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Do you mean a 'curated' message as opposed to a computer-generated one?

I upvoted you because it's a good point but... beware the buzzwords.
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What scares me most is the fact that everyone knows this tactic. Write an absurd policy, debate it, offer an alternative and jam it down citizens throats.

We know this, yet there is not much that can be done about it. Aside from the obvious, running for Senate and using your vote, what can be done to stop it? Someone with the right amount of money and enough motivation can pass just about anything, given enough time.

I think, instead of protesting SOPA (or the next bill), people need to devise a method or position themselves so that they're in the right places to protect the average Citizen from such policies. These bills will just keep coming. Screaming from the side line is no longer effective.
The author is simply wrong. You can get episodes for Fox shows on Fox's website & episodes appear for free on Hulu as well. I've watched other Fox shows on my cable's "On Demand" feature, so maybe The Simpsons is on that too. That's three other ways to watch The Simpsons legally.

I agree the letter of the law can be silly & content owners tend to cling to old business models rather than innovate, but please give credit where credit is due. Fox & others are making programming available to us via different methods.
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Starbucks does add up, but I would say that it is minimalism (Especially if you are using it as an office)

From an individual's perspective, it is not minimalist, because now you will need to have an entire coffee shop in your life to obtain coffee. However, from a societal viewpoint, it is very minimalist, because now each person can share the means to produce coffee, thus consuming less: electricity, water (assuming most dump some out), coffee supplies/coffee, and coffee brewing equipment (really, we don't all need our own machine... well, I do. but that's why I am a capitalist)
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I disagree somewhat.

>Bill Gates is extremely charitable.

This is following two decades of Bill Gates being extremely selfish.

>Einstein was extremely intelligent.

This is something different. Einstein was extremely intelligent in some areas but not all of them.

It's been said that for anyone to become great at anything that it requires 10,000 hours of practice. This does take dedication and there is nothing wrong with doing what you love. That said, caring too much or being too emotional can affect rationalization.
I think one of the most difficult aspects of being a founder is attempting to find balance with your life. There is a fine line between driving passion for an idea and 'living' life. Entroyneur's comment here is valuable hindsight - I think many of us put ourselves 'over the edge' because we are so passionate about our projects. I suspect that you have expectations of yourselves and one another that have yet to be discussed. My recommendation would be to sit down and develop a clear understanding of what you 'expect' from him, what you feel you can/are contributing and define how that looks.

I would also encourage you to communicate more with him. Conversations that begin with "I am really frustrated because..." will help you vent your anger constructively without pointing a finger. It may be that you didn't communicate exactly what your expectations were. "I need to know that you are willing to ...." is a good way to let him know what you expect.

Try to define what his needs are and how much time he is willing to dedicate - does it match yours? Put it on paper so that it is visual. Develop a contract of sorts that you both are accountable for.

In the meantime - step back and take a long deep breath. You are not going to 'change' him. Perhaps he has a better understanding of balance than you do at the moment. Understand that this is a trap that many of us fall into when we get excited and passionate. Patience is one of the most difficult lessons that I ..continue.. to learn being a founder.
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When I wrote that post a year ago, I think you could definitely say I was mooching off my friend (living with him, using his cooking utensils, etc.).

But after that experience, I moved to an apartment in another city. It had almost no furnishing at the time. The only things I had to buy were an airbed and basic cooking supplies (pot, pan, nominal silverware) and I was able to live basically the same way again.

(Of course it helped that I was living in a place with great public transportation and lots of things to do. I also long ago replaced my books/music/movies/etc with digital versions, so I didn't have to carry anything but a hard drive for those.)

For what it's worth, I did not have the benefit of a large bank balance like the OP presumably did (I was fortunately debt-free, but had almost no money saved away). To maintain this lifestyle, I had no choice but to live frugally (thankfully, I never get tired of cheap home-cooked pasta).

