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Yes I agree the US has enshrined freedom of speech Canada not so much it's more an unspoken unofficial agreement.

But I'd say it evens since the US seems to push the limits of prosecution on free speech and Canadian authorities just don't really seem to bother.

As for the incidents of lawsuits mentioned in other comments I can't say I've ever heard of them not that it matters but what I'm saying is it seems rare for anyone to go to that extreme.
So now you can cconvert normal currencies from your bank account to Bitcoin in US through Coinbase, and in Europe through Bitcoin-Central. Are there similar services for Latin America, Australia, Asia, Africa and Middle East?
Yes and if I was setting up a company of 100 people I'd be fine with that because I probably have the cash flow to support that.

I was in the middle of setting up a service for a company of one at the moment and having one or two redirected emails isn't worth fifty dollars a year each right now.
I was there and as far as I know the drone didn't infect anything. In the end, I think he had to run amok.js manually on his own drone (substack, correct me if I'm wrong).

This contest was a lot like the first DARPA Grand Challenge--There was a lot of crashing, and if anyone made it out of the gate/left the ground there was a lot of applause. I expect the next Drone Games will be like the subsequent Grand Challenge where the execution finally matched the ambition.
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Also there was no pre-announcement. If there was I wouldn't have wasted any time today on it.
From my own experience I can tell you that running your own mail server is a massive PITA. There's a good chance that even if you jump through all the required hoops to improve trust for your domain you will still have trouble delivering mail to certain addresses (Hotmail is notoriously hard to get white-listed for).

Then there's spam... don't even get me started on spam filtering. For me personally $50/year is a bargain considering that running, maintaining, patching a mail server is time consuming and has no real upside.

As a learning experience it's fine, but in practice delivering mail (reliably) sucks hard.
lets create it. email me: ezl@rocketlease.com
For small projects, I'll take a look at Namecheap email hosting, from $2.99/year:

http://www.namecheap.com/email/email-hosting.aspx
sorry i forgot to mention that he said there is no way anyone can make a computer that is not shit for less than 1000 bucks.
What's the difference? The cost to Google is presumably the same, except that the user count might have been between two and ten-ish instead of one.

And now they can't upsell those businesses to paid accounts anymore. Established businesses already have email in place, and switching them over will be a hell of a sell.
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Ask HN: How did you get from A - B?
As I seriously consider a change in career I find myself wondering, how windy is everyone else's path? I know I'm not alone here, I started off (in college) striving to be a starving writer, moved on to CS when I realized I liked eating, then (after a semester of machine language) came Mech. Engineering. Now, after graduating I find myself heavily involved in the financial sector, and I've begun planning on working my way into a start-up/younger company in the Bay.

How many hats has everyone worn? What were they? When changing roles what have people done to gain traction? (both in finding work as well as developing the needed skill set if it was absent before)

Just curious for curiosity sake.

edit : cleaned up a sentence that was bothering me
I think it's time for a dedicated email service provider with full search functionality and tools to migrate the old inbox from Google Apps. I would gladly pay more than $50/year for a simple, rock solid service like this if it had an excellent web client, real customer support, and cared about my privacy.
Health Care + IT: A Brave New World
The passing of the controversial $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) in 2009 brought the subject of Medical Informatics to the forefront, among both consumers and health care professionals. The law provides $19 billion for health care companies to implement information technology systems such as Electronic Health Record (EHR), in order to make the industry more efficient. This is better known as Title XIII, the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH).
One of the companies specifically migrated to avoid MS licensing costs (i.e. moving from Outlook to Chrome for the mail interface, Docs on the web/LibreOffice on the desktop).
On Being a Bum and Getting Things Done
I absolutely agree with this. If they are going to dick us over I can understand that because they were offering us something free that costs money to run, but just be straight with us.

I don't think the google apps business customers are this dumb. They aren't going to trick us with this kind of obvious double talk. We are just going to think they are being deceptive and be less understanding.
It continues to be free for existing users. They're closing sign up for free usage.
SparrowOS: Videos of New PC Operating System
Thanks for posting this! I'm working on my next blog post which I've been meaning to get out since Monday, and clearly coming up with reasons to postpone actually finishing it. The idea of giving in to resistance is good motivation to get me to focus enough to publish it tonight and not put it off any longer. A lot of what you mentioned in this post definitely resonated with some of the things I have done and also purposely avoided doing, specifically settling for safe and boring in my life.
> That only matters if you care about the web interface

or price. as was the main point of this thread.
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During my time at Fermilab working on an LHC sensor team, I forwarded my Fermilab email to my personal gmail account because their mail servers were so antiquated (100MB quota, no web interface, etc). Filters, multiple Inbox labs, and all my emails I responded to looked like they came from my Fermilab email address.
and they lost a lot of people who are pinching pennies when they start but would be hooked into the system by the time they needed the upgrade.
But everybody knows this ... Google knows it, we know it, and Google knows we know it.

