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Ask HN: What is the legality in private domain registration and GoDaddy?
I want to purchase a domain for my startup but it is owned by what I believe to be a defunct company in Toronto, Canada. They owned a company with the same name as late as around 2010 but based on internet search, it seems like their business went cold around that time. The domain has been squatted on ever since.
Now my stealth startup wants to purchase this domain as it is unused and hasn't been in quite awhile, but it is privately owned with the domain whois info pointing to:

Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.wildwestdomains.com Registrar URL: http://www.wildwestdomains.com Registrant Email: DOMAIN@domainsbyproxy.com

Domains by Proxy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domains_by_Proxy) is owned by Bob Parsons (GoDaddy).

There are two things I feel leave a bad taste in my mouth.

1) People are allowed to squat on a domain indefinitely, creating no value for the domain (or society) and inhibiting others from creating value with it. By allowing private domain registration, in encourages this squatting and to me it hurts the market with an opposite effect from "free market" where instead it becomes "closed market".

2) GoDaddy seems to have a conflict of interest and charges $70 (+ commission) for their domain buy back service. In my case, all they did after I paid it was email me to tell me the seller is not interested in selling and that it is a non-refundable fee. I have called the to complain and get my $70 back as I feel like they didn't do anything that is worth $70 (and ive spent well over $1,000 in the past decade with them), but so far they won't refund me.

It seems almost fraudulent that GoDaddy can both hide a registrant's true identity and then charge money to be a middle man with them and in probably most cases they just tell you that the seller isn't interested.

What are your thoughts HN community? Does GoDaddy have a conflict of interest or a shady business practice here? Should there be a change in laws around this? What can I do?
This is easily verified. A search on my LinkedIn account for previous employer Microsoft / current employer Amazon brings up 832 results (you may get more or less, depending on your LinkedIn connections.) I get 578 results going the other way.
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Powershell cmdlets are different(ly named) than executables/commands because they don't preferentially emit text: they emit .NET object streams. I suspect this is for compatibility/interrop reasons.

(They are implemented as .NET classes loaded from within libraries, as I recall. Eg, `import-module activedirectory` will load the entire library of AD cmdlets.)

Here's what you can do with object streams:

Get-ADUser | select FirstName,LastName,EmailAddress,Department | where {$_.FirstName -contains "Jeffery"} | format-table

In a traditional Unix pipeline, you'd have to make sure that none of the other fields contained "Jeffery", or you could get false positive results. For example, you might have to use multiple named pipes or temporary files for each of the table columns, and reinterpolate them into a table/CSV/whatever after doing the grep. You could always use Python/Perl/Ruby/Tcl instead of course, but those aren't really shells.

You can also do math, method calls, etc. The example above was just a trivial one.
I feel like you're taking an elitist position... I've heard this applied to professionals at every level of education. A quick find-and-replace applied to your comment follows.

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The difference between having a job in programming and having a career in programming is your grasp of the fundamentals of computing. This is because the ability of a person to learn new technologies and techniques is largely a function of their grasp of fundamentals.

Fundamentals that Undergraduate Computer Science Programs uniformly skip over in the interests of getting to experience faster.

In the abstract, it is of course fully, completely, and totally possible for a person to learn this independently or on the job. In practice, that is sufficiently rare as to not be worth discussing. Jobs where Recent Developments in Deep Learning at Stanford are taught in the office are, I suspect, similarly rare.

Undergraduate Computer Science skills are only useful so long as the person never needs to learn a different paradigm, learn significantly different technologies that require thinking differently, move into a different type of programming, or desires significant technical career advancement. Those things require a mix of fundamental knowledge and experience.

Does that make sense?
>she ate lots of tinned beef smothered in potassium nitrate //

The injunction is surely not to eat foods available now that your grandmother wouldn't recognise as food rather than to eat what your grandmother actually ate.

Taken that way it's not saying the past diets were ideal but that the completely new foods are generally less healthy than the progressively developed foods.

You seem to have made an logically erroneous negation of the assertion being addressed.
I would say that the argument should be for denying public officials the right to conduct any official business, campaigning, and communication with the public via non-transparent/non-auditable channels such as Twitter.

Hypothetically, if Yahoo! automatically bans a suspected spammer account, and it turns out that the account was actually H.Clinton's official address, it shouldn't be Yahoo!'s fault for not knowing the legal identity of the owner -- rather, it should be the owner's responsibility to use the appropriate channels to conduct official communication, and stick to the ToS otherwise.
I've had a good bit of luck using Pandoc to fill in my latex templates from a markdown file.
As someone who used to use PowerShell rather extensively (back when my dayjob regrettably involved thousands of Windows machines that needed managing and support), I feel like trying to compare PowerShell to, say, bash is folly. To me, PowerShell has more in common with a proper scripting language - somewhere between Perl and Ruby, but with a nice-ish REPL - than a traditional shell like bash. Both the Unix-style text-centric paradigm and the PowerShell-style object-centric paradigm have their place.

