skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Climate skeptics are not necessarily denying that there is global warming -- the climate has always changed.

The point is that the science is not done properly. The data and methods the IPCC based its reports on are not open to scrutiny and review. On this flawed data climate models are based, and on these models governments base their policies in turn.

The strawman fallacy comparing climate skeptics with creationists does not hold. Creationists take holy scripture as a start and try to shoehorn everthing to it; Climate skeptics have no such holy scripture.
Hmm, contrary to other comments, when first looking at site my thoughts were "Wow, looks cool. Looks like something modern and active rather than archaic."

The first thing I want, "about/wtf is erlang", is right there on the home page without even having to go to some about page. [Too many modern projects have no intro/assume everyone knows about it]

Two second things I want the most are big and prominent, Documentation and Download

The third thing I want, News, has it's own section.

Everything I want, on the homepage. No clicks, no menus. I think that rocks.
Sort of what kgrin said: Poker is an invaluable skill to possess. If you learn to play the PEOPLE instead of the GAME, everything changes.

It's sort of like switching the lightbulb on, especially when you're dealing people of low experience levels (in poker or any other game/negotiation).
No, the simplest case for Haskell would be type variables. For example, the map function doesn't need typeclasses at all:

map :: (a -> b) -> [a] -> [b]

For the record, in Go+generics, this might look something like:

func map<A,B>(f func (A) B, xs A[]) B[] { ... }
Create your own Mini YouTube TVs
This how-to post shows off some of the recent video integration at Sharendipity. They've combined both the Player API as well as the Data API from Google to create some really great YouTube apps.
whats twitter's revenue model , the fire hose ?
Madrid, Spain.

Level 3 lifehacker.com 355 msec
Google lifehacker.com 37 msec
OpenDNS lifehacker.com 30 msec

Level 3 facebook.com 46 msec
Google facebook.com 40 msec
OpenDNS facebook.com 32 msec

Level 3 manu-j.com 196 msec
Google manu-j.com 37 msec
OpenDNS manu-j.com 32 msec

Level 3 reddit.com 44 msec
Google reddit.com 60 msec
OpenDNS reddit.com 29 msec

Level 3 tb4.fr 89 msec
Google tb4.fr 36 msec
OpenDNS tb4.fr 31 msec

Level 3 bbc.co.uk 47 msec
Google bbc.co.uk 37 msec
OpenDNS bbc.co.uk 30 msec

OpenDNS wins
Free classified ads in Orissa, India
Free classified ads search engine in Orissa, India. A free, easy and fast way to find or to place ads in Orissa.
Ben Stiller launches Stillerstrong to build a school in Haiti
The estimation section really hit home for me.

It seems like the harder we try to improve estimate accuracy the worse it gets. Are there any great examples of successful software estimation?
Google App Engine - a first timer's experience
(As I said yesterday) Actually Tilera is better than Cell or this Intel chip because Tilera is cache-coherent SMP and runs regular Linux with pthreads.
They just do it at a different layer. They do it in the toolbar or chrome. It's no different, plus users can turn it off if they want with us. It's all in users hands.
It's available as part of the Web Developer Toolbar add-in for Firefox.
Google is one of the biggest CDNs, so maybe they'll start doing that on their own.
The Google product manager responded to TechCrunch saying "no blocking, hijacking, or filtering" and responded on privacy with "Collected data includes IP address (up to 48 hours, to detect malicious behavior against the service), ISP information and geographic information (2 weeks each). The data is not correlated with your Google account in any way."

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/12/03/google-dns-opendns/
I would be astounded if 10% of users had ever heard of DNS, much less knew what it was and how to change which one they were using.
Just to be fair, 25% is a small subset, and if all the chrome installations use it as their default DNS, they'd have quite a lot of data.
Anyone been Approved for more than $200,000 with EZUnsecured.com?
: I used them and got $175,000 but I was hoping I could have gotten more. I saw the Videos on their Website and it looks like some People have gotten more than that - If you got more than $200K please let me know how you did it. My Business is 4 Years Old and my Credit Scores are all over 700.
Less than 800 words is a "very verbose and longwinded article"?

