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There's always somebody that's more hardcore than you ... :]

I just try to at least avoid being the guy they've gotta move with a crane and bury in a shipping container...
Where does US law stand on full disclosure? I'm aware of MBTA v. Anderson, but are there still some grey areas?
Outlook.com's equivalent offering, https://domains.live.com, is free (Hotmail also offered it, but they've changed the branding). I've been running my email on there for the better part of a decade. To those who point at Office 365, that's similar but different, and it costs money.

If you want a guide, this one seems pretty good:
http://www.omegaweb.com/2012/09/how-to-configure-a-custom-do...

Between the mistaken despair over having no good free alternatives to Google Apps and the platitudes and awe over the Gmail/Google Drive integration (which Hotmail/Skydrive have had the exact equivalent of for years) a couple weeks back, I'm starting to wonder why nobody here, when they are all quite tech-literate, seems to have any clue about Microsoft's honestly rather impressive cloud offering.

Most likely they're all in denial.
I had this problem and they way I tackled it was I don't allow myself to talk about anything I'm working on, not to anyone at all. Only what I've done. If I'm exited about an idea I really want to share it, but once i have a "wouldn't it be cool if" conversation the motivation burns off. Now just built a minimal version to show someone. And then I'm not like "in the full version we could do feature X", I just keep my mouth shut and it makes me really want to add feature X. I dunno, it works for me.
Is it so hard to believe that a prosecutor used the 'stole a slice of pizza' incident as a foot in the door, and pushed hard to upgrade it to a felony just to get a feather in his hat (i.e. as a political power-play)? Would you be singing the same tune if a prosecutor had tried to get him convicted of 'felony jay-walking' and then sent him away for 25 to life? If 2 felony convictions + 1 minor infraction are enough to get you to do hard time, can we really claim that it's a '3 strikes policy?' Though, not a resident of California, I was under the impression that 3 strikes laws were sold to the public under the guise of hard criminals that are repeat offenders. This guy doesn't sound like a hard criminal, so I would venture that this situation is one that violates the intent of the law (or at least the advertised intent that the public was sold on).
You can restore the friendship. In time you should and will.
If it's just deliverability that's an issue, you can use the regular Gmail SMTP server for outgoing mail, without Google Apps. You just have to add the address you're sending from as an alternate address in Gmail.

The rest is still a bit of a hassle.
Reference counting comes with a huge toll on interoperability. Forget one Py_INCREF(Py_None) in a tight loop, and you're up to a segfault in a place very, very far away.
I love CouchDB. There was talk on the mailing list and IRC channel about eventually merging in BigCouch with CouchDB code base. That would be awesome.
The moment you have a definite image of what _your_ world needs to be like before you're happy, you've already set yourself up for disappointment. You're right (based on my definition of right!) it's a balance - you need to have some goals in place that you can work toward, but also be fine and content with other things. I might want to eventually be financially "free", but that doesn't stop me enjoying simple things a long the way.

edit- re: extremes, for clarification, a balance of extremes :)
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The median $ seems incorrect -- for Y Combinator, it seems to be the investment just from YC, and for other programs, it seems to be their entire raise from all sources.

I believe most YC companies raise external capital on top of YC; there has been START and YC VC from $80k to $150k, and according to pg, a most YC companies that need to raise capital have been successful doing so (at least for the past few years).
Q: Winter is Coming? A: Not  500 Startups. - Dave McClure
I'll tell you what the free plan was most useful for: business experiments.

I can't tell you how many small forays into new business ideas I and other folks I know have used google apps to kick off. For a business at high risk of failure and no budget in the early idea stages it was so useful to be able to stitch together a team and workflow really quickly using google apps to see how things pan out. This puts a real damper on kicking off new collaborative ideas
F.C.C. Calls on F.A.A. to Allow Electronics on Planes
Now the United States government is telling the United States government to allow devices on airplanes during takeoff and landing.
Finally! I was wondering why someone didn't say this already.

T-Mobile is nuts with math anyways. My friend has a 65 dollar plan she pays over 100 a month for.
Whatever works for you. Other people do intrinsically like to travel, seeing new things, or travel for other reasons (challenge, status, whatever).
Google unveils Instagram competitor for Android
Your math/point-of-view is intuitive and quite common. However, startups are a game of large multipliers. At any given stage, you're always pushing to be 10X of where you are now. Your long term goal is probably to be 1000X more valuable than where you start out.