Google knows that although they could get away with a lot in the short-run, abusing this power would hurt them badly in the long run. They gain huge benefits from being seen as more or less neutral (to the extent possible—some people will never view them that way).

As a result they seem to have been very, very, careful in how they use this power, only wielding it when explicitly ordered to by an authority with power enough to force the issue.

I'm sure the humans at Google are often tempted (who wouldn't be?), but they appear to also be smart enough to resist that temptation...
That's a bit of an overreaction. Unless I'm reading the post incorrectly there aren't any bad news in it really: existing accounts stay free, now you have two tiers, paid and free, and with the paid you get real support for the money (and custom email etc).
If a dollar a week is too much for what you get from this service then maybe you're doing something wrong, especially for startups where you're not going to have hundreds of employees.
This is actually expected development. As the market matures, it is time to start make money.

This is also means that probably less and less of online services will be free.

Of course, you will still have "Walmarts of the online services" but you will get what you pay for - nothing more.

And I don't think there will be "cheaper" alternatives: but I do expect emergence of more expensive and better alternatives (if you can fork $50/year than you can fork $100/year - free is different story).
I used to listen to Time Out with my dad too, late at night with whiskey. So many good Brubeck memories...
This article was surprisingly well written. I think the point that most resonated with me was the framing of the search for better (happier) conditions in each of the "major areas" as an optimization problem.

The probability that one's current conditions are anywhere near optimal is low. Likewise, the probability that you can improve your overall conditions by making a change in one of the areas is high, since it's not a completely random change but one that you control.

A sort of real life analog of gradient descent (ascent) or hill climbing, if you will.
Wow this is a beautiful product and I like it a lot.
Internet Archive and EFF successfully block Washington State law
> It is all about Google deciding to maximize their profits at the expense of their users. That's fine, it's what businesses (ultimately) do (even the ones that pretend they put their users first).

Somewhat offtopic, but I always find statements like this rather silly on HN, a site ostensibly focused on and for the startup community. You mention in a comment below that you've worked for several startups. While there, did you only make decisions at the expense of your users to maximize profits?

If not, that's enough evidence to prove your statement wrong.

Most decisions like this are more complicated. While it does make the "I just reserved a domain name and want a google-hosted webmail client for it as soon as possible" case more complicated in the future (and I have one too), in most HN threads on google's poor customer service someone will inevitably bring up the fact that they'd be willing to pay money to get phone support for their Google Apps accounts, even though you've been able to do that for quite some time now. In fact, the whole second paragraph in the article seems to be about businesses that sign up for free, and don't actually understand the limits they accepted in turn.

Eliminating a product for new customers actually can be a net positive in terms of good will of your customers, even if they have to pay more. The post is a little overly cheerful, like they just came up with this brilliant new idea, but your reaction is one better saved for things like finding out a device you own has DRM you didn't know about it, or a company removing something you've paid for with a remote kill switch.
Xbox multiplayer is peer-to-peer, right?
Wrote a selenium thing to go through the list for me. My list wasn't particularly surprising - it's just the same people that show up on the news feed. I highly doubt it's influenced much by how much they visit your profile. It's just who facebook thinks your "best" friends are, based on a number of factors.
So, a real life story: I set up a free GMail account for my site, and directed all the contacts from the site there. I added it to my phone so I'd know when I got messages. I didn't really do much promotion, so I wasn't surprised I didn't see anything for a week. When I logged in from the web, I had gotten three emails from potential customers. Unfortunately, they'd been sitting for a week, and so it didn't make a very good impression when I did reply.

A company of one definitely needs the most reliable communications it can get. Even if you're drowning in leads, it makes you much more credible if you don't have to explain to a client why their email bounced back. A delightful, relevant saying I encountered the other day is 'penny wise, pound foolish'.
An alternative I use for educational customers is Microsoft Live Domains, also have some comercial domains with more than 50 accounts. But given this situation with Google I`m expecting Microsoft to do the same
something we have been able to do for years without kicksend. there are tons of apps to print photos and practically half the app store is photo sharing apps.
You are reading it wrong. There's no longer a free Google Apps version. What they refer as free in the post is the classic Google (@gmail.com) account.

