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I just checked to make sure, and creating new email addresses using google apps does not require creating a g+ account.

I've been happy with using google apps for my email server and have had no trouble staying in the free tier. It's clearly not for everyone, but it sounds like it will involve far fewer headaches for you than managing your own server.
5 Lessons From The SOPA/PIPA Fight
Whether you agree or disagree, if you have something constructive to add, why not comment?

Downmodding us adds almost nothing to the discussion.
Another desperate attempt to get more G+ users :)
Of course, one reason this works so well is that programming really can be like a game. Growing up, I didn't play console/pc games, I wrote code!
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Complete hogwash. Why is it some people feel the need to aggrandize the startup concept into some sort of herculean, do-or-die war? It isn't, from personal experience and countless other stories on the net.

My personal guess is that, in entrepreneurs, the hero complex is prevalent and drives the overall feel of the community at large.
OP here. That was the Recurly pricing at the time. I have updated now to their latest pricing, and if you use their gateway they are indeed the lowest cost option of that bunch.

Also, Stripe claims to support data portability.
sum() and distinct() come to mind for sure, but I don't know how easy they'd be to implement. The particular use case I have in mind is where we have events streaming in and we usually don't care about the actual events, just various sums, counts and distinct counts over them grouped by various dimensions.
There's a individual, social/cultural, and interpersonal context that a raw number threshold ignores completely.

As the writer points out, seven drinks over the course of a multi-hour fine dining experience with friends is far different from a college freshman downing seven shots of tequila in his or her first hour of partying.

Other variables that matter:

* physical - weight, body fat, alcohol tolerance, fatigue, illness

* sex - men and women respond differently

* experience level - has the person ingested alcohol before in a variety of ways?

* emotional state - is the person using alcohol to self-medicate? to "get drunk" deliberately?

* social context - drinking at a social occasion is quite different from drinking alone

There are probably several other factors that a person could name.

The point is, there's no exact threshold above which red lights go on and drinking becomes "excessive" or "binge". It's a matter for the individual to judge, in a social context.
Postponed until the media coverage dies down and they can pass it when no one is paying attention as an amendment to another bill
SOPA and PIPA both shelved for now.
3 separate NoSQL stores from ONE company? And their primary business is not Databases? There are currently more than 100 different NoSQL solutions - I believe we will see a consolidation of NoSQL in 2012
Do you think these organizations are going to sit back and let their sites get shut down without a response? No, they're going to ramp up their security and network teams to subvert the attack and make sure the attack isn't covering a penetration. Bring down the firewall, bring down the company. It costs real money to keep a company running through a DDoS.
If they're taking that material down to stay legal, as far as the DMCA is concerned, when they become aware of information that makes it apparent the material is infringing they will lose safe harbor protections if they do not take it down.

Typically, this is covered by the "we can do whatever we want"-type clause in other file providers TOS, bayfiles is just limiting their purview to more specific situations.

My point with my previous point was that any harshness was not on the part of bayfiles.
You can change your last sentence to be about anything a consumer buys though.

"Why should consumers have to know the healthy food? All they want is to pay for a solution to their hunger."

"Why should consumers have to know which cars have good gas mileage? All they want is to pay for a form of transport."

Because there are advantages to consumers in being knowledgeable about what they buy. Like knowing your cloud storage isn't (and can never be) perfectly reliable.
What is an IOU?
I just looked up more for those interested - here's a book for the general public on the subject:

http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/home/search/?keywords=Get%20ou...
This is both a volatilte issue, and a huge opporunity. Someone who hosted business (or even personal, but business would be stronger) files with MegaUpload should immidiately contact their lawyer and pursue a court order demanding the return of their property, just as they would if a delivery service was shut down for drug smuggling. Whether or not not they are able to get it back, the ensuing legal and political battle (including whether or not one occurs at all) may prove to be an important factor in the building copyright war. I didn't personally have anything stored on MegaUpload, but I'm making a plea for someone who did to contact their lawyer and find out how to pursue a court order for the return of their property.
And the replies to the answers? For example, if a reply gets the most votes. How do I know when that happens?
They also have a "running with scissors" icon.
My one exception is the idea that there should be an even split across founders.

