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meh, that sucks.

A 1and1 employee once ripped a domain from me.
I was bored and bought top10.eu, a minute after I got a call from that company telling me that he is going to own that domain and I cannot buy it. I told him, you're late my friend, refreshed the browser to be sure about it, it was all ok, yes I owned it. Refreshing my account again revealed that there was no such domain anymore. So much for trust.
He called again and said, sorry but you cannot own that domain, I own it now. Man was I pissed.

Trust nobody, even if it's nobody.
Do your own backups regularly. Daily and hourly.
I wonder why they have chosen Ace over CodeMirror. CodeMirror has very similar set of features, is less bloated and works on more browsers.
The icon of the dialer on my Android phone is that kind of phone.

Though it might make sense in that case as it is what it replaces.
Too bad they only hire US citizens due to governmental export regulations.
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Ask HN: How do I increase traffic to my site?
Hi,
I built my first website (http://vipreads.com) which basically lists the books of famous celebrities. I launched it 10 days ago and have since updated it with about 20-25 celebs. On some good days I have had 2000 page views a day but most of that traffic has been due to posting in hacker news or in an isolated case reddit. Most of the other days its been a virtual ghost town with about 150-200 page views. I have tried promoting it over facebook, twitter but i guess havent been able to drive traffic through those sources.
I am slightly concerned that most of my traffic is driven from these hn/reddit. Ideally I would want it to come from my twitter feed, fb page or rss subscription.
I would like to know if you have any ideas or is there anything obvious which i have been missing.

Thanks in advance for the help.
v = v || 1;
Nope, still exists. For example, with the query 'foo': www.google.com/webhp?hl=en#hl=en&q=foo&tbs=dfn:1

The magic part of the url seems to be &tbs=dfn:1, but just inserting it anywhere in the string doesn't always work.
TIL I guess.

And since I don't qualify as a kid, I am guessing that most mid-twenties wouldn't know either.
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I don't know that much about Jobs, but at a guess:

1) He "manages by end state and intent", just like the Marines are trained to do. Instead of trying to tell engineers how to do their jobs, he tells them what the customer should see, and why that's important. All good non-technical managers do that.

2) He has a rough idea of what all the elements of the system are, how they interact, and how they scale. For example, he talks about how some decisions will reduce API complexity, which increases developer productivity. Few technical managers do that well, and very few non-technical managers understand what technical constraints to focus on. I'm guessing this is something he's improved at, over the years. He screwed up a lot with in his earlier years (doing stuff that wouldn't scale well), and learnt his lessons. Every CEO tries to "understand the big picture". Steve seems to actually get it right.

3) When somebody sounds like they are fudging or hedging, he starts interrogating them to figure out what they are trying to imply. Engineers can be very indirect when they suspect a problem is looming. Steve picks this up, and goes after it like a terrier. It's scary stuff when he does this in public, with a reporter. I'd imagine it's even scarier when he does it with his employees.

4) He's got pretty good taste, and can hire good designers and people with good soft skills.

5) He was lucky enough to hire a few brilliant techies, at the start (Woz, in particular).
That implicitly assumes these patents are mostly forky-spoony stuff. What if they represent real innovation? In that case the system is working exactly as intended; investors are getting a return on R&D.
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Hey, your post resonates with me as well.

I think, the key is to go level up and turn it around. It's not lecturer or boss who force you, it's you who are using them to get something you want. (Here, ‘something you want’ might include money, knowledge, a degree, but must necessarily include plain ‘having fun’ (because the validity of any other reason is questionable—and when you question the validity of reasons to do something, you're procrastinating).)

In other words, a problem of procrastination stops to exist once you start enjoying the process. The GTD tools problem gets partly solved as well: you surely are going to get things done if you enjoy the process (although if it's hard to remember all of these things, then some sort of todo list might be handy, you'll know when you start actually needing it).

I'm not saying this is simple (although I'm sure it is, in some sense) or I know how to do this, simply suggesting that thinking about how to enjoy doing things might be a more productive way to burn your cycles than thinking about how to stop procrastinating. The former problem is clearly stated (which is important, prevents losing focus when you're thinking a lot about it) and is likely simpler to solve.

* * *

IMO, many successful people actually do use productivity tricks without knowing it. It's implicit in their life, so they don't talk about it. Many of these tricks may not like like tricks at all. And even if people did talk about them… The real productivity trick is not the trick, it's your habit, tricks become truly effective when you do them naturally, without thinking. Pick good habits. [1]

[1] Relevant: http://lesswrong.com/lw/60y/action_and_habit/
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Sorry, but there was a guy earning millions just because he had the worst customer support. That was his job, to be rude, aggressive and an ass to customers. Really google even changed it's algorithm due to people like him.

