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First, manage the dns with a third party dns service. Such as http://zoneedit.com/pricing.html or similar. Don't use the dns of the registrar.

But if you are talking about moving over just dns servers (not the records that are in those dns servers) that is automatically ported over when you change registrars. But if the dns servers are the dns servers of the registrar that isn't what you want. Which is one of the reasons to use third party dns. If you switch registrars the gaining registrar automatically sets the primary and secondary dns to what it was at the old registrar.

I wrote this fast but if you have any questions let me know. This is what I do.

To answer about mail server depends on whether you mean the mail server will run on your equipment or on a VPS or?
It is OT from the OP and probably a better to ask this on Quora, but your comment led me to ask this question
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That's a great point Ryan and I'm glad you brought it up. Everyone chases after "hockey stick growth" but it's important to note the cost of such growth: challenges with scale, whether that's with the codebase, server infrastructure, hiring, increased spending, etc. Example: Twitter. The fail whales almost brought them down.

I think this is partially driven by investors funding things that have that hockey stick so hopefully some of them also read GBC and adjust their approach accordingly.

I won't hold my breath on that one though =)
I meant that Ubuntu is still built on top of GNOME 3, using a different graphical shell called Unity, much as Mint will also be built on top of GNOME 3 using Cinnamon as the graphical shell. I wasn't implying that Unity was a fork of Gnome Shell.
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FYI Fry was incorrect as it is not a mooon, but instead orbits the sun: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3753_Cruithne
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You know what I love - that issues like SOPA are waking people up to this.

I am an admitted tinfoiler of 20+ years.

I find the current state of reality surreal!
I sincerely hope that many Internet companies such as Facebook and Google will follow this initiative by removing all these companies from their databases.
No such thing? Really? So you're saying "touch, sound, speech, vision, gestures" for using computers does not exist?

No, what he and I are saying is that you're drawing an entirely artificial line in the sand about what is and isn't "natural". Desktop interfaces today use "touch" in the sense that you touch a keyboard and mouse. They use sound. Obviously they use vision.

Why is pressing on the screen with my finger more "natural" than using a mouse? What does "natural" even mean and why is it better than "non-natural"?

few people today can comprehend how computers will be used tomorrow

For a second there I imagined I was in the 1960s, talking to someone who is convinced that everyone will be driving a flying car by 1990. Predicting with absolute certainly how anything is going to look in the future usually doesn't pan out.
Due to headlines like this I get to start every engagement with a consultant with the disclaimer: "We are not switching our database to MongoDB." MongoDB is good for one set of problems and relational databases are good for another set of problems. Consultants, a lot of students and hobbyists seem to think MongoDB is good for ALL problems. The amount of time senior engineer must spend having to explain why you would not want to use MongoDB for XYZ must be incredible.
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Hey aymeric - I do like MoodyThing. Feedback is always valuable to a writer and I adjust my posts based on the comments and emails I get, so this is great, low-friction way for me to understand what people get out of my writing.

Not sure how much it slows down my site though - and whether that trade off is worth it. =)
In case someone takes the list down,

http://www.dieblinkenlights.com/blog_en/companies-that-suppo...

Enjoy.
Partly I think it is in cliques wanting to keep people out as they don’t have room in their venues. At least, that is how I feel as an outsider. Just like normal people felt about computers in the 1990s.

I can confirm that this is often the case :) If there are more people in the area that enjoy the artist and are likely to come to the event than you have space in the venue, why would you want much else on the poster? Also, event posters are most often glimpsed from several metres away, in the dark, while drunk, so it's important that the key information is very visible.

But you're right, that poster sucks. What do you think of this?

http://erisian.tk/wp-content/gallery/flyers/20090515-erisian...

