skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do they seriously only pay 25 cents (or so) per domain?

Why has there not been some disruptive registrar selling .com's for, say, $4? Whatever the operating costs of being a registrar are, it seems like they should be no more than $1/domain-year. So if a registrar dropped their prices to $3 or $4 and grabbed half the market out of it, they'd post huge profits.

Obviously those numbers are just guesses, but I highly doubt that it really costs $9/year to host a domain at scale.
The registrars pay $7.34 per .com domain to VeriSign. So they are only making 66 cents on that $8 domain. That is why GoDaddy bombards you with add-ons when you register a domain.
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But wasn't this the expected outcome by people who actually work in this industry and knew the type of oil being released into the Gulf?

From the sources I read, this is what they said would happen. But this didn't sell as well as the catastrophic view point.
It's also not clear to me what distinguishes this from the book EULAs that were held unenforceable in the original 1908 case. Publishers there printed purported "licenses" on the copyright page of their books, including terms like "you may not resell this book for less than $1.00". But those were held not to be enforceable, because it was held that the contractual relationship between publisher and bookbuyer is terminated when the sale is completed, at least in the normal case of books sold at retail (books provided under privately negotiated contracts, like documentation provided under an NDA, can still be enforced).

Could something like that be upheld today if the publisher were a bit more careful with its legal fictions? Perhaps something like: You are granted a single, non-transferable, non-exclusive license to read this book. For your convenience, a hardcopy, which remains the sole property of Publishing Co., has been provided for your use. You may retain this copy so long as you remain in compliance with this license, but may not transfer it to any other party.
Source: http://www.domainnamenews.com/registries/verisign-registry-i...
This guy is shopping his business around for ~a billion dollars
Leveraged Buyout (LBO) city, baby!

Prediction: a firm like KKR or Carlyle buys GoDaddy and borrows a bunch of money (> $10B ?) on the cheap, and then uses GoDaddy's revenue to service the debt.
I find him inspirational in a completely different way to the normal hackernews / mixergy / startup world entrepreneurs.

He makes you feel that success is all about heart.
A thought - you might want to try this out for a month in a dry run before spending time building it. I spent about two months learning how to track, trap, and otherwise survive in the Southern Utah desert, which was an amazing experience that taught me a lot, but not as romantic as you might imagine. Before investing time, dreams, and resources learning about and trying to build this, why not go rent a remote cabin for a month and see how it suits you?
If I remember correctly, Joseph Campbell waited out the Depression this way. I don't know how he supported himself (probably borrowed the cabin from family), but he basically read books for 5 years.
then why did the BP people need to dump untold gallons of corexit in the gulf? that was idiotic.
I know this isn't what you asked, but I would recommend using PayPal for your pre-order page.

First of all, your merchant account application will take at least 10 business days to process, and secondly you're probably looking at some kind of application/setup fee.

Much better to use PayPal at this point in your company's trajectory and then transition to a merchant account once you hit a few thousand in revenues per month.

Just my $0.02.
The solution to people not knowing about your product is called marketing, not search. I don't know why Apple would be in charge of solving marketing problems for app developers.
Update: it works much, much better (faster) now - good job.
The problem is credit cards. Credit cards are very un-secure and a credit card owner usually has a right to do a charge-back which means that a credit card processor has to get their money back, which means that every credit card processor puts in conditions in their contract that allow them to block your funds if they smell even a whiff of impropriety.
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I imagine that the brand won't have much mindshare after another 10 or so years. It is already pretty much dead to me other than a few email accounts. After it tanks, it will probably get picked up by someone and people will continue to be able to access their Yahoo mail.

Remember Webcrawler? That was the tool to use prior to Google, for a short amount of time at least. It's still there http://www.webcrawler.com/ and owned by Infospace. Is it relevant? No. But it still exists.

Eventually those that lose to greater companies (like Google) on the web will totally fade away, but unlike old department stores of the past who haven't left a much of a trace in their wake, it is much easier to buy old web assets up and continue hosting them, if for no other reason than to steal their traffic for marketing purposes.
I read about this kind of failure all the time in homesteading and survivalist circles. It takes a certain mindset to succeed, which involves adopting a bit of minimalism and humility.

One thing people have trouble wrapping their mind around is this: the more "toys" (tractors, machinery, etc.) that require consumables and maintenance, the less self-sufficient you will be. To be honest, even today's Amish are a far cry from true self-sufficiency.
This lifestyle will almost assuredly prevent you from having sex. Your budget will not buy you much of it either.
I am not a destroyer of companies. I am a liberator of them! The point is, ladies and gentleman, that greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms; greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge has marked the upward surge of mankind. And greed, you mark my words, will not only save Teldar Paper, but that other malfunctioning corporation called the USA. Thank you very much.
Again, I'm sorry as the title is a little misleading. I don't really care about being isolated or roughing it in the wilderness. I'd rather not spend time learning any survival skills whatsoever, or even how to farm. I want to minimize involuntary tasks. It could be in the middle of NYC for all i care. But no roaches or bedbugs are allowed.
Ditto, however I can say that 10.04 was the very first time I've installed Linux where everything worked without tweaking. It's a dream come true.
I did go down this path with http://www.errorlevelanalysis.com/, hoping that the development time would pay off and bring in future work. So far it's just been a tool that reddit and 4chan use to spur on comment wars.

