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Can't even login now, if you look at the javascript console in Chrome/FF you'll see the server giving 500 errors. Looks like they under-anticipated the demand...

BBC is my favorite: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-20009195

Impressive, though a bit jumpy/slow on some of the larger images.

Another well designed government (UK) website: https://www.gov.uk/

"Password has to be atleast 6chars and atmost 15chars." - why the 15 max character limit?

Step 2 after securing your site is to keep it online :) Can't get it to load :/

Good stuff IMO; those who continue to insist on using IE<9 deserve a degraded experience. Those who are forced by their employers should lobby them to upgrade/move to FF/Chrome (and when they inevitably don't listen, then it's really too bad - but if said employer wants to use a service w/o old IE support it might force the upgrade).

In a world where technology is developing at such a pace, it really is time we stopped worrying about old, poorly built bits of software.

I don't remember a huge amount of discredit on the hotel in two weeks?

I would expect that hotel is still standing strong for years to come; I think China really are the world leaders when it comes to construction these days (I heard somewhere that they're putting up some insane number of coal power-plants every month?!). What I'd really like to see is an entire prefab, skyscraper filled city built in a year.

On the plus side of it all; $20,000 still earned!

Not surprising landlords have caught on either, a good warning to anyone else selling their spare rooms.

I can't understand why learning vim/emacs is in any way useful for a programmer. Surly the best text editor is the easiest to use (ie one which makes use of a keyboard + mouse)? Vim is certainly powerful (and unnecessarily complicated), but when it comes to writing out code anything will do (Sublime in my case).

So very, very true. It's too easy to get caught up thinking of new ideas rather than focussing-on/re-thinking one idea.

Sounds awesome; using my favorite php stack too :)

Would be nice to see a preview of different bits of the book when written as well.

Lovely! Far far nicer looking than the current panel, though it doesn't really make good use of my resolution; and some of the elements feel a little 'big'. But a massive improvement nonetheless.

If only the worlds combined military budgets could be directed towards a global space (/science) program. Less investment in death and more in the future of human kind.

Same here, been there a few years now and recently had 4 drives fail in 24 hours! But, as usual, fast and professional support.

Just make sure you don't have anyone on the server (client, etc) running SSH attacks on their core routers or UDP floods, because that becomes a nightmare!

I love the British design; I've always found two pronged cables wobblier in the socket/not to mention buying-forgetting-rebuying many adapters of course

Awesome idea, beautiful looking site :)

I would say that because it spread beyond Natanz it was a big fuck up :)

This feels similar to the Megaupload case; America desperately throwing its weight around outside it's borders, with a total disregard for the law. And, just like the Megaupload case, they have fucked up big time.

Why does the American govt. feel it has the right to choose who can become a nuclear power or not anyway?

I have to admit my uptake of the CSS3 spec has been way off the pace - excellent article, now to wait until all the major browsers implement the whole spec.

A fine finish to an awesome mission, at last commercial space flight seems a reality; we're one step closer to holidaying on the moon :)

If the money is returned, I hope Dotcom gets megaupload back in it's top file-sharing spot, and shoves it in the face of the US Govt. who have clearly fucked up big time.

It does seem as if the Govt. was desperate and, without any correct process or concrete evidence, scrambled to shutter the site and Dotcom as fast as they could. And now it will hopefully backfire, and the internet will rejoice.

12: 4 iMac 4 PC 2 Macbook Air 2 iPhone

Technically I also own 16x4 core servers in Germany as well, totalling 76 cores!

edit: ps3/wii also, but not sure on the core counts

I can't but help agreeing with this. However, I think NoSQL is an important tool when dealing with 'big' data (billions of records). NoSQL is also awesome for 'accelerating'/caching standard SQL (memcache to cache sql results, etc).

At the end of the day, both have important roles to play and, in many respects, compliment each other.

Britain? Our 'justice' system will extradite anyone (to the US) without blinking an eyelid. To our legal system & government staying on good terms with the US is FAR more important than the rights of the people. The tvshack case is a perfect example of this, and it's terribly sad.

Hurrah for NZ though - excellent comments from the judge regarding the flakey-ness of the FBI's case. I expect this might me a major turning point if, as Dotcom has previously stated, the FBI do in fact have very little evidence (and, as I expect, are simply working for their hollywood based overlords).

True - as does iOS I suppose. The reason I worry is because (I would assume) a facebook phone would have no apps for other social networks, because facebook, for obvious reasons, want to keep the user entirely based on their network.

Beautiful.

It does make me worry though; a phone exclusively tied/forced to only one social network is a scary idea.

The HN algorithm is outlined here: http://amix.dk/blog/post/19574

Awesome & beautiful, love it!

+1 for server teams! sysadmins never get appreciated enough.

However, as far as the Diablo 3 launch goes, some thoughts:

+ Blizzard have been doing this for years

+ They know how many people have pre-ordered and pre-installed the game

+ The game is singleplayer, yet they decided upon this online requirement (no offline play, thanks Blizzard)

All in all it's pretty annoying to purchase something and not be able to play it because they simply haven't upgraded their infrastructure for the load they should have expected.

Just installed it - loving the added spacing, increased font sizes/etc; it makes far better use of the full screen.

I doubt I'll ever be uninstalling this :)