skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OF COURSE it's meaningful in a way that reciting jabberwocky would not have been. Reading the part of the constitution which protects people from unreasonable searches without probable cause, while being forced to undergo a search without probable cause.

If it's still unclear how the amendment is meaningful in this situation, I'm going to ask that you go re-read the original article, then "letters from birmingham jail" and the whole bill of rights.
Gaming Shares Rocket Higher As Online Gambling Inches Towards Reality
Hipstergrammers
Basis for an effective counterargument:
A gut feeling tells me that if somebody did an analysis of Obama's last campaign then they would find that he would have violated the current form of SOPA multiple times. A potential new argument against SOPA would be that it limits the campaigning power of political candidates, especially those running for higher offices.

Not a particularly strong argument, but I don't think a strong case will win this fight. Many different people from many walks of life need to be angry about SOPA before Obama could walk away from the bill easily with "The people don't want this." Nerds on the internet probably won't convince him alone.
* The Idea of America: Reflections on the Birth of the United States by Gordon Wood — an outstanding collection of essays on the creation of America. They range in chronology from the 1960s until the present time and explore themes like Roman (founders all big devotees and disciples of Cato, Cicero, etc.… able to recite lines and relished in theater enactments) influence on the founders, the "radicalism" of Paine and Jefferson, the American brew of Enlightenment, monarchy v. democracy (democracy simply had no historical precedent, except for the brief, crude and flawed Athenian model thousands of years earlier), democracy v. republic, etc.…

* Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress--and a Plan to Stop It by Lawrence Lessig

* Evolution for Everyone: How Darwin's Theory Can Change the Way We Think About Our Lives by David Wilson Sloan — …jargon is toned down for a universal audience, and appeal is made that evolution should be broadly applied, and not just confined to the biology domain. 36 chapters, after a gentle introduction, tilt from specific path carving experiments to general queries on religion, morals, human nature.

* Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber — Anthropologist shreds sacred classical "economics" cows on markets, debt, capitalism, etc.… …hard not to see things after taking in this fantastic research.

* Christian Anarchism: A Political Commentary on the Gospel by Alexandre Christoyannopoulos — Christian anarchism has been around for at least as long as “secular” anarchism. The existing literature cites Leo Tolstoy as its most famous (sometimes even as the only) proponent, but there are many others, such as Jacques Ellul, Vernard Eller, Dave Andrews or the people associated with the Catholic Worker movement. Both individually and collectively, these Christian anarchists offer a compelling critique of the state, the church and the economy based on numerous passages from the New Testament. Yet despite the relevance and growth of this literature, no generic study bringing together these different thinkers or reflecting on their contribution has been published to date, because such work involves meticulous searching, compiling and structuring of countless different texts and sources, not all of which are easily accessed. This book, however, provides precisely such a study, and thereby presents Christian anarchism to both the wider public and the wider academic community.

* To Know as We Are Known: Education as a Spiritual Journey by Parker Palmer — …an eloquent inquiry into "obedience of truth", what it means to educate and to be educated, that to love is "to know" and "to know" is to love. That it is about asking questions and inciting an inner fire, not about authoritarian objectivism or subjective "everyone has their own truth" relativism.
Right now eBay is already sitting on this data. In addition to the sale/non-sale price data, recently they've began to encourage (and sometimes force) you to very specifically categorize the item you are selling.

Combine with geolocation data for the buyer and the seller and they probably have a greater trove of data then you could get even with a biz dev deal with Craigslist -- main issue is that you have no idea whether an item in a given post was actually sold, and if so for how much.

I fear Priceconomics.com, as interesting as it is, will just work hard to prove a business model for this data that if successful will just be exploited by some engineers working at eBay who spin up a product to compete.
Super Wi-Fi is better than just "super"
"But now rewrite the article to take out reduce it to the facts not including her psychological/physiological state (effects of handcuffs on wrists OK, relevant; perspiration rate not really.) "

If you rewrite this to make sense, I'll give it a go :)
Sadly, the mortgage industry has reached an equilibrium such that some level of consumer abuse is, practically speaking, necessary to compete. No one has successfully disrupted this market, because it requires simultaneous technical, product and policy change on the part of brokers, federally-guaranteed agencies like Fannie/Freddie/HUD, lenders, mortgage insurers and title companies. Not impossible, but as my start-up learned, incredibly capital intensive.

I always point to this as an example of how something reasonably close to a large, lightly-regulated market can still produce inefficient and negative outcomes for our society.
IQueryable Can Kill Your Dog, Steal Your Wife, Kill Your Will To Live, etc.
Being in Aus we don't get to see many live and rely on the videos being made available. Of those I particularly liked Daniel Spiewak's "Extreme Cleverness: Functional Data Structures" and Rich Hickey's "Simple Made Easy".