Building something cool that has actual utility to someone, may be a better strategy.
I actually contributed to chromium for a little while as part of a practicum project, and I actually worked with chron, tim, akalin on sync. Can't say enough nice stuff about them, they're awesome.
I have all my domains registered with them. Despite the fact that I'm registering a few domains a month and they obnoxiously upsell me every time, I've gotten used to them and they have decent customer support that's always been available for me, as well as rad coupons ($7.49+fee domains). I hope the sale doesn't change things up too much. When my previous web host, aSmallOrange got bought, their service became inconsistent, frustrating and all-in-all horrible so I switched to HostGator and have been thrilled ever since (24/7 live chat is great!).
When you've found a repeatable, scalable business model. Two parts: 1) Product-market fit + Validation that customers would pay at your price point, and 2) A repeatable and profitable customer acquisition process.
> Here is a workaround.

At exactly 2:51 PM have Tim manually move the minute hand from 2:50 to 2:51 using the dial on the side. Repeat this process precisely every minute.

I know this requires slightly more user input than originally intended, but this seems like an acceptable solution until this defect can be resolved
Just apply. Try. It's worth it.

The stuff about the GPA seems like a giant myth. I don't even remember my college GPA and I had a few rounds of interviews at GOOG.
Scouring? Doubtful. Maybe he's just clicking around like everyone else.
Contrast Nick Hornby, who in his recent book Juliet, Naked actually includes a fictitious Wikipedia entry about one of the main characters.
For that, what are the advantages of a cave, comparing to a silent library?

Also, toilets instead of holes and toilet paper instead of leaves.
Profitable and 25+ employees.
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I guess you are in India, here is my advice, if you wish to do a Graduate degree in USA with full scholarship:
Rather than working on startup full time, you can try doing research under some good professor, at IIT or IIIT maybe. Try getting few conference publications. Plus try getting a good GRE score. If you can do that then getting fully funded PhD or MS in Computer Science wont be too difficult. WWW 2011 conference is slated to be in India, though the deadline for papers in around 40 days away, by doing interesting research you can try getting at least a poster accepted. That will help significantly in your applications.

There are several ways to fund your education in US, you can try to go to a universities where TA and RA positions are easier, these colleges are tougher to get into, but with good research they wont be that difficult. Also you are allowed to work 20hours on campus, you can try for CO OP jobs they pay around 10 -25 $ per hour, they may not cover your entire living costs but would cover substantial portion of it.

I saw your current twitter app, even though it is a nice implementation, professors and admission committees are looking for creative and research oriented endeavors, rather than skills for creating web apps. An MS student at a good company such as Google, MSFT, Amazon, Oracle, or Yahoo makes around 75 - 90 K a year in base salary and additional 25-30 k in stocks, options or bonuses. And then you would be much better equipped to launch your startup. a good PhD candidate earns even more. if you end up as a Quant on wall street you would earn significantly higher amounts.

Which universities did you get into? A good idea would be to work on a broader research subjects, which many professors in that university study. that will increase your chances for an RA position.
Chrome dev gets click-to-play on unsandboxed plugins
The last data loss incident that I'm aware of involving gmail was in 2006, when a bug in Firefox allowed a cross-site scripting attack to delete emails. See http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2006/12/gmail_disaster_go... for some discussion of it. If anything more recent has happened, it didn't turn up in a Google search.

Keep in mind that only about 60 users lost emails in that incident. I believe the accounts were later restored from backup. And the cause of the data loss was outside of Google. I've never heard of Google itself losing any user data that was stored in gmail. Ever.

That said, there is a first for everything. Plus, very rarely, accounts can become temporarily unusable. (The data is safe, but temporarily inaccessible.) This usually fixes itself in a period of minutes to an hour. I would personally bet that the odds of your being unable to access your account because of a problem on Google are significantly lower than the odds of your being unable to access the internet because of a problem with your ISP. But if you are concerned, then by all means you can use IMAP to download all of your gmail data and back it up for yourself.

