skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
EDIT: fixed DNS IP.

Technically, there may be an advantage to using a 'closer' DNS server with 'less hops', but many national ISPs don't push DNS servers to all POPs. DNS infrastructure at large ISPs tends to be heavily loaded and is scaled based on demand.

It's common, and many wifi routers do this for you by default, to run a local caching nameserver which uses some other ISP nameservers as 'forwarders'. You create less demand upstream as well as getting faster response if you do this.

Obviously you should also be concerned about creating load on DNS services provided by someone you have no relationship with. Some might even consider it rude.

In addition to OpenDNS, Google runs free DNS servers at 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4, but obviously there are concerns with relying upon Google to provide all of the internet's infrastructure.

What we should really all be talking about is decentralized, peer-to-peer DNS, or a system of forwarders we all provide from places like Linode and DigitalOcean, both of which I've used to provide off-site secondary and tertiary DNS for large networks. We should be looking at NameCoin, not just leeching off some other random ISP.
How true - a death march project of absurd scope driven by the ego of a tyrannical leader forcing you to use a technology you have barely any experience of, or interest in, taking you away from your real passion and expertise under threat of destitution.

You slave away day in day out through illness, injury and 1000 anxieties but, as someone once said... artists ship :)
Personally I think that the only reasonable choice for DNS is to use a local caching dns like unbound or dnscache.
Storm is generally more of a dataflow "per event" real/near time computation system (with each event flowing through N spouts and bolts) whereas Spark is more of an in-memory data processing system (with Spark streaming being the "equivalent" to the storm system).
Being the Best Unsuccessful Indie
I want those short ties. That's awesome.
At my first real admin job I had root on an E6500 machine and really thought I was the shit.
« They also keep permanent logs of all queries, which could be subpoenaed by a government entity. Their joke of a privacy policy allows them to sell your logs to "Affiliated Businesses", which pretty much means anybody. Not that it really matters - they could amend their privacy policy tomorrow morning and be selling your info by the afternoon.» -- seizurebattlerobot
http://beta.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1297613&cid=2864072...
RailsConf 2014
CMS's won for a reason. I used to admin a Collage install, inherited from an acquisition. What a piece of shit that experience was for all involved. On top of it, everything dynamic had to be tacked on in a 90's web style with certain pages being dynamic, a bit for discussion, a different bit for login, a different bit for whatever, etc. A CMS is at least one system and these things are treated as plugins as opposed to 20 different vendors and whatever hackey scripting to keep everything talking to everything else. Even end users could see how rickety the whole production was. There's something to be said about a central monolithic structure with plugins vs a collection of scripts and html.

Deployment was usually frustrating and broke in non-obvious ways. Deploying a non-trivial Collage site was like gambling.

The experience of switching to Drupal was like night and day. Any bullshit concerns about performance were taken care of with just Varnish or a caching plugin. I can't imagine going back to an SSG and an ecosystem of disparate webapps to make it a usable website. Heck, even my side projects with Wordpress are like switching from a Model T to a Tesla compared to dealing with an SSG. Maybe SSG's are fun for sites with low requirements, but once you have a non-trivial set of features to support, then you're doing extra work and experiencing extra pain that a CMS wouldn't give you.

Also your coworkers wont be cursing your name after you leave them a patchwork of barely held together code in your wake to make the SSG based site do dynamic things CMS's find trivial. Especially if they come from a CMS background.
It works beautifully on a touch screen. The only downside being that you can only zoom a very short distance. It is otherwise perfect on mobile.
So... because X problem is worse in Y context, we should not solve X problem in Z context?
Why not limit anonymous accounts? For instance: a time limit on anonymously created URLs. If I'm just trying out the service or running a demo remotely, changing the URL after an hour isn't a big deal. If I'm sending out phishing emails, I would be disappointed if all my links broke after an hour.

Then if ngrok seems useful except for those damn limits, I can just give you more information and get them removed.
One supposed virtue of this ice is that it's clear, if you want to make perfectly clear ice yourself, this instructable has instructions on how you can build an insulated ice maker that will do that for a few bucks (in addition to the instructions on making a good iceball maker):

http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-make-an-ice-ball-make...
When I was a kid, my parents took me to Disney World. It was a long time ago, childhood amnesia and so on, so forgive the fuzzy details here... But basically, they had a very early version of virtual reality (a headset a la Oculus Rift). They chose the same imagery, so I was immersed in the Sistine Chapel. I remember being deeply impressed at the time (although I was a kid, so who knows how great it actually was). Regardless, I have never been to Italy and have wanted to go ever since that experience.
Did you miss this part?

