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For a moment I thought this was about https://csszengarden.com/pages/about/

(A long time ago) it was an amazing source to learn CSS, and get design inspiration.

I use https://goodsnooze.gumroad.com/l/macwhisper for this (no affiliation, just saw on HN before). IIRC there are also some open source solutions in the space compatible with Linux/win but I haven't tried them.

Coincidentally, yesterday I finished reading "Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management For Mortals" (https://www.harvard.com/book/four_thousand_weeks/).

It's a great book if you feel overwhelmed with all the things you must/should/want to do and struggle getting the most out of your remaining weeks.

So can someone ELI5 how bad this is?

From what I'm reading this should only affect systems that use a compromised DNS server or in a MitM attack scenario. Which is serious but not so easily exploitable (I think).

I see, very interesting. Thank you for the reply!

Disclaimer: I have a layman's understanding (at best) of astrophysics.

Couldn't this be explained by an orbiting planet colliding with another body and breaking apart? Couldn't this satisfy the number of "comets" required for the hypothesis?

Could you please elaborate on how you created the mirror?

I have almost the same setup (Arch, Linode, nginx) and although my VPS has been rock solid so far, I would like to have something like this for testing purposes.

It's a nice presentation but are the videos available somewhere?

Not necessarily, for example your "Learn python in 10 minutes" post appears as a PR0 page, thus it won't outrank your competitors. Keep in mind that this could be just a temporal glitch and might get fixed automatically if/after your page is assigned a higher PR.

You mentioned that you've set up redirects from the old site to the new one, are you sure that your content doesn't appear twice, using different url's? (ks.net/node/1 and ks.net/tutorials/First) This will be penalized by Google.

Also your /tutorials url redirects back to the main domain, is this by accident?

Hmm that's quite longer from my past experience, but not unheard of. What troubles me is that your pages haven't disappeared completely from Google's index, e.g. if you enter "site:korokithakis.net" there are 302 results returned.

Perhaps Google has reevaluated your ranking for these keywords, as there are a lot of PR6-7 sites but yours is a PR4 (at least according to the SEO Site Tools extension).

Your best bet is to follow infinity's advice and start blogging more frequently, while targeting specific keywords for your posts.

Hi Stavro, how long has it been since you made the changes?

I've seen a couple of times similar behavior where a site disappeared from google's results for a couple of days, after some content and theme changes but everything was back to normal after that. In any case καλή τύχη.

What about data persistence? Is it still enforced only through replication?

I really liked MongoDB's philosophy but this was the show stopper for me when I was exploring it. At least for some services I need to be certain that if the DB says it stored some data that really stored and not kept in volatile memory until it decides it's the right time to write them to disk.

It's been a while since I looked at it though, and that may no longer be the case. Are there any improvements in this area?

Stripe looks promising but based on their FAQ they are available only to US based companies/persons for now, so they are not an option I can consider, at least in the near future.

http://saasy.com claim that they have solved this problem but I haven't yet used them. Does anyone else have any experience with them?

Slightly OT:

I've been looking into paypal alternatives but there really wasn't anything available, besides setting up a merchant account, for non-US businesses.

Does anyone know of any similar service available internationally?

In the post you replied to I said that google could manipulate the search results to change facebook's pagerank, not dropping them entirely. Just so that results from the domain appear on the second or third page.

Seriously. Tweaking your search algorithms to the detriment of some providers and to the benefit of others is one thing (that Google does now, and which they won't be sued for). Deliberately removing a direct competitor with as high a profile (and deep pockets) as Facebook is a different kettle of fish.

Ok, I can understand that. So, what if all results from *.facebook.com were moved after the first few pages of google's results for the relevant search terms?

Would that be enough for an antitrust lawsuit?

As for the target group of users we are discussing, it would have virtually the same results.

When it comes to evilness Google has been posing as the good guy for a long time, while collecting a lot of personal information from their users in the background.