Note, I work at Google, but not on anything related to gmail. Nor do I personally know anyone on the gmail team. I only know about the incident above because I googled "gmail data loss" and it was the only story that turned up. I know something about how we backup data, but I'm not at liberty to discuss it. However I will say that I personally have great trust for Google's backup procedures.
Hm, it looks like property taxes are amazing in louisiana. Does anyone know the net cost of getting set up with a crappy katrina cottage?
he is in India with yearly salary of 14K$ at best, even if saves his entire salary he would need 3-4 years to pay for an MS degree in USA. also professors cant help much since they are flooded by emails from students.

Loan is an option, one can get loan for around 40k$ but it requires some property to be mortgaged.
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- Assuming that Doubleclick was the largest company Google has acquired
- Assuming that Doubleclick had 5,000 employees (generous estimate, I believe) at the time of acquisition
- Assuming that Google has only acquired the 75 companies listed in Wikipedia for Google acquisitions
- Using August 2008's census data

No more (and likely SIGNIFICANTLY less) than 375,000 people have been acquired by Google,

There are 154.9 million people in the American workforce (collecting salaries).

The actual number (based on the above information) leads us to believe that 99.998% of people make more money collecting a salary than they do being bought by Google.

It's worth noting, perhaps, that I might be counting the wealthiest 2% of Americans within the 154.9 million census number (or that there are dramatically fewer employees in the workforce since the bubble burst), but those wealthy folks were almost certainly not acquired by Google (although, if they were, it doesn't skew the numbers that significantly.)
Error handling is generally much better through an API than a forked command.
So is $100k and whatever you already own the minimum you would say this it's possible to do this with?
If you're generating new CAs in such volume that the (in)efficiency of a UNIX pipe becomes a problem, you should just stop right there. That should be a red flag.
Okay, I understand better now.

Why not do a kind of work you find really enjoyable, and sell/trade that work with people whose company you enjoy? This is generally my philosophy to entrepreneurship anyways - there's a bit of involuntary time involved (taxes, accounting, errands), but I think you could get it down to less than one hour per day. If you didn't care about having extremely nice material comforts/status symbols, I bet you could make a decent life doing a skill/craft you like and enjoy being immersed in with minimum admin/involuntary time. Some kind of focused writing, craft, skill, or technology work maybe?
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Yes, he would suffer serious malnutrition. However, he could supplement with one or two other cheap bulk crops (whole wheat, corn, and/or beans). Still, it would be efficient to raise small grass-eating animals for food, such as rabbit or even guinea pigs. Grass and weeds are abundant and free, far cheaper than meat.

Trace elements and minerals are fairly easy to get. Many of those same weeds you can feed to rabbits are chock-full of all kinds of good nutrition. A book on edible plants is recommended reading. Lichens and wild mushrooms (tread carefully!) are great sources of such nutrients.

For $10, you can buy a 50-pound bag of mineral supplement for livestock (chelated, highly bioavailble raw minerals -- pretty much mined from old lake/ocean beds and ground to a powder) that should last one person most of a lifetime. Much cheaper than a case of One A Day or Centrum tablets.
Look at it from a start-up perspective, either you bootstrap with $0 invested or you raise money (more than $10k).

The same project can be had with no money or a lot of money. Once you burn through $10k you will only want more money.
Since women overall make less, then women with families must make a lot less than their male counterparts.
I have to sleep somewhere that is legal and that doesn't annoy people, and also to not be dependent on others. This means no panhandling, etc.
Primarily, the fact that Amazon really has its act together with respect to security. That silly HMAC canonicalization bug notwithstanding, they've made a whole lot of good design decisions. I currently use Linode. A year ago, I reported two vulnerabilities in their control panel to them, both elementary in nature, one of them with a PoC exploit. Last I checked, neither has been fixed.
Most of the negative effects he describes of an IPO could be mitigated by a dual class stock structure similar to Google's. I expect we'll see that when Facebook does IPO.
And Buzz isn't a service? I don't see a big red cross for it =)
Don't forget that they park spam pages at your domains if you haven't set the DNS yet. So make sure you redirect your arbitrary sub-domains.

I hate GoDaddy and all that they stand for. I'll never do business again with such a spammy company, even if it means paying $2 more a year with someone else.
Do the Amish accept new members?
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How to Hack Nike+ for Automatic Foursquare Check-ins
Why does HN keep deleting/deading this link?
You only need two knives -- a chef's knife and a paring knife. Anything beyond that may be useful occasionally, but 99% of your time should be spent with those two staples.
You've been here a year and a half and should know better than to post comments like this one.
A mobile site is critical for the day-of-event purchases outside the venue! Either that or a droid app would be great conveniences to an already stellar product! I like how you took the airline ticket farecast model and applied it to event tickets. This service is a job well done. I'm impressed.
"The fact that you can start AND finish a large project on your own speaks volumes."

