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Credit card processors love the money but will absolutely shut down people based on bad PR.

If TechCrunch published a monthly list of what spammers are using what credit card processors/merchant banks they'd put a huge dent in the business.
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It's pointless, that's how corporations are. It's about as useful as getting mad at a wild animal for acting like an animal.

The only time corporations "care" is when their customers want them to (because otherwise they would loose business).
WBC style trolls are those who abuse the legal system for personal gain, by legal but not necessarily moral means.

Patent trolls are exactly in this mold, the question is if there is a way to make money off of them?

Any system will have parasites. You can change system, i.e. patent reform, or introduce a predator for the parasite.
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Yeah, and something like 7 out of 1 million developers are being threatened by Loadsys. Exactly my point.
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Just guessing, but they might have been hosting off a comcast highspeed line which Comcast forbids on its residential service.
1) Make sure your service it outstanding, so when a customer tries it they spend significant money because it actually works. If it doesn't really work well you're hurting your brand and throwing money down the drain.

2) Buy AdWords and buy ads on relevant entrepreneurial sites. Tons of startups have the need for MTurk and alternatives. Tell them you exist and they'll try you out.

3) Explain really convincingly (on your site) why you're better than MTurk, since most startups already know about it.
As a user of Comcast Business Class for some hosting, it's more about what's available near you. I host some of servers in my garage, I like to manage them manually and Comcast is the only option in my area, I pay $110 for 10down & 2.5up, but some locations they have 100mb connections for that same price. What I'd like to know is why Comcast shut it down so I can either avoid this happening to me or drop comcast for a datacenter 110 miles away. Its difficult hosting a site at my current bandwidth anyways.
I am interested in which features whose would be. From my experience with both, I have not used anything in Chrome which was not available in webkit's nightlies.
I am not trying to be pedantic. In my experience there is an enormous difference between having a user and having a paying customer. They may be a user before they are a paying customer, but there is a very significant difference.
I guess he felt that others besides the troll were having a laugh at his expense, (i.e., the HN Tips guys comments, other penis-oriented repos connected to employees of aforementioned companies) and were, if only indirectly, in on the joke.
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Is this a new partical?
Living on a ranch is not comparable to living in Manhattan in terms of "living far better."

What a ranch and Manhattan can offer, and cannot offer, are so vastly different that another $200K in salary (above basic needs) is the least of it.
Which is more important for a startup to succeed, the idea or the entrepreneur(s)?
convenience and privacy are the issues, github has tried to do a balancing act.
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First comment:

" This was posted on Hacker News 3 days ago, please cite your sources: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2593998 "
Plus, at least when I went back, it was like a glorious vacation for the first couple of semesters - nothing to do but Learn New Stuff (what a concept!) and do tidy, school-sized projects :)
Did they actually do it?
To add to what you said, you certainly need not understand Category theory in order to be effective as a functional programmer.

Category theory is a very powerful concept. Understanding elements of it will certainly open your mind to the fundamental nature of mathematics. But the essential aspects of it have long been mapped in to other, more accessible, theoretical frameworks. So you can usually get away with never knowing that subject :)
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I still get spam in my inbox regularly. I'm using google postini to do the filtering, in my situation I wouldn't classify it as "quite effective".

Are there better alternatives I am not aware of?
I've never understood the obsession with internships. Why be an (unpaid) intern when you can hold down an entry-level tech job during college? Why aren't there more summer/break jobs for students?

(I paid my way through college by doing programming work. Part time during school, full-time during breaks)
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As per statistics, many of the great programmers are introverts.
Personally, for me, Digg tried to emulate the UI of /. a little too much.

What I have always loved about Reddit (thank you Raldi) and hate about sites like Digg, /. and Quora - is that Reddit's UI doesn't get in the way of reading massive amounts of text over long periods very quickly.

Quora is the epitome of suck when it comes to this fact - their choice of font, emphasis, color and sluggish site responsiveness when anything near 100 comments is an experience killer. And I am annoyed by their constant self-back-patting on their design decisions - when all they have done is quasi-copied facebooks horrid design choices.

Reddit has masterfully provided a display and ui/ux that makes it so much easier.

However - as you state there is no silver bullet: I cannot filter out rage comics or pictures.

I hate rage comics and I find that pics waste too much of my productivity -- My perception of Reddit thus suffers as I am finding it to be about as sophisticated as Digg - but its far worse for me with rage comics as the users are producing so many of them and in so many sub /r/ that I cant avoid them.

I get they are great comedic distractions, but for the love of all things good, please try to find a way to allow me to filter them.

If only you could require them to be submittable to /r/f7u12 then the idea of /r/ subscriptions would make sense again. Redditors should be able to submit and vote on whatever they like - but 45.8276% of all Reddit posts are rage comics!

