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I would stray away from an on-the-spot design task. Design and UI is a very research and strategy oriented task. The result of an hour or day long test may not be an accurate representation of what the designer is capable of.

If you like his work, commission him for a freelance project as the test. Give it milestones and specs like any other project. Based on the results - concerning time management, style, ability to digest the specs, etc, you can have a better idea of the applicant.
> Optimizing for user engagement, when you make money off of ads, is optimizing for the bottom line by definition. To claim otherwise is disingenuous at best.

Well, optimizing for f(x) (revenue) is different than optimizing for g(x) (engagement), which is related to f(x), and claiming that we are objectively optimizing for f(x). Not sure if that makes sense, but you are right that it is to our long term interest to optimize for user engagement, not because it necessarily optimizes our revenue, but it optimizes our value for users.

That's not the same as optimizing for revenue directly, though, so calling that "disingenuous at best" is a little misguided.
How many people are using this right now?
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Jesus, they don't even build houses that big in a lot of neighborhoods.
Sorry for not being clear, but I'm asking about domain registrars, not hosting services. They're not an accredited domain registrar and I know I'm not the only one that cares about that.

I want to deal with the company that controls my fate in the event of a legal issue, domain theft... or if we lose this battle, responding to SOPA actions. A reseller is a bit powerless to help you with those things.
Oh I did check your profile to form my conclusion.
If that were true, the sponsored content would be labeled. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3388106
They did, eventually, with dmix.
It's definitely corrupt. Buying legislative advantage for yourself -- or buying barriers and expenses for your competitors -- is what many companies and groups try to do. It's a terrible, corrupt, corporatist abuse of power.
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"From a buisness-perspectve Dart does the right thing and there arguments are valid. The could just open the Dart VM bytecode so other people could plug-in there but that would make it harder for them to change the VM."

Exactly, Google is taking the cheap way out, not the technically optimal path. Which is of course what everybody is up in arms about.

We've come to expect more from Google.
I tweeted[1] yesterday and today I get a call from Godaddy (I didn't take it, they just left a message). I can't imagine that they are literally calling anyone they can trace back to a name, but hey, maybe they are.

https://twitter.com/#!/jessegumm/status/150134421612265473
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ap5XwwEGR7k&feature=relmf...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aHe_9nH_Mc

my IQ dropped just looking for these. I can't wait for the end of this company.
That’s my point. “Evil” has nothing to do with it, unless we believe our industry to be populated by angels and devils.

Let’s focus on behaviors and incentives. Leaving in droves seems to have led to behavior we prefer. What to conclude?
Agreed and great idea. I would love to know the answer if they bother to respond and hopefully it's not some generic response from just any employee.
This is correct. They're not foreign if the registry is controlled by the US.
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I am concerned apropos to WayFair Promo Code . Apparently, we're on easy street. I use that to attract prospects. We'll look at that side of the argument. If one person has WayFair Promo Code this usually tells you that guys nearby will also have WayFair Promo Code Code.
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Right, we actually had that problem in the .com boom where a guy with a month of Flash training was commanding 100k, the problem was when it popped those guys did not just flush out of the industry in a few months and managers are notoriously bad at spotting talent. It lead to some tough times for many developers while the market corrected. Eventually those 1 month Flash in the pans got their real estate licenses and moved on, but not until it dealt some real damage to the industry. One of which was it gutted the CS programs which has created some of the supply deficiencies we see now.
Do you have millions to spend lobbying Congress? If not, you can do the next best thing: protest in any way that can hurt financially (even in a tiny way - it all adds up) companies that CAN and DO lobby Congress.
I also agree. I've been with them for 10+ years and only had 2 or 3 issues which were solved in a few hours. Great support and an excellent company.
Counterfeit goods are not just media/entertainment/online content. Many of the organizations in support of the bill are brand-name manufacturers whose goods are easily counterfeited in other countries.