Personally, I've used a couple of "calculators" that all work around the idea of a matrix where you have founders as columns and 4 to 7 top-level accountabilities as rows. Overall, if everyone is shouldering similar burdens, they come out even, but if there is disparity it is transparent to all and fair too.
It forces an extra 10% votes to pass something.
I'd like to ask what size your goals are, in order for you to have met all of them? Are they the size of "I will send this email today" or larger which include more micro-management?
That is his point. He is saying that while the generic definition of binge drinking [X drinks in Y time] shows an increase in those problems, it does not paint anywhere near the whole picture. Instead, he argues, a more important factor is the context in which those drinks are consumed and this context should have the most importance.
"""If a company break US laws, the US gov't can pursue them, regardless of where they are."""

Do you really mean that as broadly as it's written? Shouldn't it be "If a company break US laws on US soil, the US gov't can pursue them, regardless of where they are." while the Internet has made the world smaller, nations are still sovereign and should be treated as such. Frankly, I'm really tired of my government feeling like it has to police the world.
All I can say is that the irony of my comment wasn't lost on me. :(
_Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life_ was the first book on the subject, written by Steve Hayes who started ACT. Since then many more books have been written. Another popular one is _The Happiness Trap_[0] by Russ Harris.

GOOYMAIYL is a workbook with a technical/scientific bend to it. He cites a lot of studies and data, and supports his theories quite a bit. If I had to guess, HN would enjoy this book, it's pretty geeky.

The Happiness Trap is much more of a self help book. No cited studies or any real hard data. Just gives a more gentle, friendly approach to ACT. Also an enjoyable book in its own right.

[0] http://www.thehappinesstrap.com/
Except that probable cause requires a judge to authorize the action and allows supervision of the terms.
A buddhist would say because we tend to cling to things being a certain way.
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Eh, you could say the same thing about any "cautionary tale". Unless it's not a funny story, but you know what I mean.

But I don't necessarily disagree with you.

I'm constantly torn between believing that we're really living in novel times, and the cliche that "the more things change, the more they stay the same". That is, three hundred years ago, there were a lot of ignorant, illiterate, and quite possibly just plain dumb people. The writings that survive from that period and that we're most exposed to today tend to be from the most educated folks, though. So it's easy to get the sense that everyone in 1712 was highly intelligent, had a great grasp of the English language, also knew at least Latin, and probably French, too, and that they always had interesting, novel thoughts. Then when you look around the world today, it's easy to convince yourself that society has really deteriorated.

On the flip side, there really are a lot of ignorant and just plain dumb people today, too. People who say "We're turning into Idiocracy!!!!" recognize this, but they perhaps don't recognize that we used to be Idiocracy too. Perhaps we've always been Idiocracy?
I think a better way to look at it is that life is full of challenge. You can either learn how to get comfortable dealing with certain challenges and stick to those, or dig into new territory.

If you're comfortable with the challenges you expose yourself to on a regular basis then it really wouldn't be difficult - sadly for me, I get bored easily and so far I've not found a way to stick to doing the same for very long.
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I run my own mail server for my personal mail at home off my DSL line. Most blacklists will block residential IP ranges, but it is easy to get around that. You can simply set up a smart relay to another SMTP server, probably your ISP's. When your mail server sends mail to the outside, world, it doesn't send directly to the recipient's mail server, it sends it to your ISP, and they relay it out.
Another major change is stomach contents. It's vary different to down 7 shots on an empty stomach vs 7 shots after a full meal.

PS: 5 shots in a row classifies someone as a binge drinker. But for most people 7 glasses of wine over 2 hours results in the same level of intoxication.
This is great. Discrimination makes me sick to my stomach.
i'm waiting for the i-can't-believe-it's-not-xml! xml
Do check the "Best of Hacker News" section. The polls there say a lot about the Hacker News community.
Do both. Learn on your own and pay someone to do the heavy lifting, eventually you can help them while at the same time making real progress. Learning to code has made me a better designer, communicator, manager, thinker. You will not regret it if you learn.
"IOU" is an informal term for a promise to make some specified payment at a later (perhaps unspecified) time. In other words, it is an acknowledgment of a debt. The name comes from "I owe you".
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Somewhere, Alan Turing applauds.
Generally HN does ok with this. Most of the "advice" posts that survive the frontpage are from established industry people (or are at least well-written), and "Show HN" posts typically survive much greater.
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I think it's long over due for someone to give us the real numbers and debunk MPAA's hyperinflated claims of job and revenue loss due to copyright infringement.
I know that Jason will reply to this later today but I figured I would do it now.

