skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Edge cases and niggling "works ok for me" problems really do matter for something that's intended to be used with testing.

Otherwise it's easy to rat-hole for a long time trying to determine why your test isn't working, when it turns out it was a problem between your DNS resolver and an upstream domain.

Problems between DNS resolvers and DNS authoritative servers are classically intermittent; they usually depend on the ordering of a chain of steps to occur. For example, I might get a resolution failure for a xip.io record if one of the following sequences occurs;

Client asks resolver asks for AAAA - gets NXDOMAIN from ns-1.xip.io, caches it
Client asks resolver for A - responds with NXDOMAIN

but if the queries happen in the reverse order, things are fine.

or, another example;

Client asks an AD DNS server to perform resolution, server chokes on lack of the AA bit in authoritative answer.

And so on.

But then in either case if a tester fires up nslookup or dig, everything works on the command line, and so they may spend quite a while trying to figure out why my library routine for connecting to my service isn't working.
Google+ Hangouts supports screen sharing. Add a collaboration tool and you're done.
Why would they use ZFS on a CDN? IIRC, ZFS has some performance characteristics that would make it a poor choice for something like caching data on a network edge when it's really designed for ensuring data integrity.
Possible Radiation Leak?
I don't know; but your comment suggests you're missing my point entirely. It's not about what each individual customer does; it's that implementing such a feature across the board might work well for Heroku customers whose own customers are technical; but, would fall down big time for those whose customers are non-technical.
Pagemove
I've seen quite a few brand standard manuals in my time in the creative industry, and this is the most memorable way I've ever seen to cover the "don'ts" section.
The question of whether or not we inhabit a simulated universe only matters insofar as we would be able to determine the fact or not. Any speculation beyond that is unscientific.

Incidentally, the mathematical construction I believe you are referring to is the Boltzmann Brain.
Is Israel’s search through visitors’ email accounts legal?
I wonder why people hate on believing that the sun revolves around the earth. It would make for more complicated equations of motion, but is not unscientific or wrong to believe that to be the case. It just turns out that the math is easier when you believe that the sun is at the center.
I am unsure why I find this hilarious.
Solomon, wait, just 2 days ago you said CF was throw away code and not on your radar? Care to explain your pivot to 'intriguing'?

https://twitter.com/solomonstre/status/209895170194423808
You don't need to drive 200+ miles a day often to make it a requirement for a car. Emergencies, spontaneous road trips, trips to relatives, etc, are all unusual but crucial.
When we wade into the idea of whether or not we're living in a simulated universe, we're wading into Rumsfeldan territory: those things we do not know we do not know. Personally, I find God a lot more elegant than the Matrix, but neither are within our epistemic horizons.

I think anyone who says otherwise is vastly overestimating the capacity of human knowledge. And besides, wouldn't the universe containing a simulated universe be even more complicated?
As a recurring depressive, I can't help but think, "How the hell do people live day to day not knowing at least one thing they absolutely love?"

If not for my own things that I intensely can dig into, I would've offed myself a long time ago.
Bravo. I sometimes wish HN had an option to filter out 37 Signals items...
Oh whoops.. misread parent as installing a proxy server, not configuring one to be used in the settings.
I agree that Gates and not Jobs will be remembered in 50 years, but for a different reason.

Gates vision of "a computer in every home" made computers a common item in most household in developed countries. People are using computers in their home and offices, where would we be without them.

In the same way people remember the Wright Brothers for planes, Edison for the light bulb (yes, he wasn't the first to invent it, but that's beside the point). Gates will probably be remembered for the personal computer.

If he succeeds with the malaria vaccine, it be just another feather in his cap
Just launched hotstagram.com, getting over 500 ratings a second
The 'drush cc all' syndrome
Asserting that an economy is in a liquidity trap is equivalent to asserting that increasing the money supply will not drive up inflation or interest rates in the short term, but will drive employment and GDP growth.

I don't think it makes sense to argue that this situation is not theoretically possible since it appears to describe reality quite well. That said, the policy commitment that comes out of accepting even the possibility that we may be in a liquidity trap should be uncontroversial regardless of whether you believe the model is a close approximation of reality or not: push aggregate demand until there is some evidence it is driving up inflation and interest rates, at which point the theory says to stop because more of the same won't do any better.
Anyone have any fun features they'd like to see? We are gathering a massive amount of rating data.
Happy Birthday, Camera+
I think that for completeness, it should display a complete blame derivation graph that explains to the user the full chain of events, right back to the original person who was ultimately responsible.

After all, it wouldn't be fair for Heroku to be blamed just because a piece of networking equipment failed - the user should be informed which vendor is at fault, and in turn, which supplier the failed component within said equipment came from.
I think it's foolish to say who will be remembered in the future, as it's mostly up to advertising and what random factlets make it into our defunct schoolbooks.

