skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"House scalpers didn't force legitimate buyers to take out huge mortgages. The "legitimate buyers" (I assume you mean people who wish to consume housing) could have continued to rent."

The cost of renting went up along with the boom and unsurprisingly went down with the bust. Everyone was forced to pay more except for those who already owned a home.

Where do you think the leasers got their homes? Do you think that they wouldn't raise their prices when other options were priced much higher?

"Most of the people who bought houses are also scalpers; they bought a house in the hopes that it would be worth more later. "Real estate never goes down!""

Hindsight is 20/20. During those economic conditions, you could either rent overpriced accommodations, or you could take out a mortgage with a lower % interest than how much homes were appreciating yearly. This was a ponzi scheme where the timing of the bubble was controlled by the financial giants' tolerance for risk.

If you did not join in this fiasco, you risked losing purchasing power compared to everyone else. This is equivalent to you putting your money in a 0% interest account while everyone else puts it in a 5% interest account. I am willing to bet that the majority of the people here did not know when the bubble was going to burst, including most of you who are now saying that "those dumb speculators shouldn't have bought a home back then" (see how this is bad for liquidity if you can't buy a home for 3-4 years?).

Scalping is also theoretically bad for the market. The market is not optimal when buyers are paying the maximum amount. In such a condition, you have decreased liquidity as buyers are forced to buy less since everything costs most of their money. You might just buy food and shelter, and try to be self sufficient on everything else. This is not conducive to a vibrant economy.

The market is optimal when sellers are selling at their minimum amount. The ideal market thrives on competition. Liquidity is increased and you have incentives to use the extra money to drive other sectors of the industry.

Take for example text messaging. It doesn't even cost 10 cents per message, and people would even pay 20 cents per message. But does that mean a text message is truly worth that much? Absolutely not! The phone company has lost that much interest into improving their existing services rather than trying to extract as much as they can from their consumers. Artificial scarcity only helps businesses/scalpers take advantage of the consumers.
That could possibly be implemented as a hash of the included header/response terms.

A simple example could be http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=hacker+news+site:yc... -> http://www.google.com/search?#b9fh23

One downside would be that you can't see the query parameters and values in plaintext, but a browser extender / inspector could probably do this.
I guess this poor commenter can take the downvotes as a "no" answer to his question?
Was Jesus Christian, and were Neandertahls from Neandertahl, and so and so...
Thanks,

I've read through the Paypal X site https://www.x.com/community/ppx/adaptive_payments

The Adaptive Payments / Chained Payments is exactly what I'm talking about, but it requires a redirect to paypal.com for completing transactions.

Would using PayPal Website Payments Pro to process and collect funds, then daily PayPal Parallel Payments (multiple payouts to all vendors in one api call), be a reasonable path here?

Am I missing a more elegant solution? PayPal vs. Amazon?
8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=974642
It's not like SMS is limited to 160 characters, anyway.
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From a PR perspective, if you're generating numbers/data that can be easily used in reports by journalists - they will be used. As the deck says, journalists are lazy. Being cited as a source because you provided the info in the most accessible fashion is great for PR and cements you as a recognizable authority.
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YC doesn't take a board seat, so their options for forcing change in portfolio companies are pretty much limited to suing for breach of fiduciary responsibility.

IANAL, AFAIK, etc.

TL;DR: NO
I find it endearing that you think there is some reservoir of "hard news" out there. Somewhere. Maybe in some corners of peer-reviewed science journals a significant fraction of the reporting is actually "hard news", other than that it's pretty much turtles all the way down.
The ratings for a show determine how much a network can charge the advertisers for commercial time.
Thanks. That's actually very helpful.
He was most likely referring to the ZumoDrive "folder linking" feature, where you can link an existing folder on your system with ZumoDrive, instead of moving it.
All I wanna know is: Can I tunnel IP traffic through it?
http://thomer.com/howtos/nstx.html
Yes that is true. But that isn't the point of the question.

The implication of the parent is that since Google (by analogy TV companies) make money from advertising, they have less incentive to take care of users.

Ratings determine how much a network can charge the advertisers for commercial time. Ratings are a measure of viewer satisfaction. This isn't coincidental.
An interesting beta invite policy. 2^n invites where n is weeks in beta.
Not having to move your hand between keyboard and mouse is a huge time saver. It seems to me that the time you have to invest to learn it is minimal compared to what it will save in the long run.
I don't think that problem can ever be solved without resorting to human administrative decisions.
If it gets to the browser via HTTP then it's pretty trivial to intercept.
Isn't all for-profit news suspect? Free market advocates would argue that, over time, people will realize that certain news agencies aren't accurate and would then pay (either with their wallets or their eyeballs) for the more reliable news sources. The unreliable sources would go out of business, leaving us with only reliable, fact-checked news.

