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I approve of this cause because it will make it easier for parents, corporations, and others with an interest in preventing access to adult material to do so.

To me, this makes the case of people that want real, imposed censorship weaker, because you can say, "Just block xxx and be done with it". With .com, they can say that someone needs to protect you because you might accidentally go to a bad .com website or something like that, so active filtration is needed. If .xxx becomes the standard and the .com just redirects, it will be easy for people who don't want porn to not get it, people who do want porn to get it, and people charged with filtration to relax a little bit.

Why is this bad? How does it strengthen the argument that the internet should be actively censored?
I don't know what pulse is, and unfortunately they're blog doesn't actually link to their homepage... Why is it that people don't do this? At 20 points, that probably means that at least 1000 people have clicked through to view the article. That's potentially 1000 new customers. Many would even be excited by the HN integration that they'd wanna try it out!
Thanks, Erik.

But: Lots of people get scared about their launches without trying to slander other people's work, you know what I'm saying?
Hi Steven!
The only reason most botnets consist of Windows computers is because Windows is ubiquitous, difficult for the average Windows user to secure, and full of security issues from add-ons and plugins.

Look for future malware to be spread using the biggest rarely updated smartphone platform (currently Android).
Could you provide a link to the government using deep packet inspection on ATT internet traffic. I don't remember it/haven't heard about it.

Just curious.
If the first sentence itself is a disclaimer, then why write such sensational headline? Don't be so dramatic. I'm interested in reading your article and learning from it. Please don't fool me. I tend to loose respect for your content and efforts due to such marketing tactics.
Hi Denis,

Great post! Congratulations on transitioning out of beta! App Stores like Google, AppDirect, and AppExchange are a great way for you to reach new business customers. We think that being a part of multiple stores is a great approach - you don't have to pick just one!

That said, we’re different from the Google Marketplace in a few respects:

1. Free for Businesses. AppDirect is free for businesses and can be used by anyone in the organization.
2. Multiple Stores. We power a growing network of App Stores for brands with existing trusted relationships to small businesses. You only have to integrate once and have access to Bell Canada and other markets to come.
3. Multiple Rates. You can choose which Stores you want to be a part of. Each channel charges their own revenue share which will vary between channels from 15% to 40%. Bell does charge 35% but they are also contributing a huge traditional marketing budget.

We have been intentionally stealthy and are flattered that you discovered us considering we’re still in private Alpha. In year one, we focused on getting our Application Network to market and we’re excited to come out of Alpha in the coming months. We have a dedicated group of pilot users who love AppDirect and we're learning from their feedback to create a leading customer experience. We have also worked hard to streamline our on-boarding process to make it incredibly easy for Developers to integrate.

We would be happy to help you with OpenID, Oauth and other technologies needed for the Google Marketplace integration. We can work with you to get you integrated to both our network and the Google Marketplace in a few weeks. We’re always here to help.

Cheers!
Your friends at AppDirect
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See: http://www.xobni.com/waitinglist/gmailbeta/
I'd be gunning for either xxx.xxx, or yyy.xxx, so I could be zzz@yyy.xxx
To which my reply would be: "and why would I care?"
Just as Digg seemed to be on a slight up, this happens. Perhaps the last nail in the coffin? Hopefully he is re-kindling the idea of Pownce: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pownce
I know people who met on AOL instant messenger. Big Deal
Yet if you read a job ad from IBM or HP or Microsoft, they're "fast-paced" too.
That's where using a VPN comes in. For all they know, you could be connecting to your own, internal business websites.

[edit: changed my response.]

Also, you can connect to a VPN via: Settings > Wireless & Network settings > VPN Settings on Android
I bet the average first-year help desk employee at an investment bank is making a lot more money than the senior "Geniuses" at Apple Stores. Retail is retail.
To be fair, Microsoft made the Rustock spamming botnet possible.
I live in neither the of these camps. Perhaps that's why both articles read the same to me - "here's how I think you should lead your life". Nonsense.
He as apologized for his tone more than once, and in more than one venue. What more do you want? http://isalexpaynesorryforhistonetowardsamythatdreadfulthurs...?
THANK YOU! I've been looking for this.
HN Comments are useless as a discussion forum.

The irony of this comment should not be lost, but surely will, be because of the way the frontpage works.
> Some readers found my comments to be anti-small business. This was not my intent.

Then you should have avoided statements like "There's nothing wrong with being a small software company.... It's boring, but there's nothing wrong with it. Don't expect anyone to celebrate you for doing it, though."

I don't know what your intent was, but it comes across as very hostile to small business.
> The only reason most botnets consist of Windows computers is because Windows is ubiquitous, difficult for the average Windows user to secure, and full of security issues from add-ons and plugins.