The company is based in Ontario. Jason lives in Oakville so anything in the GTA would be good.
I'm graduating this June and starting work full-time at Microsoft in August. I'm gay and my boyfriend is moving to Seattle with me, where we're planning on getting a domestic partnership and would like to get married down the road.

Microsoft's efforts to create a truly equal workplace and community for me played a significant role on my decision to accept an offer there (note: I don't say this at the exclusion of other companies who make similar efforts).
The Truth About SOPA -- Lamar Smith Op Ed
> Cassandra (similar to other Dynamo systems) offers great primary key-based access operations (e.g. get, put, delete), but doesn’t scale well for secondary-index lookups

Riak does have secondary-index lookups. I wonder how those scale compared to Cassandra's.
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Google has been extremely pro gay rights for a while (forever?) and it has worked out quite well for what it seems. Bully for both of them, it's a great move, both as. Company and people with basic humanity.
Another approximate matching library is FuzzyWuzzy[1]. It has some handy functions and seems easier to use. Although might not be as powerful as this.

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Reid's official statement on his .gov website (http://democrats.senate.gov/2012/01/20/reid-statement-on-int...) said the movie industry alone 'supports' 2.2 million Americans. A claim Maddox humorously pointed out was clearly wrong even if you factor in the "related" jobs like food service: http://maddox.xmission.com/
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I became critical when he said issues with the bill "[can] be resolved." No, no they can't.

These bills (SOPA and PIPA) are broken and are unfixable. The only way to "fix" them is to scrap them and rewrite them.

He also implies that PIPA will generate jobs in the industries most troubled by piracy, and again I have to disagree. The problem is with these companies pushing outdated, annoying business models instead of embracing the hundreds of amazing startups trying to fix the problems these companies have. Jobs won't be created by passing these bills. That's just the sugarcoating that the lobbyists use to make the bills look feasible to the Senate.

And I agree fully, creators deserve compensation for their work. As an entrepeneur, I know the feeling of getting something in return for creating. But these bills will open Pandora's box and unleash all hell on the Internet and American citizens. No more fixing. Kill these bills once and for all.
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I'm fond of skeleton as well. The only drawback I've found is that it uses a 16-column layout. I find I often want to divide the screen in thirds and 12-columns would be much handier.
Oh come on - do we need logic arguments to convince people it's the right thing to do?

Why is separate-yet-equal acceptable for any human being?

It's a disgusting, ignorant attitude. Society needs to grow up.

Do detractors think there should be separate water fountains for gays at work too?
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we just finally got away from XML for good and JSON is great. last thing we need is another alternative. let's try to create standards and stop coming up w/ exotic languages so we can put our efforts into proper development.
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Not Jon Stewart himself, though. Check out the beginning of January 11th's episode: http://www.hulu.com/watch/320233/the-daily-show-with-jon-ste... He quite candidly says he has "some reading to catch up on" with regards to SOPA.
What rights are not being protected? Protecting copyright is about the only thing the Constitution directly calls out as the duty of the government.
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This is true for any service, cloud or not, that has permission to write to your hard drive. This ability has nothing to do with storage, and this risk is much, much less likely than simple bankruptcy or whatever.
Large enough to take true effort to accomplish, but not so large as to force an unrealistic change in my life. My main goals for 2011 were: make vim my full time editor, run a half marathon, and find a better job.
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The US had jurisdiction since MU rented about 500 (?) servers in Virginia. If all of their servers were outside the US, they couldn't have done much about it.
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I mean "misleading" as in "leading in the wrong direction", such as "have you considered doing X?", where X is something that I think is a bad idea. If they agree with every I idea I have, then they will even agree with bad ideas, and won't make for a very effective founder (because the reality is that investors will make all kinds of dumb suggestions).
Also realize that Dropbox's architecture leaves an evidentiary trail - nothing is ever actually deleted from your account. If you upload anything copyrighted, you have opened yourself up to the possibility of being sued or prosecuted for copyright infringement. For most, that's a minuscule chance, but it exists and you have no ability to delete your history - http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=48975
But if you knew 60% of the cars had drugs, and knew the parking attendants were mixing in drug and non-drug bearing cars to hide the cars with drugs, then I suspect you could get a warrant from a judge.