Of course, the problem with this is that people's metric for "good" news isn't what's accurate - it's what's most entertaining. Or, in the case of Fox, whatever reinforces their existing world view. Market forces don't create reliable news - they create sensational reporting.

This is unfortunate because a reliable free press is critical for democracies to function. Perhaps for-profit news is as fundamentally flawed as for-profit healthcare.
I don't want "Dashboard controls to manage your experience the way you want for you, your family or your organization". I just want a DNS server that obeys the goddamn protocol.
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The analogy fails because networks have a finite amount of air time to sell every day. Shows with low ratings get dropped. Google and others can literally create advertising space. Applications with relatively low usage cost them little, but they are also unlikely to invest in improving it.
death to tiny urls! I want context back!
I think the point still stands though. Success and failure in airplane flight is very well defined, and the amount of human hours logged in designing, building, flying, and analysis of one single and clearly-defined (even if complex) task dwarfs the amount of resources available to startups (or any company for that matter).

Not only is the problem space nearly infinite in comparison to flight, but the "physics" governing business success change impossibly fast.

None of that is to say that we shouldn't study failures, but the question is which failures have widely applicable lessons? If you indulge me to abuse the analogy further, most startups are like those early flight attempts by people who jumped from high places wearing ridiculous balsa and fabric contraptions.
Apparently as early as the medieval times people recorded reference embroidery patterns and examples, see this cloth with an assortment of different building blocks: http://home.comcast.net/~mathilde/embroidery/gallery/va0782-...
I have difficulty getting a nice domain name, let alone IP address ;-) How do they do it?
Ask HN:  Artistic integrity desirable but entrepreneurship integrity is not?
Imagine a novelist who is considering several endings and takes a poll to see which one he/she should use to maximize sales. Not acceptable?

But this is exactly the sort of thing that entrepreneurs are encouraged to do: change the purpose of your startup if it means greater success.

So why is artistic integrity desirable but entrepreneurship integrity is not?
Sadly the 1 block is unallocated, so they would have to make a special request to the IANA to get that address.

Then again, they are Google, so who knows what they could get if they asked...

I'm also curious who Halliburton merged with in order to get the entire 34 block. Surely they weren't around at the time those were handed out so foolishly.
No, not in this or any other such decision.
Google have an equivalent of limited space.
And what is wrong with that? Google is doing something that will benefit everyone, not just them? They are going about this the correct way (ahm, no ad redirects). This is akin us blaming Red Hat for releasing more patches to the Linux kernel because it helps them sell their product: they will eventually benefit from this in some way but so do we. The only loser in this case is OpenDNS, who just got the rug pulled from under them.
Investigative journalism does indeed have a lot of value. However, there seems to be this implicit idea floating around that the mainstream media spends a lot of effort on investigative journalism. This simply isn't so. At best a teeny tiny fraction of the efforts of the MSM goes into it. Which helps explain why bloggers can match or exceed the amount of investigation done by the MSM despite the dramatic differences in resources available.

Legitimate journalism does have value. But today the big media outlets serve up sugary teeth rotting cereal and try to pass it off as "part of this complete breakfast". If the MSM concentrated on delivering serious journalism they may be in a better position today. Instead they concentrate on rehashing rumor, regurgitating press releases and wire reports, and making sure everyone gets their fill of marmaduke and beatle bailey. For some reason, this latter strategy is failing them in a world of ubiquitous access to information.
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They totally beat 4.2.2.2, which was my previous go-to server.
Too old
I've turned 50 this year. I need a full career, that I can be vested at or start a consultant business at, and work for 25 years or so. I have studied programming ever since January of 1990 and at 12 hours plus every day writing programs. I haven't ever been hired as a programmer. I studied many programming languages, Java included, and want to certify in C# and .NET and become a consultant and buy my first house. Am I stuck in dream world forever, or is there a path I can take there? I'm not a greybeard. I have little color change and don't look over 30. Can I make it and make good of it for however long I want or am I stuck with less than efficient years?
In fairness to computer science education I didn't study computer science. Though as an electrical engineering student I did do a lot of logic gate construction, it seems like this guys name should have come up!
My 2009 adjusted gross income will be in the 8 figures. Ask me anything.
A big difference between craigslist flagging and inbox flagging is that by the time a user can flag a message in email, the message has been delivered to everybody. You can't have a few people remove crap messages from everybody's inbox (right?), so if I can post without reputation, and/or signup in some automated way, the whole thing melts down.

Maybe deliver to people in a reputation order and slight delay to allow the damage to be minimized?
Apparently my email isn't valid. Looks like they won't get my email and I won't find out what this service is. Oh well.
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Novelists often do pander to audiences to increase sales. And plenty of companies choose not to do things they think are morally dubious.

