skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not necessarily, it depends on how high in the clouds of high fashion you go. To the consumer level (expensive but not as over the top as some) then there's a trickle down of borrowing styles and themes from the top designers.

Plus something being really exclusive to a certain group of the population can have a massive effect on lust for another group of the population.
Except, it's not going to be $100, it's going to be $2000, because the hosting provider has an incentive to report as high a RevenueLossDuringTakedownProcess as they can get away with. A lot of small artists are not going to be able to lock up $2000 at several sites.
Good read. I don't think you were controversial :-)

Spotted a wee typo about 1/2 way down:

>> LRU works by evicting less commonly used data in preference of more frequently used data

For this question:

>> Does anyone know of recognized tools which solve this problem?

BMC's Control-M product manages this fairly easily, although it is easy to let the workflow become unweildy with that product in my experience. AutoSys fairs a little better for this use case.

Open source wise I guess you could use PBS or something of that ilk to replicate. I think though an ideal architecture for this problem wouldn't be what's currently available.

I think a hot-hot message queue with deduplication would be a better approach. You can afford then to have multiple hosts submit an appropriately named job and the first node on the other side of the queue to successfully lease the message wins the right to run the task contained within. If it fails to complete the next node leases the task.

It would require some consideration about ensuring integrity of the message and authentication requirements for publishers.
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Excuse the naivety but what's the issue?
This is the basics guide that the main jQuery site desperately needs on theirs. Great job. Slick implementation of Bootstrap.
I wrote a similar library for abstracting client-side threading called Commune.js:

https://github.com/dmotz/commune.js

It takes a different approach and avoids using eval.
Design matters even when it's not art. There's a great little documentary called "Objectified". It's worth watching if you want to see a rebuttal for your opinion.
Probably good news for Canada too as we export a lot of trees to the US.
Really, the only reason why fan noise is ever a problem is because GPUs got the short end of the stick with ATX form factor - two or three expansion slots doesn't really give enough volume or cross-sectional area to hold the kind of heatsink and quiet fan that CPUs get. Since high-end GPUs are 250+ watts and high-end CPUs are only 130W, we ought to be giving the GPUs the wind-tunnel treatment and use the smaller down-blowing fans on the CPU.
I considered GoDaddy a long time ago, then I saw that they were using Microsoft DNS servers and steered clear of them. Glad I did.
Yes, but there's more than one fashion house or car company that people imitate. It's not like everyone is wearing obvious Versace knock-offs and driving Ferrari clones.

As much as I love my Apple products and will probably continue to buy them, I wish some other people were coming out with interesting ideas that would gain traction.
The distinction (I believe the original quote is Picasso, and the difference is that the great steal while others borrow) is that once you've STOLEN an idea your version is so much better than what you took the whole thing becomes YOURS. Borrowing an idea means that your version ends up simply looking like a lame attempt to copy the older idea, and people prefer the older idea.

So while there were GUIs before the Mac, once Apple had stolen their ideas and transformed them the stuff that had come before simply looked like crap. Similarly previous attempts, including by Apple, to create tablet devices look like crap beside the iPad.
I love their latest tweet (1:35pm Eastern):

Status Alert: Hey, all. We're aware of the trouble people are having with our site. We're working on it.

That understates things by several orders of magnitude. It's not just their site that is down, it's their domain name servers, so most websites that bought their domain from GoDaddy are unreachable (unless you are working off of cached domain data).
Well, you're already in the midst of downtime, so you have a head start.

Aside from that, focus on two concepts: TTL and overlap.

1) On your old host, lower the TTL of all your records to something quite low, like 30 seconds. This will increase the burden on your nameservers, since records will only be cached that long, but it will make you more nimble as you make substantial changes.

2) Migrate your records over to the new provider. This can be a bit tedious for more complex zones, but rather straight-forward for many. Change your nameserver on your local machine to point to your new DNS host, just to test in a "real-world" scenario.

Then go to your registrar and flip the switch.