That all said, the most recent PowerShell I've significantly touched was version 2; I've since moved on to greener pastures.
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zsh and fish are mostly interactive shells, are they not? How does your claim of them being ahead in "tab completion and other general niceties" contradict ossreality's claim of PowerShell being superior in "text and object manipulation"?
Because we use our computers for different things, not only browsing the web.
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If you're taking in CO2 and producing C (carbon nanofibers) then O2 is your by-product.

With plastics or oil you're going to need a decent source of hydrogen as well as air. A decent source of H2 is going to bump up your energy requirements.

Extracting hydrocarbons from the air seems like a puzzling move considering they are readily available in the ground.

There would be no real point in generating carbon nanofibers from the air if the over-concentration of CO2 in the air wasn't a worry in the first place. For instance, let's say CO2 goes up some more and then plateaus. Global temperatures keep increase but lag behind. Assuming environmental repercussions then projects which use up the CO2 in the atmosphere will be welcomed.
Alpha was amazing, and the DEC chip people were best-in-the-world talented. If DEC had made some smarter choices about personal computing we might have had 10 or 20GHz desktops now.

Otherwise, CPU design is almost the poster-child for technical debt. The problems are more social and economic than technical. Once an architecture dominates the market it's almost impossible to replace it with something better. The best hope is to do what ARM are doing and sneak up on the market sideways, starting from a segment with much less competition.
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>I dislike windows (and by extension, powershell) because a solution such as changing the port the webserver runs on looks something like:

Doesn't look that much different or arcane to how you'd do it in Linux.

Except more structured (which is good).

>What did I just modify? Is it persisted to the hard disk? How do i back that up? How do I revert the change? How do I move this change (and 20 others) from one server to another?

Oh, the humanity of learning a different way of doing things.
https://processing.org/

Processing seems pretty good.

I'm teaching my younger brother with PyGame and Python, and that's ok, but not perfect.
Canned vegetables aren't very nutritious, because they have to be cooked so long to preserve them. Furthermore, canning vegetables and meat is potentially dangerous because of botulism.

Source: have been canning last few weeks, info straight from the 'Weck' bible.

Look, I'm not picking sides here, but let's not look at the past with rose colored glasses. When I tell my aunts that I'm canning, they look at me like I'm nuts. They lived much of their lives having to can on a farm, and they love the ease with which they can live their lives now, and the options they have.
I have not used powershell so I can't vouch for it. It is mainly because I couldn't find simple tutorials regarding them. Unix shell on the other hand is dead simple to use. However I get all icky if I have to use them on scripts. The outputs are always raw and never structured so it feels like a hackjob everytime. It also leads way to a different kind of vulnerabilities from incorrect parsing of outputs.
I think this is the part where powershell from what I heard comes off as superior. The output is structured and you can work straight with the results.

As far as verbosity, its a mixed bag for me. It makes it easy to read at a glance with minimal mental parsing but at the same time seems such an incorrect fit for a shell where it is optimal to have it under a screen line. You can equate it to trying to write a rant on twitter.
Uber knows it has map issues, which is why I suspect they snatched up the recent 10-year map veterans from Google when they could.
Well, that guy's kind of a huge racist, so an ode to him is probably in poor taste:

https://twitter.com/TempleOS/status/337551685285195777
Great post. Do you think a market downturn will increase the pressure for VCs and LPs to focus on short-term wins?
Or /etc/rc.d/apache2 restart, as one would find in the BSD world (and Slackware, with a bit of modification).

This isn't to mention that it should be relatively trivial to map "restart-service $foo" to "/etc/rc.d/$foo restart" or "systemctl $foo.service restart" or whatever if one so chooses.
So you're saying that if you expend zero effort to find the answers to these questions then those questions will remain unanswered?

If you want to become a systems administrator of Windows servers then I'd suggest reading at least one book on the subject, you're not going to get there by copying and pasting one command you found on the internet.

Just as it is with linux/unix. Just as it is with anything.

Pretending otherwise is disingenuous and intellectually dishonest.
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The artist looks at the robot. They were going extra slow to be cautious, but it can mimic movement pretty fast as long as you're not going across the canvas in a single stroke.

Edit: Thanks, fixed the amanufactory.com bug.
Powershell is a nice language.

Here's map/filter/reduce. Golf welcome.

