skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The cost to Google & Amazon is irrelevant. The domain squatting and defensive registration under the resulting proliferation of gTLDs is the problem.

ICANN is simultaneously conjuring an artificially scarce property and taking their cut of the proceeds of defensive registration, up front. These additional TLDs add little to zero actual value to the end-user, so any registrations therein are by definition a waste of money.

Being charged by someone to protect something and receiving nothing of value in return sounds like extortion to me. Many will register their names under these gTLDs, solely out of fear of SEO issues later. It's protection money, pure and simple.

Most of all this farce demonstrates that ICANN have abandoned even the pretence of good governance and conservative stewardship of a widely misunderstood technical resource.
"I will write blog posts if people support this notion."

"I support you writing blog posts on this matter."

Downvotes ensue.... Seriously?
So, Amazon has said since the introduction of EC2 that, to ensure really high uptimes, customers should use multiple availability zones and architect their applications to survive an outage in a single availability zone. While I would question Amazon's competence if outages of any sort were overly frequent, Amazon has not had many at all and no recent cross-AZ ones. [This is correct, right?] I recognize that architecting applications to be performant across datacenters (tolerant of relatively high-latency replication), but Amazon seems to be a poster child for keeping its promises w.r.t. availability. Is my take on this incorrect?
This test is lacking some due diligence that I feel is skewing the results significantly (and, I assume, there are more that I haven't even noticed in Python/Java). (While m1.medium only has one CPU, the network IO cost exists.)

Erlang is automatically threaded by nature so it has some inherit scaling built-in (so the code benefits from threading as long as it runs correctly).

The Go code is set up to spin up threads inside of ListenAndServe thus gaining the benefit of splitting up IO.

The Haskell code has a thread specifically for garbage collection, thus utilizing the second core.

The Node.js code could be using cluster (or threads/fibers more directly) but isn't for some reason. It also seems this was using the websocket npm (some unknown code running on the stack!). For a valid test the websocket code should be written in JavaScript directly in the test itself.

Edit: Researched and Go actually uses ListenAndServe which creates threads on-the-fly but the m1.medium is bound to 1 CPU (it still benefits from threading due to IO).
Anyone manage to get the demo working? Won't load for me.

EDIT: Emulator only seems to work in Safari.
Great analysis and I really want to believe in this but I am a sceptic and this:

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Kind of killed it for me. Now I am not sure whether I should trust the results.
"Seriously though, how do you usefully and efficiently keep in touch with more than 1 person via telephone? I can't even imagine it working."

Efficiency is the least of my worries when it comes to keeping in touch with friends. Why do we have to be in a rush? Why not slow down and actually take the time to sincerely talk to each one of them? If that means I can't be friends with 100 people, then so be it.

Better to have fewer relationships I take the time to nurture, than 100 shallow ones.
Do you routinely distrust code written by people who take money for coding, on the grounds that it might have been written with an eye to securing work?
At the end of the day my results will be different from yours.

I'd say the best way to see if a cohort analysis can help you is to try it for yourself.

Happy to answer any questions I can for ya - gratis - if you do try it out. Email in profile.
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I agree. Email, IM's do not replace face to face contact. We're biologically wired for those type of interactions, not online ones. It's a true generalization, even if there are exceptions.
"More better"? Jesus I should proof a bit...
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Surely you see the difference between the two cases?
BTW, what's caused me more confusion than any of this is Cancel vs. the third option: "hit Back button on browser/phone / Close button on dialog"
I was actually talking with some friends about just this recently.

Particularly, I speak Russian as well as English. In Russian, we actually have two separate words for blue: one for light blue and one for dark blue. They are completely different colors. My idea was that this actually changes how Russians view colors as compared to English speakers. Good to see my idea has some scientific backing :).

I personally am in a particularly odd position: I learned Russian first but still learned English at a very young age (5) and have since used it more. I'm not entirely certain how this has affected my view of blue, but I think I see it more like English speakers (e.g. not differentiating between the two blues intuitively) than Russian speakers. This probably says something about my relative comfort in the two languages.

Another interesting thing is that for the longest time I did not even realize that the difference was so fundamental. I just took it in stride. When I thought about it, it was a little weird: there is actually a different set of colors (rather than just shades of color) in the two languages. The fact that I could go from one set to the other without noticing is rather interesting as well.
I am not sure what that comparison is supposed to prove? Care to elaborate?