It's not for everyone, but I like living this way. It really helps clarify what's important in your life and keeps me focused on my work.
Naked domains as in "example.com" without the www? Just name your bucket without the www and it will work. You can then do a javascript redirect from a simple index page at www.example.com (google has said that they now follow javascript redirects. My play example "http://whitewatersearch.com
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I watched the "AI" course about a year ago. 4 lectures, each about an hour and half. They were very good, and I strongly suggest watching them (if you aren't already familiar with AI).
Try loging in to http://goo.gl/ and paste the accounts.google.com/sesame link. You'll get your own shortened link.
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There's a graphical layout editor in the Android SDK.
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One of the most powerful things that HN enjoys is a vital, continuous and active meta-discussion about the quality of HN.

I'm going to take a different approach to this. If you look at the comments in the thread in question, there's really only one person who's behavior is lamentable, and it's clear by his continuous statements in the topic that he isn't even aware of it...Dunning–Kruger is spot on. I was even so pissed I took the bait and fed the troll when I probably should have thought better of it.

However, looking back at the thread a day later, I see that the community policing worked. That vast majority of the really despicable comments were downvoted into negative territory. The poster's statements were tossed out into the trash they were.

The truth is, we shouldn't extrapolate the behavior of one attention starved malcontent to the entire community. I'm personally impressed with the community. To me at least, the community worked hard to keep the discussion appropriate and positive, elbowing out the bad sort of folks who shouldn't be participating in a forum like this.

Yeah sure, there were a few other questionable top level posts, but nothing entirely inappropriate, most of the ugliness centered around one person (I'm including myself regrettably as a participant in responding to this troll). So it's no the community that necessarily behaved badly, in fact the community behaved quite well.

edit Something I thought I'd add after reading through a few more comments discussing how the quality of discussion here appears to be going down. I have to disagree. I'd say that the comments and discussions here are extremely strong, better than they were about a year ago (or whenever pg turned off comment voting). At that time, HN seemed to be suffering from an outrageous echo chamber where a select group of superstars were automatically the top comment in every thread they participated in, the cult of Apple was going through all kinds of absurd egocentric narcissism, a Haskell and a Daring Fireball post was guaranteed to be on the front page, and any comments pointing this out were mercilessly downvoted and their users flagged - and comments supporting the echo chamber group think were guaranteed karma earners.

Since the simple switch to turn off comment points, this trend seems to have dissipated. Superstars no longer squat at the top of the mountain, Haskell no longer dominates the front page, we still love Apple, but only as a product company that makes cool stuff, not as a cult, and dissenting opinions and reasonable debate seems to have returned. The front page is dominated by tech tips and business ideas most days, even in the shadow of SOPA. In short HN has returned with a vengeance.
Yeah, don't think that I would maintain the plain text passwords. After I create the hashed version, I would drop the plain text and rm -rf the old site. (Well not quite but it will be on it's on from there on).

My concern isn't so much about what to do in the future, because from here on out, we will only be using the hashed passwords...

I guess the original question could of been summarized to:

"Do you think that non-technical people realise that when they receive their passwords in an email that this is bad".

Because I would like to make the transition for the users as easy as possible. They will now be accessing and editing their details from the new site.
Ethics aside, I've had no issue when creating an alternate account with the same CC info.
It's not the same as not wanting your picture taken on a demonstration, it's the same as not wearing a tshirt for the next year that says "I was on this demonstration".

Doing a blackout for twelve hours harms your business, fucking up your SEO harms it again. Obviously in this, as in any protest, there is a decision to be made on what to do. Why not only blackout for one hour? Why not blackout for an entire month?
if you own a car in India, you're probably upper class

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You really should add some information about who your team is in an "About Us" page.

By conspicuously leaving that information out, I don't trust anything about the website. Unfortunately, in this day and age of scams, you need to legitimize yourself.
I switched from Gmail to FastMail partly because they offer neat features like one-time passwords. (Two-factor auth with SMS - which FM also has - is nice but not always convenient/possible.)

You choose a "base password" (different from your master password) and it then generates 100 one-time passwords that you can print out and put in your wallet. So to login, the password you enter is "<base password><one-time password>". Works great. You can also make it restricted so that one-time logins can't delete anything, or change any options.
Azure does have a free 3 month trial.
http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/pricing/free-trial/
Can you clarify non-profit, non-profit nowadays means very little, ICANN is non-profit and is about to fuck up top-top level domains so their CEO can buy a helicopter. Do you draw a salary and how much?
That's s disappointing. I usually spend less time on one liners than anything and thought everyone else did the same. I had no idea that one-liners got so much attention. But for all the people who express sentiments like yours and all the people who read it and all the people priding themselves on being the smartest people in the room, somehow stupidity still slips by under our noses. How? And, just as a hypothetical, you can find a comment much like yours then look back through that person's history and see they're a chronic fluff contributor. How is it that we know not to do something, speak out against it, and then do it anyway?