@(1, 2, 3) `
| % { $_ + 1 } `
| ? { $_ -gt 2 } `
| Measure-Object -Sum
| Select Sum

You can write a generic reduce like this:

$reduce = {
param ([scriptblock]$reducer)
begin { $initialised = $false }
process {
if (-not $initialised) {
$agg = $_
$initialised = $true
} else {
$agg = &$reducer $agg $_
}
}
end { $agg }
}

And then use it like this:

@(1, 2, 3) | &$reduce { param($agg, $i) $agg + $i }
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That's...comforting.

By the way, please stop. I'm having SMIT flashbacks.

Oh, god, the running man. Don't trip, donttripdonttripdontripdontrip...
Change your startup name.
I agree with most of the comment: it's weird.

I also agree with the author, you don't try enough or don't bother trying.

i LOVE nix environnements, but i HAVE to work on Windows. And yeah, at first, it's a pain. Nothing works as expected and you get bunch of errors ... but you have to remember that you're not on a nix terminal !

You don't expect to master a environnement on a first try, do you ? Remember this is not the term you know and love. And if you take some time to get used to, here is your reward:

you will be able to rocks the term on Windows too, and that's pretty badass.
The medical thing will resolve itself. The business model to handle it hasn't emerged yet. No manner of price jiggering is gonna add capacity to the medical system, so alternatives will be found.

Medicare will be a second-tier service. That's nearly inevitable. But nobody will do anything about this until they have to.

And frankly, longevity of Baby Boomers doesn't seem as likely to work out as it did for the WWII and Silent Generations.

I agree wholeheartedly about "mismanaged the finances" but this is the world we live in.
But why can't the artist do their work in real time and get feedback digitally from the monitor and you then playback their strokes at a later time to do all the rendering/plotting. I can see how they may like to use the plotter medium for their feedback but all the noise I would think would be distracting.
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Because the number of measurements you'd care about is way too high, and even if you knew the size, that doesn't mean you know if the 'fit' is good for that kind of garment.

For instance, this weekend I bought two pairs of jeans. That means I tried on about 20 pairs. Waist size was the least of the issues. Does if fit the legs? Does it fits my butt? Does my package fit comfortably? It's hard to make it all work at once.
PowerShell has "providers" that let you interact with things as if they were a file system, which is what is going on in your example. I agree that it's not a great way to expose IIS settings.

The other place you see providers in use is when you use PS to edit the registry, but it's HKLM:\ (or whatever other hive) instead of IIS:\, and it makes a lot more sense there since people naturally think of the registry in a filesystem sort of way.

More info if you're curious about providers:

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/%5Clibrary/Ee126186(v=VS...
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DEC would be able able to violate the laws of physics?

The GHz barrier isn't caused by lack of talent, it's caused by basic thermal limits of silicon chips.
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I am sure that extraordinarily dedicated people can educate themselves in a library or using internet resources as well as in a university, Abe Lincoln did it, right? But for the vast majority of young folks that just isn't going to fly, let alone be "easier" than a 4-year degree.

Perhaps in the future things will be different, the resources just aren't there right now.
I'm the Dan Kohn in the article. AMA, though my memory from 20 years ago is a little shaky.
A photo from an event at the Korean DMZ:

http://i.imgur.com/aHsayNH.png

From left to right, American, North Korean, South Korean.

A empirical illustration of both the role of genetic factors (American vs. South Korean) and the role of non-genetic factors (South Korean vs. North Korean)
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> The seemingly healthier burrito at Chipolte is pretty much the same...

It's a lot easier to buy something that's not disastrous for you at Chipotle, though. If I get a salad bowl there, I'm not hungry for 6-8 hours.
Would you use this tool for posting jobs?
You can call it a key logger, and I understand why you would object, but sending search terms typed into a search box to a search engine is pretty much what people expect. Ubuntu does it. GNOME does it. Android does it. iOS does it. OS X does it. Windows is very nearly the last one to do it.

Privacy is important, and I don't think either I or David Tomaschik would ever argue otherwise, and there should definitely be an opt-out, but I think there are more serious problems with Windows that would be more worth objecting to than searching the Web from a search box.
If you could continually get wonderful feelings just from eating a product, and the product never made you feel full, you might continue eating it until you've consumed an entire package. At that point, you read the back and realize that you just ate 3000 calories in a single sitting and have a little panic attack.
Is the Blender Game Engine workflow mostly like shown in this video?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5HEyoDb-tw&index=64&list=PL...

I don't understand the appeal of learning programming without the beginning programmer being in charge of control flow.

Attaching scripts to things is useful for people with skills in using 3D tools, but now you have to introduce them to the concept of writing functions to be executed repeatedly in a loop without them being able to see the loop.

Student: How does it know to keep running my script?

Teacher: It runs every frame in a loop.

S: What's a loop?

T: teaches loops

S: Where's the loop that runs my script?

T: Deep inside the bowels of Blender.