We were fortunate enough though to have the excellent YOW conference with many excellent talks, particular stand-outs coming from Simon Peyton-Jones and Mike Lee, but the absolute best talk (not necessarily the best tech, it is Perl after all) was Damian Conway's flabbergasting "Temporally Quaquaversal Virtual Nanomachine Programming In Multiple Topologically Connected Quantum-Relativistic Parallel Timespaces...Made Easy!"[1]

[1] http://www.yowconference.com.au/YOW2011/general/workshopDeta...
As a fellow data scientist and former Craigslist/eBay item flipper and deal site (SlickDeals, FatWallet) hobbyist, my tidbit of experience and Sidebusiness 101: profit comes when sellers don't care to maximize due to circumstance.

Those circumstances include lack of product knowledge, urgency to move item, and value for their own time/convenience.

For the first problem, people have tackled it with eBay/Craigslist listing misspeller searches or just manually emailing for more info. I once bought a new sealed copy of a collector's game, Panzer Dragoon Saga (eBay price ~$500+ back then) for $20 from a seller who was liquidating an old stash of games and listed the item as "Panzer Dragoon Saturn" and couldn't get any hits.

The problem of illiquidity has some fun implications assuming you're willing to take some product risk. Back when I was in grad school in the Bay Area, I was flipping Fujiiryoki massage chairs (MSRP 5k, buying around 1-1.5k, flipping around 2.5-3k) and there are plenty more items out there. This requires either good product knowledge (tons of old Chinese people who I knew wanted these) or a data-driven way of identifying high-price-point items without much/any historical pricing data. This is a rather solvable problem that hasn't been tackled (that I know of) and can be a value point for your site I'd think.

As for buying liquid items low, subscribing to CL RSS feeds with the right search terms can do the trick, though I neither confirm nor deny that I may have once written a CL page refresher to buy Burning Man tickets at cost (instead of from scalpers who were charging hundreds more). Back when I didn't really value my time, offering to pick up at a time of their location/convenience and pay cash.

Misc selling tips as an enthusiast: and legit work/school email or Googlestalk-able email establishes you as a "real" person. A phone number is almost a must-provide these days too. Pay low(er) and always in cash (or cert. check at bank) but assure the buyer that you'll be there and make the transaction convenient and easy.

It's an addictive hobby, I know... :/
Please provide further detail on these '"big" recursive resolvers' that ignore TTLs. I'm yet to see one in the wild and so I'm somewhat dubious of the claim.

(Please don't be vague - post the addresses of the resolvers in question.)
Too little, too late.

I didn't care about Bob shooting elephants. Didn't care about using semi-attractive B-list celebutants to sell domains.

But this SOPA thing was, is, a massive dealbreaker. This camel's back wasn't hurting, but this was like dropping a railcar on it. We've got over 100 domains and they're all getting moved 12/29.
As I've said before, just look at what Joe Biden's been up to.

This post is on the mark. "The Internet's" problem is that it doesn't have anything to hold over Obama's head. Yet.
How Will Education Fare in 2012?
All the Google+ hate sort of puzzles me. I absolutely love it. It's become my social media platform of choice, in fact. Maybe it's just that I have enough interesting people to read that it's worth it to me. I'm not sure.

I've never been a fan of Facebook. I've had an account for years, but that's pretty much entirely for API testing. I can count the number of things I've posted to Facebook in the past year on one hand.

Twitter, on the other hand, I really like. It's asymmetric, and lets me engage in casual conversation with people easily.

Google+ is a great marriage between the two. Long-form posts, comment threads, rich media integration, topical conversation via hashtags, and both Twitter-style multicast (public) and more Facebook-style (circle- or individual-limited) conversation.

I realize I sound like an ad, but that's not my intent. It just works for me. The complaint I see most often is "nobody's there". If you treat it as a publishing platform, rather than an RSS reader, it becomes a lot more attractive, and then that helps to solve the "nobody's there" problem as a side-effect.
Well, if they've been adding 500k per day, they have a lower bound of about 15 million monthly actives.
Amazon desperately needs personalized rankings a la Netflix, particularly as they expand into digital content.

I've been trying to watch some of Amazon's free Prime video content, but it's very difficult - I have to wade through page after page of My Little Pony to get to anything I'm interested in. There is practically no discoverability features besides "customers who watched this also...", which is generally not very useful.

Moving ratings? They are so highly variable for media, and so subjective to personal taste, that they are practically useless. Global reviews work fine for electronics, but they fall apart utterly when applied to content. Go look at the star rating distribution for any reasonably controversial book - all over the place, and tells me nothing about how I would like it.