Dividing stock amongst 2 or 3 co-founders is a small order multiplier. You lose half or two thirds of the company. Hitting (or missing) the 1000X goal will determine your personal outcome - the amount of stock given to other co-founders, as an input variable, has virtually no comparative effect on the outcome.
In many countries, this is the current legal situation:

You can't buy or sell bitcoins because it's not a recognized currency by the central bank. In fact, selling any foreign currency here (brazil) can be a crime under certain circumstances. You need to be a bank or a currency exchange backed by a national bank to do that. You are not allowed to buy more than 3000 dollars of foreign currency easily.

Bitcoins, unlike common currency, carry value and can be used by general public. It's like having gold coins. I'm not a complete believer in legal tenders being the future of payments. I see bitcoins as the storage of value, but not method of payment.

Bitcoins could replace gold.

But this matter is way too complex for my limited forex experience, take this as my 2 cents.
For people who just need email forwarding https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/ work great. They charge $0.02/forwarded domain/day. So ~7USD per year per domain. I'm a customer for 5+ years, no complaints.
I setup my email that way years ago and abandoned it. At that time, it caused a lot of my outgoing emails to get flagged as spam because of the mismatch of various mail headers between the Gmail domains with the various to/from/reply-to domains. Don't know if it would trip fewer spam filters now.
>I'll just set up my own email system at this point, call it a learning experience and never be exposed to the rest of whatever was in Google Apps.

And?

Free users threatening to leave are hilarious (even better when they campaign against ad targeting and AdBlock everything). Google's decision pretty clearly signals that users like you aren't worth it to the company any more than Google Apps are worth $50 to you. Don't do business. That's the point of a market.

I wouldn't pay for it either - I'm grateful that my Google Apps are grandfathered, but nobody is entitled to GMail, Facebook, Twitter, etc. It's a voluntary transaction between two entities and, in this case, you and Google Apps aren't a good fit.
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In Belize or the US it's the same. Police want to question at their own facility so they can employ unfair methods and detain for trial if they wish. I did put "months" instead of "years" because presumably in Belize it's not as bad as in the US.
100% - I fell asleep reading that interview. What a repetitious, mundane piece. Tim sounds like a nice guy, but I got nothing from that entire interview. You love Apple. Great.
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There's a pretty good list here

http://wiki.python.org/moin/WebFrameworks

I'm sure the winners will depend on your needs. Do you need a full stack or not?

For me, it's either Django or Flask for Python depending on how much of a framework I want to start with. Both are mature projects in active development with a wide user base for assistance.

Right now I'm sort of in the Java world so Play! is my framework of choice.
Rapt when I saw this on the news last night. A hugely influential decision. Not only is the GCSE now liable for their actions, but it opens up the opportunity to sue other organizations, which we have been unable to do since the eighties.
First: If you can't even start something, no amount of "connections" will do you any good whatsoever. But it sure is nice to fantasize that if you were somewhere else, it'd be easy. (It wouldn't be.) That's one insidious kind of excuse.

Your whole posts makes it sound like you're making excuses instead of actually trying to change.

Asking for advice from strangers is not really taking a step, is it? You're putting your salvation in their hands. There's no guarantee you'll get a single useful response. And if you don't, what will your natural reaction be? To go "OH well, same thing again"?

You're giving up power, instead of taking it.

Which sounds like your core problem.

How can you take power, take control?
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Wow, now I feel really lucky that I signed up for a free account just a couple of weeks ago.

Then again, being forced to find my own email hosting would have made me less dependent on Google, which may have been a good thing...
Its a silly question but the site slant.co has an interesting concept. Sort of a Quora for long running arguments. I've been browsing some of the other questions and its interesting to see how it works.
When you work long and hard with anyone you will come to have truly justified and serious issues with them.

The question to ask yourself is, would you have looked passed those issues if you had been successful? If you would have, then you should be just as quick to look passed them in failure.
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That's well underway and planned for the 2.0 release of CouchDB.
You can still use GMail with any domain: http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answe...

This method is actually far more convenient than setting up Google Apps. You can both send and receive mail at the other domain, and you get a unified inbox (which Google Apps never provided).
Whoa, this is news to me, I checked out sauce a month or so ago and came to the same conclusion as highwind. $12/mo is something that I would be more interested in. You should make that way more obvious. I haven't fully harnessed the power of TDD and it isn't used at my current job so I have no use for it. On the other hand the ability to test websites on different browsers is very important to my job and for $12/mo it's something I can afford to get for myself to use for work and personal projects.
last time around

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4291075
I have a bash alias for `git commit -a -mWIP` in my fuckit branch.
Let's imagine your company has 100 employees in it. So at $5/user a month, you are paying $500 a month.

