skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a fun article to read. The central question is, "Is this a good time to start a company?" My own experience is that anytime is a good time to start a company because paradoxically, for a struggling entrepreneur, anytime is a bad time. When the economy is doing well, everyone is doing well and there are a lot more competitions for your customers' limited resources. When the economy is doing badly, as it is now, few entrepreneurs could afford to start companies. That's the good news. The bad news is that customers are really struggling so you must have an exceptionally compelling solution that could save them money and help them survive before they would listen. So in summary, unfortunately, the World basically conspires against an entrepreneur irrespective of the economy and it would be like asking, "Is this a good time to fall in love?"
I agree. I do use Chef and Capistrano to automate creating AMIs, but then I like to just save the AMIs and boot from them. Also, creating a new AMI from an old one is quick and easy.
Level 3 lifehacker.com 29ms
Google lifehacker.com 20ms
OpenDNS lifehacker.com 15ms

Level 3 facebook.com 94ms
Google facebook.com 20ms
OpenDNS facebook.com 18ms

Level 3 manu-j.com 32ms
Google manu-j.com 46ms
OpenDNS manu-j.com 14ms

Level 3 reddit.com 30ms
Google reddit.com 22ms
OpenDNS reddit.com 16ms

Level 3 tb4.fr 100ms
Google tb4.fr 21ms
OpenDNS tb4.fr 14ms

Level 3 bbc.co.uk 132ms
Google bbc.co.uk 21ms
OpenDNS bbc.co.uk 15ms

Nottinghamshire, UK. OpenDNS a clear winner…
My experience may be atypical, but most of the serious negotiations I've been involved in have taken place on paper/email and over days/weeks, not a single face-off. Human psychology still factors into it, certainly, but not in the raw way this article describes.

It's sort of like the party game Werewolf (a.k.a. Mafia, etc.) - when played in person, it typically revolves around gestures, eye contact, and other physical factors; when played on a forum/over email, it's more about the psychology and strategy of who said what.

Or (and this is admittedly an area that I have less first-hand experience in), poker - past a certain point, the really good poker players tend not to give the game away based on physical tells, though the psychology and emotion is still a big contributor to what happens.
They have a very visible group of users that post a no-assed answer as fast as possible and start doing the same google searches the asker did to pad out their answer. Their bullshit answer will be at the top initially, so they'll have the means to cannibalize the knowledgeable users who follow.
network.prefetch-next = false (stops sites from being able to tell your browser to pre-fetch links, which seems like a large possible vulnerability, also may skew visit statistics as Google uses it. my article on this: http://www.win-vector.com/blog/2009/07/should-your-mom-use-g... )
I use authorize.net for my billing. I think they're pretty standard. They have a recurring billing API. If you want to do the whole "store credit card" thing, without storing CC info on your servers, look into their Customer Info Manager product.

Their APIs are OK, mediocre documentation, Ok sample code. Not great, but they're a standard.
Now imagine what could be done with IPv6 vanity addresses... ;)
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I'm updating the post (http://www.manu-j.com/blog/opendns-alternative-google-dns-ro...) as results keep coming in (India, Italy, NYC, Houston). From the looks of it, google is the best for international users and Level 3 (4.2.2.2) or openDNS for americans.
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Ada in particular escapes this burden by requiring explicit generic instantiation, so at least you know how many of them you're dealing with.
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OK, thanks for the explanation. I still wonder how good an idea it is to make such wrapper libraries instead of writing pure Lisp libraries in the first place, not in this particular case but as a general idea.
There are words like "open" for that sort of thing. Some hardware is described as "open" for just that reason. Not "free".

Get it?
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Interesting to see this in contrast to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=968943
My comment on your blog is being moderated, but here's what I said:

I think it’s a little naive to think it is a good thing for you. How are you going to compete with Google’s infrastructure and get your response times down to Google DNS’? I would expect many people will switch away as I just have until you can roll out an extremely expensive upgrade.
You're also using iconography that resembles an iPhone, another no-no in the App store.

Looks like getting rejected is a one way ticket to hypesville, though, so good luck with that part.
regexpes need to be fixed for it. if you have a sentence with http://facebook.com. - then what is the dot - end of sentence? or end of domain? just having http://to/ will not work, since the resolver will look in the local domain first.
I bet this are going to be the most used DNS resolvers in the world in a few months.

I doubt it. I suspect a good 90% (or even more) of regular users just use the DNS servers provided to them by their ISPs when their connections come up.
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The rest of Cox's posts are also great reads.
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Their datacenter deployment is actually focused on large scale computing datacenters, not tons of footprint. It's widely deployed, and better in Asia than us, but that's not for long.

