skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So what happens if you search for a domain name on domai.nr and, three days later, you find it has been registered through domai.nr and is available on NameLayer which is domai.nr's premium domain selling service? Would you chalk it up to coincidence, especially if it's a decent name? Or will you write another blog post telling people to never use domai.nr ever again?

GoDaddy was one of the first ones to call attention to domain tasting, later referring to it as domain kiting:

http://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/pdf/100804_letter_iyd.pdf

http://www.dailydomainer.com/200775-domain-tasting-monitorin...

If I, as an anonymous user, search for any of my domains on GoDaddy, I find that they'll offer to let me use their domain buy service to backorder them too, even for domains I've had since the 90's. Without any further evidence, it's impossible to tell whether you actually have a legitimate case (though a sample size of one is hardly statistically significant) or if you simply don't understand how domain registrations work.
Node.js versus Ruby on Rails
Skills in math are skill in seeing patterns and operating abstractions. Those are very very valuable skills, no matter what are you doing.
Speaking from personal experience, 8-10 years for a patent to go from application to being granted is not unreasonable.

That fact alone makes the lag between work being done and a patent available to sue far too long.
If only there was some way to scramble data transmissions so that they would be unreadable to unauthorized adversaries...
Epic humblebrag.
Thanks for sharing this story! :)
As another commenter has pointed out, there's a grace period where they can purchase the domain and cancel it without paying anything.

So it is sustainable, plausible, dirty, and very much in line with Godaddy's track record.
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People don't do backups when warned. People don't change passwords or use password managers when warned. Interestingly enough, people don't stop using GoDaddy when warned.
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Time to start inputting every domain ever into the system.
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Why do people say email is broken?
file fasc6a.ps.gz
fasc6a.ps.gz: gzip compressed data, was "fasc6a.ps", from Unix, last modified: Thu Jul 26 12:45:44 2012, max compression
Braindead tournament - agree.

Interpretation of 4.5 ambiguous - agree, though I think your alternative interpretation is less compelling.

See also 4.16 - "Conducting oneself in a manner that is clearly abusive or detrimental to the sport", again under a reasonable interpretation this was committed, although you could argue that there is some future chain of events where this could be good for the sport I suppose.

The fact that the judge told them to stop and they carried on doesn't go in their favour.

http://www.bwfbadminton.org/file_download.aspx?id=364321&...
How will Google handle a Zuckerberg in its midst?
1. Kill Digg

2. Wait for half the internet to write about it (with new links to digg.com)

3. Put back the old Digg content

4. Wait for half the internet to write about it (with new links to digg.com)

5. Nasdaq Listing/Internet domination???

This strategy should work for all social-media startups. No guarantee of profits though...
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Sorry, that wasn't specific enough, money past my current point isn't a strong motivator for me, since I have relatively cheap tastes and low expenses. Even below market salary for an engineer, being childless, I have such low expenses that I can afford to go on trips and do the other things I want without needing to make more. Obviously, if I couldn't afford good food, I would care a lot more about money and less about doing stuff I enjoy doing. And of course, that might change over time if I ever wanted to buy a house or car or had kids.
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no one uses the whois unix command?
Why are people so quick to dismiss Yahoo Mojito?
All these frameworks only run inside the browser. A little ehh to me, nothing revolutionizing. Yahoo's Mojito is a game changer. It can run in the browser and on the server. And it's SEO friendly!

Really wish Yahoo does a better job at marketing their own framework.
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The blame the victim mentality sprinkled throughout this comment and a few others is the problem have with them.

"Not at all to excuse the behavior, but..."
"I'm not excusing inappropriate or damaging behavior. It is important, though..."

Those sentences should end before you go on to give the impression that we just have to accept that sexual assault/harassment is going to happen when a room is dominated by men. There is no good reason why grown men who happen to be some of the brightest minds in computer security should be excused from treating their female peers with the same respect that they would want for themselves or their own daughters, wives, mothers, and aunts.

Your comment seems to suggest otherwise, because "In a conference of mostly lonely males..." hey what do those women expect? Apparently, they should have had more "situation awareness". It reminded me of the common victim blaming argument "she shouldn't have dressed like that if she didn't want the (bad) attention".
The underlying point is that this is part of a systemic, larger problem with many men and how they relate to women..hacker or no.
As others mentioned, zsh is compatible enough with bash to make switching relatively painless. There are many areas of zsh that are dramatically better, but the one that can make you fly is the fancy globbing that zsh has. More or less, you never need the 'find' tool when using zsh. For example, if I want to find all the Makefiles in this or child directories that have the string 'abc' and have been modified less than 1 hour ago, I can do

$ grep -l abc **/Makefile(mh-1)

If I want to look at the most-recently-modified file, I can

$ less *(om[1])

If I have a symlink 'dir' that points to a directory and I want to cd to the pointed-to directory, I can

$ cd dir(:A)

Clearly, there are lots of codes, but you don't need to remember them, since the tab-completion gives you online help. I can type the '(' then press 'tab', and it'll give me a list of the various codes that can follow and what they mean.

