skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Obviously subsequent queries are going to be faster - at that point it's cached. That's the point of aggressive/speculative caching: it's so the first (and in practice this will be your only) query is faster. If you want to accurately average across multiple measurements, you need to space those measurements hours or days apart.
I wanted to use it, but then came across this:

>You also subscribe to a list by simply sending your first message to list@librelist.com. It will then confirm you and send your original email on to the list. No special subscribe addresses, difficult workflows, or endless help references. Just send an email.

Totally unacceptable IMHO, and unlike how any other mailing list functionality works. If you send a message to the list, it should arrive there, without confirmation from you, and you shouldn't be subscribed unless you explicitly want that. Otherwise how can you participate in a conversation on the mailinglist without subscribing or allow cross-mailinglist posts?
Wow - OpenDNS's privavy policy is much worse than Google's!
Well, the code's right there, so if you don't trust anyone else's moderation software, then you are free to grab it and run your own show. In fact, I'll even put up docs on how to get your own going.

Maybe I'll call it the "tin foil hat" release of Librelist. :-)
These services are so expensive! I use jungledisk right now and it's dirt cheap compared to the rest.
See you in 4 weeks.
Not that I know of, then again, if you want that, uh, why are you on a mailing list that's public in the first place. Sounds like you want a PGP key ring and a great Mutt alias setup.
Finally, man beats WOW...
http://www.destructoid.com/man-beats-world-of-warcraft-156593.phtml
I think the article has it exactly backwards. Start with the link, and the popup part should prompt you for the plain text part. ie. I paste in "http://example.com/ and the javascript/tinymce pops up a "Link Text >" prompt.

Much more intuitive IMHO than highlighting things which aren't obviously links, or adding extra syntax.
It's a good thing your logo is a gear, because that's a lot of gear for "just a mailing list". :-)
My mom doesn't get Twitter. My mom f-ing LOVES FarmVille. 'Nuff said.
I can't say I would have done any differently than he did, putting myself in his situation, regardless of the interpreter's advice.

Handle the situation with as much diplomacy as possible once the issue has been brought up, sure. But I'll be fucked if I'm going to sit in a meeting while the presenter uses my slide containing a "chart I had laboured over for months" to illustrate his company's strategy, while passing it off as their own.

"We weren’t sure if we should feel insulted or complimented, but after a few deep breaths (and a lot of kicking under the table by my head of business development) my smart VP of business development used it as an opportunity to point out how honored we were that there was an obvious strategic alignment between the two companies."

And there's an example of the diplomacy I was speaking of. I'd be fine putting a spin like that on it if required, for the sake of maintaining the relationship. But no way would I sit there and smile without saying a word.
The message states that it took 3 months to do the port, but it doesn't say what was used in the original code.
> Twisted: the framework of the future!

It's funny they call it the framework of the future when it doesn't support (as of now) its host language of the future (Python 3) :D
"Damage"? Yeah, it's impossible to stop all spam or stuff you don't want to see. It's only possible to reduce it over a longer period of time. In fact, any gear we cook up on the project using Lamson could probably be circumvented with Lamson itself if not thought out carefully.

So yeah, you'll get some spam. Install a spam filter and just accept that's the price you pay for being on the internet, and we'll do our best to reduce it.
Anyone know what this site does other than collect email addresses? :-)
I use an extension, like many others, that automatically "follows" every url shortener url on a page. Your stats are likely skewed.
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I'm using Spreedly; they have a Kickstart program going on which freezes fees at the lesser of 1%/10¢ per transaction, and no monthly fee.

If my math is correct, that makes it cheaper than all except Cheddargetter until 50,000 customers.
Anycast mitigates this several ways.

First, modern CDN's can use anycast (example bitgravity) to control in detail which content server a given user connects too. Second, a CDN operator can anycast it's authority servers to minimize time spent in recursive dns lookups (I believe akamai uses a combination similar to this).

Alternately, a 3rd party dns operator can use anycast to control which resolver a given user uses, ensuring that the resolver is close to the user on the internet. Since google's nameservers are associated with hostnames of the form any-in-XXXX.1e100.net I'd assume they're anycast already or will be in the future.
Your post seems like anti-Google to me. Aren't people free to choose the service they like? The one with the best service should be the market leader. On what basis will you separate the ownership of internet apps? Saying Google has the whole internet stack, so its evil is naive. :)
And an even more biased population :/
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When you say no workie or no worky, what accent are you mimicking?
Everyday Creativity
A tiny, tiny sliver of Internet users use any third party DNS service, so it's funny to think that users are worse off with Google's server than they are with AT&T's or Verizon's.
> View Source might disappear from the menu for that reason.