The MP3 store is similar. iTunes does a pretty decent job with Genius, but is still pretty poor discoverability-wise. Spotify's new-content discoverability is also extremely poor. Rdio is pretty good, but I would pay for a Pandora that plugs into a music store/subscription service. IMO this is some pretty lazy engineering - what works for selling DVD players does not work for selling content, but Amazon's UI for browsing digital video is practically identical to their physical-shopping UI, and that's entirely unacceptable.
Problem is, both your link headline here and the premise headlined on your blog are flat wrong, and are going to give sysadmins everywhere headaches if clients come across your article and think they've learned something.

The RFC snippet quoted in this comments thread is the right approach: keep a long TTL in normal practice, shorten it at least double the TTL in advance of a change (e.g., if 2 day TTL, shorten it 4 days before changes), dropping it down to 3600 or 300 depending on your tastes, and bring it back up after the change is stabilized.

In the case of registering a brand new, never existed before, domain, avoiding cache poisoning can help.

But DNS taking up to (TTL x number of layers of cache) is not a myth. We routinely see 5 - 7 days (globally) on 1 and 2 day TTLs, and 2 - 3 days (globally) on 5 minute TTLs (thanks to ISPs with 1 day min TTLs).
Can't you just get everything through RSS feeds? I don't think Craigslist would be able to even tell if you were doing it that way.
There are some interesting points here, but the article misses one very, very important constituency (from the President's point of view, at least): the intelligence community. If the law remains as is and outlaws Tor, Obama will have the head of every intelligence agency in his office telling him to veto the bill or put the nation at risk.

If the law is amended to allow Tor (as was attempted) and then passes, then how long before Tor becomes a household name?
Obama's not running his last campaign. That's done and over with. It's as simple as that.
You said infrastructure. Not consumer gear.

How many sysadmins are running down to Best Buy to purchase their server farms? I doubt very many. A healthy percentage of companies have their infrastructure based on Linux.
What's easy for you may be quite difficult for others. I'm not sure the Hacker News community should ever be considered the middle of the bell curve. To wit: prior to the financial crisis, one of the largest mortgage search engines conducted a large randomized survey of home owners. A little under 40% did not know if they had a fixed or adjustable rate mortgage.
Life at Google sounds like a fairy tale.

Things I've had to buy myself to work better at Amazon:

1. A better chair (Steelcase Leap). They give us some shitty chair that's barely adjustable.

2. A second monitor. Yup, they give us one monitor.

3. My own whiteboard markers.

4. A better keyboard. (This hardly counts, though, since I have odd keyboard preferences, and the default keyboards are fine).

Things I've yet to buy but need to:

1. A new & larger hard drive. I got a 140GB drive in my dev desktop. I regularly work with various data packages over 10GB in size, and I need multiple versions deployed at once. This quickly eats up my available space. Haven't done this yet because I'll lose a day or more to reimaging.

2. More ram. They only give us 4GB.

We don't get a free Prime membership. No free kindles. No free AWS accounts for personal projects. Only $100 off per year at Amazon.com. And let's not forget the obscene cost of lunch in South Lake Union (around $10).

One of Amazon's core tenets is "frugality" but they're going to have to start spending more on equipment for devs or they won't be able to hire anyone. Hiring is hard enough as it is at Amazon, and we are going to lose good devs to organizations that value them more.

(I know, I know, First World Problems. My employer only gives me money instead of free things.)

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Wow. I didn't even realize there were still states without no-fault divorce. Looks like just NYS.
I just can't get past the feeling that Google+ violates my privacy. I've started using Facebook which I ultimately regret because it's invasive, too controlling, and has stupidity embedded in it. In the end these kinds of forums are the only ones I find worthwhile anyway. I don't care what my real friends think about what I like, and don't want anyone else I know to judge me. Why am I letting people I don't even know control the way I express myself to my friends anyway?
I'm sure people with their CC leaked will now be against SOPA.
I might be a bit naïve thinking this, and I only ask out of curiosity, but, OAuth non-browser implementation issues aside, what drove the decision to support four individual SDKs to access the Graph API as opposed to building the Graph API up into a resource that, like a well implemented REST API, could be used easily by anything that can make an HTTP request?

From that position, the open source community, or any enterprising developer for that matter, has a single, standard, and well supported API they can then write a language specific library for and maintain.

Like I say, I'm not privy to all the details behind this, and I'm being wilfully ignorant, but it intrigues me that the developer of an API feels that it needs to then support its own abstraction of it for a limited number of platforms/languages.
I actually feel bad for these guys. They put trust in a supposedly professional,albeit somewhat slimy seeming with the pushing ebay auctions on the corporate Twitter account, marketing firm and this blows up over Christmas weekend.