Now, the median salary for thos 100 employees is most likely at least $3000, so you are paying them collectively $300,000 a month. That represents 0.016% of their salary. Do you get where I'm going with this?
I would be happy with a one-time fee to use my domain name. I don't care about anything else, just the domain name on the email address.
Most certainly a big-time King Troll that guy
>Then there's spam... don't even get me started on spam filtering.

You could sign up for Google Apps, point your domain MX to Google and forward all your SPAM free mail to your private server from the Google Apps console.

No kidding, I've seen so many companies that had their mail systems in premises setup a 1 user Google Apps account ($50/year) to do what I just mentioned above. They got rid of most of their SPAM and saved tons $ on wasted bandwidth.
The head of the GCSE at the time is now our Governor General. So the guy directly at fault is untouchable and the Prime Minister flatly denied (lying) all knowledge of any spying.
We're not so squeaky clean.
I'm sorry for your experience and loss. I'm sitting here working with my co-founder right now and I couldn't imagine going at it alone. I know people that have lost friends because things have gone bad, but I think the potential to do something great is worth the risk more often than not.
Wow, I actually just called Google Apps support the other day for one of my domains to get downgraded back to free G Apps (I had unintentionally signed up for a 30-day trial of Business, and it didn't auto-downgrade, it just suspended my account). Bummer to see this though, I have multiple domains (As I'm sure many do here) and it's nice having a quick setup for one or two @domain.com's.
> Remember, Google Apps started with 200 free users

And when Google Apps first started, you could request to increase the number of free users. I have an old account with a quota of 500 free users.
Customers don't come to Verizon to save money; they come to Verizon because they have the best coverage and speeds.
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Ask HN: Are there any direct ad networks for gaming sites?
I am running a new gamers network ( with approx 11k members, 80k uniques, 1m pageviews, 13 min duration ) and I'd like to switch to a direct advertiser.

I already tried BuySellAds and iSocket but they rejected us. The most likely reason: the site is relative new and went online just 2 months ago.

We have a lot great user content and even more media, but our Alexa, Compete or Google ranking doesn't exist yet or is just too bad at the moment ( only Quantcast got it almost right http://www.quantcast.com/legendsnet.com ).

Can anybody recommend me an alternative direct advertiser with a less strict publisher policy ? ( especially in terms of new sites )

I would be really grateful if someone could help me.

The site: http://www.legendsnet.com/

-max
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Hopefully that takes some of the work out of it for you.
Why these reviews mean nothing (apple fanboys, this is for you).
I'm from a SouthAmerican nation, here the IT budget of small business is pretty limited and Google Apps (even with the 10 accounts limit) was a viable option for them. Google will have to adapt the prices for non USA markets (BRIC, EMEA, Latam) if they want to succeed. Also this movement bring space of innovation for email.
AwsSum has support for 26 Amazon Services and has been used in the Node.js community for over a year. They only have support for 4 services to start off with. Also, AwsSum is more akin to how Node.js does things, whereas theirs is more like browser code.

* http://awssum.io/

Cheers,
Andy
I'm curious what happens with the people that are in limbo - that is still in their 30 day trial period and are unable to downgrade to a free version because of that.
How bad is spam if you do that?
That's $50/year for each user. Easy to stomach if it's only yourself, but add even a partner (not to mention a small team with a bootstrapped product) and it starts to make less sense financially.
Attempting to "optimize profits" in this manner annoys me mainly because advertising makes up 96% of Google's revenue. 4% accounts for every other source of income they have. If advertising is their strength, decreasing access to business users for advertising in the name of revenue from such a basic service seems like a bad decision.

That being said, if this is this is a precursor to responding to complaints about access to Google customer service by giving all Google Apps business customers access to better support, it may make some sense.
I am surprised that I'm the first person in an hour to say this: I clicked on the link to SpeakerText and it sure looks like a functioning company to me.

I remember when you started posting a lot, and I've always enjoyed your words. I'm just confused, because reading this feels like someone tore about three chapters from my copy of the book.