Because Firefox/Mozilla/Chrome/Safari are all going to be open-sourced and under-go a code-overhaul over the coming few years during which some features are lost in the mix?
I'm not the right person to ask. Maybe your post will get more attention if you specify in the title that you are doing payouts. Payment gateway advice has been asked on HN a million times.
Tommy Boy reference, I'm guessing.
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I bet the whole "experiment" is a way to see if people will be willing to join this sort of beta
Thanks. Currently it only uses Flickr, OpenClipArt and uploaded images. So it's not exactly a crawling search engine as such, more a search tool. Frankly I'm not interesting in indexing millions of images, I only want the useful ones!

I do want to add to the list of websites it talks to however. WIP.
More recently, Doug Engelbart, Don Knuth?
Oddly enough this relates to all the domain squatters out there. If you misstype something into the search bar you don't know what you get, but by clicking on the first link in Google you are taken the to the "reputable" site.

So a reputable DNS service that did this automatically would be a direct threat to Google.
Ask HN: How to promote a website, while keeping it a secret
I'm working on a website and I want to promote it to create buzzz before its ready to launch.

I printed business cards on vistaprint.com and handed them out to friends and strangers I meet to start up a conversation. On the business card I put a link to a Google Doc with a form for people to fill out their info so I can be in touch with them when the website is ready.

Maybe I put too many [required] fields on the 'sign-up' form, since I didn't get any response. How much info would you give? Just email or email name and city? (I want to know where people come from and Google doesn't give you Analytics on Docs)

Maybe people will not sign up for 'something-they-dont-know-about'. Would you?

Maybe I didn't offer something attractive enough? Is 'Sign up to be a BETA user' not enough? (BETA users will have extra week or less before everyone else). Should I offer a sale for first 2K 'signer-uppers', such as 15-20% OFF first purchase?

Friend suggested I make a video to Youtube to spread a lot of buzz. Any other buzz ideas that are cheap? (I don't have a lot of money for advertising)

What would attract you to sign up for 'something-you-dont-know'?
This was my idea originally. I talk to the guy that runs the registrar occasionally (I got burri.to 12 years ago...)
You are correct. It pulls images on the fly from flickr (more sites to come). Two word searches are not very successful at the moment.

Of course feel free to copy images from "wallet" to "leather wallet". Though you need to register to do this.

Thanks for the feedback.
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If I'm not mistaken, the kickstart is a limited offer and costs you $699 up front. That's difficult to swallow for most bootstrapped startups.
It just occurred to me that by using DNS without any filters Google is going to take people to domain squatters when someone mistypes a domain name. To get around this users are going to continue to type the domain (or company name) into Google and click on the first link and some of them will click on the advertising link. An "improved" form of DNS is a direct threat to Google's profit.
Just launch. Simply launch.
You completely missed the tone of voice implied by the context. Being “funny” is the point.

> This release [...] is the last one that will support Python 2.3. The next release will support only Python 2.4 and above. Twisted: the framework of the future!
There's legacy software... and then there are coding artifacts from another era. I'm not necessarily saying it's a deal breaker, but if your development tools consist solely of products that have been End of Lifed, you have right to be concerned how the job would affect your career development.
I knew OpenDNS redirected host-not-found traffic to their results page, but hadn't heard of them "prox[ying] google search traffic onto its own servers". Do you have more details?
How about the ability for the list creator/moderator to enable/disable the 'troll' flagging functionality for their mailinglist.

This allows the creation of lists whose entire purpose is trolling each other (i.e. trolls trolling trolls trolling trolls...). Or in general if I think that the 'troll' flag is 'censorship,' then I have the option to disable people (on my list at least) from using it.

edit: fixed a typo
set up an invite only system, give out 10 invites and only allow people to invite one other person per day.
I found this book to be really helpful in learning different approaches to estimation at different points in the project.

http://www.amazon.com/Software-Estimation-Demystifying-Pract...
James Lipton says "Don’t tweet your junk"
I failed to mention this in my original comment, but it's also not ASCII art as it only uses one character. My understanding of ASCII art is that it using different characters to form an image. Just look at every ASCII art from Wikipedia's page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII_art). Different characters contribute different visual aspects (like the edges). By just using one character it's essentially a dot matrix image. I don't consider a dot matrix image ASCII art (even though it uses the ASCII character ".").
I don't know. Could be due to the special lighting or the extra-high-gloss-cleaning for the photoshoot - but that slideshow left a very cold and unpersonal impression on me.