There are tons of others. If I want all

*

EXCEPT

*.h

I can use

'*~*.h'

Or for instance, say I have a directory of photos. I want to pick DSC00095.jpg through DSC00107.jpg. In bash, you cry; in zsh I say

DSC<95-107>.jpg.

After I've typed in the glob, I can press 'tab', and it'll expand the glob in-place, letting me know if the code worked without executing. I can then undo to get the code back and have it live in my history.

There are plenty of other non-globbing-related features of zsh that make it worth looking at, but this is one that doesn't get as much press as it deserves.
A reexam request requires new prior art. You can't use what USPTO evaluated improperly (rms argued public prior art databases are a bad idea for this reason) and you're out of luck if it was something so obvious that nobody bothered writing it down. It also costs thousands of dollars per patent with no refund for winning.
Actually, the real issue is that they're breaking their implicit promise to refrain from competing against the outside developers they rely on to improve their "open" ecosystem.
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I'd say more than 75% of the registrars do this.
Here's a fresh example: http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml12/12234.html

Now buckyballs are mortal hazard and have to be banned. They are marked 13+, but who cares - it's obvious that it's fun, thus has to be banned by federal government.
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OSX actually has been shipping for a while now with a decent Tibetan font.

Unfortunately Windows' Tibetan font ("Microsoft Himalaya") is in a disappointing state.

See the mashed up letters on row 3, letters 3 and 4 from the left:
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fonts/family.aspx?FID=32...

The link to purchase the font links to a 3rd party they commissioned the font from, but they no longer seem to sell it.

If you have an OSX and a Windows computer you can compare the font support between them here:
http://www.unicode.org/charts-6.1.0beta/script/chart_Tibetan...

Symbols 0FC5 - 0FC8 are especially poor and almost unrecognizable.

Many letters are missing from 0F75 - 0FBC, which are used for Sanskrit transliteration into Tibetan.
Does your resume look like this?
I'd say that it would be quite the coincidence if this obscure and very specific domain was registered within 24hrs by GoDaddy, completely by chance.
Its very nicely coded and credit to the author, but I think people might infer from your description something more than its actually doing, which is basically 'brute force' - trying every combination and crossing them off when they fail (hence your quoted code above).

The alternative approach would be to work like humans do, looking for the next 'right' square (rather than this, which looks for the next 'wrong' combination). This would be much more difficult but would solve the hard problems much faster and computationally elegantly (though its only a matter of seconds anyway!).

[EDIT] I created an derivative version in ruby for anyone who is interested (42 lines of code - probably could be shorter) - http://pastebin.com/ecjQzzU6
For example they can wait in a neighbourhood until an order comes in so they don't need to drive back to base.

I don't think people have fully thought through the impact of this yet.

A year ago I dared to suggest on HN that self-driving cars could potentially cause congestion (because it would be cheaper for an electric car to sit stationary traffic rather than paying for a park).

Back then I was downvoted to oblivion. I hope now people think it through a bit more.
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Where exactly is this 'implicit promise'? It's implied. Implication is in the eye of the reader/understander, not the stater/provider.
Did they even try to approach Google about this investment? Article mentioned a bunch of telecoms, but not Google, who is getting into fiber infrastructure in a big way and for whom $400m is chump change.
>Hacker’s first main point is that math is difficult, and the poor grades that result prevent too many people from graduating high school or college.

Yeah, great plan. Dumb down high school and college even further so even a monkey can end up with a BA. Then we'll all have great jobs.
Project page with many videos, including entire talks given by one of the authors here: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ILIM/projects/IL/smartHeadlight/

The project is still in the academic research phase and I don't think they're quite as far as actually implementing it in a car in the wild, although they're moving ahead with it as fast as they can, so they might have actually done this recently. It won an award at the last International Conference on Computational Photography (ICCP) because it's just such a cool idea, and it seems like it might actually be feasible to some degree (even despite all the issues people have mentioned here and elsewhere). At ICCP, it was still in simulation and prototype-with-rain-machine-in-the-lab mode.