I have no doubt kareemm is a fantastic at his job. I have simply seen to many cases where a case study is used to create sales. Again nothing wrong with that. It just kind of makes me sceptic when I see fantastic results combined with a a sales message.

Thats just me.
Of course it's not social media's fault. he's just saying, it brings about certain tendencies in him that he wants to change. Just like being in a casino brings about tendencies to gamble, or being in a McDonalds brings about tendencies to eat unhealthy.
Nope, the soundtrack is 100% original as well.
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Not touched Windows 8 yet, but I assume you can still use third-party shell programs to get around the metro `quirkyness`?
The problem with building massive hypothesis on human cognition based on findings like
http://www.empiricalzeal.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/reac...
is that there's no mention of just how many folks actually participated in the study.

Much of 'evolutionary psychology' is based on really complicated mathematical models fit to very small samples, or no sample at all, expanded upon by lengthy blocks of meandering prose.

Just-so stories are a literary genre, not a science.
When learning just about anything, there's a period during which the rate at which you discover additional aspects about that thing which you don't know is greater than the rate at which you learn. So, your self-assessment of capability decreases before it increases. At least this always happens to me. I've come to accept this as a sign of progress.
The problem is the concept of hijacking DNS in order to show ads or beg for money on a wireless network. It's like saying that you don't want hands because when you hit them with a hammer, they start bleeding all over the place. The solution is to not hit your hand with a hammer, not to not have hands. Because they're pretty useful except for the whole bleeding thing.
It's a rational explanation that just happens to be ... wrong.

Cancel/OK suggests Cancelling first, OK'eying second. Whether your eye has already moved on from Cancel is secondary to the fact that you brain got implanted with Cancel as a primary option.
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I really agree with Linus on this one. I usually say that when one person offends other person, the one who is wrong is the offended person.
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She took someone else's artwork and coloured inside the lines like paint by numbers. I'm not really sure what the legal ramifications are, but it definitely seems like a cheap and possibly fraudulent way to make art.

Can I really just take someone else's artwork, change the colours around, and then call it my own and sell it in a gallery?
kareemm

I am sorry cause I can't answer this without sounding like a naysayer and I normally hate that.

It's just when you have been around on the net as many of us have for so long you just realize that normally if something is too good to be true it probably is.

For the record. I think there is nothing wrong with you trying to get work that way I don't find it wrong or anything.

I just went from wow to oh he wants to sell me something.

Occupational hazard I guess :)
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That's no excuse, there needs to be a stiff penalty for such mistakes. If I ended up automatically DDoSing a site when all I meant to do was scrape, I'd still get arrested right?
Can anyone recommend a good book/author detailing the history of these cartels?
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I know this is a duplicate, but I'm posting it anyway because I recently saw a couple 'AskHN' posts regarding when it's a good time to post. I just figure this is a nice reminder about a great website.
Ask HN: Any good online course on communication skills
Is there any good online course on communication skills that you guys can recommend?
I do understand HTML, CSS and JS to some extent.

You could take a look at the following a my friend and I (new to Rails) built using Ruby on Rails: http://supernotes.herokuapp.com/ for our school friends in a few days. It's still quite bare, with little JS or AJAX but that's because we're studying for our exams now.

I might have to learn the ruby first too. Seems quite key when i want to build my custom .html.erb pages.

Obie sent me the print version of his book, I'll probably take a look at it. Though in his email he considered it to be "more of an intermediate book".
Dave Winer likes to complain about everything, but my guess is that this is not going to be a big deal. Nobody important will use the vanity names, just like how nobody important uses the non-com/net/org TLDs now. (Even del.ico.us moved to delicious.com.)

We already have .xxx, .co, .cat, .ly, and so on. Why will adding .dog and .ing make a difference?

If anything, the people that win are individuals, because there are enough namespaces for them to get something nice. When .us was opened up, I was happy to snap up a 7 character (total) domain name for my email. (That would be a 4 letter .com, completely unobtainable by the time I knew how to register domains.)

I think clever people will use the vanity domains for clever things, and commercial uses will continue to use .com as always. Considering that the average user wouldn't know how to access or email a TLD directly anyway, it's not like Amazon is going to be moving amazon.com to "search". (Actually, even most of the hardcore hackers I asked didn't know how to visit a TLD directly either. The key is remembering that all domain names actually end with a .)
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I feel like legally, Lang will probably lose. Morris made paintings of patterns than were meant to be transformed, in essence turning the scaffolding of a piece of art into a piece of art itself. My guess is that this is enough for the work to be considered her own.