How on Earth have you managed to actually RTFA at HN? People don't often link to tweets, here.
FlightCaster merges its statistical-learning code into Incanter
Huh, I thought those were originally GTE's, and that they eventually became Verizon's with all the mergers and name changes. I stand corrected.
Agreed. Responding to competition by trying to scare your users away from the competitor isn't healthy.
* To think that Google’s DNS service is for the benefit of the Internet would be naive. *

Google believe that making the internet better benefits them. They largely don't feel they need to monetize every niche there.
Official Clojure Core API - Overview
This looks to be a pretty neat DNS benchmarking tool: http://code.google.com/p/namebench/

I think I'm behind a restricted proxy or something (on some hotel WiFi), because it's not really working for me, but I'd be interested to hear others' results.

Compare to Level3's 4.2.2.2-3 and OpenDNS's 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220 (they really need a more memorable IP). Any other good ones?
4.3.2.1 -- Another google DNS ip
Nobody seems to have noticed the other Google DNS IP that they haven't disclosed yet. It's 4.3.2.1

You heard it here first. :-)
Sadly, it's just FUD, and it appears to be spreading.
Primarily a reference to a Guy Steele post of the same name. Original URL is http://projectfortress.sun.com/Projects/Community/blog/Objec... .
OpenDNS on GoogleDNS is worth a read:

http://blog.opendns.com/2009/12/03/opendns-google-dns/
Doing a single query for each domain isn't entirely fair.

$ dig tb4.fr @208.67.222.222 | grep Query
;; Query time: 274 msec
$ dig tb4.fr @208.67.222.222 | grep Query
;; Query time: 9 msec
$ dig tb4.fr @208.67.222.222 | grep Query
;; Query time: 9 msec
$ dig tb4.fr @208.67.222.222 | grep Query
;; Query time: 36 msec

Also, query time only tells you how long the server took to respond, and doesn't include network latency.
"It's no different"

Actually, it is. Google's DNS has no ads. Yours, by default, does.

Also, FYI, Chrome and the Google toolbar have no ads. It sounds like you have your head in the sand, or are deliberately spreading FUD. I hope it's the former.
I'd like to hear a compelling justification for generics in a language where you can add methods to any type, and every type implements an interface just by implementing all of the methods. I suspect that all of the reasons have to do with compile-time checks. (But in the domains where I do my work, it's fine to get by with runtime checking, so I admit I don't have complete in-depth knowledge on the subject.)

How about letting the programmer have it both ways? Let the programmer request either macro expansion or implicit boxing. The default would be implicit boxing, which would allow for fast compilation. The programmer could then specify macro expansion for certain specific types. This enables both rapid initial development and optimization and generation of compact runtime representations and fast code.
Not monetizing this? Where do you think their motivation is coming from (to make the world a better place?)

Google Analytics falls into the same category. You're not paying currency to use the service; you're paying with your metrics. When you think about it in terms of scale, this is way worse. Google is great at taking this data and using it to generate revenue in a number of other ways. Any smart advertiser who uses Google Adwords to buy traffic knows to stay away from Google Analytics. Why would you let the company you're buying traffic from know how that traffic behaves?

The DNS project takes this a step further by giving Google a world of new data. Now you don't have to use Google or be on a site with Google Analytics for Google to know where you're going.

Seems harmless, but I bet they can't wait for this to be adopted by the masses.

With all that being said, 8.8.8.8 is a damn cool IP address and I'm sure my Google-powered Droid already uses it. /rant
Or have the former as the default, and allow the programmer to opt for the second, if the optimization is needed?
In the most general case it uses boxing strategies, but it's also able to behave like C++ with certain compile-time optimizations turned on (at the cost of slowing down compilation). There's a lot of literature out there about how to take advantage of those optimizations. It's a fairly involved topic.
Open and Democratized Search
From London:

Level 3 Google OpenDNS
lifehacker.com 35 29 26
facebook.com 31 45 18
manu-j.com 30 41 38
reddit.com 42 350 17
tb4.fr 36 22 25
bbc.co.uk 45 39 26