Update: I approved your comment.
OK, thanks. I see that now. In the scenario discussed above in the thread this is the case. This provides an example of where scalpers have a negative effect on the market, something I indicated I couldn't see earlier.

Although this isn't the universal case, because scalpers can compete against the hosue at a later point in the market, and offset attempts by the house to segment the market, and can lose out at times causing sale at a loss to themselves.
You can turn that off
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I believe those are Verizon DNS servers, actually.
Certainly where it makes sense to invest the time writing pure clojure libraries (or mostly clojure with optimized java in a few key areas if you're running into spots you can't get as good a performance in pure clojure but java will) is preferred, but at least this gives you the option of using the non-fp styled libraries until such a time as someone writes them. Improved bootstrapping at it's finest.
There used to be a 'Page Info' option on Netscape Communicator which basically told you the timestamp of the HTML/image file. That's not in Mozilla or any other browser I've used (Firefox, Opera, Chrome). I have to load up Communicator when I want to check a page's creation/modificiation date. View Source might disappear from the menu for that reason.
Folks, if you're looking for an alternative that's run by a non-profit and completely open source, please check out:

http://www.coactivate.org/
I wish we could get back to using "Go" as a reference to the board game.
Comments like this are pretty common for every new product Google releases, but the fact remains that Google doesn't actually do this.

http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/privacy.html

In other words, your comment is anti-Google FUD.
And it's not as if they exactly roll out the red carpet for all of their advertising users either. One runs across complaints all the time. So expect to be treated just a little worse than those other guys who make Google & Yahoo money.
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Looks like they put up a secret password now.
Your fifth point is the most important one for me. Once they know your DNS data they can make make very educated guesses about the rest of your internet traffic. Google knows what is hosted at the servers you are looking up.
Enjoyed the slides for the most part. The importance of PR for startups cannot be overstated. Get out there, get to know people, go to conferences, talk to media, be personable. If you aren't this type of person, then hire one.
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Really? I could have sworn that Google was all about local content distribution, to the point of creating new fundamental internet infrastructure to reduce latency.

Learn something new every day.
Excellent article worth reading. It will make you rethink how superior bloggers are to mainstream media, and whether mainstream media deserves to die or not.

Personally, I still believe that investigative journalism has a lot of value, but no way to charge top dollars for that value.
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Makes me wonder how Google got that subnet though. They really weren't around when those A-nets were being handed out.
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Who owns/is EveryDNS? They have a node in SanJose,CA (where I live) and I've never heard of them.
For those who don't know about the referenced shenanigans, OpenDNS proxies google search traffic onto its own servers.

OpenDNS: It's neither 'open' nor DNS!
You should make this clear on librelist.com; right now, it appears that there will be no mechanism to deal with trolls.

If I did moderate a list (which I don't), and there was an ability for subscribers to see the raw feed, I'd allow that. I am curious if your approach will work. It's similar to how things operate here, but I wonder if it can work with no moderators. (HN does have editors who monitor flagged articles and comments.)
Actually... if you do things right from the beginning, things like money, health insurance and family responsibilities are much more of a factor on your 30's than on your 50's (If you plan right..)

With reference to Googling stuff comment.. are you saying that you never use reference sources?

IMHO, When you have a large breath of knowledge that you need to use, it makes no sense to memorize it.

If I am supporting up a framework that uses spring, I refer to the docs once or twice, then it stays with me for the duration of the project.. six months later I am building an app using Python,mplayer,ffmpeg & wxPython and for the life of me there is now way I can tell you straight-off-my-head how to configure the hibernate SqlMapClient-what's his face thingy! give me 5 minutes, I'll look it up and i'll be done & tested in 20 mins.

I could go on and on on this to technologies that have not been used since before most of you where born.. (how many of you remember IRQ14 ?)

The point is: Some things are timeless (vi ?) and I know them solid.. some others, I refer to use and let go.

I am totally curious.. How about you guys? Do most people remember api specific stuff for ever ?
It is also reminiscent of an embroidering pattern.
Elite string quartets like the Emerson or Takacs earn far more than the average string quartet. Perhaps the market for their music is small compared to that of pop artists but you can't argue that they're interchangeable.
Makes sense to have telephone support - I mean, if your DNS is hosed, then web-based support won't do you much good.
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Yeah, it's somewhat frustrating how some people will screen you for sending a .DOC, and some people will screen you for NOT sending a .DOC. For extra fun, let's ask whether we should wear a suit to the interview: must wear for consideration, or immediate disqualification/no-hire? There's disagreement there as well.