AFL-CIO members could argue that SOPA/PIPA would allow the AG to block foreign sites that sell counterfeit goods, thereby forcing individuals to buy the "official" goods domestically (where they would be manufactured by American labor). Granted, I don't know if there are any brand-name manufacturers still making their goods in the U.S., but that would be the obvious argument to my eyes.
I agree. The issue I had was many were beginning to take on a mob mentality even after GoDaddy backed off. This isn't about GoDaddy either regardless btw. It was about SOPA. GoDaddy was just an example to purely to point out that by continuing to destroy them even after they've relented, does not help continue making a case against stopping SOPA from being approved.
I submitted the tee solution as a joke and I got a smiley in response. I was pretty pleased with myself.
GM crippled themselves with terribly designed automobiles that no one wanted to purchase.

Power and information asymmetry are the rule when you are negotiating with your boss independently. He knows what the other employees at your company make. You do not.
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1. It ultimately depends on what you aim to do. A large part of HN will recommend Python (myself included).

2. If you do a quick search, you'll realize this has been covered an endless amount of time with more in depth answers to help.
Ask HN: How can we track registrar transfers?
HN! I don't know who else to ask..

Would it be possible to track conversions from godaddy to other registrars so we could recognize those sites?

The idea being to celebrate any domain that transfers away from them and the date on which they did it.

The closest thing I found is a reverse DNS lookup: http://www.domaintools.com/research/reverse-whois/

In the search box, put: "Registrar: GODADDY.COM, INC."
Unfortunately, there are two problems. 1) the results are not displayed because there are > 100k and 2) the history is not tracked.

Is there another tool out there that has such stats?

I want to take a snapshot of everyone who uses GoDaddy right now but can't figure out a good way other than querying via the whois command line tool, and for 5 million records, that would take awhile.

Thoughts?
They didn't learn a thing from the Netflix fiasco, moron's. Spank their asses and leave GoDaddy.
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They weren't "begging them to stay", merely asking if there was anything they could do to keep the customer.
According to this article, just over a week. Talk about stepping in "it".

http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/23/godaddy-ceo-there-has-to-be...
Ah. I hadn't actually realized NFSN wasn't an accredited registrar. http://faq.nearlyfreespeech.net/section/domainregistration/a...
You can get a 5/3 for 1/10 of that price (literally just saw one listed for 65k) in Pittsburgh.

And Pittsburgh was one of the few places not hit that hard by the real estate downturn.
I use INTERNET.BS, which is in the Bahamas. They are about as cheap as anyone. Their interface is simple, fast, and comprehensive. They give you total, self-serve control over every aspect of your domain, including moving it to another registrar. I've never needed any special support from them. They don't hijack anything. They provide whois privacy for free. They have no hidden fees. They don't charge any tax. The only problem I've had with them is that their DNS sometimes goes out, and my domains become temporarily unreachable. You'll have to use someone else for DNS, as will I, when my domains become more important to me, but as far as registering and maintaining your domains, I honestly don't think that anyone else I've come across is really any better than these guys. I'm saying all this as just another customer. I don't have any other connection to them.

http://internet.bs

Here is a thread where their CEO personally responded to some concerns.

http://webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1081420

Here are some positive comments about their reliability.

http://webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1072054

Here is a thread about using CloudFlare with them, which is something you might want to do when it comes to better DNS.

http://webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1090725

EDIT: They take American Express, they automatically renew, and given that you are concerned about SOPA, you should know, for what it's worth, that your agreement with them will be "governed by the laws of The Commonwealth of The Bahamas".
1) Namecheap supports Google Checkout, so you can pay through Checkout but have it backed by Amex. Pretty sure I've done that in the past with Namecheap
I just initiated a full transfer to http://iwantmyname.com -- this is the sort of company where the co-founder personally replies to your support tickets.
But it is the most significant bit, correct?
French. Or Arabic. Or whatever you don't already speak.

Snark aside, the standard answer is something like "Learn a language in each of the different kinds or programming (functional, procedural, etc)". Really, though, programming is not about a particular syntax. It's about learning how to think and deconstruct problems.