If anything, can you please at least give me your opinion on the subject?
I had friends in classes, and we'd hang out sometimes, but this notion of 'lifelong friends made in college' just doesn't seem to feel very real

Same boat here. I worked year-round to put myself through state school, and lived at home (20 miles off campus). I had few peers in my CS program, most others had only casual interest. My friends who went to Berkeley made life-long friends by living in dorms and playing sports with fellow nerds.
WePay needs to transform into something that say, Linode can offer as a payment option.
Spammer are major annoyance. I have an obsessive compulsion to keep my email clean including my spam folder. Because I have to keep cleaning my spam folder, whenever I check my email, I loathe them with a passion, like of people here. HOWEVER, even with all these annoyances, this does not make spamming _illegal_ for bank to not extend them their services.
Thanks - that's a really useful review. I've got into the habit of making the site name the h1 tag, and the page title the h2 tag - so is this a 'bad' habit?
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Awesome, would you like to give me some advice on my current product?
"You will have 10 BTC expire next month"

So you spend it.

Also, once the BTC expire, they don't disappear. They are made available for mining. This is possible because the block chain has full history.
Yes, I thought that would be one thing. Fine with me.
As the other poster said, money != wealth. Wealth is things that make life better. Money is a medium of exchange.
I got "dong markup" in my RSS reader from pull requests to zedshaw/mongrel2 today. So, the trolling was very much in public view.
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Actually I think it sucks when you consider that you're much more likely to die on the job as a CHP officer than as a programmer.
So did you get an internship already because of this? That would be another interesting story to tell
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Out of a total of how many professions? That's a misleading statistic.
You can hardly expect anyone but a proponent to advocate for an idea...

Also, asking for a control group in an artsy fartsy field like economics is too much. Where is the control group that guides the decisions of the central banks? There is none! OMG GREAT DEPRESSION!
I had two. The first was when I was in 7th grade math and was exposed to programming for the first time. We used basic and just did some ascii art stuff. A christmas tree. But I added a clear screen and a goto and that made the tree flash and kinda twinkle. Every one asked me how I did it and I showed them (it didn't work on most of their computers, I guess the refresh rate was juuuust right on my screen). That's what made me interested in computers.

My other was after my first year of college at University of Minnesota (99-00). I had AP comp sci AB so I didn't need to take the first year intro CS classes, but I hung out at the ACM a lot and someone told me about quick-sort or I learned it in class and it was the most complex intricate piece of code I'd ever seen. I was mesmerized by it, but everyone else just bitched about how "crazy" it was. That's when I knew I was in the right major.

I guess a third one would be when every one I knew that was into computers changed their major because it was too hard and I was the only one left. That was a bit of an ah-ha moment I guess.
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Hello there, iLuminate hacker here! My partner Miral and I founded iLuminate 2 years ago. It's been extremely fun, both on the technical side (we built wearable embedded hardware from scratch for wirelessly controlling lights) and on the performance side. Miral does both. If you saw America's Got Talent [1] tonight, you may have seen her hacking away on her Mac. She was disappointed they didn't show an over-the-shoulder shot of her typing stuff into netcat. :)

[1] http://www.nbc.com/americas-got-talent/video/ep-601-team-ilu...
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1/ Clients are already happy: http://taskarmy.com/user_feedbacks

2/ It is interesting that you mention MTurk because it is not the market I am after. I am looking at Odesk/Elance/Freelancer instead. So you are right the copy of the website might not be clear enough.
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Wouldn't it be possible for the troll to temporarily set his username to the same as yours in his git config, make a few commits, and then push them, thereby making it look like you had made a contribution to the project? Would this make your "membership" in the project appear publicly?

Or does Github track pushes by the pusher's Github username?
android has a feature to this thats very similar. For instance when looking at an image in the gallery, you're able to share it through other applications, sms, dropbox, facebook, etc.
Interesting, it makes me realize that most of my websites have a logo instead of a site title.

To answer your question, some say use <div> for site title and <h1> for article title, and some say use h1 for site title on front page and h1 for article title on other pages (site title becomes <div>).

I personally use <h1> on front page for most important tagline and <h1> for article titles on other pages.

I'd love to hear the opinion of a SEO "guru".
Great article! I've encountered some of the same insights as I embarked on my journey to find the nearest competition for my idea. Many are close, but none on point. Finding competition definitely makes you refine your approach and your differentiator. In hindsight, it is probably the best thing that has happened to me thusfar.

To sdizdars point, your customers absolutely define who is the competition.

So glad for having read "Differentiate or Die!" by Trout in college to know the necessity of that great differentiator.
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> I suspect they do more good than harm

I would like to see examples of software patents doing more good.
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>“If it’s no longer a crazy Indian idea and it’s something that’s working in India and in rabbits in Ohio and in the first 20 men in the US,” Lissner says, “then there’s got to be a point where there’s just no excuse for a Gates or a Buffett not to get on board.”