(They were 15cm wide by about 10cm high)

Done by a friend of mine for his night Erisian, he's likely reading this. Hi. Notice the name isn't actually on the flyer anywhere, by this point in the event's history it was known throughout the town simply by the striking typography and the eight pointed star logo. So there's the elitist cool, but also I think it tells you a lot more about what to expect than that other flyer.
Maybe all us angry nerds should OCCUPY something. Something big, related to SOPA. It would be cool to see EFF type concerns channeled into that movement.
Thanks for the guide! I've got 21 domains at Godaddy and I've started transferring the inactive ones as a test. Once I've got a feel for the process I'll start moving the ones that have DNS entries with GoDaddy as well.
The push for these bills really started years ago when pharma companies were desperately trying to prevent the purchase of drugs from Canada and other countries. The entertainment aspect is rather new and actually somewhat secondary.
Gauntlet officially thrown down. I respect PG even more for taking a stand on this. Now we need to figure out the best way to get people opposed to SOPA on a grand scale. No disrespect to the HN community, but I wonder how much of an impact we really have had thus far. Tumblr, Reddit, and Mozilla have done a fairly good job of this, but they are not large enough to do it on their own. Next we need Google and Facebook to get more involved as I think that would make awareness of this issue skyrocket. Any thoughts on pragmatic approaches to getting the public more involved?
The only thing I would add is that a domain can never have more than 10 years on it. So if you created a domain today with a 10 year period and decided to transfer it in 3 months it wouldn't get a year added to it when you transferred. Note that the year is not actually added to the domain by the registrar. It's part of the way the system works for .com .net domains with Verisign which operates the backend for <b>all</b> registrars.
Thanks for standing up for us all, pg.
But you still aren't outlining why any of this would be better. Like I said- an office full of people using voice commands on their computer would be a total, utter nightmare. How is it better than using a keyboard and mouse?
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Actually, if you read the article and linked letter, you will see that this list does not seem to come from any explicit support of SOPA. Instead, anyone on this list and not on the official judiciary list linked above comes from a letter[1] not stating support for SOPA but rather petitioning Congress to "enact carefully balanced rogue sites legislation this year."

From the linked article:
"This list is derived from two sources: the official list (pdf) of SOPA supporters from the Judiciary Committee’s website, and a letter (pdf) addressed to Congress from the Global Intellectual Property Center, which is an affiliate of the US Chamber of Commerce."

I thought this deserved clarification.

[1] http://www.theglobalipcenter.com/sites/default/files/pressre...
Everything on that page gives me the impression that it's a solid 48hrs; maybe you need to adjust the copy? The explanation posted elsewhere on this thread by mikeinterviewst makes it sound more reasonable.

I'm probably not your target audience anyway (happily I'm past that stage in my career), but I was also put off by being asked to login in order to see sample questions.
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Mostly, yes, but the line endings in Erlang fail the "don't make me think" test. They make you stop and look and make sure everything is in the right place.

It's not that big a deal, and the language has lots of other great qualities, so I wouldn't get too hung up on it, but it's not fair to say it's not irritating.
Link to referenced MIT Technology Review post:

http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/27425/
> This is not the intended use case for Excel. Rather, it's a product of 10 years of bad decisions leading to more bad decisions.

This is true :)
A million dollars and a public paypal email address (check the screenshot). I really hope he has a secure password.
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A list of systems papers worth reading, with discussions and comments
But not Discover. Interesting.
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I'm posting this in HN because I like the audience from a technical point of view, as well as intellectual. I am hoping I could find someone:

We are a very young start up. We believe in our idea and so do people we speak with (not our mothers, but people who dont care about hurting our feelings :-) ). We have not reached out to any VC because we want to have something more substantial before we take that step.

2 founders in our 30s: a business school alum (with a hands on tech background) working in the valley, a programmer with industry experience. Node.js, mongodb, redis, etc. We are in need for someone who can do:

1. Logo design
2. Visual design
3. User Interaction
4. eCommerce
5. Branding

In particular we are looking for someone who has previous experience designing Consumer Internet eCommerce sites. But a good eye will get you a long way...

My motivation posting here is two fold:

1) This is a community of hackers where (almost) everyone is trying to create something new many times with limited resources. So, maybe we could reach some sort of equity/payment agreement (I'm not implying you should work for free, of course, but you'd be open to equity, if you like the idea).

2) This is really a bonus: I was hoping we could find someone artistic in the HN community who has the ability to also create the front end (take psd files s/he is creating, transform them to HTML+CSS, and maybe even do some jQuery stuff). However, someone good who just wants to focus on design and forget about the technical stuff is ok as well.