Like a modern hotel; definitely stylish, but not really a place I could imagine feeling at home (which is the feeling I need to be most creative).
No way, I like my DNS resolvers to be a little stupid. They know way too much about me.
it should work both ways. sometimes you think of the link text first, url second. other times it's the other way around.
IT ALSO BREAKS THE DNS.
<snip>
Interviewer: Would you still study computers whether or not it had any commercial value?

Knuth: Thank you for asking that question. I have always been attracted to computer science because it involves beautiful patterns, rather like the way dancers enjoy choreography, and because questions such as "What can be computed efficiently?" are profoundly interesting and challenging.
</snip>

The words and perspective of a master. His description of his work habits (no email, uninterrupted focus) is congruent with one who embodies the Tao of Programming. :)
I'm not 100% sure this is the answer to your question, but it's worth beating in mind in any case:

Burning fossil fuel adds carbon to the ecosystem. At any one time some of that carbon exists as CO2, but much of it exists in other forms, e.g. in biomass. This is a cycle, but with a constant addition of carbon that had previously been locked away deep underground, essentially uninvolved. Even if certain specific molecules of CO2 only last however long, the overall carbon content, and thus the overall CO2 level, are going up.

(Which is utterly uncontroversial, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keeling_Curve )

P.S. You mean only 20 billion per year.
Out of curiosity, how do you track frequency or recency of use? Just remembering, or is there data to be found?
Does anyone know of payment gateways that work with merchants outside the U.S.?

We are based in Israel and are going to launch a subscription based web app soon.

Right now it looks like the only option is to use Google checkout/ Paypal (the basic plan). Both of these send the customer off site and this makes for a slow user experience.
The bridge crossing example doesn't contain a factor equivalent to the risk that the scalpers take on when they buy the tickets, or the fee they pay to the people running the event.
That "improved" form of DNS breaks the DNS. Read what the IAB wrote about it. Think about what it does to things like email. It's just a bad, bad idea.
Music and various programes; nothing special.
More information on the code added: http://incanter-blog.org/2009/12/03/flightcaster/#comment-13...
Here is the difference between what Google will know:

User A: Google DNS: search for dell, dns lookups; dell.com, chat1.us.dell.com, checkout.dell.com

User B: Non-Google DNS: search for dell
Do you have any particular resources in mind that you could share?
For a large slice of Internet hosts, Google is already getting fine-grained data on what pages you're hitting.
Geeks trump alpha males as algorithms dominate Wall Street
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Ugh, I wish programmers would quit trying to re-invent the email regex. While I'm usually a big fan of reinventing the wheel, this is a complex problem that has already been solved, and the solution can be found in just a minute or two on Google.
The 37signals Manifesto (original site from 1999)
The timing of this is funny. On the one hand, Google introduces a faster DNS service. On the other hand, one of the videos shows how DNS pre-fetching in Chrome means that DNS lookup speed is not that critical.
DNS like IPv4 is just a protocol. Creating a new protocol that returns the same IP address as DNS along with a safety score and text description, and a list of alternative domain names with their IP's and safety scores is not a crime against humanity. And hacking the existing DNS protocol to do much the same thing can also be a reasonable thing to do.
What makes google chrome fast? A solid javascript compiler, a fast page renderer with a high performance DOM (webkit), and a few additional tricks like dns prefetching.

... and lazy competition. IE is satisfied with incremental performance improvements every 5 years, firefox is arguably still burdened with the luggage of AOL's Netscape rewrite from ages ago (though they've been making tremendous progress with each release), and safari on windows is an after thought.
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You're right on all points. However, given Google's entry into this now, what motivation does any ISP have left for running its own DNS servers?
How does Safari (or WebKit) perform on OS X?
I'm always happy to hear that geeks are trumping suits, but if suits can convince geeks to give up on startups and instead spend their lives writing trading algorithms, even for a lot of money, have the geeks really won?
Query time is 43 msec while opendns.com is 102 msec, not bad!
4.2.2.2 is still easier to type since you dont need to move your fingers at all

problem with 8.8.8.8 is you have to use the right hand to type it
No they don't. They have limited attention, but their space is, for all intents and purposes, infinite. Networks have 24 hours of programming, Google has millions of page views, application users, etc.

But, even if something gets very small amounts of attention, it is still incredibly cheap to serve ads (because that's all automated) and, as a result, make money. The user experience only has to be good enough to keep enough people using it that you break even on the infrastructure.
He said AGI, not salary. AGI includes bonus and all other forms of non-capital-gains compensation.

FWIW, one of my classmates graduated in 2003, worked for one of the big-5 financial companies for 3 years, then left with 4 friends to start a hedge fund. They had a $3B book when they started. If I assume normal 2-and-20 fees, that translates into an 8-figure income at the age of 25.