Telling everywhere, that domain abc.org sucks would result in domain abc.org beeing ranked top, heh. At least it was a creative way of fraud and motivated google for a move, otherwise google would have lost reputation due to that guy too.
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There are some people who believe that--look up polyphasic sleep if you're curious.

I've tried doing it for about a month, but I've found that there are more pain-free ways of getting more out of a day.
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Well, once the hardware started working and the graphical toolkit options expanded beyond Tcl/Tk / Perl/Tk...

Ubuntu accelerated the process. Despite being a long time Linux user and programmer, I'd rather know the machine is goin' to work when I haven't done anything to mangle the beast.

I've spent hundreds, if not thousands of hours in the past just getting networking drivers to function. The brave new world of Linux is a good thing, the Interp-Only volken serve only to bolster the ecosystem, not harm it.
I sure don't hope that Google bought Motorola for that. It will fail just as all other mergers that look good on paper do that.

You got two big cultures coming from completely different parts of the tech world. There is no way that you will get seamless vertical integration that way.
I'm a consultant too, and I've had the occasional abusive client just like everyone has at some point. And who hasn't had several clients who were just oblivious to reality?

I've kicked them to the curb as soon as possible, but not before sending them their source code (at least up until the last commit paid for), server passwords, backups, assets, and whatever else I can find.

I've never, ever, deleted anything or brought a server down just because I was angry at them. And thank goodness too, because half of the time they come back after they've had a chance to cool off.
I wish I could get myself together to put some trust in telecom equipment from PRC-based companies, but I just can't. The phone seems like an awesome piece of hardware.
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> Bold: 100%

well, they didn't asked anyone outside of the english speaking world. Where I came from, everyone knows "N" is for bold text.

Also, having studied cognitive sciences in my free time, the author should learn soon that icons are not meant for discovery or explanation. They are place holders. Tokens for your mind to return to effortlessness.

So, the save icon could be an Elephant (my old idea, nobody likes) or a dolar sign or a clown. it doesn't matter. The user have to explore where the save is. then the icon will just serve for him to return.
Am I the only one who actually likes GIMP's multi-window interface? It works great with multiple displays. I've seen people do amazing things with GIMP, using a combination of keyboard shortcuts and clever use of the toolbox - in the hands of a skilled craftsman, it's an excellent and fast tool to use.

Of course I've been using GIMP since it was still in it's infancy and I've never used Photoshop, so I didn't have a trouble adjusting.

It's still cool that they implement the single window mode, since it's been one of the prime source of complaints from photoshoppers and people migrating from other software.
Are BBM messages "PIN protected" as the article claims, or is the BBM PIN merely an addressing mechanism? It's not the first time the Guardian has used the term "PIN protected" when referring to BBM.
Apparently the owner of the site in question has the same mindset: http://i.imgur.com/gYcys.png
I've rarely seen macports, FreeBSD ports, or NetBSD ports used as a harness to install modified versions of software. Hack jobs are almost always manual, so this purported benefit is a canard.
We might as well pay these people to stay at home rather than destroy stuff. Afterall, designing, logistics, etc, takes some brain so they might even be creative and produce productive stuff.
statistical nonsense I say
"Motorola — a handset maker with rapidly declining sales" -- Gruber (with a link to an Asymco post, which doesn't actually mention sales figures, only market share)

Last quarter they sold 4.4 million smartphones, up from 2.7 million the same quarter last year. (If you're more interested in market share as depicted by Asymco's graph then they're growing slightly at around 5% of the smartphone market, compared with say Apple which is growing slightly at around 15%, or Samsung which has gained 15% in the last year to just under 20%.)

Even if you like to play the Asymco game of including dumbphones that don't run Android to make Android look bad, they still increased total phone sales year-on-year, to 11 million, meaning their increased Android sales replaced a smaller number of lost dumbphone sales.
It depends entirely on how it's handled by the actual owner, assuming this is just an employee.

If you're good at spinning PR and responding correctly, the right apologetic stance can flip this from a PR nightmare to free good PR. The trick is responding fast, responding apologetically, responding honestly, and more than making up for the original mistake.

"We apologize for the lack of respect our CS rep has shown you; he's been terminated and we'd like to offer you a free two years of service and we'll do our best to recover your lost data."
His first business was quasi-illegitimate, he and Woz were selling Blue Boxes so the average Joe could cheat MaBell. (I believe they bragged about thermite lined units for the mafia.)