So that brings me back to the spoken languages. Learn new things that will challenge you (spoken languages are great), and learn how to deconstruct problems. And above all, have fun doing it.
I decided to go with name.com since they didn't have an F rating with the BBB, mainly due to that they responded to all of their complaints (7). You'd be surprised how many companies don't. I am a bit concerned about their $25 lock out fee if there are too many failed logins to your account though.
hear, hear! Hard to believe StackExchange used them in the first place.
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I had fun playing around with the challenge and spent most of the time poking around with map exploration as implementing min-max once again isn't too much fun. I ended up having the most fun playing around with the idea of an anti-object . The simplicity of anti-objects combined with the low memory and low cpu overhead was very nice. Wrote it up in a little blog for others:

http://benjamin-meyer.blogspot.com/2011/11/using-collaborati...

Any ideas for a type of challenge that wouldn't be reduced to mostly min-max for the ranking, but could explore other concepts?
The easiest way to have a counter that is both correct and fast is to split things up into multiple separate counters and then count them. So for a simple example: User ID mod 50 = 7 so lock row, 7 increment row, 7 unlock row 7. Want the total? sum (all rows).

You can also get fancy with lock row 1, lock total, update total = total + value of row 1, unlock total, set row 1 to 0, unlock row 1. Repeat row 2...50. The advantage being even lower latency access to a number that is withing X seconds of being correct.

PS: Both of the above can be split across multiple cores / machines. But, for a less accurate but still reasonable have the client a = (rand (0,100)), b = rand (0, 100 + a), if b == 7 update death count by (a + 100). This only increments the counter 1 time in ~150 times while avoiding counters that are always multiples of some number. Just be careful of off by one errors.
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Boycotting SOPA Supporters is All or Nothing
Large storage and very high bandwidth immediately brings to mind video applications. How about this idea: Indievault, i.e. make available movies that cannot be distributed through the usual channels. This year more than 4K movies applied to Sundance, only a handful (I believe <100) got in. Contact these directors and get them to make their content available on the system. Conservatively assuming 1GB for a movie (some will be shorter than usual) you can make all those available and then some.
This says he represents (among other places) much of Austin. Isn't Austin a tech hotbed?

Surely there are a couple hundred people in his district who have a lot at stake here? Judging from the campaign rhetoric I've heard, "XYZ's policy destroyed [or will destroy] my business" definitely speaks to Republican primary voters.
Did you move your domains off Go Daddy without throwing out your Marvel Comics, flushing your Viagra, and telling your kids that Toy Story is now on the banned viewing list?
I use joker.com. They're a Swiss company that does both German and English perfectly, and aren't very expensive. They accept AmEx.
That's a very bad thing. Domain registration isn't something you want to trust to an upstart that could go out of business, sell the business, or encounter legal problems they're not big enough to handle. Losing a domain name for an extended period is about the worst thing that could happen to an online business, like mine... worse than losing a payment processor, ad network, web host, or any other service. Without your domain, your customers can't reach you and nobody can buy from you... and you can't simply buy another. Stick with accredited registrars with a few million domains in their portfolio.

Now add SOPA to the mix for a site that hosts user content (like blog comments). If anyone files a right of action against you, the registrar pulls your domain, and you have 5 days to file a counternotice to get it back. If you're buying from a reseller like this, how many of those 5 days are wasted between the time they're notified by the registrar they resell and them notifying you? You really don't have the time to spare -- you need to get that notice, retain counsel, write and send the counternotice, and get it to the registrar (who you may not be able to directly contact by buying through the reseller) before time's up.
PORN! is the first thing that comes to mind....
In the same 'quality' of neighborhood?
You can get a 5/3 for $39k in Charleston, SC in the middle of the ghetto.
EC2 is primarily geared toward providing variable computational capacity.