There's a lot of money chasing skilled people in finance. If you've got the credentials, some of it will find you.
Facebook Beacon Class Settlement
This was posted here yesterday...
opendns.com != OpenDNS. Try pinging 208.67.222.222
Very well. WebKit have a "zero-tolerance policy for performance regressions" [1], and it shows.

They also have a very good incentive to improve JavaScript performance, since Mobile Safari also runs on WebKit/Nitro.

[1] http://webkit.org/projects/performance/index.html
A novelist's already done this to name characters:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/robinsloan/robin-writes-...
Try `nslookup -vc [hostname]` after setting your name servers to the Level3 IP.

Just a wild guess. I can't remember off the top of my head if nslookup or dig, when specifying an alternate server, use TCP or UDP. But, if it uses TCP for those, then it's possible that your ISP is blocking UDP DNS traffic that's not destined for their DNS servers. It wouldn't be the first time.
"This is even more important for the implementation of transitions in an object-oriented finite-state machine of indefinitely long lifetime."
I think there's one more, people are like Griefers except way worse.

I think usenet can speak to the problem of trolls ruinging the community. Which is why web forms came to dominate, despite usenet's superiority in technical features and access (most people had email clients before web browsers).

Usenet was ruined by a small number of people who were trying to ruin others reputations by posting all sorts of insane diatribes to the group. Plus the spammers. Uggg... the spamemrs.
hi ppi IS useful. you don't need antialiasing software and such crap if you have hi ppi. personally, I would be able to find use for a wqxga (2560x1600) in a 14" or 15" laptop screen. And no, font size does not become tiny if one does not want this to be (although I want tiny fonts), with the new desktop technologies like microsoft aero or linux counterparts like plasma and compiz.

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

why we are going backwards:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/13/technology/13iht-13panel.1...
The linked bill that this is supposedly amending only has 8 sections, so it's not clear to me what the amendment is striking or where it's inserting things. Anyone have a better link to what's being amended?

EDIT: As best I can tell, this fits in section 8(2)(A) of S. 448 as currently printed at the linked site (http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:S.448:), so I'm guessing that the Durbin-Feingold amendment is presuming some other amendment that we're not seeing yet. Again: anyone have a better link?
Hardlinks and junction points are -not- symbolic links, and have lots of esoteric restrictions and consequences of use.

NTFS does support symbolic links as of Vista.
it doesn't mean it's not that critical... it means it's a problem, and that different teams are trying to solve it from different angles.
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It does take away much of the incentive to use a faster DNS service though.
Well, your ISP potentially has access to your DNS lookups regardless of whether you're using Google's DNS servers or theirs or someone else's. That is, assuming the ISP owns the fiber that you're connected through. Small ISPs don't.

But now you're adding yet another party in the mix -- Google, who already have a lot of information about your interests and habits. At the very very least, you're inviting an interested third party to have a look at your traffic.

Most of davidu's response was kind of a waste of time, but the one thing that made an impression on me was when he referred to Google as an advertising company. He's right; they're the most technologically advanced advertising company in the world.

So if this conversation was about "an unnamed technologically savvy advertising company", instead of Google, would you still be interested in giving them your DNS traffic?
Different source: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=973490
What are the advantages to using any of these over the PayPal Direct Payment API? https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_dcc_hub-outside
Not necessarily. Remember that these people are generally pretty clever. The story behind GOOG-411 is pretty good (though I don' think I can say it here; if you have a friend on the inside that knows you can keep your mouth shut, see if you can get them to tell you).

That said, it's unlikely that any amount of cleverness can buy an IP address, so yeah, probably $$$$$$$$$$.
That would seem to be the topic of the article, yes.
About problem formulations and ordered permutations
lol wow, amazing landing page text.

'THINK ABOUT IT: If your grandmother sees this link: http://bit.ly/zPWG6 she'll think, "Hmm, does someone want me to fly to Lithuania to get my teeth fixed?"'
Facebook Beacon settlement
E-mail says:
This is not a settlement in which class members file claims to receive compensation. Under the proposed settlement, Facebook will terminate the Beacon program. In addition, Facebook will provide $9.5 million to establish an independent non-profit foundation that will identify and fund projects and initiatives that promote the cause of online privacy, safety, and security.
Actually, ratings don't really measure viewer satisfaction. They measure the number of people watching. Those aren't really the same things.

The advertising based system on television is part of the reason why shows must have broad appeal, and often cater to a lowest common denominator. Shows which may require more effort from the viewer may get a smaller audience, but that audience may be much more satisfied. Unfortunately, since television's model is based only on total viewing audience, it doesn't matter how satisfied the viewer really is, just as long as they keep watching.
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