The only safe advice is to ask ahead of time; unfortunately for you, there was no one to ask. Dysfunction is unfortunately common.
As stated by others though, if you're on a dynamic IP connection it's possible (likely, even) that the setting won't stick forever.
What's wrong with using both approaches: debug binaries get compiled with boxing generics, while release compiles using macros?
Why not take a dump in your pants?
Tech journalism has always seemed more like sports journalism than hard news. The people doing the reporting tend to be enthusiasts for the companies (teams) they're reporting on, repeat press releases almost verbatim (play-by-play, injury reports), and often end up being less than objective when it comes to certain companies (home town sportscasters).
David's 5th point is the most important, at least in my opinion. By Google running DNS, they can potentially collect your complete browsing behavior (since you'll go through their server all the time, not only when you search with them).
We don't correlate or combine your information from these logs with any other log data that Google might have about your use of other services, such as data from Web Search and data from advertising on the Google content network. After keeping this data for two weeks, we randomly sample a small subset for permanent storage.

It sounds like a good faith effort aimed at speeding things up to me.
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Lots of FUD, not so much useful stuff.
If it works out to be a friendly list interface with a group feeling, this would be an absolute winner project.

As a year of graduates we use a yahoogroups list since 2000, and we never changed it. Yahoogroups is currently running on 1995 technology, and google groups get spammed, let alone the web pages look like a pharmacy store. Also both lack the "we are a group" feeling.

So yes, since we're looking for a better interface and couldn't find one hitting 2010, if done properly this would be a definite winner.
Indeed. DNS names without dots have been used for decades in intranets.
View Source isn't going anywhere, and it continues to do the same task as always. What's changed is that websites have gotten more complex.

View Source is like a ruler. It's a great tool when you're trying to understand how a buggy was built. Not quite adequate for understanding a modern internal combustion engine.
Huh?

And for the record, chrome and ie no worky for me either. Firefox does though.
The only interesting bit from this article is that there seems to be only one shareholder of Fusion Garage, while it was previously suggested there were more.

The rest of the article is mostly hear-say and conjecture.
I agree - I think this is more a cross-stitch pattern than ascii art - especially since it only uses one character (X). It is however quite fancy, and I do appreciate the time it would have taken to produce it.
You can display an "info" bar in Opera's sidebar which will tell you that if the server sends it.
The Web Developer Toolbar add-on for FF has a View Generated Source feature which is nice when dealing with dynamic markup (and of course Firebug rocks).
That's the mantra around here, yes. The article's author knows that mantra, and assumes his reader does, too.
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it’s not the same as OpenDNS. When you use Google DNS, you are getting the experience they prescribe. When you use OpenDNS, you get the Dashboard controls to manage your experience the way you want for you, your family or your organization.

Not mentioned was OpenDNS sends failed requests be default to a search page full of ads... Google appears to not be monetizing this.
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Do you mean the icon on the searching dialog? That's part of Apple's Game kit PeerPicker class. If I get rejected for that they really are cracked!
Third, Google claims that this service is better because it has no ads or redirection. But you have to remember they are also the largest advertising and redirection company on the Internet. To think that Google’s DNS service is for the benefit of the Internet would be naive.

In other words: Google's DNS service has no ads or redirections. Ours does. But that doesn't make our service worse, because Google is an ad company.
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compressed js -> syntax highlighter/prettyprinter -> view source

Is that so hard?
So similar to what Word 2007 is currently offering? You select text and an almost invisible ghost box appears, move your cursos in the box makes it appear fully.
http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/privacy.html
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How, exactly, does this offer any insight into bloggers vs. mainstream media? Both of these camps blindly copied the story across the web, neither of them taking time to do any honest reporting. Sensationalism is bad, not mainstream media. Just as you can have a sensationalist paper and a rational blogger, you can also have a sensationalist blogger and a rational paper.

It is the bad reporting that should die - we shouldn't tie it to any particular format.
I just read your blog post and couldn't leave a comment there for whatever reason, so here goes.

Regarding interview attire, people ask because some teams are flip-flops and gym shorts casual while others wear suits every day. Wearing a suit to the flip-flops team interview is almost as bad as dressing down for the business formal team. Given the interviewee can't divine ahead of time with which type of team he's interviewing, the only safe thing to do is ask.
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The funny part about this claim is that 90+% of Internet users use DNS solely to get to Google. It's really a choice between having one big company tracking your habits, or two, one of which is small, under intense pressure, and hungry.
This is especially interesting considering that Polaroid doesn't make Polaroids any more.
Ask HN:Sales commissions and finding distribution channels for software products
I'd prefer direct sales, but we are considering using a distribution channel to market some future products. The primary goal would be to generate leads and we would probably do most of the talking with potential customers directly.