From a non-legal standpoint, it's pretty sleazy to take someone's design, paint over it exactly (with some color modifications) and not give that person any amount of credit. Did she transform it? Perhaps. But she didn't just get inspiration from it, she literally used the design, verbatim, as her own. I take issue with this.

I'm all for people using each other's work and art progressing as a whole, but I also think it's bad form to not give credit where it's due. I definitely think this is a case where it's due.

I'm interested to see what the courts think, although something tells me it won't get to court.
I think it is instructive to look at Duchamp in this context. In a very clear sense, the transformative with regard to art lies in changing it's meaning.
However, this can be a very subtle thing. And it may be that the subtlety is not realised or played out in the way the artist intends, or in the way that the viewer receives it. This could then boil down to a matter of quality, or strength.
It is not even that simple. If Duchamp's early forays into 'readymades' had been slapped with lawsuits, we may never have had 'the fountain'.
It seems the majority of cigarette smuggling goes on at the Quebec/NY border. The two big players involved are the Rock Machine/Hells Angels (Bandidos and Bacchus) and Mohawk Natives who reside in the border region.

There is also quite a bit in eastern Quebec and New Brunswick , it's into the remainder of Maritimes the border really where a lot of this occurs.

CBC.ca has news of it from time to time mostly when violence erupts, a lot of it occurred in the 90s when the Rock Machine and Hells Angels were separate club but I think they merged, violently.

Of the regions involved all are areas of high rates of smoking. Even here where I live where the federal tax centre building is the local news found illegal unmarked cigarettes outside the smoking area! Imagine if in the US the IRS workers on their smoke break smoked illegal cigarettes and just put them out on the ground, ballsy!

http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Mohawks+gangs+tobacco/14...

(PDF) http://www.cisc.gc.ca/annual_reports/documents/2001_annual_r...
Hmm. Some cloud provider ought to provide (for a premium price) guaranteed-identical non-shared configurations... including small groups of machines with uncontended, identical cross-connects.

(I know it's then close to 'dedicated' hosting, but people running benchmarks also want the quick setup and discard of virtualized instances. This would be a hybrid offering that ensures their cloud services is always chosen for such benchmarking comparisons. Of course this offering would not be good for cross-cloud comparisons, because it's not representative of their usual offerings.)
This is what I came here to say- one more reason not mentioned for putting the primary action in the corner is that it's easier to find and fix on with your eyes and the mouse.
Upload it to Vimeo. I know the audience is smaller, but they seem to be much more friendly toward content creators than youtube.
I agree. When it outperforms the rest by a factor of 10-100 to 1, we can all laugh at the irrelevance of benchmarks.
From the article, I understand "Slow Web" to be six paragraphs without getting to the point. Sort of an antithesis to TL;DR. But, now I know about an interesting new noodle shop, and a task list app.
Setting up replication is easy, but re-syncing a broken replication is a pain!
Maybe the Apple HIG <https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/usere...; ?
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This reminds me of the war on terror where it seems everyone is considered a terrorist as if that will solve the problem.

Regular law abiding people are accused of being terrorists and resources are used to chase shadows.

It's the same thing in this situation everyone is guilty unless you can prove you're not, meanwhile the real crooks are nowhere to be found.
It's not accidental, they make money doing this and there is no penalty when they get it wrong, so doing this makes "business sense".

Previous cases:

http://njnnetwork.com/2009/10/associated-press-and-fox-news-...

http://c4sif.org/2012/02/youtube-identifies-birdsong-as-copy...

http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!category-topic/youtu...

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/megaupload-youtube-...

In addition to these media covered cases, I have noticed cases of very old public domain works being seized by corporations with no involvement in their original creation.
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can't beat rvm. Run 3 commands and its done. Automated.

Lazy people can just use the rails version preinstalled on macs (though that's like 2.something)
Does the DMCA have a provision allowing BMF to be sued for improper claim? If so, someone should actually challenge them.
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Would you really get arrested in that case? I'm genuinely curious -- I've made a "mirror_website" console command for myself, so I should probably be careful with that if this is true. =)
get a random version of wuftpd from the archives. it likely has multiple exploits waiting for you, probably even a remote root

if you need some hints, search "wuftpd remote root" to see the form they often take
Who is people and how do you know they do that? I don't think people do that. I feel like Hanlon's razor applies here.
Lua is designed specifically to provide a scripting/extension language for projects in C or C++, or projects where interop with C is key. This is where it really shines -- where most Lisps expect to be the primary language, but have FFIs to C for performance and integration reasons, Lua expects to be used for writing plugins, configuration, and the like. It handles those tasks well, and otherwise stays out of the way.