Funny how 40 years later he's got one of the most restricted phone systems.
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Which brilliant founders (of tech companies) have emerged from China? They have a large number of businesses but you can study metallurgy and learn how to make steel but that doesn't make you the kind of person who can create something truely new.
Does anyone know the answer to this?

Essentially, I'd like to know if i should continue waking up with the US East Coast or finally join the regular morning people in India.
"My son is going to have to bid to get the contract to build the new city building, just like anybody else. He will be on equal footing."

I won't believe it until I see a regular pattern of Moto not getting picked. That goes against too much human nature.

Equal footing in the bidding process doesn't mean that on average everyone gets an equal split. If Moto or any other company deserve to win the bid they should win regardless of how many times they've won it before.
That's not what I meant though, polyphasic is just altering when you sleep, it isn't never sleeping.

My interesting (and entirely sci-fi) idea was that if brain cells shut down when you're tired, we could live permanently tired - brain cells would take it in turns to shut down and recover, so you'd never be quite as awake as if you were sleeping each night, but you'd also never actually be asleep.

I can't find a source right now (haven't looked particularly hard though), but I read an article a year or so back about some people who either never sleep, or sleep very rarely (and by rarely I mean, awake for weeks on end) - I don't recall. I also can't remember whether it was known to be genetic, or just assumed to be genetic, but either way I'm pretty sure it wasn't a case of "anyone could do this if they ..."
So this is already more powerful in all aspects over the first generation netbooks.

At the end of this decade will cellphones be as powerful as today's average integrated desktop computer?

Can you imagine a server rack of cellphone sized computers (the drives will all be external SSD by then of course).
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WhoIs lookup shows him as the domain owner

Registrant Contact:
ThisWebHost
Jules Robinson ()

Fax:
South Building
Upper Farm
Basingstoke, HAMPSHIRE RG23 8PE
GB

Administrative Contact:
ThisWebHost
Jules Robinson (domains@thiswebhost.com)
+1.5555555555
Fax +1.5555555555
South Building
Upper Farm
Basingstoke, HAMPSHIRE RG23 8PE
GB

Technical Contact:
ThisWebHost
Jules Robinson (domains@thiswebhost.com)
+1.5555555555
Fax +1.5555555555
South Building
Upper Farm
Basingstoke, HAMPSHIRE RG23 8PE
GB

Also he appears to be using a fake phone number on the WhoIs, am I right in thinking you're not allowed to do that?
Close the window. Same as Command+W.
Fascinating hacker information! Flagged.
I think there's some truth there. Both sides acted like children, but the reason the focus is more on the hosting company is that they abused their power.

As far as the attitudes go, when you're reselling $2.95/month hosting you're going to get $2.95/month customers. In my experience, cheap customers are the most likely to squabble and gripe and moan over tiny things and drive you crazy. But hey, you make your bed and you gotta sleep in it. And don't delete your bed's data and backups over a twitter hissy fit.
Wow, that's incredible! Thanks for sharing.

Sorry, I miscommunicated --- fluid simulation isn't expensive as long as it doesn't affect gameplay. Because then you can do it all on the GPU, and you don't have to transfer it back to the CPU (to perform checks like "is the water touching me?")

In this case, From Dust is simulating the fluids on the CPU, then building geometry / textures on the fly and uploading that to the GPU and rendering. It's quite an impressive tech demo, both from a technical and artistic standpoint.
boriskourt: "That's not cool. Suspending a friends account because of a minor PayPal dispute? When did you get into doing that?"

This seems to be about a web host not accepting people not paying their bills.

It's not really the web hosts problem if you can't pay, doesn't matter if you've a dispute with paypal. Don't pay and they're in their rights to cease providing service.

Don't pay, then bitch about them not providing your service, then provide profane public responses and post a call on Reddit to try and get the company destroyed ... well is it a surprise that they delete your data at that point.

Aside: berfarah needs to read up on the Gunpowder Plot.
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Bummer, going to miss this by just a couple of days. I'm in Singapore right now.
They come to mind:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Ma

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Li
Sorry! Didn't mean to imply you did. It was sort of a tangent... a lot of people think that way, and so I sort of had a bone to pick with 'em. Cheers.
With the C++98 standard it took almost a decade to get decent support in mainstream compilers.

This time it's different. Most of C++0x is already implemented in GCC and MSVC. However the implemented subsets are a bit different, but most of it is already there. The last time I checked, MSVC had lots of missing stuff in the standard library. In particular, threads and clocks were missing.