Facebook, on the other hand, is based on the users voluntarily and involuntarily (through friends etc) providing their information and isn't so discreet about it's attempts to leverage this data to profit.

This is known even by non savvy users (personally, I've met a lot of non technical people that were worried about Facebook's collection of data with regards to personal rights/privacy, but haven't once heard about Google's tactics) and has bitten them before, e.g. Beacon.

So I feel that Google won't be stigmatized by such a move, considering it's against an opponent perceived by the public as more evil.

I wonder what would happen if google dropped facebook from their search results in retaliation. At least for tech-savvy users it won't pose a problem, but for the rest it will cause major problems (e.g. the RWW article). Will it be legal though?

If you find this concept interesting there is a related short story by Jorge Luis Borges called "The Library of Babel" written in 1941. You can read it here:

http://jubal.westnet.com/hyperdiscordia/library_of_babel.htm...

It doesn't deal with the generation of all the books/data, but with a fictional scenario where they are available to human beings (plus the universe is practically a giant library). I found it a fun and intriguing thought experiment/narration.

(edit) The mathematics behind the story:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Library_of_Babel#Value_as_a...

On the job boards page you were linking to startup.ly which is a parked domain. I've edited it to link to startuply.com, I hope this is the one you meant.

What about hybrids like Silverstripe? Has anyone used it (or something similar) for large-ish projects? Although personally I use mostly CakePHP, I began playing with it lately and it seems to me that it has a lot of potential. Basic CMS functionality is provided out of the box, but I really like the way you can extend the core classes and integrate your own functionality into it, without losing the typical ease of use, even for non developer maintainers/users.

Although I don't think there was a port of an actual stand-alone title (edit: I believe pong was one of them though) , the original System Shock had similar "gems".

I remember constantly loading the game just to play one of the mini-games, an arcade space fighting one.

I quess a semi-personalised email asking for feedback on the service for each subscriber could make them more positively inclined towards it, plus, if you time it right, it could work as a reminder for people that have used your site in the beginning but then forgot about it.

How did you manage to get exposure in order to collect so many emails in such a short period of time? Ads or something else?

I'm getting a 509 bandwith limit exceeded so here's google's cached version, without the images.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:YwutCvF...

It is a great game, especially the paid survivor mode, although beware, it's a huge timesink in every mode. Very addicting, gives one a sense of complete freedom to build and hack almost anything he desires. If you search youtube you'll be astonished at how much time and passion people have put into their creations. It gives me a feeling of an old school game, before graphics became the No.1 reason to play a game.

What's even greater is that Notch (the sole creator and developper), apart from being very dedicated to the project, is very accepting to users' feedback and completing requested features.

In my case karma has the opposite effect on commenting. In fear of getting down voted I tend to avoid making comments. In reality this is just my fear of failure/getting rejected manifestating, but unless my eagerness/curiosity/certainty threshold is high enough I avoid the risk altogether.

The problem is that until I get over this exact sentiment/mindset I will just keep enriching my personal collection of thoughts or proof of concept applications and never, really, release anything. Sigh

On the other hand, I did not create an account on HN as a means to popularity, and since getting a new one is so easy I shouldn't care, but alas I do.

The problem is that all of these techniques are based on speculation and/or empirical data, but without solid measurements, especially since google's ranking system is a black box. Personally I have encountered 2 opposing opinions on this subject, one suggesting that google does take the duration of the registered domain under consideration, based on some patent that google had filed about it's ranking system, and the other one was from some supposed employee who claimed it didn't, due to the fact that some registrars withhold this information and thus no comparison could be made between them and domains on those that publicized it.

Some similar cases:

http://www.gearthhacks.com/dlcat24/Aircraft-in-flight.htm

For non-US residents you could use Anchorfree's Hotspot Shield.

I dont believe it's secure privacy/personal data -wise but it's an easy way to get a US ip address and gain access to sites like hulu. Be warned though, it is pretty slower than your usual unencrypted/untunneled connection.

If anyone else knows about a similar service please let us know about it.