EDIT: phrasing
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I would too. Does such a service exist right now?
One of the most interesting questions in the whole single founder v.s. co-founder debate, is how having a co-founder profoundly impacts your personal net gain from a given start-up venture.

The way I see it, taking on a co-founder is a form of start-up insurance. You increase your overall chance of success by giving up a huge portion of the upside in that eventuality.

It makes sense that a VC would prefer companies that have more than one founder if they believe it increases their statistical chance of success. Just understand that this may come at the expense of your personal gain, which is of minimal concern to an outside investor.
Because they are a publicly traded company and they can't just come out and say things like that.
Yeah that's what I mean by the "free tier".
Greetings, we updated the page at http://saucelabs.com/mac to clarify the fact that you get unlimited usage of our VM's for $12 a month. Sorry for the confusion, I think it's a fair and reasonable price.
This probably violates HN guidelines, but I'd like to suggest a modification re: keeping the original article titles if they contain names of political parties. Remove them. They invite political arguments.
Now I have to scroll past comments complaining about pedantic details of the article format and comments complaining about comments complaining about pedantic details of the article format.

You're not helping.
I completely and totally understand what cash and cash equivalents mean. Nobody believes Apple has a scrooge-mcduck like vault, and I have never claimed otherwise.

I have very simply claimed that Apple's cash and cash equivalents are not 100 billion, and that long term marketable securities are not cash.

You vehemently disagree, seemingly because they are liquid enough you may be able to get some money for them.

Let's start simple: Can you explain why if you think they are 'cash' or 'cash equivalents', they're explicitly not listed in the 10-k as "cash equivalents"?

I mean, you keep claiming up and down they are the same as cash, or "cash equivalent", and yet apple doesn't believe so. Nor does Google on their 10-q.

Given the companies don't believe they are cash or cash equivalents, or at least their auditors don't, can you explain why you do?

I'll also point out while it's theoretically at the discretion of the auditor whether the marketable securities can be included in "net cash", a lot don't, simply because the risk is not 0, where the risk on cash is ~0.

The risk on long term marketable securities is not 0 either, and in fact, can be quite high.
so, as it happens Bill Boebel (one of the founders of MailTrust/WebMail.us) is an investor and board member of my startup WP Engine ;)

To be fair, Google Apps for Business didn't get going until 2007 which is also the year Rackspace acquired WebMai.us. I'd say the market for B2B email contracted severely the moment Google Apps's free offering became established.
My bad. I totally agree with you.

Hmm, you might improve conversion if you put trial button above the fold. Also pre-spinning an instance for demo would be truly awesome.
So, I should work to be a great spouse (say), but not care whether I actually achieve that outcome?

Why not work to achieve things of value precisely because they are of value to you?
Unfortunately, this is a horror to sign up for, use, and look at. Any alternatives?
Rackspace mail $2 per month / account
Outlook.com has a free service that does precisely the same thing: http://domains.live.com
mtgx is coming from a fantasy/idealistic world position and tptacek is coming from a position entrenched in reality.

I mean look at what mtgx said:
"Now. Why is the first point about the size of the industry relevant? Unless you're talking about their ability to bribe...I'm sorry..."lobby" Congress to pass the laws they like? That shouldn't happen anyway, regardless of their size. Laws should be passed on common sense and what's good for the people at large, not based on how big is your bank account."

This is an absurd response to what tptacek said. If mtgx wants to advocate some kind of political revolution that is fine, but it is not an appropriate response to what tptacek is saying about Republicans spending political capital to effect change.
While I agree, there is also a balance to be struck. The more co-founders you have, the more likely there will be overlapping skill-sets and disagreements which can lead to various forms of failure as well.