I've been writing C++0x with GCC for two years now.
Your comment reminded me of this video by Derek Sivers http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfwwHa-7Ux8
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To an extent it is Gimp's fault, though. It's not as though click-to-focus is a new fad that's sprung up and surprised everyone -- it's been the default way focus has worked in GNOME and KDE for as long as I can remember, and I've been using it for the best part of fifteen years on Linux.

The fact that such a common use case (almost certainly the most common use case, not to mention Gimp-related irritation, for at least the past decade) has been ignored for so long is disappointing.
Looks like Chinese copy of what Apple did in 2006, despite the technical specs.
Disclaimer: I never launched a really successful site (but I am still trying ;) ). This is just a guess.

Overnight success takes years of preparation (http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/01/overnight-success-i...), so ten days is just a start. I would suggest the following:

Try to get a lot of feedback from real users
Keep improving the site over the course of some months
Blog about it
Keep doing everything you do now (HN, reddit, twitter, facebook, ...)
Read Seth Godin's blog (http://sethgodin.typepad.com/)
Read everything Kathy Sierra ever posted (http://headrush.typepad.com/)

When you become successful please tell me what worked, so I can copy your success ;) I want to close with a shameless self promotion: I wrote about something similar in my blog some weeks ago: "I wish I had invented Twitter" - http://davidtanzer.net/node/82
It's actually logical - if after the demo you decide that you don't want the product you just don't buy.

If after buying the product you want a refund you still need to contact the seller (or go through some automated process). It's an extra step.

As a seller though, I would think less people would ask for a refund than the group of people that would have bought the product, but instead downloaded the demo and then decided not buy.
I'd love for this to happen, i'm really interested in going through YC and this would be amazing. Also Re: Paris. From what i've heard it's harder to start in France due to how investment law works there. Although i've seen interesting startups across Europe, my bias opinion is that YC should come to London.
Not very likely. Go and have a look at the rest of their Twitter feed: https://twitter.com/#!/thiswebhost

https://twitter.com/#!/thiswebhost/status/102087912497221633

https://twitter.com/#!/oscargodson/status/102092891979132929
The video on the website indicates that the course lectures will be delivered by video, so I'm assuming that timeshifting will not be a problem.
The video states that the course will be RDBMS-centric, but there will be forays into XML data.
> Pixar was more proof that even he never thought apple would be the hit it is today.

The facts don't align with that theory. Steve Jobs left Apple in 1985. Toy Story was released in 1995. There wasn't any plausible path for Steve to return to Apple until 1996.
Poe's Law seems very relevant to your comment.
Ask HN: How do you handle Ramadan?
To my fellow Muslim HNers out there: How do you handle your work schedule during Ramadan, specially now that it's during summer for those of us in the northern hemisphere?

I had a lot of problems so far getting enough sleep between working normal daytime hours, going for Isha and Taraweeh prayers, and waking up for sehri/suhoor. But I think I've worked out a schedule that works for me now, but first a little background:

I work in my own startup. We're three people, and I'm the only coder. I really need my mind and body to be fresh in order to work enthusiastically, and I couldn't just sleep the whole day because I need to be able to communicate with my business partners, who keep normal hours. I also miss caffeine (Diet Coke usually) and something to munch on and keep the blood flowing to my head during the day.

So here's what I've come up with:

I wake up at 8 PM and do Iftar and pray Maghrib. Then at 9:30 PM I go to the mosque for Isha and Taraweeh, and I come back home around 11:30 PM. Take a few hours break, then get to the office by 3 or 4 AM. I start working, do sehri at the office and pray Fajr there too, and my partners come in at around 8 AM, so we have time to talk and work together. Then I head back home around noon, and go to sleep. So I'm getting almost 8 hours of sleep this way. And up until Fajr time, while I'm working, I can eat something and have caffeine too.

How do you handle it?
Wasn't there some thing about Lenovo laptops having crazy spy chips in them, or was that just silly CIA psyops propaganda?
Signed up for this and AI.

Anyone know how many hours per week will be required? I am finishing up my 3 year distance learning MSc this month, so will have around 20 hours per week for these two courses. Hope that will be enough.
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It's not in their interest to do so, as it would leave already short links without them being able to track them
+1 definitely v. useful ahead of fall program applications
It's not a 310$ phone unless I can actually buy it.
Just noticed the 'a' menubar icon changed to the new folder-on-a-cloud icon. The cloud does animate on significant activity.
> Looks like Chinese copy of what Apple did in 2006, despite the technical specs.

The first iPhone was unveiled by Apple CEO Steve Jobs on January 9, 2007, and released on June 29, 2007.
That's usually how it goes if you aren't talking to someone who is being intellectually dishonest. Over in a few minutes.