Re:Tell HN: Sorry I broke the server
by jacquesm on Sunday February 15, 2015 @05:06AM
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Where there's people working there are bound to be mistakes. Don't sweat it, this is a free service after all and the service level for a non-advertising supported free service is absolutely incredible. I'd be more than happy to pay for HN as it is, you guys are doing a better job than most paid services when it comes to customer support, uptime and courtesy combined.
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Hacker News is most definitely supported by ads. Perhaps you just don't realize it.
Re:Tell HN: Sorry I broke the server
by logicallee on Sunday February 15, 2015 @11:30AM
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Sure, and Harvard is supported by ads, you just don't realize it.
(sell an education->create wealthy people->ask them to contribute->get endowment whose returns account for the largest source of its operating revenue[1])
but I find your semantics frankly ridiculous. yes hacker news belongs to ycombinator. but you can't just use the word ad however you want. No, not everything's an ad, and in particular you can't 'buy' a job ad on HN. It's not a good description of the situation.
[1] http://www.harvard.edu/about-harvard/harvard-glance/endowmen... "The endowment remains the largest source of revenue supporting the University budget."
Re:Tell HN: Sorry I broke the server
by thomasfoster96 on Sunday February 15, 2015 @08:39AM
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I'm fairly certain those companies don't pay for those job listings.
Just because they give them out for free (to a very small specific group of companies) doesn't mean they don't have value.
Re:Tell HN: Sorry I broke the server
by thomasfoster96 on Sunday February 15, 2015 @09:37AM
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Oh yes they certainly have value - but Those job listings aren't ads that pay for servers and bandwidth for hacker news.
Depends how you look at it.
Re:Tell HN: Sorry I broke the server
by benologist on Sunday February 15, 2015 @11:50AM
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Whether that value directly pays for servers or intangibly-or-directly increases their own startups' value doesn't seem like an important distinction.
Re:Tell HN: Sorry I broke the server
by kyleblarson on Sunday February 15, 2015 @10:53AM
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Well, they are YC companies so they pay YC with a pretty significant portion of their equity.
Re:Tell HN: Sorry I broke the server
by DadFoundMy on Sunday February 15, 2015 @11:55AM
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Are you the same switz from #r/GlobalOffensive?
Seriously. I use HN as my "am I connected to the internet?" check, as it always loads instantly even when Google takes a while.
I personally use : http://perdu.com (up since 1998)
Which translate into:
Lost on the Internet? Don't worry, we will help * <----- you are here
Re:Tell HN: Sorry I broke the server
by imjustsaying on Sunday February 15, 2015 @05:53AM
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What fast IP do you use when you suspect you're connected to the internet but can't resolve DNS? I'm looking for a good non-Google IP (because China)
Level3's DNS is easy to remember at 4.2.2.1. Or is that Verizon's?
Re:Tell HN: Sorry I broke the server
by vinceguidry on Sunday February 15, 2015 @07:39AM
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You should only use 4.2.2.1 or 4.2.2.2 if you're an actual Level3 customer. While they do respond to public requests, they're not intended for public use, unlike Google's 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 servers.
Re:Tell HN: Sorry I broke the server
by userbinator on Sunday February 15, 2015 @09:51AM
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7120248
Level3's VP says they're public.
(They go up to 4.2.2.6 too, I think.)
Interesting. I seen to remember that at one point the reverse lookup for one of the 4.2.2.x addresses was "dont-steal-service-etc.somebody". I just send an ICMP ping when I need an IP to check a connection. I also seem to recall reading that the 4.2.2.x resolvers were multi-homed, but in both cases my memory could be faulty.
Re:Tell HN: Sorry I broke the server
by wattengard on Sunday February 15, 2015 @07:22AM
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Or google's at 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 ?
I still ping the IP address of my college's DNS server, all these years later. Muscle memory dies hard.
I'd love to see their stats. They have basically 0 content and I hit them 10 times a day.
Re:Tell HN: Sorry I broke the server
by iamwithnail on Sunday February 15, 2015 @05:29AM
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Hah, glad it's not just me. It's also the thing I hit if I'm trying to think of what I was doing/am idle for a moment... typing 'news.' just seems to flow from my fingers if they're unoccupied.
Re:Tell HN: Sorry I broke the server
by thomasfoster96 on Sunday February 15, 2015 @08:41AM
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There used to be a race between Google news (news.google.com) and Hacker News to be the top suggestion for me, hacker news has pulled away to a strong lead recently.
Re:Tell HN: Sorry I broke the server
by joefreeman on Sunday February 15, 2015 @07:24AM
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Ctrl-T, N, Enter :/
Re:Tell HN: Sorry I broke the server
by asadlionpk on Sunday February 15, 2015 @11:36AM
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same here, I visit this site so much that only typing 'N' does the job.
Re:Tell HN: Sorry I broke the server
by crystalclaw on Monday February 23, 2015 @03:23PM
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Ditto. Done with catching up on other stuff? CMD-T n enter. When it's perpetual tab gets closed, that is.
Yep, same for me. I'll be staring at the screen in thought, then up pops a Hacker News tab.
I have this habit too and it's deeply disturbing. Actively fighting it!
Why fight it? Visiting a technological/intellectual inspiration source definitely goes in my list of positive habits.
For me, because it can consume my entire workday. Has done that today, really.
Re:Tell HN: Sorry I broke the server
by bpodgursky on Sunday February 15, 2015 @09:28AM
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I use HN because I can never trust whether anymore whether Google is really loading from a remote source or is just doing some aggressive caching magic (or whether Chrome just has the Google homepage baked in now).
In terms of uptime, HN has been hosted on a single server (until recently... I saw mention of a failover server). If you are just looking for a lightweight site to load, example.com is great.
Re:Tell HN: Sorry I broke the server
by dredmorbius on Monday February 16, 2015 @12:46AM
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Might want to spread that out over a few sites. Any one can go down.
Alexa's top 10 sites is usually a pretty good set.
it's perhaps worth remembering the service isn't 100% altruistic... though I agree it is indeed awesome and I'd probably be happy to pay for it too.
Re:Tell HN: Sorry I broke the server
by akshatpradhan on Sunday February 15, 2015 @08:28AM
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Could you give some good examples of 100% altruistic?
Re:Tell HN: Sorry I broke the server
by Intermernet on Sunday February 15, 2015 @08:35AM
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These are probably debatable, but I'd suggest Wikipedia and Archive.org would come close.
Re:Tell HN: Sorry I broke the server
by spacemanmatt on Sunday February 15, 2015 @12:33PM
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groklaw.net was close enough for me.