Switching DNS providers is much less prone to downtime than changing web hosts, since the records themselves aren't changing much -- just where to find them.

If you're switching registrars, the principal is similar, setting the TTL quite low during the transition to help you make changes more quickly should something go wrong.
I think pointing out the Xerox Star is sufficient to make my point.

I agree that it's important that you can pin my argument down though so hopefully this will make it clear: HP's copying of the iMac is not much different from Apple's copying of the Xerox Star. The two main differences are that a) Apple copied a huge amount from Xerox and HP seem to just have copied the UI rather superficially and the end result seems mediocre and b) America has software patents now.
$50 a month for DNS hosting? Even $50 a year sounds like too much. I'd take a gander at Amazon's Route 53:

http://aws.amazon.com/route53/#pricing
We've been migrating people to internet.bs
Once you pay for the transfer, you can set up all the DNS records, so when everything transfers over it is already configured.
You are right. I deserved it, and I feel ashamed... I will move the domains I have there away tomorrow.
If you are only using them for DNS (and assuming their DNS works again) you can simply setup the new dns somewhere but not switch the DNS at your registrar. Until the dns is working at the new dns provider (and you would query it to find that out).

Example:

1) setup amixdomain.com at, say, zoneedit.com (not recommending them just using as an example).

2) Wait a bit, say several hours then use a dns utility like the one at kloth.net to query the two zoneedit.com dns servers directly. If both of them answer for your domain you are in good shape. I don't know what the lag is until zoneedit reloads their dns. It could be in a minute or it could take longer (which is why you can just wait).

Or you can use the OSX (or equivalent on other platforms) dig tool from the command line as follows, using ycombinator.com as an example:

Edit: What I meant to say was "if you have a mac open a terminal session and use dig" sorry for seeming to implying that dig is an OSX tool.

dig @NS1.EASYDNS.COM ycombinator.com 'A'

yc's servers are, so I picked one. You want to query all the dns servers:

Name Server: NS1.EASYDNS.COM

Name Server: NS2.EASYDNS.COM

Name Server: NS3.EASYDNS.ORG

Name Server: NS6.EASYDNS.NET

Name Server: REMOTE1.EASYDNS.COM

Name Server: REMOTE2.EASYDNS.COM

3) After the dns is active at zoneedit.com change the dns to the nameservers zoneedit.com gives you (change at your current registrar). You should have no downtime (since the old and new nameservers are answering with the same results.
>Steve Jobs is saying it is easy to copy. But if you're great, you steal the fundamental idea and do something totally new with it.

Is there an extended version of the linked video? I don't know where you got "and do something totally new with it" from his original quote. How did you extrapolate his true intent from the provided quote?

>Thats "stealing" -- doing something for which there is nothing comparable on the market, in Steve Jobs view.

That is certainly not the accepted definition of the word. I still don't understand how you've managed to take Steve Jobs words and claim they're a metaphor for "innovation". In what world are invent, innovate and steal synonymous?
GoDaddy might not have been in the news for a few months, but their issues are well documented. If I had been the one to post I would have added links like you suggested, but when choosing someone to do business with it's prudent to find out if they're a shady company. A Google search will present their issues right up front.

Citing sources for your opinion is good practice, I agree, but so is independent due diligence.
CloudFlare offers free DNS services with a great UI. It also makes it trivial to enable/disable their accelerator/security proxy services.
Interesting how many of us here mention some concept of an idea log across media such as wikis, paper notebooks, text files, the web, and others.

My own implementation is a journal, each day in its own plain text file. I track the major milestones in my day and prefix ideas with "Idea: " so that I could easily grep all ideas into one list if needed. (However, I haven't done that yet. I tend to let them sit and incubate rather than act immediately.)

I'm curious about 3 things:

(1) What motivated the start of such behavior for others?

(2) How do you react to your idea log with respect to balancing focus between current projects / work, and speculative projects?