In general, does anyone have recommendations on what the appropriate sales commission might be a for software products in the $10K to $50 range. I realize that this will vary depending on the product, the industry, how easy it is to sell it etc. so I'm just looking for general thoughts and payment ranges (e.g. 10-15 % of sale price)

Does anyone have suggestions on how to identify the right marketing firm for a particular industry (e.g. distribution channel for a software product targetted at independent book stores or restaurants etc.)
Still hoping to find out, just not here.
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Studio Briefing re-listed with no comment from Google
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I wish all TDD proponents understood this. Coverage != Tested. 100% coverage does not mean you have have exercised all possible execution paths through the code.

Also, passing all tests does not mean there are no bugs. Assuming you have tests for all your requirements, passing the tests means only that software can perform those requirements. It does not mean that it will be bug-free, especially if the users try to do things the requirements didn't anticipate.

TDD has the great benefits you mention but it is not the magic bullet so many of its advocates make it out to be.
Compare to: http://www.opendns.com/privacy/

Heh.
Not to pile on, but don't forget Paul Dirac:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Dirac who's eponymous Delta Dirac function is essential for signals (e.g. information theory) analysis.

Oh yeah. He also basically invented modern wave theory.
Looks like Level3 owns the 8...* block, and Google must be renting 8.8.8.* and 8.8.4.*.

The DNS service is probably hosted by Level 3.
Mainstream media has killed itself by adopting many of the lazy tactics that bloggers are being accused of. Does anyone here really trust the news that they hear on cbs or the nytimes after scandals in recent years. Mainstream media's only hope of survival is to establish a brand of trustworthiness not join bloggers in a race to the bottom. They can't win that race while maintaining any shred of journalistic integrity. I think that the future of journalism will be dominated by two forces: the teaming mass of bloggers and cable news racing to be the first with a story regardless of the quality of the story, and premium trusted journal type news that is late but well researched and trustworthy.

Other than the Economist, I'm not aware of any news sources that have aimed for that type of trustworthiness as a selling point. I'd like to hear about any news sources everyone here trusts, not blindly trusts like my father-in-law trusts Fox News but empirically trustworthy fact-driven news.
~% whois 4.2.2.1

OrgName: Level 3 Communications, Inc.
OrgID: LVLT
Address: 1025 Eldorado Blvd.
City: Broomfield
StateProv: CO
PostalCode: 80021
Country: US

NetRange: 4.0.0.0 - 4.255.255.255
CIDR: 4.0.0.0/8
NetName: LVLT-ORG-4-8
NetHandle: NET-4-0-0-0-1
Parent:
NetType: Direct Allocation
NameServer: NS1.LEVEL3.NET
NameServer: NS2.LEVEL3.NET
Comment:
RegDate: 1992-12-01
Updated: 2009-06-19
I planned to link to the original discussion here on HN, but that thread has been marked dead for some reason. In any case, I think the sudden banning of a site by Google and then re-listing within hours without comment is noteworthy.

This article seems reasonably unbiased, noting the questionable quality of Studio Briefing content, but also noting their length of time in operation.

Edit: Here is the link to the original conversation.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=972583
1. This is certainly true, but hopefully we can find a good way to combine the benefits of booting from EBS and having a fast root partition, with that of the agility of Chef/RightScript model, to decrease boot times.

2. You can version server templates to use specific revisions of RightScripts and recipes. In fact, the Chef implementation is built around using a branch or commit SHA1 to specify what versions of the recipes you want to use from your repository.

disclaimer: I work for RightScale
Eh, I don't know if they'll be able to do that too effectively because of NAT and whatnot, but they can certainly use this information in their PageRank calculation. Knowing what pages people visit is an even bigger vote of confidence for the site than seeing how many pages link to it.
For that matter, it's not "ASCII art" because it's encoded that way (as opposed to "UTF-16 art"), it's because it's made up of text characters in a grid.

This certainly counts.
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Here are some options:

Lead Generator: (undergrad degree with energy)
Basically they will hit the phone all day and setup appointments to speak with potential customers. Salary: 30k-40k a year with bonuses based on appointments and closed opportunities running about $2k - $3k a quarter.

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These folks need to sell product with an annual quota between 250k - 750k a year. Average salary around 40k - 60k with top salary around 80k - 120k a year.

You can reach via email at mklein1 at babson.edu

I can help you with marketing firm selection and reaching independent books stores and restaurants. What's the product?
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Just an automated dude telling you what you already know or can find easily on the web. You can't reach a human at that number, at least for now.