several days for no apparent reason...
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The point is that you don't know the IP address of the client, so you can't locate it.

Most CDNs couple DNS (for a large region) and Anycast (within the region) -- they're not idiots.
"People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care"
This is how most global load balancing works, and even Google uses systems like this for deciding the closest data center to serve content from (which is why they have submitted an internet draft that would add a few octets from the source ip to forwarded dns requests as a solution to this problem.) If you are using a chatty protocol then you can take an early guess as to the closest server based on the dns lookup and then redirect/refine the path once you are actually talking to the endpoint, but in some cases you would take more time re-establishing the connection than you would servicing it from the "wrong" data center so you just grit your teeth and try to either be smarter next time or add the dns server to the "we have no idea where the endpoint is" list.

In theory anycast delivery is the right solution, but there is a wide gulf between theory and practicality here. There is a reason that no one uses anycast for anything other than dns at the moment...
Ask HN: I built a site that just went ridiculously viral. What do I do now?
Hey HN,

So I built http://threewords.me - literally an MVP that I posted on Facebook and my friends started using. Fast forward 3 days. The entire Twitter results page for "threewords.me" is of tweets that happened less than five minutes ago. The site grew 2x in pageviews over the past hour.

Two problems: 1) what do I do now? 2) how do I afford this?

Advertising? Hosting partner? ...daresay... investment?

Sorry to be brief. If you're curious, the stack is Rails + Ruby Enterprise Edition + Passenger + nginx, which isn't cheap like PHP to host. On the $40 Linode right now but maxing out CPU at 350%.

227K pageviews today. 50K uniques. 71% traffic referred. 8,285 users. 3,100 new users in the past 1 hour.

What happens now?

EDIT: Hello! This thread is not going unnoticed while I take my metaphorical fire extinguisher to the fires that are happening. Will reply soon.

EDIT: cranked the Linode up to 4096. $160 server, woo!

EDIT: David from Duostack (http://duostack.com) is helping with the load on his cloud Ruby platform. Many many thanks to him.
It won't be on by default, you have to enable it (http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/docs/using.html)

You can check by opening a command line (Run -> cmd) and doing a "tracert random web site.com" (or Terminal, then traceroute in OSX/mtr in linux). If it doesn't come back with 8.8.8.8 or 8.8.4.4 as any of the servers (should be in the first few), you're not using Google's DNS servers.

Otherwise, remove the servers and revert to automatic or ISP settings (instructions are at the bottom of Google's doc).

EDIT: Sorry, confused DNS server with my ISP connection node. Check out the explanation by jonburs below.
That's also a factor, I think. But it doesn't negate the argument that seeing someone with an attractive woman deferring to them sends a strong signal to people around you.
How does the CDN send data back to the client with out knowing its IP address? I'd like to know.
He didn't say that he was dating her because she was useful, or whatever. He didn't say "get a hot SO, it'll help you network", he said "If you have a hot SO, ask them to help you network." I think that's not bad.
In my place, I sort of enforce pair-programming for about 2 weeks before a deadline. Basically at crunch time.

I basically believe that crunch time increases the probability of errors by orders of magnitude. Secondly, as the author mentions, that is the time when gaps in knowledge need to bridged over... at the expense of personal ego if need be.
Tell HN: check your Gmail Spam folder now and then
Hey there,

I tend to regularly check and purge my Gmail Spam folder to make sure nothing goes through by mistake and have noticed some legitimate emails that did: in particular from LinkedIn and my alumni association.

I repeatedly marked them as "not phishing" and "not spam", even added the incoming address in my address book to no avail: they are still going to spam.

So, just a heads-up.
The way the wikileaks thing went down made me want to grow dreadlocks and become a marxist.

This guy comes out and contributes to what the press should have been doing the last 10 years, and what happens? The cable news networks spend all their time talking about his "motivations" and how "anti-american" he is or isn't. Or who on the washington circuit is saying he's anti-american and how that fits into the political gossip column. What about the damned cables!?
"Just look at me: I was attracted to the field as a boy. Now, I am a man."

But were you attracted to the field because it was presented as an activity for boys?
So Grubber found another problem with Google. Never finds flaws with Apple ever. Does he ??

Does he even care to explain why its happening. This is just shoddy blogging. DNS does not take more than a few secs and once the connection between servers is established, DNS Servers are out of the picture. So whose fault is it, Google or Apple ??? Not very difficult to guess I think
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I hope that the families of the unfortunate victims of these overdoses allow the affected tissues to be studied (with appropriate compensation), so that treatments can be devised if similar injuries occur in the future, and general medical knowledge increases.
Just curious: what does it do? (no offense, but it asks for too many things and permissions for me to try it right now)
"Film-makers use this whenever they want to portray someone with power."

My favorite recent example of this: The scene in the Dark Knight when Bruce Wayne is shown sunning himself on the deck of his yacht alongside soloists from the Moscow Ballet.

edited: It was the Moscow Ballet, not the Gotham Ballet.
Well, it's a nifty idea and I know I've seen that trend on Facebook before. But that's also the problem - it's a 1 time use fad type thing. I don't know how much I'd invest in the current incarnation - perhaps just enough to keep the site functioning. Aim for some kind of traffic-based business strategy like ads or something. Maybe it can help pay for the site itself. If you could perhaps take the current idea and evolve it into something with a little more sustaining power then perhaps you could turn it into a nice little side income thing.
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That is even worse. She didn't even know rails and she was the life of the party.

It's great to have SOs that try to dig what you are into (mine does, and after a while started writing up HTML and CSS for side cash; starting to get into JavaScript too), but honestly dude writing about using hot girls that barely know what rails is to get contacts at tech events certainly doesn't make us look like upstanding gentlemen. It makes it look like we look towards girls as if they are objects, rather than interesting people. The whole theme of putting yourself on a level playing ground with super rich guys because they just can't buy a smart hot girl is offsetting too.

But whatever, my original comments downvoted anyways, so I'm probably wrong and just being too touchy.
You don't even need Facebook connect to try it out, just sign up. Send the site to your friends, they give you three words anonymously, you see them.

I need to up the copy on the site.
I'm using AppEgine and love what it does for me, it's also free to start.
OpenDNS suffers from the exact same issue.
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I thought it was the Moscow Ballet...
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