(3) How do others account for visuals such as sketches or interface ideas which are often easier to create with analog tools?
The headline confused me, then I checked the article and laughed.

Seriously, though, I'm really curious what HP is thinking here. I honestly can't imagine Apple not suing them over this. I'm not agreeing or disagreeing with it, but after the Samsung/Apple iPhone lawsuit, it's pretty obvious Apple is going to defend their design IP in court.

It just seems like HP is inviting a big headache when there's a lot of other designs they could have used. Heck, they'll need to sell a lot of these just to cover their lawyer costs.
False. Apple obtained a license from Xerox for the technology being developed at PARC by selling them pre-IPO Apple shares.
Further, by bringing this up, you are trying to say that Apple copied Xerox years ago, which is a form of trying to say "its ok to copy apple or steal their technology because apple did it in the past".
Which is silly because if it was wrong for Apple to do it, as you imply, it is also wrong for HP or Samsung to do it, as you are trying to justify.
Further, when you tell a falsehood like this-- one that you really, if you're at all informed on the issue, would know is a falsehood, you impeach your own integrity.
I think "x is down" posts are relativley meaningless anyway. For many (especially the larger) services with multiple components,spread over many servers and data centers, what does it really mean to be down? If I can't sign in is it down? If nobody on the west coast of Canada can get in, is it down? If you can read, but not post is it down - if the front end is up but the database is not, is it down?

It's pretty rare that 'gmail is down'... much more likely that x% of gmail users are having issues. Let's save the 'x is down' post for when it really is 'down'.
Actually I'd preferred something object oriented with option to ignore existing and make all intermediate parts Path.make(force=False)

2nd choice: makedir(force=False)

3rd choice: makedir() and makedirs()

Never ever would I want/expect two related functions one abbreviated one not. Yes, I know history of why it's called mkdir. Should learn from history, not repeat it.
I once wrote a program that stored complex rules in a database (what was required for different types of legal documents, in thousands of different jurisdictions across the country). The table names I used made the relations obvious, but they were long.

A few years after I left that job, I briefly ended up back at that company on a contract assignment - for a different project, under a new development manager. At one point, I had to pull some data from the database, and had no problem finding the information I needed, or how to connect it together.

The dev manager joked about the long table names (not knowing I was the source of them). But when I asked him if any of his current developers had trouble finding the information they needed, or understanding the relations, he said, "No, they just get tired of typing them."

That's just one anecdote, but I'm going to stick with long, descriptive names.
I do care what my kit looks like.

Part of my consideration of price of the Apple kit I purchased was that it is prettier than a lot of other kit. I spend most of my life looking at it so I'd prefer it to be pleasing to the eye.
LOTS (they don't read HN)
Only if they bought from GoDaddy & also host their DNS there. If you host your DNS elsewhere (eg Dreamhost) your site is still up right now.

Most people who buy from GoDaddy probably host their DNS there as well though.
This is great, I love the feel of this and the value it creates (which I'd describe as "live structured conversations").

Here's some suggestions, keep in mind these are essentially my personal opinions:

-Try putting some thought into making the functionality a little more intuitive, by this I mean to try and not necessitate having to hover too much to discover functionality. As a designer I know how difficult this is to do without spoiling aesthetics, so good luck (but I think you need to do this).

-Host this as a SaaS and make money, I image businesses would love to use this as a way to gather user feedback and talk to users.

-Categories would be nice. Right now it's just one "board" (in the traditional "online forum" sense where the set hierarchy is forum>board>thread>post). I'd find it cool if I could say visit a "sports" category, or a "Tech" category, and especially a "Hacker news" one. Think subreddits.

-The "navigation" is a little unintuitive, on the left column where it says "Threads", "Lists", "Users". When in threads mode, the other modes are listed underneath it, suggesting that they form a child relationship to Threads, whereas they're really siblings.