It totally does. Passion counts for much, and it's just so hard to find.
You just recalled me of a documentary that showed chinese (IIRC) folks sleeping in LAN houses because it was the cheapest thing for them. A nice idea I must say.
an MS in CS probably, and its worth it for Indian students, Assuming you get admitted to a descent school, you need to pay ~ 50 k$ [lesser if you get TA or RA ship] for a year or two, and then you can get jobs that pay around 75k+.
also you are assured an employment status for at least 29 months post graduation.

Note: I am assuming a Good School [GATECH, Columbia, Cornell, TAMU, UT Austin, NCSU] and a good student.

you can pay back entire loan in at most three years, even earlier if you end up at MSFT, or similar places. Parents generally pay a significant portion of the tuition using their savings.

Also undergraduate education is damn cheap in India, Tuition is around 2K - 8K$ for four years. Hence most of the students are debt free.
They also remind me of Paypal: you can use them fine for years and years, and then one day they totally fuck you over.

Mind you, I probably have 50+ domains registered with GoDaddy, I've just read some horror stories too.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sawzall_(programming_language)
humor folks. and on-topic. lighten up!
Yes, this all stems from realizing the only reason i want to "get rich" is basically so i can live the life described. I want to do only the things that i want to do all the time. And the things that i want to do are extremely simple. But i am willing to give up some time to do other things. Yes, I would consider trading and selling involuntary activities.

The only voluntary activities are reading, writing, thinking, and communicating. I guess eating, sex, and shitting can all go in the voluntary slot, too.
The minimum for me. I want in-home internet access for the rest of my days, and of course cover taxes and some other minor luxuries like coffee and ammo.

Again, it all depends on what you require and how you want to live.

Even if I started out with nothing, with $100k I could probably buy a place outright (a truly run-down shack, mind you) and still have enough to bootstrap myself into life-long self-sufficiency(excepting maybe the internet requirement). There are very cheap properties (some rural, some urban) in many states (even Hawaii!), so it all depends if you want 1 undeveloped acre on a tropical island or 5 acres in the mountains of West Virginia with some 100-year-old moonshiner's cabin already built.
I am probably in the majority here when I write I could never see myself paying for such a service. However, here is something I would like to see: the ability to call (and receive a call) from a random stranger and be able to talk about anything positive.

That last word is probably something that would make this service very challenging to implement.
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And what he discovered during those 5 years was really grand. Do you have a reference for his auto/biography ? I know he ran track at Columbia, manage to visit Europe and learned sanskrit.
There are lots of good reasons to create specialized languages for hard problems. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain-specific_language and
http://www.paulgraham.com/onlisp.html both address this. Google has lots of people who are capable of creating those languages, who faced hard problems to solve that hadn't been tackled on the same scale elsewhere. Sometimes they wrote languages, and some of those have been widely adopted internally.

If the language is well-suited to the task, this is in fact an efficient approach.
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Android 2.2 almost at 30% Android market share
Favorite moment was @43:30:

Steve Huffman: "If you've been to reddit's front page, pro-weed is the least inflamatory thing. It's a cesspool of kneejerk reaction headlines."
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Bob Parsons is a crazy/interesting dude thats for sure... The complete polar opposite of any silicon valley CEO.

I don't get nor agree with most of what he does but I find it fascinating.. Has anyone else seen his blog? The irony is even though his video blog series - he and a busty blonde giving advice with cartoonish editing usually featuring motorcycles in some way - looks ridiculous its actually really smart, useful information

Doesn't surprise me he'd prefer to exit with an auction instead of IPO
I've heard of people moving into their communities and converting, but "the Amish" are not like some hippie commune you can simply "join". Most real estate in Amish areas is prime farmland and not cheap.
Not to pick on you because 90% of the time people say anyways. Anyway, my point is don't say anyways.

http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/anyway-or-anyways.aspx
It does strike me as a very low barrier to entry business.
Amazon could sell domains for 1$ more than versign charge them.

Google could bypass verisign completely and launch their own top level domain with their own root DNS and give away ".go" domains.
Tell @DmitryBaranovsk!
I just mean that i can't be a celibate monk unless i can also stop being a celibate monk when i feel like it.
Public internet ok, no coffee, no ammo. Cookies sometimes but not all the time. And milk for the cookies.
In asserting that Zuckerburg's fears are unfounded, the author states, "Google co-founder Sergey Brin also echoed Zuckerberg’s “hell no we won’t IPO” sentiments soon before Google, yes, went public."

The quoted text is a link to an article whose first line is the following:

"We are profitable, and we don't need the cash. But it might be nice to have the currency" of a public company, Brin said ....

Brin does go on to state that being a public company may be a distraction, but this is hardly a wholesale dismissal of the possibility of going IPO. In fact, Brin is later quoted as saying that "[t]here's a good chance eventually [Google's] going to do it."

I don't know if this has been misrepresented before, but you all may be witnessing the first round in a new game of "telephone"!
Isn't going public just another sort of a public auction?