Leave contact info if interested (or if you know of someone else who might be), or email:

gftime1@gmail.com.
Why the quotes around the word witness?
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There is a published list from pg 1026 days ago of sites that are systematically banned from HN.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=499044

But I don't see the site www.devthought.com there when I look for it.
YC is an investor and has a standpoint. YC is promoting anti-SOPA support outwards and towards its (independent) portfolio companies. KKR is also an investor and also has a standpoint.
Thanks for that, didn't even realize you could delete domains before they expired. Just deleted 30 domains from godaddy that i had no intention of renewing.
As responsible morally or legally? Their moral obligation would be irrelevant to them as a business, their legal responsibilities right now might be unclear. If SOPA clarifies it for them in a way that they think will improve their business it makes sense for them to support it on that basis.
Perhaps the parallel you draw is useful, if a business is doing something illegal and someone demands that their yellow page listing be pulled so that the phone company is not seen as supporting the business and sues them to get them to do so is there legislation to cover that? Legal precedent? Remember the Crag's List flap over "erotic services"? GoDaddy does not want to be put in a similar position of having to decide between Legal/PR battle to defend their customers vs. just giving in. Maybe SOPA gives them that clarity?
Leading to the Copyright Act of 1976, BTW.
pg, thank you so much for doing this. You rock.
The term for large ISPs and DNS systems is "common carriers". They are qualitatively different than a Y Combinator.
I don't understand how it's "sick" to market a training program at people who are "clueless".
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pg, thank you so much for doing this. Quite a ballsy move, and highly respectable.
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Anyone got a better idea of what he would get for a HBO special (including DVD rights), just for contrast?
I've transferred about 10 domains from GoDaddy now, thanks for the step-by-step guide.
I make no claim about Chinese or English. I merely pointed out that the logical argument given is flawed, and hence, does not carry weight.
I glanced at that list quickly even before I was aware of the boycott. Many of those names are just random non-tech related companies, but I couldn't help but think that GoDaddy sticks out like a sore thumb on it. Almost as if they were tricked into joining.
Why not post them somewhere and transfer them to someone who might use them?
So does that include a photo of my 1 year old girl wearing only a diaper? What about my boy? What about when they're 3? or 7? or...

And what about teenagers wearing tiny bikinis?

The slope is more than slippery, it's vertical.
Maybe I would have deserved a downvote for forgetting to mention that after opening the second Firefox session you still have to switch it to Private Browsing :-))))
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Many "fake" products are manufactured in the same factory with the same materials by the same workers who produce the genuine thing, only they do it during the night shift. Keep in mind that a $3000 designer purse is really just a $50 purse with a $2950 designer label.
I've seen the argument: if someone is so clueless about rationality as to be religious, how could they make a good scientist? And the "answer" is: nevertheless, there exist religious people who do good science.

So I'm not convinced by the argument here. It makes too many unstated assumptions.

I support this boycott, and this argument might make good rhetoric, but I wouldn't use it directly to evaluate investors.
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If you aren’t presenting, MUTE THYSELF. This isn’t rocket surgery, folks.
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scarmig is right. Authoritarian does not mean the existence of coercive laws and institutions, it is about how power is distributed and the manner in which is it exercised.

If a given tax regime has democratic support, collecting the tax will be coercive but the institutions that collect it need not be authoritarian.
This is exactly the problem. No one thought the DMCA or COPA or CIPA or CDA would pass either. They all did. They didn't pass because they were good for the country, they passed because of the considerable lobby weight behind them.

SOPA and PIA are getting the same treatment. While it may be true that we still have a chance to influence our legislators, it's important to keep in mind that the lobbies haven't really started to work on members outside of the congressional committees yet either.
The Moon is closer to spherical than the Earth is. The Moon's flattening is something like 0.001, as opposed to 0.003 for Earth.
Sigh, I fear I'll simply get downvoted again with no proper or discussionary reply.

https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+... (And I dare you to make the search more narrow to "godaddy hosting" and see how much worse it is to use GoDaddy's hosting [it's expensive, underfeatured and terribly supported])

Since when was "ignorance is bliss" the motto of HN?
GoDaddy's official Twitter account is currently robo-replying with "We encourage you to visit our blog to view the details of our position on SOPA: http://x.co/c0q4, so I doubt they were "tricked".
I suspect one reason is that they get process a lot of chargebacks when people's fake Viagra and counterfeit NFL jerseys get seized by Customs before delivery.
Embarrassed to still be on Godaddy when I vowed to move away a few years ago. And timing is unfortunate. I just paid them lots of $$ to renew everything.