-I'd dispense with the little arrows under "Home" on the left column, and move the refresh button onto the same line as the Create and Home links/buttons. It doesn't really add anything. Up and down could be implemented using infinite scrolling and would be more intuitive. Left and right could be replaced by making aggregating all the different views ("My threads", "Users", "Replies", etc.) into a flyout or dropdown list, accessible by hovering the currently active mode title. This would also mean you could dispense with the 3 bottons on the bottom left next to the settings button.

-Speaking of that settings button, it doesn't have much to do with searching, instead I'd move it closer to the "user button", which you don't really have but will definitely need. Opening the user pane on the right, and then clicking the username to reveal "log out", etc. isn't easy to find.

-You probably don't need all the corner hovers, they don't really do anything useful IMHO.

-Fluid layout so it works well on mobile devices

-The reading mode is cool but you probably don't need it everywhere.

Good luck, I love the idea. Hope this goes somewhere.
But with self-publishing mechanisms we no longer need the record labels to risk all that money to produce bands that will likely fail. Now people can just put stuff on youtube, most will fail, but some like Justin Bieber, and Skrillex will get noticed.
Reports webOS incorrectly.
Notice how "godaddy.com" appears at the beginning of each of those and not the end? Does that tell you anything?
Homebrew apps on the PSP had a similar thing. The d-pad selected a letter group, and the circle, square, etc. buttons selected the letter within that group.
>The first is SECURITY BARRIER and LEAKPROOF which gives us an ability to rethink how to multi-tenant applications

It doesn't really let us re-think it does it? It just closes a hole in how you would have typically done it anyways. Is there any way to solve the problem of having to create a new connection as company_X_user for every single request?
As a consumer, I couldn't care less. Android makes dropdown notification screen: good feature -> apple steals it -> yay. Apple makes slide to unlock: good feature -> android steals it -> yay. Honestly I'm more frustrated when the don't incorporate good ideas: Win7 & Ubuntu unity have awesome keyboard window management features and when I use OSX I find myself wondering why the hell Apple hasn't stolen these features yet. They are good features, your OS is WORSE for not having them (i.e. it's not just a "design choice" imo, window management/tiling is simply worse on Mac). I wish some pc manufacturer would rip off the MPB as faithfully as possible so I could have a decent linux notebook!

Listen to Steve Jobs v1, steal good ideas! Furthermore, this article only speaks to superficial "features", i.e. the look of the box, so I care even less. Insofar as it hurts consumers by confusing them, it's bad, otherwise I say steal and steal alike.

Assuming consumers are not confused/misled, is there any harm to consumers posed by this sort of copying?
The status page is actually unreachable, as the domain name does not resolve :-).
Looks like they're probably talking about Tensile strength. (http://www.celluforce.com/en/product_properties.php)
DNS seems to be a universally bad service. It seems to be what everyone skimps on.
It silently executes arbitrary code from a remote server.
The shadow of the mike's been left on the cheek and there's some fairly obvious photoshopping of the wire on the ear and the t-shirt.

They've also removed the red-eye and spruced up his eyes.
If you're desperate to save space (or creating thumbnails), Windows/C# devs can lossily cut down PNGs to 256 color/8-bit using nQuant http://nquant.codeplex.com/

Matt Wrock documented the creation of the tool, including details on the approaches taken by tools like OptiPNG: http://www.mattwrock.com/post/2011/09/05/Convert-32-bit-PNGs...
I would consider "plausible" and "ludicrous" to be mutually exclusive.
I do use a domain registrar for domain registering, and a DNS hoster for DNS hosting. From my - limited - experience it's not a good idea to have this with one service provider (registrars have not 100% uptime, DNS hosters are limited with domains or expensive)

For DNS hosting I'm currently happy with

http://www.dnsmadeeasy.com/
Since they are one off prints, that can bump the price up a bit. Especially when you include shipping and all that. So I don't find it that expensive.
Issuing inordinately long-lived certificates might not be the best security decision. To put it another way, "infinity" is not the appropriate lifetime for a 4096-bit cert.
" I would've thought you could simply set up your various DNS records in advance with the new service you use, and then switch the nameservers in the GoDaddy control panel."