So, the only reason are actually 3?
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(I checked Grothendieck's quote after I got home. It wasn't "plodding turtle" but rather "dumb ox.")
On another note, I recently checked out some gossip on blekko, and I found out that all the gossip stories originated from one source all the time - usually Us Weekly or People Magazine. (Both stories seemed like conjecture or hear-say, but no surprise there.)

It's incredible how frail your reputation and brand as someone in the entertainment industry can be.

It's like there's a superficial need for gossip and its ilk, but no desire for "good journalism", when celebrities are involved. I know it seems a little orthogonal to the concept of journalism, but maybe there's a void to be filled for gossip that is well-written and -researched.

Gossip is all completely alike, and I don't know why you would need to get it from one of your regular news sources like, say, NYT or CNN. Especially since so many just parrot the rumour-mongerers.
Less challenge means less of a reason to push yourself in my opinion. I rather relished the possibility to jump on problems other people left alone.

Perhaps it's more an issue of challenge than pace, pace being a side effect of the challenge you encounter.
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One word: leverage. In other words, tiny movements in that much stock can big effects.
So, what is the technical definition of content that should be in this TLD?
Personally I think it's the best thing that could happen. Digg has been roundly defeated by low-profile engineering companies (reddit and stumbleupon). In my opinion that was almost entirely because of their cult of personality approach. I don't think Kevin was even comfortable with it.

It's been looking up because they've already abandoned that. This just confirms it.
Very good points. To which I'd add, happiness is a social contagion. Happy people make people around them happier. They are nicer, more generous... they give more to charity. Etc. etc. etc.

But woe be unto the selfish, lazy person who seeks personal happiness. Somebody out there is ready to school him/her on what he/she really ought to be doing!
I'm not talking about his tone, I'm talking about how he called out someone for no good reason.
That's a horrible, but astute observation. I can't believe I still want to believe that they are doing what they do for journalistic reasons.
Is it crazy to have such a tiny open source project?

Not particularly. Who cares how much or how little code there is, if it does the job?
Having all of the "bad stuff" under one TLD is the whole point, obviously. Government censorship is bad, I agree, but I don't think it's that realistic to think the government will take porn offline. Maybe I'm naive. I like .xxx because it makes private filtering and monitoring much simpler.
A few brief thoughts on this:

- I understand how it hurts to be unjustifiably attacked for doing what you love. But I believe you'll only benefit from this, because your work will be exposed to more people as a result of his attack. No one here seems to believe that you are duping people.

- I don't have any way of knowing this for certain, but from the way how Alex writes, I get the impression that he doesn't really know what it means to be broke as hell. If he did, he'd probably consider lifestyle businesses as the saving grace for many people out there, rather than a manifestation of small ambition.

- Lifestyle businesses can become empires with time. It's just a different approach to reach the same end goal of creating stuff you love, and doing something that matters.
We all need to give hat tips to the people that inspired us to be greater and try new things. We would not be here right now without Fred. I'll put his name in titles all day long just to adknowledge his contributions.
Yes the twitter dropout only helped Amy gain exposure
Kevin has not been actively involved with Digg for months. The slight up has had nothing to do with him and his official resignation will make no difference
Along the same lines, I'm using it for my google for domains gmail.
Agreed. .gov was a bad idea, along with .com/.net/.org/.co/.mobi/.me/.biz/.info/.etc

I don't see the need to have a distinction between amazon.de and amazon.ca. If Amazon wants to segment by country, they can do that on their own, not by offloading onto DNS.

Getting rid of also silly things like .co.uk would be great, but raise lots of uncomfortable questions. Ideally, DNS is would be nationally/politically blind, with the exception of government entities under .gov.*.{gTLD}
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I think the headline is perfectly suitable. I may use the same when I finally write my blog post "Embedly invented Windsoc [our startup]". And I don't think it would be the only time Fred Wilson has inspired new endeavors.
But there are still things that can help solve some of the problems, which is the point I think.
See also: http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/healthscience/2011/March/Major-Ea...
> Alex provides enough information about his beliefs and about why he thinks those articles conflict with them that I, at least, trust he knows why he reacted the way he did.

Really? I've never met him, but I know plenty of other people who despite providing a lot of information about their beliefs aren't completely candid with themselves about why they're reacting the way they do.
I think the idea that only %0.0001 of people who enter into startups walk out with their lives improved is absurd.
It's a myth that we're all in this game for an FB payout, and it's a myth that that's the reason we want to play the game.

Most of my startups have had payouts to me personally, via either stock buyback (to retain control of the company while securing more funding), or exit deals (in the case of powerset). And even for the cases where I didn't get a big payout, my experience and skills were improved dramatically by the environment and demands placed on me by the job.