Still, biting the bullet and (finally) transferring everything over now.
Yes, if you've read "The Halo Effect", which demolished much of "Good to Great", you'll want to wait for whatever book demolishes "Great by Choice" before reading it too.

Decade-old business books are SO much more enlightening; you get to see how history really turned out.
The issue is not radio waves--it's Dyson spheres (look it up). It does not take very long at all for a space-faring civilization to advance to such a point that it's artifacts would be (spectrographically) visible from our telescopes today.

It doesn't have to be Dyson spheres either. A large object moving near the speed of light through the interstellar medium would give off one of a few very specific and very strong spectral lines. Now there hasn't been a concerted effort to look for interstellar travelers, but nevertheless in all our years of searching such oddities haven't shown up.
Amazingly, nine out of the top ten articles on the front page are SOPA related (if you count Louis CK's personal distribution, which seems to me to be an experiment in fighting the xIAA organizations.)
> I've seen the argument: if someone is so clueless about rationality as to be religious, how could they make a good scientist? And the "answer" is: nevertheless, there exist religious people who do good science.

And there exists Catholic priests who are pedophiles, that doesn't make Catholicism and pedophilia compatible. Nor are science and religion compatible. Those people just have an ability to tolerate or ignore their own cognitive dissonance because their religious beliefs are so strong.
This doesn't help much, but an excerpt from his previous news update when the special hit $500K:

"Minus some money for PayPal charges etc, I have a profit around $200,000 (after taxes $75.58). This is less than I would have been paid by a large company to simply perform the show and let them sell it to you, but they would have charged you about $20 for the video."

So somewhere north of $200K.
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What's more is it redirects to a GitHub-hosted URL. Maybe it's just me, but it seems cheap that twitter would advocate hotlinking off a GitHub server when they have so much capacity of their own.
The part that spoke the loudest to me: I never viewed money as being "my money" I always saw it as "The money" It's a resource. if it pools up around me then it needs to be flushed back out into the system.

Many of you know exactly what he means by that, and also subscribe to the same philosophy. I just thought it was a very apt way of putting it into words.
Because they lose money to counterfeit knock offs.

Your assumption is that if someone doesn't buy knock offs, they'll buy the real thing. Until that can be proven true, I think a better reformulation which more accurately translates the greed of these corporations is Because they feel they're not making more money due to counterfeit knock offs. The companies themselves aren't actually losing anything.
Thanks, really appreciate your support!
I'd add Types and Programming Languages to that list.
Regarding SOPA; Other Examples of Free Tools Taken Away From Us?
Are there other examples of us going back in time due to public policy? To this degree?... People in Countries that are other than Democratic have had this happen, but what about a modern, Western Democracy? Has this happened before?

Edit; I know I am painting with some pretty broad strokes here- but I feel there are already a ton of threads all over the boards dedicated to the finer elements.
Greg Leuch of FFFFFAT has a similar project:

http://fffff.at/stop-sopa-blackout/
https://github.com/gleuch/STOP-SOPA-Blackout
I agree with you. Yet, I am passing this on to my company's designers, if for no other reason than to convince them to stop filling 600px of space with little 12px text.

The failure to validate the ratio as "optimal" is a very valid criticism, but at the very least, what they're claiming as "optimal" is pretty darn good IMO.
Respect a soldier but not necessarily a war. The US did not need to be in Vietnam. We were not defending our country. It was a huge game played by certain people in power, and a military adventure that cost tons of money and ended thousands of lives. Big payday for military suppliers, much devastation for the people living there.
On his 12/13 post, he gave a floor. Presumably it's in the same ballpark as well.

Minus some money for PayPal charges etc, I have a profit around $200,000 (after taxes $75.58). This is less than I would have been paid by a large company to simply perform the show and let them sell it to you
An organization is ill if it tolerates its employees having differing political and/or ideological beliefs?
That's a little naïve.