Yes, see my comment.

"does anyone have any experience of using them?"

I don't but it wouldn't be a bad idea to setup other servers (as secondaries) at another provider. The only downside to this is that you are then susceptible to anything that happens at the extra provider (not if they don't answer or are down, but if your dns gets hacked there.) Keeping my previous statement in mind, if you are picking a reliable dns vendor I would say it probably pays to setup secondaries elsewhere for extra redundancy. It's not that expensive to do.
This is a strawman. When have you ever heard someone say "Let's choose short variable names! Screw readability!" ?

I don't buy that short variable names are necessarily less clear. I think the ideal is to find variable names that are terse and clear. And I'm strongly in the camp that believes that brevity aids clarity.
That's not really the same at all: hardware design and software design are very different legally. Apple didn't copy the physical design of the Xerox Star, whereas it's pretty clear that HP are 'inspired' by the iMac here.

Industrial design and software design are rather different.
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lookin' good! scouting the map is a great way to get the creative juicing flowing.
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Moving DNS servers can usually be done with no downtime. All you need to do is copy your current dns records to a new provider and then change the name servers. Keep your old DNS configuration up at least for a few days.

Gradually clients will switch over to the new DNS servers, but as long as both servers resolve to the same IP you should be fine.
It's a damn catchy tune. Breeds ear worms pretty easily.
You are asking developers to download a shell script from $random_site and run it immediately without any thoughts whatsoever as to what effects it might have.

Getting people used to that is a bad idea.
damn! my bussines is down!!!
Is the Wikipedia article then also incorrect when it states clearly that the shares were exchanged to get a visit NOT A LICENSE: "In return for the right to buy US$1,000,000 of pre-IPO stock, Xerox granted Apple Computer three days access to the PARC facilities."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Apple_Inc.#Xerox_PAR...
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Apple licensed the technology that it "copied" from Xerox. Are you suggesting that HP has licensed the loc of the iMac from Apple?
This bubbles up every time one of these arguments appears, bear in mind industrial design around that point was heavily constrained by toolchains and what could be manufactured. This does not give Apple a free pass, they could have picked different colour plastic, or different proportions or a dozen other things.

Manufacturing has improved massively in 30 years, that's why the argument is about now and not then.
Yeah, Apple clearly invented plastic and shapes.
Slightly related: Alternative jQuery Documentation http://jqapi.com/
There's a picture entitled "Sunlight, NeXT. Sonoma, California, 1986." with the text "At tech startups it was rare to get outside or even see the sun for days at a time. A young NeXT employee working on an original Macintosh at a company retreat focuses on the task at hand."

But to me, the device clearly looks like a Macintosh SE, which wasn't manufactured until 1987.
picsofwords.com appears to be down: http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/picsofwords.com
Apple took a design that was made 40 years ago and used it in their products. Ofcourse, Apple is not in radio or toaster business. It may be correct from the eye of a lawyer. But, if you show both these designs to someone who is neither affiliated apple or technology what would they think? It looks like a blatant copy to me. I'm pretty sure a lot of people would agree. We should not confuse good marketing with innovation.
I don't find that makes much difference in practice because most developers learn about the good parts of JavaScript early on and so ignore these things.
It doesn't work the other way because of temporal constraints, not causality. A person's creativity happens before their longevity is determined. Similarly, you wouldn't write "election predicts poll results."

That said, if I was looking at records of the deceased and first discovered a person's age at time of death, then I could use the correlation to predict that I am likely to further find that they were creative.
Millions of normal not-too-savvy folks use GoDaddy because to them it's synonymous with domain registration. They profoundly do not deserve their sites to be down for that.

For shame.
Canada is at the forefront here. Technology to mass produce NCC was developed by Domtar, and the largest plant is based in Windsor Quebec.
https://www.dnspod.com is a good FREE dns provider, focusing on domain/record management, you can have a try;