Btw I highly recommend watching the ICCP talk, available to watch from that webpage, or for download here: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ILIM/projects/IL/smartHeadlight/media...
I am working an a domain search service that solves this problem.

We make it impossible for our servers to know your domain searches. We also clearly explain how, so you can verify yourself.

Contact me for beta access.
I've been doing a bit of research, trying to find some github repositories that would be fun to fork and fiddle around with. Can you suggest some?
I had the same problem 2 years ago - http://cl.ly/ITnW
He checked on a domain name, it wasn't registered. He waited 3 days, and someone else registered it through Godaddy (most popular registrar.. so he's not the only person who uses it). Godaddy offered to help make an offer to the person who purchased it.

He doesn't say Godaddy OWNS it.. someone else registered the domain through Godaddy. BFD.

What is the complaint?

I'm not a fan of Godaddy (I'm moving all my domains to name.com).. but he doesn't have a complaint here.

If you liked the domain you should have bought it.
I guess it depends on how many emails you receive per day. Works fine for me, but I'm not sure once you're over 100 per day...
Do you know if this is standard practice or just GD?

Also, will this kick in if you search using something like http://bustaname.com (I'm assuming they query the whoIS database directly, but I'm not sure)
It's most of the time coincidence. Especially with GoDaddy being the largest registrar. Millions of customers and two people had the same idea.
Your blog post says that it was registered through GoDaddy. That's not surprising as (last I checked) they are the largest registrar and of the millions of domain names registered a month, it's altogether likely that your domain name was one of the several hundred thousand that were registered through GoDaddy in that three day period.

However, you now claim it was registered by GoDaddy, not through GoDaddy? Your lack of precision in your terminology and the fact that you don't reveal the domain name for anyone to verify isn't helping your case.
He is not claiming that godaddy is doing what netsol did. He's saying, I checked on a domain, and 3 days later someone else registered it through Godaddy.

He doesn't have a claim to every name he searches for.

If he liked it, he should have bought it.
I agree. Although not a big fan of GoDaddy, I have both searched and purchased tons of domains with them and atleast to my knowledge, they don't put a hold on the searched domains. You can do a simple experiment: search for the domain "acmenewdomain.com" in Godaddy, wait for a few mins/hours and see if it is available at say Gandi.net.
However, I can't say the same about Network Solutions.

For the paranoid, just do a whois lookup yourself. If you have a linux machine edit your .profile and add "alias whoise=/root/whoise" to it. Then create a file /root/whoise and insert the following line into it

whois $1 | grep -i exp.*:

Now whenever you want to check for a domain's availability, just execute "whoise domain.com". If you receive a blank response, it is available otherwise it returns the current expiration for the domain.
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I am a python beginner, just completed the Udacity CS101 course, primarily to learn python. Can you suggest any github repositories that would be fun to to fork and fiddle around with, and hence be fun to learn with?
I understand that i should have bought it at the time (see the preface to my post - "Although this is untimately my fault") I have trouble believing that the domain was purchased by another individual because of it's obscurity, and that is the reason I'm kinda annoyed I can't have it.
Several registrars practice this, sadly.
"What we do:" - that was a really good laugh. You guys should honestly make that into a shirt. Good luck!
Not everyone is on Unix. Whois doesn't ship with Windows, but it can still be downloaded at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897435.asp....
That's actually a pretty good idea. I'm sure there are some implementation problems I haven't thought of yet, and ways for companies to get around it, but on the face of it a really good idea.
He did not say it was available on Godaddy's auction service. He said Godaddy offered to help him send an offer to the person who purchased it.

That's not the same thing at all.

This guy does not have a complaint at all. He does not have a right to every domain he searches for but refuses to buy.
Here's Vic Gundotra's take on this:
https://plus.google.com/107117483540235115863/posts/EstNjiL2...
They once screwed me for a domain in their auction. They hold my money for 45 days to refund after my credit card company sued them. They customer service is also horrible. Never ever I will use their services.
I think the title says what's necessary. But if it did link to such a page (there is no such page that describes just this release that I found by googling the url) someone would complain that it's just blogspam, post the download link in their comment, and get upvotes. There were tweets I found that reference it, who knows what sort of anger that would have generated if the submitter linked to a tweet. (There's already discomfort on this page over Knuth just using the word 'tweet'!)
One of the Chinese players says she will quit badminton. Her weibo about it has been "retweeted" 50,000 times. Sad situation.

http://t.qq.com/yuyangyumaoqiu/
If you liked it you shoulda put a ring on it (aka domains are cheap, buy them and worry about the idea later)
But there are tens of thousands of people doing this sort of idle search, then later register attempt, all the time.