From what I can tell, and personal experience, 3 founders seems to be a very good balance.
Its amazing when they get offended! There is a special brand of confused anger that seems to show up on their face. The "stop making me feel like a fake" brand... I agree its best to stop trying to help when it gets to this stage.
Wow, I was hoping Google could avoid the anti-trust stick but this was a horrific mistake on their part. What's funny is that so few people use Google Shopping but the behavior is so strongly strongly rooted in the anti-competitive and misleading categories that it'll probably kill them when everything goes to trial.
This could be a good thing. If you approach your manager wanting to switch from dedicated to cloud email service, and you tell him it's for free, he's going to be suspicious. If there's a cost involved - no matter how small - it gives the product a degree liability for support.
Right, it's black and white that they ignored copyright violations on a bunch of files. But that is not the same as encouraging infringing files over non-infringing files, or asking people to upload infringing files.

If you uploaded a popular infringing file, you might get $100, or you might get disqualified.

If you uploaded a popular non-infringing file, you would definitely get $100.

Megaupload knew about some of the piracy. That does not mean they arranged it. They treated it like any other file.
I assumed that's what the newest iTunes release in Russia was supposed to be.
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Using gmail you can send mail using a different from: address.

The fact you're using gmail will still be obvious to anyone looking at headers, but that's not really a problem.
You can also configure it so that Gmail uses the other email address SMTP servers. However, I'm not quite sure whether they still include the originating Gmail address in the email headers.
And you don't need to forward. You can access it with IMAP within Gmail.
Google made a mistake initially by 1) Giving too much away for free and 2) Charging too low. It is probably trying to correct these mistakes.

1) On giving too much away…

Remember, Google Apps started with 200 free users, later reduced it to 100, then to 50, then to 10 and now to zero.

http://techcrunch.com/2009/01/23/google-puts-the-squeeze-on-...

At 200 free users, there was no room for a new entrant in the market. I am glad that didn't last long.

2) On Charging too low...

Back when they launched it, $50/user/year was extremely aggressive pricing. Vendors were charging $50/month. May be Google is realizing they were charging too low. I now see an additional plan with $10/user/month option (which didn't exist earlier).

Disclaimer: I work for Zoho, competition to Google Apps.
Are you sure about no audio/video? Plenty of people on XDA recommend Straight Talk on the Galaxy Nexus.
That's not "free" that's just gmail.
It does not do it in Turkey.
It really depends how much they go into the Google Apps bit; for $50 you are not getting word and excel, you are getting a whole range of related IT services, including online document sharing with access controls.

That in and of itself is worth a huge amount of money.
Gmail and Google Apps are completely different products. You can't say Gmail is the "free tier" of Google Apps.
Seriously ... there's a big difference between a busybody and sincere concern from a friend. To a real friend, you're always free to say "thanks, but I understand the tradeoffs, and it's my decision."

To be honest, I often feel rather flattered (even if embarrassed) when given uncomfortable but well-meant advice, because in many cases it means the friend cared enough to say something awkward; it's almost always much easier to say nothing at all...
He makes an important point though: security researchers have been used by vendors as part of trying to go through the traditional process of responsible disclosure. It could easily come off as blackmail[1]. Simply disclosing to the public avoids that possibility, because the researcher was clearly not trying to personally get something from the vendor.

That being said, I think this kind of thing should be covered by whistleblower protection laws (I don't know if it's ever been tested)... although it seems those are only enforced when it's convenient.

So while I think he may have reached the right conclusion, I don't think it was for the right reasons. If sufficient protections for disclosers are in place, this should be a relative non-issue (though it makes sense to adjust the disclosure window based on the ease and risk of the vulnerability in order to apply pressure for an expedited fix)

[1] Given there's no payout for the researcher other than having the vulnerability fixed, it is conceivably not too hard to defend against. That doesn't change the fact that they can be sued, which is expensive, time-consuming, and stressful.
"We fought over the scraps" - What was there to fight over?
I would have (read: I did) assume that, but do we really have any data on whether or not this actually was the case? Google presumably considered this and made a decision based on the data available to them. Now that this decision was announced, it seems that this assumption is false. Google must not be hooking nearly enough businesses into using this system for money or they would not have made this decision. Of course, this assumes Google Apps is run by rational people.
The inventor of the DVR doesn't use a DVR anymore
Anthony Wood's Sonic Blue DVR is gathering dust as the inventor has moved to streaming only.
I know it's science-fiction, but the 2010 book <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Quantum_Thief>The Quantum Thief</a> makes use of weapons like these: basically firing a missile to get physical access to your adversary's computer systems with some sort of payload, and that payload of which will scan and disrupt the opponent's system.
The most promising new web frameworks / technologies?
What are the technologies that are new, young, just starting to spread in web development? What are new coming "winners"? Especially in python / javascript world