I worked with a really terrible marketing and pr firm myself when I was working for a small startup years ago. We were featured in the NYT, but our PR firm misrepresented us in such an insane way we could only conclude the firm didn't even know what we were doing. It turned what should have been a coup for us into a massive blow to our business.
The wheels of progress turn slowly, to paraphrase someone talking about mozilla.org in 1999.
That does not follow. See TSP.
When I hear an odd conclusion with no evidence, I usually disregard the conclusion, not infer the existence of fascinating undetected evidence.
True dat. I have a mere ~30 peeps in my circles, most of joined early but are not tech geeks. The latest months only ONE of them has been posting sporadically.
Thanks, that's the one I was thinking of.
The worst part is when the anesthesia only seems to work: http://lesswrong.com/lw/8wi/inverse_pzombies_the_other_direc...
Thanks - I must admit I did not actually do that search myself before. It is getting harder to trust online, too - top results are likely to be SEOed, Reviews are fake and so on (not the sites you picked, but in general).

I would probably be able to pick something from the sites you found, but a real shop would still be more fun for now. Especially with the toys, it would for example be nice to check the kind of sounds they make. We just got two toys for Christmas that are unbearable...
It's more clever looking at revenue -- it takes Apple 6 minutes to bank $1.3 million dollars.
The object of the game
Maybe you aren't giving Amazon the credit they deserve. MLP is huge in the hipster geek set that frequents HN. Cf http://www.google.com/m?q=my+little+brony
Android gets Pentagon approval
Couldn't you get similar information (except the history) from any google analytics for a page that was popular here? I would email some owners for sites now in the top 10. Or submit your own page, with this goal, promising to open the stats once you gathered them.
Startups in Japan
So the justification for the modern class action suit is to save on court resources, so you don't have to litigate basically the same facts thousands of times.

Getting rid of it would have consequences that aren't straight forward to predict. On one hand, it would definitely hurt certain plaintiff's lawyers who depend on these blockbuster class actions. On the other hand, it would be good for plaintiff's lawyers generally, because there would be a lot more suits without the consolidation process of a class action. And it would be good for defense lawyers, since there would be more suits to defend against.

As for the impact on consumers, the vast majority would just choose not to litigate for the small sums involved. I'm not going to litigate over a fault $1,000 laptop, but I'd be happy to get a $100 settlement over it, even though it's at a huge discount over maybe what my claim might've been.
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I am reminded of Snow Crash where the government has turned into an hyper bureaucratic system. It describes in several tedious pages an addendum to the office rules for toilet paper an TP pooling. But fear not, productivity was not lost since employees were expected to read the new rule within a specified quick time.
"Keep the vacuum cleaner parts for the carpet on the 2nd floor."

In my experience, one vacuum cleaner per floor works way better. It gets rid of most of the "oh, it's on the per floor; I will do that later" cases.
There has always been a market for price info on collectibles antiques etc. they are just trying to make use of technology to expand this down to lower priced goods. Whether this is viable is less clear.
The emacs wiki is a good place to start:

http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CategoryDotEmacs

> Unfortunately, emacs seems to be less mainstream right now

I don't know about the popularity of emacs vs. VI right now (I'd suspect that it's fairly close), but there is no shortage of current and active emacs info on the web. There's plenty of active .emacs files can be found on github for example.

Some other sources of info:

http://www.masteringemacs.org/

http://emacs-fu.blogspot.com/

http://www.reddit.com/r/Emacs
I'm going to assume that you're not talking about the secondary market for used goods, because that can most definitely be a business. See: ebay.com.

About arbitrage: I agree with you, to some extent. By definition, as more people notice the price differences and take advantage of them, the arbitrage will become less and less profitable. If you intend to build a business that will scale and prosper in the long term, you need to provide value to people and not tie yourself to short-lived arbitrage opportunities. I work in finance and that fact is plainly obvious to a lot of us.

However, there is value added when you give people information. Information isn't free. Someone has to go out there and find all the prices, organize them, and show them to people. The arbitrage differential will grow smaller and smaller as competition grows, but at no point will this information be free. Given the possibility to find cheaper prices, people will pay if it's worth their while. If it's not money, at least page views.
They should place one ad in the sidebar, with a "request for comments" link right above it. Run that for a week, post the results, and let the community decide.
I have been creating A records for subdomains lately, and found that the TTL on the A record matters, but even more important for fast response time is the minimum time to live (reverse cache) on the SOA record. Setting the A record to a TTL of 1 hour and the minimum time to live on the SOA of 1 minute results in almost instant record propagation. Not exactly sure what the SOA minimum time to live even does though.
Josh Bloch's talks at Devoxx alone were worth the trip.
Congratulation Sbauch. Did you have any previous web-development background like Html/CSS or you learned everything from scratch?
Wikipedia should absolutely not run ads that make money. Even if they put the strictest protections in place to prevent advertisers interfering with the content it would still cast doubt in the eyes of those using the service.

If Wikipedia were to become dependent on a revenue stream generated from advertisements for products then over time they would become beholden to those interests.
I would not have let my cellphone die. Charging it off the car should keep it alive for days.