Even incredibly unlikely coincidences will turn up occasionally (and then trigger blog speculation). Without more evidence, coincidence is still a highly likely explanation here.
Sorry about that, a burst of traffic seemingly got Cloudflare banned from accessing the Google App Engine backend.
This has happened to me before. Millions of names being registered, and sometimes more than one person has the same idea.

Which is why now days if I find a domain that I think I might use, but am not entirely sure about it, I waste the $8.

Chalk it up to lesson learned.
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I'm not sure about patents, but at least with copyright the judge in the Righthaven case ruled that Righthaven lacked standing to sue because they didn't have exclusive rights to the copyright.
It is gz-compressed, but (1) your browser might decompresses it on the fly after seeing the "Content-Encoding: x-gzip" and (2) most postscript viewers decompress on the fly as gzipped postscript is so prevalent.

$ curl -s http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/fasc6a.ps.gz | dd bs=16 count=1 | xxd

0000000: 1f8b 0808 689e 1150 0203 6661 7363 3661 ....h..P..fasc6a
Forcing rooms of teenagers to factor cubic polynomials for hours on end is pointless, of course; these essayists fail to consider that pointlessness might be the point of school, as it is of boot camp. Read John Gatto instead.
He doesn't claim that it happening here. He said: I searched for a domain, and 3 days later someone else registered it.

He has no complaint here. He has no right to domains he simply searched for but refused to buy.
I was thinking about this earlier, and it occurred to me that "expect" has two meanings in a way.

I expect companies to not act ethically. In other words, I think of myself as a realist and this just seems to be how companies are going to act.

On the other hand, I expect them to act ethically. Meaning ethical behaviour is the behaviour that I demand from them.

Like when a parent says to their teenage kid who refuses to study for an exam, "Well I expect you to get an A". They don't expect that, but they do expect that of them.

Maybe these two sorts of "expect" get shorted out when corporations enter the picture? On the other hand, perhaps the expectation of a corporation in both senses really is sociopathic behaviour. All that "duty to the shareholders" crap...
Spot on! Take Scott Thompson, disgraced former CEO of Yahoo. In an announcement, Thompson said he was leaving Yahoo due to his health problems... that least very shortly because soon after he joined ShopRunner. So you have a perfect example of a guy that lied on his resume, as well as during his exit. Liar always liar?
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For whatever reason that I happened to lose this domain, the lesson is obviously now learned... Next time I will most definitely snap it up when the opportunity presents itself.
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groping strangers is actually a crime.
It's more like a donation. When angels invest in startups, they're hoping a few pay off so well that they make up for all the others. Kickstarter projects can't offer that with no equity, so the expected value is negative.
I also use it for wkhtmltopdf http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/ , is the only decent solution that works with javascript pages and from almost all languages : python , ruby , php
I was about to ask the same thing. How good is Dojo? This seems to be a complete framework with widgets support. How does this differ from the frameworks discussed above? When should I choose one over the other group?
"Thus you seem to be arguing that excellence at math is the sine qua non of an educated person -- it is a defining characteristic."

No[1]. I am saying that a person who is on a path to being educated won't let something as simple as algebra stand in their way.

The context is that some people are failing in pretty major ways in life, and the question is whether that's due to algebra requirements or not. I say that's ridiculous -- nobody that's on a path toward education will give up because of something as simple as algebra... there are other problems going on there that we are not seeing. And we should be grateful that algebra does show us that the student has fallen off the path to education, and we should be trying to identify that situation even earlier.

I am willing to be proven wrong empirically, if you can make the case that some significant fraction of people are well on their way to an education, but then it gets derailed because of an algebra requirement.

[1] I am inclined to believe that algebra (or something very similar) is fundamental to an education, particularly those parts of an education that involve reasoning, but I don't state that as a fact or even my opinion.

"Conversely, we can also conclude that you are trying to have those benefits removed from people who are different from you."

No, you can't. There are a long string of false assumptions and logical flaws in your post. You should reflect on your own reading and writing.
GoDaddy explicitly states they do not practice domain name front running: http://support.godaddy.com/godaddy/you-can-trust-go-daddy-wi...
Just curious: how did you find this? I don't see a link to it anywhere on Knuth's website. The only reference I can find to it is on Twitter[1].

[1] https://twitter.com/pervognsen/status/230892091188846592
For most people, it works well as it is. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Congrats to Tog+Porter for their write-up this weekend in SF Gate: http://www.sfgate.com/style/stylebytes/article/Tog-Porter-ma... Looks cool.
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