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Dylanb

Re:Ask HN: Best free DNS provider? on Monday October 18, 2010 @04:07AM (#1802695)
I would recommend using NameBench (http://code.google.com/p/namebench/ ) to find the fastest free one for you.
Re:Ask HN: How to measure the size of a market? on Friday October 15, 2010 @05:39AM (#1794084)
This provides the methodology used to calculate the market size for an iPhone app: http://blog.jwegener.com/2009/08/03/million-dollar-iphone-ap...

Keep in mind Android fragmentation as well: http://blog.tweetdeck.com/android-ecosystem

Re:The $25,000 Hearst Data Mining Challenge has just launched on Thursday October 14, 2010 @01:20AM (#1789905)
I'm very interested in this challenge as I come from a publishing background, with a few years doing Newsstand Sales analytics and reporting. Will likely give it a shot!