I went from working a dead-end job at Lockheed Martin and getting less than 3/4 the fair salary for someone with my skillset to courting jobs and turning people down. Anyone who knows me will tell you I am not a lucky person, and I am not a brilliant star amongst the constellation of smart people that fill the Valley. I simply play the game and move to jobs that balance my personal improvement with my chance for a payout.
Here's what I would love to see, on the "make the world better" front.

First, let's be honest about our industry: programming is a lot of fun, but our industry kinda sucks. Most software produced is sloppy and buggy with bad APIs, most decisions are made based on economic factors, and most programmers are seriously underskilled, which wastes the time of the skilled. (I love strong static typing, though. The guy who is always breaking APIs actually has to fix his shit.) Even in startups, most of the code is hastily written by necessity. Moreover, technology is the best industry out there. Software sucks, but everything else sucks more.

I realize I'm hijacking your line of thought, but here's a problem that could be solved with enough thought put into it. Most smart people really want to work and, when they're motivated, will work very hard and very creatively. But less than 10% of people are doing what they want to do or are really motivated to do it well, so we have a shitty world where most people don't give a fuck. Most people, by age 35, are just jaded clock-punchers who just do what they're told because it's the path of least resistance. We're different; we're idealistic and trying to fight that trend, but "the enemy" (the ocean of suckitude outside our borders) is winning.

So, let's solve that problem. Let's not just fix the software industry. Let's fix work. There are millions of creative people out there with amazing ideas not getting implemented, while the very rich get to implement their shitty ideas and impose them on the rest of the world. How do we make a world that harnesses rather than suppresses this enormous amount of creative and industrious energy that is not being utilized?
"The key question here is how much self-bullshitting you want to do versus how many doughnuts you want to sell." <- This.

One of the best comments i've read on HN.
What you just said knocks it out of the ballpark.

The thing that is wrong with the lifestyle business though is that at some point the founders intend on stopping their value creation beyond what they need to survive.

It's inherently selfish while the startup is inherently (mostly unintentionally) unselfish.

That's what, i think, the OP was trying to say with his post.
You could have said "Fred Wilson inspired Embedly". The "invented" sounds too dramatic and may be inaccurate too.
If it weren't because it's so hard to define "adult content", I'd be slightly worried as well. Heck, Scandinavian news channels show boobs like it's nothing (because it is, but cultural norms and all that).

Besides, I don't think the internet is so centralized that this could be enforced - people will just register from another country with laxer jurisdiction.
You can't unsay something you already said, man. Or did you miss how this all started?
From 1979 to 2006, there were 26 cases of infant botulism in Canada (whose numbers I could find), and it isn't known how many got botulism from honey.

So the data is not there for an "advanced" country like Canada; what are the chances that there's such data in India?

Do you have any references to back up your _fact_ that babies have died from botulism spores that definitely _came_ from raw honey?
How does it weaken the argument that the internet should be actively censored?

Just because .xxx exists doesn't mean there won't be "pornography" or "offensive materials" on .com/.{foo} addresses. This just provides an excuse for policy and law makers to write legislation saying "Pornography can only be on *.xxx domains".

It's naive to think this will have any effect whatsoever on the availability of porn to your average < 18 year old anywhere in the world.
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That's good news, then! Rooting for Digg, it has a special place in this scene.
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Should porn sites be forced to adopt .xxx? What about softcore porn? What about sites that discuss porn? Porn industry sites? Sex discussion sites? Sex education sites?

The point is, .xxx draws a line, and there is quite a bit of disagreement as to what should be on which side of that line.

"I block .xxx but I still saw {thing I don't like}! They should be required to use .xxx!".
"I need to access {important_resource.xxx} for {reasonable reason} but my school/university/ISP/telecom/church blocks it!

(Not to mention the whole can-of-worms that is inter-national law. Consider the differences in policy between countries like Saudia Arabia, Sweden, and the US.)
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You do realize that the XBox team is also resource contrained. For example, you can't run any XBox or PC game on an XBox 360. Had to cut something. There's not even a web browser in the XBox 360.

Everything is about tradeoffs and constraints. You may not be familiar enough with the industry to know that they're there (ppl think that MS and Apple have enough money to simply do everything, but they don't), but trust me, these products have serious resource constraints across the board.
It seems somewhat slanderous to create a rumor that Alex is acting out of fear and then using that like it's fact in other posts.

Please stop that.
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If I were a good-looking female actress in showbiz (0/4, dammit), I'd love the prospect of seeing "<myname>.xxx" on the web.