S: Oh.
I don't think PowerShell v. bash is the right comparison here. PowerShell v. Perl or Python or Ruby or Tcl or somesuch would be more spot-on.
You lost me at "LinkedIN".
Yea I saw that stepper motor driver. It's $229, which is more than it cost to build this whole machine.
Restart-Service:Windows :: service:RHEL ?
...we can tell how cool Lew is from his backwards baseball cap.

Note to self: stop wearing caps that way before beard starts turning white.
A cmdlet is a PowerShell native command. It reads and writes objects, where as Unix commands read and write plain text. Try this in PowerShell:

get-command

get-command | where CommandType -eq "alias"

Notice the lack of parsing. In Unix you'd typically do this kind of thing with grep, but then you'd have to watch out that you don't accidently include the wrong rows because some other column happened to contain the string "alias"

Try this:

Get-Command | Out-GridView

There's this thing called PowerGUI. It has a text editor for writing PS and a computer management GUI tool. It's written in PS itself. At first I wasn't too impressed, but then I noticed in the computer management thing there's an option to "view code". And then I saw how simple it is, how these nice interfaces were implemented with a trivial amount of PowerShell. Now I think PowerShell is great.
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A family member of mine with diagnosed Celiac, 50% Dutch 50% German, now dreads his bi-yearly colonoscopies (as he has hit that age) as he has to be fully put under for what is normally an outpatient procedure because his intestines are now unusually long as a result of ~30-50 years of untreated, unknown Celiac. The doctor apparently acted like this is not an unusual thing. No other known factors would produce this result (i.e. my family is not otherwise known for large intestines in the other family members of the colonoscopy age).

This proves nothing specific about the Japanese, but does demonstrate that apparently environmental factors can affect intestine length, and the relevant medical communities consider this boring background knowledge rather than a research topic or urban legend. It is likely in this family member's case that the Celiac only kicked in fully in his 20s, so it is likely all the "environmental factors" occurred in full adulthood (though it is hard to be sure).

(I'm unclear on how long intestines make it harder to digest meat, though. Being overprovisioned for a task does not generally make the task more difficult. I'd find it more likely that it's simply a matter of gut flora adapting to the local diet and not liking deviations. It's the same reason vegetarians can think meat is bad for everybody because when they eat a bit of meat they have a bad, gassy reaction; their gut flora is not adapted for it. (If meat is indeed bad for everyone, that isn't why.) It is easy to be correct about some fact and really, really wrong about the reason behind the fact.)
> I understand it's a big job, but that's why big governments have billion dollar budgets and toys. Also remember we have no need to take photos of the entire surface, only the Atlantic (and even then, only the North Atlantic right now)

Yes.. but spending a billion dollars to save a few million is kind of silly, isn't it?

> feel quite confident when images are taken their exact co-ordinates are known, so it can be quickly determined if you've "missed" a patch or if you have them all.

Knowing you're missing data is one thing, but if you're _looking_ for a _moving_ object it can really set you back. You also then have to wait for that satellite, or another one on the same ground track to make the next pass. Most earth imaging satellites have a 90 minute orbital period. Even then, the earth is spinning, so you can't get back to the _exact_ spot very easily (if at all). Still confident this is easy?

> I feel quite certain they've tested these things extensively, and they're not going find some previously unknown bug while looking for a ship in the ocean. They work properly.

You can't image from geosynchronous orbit. I mean, you can, but it's pointless. You need a polar orbit. These orbits aren't stable. You need to adjust them (seriously, sign up for the GPS update list and see how often they have to be adjusted and moved).

Also, "they work properly." Clearly you're not an engineer. Things work properly until they don't. Which could be because of component failure, debris strike or you know, plain ole solar flares. These objects are in _space_. It sort of ups the bar.

> thought most satellites were in orbits that make it possible to image almost the entire surface without moving them.

As I said before, these orbits aren't perfectly stable. You need to boost and adjust and make movements. You may also want to put a new satellite in a slot where a previous satellite (with lessor technology) was. This all requires an insane amount of coordination and effort. Or, an insanely huge cluster.

> I didn't say it was going to be easy.

You made it sound as if it was a foregone conclusion. My effort was to point out that it is in no way that simple. It's going to be hard, it's going to cost a lot, you're going to have to throw people and money and equipment at it _constantly_. Is this justifiable for looking for missing objects? Probably not.

> I'm not for one second proposing whole-earth real-time imaging.

Then good luck finding those _moving_ objects. Also, I'd like to know what orbit takes a satellite only over the Atlantic Ocean. Yes, there are orbits that can "park" over an area, but those orbits are useless for the type of imaging you're suggesting, so you have to deal with the whole-earth problem anyways.
Why do you feel it has to be to a specific site?

Personally I do not participate in either of those sites. The only thing a Stack Overflow profile shows is how skilled someone is at quick draw Googling answers to very simple programming questions.