I only hope that more important characters from computer history than Jobs or Gates make it into the history books though.
What I took away from this, though, is that they just want to be able to load a web application they're developing on their iPad/iPhone or otherwise "restrictive" device that doesn't allow you to easily make local DNS modifications (such as /etc/hosts files).

I honestly don't understand what you've written above (although I re-read it a couple of times, I guess I'm just not knowledgeable enough about DNS for it to make sense) but can you see those issues impacting the ability of someone to load an application on their iPad in order to test it out?

I guess the problem might arise that people start to use this "not as originally intended" and get into all sorts of strife but for the particular scenario they were originally intending it for it seems perfectly adequate, no?
I wouldn't limit the goal of science to developing predictive models, to completely understand a behaviour we must also be able to describe, explain and control the behaviour.
8 million copies of Camera+ sold, impressive.
Meh, I like Django.
Buy (or dig out of your closet) an old Wifi router and install Tomato on it. Its web interface lets you edit its hosts file which is then active for all the devices connected to it.
"epic" was played out the day it started getting used in radio ads.
Sorry for not being clear. I completely agree that Opera's experience is relevant and useful. They have done some great work on optimizing mobile web performance and it would be fantastic to draw on that expertise to make open standards which everyone can benefit from. However, don't forget that SPDY and related technologies create a problem for Opera, which is based on a closed protocol and ecosystem. Personally, I believe in an open web based on open technologies which can be implemented by anyone. Without releasing code or a spec, it's easy to take a position that your approach is better - since nobody can scrutinize you to prove otherwise.
Autism Seminars on Demand
Welcome to Autism Seminars On Demand. This website contains a compilation of Dr. Kurt Woeller’s lecture presentations regarding biomedical intervention for autism through his years of practice.
TestFlight Desktop App (private beta)
Sometimes you have to deal with what you are given.
Hopefully they will solve this problem at some point, but if you want an alternative fast, couldn't you consider using services like dyndns, noip, etc?
I would suggest that describing and explaining a behavior is the same as constructing a predictive model of that behavior, and that controlling it is in the realm of engineering, not science.
I think it's the can't-un-see Batman logo.
> ... you significantly reduce your potential purchasing base for the future ...

It isn't quite that bad. You do get a whole bunch of money and customers at once. Is it better to have one dollar today from a customer than getting 5 dollars in several months time, from the same customer and have to spend all those intervening months doing marketing and other things to try and get the customer? Consider the price a discount for not having to spend the effort to get the customers.

You also get more certainty over your future. eg if you get a cheque today for $500k then you know how much you can spend making your next game. Getting the usual daily dribbles instead makes it far harder to plan for the future.

And of course you can add your game to multiple indie bundles over time so you do get multiple bites at the cherry so to speak.
I like your analogy of equating going after the seed cleaners with BitTorrent. I'd argue it's way worse than that also because, if my understanding is correct, the seed cleaning is an integral part of the process of reusing the seeds, which is an integral part of cheap(er), more traditional methods of farming. It seems to me like in addition to trying to conduct infringement reduction with a cricket bat instead of a scalpel, they're trying to eliminate the ability for farmers to farm in the way they had for generations and to force them to purchase the GMO seeds by making parts of the process-flow the smaller farmers use illegal. Not to be too gloom and doom but this is pretty gloom and doom. Do we really want these corporations (Monsanto, Dow and their ilk) who obviously do not have our best interest in mind to have almost complete control of the supply of our food staples? I sure don't.
Press chirp.
Press rotate three times.
Press multiply many times.
Press ledge.

Result: many Twitter birds beak-planting into the ground and farting in surprise.
Everyone remembers Carnegie, Mellon, Rockefeller, and Stanfurd because of their generous acts. Nobody remembers their almost-as-successful, but far less generous competitors.

To date, Bill Gates has donated more money to charity than Steve Jobs was ever worth. Steve Jobs...has donated less money to charity than your average churchgoer.
Regardless of what the other details of this product are, the online payments space could definitely use some extra competition in Australia. Bravo.
I have dealt with weird edge cases in frameworks/proxies/whatever where sometimes the hostname turned into an IP (or 10.0.0.3 turned into 127.0.0.1). You generally don't want this to happen in production, and performing all your testing with names is a good way to observe it not happening.
Git push to deploy Node.js to Azure
Indeed, the days of "This T-Shirt Is a Munition" weren't that long ago.

http://www.loundy.com/Roadside_T-Shirt.html
Thank you for using the word human.

I'm all about the "Don't kiss others' booties on the off chance that it will come back to you" because if you're doing it for that reason, you're doing it wrong.

Just treat people well, take everything one step at a time, and look at it from their vantage point. These things in mind and everyone will walk away from the table happy the majority of the time.