Also, I don't like your proposed solution. It assumes the worst in people. I tend to believe that if you cater to the lowest common denominator then that's what you get but when you assume the best in people they'll try to live up to that expectation. Of course people will be people and it's inevitable they we disappoint from time to time but... Well, but nothing. That's how it goes I guess.
Thats disgustingly good. Its amazingly smooth (at least on Chrome on OS X)
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That hasn't worked super well in California, from many accounts.
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Hi Steve,

Absolutely - thanks for your advice, it's something we'll definitely add!
>At least a repeal would entail the difficulty of repealing opposing & established legislation.

Nonsense, they do that all the time. A large part of Obamacare and most other large bills modify existing law. New laws simply over-write previous laws.
As my service has evolved and newer payment options have emerged braintree, stripe... I'm just probably jealous envious of the coolness of those services... but you're right - authorize.net has not yet failed - good point.
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"Just because you can doesn't mean you should".

The end-result is a terrible experience for me. The scrolling is extremely jaggy even after the 3d-fluff has scrolled out of the viewport.

And the initial view with the skewed text is about as functional as those flash websites that were famous in the 90s...
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I would try this: start at a low price, then increase the price as good reviews come in.
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It's valid, but less common, and that's why I specifically chose the wording "suggest a correction" instead of "correct". Spell checkers are still no substitute for actual thought.
This technique would not be needed if Google joined the blackout and didn't crawl for a day.
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Yes, because the URL hint would be "plus.google.com" rather than just "google.com." The latter could link to Groups post, a Google+ post, or a page under the official Google site (google.com).

Each represents a rather type of communication which may or may not originate from Google HQ.
To stick with good first step approaches, look at ngrams and nwords.

Basically, you need a reasonable feature to match similarity on. N-words are pretty easy to construct, a 2-gram would be every pair of words used in a document.

Tf-idf is a good metric with that kind of feature, because it handles well the bias of frequent words like "the"
You and me both, as my surname is Cherry and was supposed to be notified if it ever became available on the market!
I like the idea of advertising on coffee cups in general, and I think the coffee house crowd is a good target demographic for charities. I'm curious, however, why you chose to operate as a non-profit catering to a niche charity market rather than operate as a for profit that caters to everyone.

As a for-profit, I would think you could have a greater impact with an expanded customer base (= greater awareness) and could subsidize your charitable endeavor with the for profit business. You could perhaps even organize it as an L3C (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L3C).

I'm not trolling. I'm genuinely curious.
You're not wrong that this is sometimes the case, but definitely worth noting that plenty of the best charities in the world are non-profits with some salaried employees, it doesn't automatically make them evil.
What channel are you on? I'm on Stable and the site moves very slow for me. On the other hand it runs smooth as silk on Safari. (OS X 10.7.2)
Would be nice if there was displayed at least something without being logged in. Is the project private or does the platform just not support this?
Ask HN: Why are VPS providers sending passwords in plain text?
I was on the lookout for a cheap VPS (~$10) to test out something. I signed up for Host1Plus.com and I got my password in plain text.

I immediately cancelled my account. I checked out IntoVPS (which was recommended here) and the same thing happened. Even though they were not accepting payment from "my country"

So I'd like to know, is it the norm to send passwords in plain text. Two random VPS providers, same experience.

I could have used Linode but I just need access for a day or two which is why I am looking for something cheap.

Update

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I got this form one of them

"Hello,

Password has been sent to you in plain text for easier usage. However, email was sent from server which uses SSL certificates in your provided email address."
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Not quite curious enough, they are coffee by name, not by nature.
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You can just tell the users that their old accounts should work perfectly well on the new system. You can't sort out "non-technical" people from technical people in your userbase. Bad practice is bad practice, and anything to do with plain text passwords is bad practice.
We use memcache in a limited sense and have added caching to our mysql server to cut down on the thousands of queries our product makes a second (even with just 10 users).