One can use the API to programmaticly trigger the allocation or deallocation of resources in a cost effective manner. In other words when computational needs are low, fewer resources can be allocated and costs can be lowered with additional capacity brought online only as needed - elastic resources to meet elastic demand.
Someone could ask Namecheap to allow people to "bundle" a transfer to hit their discount levels. Enable customers to get together and transfer all their domains from a single registrar like GoDaddy all on the same day. Customer Foo has 43 domains, customer Bar has 7 domains, they both transfer all of these domains on the same day and both key in a bundle code. They both show up in the same transfer bundle, so both get the 50 domain discount.

The bundle code could be an extension of the discount code, like Foo would enter BYEBYEGD:Email-addy-of-Bar while Bar enters BYEBYEGD:Email-addy-of-Foo. That type of structure would limit the bundling to two customers coordinating with each other (so Namecheap doesn't lose out on handing out too many discounts). Other structurings of bundles are possible, of course, depending upon Namecheap's internal sales and marketing goals.
I've been using this. Print them out every week. I find them easy to keep track with since I switch tasks often.

http://davidseah.com/blog/node/the-emergent-task-timer/
That's a funny statement, given that GM, even in their crippled state, is the 1st or 2nd largest seller of autos in the world (Toyota and GM have traded places a few times this year, I think?). For terribly designed autos that nobody wanted to purchase, SALES obviously wasn't a big problem for them.
Not the ghetto, just a normal neighborhood. A bit dicier than your typical picket-fenced suburb but that really just comes with living in the midst of the great recession.
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Alright, thanks. Should have thought of that.
Unfortunately the link appears to be temporarily dead. Luckily before you read about his bot you should watch it play anyways!

Here are two replays of the same map. The first is played by average players and the second is played by xathis (and other top bots).

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From what I can tell, the domain registration business is a tough business to be in. Prices are controlled, so you either have to deal with other product/service up-selling or expect to pay more for the privilege of not seeing the clutter of 'related' services.

I don't know if it's possible to have it both ways. The registrar has to make money somehow. Personally I'm at the point where I'd rather pay the premium of $5 per domain per year (an approx. $500 premium in my case) than deal with the nonsense.
If you register a lot of domains then I recommend eNom. It took a little while to open our account, but their support has been fantastic on the rare occasion we needed it.
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I don't know for sure but maybe Hex Rays ?

http://www.hex-rays.com/products/decompiler/index.shtml
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CyanogenMod recently dropped support for the Samsung Vibrant because they don't have source code required for dialing 911, so the fact that Samsung is also refusing to push ICS means that Vibrant owners are completely out of luck.

Reference: http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/forum-280/announcement-19-cm-vi...
It's a ridiculously gerrymandered district, winding around to catch the Republican precincts in Austin. I live in the district. Sure, I'll drop him an email. Just for the exercise. I've done it before. There's zero chance he'll react. You can't vote this guy out of office with a district like this. He collects the big money -- not from constituents, but from The Interests -- as Judiciary chairman. Untouchable.
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I am an engineer. Few years experience. Worked at startups including one that was recently acquired. Would make an excellent hire even if temporary.

If you know of a company please mention here. Or if you are a company, leave an email/Twitter/Facebook and I'll promptly responde to you.
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I responded (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3388223) to the same person to whom your comment is directed. I recommended INTERNET.BS, and from my experience, what you say doesn't seem to apply to them. Their prices are low, and I have no knowledge of them imposing any related service, or charging for not imposing such. Whatever they are doing differently, to make a profit, is not obvious to me.
Verisign has a program where you can apply to get access to the zone files. It was called TLD Zone Access or something similar. You had to tell them why you wanted the data, fill in the paperwork, and then they would authorize an IP and key to download the .com zone file (as well as a few others).

Barring that, zfbot.com used to allow access to the data, but, appears to have turned into a drop reseller and wrapped an interface around it.

You could go to someone like netcraft who has access and propose your idea, possibly get access to their copy and publish it.
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Passing SOPA will be essentially allowing controls that the Chinese gov't imposes on their folks internet usage.