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On a related note, I know the candidates have nothing to do with this, but I'm extremely impressed with Barack Obama's web presence. I was also very impressed with Mitt Romney's web presence during the election.


Well it's not like they were short of money to spend.


I'm surprised it's not 1080p or similar quality yet. That technology is so cheap these days; I'm sure it'll be a few more years before all security cams are recording in HD as the norm.


I would guess that has as much to do with storage and bandwidth as it does camera quality.


and most atms are 1990s technology


Good point. I know how reluctant financial organizations are when they have to actually spend some of their own money to upgrade something.


vag.io is no longer available. But vagio.com is. I have a feeling it wont be in a little while after I make this post. Sucks domain squatters are such fucking scumbags. Plus nobody is interested in the term 'vagio' in the first place or else both domains would have been taken before today, so there's no demand or means to make a profit off of them. I hate domain squatters... the worst form of scum on earth!


Could somebody explain to me the imporance of .io domains in today's market? It seems they are very hot right now, especially in the startup world and I think they could even become as popular as .com.


The main reason that this TLD has recently gained traction is due to google adding .io to their generic country code top level domain (gccTLD) list:

https://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en...


Not entirely accurate.

That all happened after hipsters squatting these domains cried Google a whaaambulance over not getting the search-rank they felt they "deserved".

Something else made these utterly pointless domains popular before that, but what that was, I don't know.


> Something else made these utterly pointless domains popular before that, but what that was, I don't know.

Possibly 'io' being short for input/output. The first .io domains I remember were some programmer blogs/personal sites. Now they are just over used.


Hard to imagine it was 'only' 20 years ago. Can you imagine what will come 20 years from today, in 2033?


My bash does this automatically and I do not have a ~/.inputrc file. I'm on Mac OS X 10.8.2 using the Terminal app (which is a bash command line interface). I assumed this was a default feature of bash but apparently not. If somebody can explain to me why I have this feature by default, I would be grateful.


Bash will up/down between past commands, but it's unfiltered. This lets you type the first few characters you know you're looking for to find it faster.


OHHHHHH. I get it now. Thank you for the explanation.


I miss when webpages used to look like that!


BarackObama.com is hosted with Amazon Web Services as well. We can know by examining the domain servers when you look at the [whois record](http://whois.domaintools.com/barackobama.com) for that domain. (On a related note, the domain registrar used is GoDaddy)

It makes sense - government needs to host their files somehow, as we are moving into this digital age.

I don't see anything wrong with it, though it will further cement Amazon's standing as a big business superpower.


That tells you that barackobama.com is using Amazon's Route 53 for DNS services.

This, however, shows that they are using AWS (EC2) for hosting:

    $ host -t a barackobama.com
    barackobama.com has address 50.19.226.77
    $ host 50.19.226.77
    77.226.19.50.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer ec2-50-19-226-77.compute-1.amazonaws.com.


Off-topic: (foo)[url] syntax only works on reddit, on HN I usually put something like this [1]

1. url


It's markdown, a few more sites use that syntax. HN uses formatdoc which is a very small subset of markdown.


Thank you! I've been wondering how people do italics and the like. Your post helped me find an HN comment [1] which discussed the Arc source code for highlighting.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=606843 2: http://arcfn.com/doc/app.html#markdown


No problem, not sure if it's linked somewhere but there is this: https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc


There is a difference between a public facing website and what the CIA will use AWS for.


Bitcoin is still pretty new and volatile, but it is slowly but surely becoming more stable over time, in my opinion.


I haven't thought about this as much as you, but I see the recent increase in Bitcoin's value related to the recent rise of gold value - people are starting to lose faith in the USD and wanting to put their money somewhere else. Gold has been sharply increasing in value since 2001: http://i.imgur.com/PTyNacP.png

I do remember that there was a Bitcoin crash around November 2011, though, so maybe you are right that it will happen again.


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