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Has anyone found the contest end date? I have a project I can't put down (unfortunately), but would really like to have time to enter.

https://github.com/jwagner/Neonflames

I'll get down-voted -- correctly -- for saying something that adds nothing to the conversation, but YES! I think spending my childhood watching Lucas Walencheck was part of my inspiration to learn programming.

I'd really like to see a longitudinal study that models something like:

   log(mean_realized_income) ~ log(mean_expected_future_income)

Joe Armstrong is a really interesting guy. I think he was my favorite interview in Coders at Work.

I'm similar. I used to always listen to music while coding, but over time I realized for a lot of work, it really is a bad distraction. The only time I really listen to music while working now is for parts that are mostly the coding equivalent of manual labor. When I do -- if I need the energy -- I usually listen to http://di.fm/

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

As far as I'm aware, no. That's why RightAWS said they get an F for communication.

I don't think it was a symptom of routing synchronization specifically, but I'd be curious to know if it was a case of unexpected and undesired synchronization. (E.G. An independent and random cluster of blocks suddenly updated; the network was saturated; it pulled in more updates; ...)

And yes, the paper talked about randomization. It also pointed out the magnitude of randomization required was larger than expected.

http://ee.lbl.gov/papers/sync_94.pdf

I posted this yesterday, with the conjecture that it may have been a sudden sync problem. It's a good read.

When the dust settles, I'd be curious to know whether some unexpected and accidental synchronization occurred that put EC2 into it's mangled state.

   Also how do you meet programming partners.

My advice is to go find find some open source projects that tackle a problem you find interesting and contribute. In the process of working on open source projects, you'll find people that you can work with well. They might be useful in the future.

Something I really enjoyed recently:

  Common sense is that which tells us the world is flat. --Stuart Chase

I was. Thanks for the great link!

1) Explicit privacy policy that never stores DNS requests on a per-client basis. I haven't followed the ISP retention laws but they seemed to be getting more and more ominous.

2) While caching DNS record, when freshing up a stale record,

  if(isknownSeizureDomain(record)) ignore();

I mentioned this in the Poker thread. (If I had time right now, I'd consider implementing it.) I would like and would use a DNS service that 1) did not keep any record of my queries and 2) would not propagate government takedowns (e.g. by ignoring updates with NS:ns2.cirfu.net.

Okay. This makes me want to indulge in youthful indignation.

If I saw this and was at a company like OpenDNS, I'd start considering saying "No. Sorry. We're going reverting back to the last good record." The federal government might have technical jurisdiction, and U.S. customers might technically be violating U.S. laws but the ability of the federal government to seize internet properties terrifies me because it might set a national and international precedent. (Other countries already do this, but U.S. doing it kinda makes it globally sanctioned.) I'm terrified of a slippery slope, even though I usually find slippery slope arguments dubious. (Plus, I just think this is a dumb seizure to begin with...)

(End of youthful indignation.)

Felipe Fernandez-Armesto has a good book called Civilization: Culture, Ambition, and the Transformation of Nature that talks a lot about this, among other things.

http://www.amazon.com/Civilizations-Culture-Ambition-Transfo... (Not an affiliate link.)

How different is this PDF from the book version? (see: http://www.amazon.com/Purely-Functional-Structures-Chris-Oka...) Regardless, thanks for the link.

See wealth of background material: http://boom.cs.berkeley.edu/papers.html

Part I really caught my attention when it was posted a week or so ago. I've never really learned about music but it seems like a lot of programmers really like composing music. (Actually, L. Peter Deutsch famously left programming in favor of composing.)

I can't speak of it's quality yet, but the original post lead me to stumble upon: http://www.musimathics.com/

To some degree, I think unabused HTML 3.2 was less noisy than unabused HTML 5.0...

...but maybe it's really about plain, dumb, and irrational nostalgia.

Consider starting (or merely sanctifying) a HN IRC channel or webchat. I think a lot of people comment and visit HN now just for something to do; they are bored and want to do some intellectual sparing.

If there was a irc.ycombinator.com with real-time chat topics, it might help separate "the wheat from the chaff," so to speak.

E.G. #japan-nuclear-chat

If not a chat, I'd say focus on something that doesn't fight the size of the community. Personally, I'd prefer if HN was shrunk to like '08 levels, but that's not going to happen. I think adding a service that allows for water cooler talk but keeps it isolated from deep technical discussions would work better than karmic tinkering at this point.

What you described is becoming much more common. I still have concerns, but I'm excited by the promise of websites like http://patientslikeme.com

(Disclaimer: I'm actually starting an HN-like website for rare disease people in a week or two; I had (or have) a rare type of cancer called Chordoma.)

I wonder if their are any BioHackers out there that actually try to do this type of work. (Anyone?) I'm not one of them, but I've always had the impression they play more with bacteria than complex organisms. I think cost and accessibility are probably prohibitive to the garage biohacker, but would a very motivated biohacker have the advantage of not answering to an IRB?

::Sigh:: With the exception of the marquee element, I prefer HTML3.2-style designs...

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Steven Strogatz' Blink-level introduction to synchronization, Sync has a good chapter on Sleep titled Sleep and the Daily Struggle for Sync. I almost used it as a prescription for avoiding certain activities that may prevent me from getting a full sleep cycle.

I agree with your tone, but disagree with the conclusions.

   Unfortunately, the only people who care about Twitter's recent actions are the nerds.
   ...
   SMTP and POP are protocols, Twitter and Facebook are websites with APIs.

(That being said, I would have preferred that Twitter was a distributed and open protocol from the start; however, I'm not going to switch to an open product just because it's open. I want the more accessible and wider cast social network.)

Is Android actually less competitive? (That's not a rhetorical question.)

It seems like there are lots of developers who would naturally prefer developing on Android to developing on iOS. Additionally, the recent stream of developers getting more and more pissed off at Apple probably has been resulting in at least some switching, albeit not the exodus that some of those pissed off people predicted. (The allure of big money trumps the fear of frustration -- and Apples store certainly has the allure of money.)