OpenDNS has servers here in London, so they put up a fairly good showing. And obviously there's some jitter - the 350ms reddit result is an anomaly - but a few other runs turned up 216ms and 378ms - must be something odd about it.
I always hated the redirection my ISP's DNS and OpenDNS forces. Every time I make a typo, i have to completely retype the URL because they redirect me...
How are the toolbar and chrome NOT in the user's hands? Your belief that Google monetizes all their services directly is naiive - they have repeatedly made very open attempts to improve the internet with no direct benefit to them.
Wow that guy was awesome, I can't believe I'd never heard of him.
Debt Crisis Tests Dubai’s Ruler
From Nickelback to Bickelnack
The WSGI support, and twisted.web in general have been seeing some great improvements. Coupled with this amazing running series on twisted.web: http://jcalderone.livejournal.com/tag/sixty+seconds, I'd say things are looking very positive for Twisted in the web world.

I think the release of Tornado has got people thinking about "Comet frameworks" (for lack of a better term), and I have the personal opinion that Django+Orbited+Twisted could make a better "Comet framework" than Tornado.

Here's a project that is exploring combining Django+Orbited+Twisted: http://github.com/clemesha/hotdot - it contains a full working example, and I believe taken further, it could really turn into (at least) a great starting point for making "real world" Comet apps with Python.
Ah yes, The Financial Post. The newspaper I turn to for all of my climatological analysis. It's like International Journal of Climatology, but with better op-eds and stock listings.
Is there accompanying audio/video of the presentation? I always find just seeing the slides leaves a lot of gaps in my understanding of the presentation.
Make sure to write down the phone number while your DNS is working...
Indeed. It's a link to a blog post about a blog post. Bad form.
Copy text in JavaScript
First "flight" of a piloted, solar powered plane
Flightcaster does some fantastic, innovative stuff in the statistical, distributed computing, and Clojure worlds.
The Economist has an established editorial slant and actively practices advocacy journalism.

You're looking for The Christian Science Monitor. Their whole reason for being is avoiding sensationalist reporting (biased reporting, I'd argue, is impossible to avoid completely). They go so far as to not use any of the wire services, so that biases don't creep in there, and use their own on-the-ground reporters instead.

What's tragic is that news sources like that are being plowed under along with the Fox Newses of the world with everyone's decision that "eh, blogs are just as good."

(edit: Well that's embarrassing. Apparently HTML markup doesn't work here.)
A little slow, but beautiful. Worth it to see the bubbles in the background on mrspeaker's site.
To think that Google’s DNS service is for the benefit of the Internet would be naive.

I'm not so sure, it is starting to seem like Google has worked out essentially that Revenue = User-Time on Internet. The Chrome project is one example, a better faster internet is in Google's best interest.
...you have to ensure that a market is not completely controlled by a few large corporations.

Maybe. But if so, that's an argument for antitrust enforcement, not net-neutrality type-and-price-of-service regulations.

As the example of regulatory capture in many industries should make clear, regulations often turn out giving an advantage to the few large operators who can play at Washington rulemaking games -- with large staffs of lobbyists and big donations at election time -- no matter what the regulators' initial rationale.
The suckless mailinglist is a mailing list that seems to accept, if not encourage, the second type of trolling. It would be interesting to build some statistics from it's archives to see when and who abandoned the list. I think you are right, Zed, in that getting rid of the first type get's rid of the second type and empowers the third type. I also agree that the second type is very good for the community. Just look at the development that goes on in the suckless community, some really great stuff.
A couple of questions:

Hasn't google tried to acquire OpenDns? It's a no brainer!

Has been any contact between the two companies?

The scenario of google (or any company) controling internet traffic is not a nice one :(
From your link : "we randomly sample a small subset for permanent storage."
Even if anonymous that data is really valuable as it allows to identify traffic patterns. I don't see anything "evil" in collecting anonymized data.
>Revenue = User-Time on Internet

Yes, I was told that explicitly at a presentation by Google recently. Anything that makes the internet better or makes people use it more makes Google more money.
ODE Errors Page
Anti Explorer is a small piece of code you can place in your site's HTML which stops Microsoft Internet Explorer (MSIE / Explorer) from rendering your page. Along-side this, a notification alerts the user he / she is using MSIE and prompts him / her to download Firefox instead.

