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d503on You’re not anonymous. I know your name, email, and company.

Ghostery does, though.

d503on Search, Mad Men style: A complete IBM 362 Google interface in the browser

Given the error message I received I think yes to the first :)

RECEIVED MESSAGE "Quota Exceeded. Please see http://code.google.com/apis/websearch.

HUMAN READABLE: "Mountainview, we have a problem."

ADVICE: A quota error indicates a temporary overload due to high demand. Please retry later.

d503on Hacker News: DMCA

There's one here: http://www.copyright.gov/onlinesp/agents/n/news_ycomb.pdf

d503on Disney to Acquire Lucasfilm Ltd.

Bob Iger (CEO of Disney) also joined Apple's board shortly after Steve's passing.

d503on BufferBox (YC S12) launches deal with transit system

In this case, GO Transit runs a commuter rail network (on the surface) so underground bombings shouldn't be a concern.

d503on China Blocks Web Access to The New York Times After Article

Having access to Google Maps... there's a Starbucks (and Panera) basically next door. Granted the area isn't all that walkable and "next door" is still kind of far without a car.

d503on Save Even More Time On Hacker News

This project was clearly around before Autobahn (May 27 blog post vs June 8 start date) and according to the Chrome Web Store it has more users (785 vs 409).

http://danmaz74.me/2012/05/27/save-time-on-hacker-neww-mark-...

d503on Apple Has a New Cook

E-mail is pretty crucial to me, and some MobileMe users couldn't access their mail for days.

http://www.macworld.co.uk/macsoftware/news/?RSS&NewsID=2...

d503on Adobe Edge Web Fonts

If you don't mind hosting it yourself it looks like you can buy VAG Rundschrift as a downloadable web font from MyFonts.com.

http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/urw/vag-rundschrift/

d503on JetBlue to offer free inflight wifi in 2013

It's claimed the system will offer 12mbps or more to each passenger via ViaSat-1, which should offer 140 Gbps total throughput ("the highest capacity satellite in the world" with "more capacity than all current North American satellites combined")

http://www.viasat.com/news/new-exede-internet-for-commercial...

d503on GoDaddy Outage: How to Migrate to AWS Route 53

When I stopped my Linodes I'm pretty sure I remember they warned that my DNS would be stopped along with them, so I do think you have to be a paying customer for that to work.

d503on Google Nexus Q: The social streaming media player

According to the NY Times, it "contains almost all American-made parts" but "Semiconductor chips are more of a challenge. In some cases, the chips are made in the United States and shipped to Asia to be packaged with other electronic components."

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/28/technology/google-and-othe...

d503on New gTLD Applied-For Strings

It doesn't work for me either, but http://ac./ does.

d503on 6.5 Million LinkedIn Password Hashes Leaked

If you're paranoid about shoulder-surfing you can use getpass to hide your password as you type it in.

    >>> import getpass
    >>> password = getpass.getpass('Password: ')

http://docs.python.org/library/getpass.html

d503on Ask HN: Has anyone put thought into the degradation of online communities?

Clay Shirky's "A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy" from 2003 is a bit of a classic.

http://www.shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html

d503on Why I Left Google

It looks like that's true, "except for those inventions that ... Relate at the time of conception or reduction to practice of the invention to the employer's business, or actual or demonstrably anticipated research or development of the employer."

With a company like Google it would seem that quite a lot of things might fall into that category.

d503on VM export for EC2

> the cost and latency hit of cross-cloud network communication.

AWS Direct Connect might help with that. Anyone have any experience with it?