Most of these people already get fan sites with some permutation of their full name. (Hyphenation, .net, .org). Maybe now we'll see a common trend if <air quotes> "fan sites".
Yeah, but at least you can take direct action when your people fuck up.
I was at the Cloud Connect conference last week. In a session on cloud performance Adrian Cockcroft (Netflix's Cloud Architect) spoke and said they do not use EBS for performance and reliability issues. They initially had some bad experiences with EBS and because of this decided to stick with ephemeral storage almost exclusively.

The guys from Reddit also spoke about their use of EC2. Apparently they are running entirely on m1 instances which suffer from notoriously poor EBS performance relative to m2 and cc1/cg1 instances.
Is there an actual link to a source other than the TechCrunch article?
Not crazy but probably an overkill. I'd just post it as a gist.
There is a greater underlying issue here which seems to be missed.

I have paid £x to use O2's (or in this case AT&T's) network, not only that but I also had to partially pay for the handset.

O2 should not really give a damn about what device I use to access their network - sure, they may have sold me a handset with an Internet plan, but it is MY DECISION to use whatever device I see fit to use that network.

If I am allowed to use whatever device I want but it was capped to say 4GB, I would have no issue, but as it stands, I am not only paying to use the phone, but an additional bullshit cost to tether the phone which technically should be none of their concern.
Interestingly enough, the fancy approach for calling "super()" is actually prohibitively expensive ... making any method call in a subclass far slower than it otherwise could be. I don't think it's a viable option for a baseline library.

http://www.broofa.com/2009/02/javascript-inheritance-perform...
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If you're thinking about exits at all at the SEED FUNDING STAGE of your company, that offer is never going to come.

If the maximum potential is $20 million, and we're talking about the VC-style go-big-or-go-home sort of business, I agree. A business that will be worth $20 million if everything goes right is likely to end up near zero. The distribution is non-normal and most companies don't reach 50 or even 25 percent of their maximum potential, but less than 1 percent. If the IPO option isn't at least open, try again.

On the other hand, I think people should be honest about all the possibilities. Choosing a path based on what happens for the winningest of the winners is a terrible idea (even though it's what a lot of people do, and why companies overpay their CEOs; overpaying executives is actually cheap when you consider how much harder the chumps work for the slim chance of reaching that level). Which is better, a 60% shot at a $20 million exit, or a 1% shot at $10 billion? Expected value (which VCs care about) says one thing and common sense says another.
As the article described his personality ("flaws" included) he started sounding a lot like Steve Jobs.

Google could really reach new heights with Larry at the helm.
great story. FYI - the mouse-overs for the 'Premium' price plan are broken in both Chrome and Firefox for me (Win7). they get cut off at the edge of the white-border.
As somebody who used to work at an adult company (and has a different adult company as one of my clients), I'll say that most adult companies are probably excited about the idea of making it easy for parents to block these domains, but not excited about the possibility of being forced into using them (and the subsequent possiblity of ISPs blocking .xxx domains en masse). Some of adult sites' biggest customers are in countries where porn is illegal, and giving ISPs an easy way to block the entire industry would hurt adult sites even more than they are already.

On a side note, why hasn't a .app TLD been created yet?
This is something I had been wondering during the previous arguing around in-app purchase commissions.

Up-front app costs, in-app purchases, in-app subscriptions... they're really all the same thing. You can't charge 30% for one and not for the other... and if you allow folks to transact the purchase outside your ecosystem, you basically get nothing.

With Apple not enforcing the ability to get in-app purchases, the only thing preventing out-of-band sales is the convenience factor. What if someone just set up a fiat currency site where you could go buy credits that would then be accepted by iPhone apps? They could then be sold entirely free, but just require that you sign in with that external account so they can take some of the prepaid credit.
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I find this notion that small businesses mean small impact downright bizarre in the Internet age. BCC is pretty freaking small. I have hundreds of thousands of users and thousands of customers. I wanted to go into teaching back in the day. I taught more lessons to more kids while sleeping last year than I would have been physically able to in a several lifetimes.

A time tracking app with a thousand customers improves the life of enough people to pack a stadium. Their businesses improve, their families make more money, their customers see less deadweight loss dealing with them, their communities see the benefits of economic growth, etc etc.
Most of the advanced ones are. They're also mostly using overlay network topologies, which can be hard to distinguish from other P2P traffic and forms a considerable amount of resiliency. Just turns out that this was one of the older, more primitive botnets.
Anything with a human connection is great. For example , my wife and I got our app covered in the NYTimes because the reporter liked this narrative we gave her of a husband-wife team writing code on their honeymoon. Every news outlet including TC mentioned that though that is probably the least important thing about our app :)