While it's good as a standalone language, it's an outstanding extension language. It's small, trivially portable, and has excellent interop with C. It's not competition for Lisp in general so much as Emacs Lisp or vimscript, designed for systems that have a core written in C but need a lot of customization layered on top.
Configuration for window managers, scripting enemy behavior for game engines written in brutally optimized C++, that kind of thing. Systems with a "hard and soft layer" architecture (http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?AlternateHardAndSoftLayers). (Incidentally, Tcl was also designed with this use case in mind.)

That said, if you're using Lua as your primary language but are proficient in C, you can add a lot of power to it pretty easily. The emphasis on C interop goes both ways. (Also, the implementation is very intelligently engineered, and is worth study if you're interested in language design or virtual machines.)
The unfortunate thing with mime-types, is that even though you get text/* or image/*, they are not reliable. For example, how do you ask "is this an image I can reliably put into an <img/> tag and have it successfully render?" From what I've seen, the only options are whitelists of specific content types or extensions.
I would try suing for damages, especially if their claims are denying you the ability to make money. I think you might be able to sue for slander as well, since they made the claim that you are stealing licensed material, which will affect your reputation as a producer of original content.
You would in India where I'm at!
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Missouri S&T was voted the most depressed school (or something to that effect) at one point. I don't recall the details, so don't quote me on that one.

http://web.archive.org/web/20070930201652/http://www.slate.c... - Missouri College Students: Are they really that miserable?

"For five of the past nine years, one of the three colleges—the University of Missouri-Columbia, Stephens College, and the University of Missouri-Rolla—has landed at No. 1 on the Princeton Review's list for the school with the 'least happy students.'"

(University of Missouri - Rolla being the former name of Missouri S&T.)
Did BMF actually make a claim? The creator seems to imply that he uploaded the video as a private one so far, which means that BMF can't have made a claim unless corporations are allowed to scan even private videos?

Could this possibly be a case of YouTube mistaking something in the video as similar to something registered to BMF?
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True but the reward is now up to US$20,000 in some cases.

http://www.google.com/about/company/rewardprogram.html
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If the average time to cancel is 61 days, and they waited only 2 months since the changes to calculate the new cancellation rates, it stands to reason that the cancellation rate will rise over the next few months, right?

Assuming a normal distribution (probably not that accurate, but it's just a guess), the final cancellation rate would be about double that measured until now.

Am I missing something here?
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The only time I have ever disabled JS for a website, I've done it because that website broke some UI functionality I expect to work in every page. Most often, what some website does is disable right-click. They must think that is a foolproof way of "protecting" their content, and don't see it as an annoying block that makes people disable JS.

I did try an extension (for Chrome) that prevented sites from disabling right-click, but then out of nowhere it inserted an ad in a page I was viewing, so I removed that extension and went back to blocking JS.
Beware, though, that the effect shown in the video is much stronger than the one described in the article. Several of the comments suspect that the Himba tribe actually has a genetic difference that causes the linguistic one and not the other way around.
“When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.” – Picasso

Dixon goes on to point out that the tension also exists within artists (and practitioners/entrepreneurs) themselves. I too find this to be true. I often like to resolve conceptual impasses by dropping down to more mundane levels, making the parts I understand work for real, and then returning to the conceptual impasse to see if the new perspective doesn't help resolve the problem.

Jumbling "Form and Structure and Meaning" and "cheap turpentine" together in one mind (of a practitioner or a critic) can be surprisingly productive.
I guess he just proved he isn't any wiser, after all :)
I disagree. Uploading to Vimeo is a treatment for the symptom, not the problem. I'm rooting for an internet uproar over this.
post a wall of shame for no shows. honor is worth way more than money, and more effective
> The Go code is set to spin up threads to accomodate the number of CPUs available on the system (2 logical cores on m1.medium).

m1.medium is a single virtual cpu (it is a vm, so no 'cores' to speak of). c1.medium has 2.
I agree with nopassrecover. Could you please provide a citation to research that demonstrates that we innately get depressed when not exposed to sunlight because we can't enjoy color differences as much? That seems to be a pretty audacious statement, and I've never heard it before.