>are endangering public health, such as by breeding antibiotic resistance.

Yeah, because every asshole with a sniffle should not be able to self medicate with antibiotics.
I'll have to disagree on shutting down the FDA. It's purview goes well beyond medication and into medical devices as well as food production, of course. Not having a trusted authority (central or not) to vet and evaluate products for human consumption can return things to the days of Snake Oil.

I do agree that the FDA is largely ineffective at preventing people from doing things to their bodies.

Ironically, the FDA would probably be able to better serve the public if it switches roles from enforcement to advisement. Keeping food, medication/devices and production methods to FDA standard, I believe, should get a UL type verification for things we use every day. Having that stamp brings trust that the FDA has verified the efficacy of whatever it is you put into your system, however there's nothing preventing you from going non UL if you're aware of the risks.

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To the folks downvoting your post, I disagree with them as well!
The FDA tests products for purity. You just want to eliminate bans.
The problem is that the FDA/DEA went past solving a problem (opt-in), and into restricting behavior (can't opt-out).

Testing is good. Market standards and labeling are good. Completely prohibiting sales (by default!) between informed parties is bad.

Distribution of new antibiotics should probably be discouraged to avoid breeding resistant strains, but this is a rare exception (notice the title of this article mentions three classes of drugs, yet focuses on the only one that has moral standing). It can also be solved through less heavy-handed methods like manufacturer agreements, rather than an impermissive white list on every area the FDA sees fit for growing their clout.
Picky point (but one I hope is helpful): phone number validation (on the employer page https://www.mightyspring.com/employers/) is too strict for UK phone numbers, which might typically read something like

+44 (0) 111 1111 111

I had to enter 1111111111 to get past the validation.
1. Is it a proper role for government to solve that particular problem?

Who else is going to? There's no profit in it, so you can't expect someone to do it out of Smith-ian self-interest. And you certainly can't expect the pharma companies to police themselves; they hide studies that clearly show adverse, even deadly side effects, and otherwise outright lie, even with the FDA around. Imagine the hijinks that would ensue without it.
So then couldn't any local ice company buy a Kold-Draft machine and undercut this?
Am I the only one finding it ironic that they used (Adobe) Flash to show the chapel to the whole world, when tourists can't use (camera) flash to show it to their close friends?

Well, just jacquesm, I simpathize with the stewards: "please, no flash" :(
That's really just the difference between news and articles. News events (big trials, disasters etc) are highly time-sensitive and if your income depends on display ads and Google, instant publishing is crucial and something that comes up on RFPs for such systems. Workflow where content is created by multiple people isn't as well understood but can be a source of incredible friction and productivity killer in publishing.

The argument is sometimes made that this doesn't apply to simple blogging and that SSGs of course aren't aimed at pros, but I can say with some certainty that the segment of bloggers who can and want to publish with Git etc is infinitesimally small and quite possibly 100% represented on HN :) That's fine and great if it works for your use case but it pains me a bit to see people re-discovering the very old and disproven model that SSG represents. It's a) highly niche and b) counter to many current and new requirements in content publishing.

The main argument for it is performance but I don't see how it improves on Varnish - albeit w cache warming - and tellingly edge cases of cache warming are getting replayed in SSG increasing complexity. In fact dynamic systems often forgo cache warming as not worth the result much of the time (and can do it selectively), but you don't get that control at all in an SSG system.
The inventions their parent company filed patents for were also very different from the community-invented features that they're suing their competitors over. This is not terribly reassuring under the circumstances.
The FDA stops companies from labeling things in a way that is technically correct but misleading. They make companies back up their claims with actual science. You would not be able to make an informed decision without the FDA. Stupid doesn't come into it.
Maybe they're going to Amazon because their doctor told them they didn't need antibiotics?
The 8b10b encoding mostly helps with clock recovery and preventing a DC bias (+/- charge) build up in the cable, which helps with error detection (I think it can detect only single bit) and recovery from, but can't correct.
When a suboena is presented to your ISP demanding your DNS logs, there won't be anything for them to disclose.
That's just a question of cache config surely.
I'm really interested in that feature. Do you know which issue that is on the tracker?
Aside: I laughed at this because Im now under the assumption that Jimmy Johns is the goto for these things since my dentist mentioned it when sonicare was over.
On the backend we're using Python/Flask, MongoDB, Heroku, and AWS. We rolled our own ORM called WhiskeyNode (https://github.com/texuf/whiskeynode) and an event consumer called PyMonster (https://github.com/texuf/pymonster).