One difference between the two cases is that companies generally have shareholders whose interest they're supposed to act in.
I use EveryDNS and there are no ads and redirections for non-parked domains.
I agree, but said data would be a sample from a user base that is far from the general user base of the internet, and Google's user base too. Data from Chrome browsers only would be heavily skewed.
Article about them in general:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=782960

Their stack (kinda):
S3 -> EC2 -> Cloudera -> HDFS -> Hadoop -> Cascading -> Clojure.
I use NTFSLink (http://sourceforge.net/projects/ntfslinkext/) which makes it very easy. Right-click in a folder and select New... and then you can choose NTFS Hardlink or NTFS Junction point.

Great app and combined with DropBox, I can sync data folders without having to move them.
Technically speaking, what makes Google Chrome fast?
Effort to crack GSM encryption
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Let's not go immediately to extremes -- obviously some sort of things work better than some others. It's not as if there is no definition at all out there. Things like incremental releases, getting close to the customer, or wealth versus money are true no matter how your startup is configured or where it operates.

I think the analogy might best be put at the borderline between flying-chicken-man and the Sopwith. Obviously there are some folks that are flying, and flying reliably, obviously some things work and some things don't -- so now is the time to start writing it all down and sorting it out.

The problem is that we can't even see the airplanes of the folks who are flying -- we just get to hear the cool stories about how they got from point A to point B.

I look at places like DreamWorks which are able to capture "lightning in a bottle" over and over again or some of the serial entrepreneurs out there, and think that it is possible to take highly variable environments and put a little bit of structure around them. Nowhere near as much as aviation, but like the other posters pointed out, the only reason we have that for aviation is that a lot of smoldering craters became somebody else's life lesson.
>But if I were to buy a cigarette, or become overweight, you wouldn't see the number change directly to reflect that.

Didn't you figure that out immediately when you saw the numbers rapidly changing, though?
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great analogy...i like meetings in person...more data...will always try to drive a tough negotiation off line...
Dupe: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=974344
By "a different layer", I think you mean "the right layer".
Wow! That is the same combination to my luggage.
Where are you? Why not apply for a position as a programmer? If you want to certify in C# and .NET, how do you see that happening?

How have you been earning money? What programs have you written? What sort of programming do you want to do? Why do you not become a consultant?

It seems like English is not your first language. "Greybeard" is not talking about the color of your hair, it's talking about the technology you grew up with. Looking 30 is irrelevant - programming like you're 30 is. What ever that means.

Do you have a code base you can demonstrate? Have you contributed to Open Source projects? Do you have code on github?

Have you actually read anything here about the questions you're asking?

The smart way to ask questions include demonstrating that you've done your homework and are ready to benefit from answers people give. You haven't done that - you might think about how to do so.
Nearly impossible. No financial firm is going to pay a 24-year-old that kind of salary, so it's only possible if he got it through bonus. Traders get bonuses based on P&L, usually around 10% if they're senior. Let's say 10%. Then he made 9 figures for his firm... but no firm is going to let a 24-year-old take enough risk to generate a 9-figure P&L.

I'm calling bullshit.

[Update: Well-executed, and he's clearly smart, but his story is incredible. No one hires a 24-year-old to start a desk. This is probably one of XO's finest.]
5. Will I be maintaining any ancient system, and what's it written in?

If you don't want to inherit legacy software, go work in a startup and enjoy creating everything from scratch. Legacy software at least leaves you a work culture and a process, not to mention a frame of reference. In a startup, not only there is no much in-house software, there isn't even a division of labor.
It is my fervent hope that the only service I receive for signing up is being in the "in" crowd instead of the "out" crowd.
He took a bunch of really minimal stack-based processors, added local interconnect, and called it good. Intel is making something quite a bit more complex, with cores that can run a typical operating system (Linux, right now) and a full-fledged network for communications, complete with tiny routers.
Does anyone know who provides the bulk of the ads on these re-direct/ad DNS servers that ISPs are using these days? My guess is it's probably not Google or why would they offer an alternative? It sounds like a very clever way to attack their online advertising competition to me. Obviously they'd get into some hot water by trying to compete directly with their own advertising based DNS. Instead they attack the entire market of re-direct/ad DNS by offering a clean alternative that happens to hurt their competition. Very clever. It wouldn't surprise me to see some of the Google software (Toolbar, Chrome, Notifier) offer an option to use Google DNS in the future. For the end user it's a good thing -- for Google's competition it's pretty terrible.
While I agree that The Economist has an editorial slant, it is at least informative enough that you can form your own independent opinion from their reporting. (At the beginning of the 2008 presidential campaign they seemed to be stumping hard for McCain; they were my main source of news and I still wasn't swayed away from Obama.)