If your customer service reps are trained, mature and willing then there's no difference between the experience with them and you.
Ummm... Why?
This was a nice story and at the end I couldn't wait to get to the comments to hear that this was wrong and customers are in fact sh!t. I wasn't disappointed. Coming from having some customer issues of my own recently it was nice to read a genuine feel good story. Even if it just a fairy tale.
Exactly! A customer could care less who you host with and what stack you use. The customer thinks one thing: if YOU are down, then YOU are down.
Except people expect select lists to work like that. This is nicely done, but it breaks a number of established conventions about how select lists work.
Designing a Life vs Taking A Pill
Especially when you consider that both are, in fact, "wrong". In a two-body system, they both revolve around around the center of mass. (Though truly our solar system is far beyond a two-body system).
The size of the market probably dictates the additional fee (at least for now).
> I'm still a but curious as to what a nefarious user could do with your "publishable API key,"

I suspect very little if they don't also have your 'secret' API key. I guess they could request a single-use token for a card, but I don't think they could then do anything with it.
Good to see a bit of love for XAML and WPF on HN. I've been developing with it for the past 2 years - don't know how I worked without it.
At this point, with no clear buyers lining up, I'd have held an interview or some other more efficient process, and handed it over to an impressive entrepreneur, while keeping 25% to 40% of the company (give the entrepreneur the majority equity). Set up whatever fair protections are reasonable, and let the entrepreneur run with it, no money down. Then all but forget it exists.

Radically better option than just shutting it down.
Oh so you have Jobs' personal finance records? That's amazing! And you're breaking the news here on HN of all places!

Okay but seriously, you don't have a clue what Jobs did with his money and neither do I. So there's no point speculating.
Does anyone have any idea on the background on who's behind this?

The fact that there are no names doesn't exactly instill trust or confidence.

Closest I could get to info would be that the Southern Payment Systems Pty Ltd resolves on a google search to: http://www.southernpaymentsystems.com/ which seems to share the street address of a Designer(http://speakinteractive.com/), a real estate agency(http://www.eftosestates.com.au/) and a ruby on rails developer(http://brownbeagle.com.au)

[update: never mind, found one of the co founders, http://dompym.com/ pretty impressive, he's ex SAP and ex Clear Interactive, acquired by the NZ exchange]
Is this considered a controversial point?

I would have thought that most people would have thought the same thing.

it's really been amazing to see how Bill Gates reputation has rebounded in tech forums in the past 5 years.

5 years ago it would be the rule rather than the exception for Bill to be bad mouthed in tech forums. Now I've noticed that it's mostly the opposite.

My guess is that in 50 years Bill Gates will be more remembered because his achievements will seem alot more amazing that Steve Job's.

Bill will be remembered as the guy who put a computer in every house and then went on to save billions of people.

In 50 years Apple may no longer even exist, it will be much harder for people to remember Jobs as the guy who saved apple and help make computer animated films popular.
They'll have to add that to the unit tests.
(USB) Message in a Bottle
I don't understand any of it, but I love it.
The issues reported so far could absolutely cause errors across any device, including an iPad. The problems that the DNS setup will cause affect resolvers - which can be a combination of software in your browser, your c library, local caching daemon, on your cable/dsl modem, in your ISP, and a public provider.

Many crufty resolvers - on things like wifi routers in particular - don't deal well with the lack of an AA bit, or a REFUSED answer. So a tester could easily end up with "works for me" and "not for me" reports that are really just down to the particulars of their network and resolver software, whether they have IPv6 enabled, and so on.

Edited to add: Again, I don't mean to rain on the developers parade. It's a great idea.

Writing DNS implementations is hard, and requires a certain kind of technical archeology to get to grips with the detail. DNS is a tricky protocol, chaotically and ambiguously documented. I've helped write 3 different ones - and I still get things wrong. And that said; anyone interested in writing hardcore DNS implementations that have to operate on the scale of microseconds per query should drop me a line.
Nothing is violated.. (well, if you're using IE 8)
Do some cool infographics on analytics. Like what type of girls get rated higher. Do guys prefer blondes.. asians.. whites.. etc.
sscheper, I love your average on HN (-.2). In response to jsprinkles: I do believe this was just a hack and not exactly intended for public consumption but someone decided "hey that's pretty cool let's chuck it on the web". Which has the obvious results of the opinions of hundreds :P
It's funny when people who won't be remembered at all try to detract from the legacies of great people.

Okay not funny, just stupid.

Gladwell has joined the ranks of those who make ridiculous statements about things they are ignorant of just to grab headlines.
You can watch the video here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyL9H4wJ0VE&feature=share (I recommend it).

This statement is part of a larger Entrepreneurship discussion
There are thoughts that are relegated to philosophy. An important field certainly, but one distinctly separate from modern science, which is concerned primarily with the observable. Is it possible that we are living within a simulated universe? Certainly. However, unless we begin to find evidence that suggests so, in the realm of science, it doesn't matter one bit.