On the front end, I rolled my own custom framework. I use Handlebars for templating and various mini-libraries for some functionality (shout out to Modernizr, Isotope, and Bespoke :) in addition to jQuery. For CSS I use Compass/SASS. I actually wrote a blog post about it (http://blog.mightyspring.com/post/58803131171/purposefully-a...)

I think that covers it!
And we have that on a lot of stuff, but I think what I meant in this context is that most people in the US don't expect prescription strength stuff to be available on Amazon, so assume the work has been done for them when they search. Thai pharmaceutical companies aren't likely to include any FDA related disclaimers :P
How XTouch increased engagement by 29% in 3 weeks
Many of the steroids for sale on amazon are not explicitly illegal, as they are designed specifically to circumvent the current controlled substances list. This is why so many suppliers rushed to liquidate the supplement known as "Superdrol" when the active designer steroid was added to the federal controlled drug registry.
And once you have an account they can link it with your usage of their DNS and get a better price when they sell the data.

As stated by its cofounder in the "no more ads" post, OpenDNS is a "revenue oriented company" so it seems the logic behind this option existing for registered user sis that they get more money from selling registered user data than from showing ads.
I want to like how it's clever, but I keep thinking it doesn't seem very comfortable for the whale, and if its back is naturally that flat or maybe it's because of the blocks that are there.
Bless.
That's two reasons, not just copyright, and the millions of flashbulbs discharging there over the course of a short timespan would for sure have an effect on the lifespan of the work.

Has anyone actually done the math on this? Or is it just a social hack used by museum guards to dodge the real reason for the policy, which is to keep the gift shop in business?
Yes, digital is powerful.

Another example:
In March, two students at the Technion in Israel created a swarm of bots that caused a phony traffic jam on Waze/Google Maps.

Another reference: "What We Should Do Before the Social Bots
Take Over" http://web.mit.edu/sts/Graeff.pdf
Most of those people are still under a doctor's care, so while they may not need the medication that much and may pay the price later, there is at least some accounting/supervision going on. When/if someone dies in a case of overprescription, there is clearly someone to be held accountable. A possibly overly sensational case of this is Michael Jackson's doctor who was found guilty of manslaughter.

When you self prescribe foreign prescription medication, and die/suffer some massive side effect, there's no real recourse.
At the risk of sounding all 90's ;-) what about inserting a banner into the HTTP requests of free users stating that its probably not your bank.

Yes, it means you can't serve a REST API, but hey, another reason to upgrade to a paid account, right?
Anyone knows what this is?
Also check out http://apiblueprint.org/ which seems to be by the folks at Apiary.io

... and this blog post all about API documentation: http://codebetter.com/glennblock/2014/02/06/a-discussion-on-...
I'm told that, ideally, you should use the same water that the whisky was made from in the first place. But that may be apocryphal.
What role do you think the `Sistine-Chapel.xml` file, included in the html source's `embedpano` script, plays?
So, she used the same password on her gmail as she did on that site? Wow, someone needs to teach journalists how not to reuse passwords. Or at least have one dedicated for email.
If Amazon can tell if a film or music has the proper rights to play in a certain region, they certainly can be held accountable with respect to what drugs are legal in any given region.

Certainly they are aware of regional policy/infrastructure, so writing this off as "it's a global product," is not really productive.
Yes, but for placebos they proscribe low-level, relatively harmless antibiotics instead of nuclear-level drugs like clindamycin that decimate your internal flora and leave you with galloping diarrhea that can kill you.
>I have no problem with this either. I don't believe it's a proper role for government to regulate what substances people can buy and ingest. I would happily shut down the FDA altogether.

If others breed antibiotic resistant bacteria by regularly ordering antiobiotics for acne or whatnot, it doesn't just effect them it effects me.
Incremental compilation has been around for decades. I have a couple of scripts that generate static HTML pages for parts of my website, and I use *make -- and when I make a single change, only its corresponding page is updated. SSGs don't ever need to rebuild from scratch. Just leverage existing make/ninja/etc tools for your blog...
8.8.4.4 should be the second google ip address.
I can imagine it being a grueling effort! Part of what has kept me away from using a classifier or any kind of 'neural network'-type solution is that the initial configuration always seems to be something of a shot in the dark, and tweaking the weights is a non-trivial process with, as you said, a lot of wait time. When it works, though, it has that wow factor that clients love. I give you all props for taking that risk and having it pay off!
Wow, that's center piece is incredible. I don't think it's humanly possible to paint something like that.
I concur, but this raises a quite serious issue due to the suboptimal DNS is designed. If it was a common and global practice and everyone on the the Internet ran his/her own local unbound dns cache, how would the root DNS servers fare with the additional load?

A better solution would be to have a distributed p2p DNS instead of the current one.
Love the project! I am actually thinking about buying an mr3020 just for this.