The words "crazy Indian idea" hit me as offensive at first. But I guess that's just the way the world perceives us and its up to us to change that.
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At least he's a creative dick.
I'm definitely not the "guru" :)

I always end up using an image for logo too, nested inside an H1 tag. There's no methodology to that, just a habit I've got into. Well, I'll change it and see what happens! Thanks.
I love how you're this paragon of stoic virtue, and I'm a drama queen, yet, here you are talking about it even more instead of ignoring it and going back to whatever it was you were doing.
I've always heard that the status LED is hardwired into the webcam, so that there is absolutely no way for software to prevent it from turning on when the webcam is active. So yes. It would probably be a very brief flash, though.
Hopfully you will be able to bring it back soon. SearchYC.com is the best way to search the treasure trove that HN has become.
Consider hiring minors through school vocational programs.

I had an apprenticeship between the ages of 15 and 18, at an ad agency that was using the newfangled computers to move faster than their competition. I was bored with high school and my neighbor's son owned the company. He liked to hire kids and teach them to program. I learned a lot, and got school credit even while almost-not-quite dropping out because of my school's voc-tech program.

It was a great experience, and I hope to set up something like that in the future.
> If Zed hadn't written a blog post detailing how he fucked everything up (in all his greatness, apparently) it wouldn't have gotten such exposure and would likely have died out.

Can you explain where in my blog post I claim I'm great? I think all I did was explain what was happening and how this was someone who bothered me in the past and followed me to github, and then there was nothing I could do about it.
There is somethig to that idea: you are only invited to participate in a project until you accept the invitation by actually commiting to the project. Eveyone is happy: Nobody needs to change the code (except for resorting the display of the projects on the private dashboard into two groups) and participation requires an explicit confirmation. Win-win :-).
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It's silly to think that a troll would go for the low-hanging fruit, instead of spending millions on a risky attempt against a massively richer company?
TripDibs was founded 3 guys who have known each other for a long time. We were hoping to get some guidance via YC program, but we didn't even make the interview cut. Through the process, however, I've learned to respect the feedback from Hacker News.

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Moreso than some of the CAs that are trusted by default, yes.
I'm not sure that enough "normal" people would read TechCruch for credit card processors to care. But it would be a good start, at least.
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They did it without a budget increase. The book "The Blue Ocean" describes the strategy. IIRC, they shifted resources from other kinds of crime-fighting to combat visible crime.
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My hunch is that even if all banks magically cut off spammers in a hypothetical scenerio, the spam industry will figure out a way to collect payments, even if it means collecting cash.

Of course this may reduce their margins. But there is one cure for it: send more spam!
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Yep, that's what people seem to gloss over when they think I just overreacted. I knew for a fact that several Ruby people considered this hilarious, and that one or more of them worked at github. In that situation, it's either I leave silently (which everyone thinks I should have done), or bring the issue up and make sure everyone knows what's going on. I prefer the latter because it at least lets others come behind me and avoid the problem.

Thankfully, they've fixed the problem now and I don't have to worry about it anymore.
The awesome Chrome extension Hacker News Sidebar, which uses searchyc.com, is down too.
Are there any alternative extensions or bookmarklets for automatically linking a page to its HN comment thread?
Most of Latin America has not just Latin influence but also a lot of American influence. The people are brown not just because they're Moorish or African by ancestry but also because they're American. Most of them speak Spanish, French, or Portuguese, but a substantial number speak American languages like Guaraní, Mapuzungun, Quichua, Aymará, Nahuatl, or Haitian Creole. Most of them practice Catholicism, but in a heavily syncretized form with Catholic saints corresponding to American gods, and a substantial number of them still practice American religions.

But all of those things are true only to a tiny extent in Buenos Aires, and a more noticeable but still small extent in the rest of Argentina. This is what genocide looks like.

So I wasn't saying that Argentina is more European than Bolivia, Puerto Rico, Brazil, Cuba, or Miami because it's less Spanish. I was saying that Argentina is more European than Bolivia, Puerto Rico, Brazil, or Cuba because it's less American, because none of the things I said in the previous paragraph are true here, and they're still true in those places. The most distinctively American thing about Buenos Aires is that everybody drinks yerba mate.

By the way, Diego grew up here in Buenos Aires, where I also live. So however much you may disagree with our conceptions of what "Latin America" means, you can't blame poor J. Lo for them.
Given the choice between a private dashboard vs a public repo list being spammed, I'll take the former, any day. I don't want either, but the former is an annoyance to me and only me. The latter is something that can (potentially) give a bad impression of me to others.

Remember that reputation is important. Always.
I'm upvoting because the question is pretty interesting/funny, but you should change the linkbait title.
Yes, the US system seems to have bad incentives and waste energy. At least, compared to Europe.

>>Why do you keep trying to make a false dichotomy?

I am not, you didn't read read what I argue against. :-)

I started by answering a comment by "Andi" above. He/She argued against growth and technical development. Which is just stupid, since pollution and energy use gets less with better economy/technology. (E.g., not so many decades ago there were no cleaning facilities on coal plants and no waste management for cities.)
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