We've all been there. We design our site with Internet Explorer in mind, only to find we have to resort to numerous hacks and complicated code to get our site looking like it should in MSIE. Numerous Web Citizens have written hacks and workarounds for MSIE, only to be dismayed at all the extra effort they had to put in to get their designs cross-compatible with MSIE.

http://anti.eire-media.com/
but how does yodlee then ?
4chan users are not trolls. They're griefers and sociopaths. Like you said, trolls are generally part of a community, or make an attempt to get a rise out of people through détournement, not through outright antagonism.

Over at kuro5hin.org we experienced a 'trollocaust' as it were, wherein the trolls successfully drove all the emotional beautiful souls off to another site (hulver.com). If the critical mass of trolls grows too large, community can't really be sustained.
Transactions can involve more than just a single flow of cash in exchange for stuff. Economists can and do look at satisfaction as part of market efficiency which explains why people pay for status symbols. Someone buying a diamond for above resale price is not necessarily simply wasting money for zero gain.

PS: Consider rather than a ticket scalper you had a group of bandits charging a toll to cross a bridge. They are not adding value to the experience of crossing a bridge and they are not helping the people who made the bride. So while arguably they increase GDP it's not a net gain for society.
I'm pretty sure you can jump over the mushroom if you either do so in the areas without the overhead blocks or if you time it right. They merely made it very difficult for a new player to avoid the mushroom.
It may not be correlated, but that doesn't mean that Google isn't getting a ton of commercial benefit from this data. It's like having your own Alexa/Quantcast, but in realtime, and with much better granularity.
As a long time Microsoft detractor, I must admit that Bing has a few things that I like:

1. instant view popups

2. free search and spelling APIs for developers. I wrote a web blog showing how to use these services in just a few lines of Ruby code. and, free is good

3. daily pictures :-)
Agreed and let’s not forget it’s a massive improvement compared to the old site.
Fascinating. It's interesting to see that their times aren't always the fastest, but they seem able to keep responses speedy on the sites the other two struggle with (bbc and tb4). Maybe that's the prefetching at work?
I'm not entirely sure, but I used to go to high school with a kid (a different Dave) that was absolutely brilliant and did some work with them. When I was looking for a dns provider, he showed me their site and I've referred them to everyone I know since. They really run an excellent service at top-notch quality. Probably time for me to donate again..
Arithmetically challenged - "The biggest difference is that going every 30 days means you get an extra payment every 10 years… Yes, 10 years, shrug." It's 6 years. If you're going to emphasize something in your writing, for example by repeating it, you really ought to get it right.
This is all great stuff.

Be careful that you don't apply lessons too broadly. If you're selling high-dollar, recurring sales items into big business it might be enough to have 100 purchasing managers love you. You probably don't need a media blitz.

As an aside, not particularly related to this story, one of the drawbacks of learning from success is that every deck ends with how great things are. I wonder 1) if sometimes luck gets disguised and genius and 2) if it wouldn't be more useful to study failures than successes.

The commercial airline industry has a great safety record. They do this by meticulously taking apart every accident that happens. Too bad we don't do that in other fields.
To me, the point of being rich is to be able to give the money away as you see fit. It's a lot easier to complain that such-and-such symphony orchestra is going bankrupt than it is to figure out how to become successful and then help that same orchestra. If you have a look at the patron list of the SF Ballet, you'll likely recognize a name or three.
No, you're spot on.

2.2.2.4.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer vnsc-bak.sys.gtei.net.

Even though the IP space hasn't been SWIP'd to GTE/Verizon, the server(s) behind that IP are evidently theirs.
Why cosmological observers should release their data slowly
That isn't how DNS works. It is true that 90% of users go directly to google, but once there they click on Search results, news results, etc... The browser takes the link and the OS does a DNS lookup to get the ip address of the server hosting that url. Then the browser connects to that server, google is no longer in the picture.
Basically a list of this guys personal preferences.. lame.