My main feedback is that the page does nothing to tell new users what the heck is PirateBox. The landing page should contain an explanation of what it is and why do you want it.
For a drug to make the switch from Rx to OTC, you need to prove a lot of things. Can consumers understand how to correctly diagnosis the disease it treats? Can consumers correctly dose themselves? Will consumers knows when to stop treatment and seek professional help.

You have to remember that not everyone follows directions or uses medications correctly. I don't blame the FDA for not making a drug OTC unless they can prove it will be used safely.
So this is a plugin for plugins for wordpress?
Google just lost it
Computer scientists study other computer scientists
What I like about that Dawkin's video is that it appears he's using an Amiga. :)
I especially expected the part about the silhouette being recognizable to be at the top.
That's pretty cool! Figured about Python (saw gunicorn in HTTP headers).
What blew me away, is the fact that you're using a custom framework for the user on-boarding complex/heavily-ajaxified UX... I'd be willing to get updated about how does that scale up!
"Okay, okay, you figured us out. I'll give you a free bag of diamonds if you'll go away and keep quiet."

"Great...now I'm a party to this ugly little secret."

http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1992-07-12/
animoto.com -> online video slideshow creator
Simhash is indeed wicked fast.

Unfortunately, it's also encumbered by a patent: http://www.google.com/patents/US7158961
Needs a tl;dr. Clearly my attention span is shot on a Friday night. :(
Illusion of Gay Athletes...Reality of Silence
Pastor takes a stand and speaks out against Homosexual Athletes being presented as "role models"
At what point do we reach maximum decadence? How far can we go I wonder? But you won't ever see me complaining about this. It's not my place to question other's choices that don't hurt me. But it sure is funny to sit back and watch sometimes.
I heard rumours they were considering closing the Sistine chapel to the public because people were using flashes when taking photos and it had the potential to damage the artwork.

I don't see why you would bother taking photos anyway. Go in and enjoy it. In a place so crowded your unlikely to get a good photo and there are plenty of photos already online for you to look at.
Ask HN: List of tools to create beautiful data visualizations
Hi,

I'm sure there are some amongst you who write beautiful blog posts like this http://kukuruku.co/hub/cpp/lock-free-stack-for-windows or create scientific papers containing wonderful visualizations of data. Would you please share with us the tools you use and possibly also the work you create with it?
Rolls eyes...
Cory is buddies with the MakerBot founders.
What I hate most about DNS hijacking is that it ends up tainting my browser's URL autocompletion list. If I go to "news" instead of "news.ycombinator.com" because I didn't wait for the completion, my ISP will serve up a valid resulting page... and my autocomplete will be happy to take me to "news" again and again after that.
I think the real thing gives you a better sense of the mastery artists (Michaelangelo) have put into this. It's majestic, really.
"People are freaking out too much; they aren't patenting everything."
Web for the win! Everything else is a walled garden.
In the case of video streaming, Amazon is the seller, not just the platform, so of course they're responsible for ensuring that what they're selling is legal. In the case of 3rd party vendors on Amazon, they're just a platform.
Harvard Business School 2014 Commencement: Salman Khan
This guy totally misses the point, even as to why Tom Preston-Werner kicked off Jekyll. His goals were:

* Have blog posts be plain-text files, in Markdown or some other such similar human-readable format. Not locked away in a MySQL database that can't be easily versioned with Git.

* Versioning: plain text lends itself really well to versioning. Diffs are meaningful. It's easy and light-weight, and pragmatic to version a bunch of simple markdown files.

* Finally: fine-tuned output control. This is what Liquid lets you accomplish. You can specify your HTML pages in Liquid, and easily give your blog a new look. The simplicity, ease, and freedom that this system gives a person with basic web dev skills, shouldn't be ignored.
I was at Red Hat's then tiny Asia Pacific office with a couple of ex-Sun sales guys in 2003. The recipe was to walk into all their old customers, replace whatever expensive-yet-underpowered SPARC-based box they were were running with a Xeon box running RHL (then later RHEL), and outperform it.

Sun had great software (shitty stuff, like the old IP stack, got replaced), but their on-again-off-again relationship with Intel screwed them.
The photo is way nicer than for real. Especially since for tourists the room is much darker normally in order to preserve the art better.
Google’s “right to be forgotten” response is “disappointingly clever”
EdX | LinuxFoundationX: Introduction to Linux: XLFS101x About Video
Good point. Why is this so? Or does the friction with the heat-shield count as part of the "propellant" needed for landing?

I guess with cars, there's gasoline + engine for moving and brakes + air resistance (a little) for stopping.