"AWS Direct Connect makes it easy to establish a dedicated network connection from your premise to AWS. Using AWS Direct Connect, you can establish private connectivity between AWS and your datacenter, office, or colocation environment, which in many cases can reduce your network costs, increase bandwidth throughput, and provide a more consistent network experience than Internet-based connections."

http://aws.amazon.com/directconnect/

d503on Firebase (YC S11) Raises $1.1M For Real-Time App Infrastructure

Arguably if you're talking about spending money then a conservative (i.e. cautious or moderate) estimate is a high estimate.

d503on London traffic lights rigged to win International Olympic Committee's favor

At least they don't try to hide it. Remember these lovely posters from 2002?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/24992147@N03/2644171457/

Now available in mug and t-shirt form.

http://www.ltmuseumshop.co.uk/search.html?SearchTerm=watchfu...

d503on On Diaspora's Social Network, You Own Your Data

Can they do that? The "Limitations on Diaspora, Inc." section of the contributor agreement says:

> Diaspora, Inc. will not distribute your Contribution to any third party under any license without also requiring that third party to also make your Contribution available to the public under the same license.

I'm not sure but it sounds like that might prevent them from closed-source dual-licensing arrangements. I suppose that doesn't preclude them from building their own proprietary extensions to the Diaspora software for their own hosted services, although the agreement also states:

> Diaspora, Inc. will distribute the Diaspora™ Software, as a whole, under version 3 or later of the AGPL.

If extensions are considered part of the software "as a whole" then they might not even be able to do that.

https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora/wiki/New-CLA--12-13-10

d503on Why Use Postgres - Part 2

One of the bug fixes for Postgres95 Release 0.03 (Released 1995-07-21) is:

* the LISTEN/NOTIFY asynchronous notification mechanism now work

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/static/release-0-03.html

d503on Vert.x – JVM Polyglot Alternative to Node.js

PostgresSQL's libpq supports nonblocking asynchronous operation, and node-postgres takes advantage of that.

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/libpq-async.html

https://github.com/brianc/node-postgres/blob/master/src/bind...

(notice the Connect method on line 325 of binding.cc)

At some level a client-server database driver isn't all that different from any other network client; you send a request over a socket and wait for a result. There's no reason you have to block while waiting.

Moreover some databases (like Postgres) let you receive asynchronous notifications signaled by transactions on other connections; that's how trigger-based replication systems like Bucardo do their thing.

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/sql-notify.html

d503on Scaling Instragram

A few companies do actually, including DuckDuckGo and Tarsnap.

http://fosstithe.org/

http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2010/11/help-me-start-a-...

d503on Google is making a huge and annoying mistake

Web Intents (which should be in Chrome soon, or maybe they're in already) should hopefully allow exactly that.

http://webintents.org/

Latest news seems to be on G+: https://plus.google.com/u/0/116171619992010691739/posts

d503on Three things you should never put in your database

Incidentally, SQL Server 2008 has a FILESTREAM type which integrates with NTFS to give you streaming access to BLOBs (you can even work with them via Windows file handles). MSDN has a pretty thorough (and I thought interesting) technical article on them. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc949109(v=sql.100)....

d503on Android Ported to C#

MonoTouch http://xamarin.com/monotouch

d503on Analytic Thinking Promotes Religious Disbelief

There was actually a poll about two years ago. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1486594

Edit: 1519 out of 2251 (or 67.5%) responded Nonreligious/Atheist/Agnostic/etc.

d503on How the medical supply industry blocks device startups from selling to hospitals

Kaiser actually shut down their kidney transplant program in 2006 [1] after a number of problems came to light. The state regulator prepared a 50 page report on the matter [2]. Incidentally--and I have no personal experience with Kaiser or any other HMO and can't tell how close to reality this is--Kaiser (in California at least) does pretty well in government quality of care performance measurements and overall member ratings [3], and they are also Consumer Reports's top ranked California HMO.

[1] http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/05/13/... [2] http://www.dmhc.ca.gov/library/reports/med_survey/surveys/05... [3] http://www.opa.ca.gov/report_card/hmorating.aspx

d503on NameCheap Overtakes Go Daddy In Google

I just tried registering my own nameservers on my NameCheap-hosted domain and it does appear to work even with a plain domain subscription.