As far as sensationalism and lack of depth, I'm not sure they can really be faulted.
It's not how DNS works, but it is how the Internet works. Google's ability to track users is already in many cases page-granular.

The point I'm making is, it doesn't matter if people use Google for DNS, because they're already handing Google more valuable information. But it does matter if they're handing it to OpenDNS.
An EE aught to know about Shanon more than a CS. Haven't you brushed against (digital) signal processing?
You'd be surprised I bet at how much actually gets talked about on any number of 4chan boards.

When you don't have to worry about if someone's being a troll or not real conversation happens.
The client/web designer relation
No, the DNS service is run by Google out of their datacenters, they're just renting 8.8.8.0/24 and 8.8.4.0/24 off Level3 because they're memorable numbers.

(It's interesting because 4.2.2.[1-4] are run by Level3)
Wondering how many people tried going to long-domain-name-i-spent-10-dollars-on-just-to-put-one-snarky-word-in-96-point-helvetica.com

like me...
Now I'm all depressed :/
>adding efficiency with keyboard shortcuts, while still making it accessible to novices

Reddit's comment writing hints, moreso than the brief Wikipedia hints, are quite easy to pick up even for new site users.
"The costs of these approaches can only be judged after more thorough testing and analysis. Thus the side payments that rich countries will have to make to poor ones to adopt such technologies can't yet be determined precisely."

I see the author of the submitted article

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Sachs

is credentialed as an economist, and had a rapid rise in academia, but not without controversy. I wonder, as a matter of an informed voter's thinking about economics, if we are entirely sure that there are only benefits to fighting anthropogenic global warming and no costs to fighting it. This is a serious question, from someone who lives more than 800 feet above sea level (and far inland besides) and in a climate such that I have to heat my home at this time of year for my home to habitable. If we look at costs and benefits at the intra-national level, as well as at the international level, are we entirely sure (this would now move into the realm of political science) that majorities in democratic republics would support the policy of letting scientists and engineers lead on this issue? (And are we entirely sure that all scientists and engineers are of one mind on the facts of this issue and on the technologies of what to do about it?)
As far as I know, Google doesn't have ads in toolbar or in Chrome (beyond those which would be displayed by the internet ordinarily). I have to say that these comments of yours are diminishing the standing of OpenDNS in my mind. There's nothing wrong with using ads to pay the bills or make a profit from your service, but being dishonest about your competitor is unacceptable.

From your article, at least a few points seem very iffy to me:

1. "You get the experience they prescribe": I haven't used Google DNS, but am I wrong in thinking that that is the exact same experience as standard DNS? If so, what's the point of this sentence except to inspire unfounded fear in the people reading your blog post?

2. "But you have to remember they are also the largest advertising and redirection company on the Internet": Misdirection to make your readers fear Google without rational basis. Presumably you are doing this to limit attrition due to this announcement, but perhaps you are just deluded. This comment was completely inappropriate in the context of Google's announcement.

3. "It’s not clear that Internet users really want Google to keep control over so much more of their Internet experience": So long as the DNS Google provides continues behaving exactly the same as the DNS an ISP or your company provides, I don't think many rational people will have an issue with Google providing (not controlling) this portion of their experience.
Senate amendment would deny bloggers legal protections as MSM journalists
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The light came on when I realized you can have 100% code coverage and no asserts in your tests. :)

I'm a TDD fanatic but I haven't looked at code coverage in years.
It was a pretty shrewd move for Tuvalu too - $4m/year is about 30% of their GDP.
Steve Gibson has a decent DNS Benchmark tool for Windows as well: http://www.grc.com/dns/benchmark.htm

(Level 3's DNS servers were slightly faster than Google's for me)

It has a list of several public DNS servers.
Other similar (in some sense) systems include the Inmos transputer based machines such as the ParSys SuperNode and and Meiko CS-1 (and others), and Danny Hillis's Connection machines CM1 and CM2.

These ideas have been around for a long time and are constantly being refined. Not to say this isn't an advance, but I've worked on commercial machines of this ilk.
"and some people will screen you for NOT sending a .DOC"

Yeah I do think that is equally stupid as well. To me doc, pdf, text or even odf is fair game.
I'm curious if also that could bring up another model: lists can be moderated, but there's "Sousveillance" on the moderators with feedback rating from the community. That way, you get moderators, but people who are member get to see if you're just crushing dissenting opinion. People could then see that your moderation style is rated at "Nazi" and just not join.
I like the "what source control" question from the comments. They should use one and it shouldn't be sourcesafe.

Many of these are pretty reasonable. Dunno that travel is that bad a problem...
How about: every member has at least 2 invites? For any collaborative software that is actually worth a damn, this sort of model makes sense.
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