Here is a foolproof method of filtering out bad programmer jobs:

If they ever use the words 'rockstar', 'ninja', or anything similar, run very far away. If throughout the interview process they focus purely on pumping up your ego run very far away. If all they can talk about is how they have Rockband and Foosball, you got it, run very far away.

Great programming jobs are those in which you are solving interesting problems surrounded by interesting people. If they have that they don't need 'ninjas' and 'rockstars'. They don't need to talk about foosball (I'm not saying Foosball is bad, it just shouldn't be the focus of your work). Instead, they'll talk about interesting problems.
The probability of the event happening * the loss = the premium of the surgery. That is it. If you would rather pay 1000 dollars for a surgery than 3000 then that is your business. I certainly wouldn't sign away my right to sue when I'm under back surgery.
As mentioned in the other post linked below, I'm the product manager for the FreshBooks API. We are extremely aware there are many problems with the recurring billing market right now, and we are currently committed to doing a better job serving it. We are committed painless billing for web apps too.

If you can please forgive the shilling, I'm very interested in hearing what sucks about the recurring billing APIs on the market and specifically what sucks about ours (http://developers.freshbooks.com). I'm sure our competitors in the market would also be interested so we can all do a better job.

This isn't so much about us, but letting you know that at least one vendor is here listening, and maybe others.

Thanks for anything you can throw at me, good or bad.

(And you can't hurt my feelings except by being quiet. I need to know.)

NOTE I rewrote this comment to be less self-conscious.
Having a vector or map collection where you can call methods etc. on elements without having to do a typecast, and know that the method call will work (i.e. is statically typed), is useful. It also stops you (or more likely, someone else on the team) from adding the wrong kind of thing to the collection.

If you don't understand the benefits of static typing, it's likely that you won't understand why generics can be preferable to polymorphism in containers.
That's why I'm so impressed with NPR. Its depth of analysis is amazing compared to most other media I'm aware of in the US. And still. I still don't feel like paying for it.

I use NPR as a counter-argument to saying that good content will find a way to make lots of money. Show me how because I don't see it.
Judging from his current app up right now on Touch Arcade, it looks like it goes straight to iTunes (probably hits his server first to record where it came from).
Just out of curiosity, which third-party system did you use originally?
Twisted Web in 60 seconds (running series)
Agreed. The first point is the only legitimate technical point.

Everything else is just vague fear mongering about how google might misuse their dominant position and frankly DNS doesn't scare me any more than Google owning my email, documents and search history.

Either way, OpenDNS is awesome and I'm excited to see how they'll proceed fighting Google's entry (on technical merit).
I think what makes me nervous about it is that I can't even control my own sites any more if I use Google's DNS, and get the "mysterious Google lockout with no recourse".
My results run from a SliceHost slice: https://gist.github.com/00a8976d0b76e796996a

Mean response (in milliseconds):
--------------------------------
SBC/AT&T Global- ########### 45.11
OpenDNS-2 ############# 56.75
OpenDNS ################ 66.40
8.8.4.4 ################# 70.29
4.2.2.3 ###################### 96.20
UltraDNS-2 ######################## 104.35
UltraDNS ######################## 104.68
Level 3-2 ######################### 106.95
SYS-67.207.128.5 ########################### 114.93
SYS-67.207.128.4 ###################################################### 231.97
Quality Management in China
In my recent conversation with Andrew Reich,
I love how everyone comes down on Google for collecting data about net traffic, as though no other company on the internet ever thought of collecting traffic metrics. What is your current DNS provider's policy on DNS data collection? In the case of OpenDNS, sure, they have a privacy policy, but they also proxy Google's results and serve up ads. How's that so much better?

I'm perfectly happy to have my DNS data be collected (which I assume my ISP is already collecting) in exchange for ad-free, fast name resolution. Plus, now I don't ever need to look up a DNS server again, Google's is 8.8.8.8. Sweet.

EDIT: looks like Google's not collecting so much information anyway. http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/privacy.html
Google DNS Performance Statistics From Around The World