As an aside, this happens to be my view on religion as well. I suppose though with the possibility of eternal damnation and all, it perhaps matter a bit more than the whole Matrix thing.
We do know that Jobs made almost no charitable donations over the course of his life. He used to brag about it quite publicly in interviews, and it was only when he was rediagonised with cancer that he hinted that he might consider eventually changing his mind in the future. There are statements from friends and family supporting his lack of charity. It's not speculation. You can quibble over whether he donated a dollar or two to some bum somewhere, but ultimately, the reality is that Steve Jobs donated less to charity than either of us.

Steve Jobs may have been a genius salesman, but he was definitely not a philanthropist.
According to the NYT "there is no public record of Mr. Jobs giving money to charity" (http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/08/29/the-mystery-of-steve-...).

Giving publicly is important if you want to be remembered for your charitable work.
Azure now officially offers IaaS options
To, like, fight the power, man.
Do you think there might be business opportunity in tying all these technologies together into an integrated solution that allows developers to code collaboratively?
some weeks ago i got talked into setting up the internet connection on windows vista machine (of a friend) - a very simple task i though. it was a horrible and unbelievable stupid experience. it took me two hours(!!!)

according to a quick google at least 88 000 000 windows vista copies had been sold. i expect that at least (and on average) every vista user had run into a similar issue at least once (probably more often, but lets calculate with "just once").

this means at least 176000000 hours have been wasted in a similar fashion. that's 7333333.33333333 days or 20091.324200913 years. well, if we calculate with a life expectancy of 70 years, this means that this was the life time of 287 people.

well, i think with this track recoded, yeah, bill gates will be remembered.
Maybe it's just me, change aversion and all, but the new bird is a bit odd and not friendly anymore. It's facing up in an angelic pose, tilting it's head back in ecstasy.
I have talked to directors of Bay Area charities that tell me that Jobs was a generous donator personally. In fact this just happened 2 weeks ago, and the person defended him vehemently.

So there's one anecdotal data point for you.
Or try: 'donewithcellular'.
Salting means that you must crack each key individually. It slows things down marginally in the long-run and at least precludes someone form using Google as your rainbow table. Have you ever tried searching for MD5 hashes of things like 'password' or 'pass123'? It's terrifying.
I love that someone did this. Twitter is crazy if they think anyone without API access and a financial stake is actually going to bother to listen to their brand guidelines.

One of the things that made Twitter a great brand is that end users got to kind of invent a little bit of the brand whenever they promoted their Twitter accounts on their sites and other places. It encouraged creativity that eventually extended to what the users posted on the service.

Why bow to the gods of uniformity after half a decade of freedom? With the reach of their network and the level of influence they've built, don't they have something better to spend their time on?
According to their careers page[1], the NSA is offering $42K - $97K for mathematicians and $72K - $134K for computer scientists. I'm guessing that's on par with many academic and industrial research positions, especially for the locations they have offices (i.e. not Silicon Valley or New York).

[1] http://www.nsa.gov
Why you should be excited about national bankruptcy
Right. Wanting to be remembered is just as selfish of an act as attaching your name to a donation.

Whether Jobs donated anonymously or didn't donate at all, I can respect him so much more for not chasing attention and approval.
You can perform empirical experiments on the topics philosophy is concerned with in the same way you can perform experiments in the realm of 'pure' mathematics. I don't think there's any such distinction as philosophy/science.
What's interesting about this is MS is charging more for their own products than for non-Windows machines.

http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/pricing/details/

I'd heard a speaker at an MS event (codecamp event) talking about how web hosting companies (and virtual machine companies) would charge more for windows to take advantage of MS marketing, but that hosting on MS servers was overall much less expensive, because of all the management tools.

MS charges more for Windows than for Linux. Sort of makes sense, maybe, but I wonder why that is. These numbers look a lot like Amazon's EC2 pricing. Perhaps MS have some floor pricing in effect such that they can't undercut other resellers?
In other parts of the country, it's an old farmer who just sold his land and wants to buy a new car for each of his four kids, but has to wait around at the dealership until finally the lowest ranking junior salesman is sent out to deal with him.
Oh yes, of course. Like I said, these games are all several years old and have, I think mostly run their course in terms of full price sales, so I don't think these bundles significantly affect these game's future sales, and getting exposure to lots of people opens up opportunities for sales of sequels/future games.

Still, it'd be worth doing the maths on - if your game is still selling well, putting it in a bundle would be foolish.
I heard once that the circles-on-circles construction of the motion of the bodies of solar system when Earth is taken as its center is merely the Fourier transform of the ellipses that describe the solar system with the Sun as its center.

Unfortunately, I never saw the actual derivation, so that idea is basically hearsay.