Our lead developer is around, but the two other most senior developers both quit this month. We will have ~= 3 developers total.

I was under the impression that our solution was going to be a complete overhaul, but that isn't the plan.
While watching the MSNBC video yesterday, Cotton's repeated assertions that this only applied to 'foreign sites' bugged me. From the SOPA text:

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(a) Definition- For purposes of this section, a foreign Internet site or portion thereof is a `foreign infringing site' if--

(1) the Internet site or portion thereof is a U.S.-directed site and is used by users in the United States;

(2) the owner or operator of such Internet site is committing or facilitating the commission of criminal violations punishable under section 2318, 2319, 2319A, 2319B, or 2320, or chapter 90, of title 18, United States Code; and

(3) the Internet site would, by reason of acts described in paragraph (1), be subject to seizure in the United States in an action brought by the Attorney General if such site were a domestic Internet site.

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So, a foreign site can be 'u.s.-directed' and used by users in the US. Doesn't sound very 'foreign' to me at all. Sounds an awful lot like 'domestic'.

Yes, I'm sure there's legal interpretations of these words that I'm not aware of, but it sure as hell reads to me like when they say "foreign sites" they're not meaning 'foreign' in the sense that anyone in the US would reasonably understand.
I do love the coffee cup advertising paradigm as an idea though - maybe it's something we'll look into!
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Yeah, submissions may be where the solution lies. I'm not sure if it's just me but has anyone else noticed that the New page gets completely saturated with spam? I have show dead turned on and I used to see a handful of dead stories. These days it's not uncommon for me to see 5 live stories with the rest having been killed. A month or so ago there was a discussion about HN's rank on Google. I'd be happy to see it close to the bottom of the first page if at all.
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I'm not sure how you mean this. A Series A round doesn't confer any personal wealth - it's investment in the company in order to help it grow.

Do you mean the valuation of the private company that takes place as part of the Series A round typically gives the founders some level of paper wealth that puts them in the 1%? If so, this makes sense. (Of course, it generally takes a lot of work to convert that into something that can actually be realized in a liquidity sense.)
Can you give a little more information regarding ad space donations, for example:

- What countries do you need traffic from?

- Do you require "a spot" on a site, or could donors just give X impressions where X is whatever number can fit in around commercial banners?

- I don't think I've ever come across 250x100 adverts before, why this size? And more importantly, why only this size, would you not be interested if people could offer you MPU, Leaderboard or Tower impressions?

edit:

Regarding how you serve adverts, I wouldn't recommend creating your own platform. We've got an in-house system that works well for us, but if we hadn't put such a huge amount of time/money into it, it really wouldn't.

Google offer a free solution for small business with less than 90m pageviews (http://www.google.com/dfp/info/sb/index.html) and might well offer it for higher numbers for non-profits, I'm not sure. Alternatively there are open source off-the-shelf solutions such as OpenX (http://www.openx.com/publisher/open-source-ad-server).

edit 2:

You should also publish who your clients are, to give an idea of what charities you will actually be supporting.
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I'm on the beta channel version: "17.0.963.33 beta" - it's looking really good for me as well.
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For your third requirement, rather than get a developer to develop an ad serving system (which can get pretty complex), you can simply use the years of experience built into this: http://www.openx.com/publisher/open-source-ad-server -- it's open source and free (AFAIK) for you to use on your own servers.
GDP (PPP)	2011 estimate

-	Total	$4.469 trillion[5] (3rd)

-	Per capita	$3,703[5] (129th)

GDP (nominal)	2011 estimate

-	Total	$1.843 trillion[5] (10th)

-	Per capita	$1,527[5] (133rd)

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This also holds true across other Asian countries - car ownership is common only in upper-middle class and really rich families; and for very rich Chinese families the really expensive part is the license plate and not the car... no 4s and the more 8s and 9s, the more expensive the plate.
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Yes, both of you are right, but it would still be nice to understand exactly how much of a non-profit they are.
Having been a "minimalism-addict", I've come to the conclusion that the best part is the act of getting rid of things, not the act of having few things.

Getting rid of junk is liberating; living with 15 things is just a pain in the ass.