Yea. Stretching the metaphor.
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I disagree. That's like telling a depressed person to be less depressed. It's not wrong or anything, but it's much more of a process than you're implying.

Anything that is challenging for you can become a goal. I find it very very hard to wake up early, especially when I don't need to, and some mornings I fail.
Waking up early is in fact a goal I have been working on over the past six months or so, and I do this by working at it incrementally. Today I get up at 10, next week at 9:30, etc...
A body's biological soup doesn't care if it's Superbowl Sunday or a wedding or a funeral; when you intoxicate it with excessive quantities of alcohol, there will be effects.

I don't think anyone is arguing that, his point seems to be that there is a discrepancy between the effects ascribed to it, are not the actual effects.
Here's my totally fair method of dividing up the ownership. Talk it out with your co-founders. Whichever cut is chosen at that discussion is fair. Why? Because it was discussed and not proposed..... Furthermore, because it was agreed upon.
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We do this at Top Hat Monocle too, except we call them Hack weeks. We've found it tricky to make sure they are respected, meaning it's hard not to get distracted by critical bug fixes. We have quite a small team right now so that might play a part in it.
pronounce the letters just as an American would, but treat them as _words_ instead of letters

"I owe you"

it just says that I'm indebted to you in some way
How is it you figure that this warrants any sort of investigation exactly? I don't see any other issues with this neither: it applies for new signups, existing users aren't required to open G+ account or anything else.

It's funny how people keep getting "shocked and surprised" by obvious moves, what use is it having a profile or a cohesive identity system for all your services if you don't incorporate it into said services or even use it when users sign up?!
It is definitely troubling to think about this in the long run and how this entangles into search/email and privacy concerns...

And honestly I don't think the G+ users will want their Facebook friends to be on G+, same way that most users on Youtube have separate accounts from their Google/Gmail account. From the looks of this, G+ will just push away users from other Google services, and causing confusion.
I see where your going with this and you are right. In any of these scenarios there are no central controllers identified. At the same time these do not deal with identifiable traits the display a signature of an "originator". For instance with the antennas, there was still an initial program/programmer that designed the program that would carry out instruction to design antennas. With the ants we are still not dealing with the how did ants get here? Why do ants have such a variety of complex and unique genetic structure design?

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1208186/

What I'm getting at is at the root level there always seems to be a implication or inference of design. Yes, these design patterns seem to formulate behavior and gradual change within their domain. At the same time the domain of change is limited to measurable spectrum of analysis. Who defines these domains? Who set the spectrum in which they are distributed? At the lowest level of biological organization who initially places the constraints in which these systems and species can move and evolve.
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Solution I personally use and has yet to fail: Auction system trading monthly wage packet vs. unit equity.

It just works, and by it's very nature is fair, everyones happy.
The Libertarian community has been on top pf this sort of thing for decades and would surely be able to offer a lot of "see I told you so" as well. Remember that analogy about how people said SOPA provisions were like shutting down the Ritz Carlton because occasionally politicians cheated on their wives there? Take away a few layers of class, and there have been some motels that the government has seized (or tried to sieze) because occasionally tenants would do drug deals there.

A handy article on the topic that was easy for me to find:
http://reason.com/archives/2010/01/26/the-forfeiture-racket/...

In short, don't hold your breath waiting for your data to come back.
Thank you. This seems like a fair tradeoff. In my case I imagine I'd just use my VPS as the relay, rather than my ISP. Just so I understand clearly, incoming mail will not be an issue and can be sent directly to your personal box, but relay the outgoing via your established ISP/VPS/etc?
Am I the only one that notices this seems to be the case with a lot of tech companies? It seems like most non-tech industries are still full of baby boomers who are far less accepting than the younger generations who make up these types of companies.
"If my local bank gets busted for some shady-ass shit"

Except that you will probably not put your money in a bank that's widely known for being a drug dealers haven, will you?

I also am not a big fan of the "see I told you" attitude, but it seems to me that no sane person would ever put some valuable/important things on megaupload.

Of course there is not guarantee that services like icloud or dropbox will never get shut down, but they do look much more reliable than megaupload..
Nice looking wheel. I have a feeling it could be rounder though.
Is it single-point-of-failure free?
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