TL;DR: if SpeakerText is dead, then why is the site open for business?
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Seriously, and especially for clothing, where actual, physical, retailers can add a huge amount of value. This company may indeed make great stuff, but no way I'm gonna buy clothing I can't touch and try on first...

Direct might be good for repeat orders for stuff that tends to wear out like socks, but if their sweatshirt lasts forever ... :]
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Hell yes. I think the ideal founders are siblings or very old friends; The kinds of people who could never cut each other out of their lives no matter how mad they were at each other. I've come to the conclusion that you're asking for a lot of trouble in accepting anything less than that.
So if you want a Gmail address on your domain, even if you're a non-profit, I guess you have to go fuck yourself now :(. This SUCKS.
My point is that some property rights can arguably be seen as natural rights, while others definitely cannot be interpreted that way. Copyright is unquestionably not a natural right. It's entirely an artifact of our legal system, and a very recent one at that.

As humans we've always had the concept of "property" to some extent, independent of government. That's not true of copyright law. That was something we invented in response to a specific need, but we invented it at a time when few/no other legal or intellectual tools were available. Copyright should never be treated as the sacred cow that property rights in general are, IMO.
And when the median salary of your employees is $0/month (prototyping or a family domain or something) and your options are:
a. Nothing
b. $50/(employee/family member)

What then? Of course no company paying $300,000/month is going to care about $50/user/year.

Edit: Clarification
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> financial privacy

I agree with you on simplifying payment processing, but what exactly is financial privacy good for except tax evasion? Is there an epidemic of Visa/Mastercard/AMEX selling purchase histories to advertisers or something? Isn't that illegal?
Judging from this and previous threads people here are either distrusting of free services or aren't willing to pay for the goods (not everyone obviously) which is quite the paradox.

I'll chalk this one down to the startup nature of this community, seeing as some are probably involved with competing products or are developing some, but the matter of fact is that this announcement is perfectly reasonable: “vanilla” gmail accounts are free, Apps accounts are not.

Those who already have free Apps will keep them at the same price, there doesn't seem to be any swindling involved, and look! phone support, imagine that.
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No, that method requires that the other domain have its own mail server to accept and store the mail until gmail comes and fetches it with POP. Who will host that other server?

Google Apps for domains lets you point your domain's MX record directly at Google, and Google accepts the mail for you.
Yet this doesn't appear to be any sort of mail-hosting thing, so you'd still have to sort out mail with an entirely different provider to receive e-mails on your domain. This is pretty awful.
I use it for a small activist group that I help run. There's just no way we'd have the budget for it.
It's really see to the "profit is evil" mentality flow from places like reddit into HN, a site that's supposed to be about building companies to make profits.
Seconded, if you're starting a company with no understanding of how you can make money than you are not starting a business.
You just copy and pasted the output of giter8's black magic* and asked me if I think the resulting magical incantation is too difficult? Look at Scalatra's installation steps: http://www.scalatra.org/getting-started/installation.html. They don't even give you the sbt dependency. They just direct you to the tool that generates it for you. -- A tool that's only used for a couple other dozen projects: https://github.com/n8han/giter8/wiki/giter8-templates.

Even if you typed that in by hand, you sure took a big detour on your journey of simply declaring "I just want the latest version of Scalatra that works so I can begin coding" by having to go specify Jetty version 7.6.0.v2012012759 and friends.

I don't find it "too difficult". Rather, it's just confusing, nontrivial, and it obstructed my progress with Scala.

*I know g8 just copies down a project from Github like https://github.com/scalatra/scalatra-sbt.g8/blob/master/src/..., but having tools that generate input for other build tools is along my point.
Seriously, SpeakerText's core technology was one of the best ideas I've seen for improving journalism on the web. I had product ideas for them, they were totally on my list of places to try to work at, what happened?

And if they're dead, are there patents? And if not, does anybody want to start a company? :)
Intel reaffirms socketed CPU support for the "forseeable future"
>A delightful, relevant saying I encountered the other day is 'penny wise, pound foolish'.

hhh, you might be right. I'm really just a bit steamed about researching all this then getting home and realizing they had just killed it.
I don't see what they'd lose from offering this free to personal users and non-profits? They do free mail hosting anyway so why prevent it being configurable to a certain domain?
Wii U's restrictive DRM is a baffling throwback
I did miss that. Thanks.
http://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2...
I started the trial on or after December 6, 2012.
You cannot downgrade to the free edition, but you have the option to purchase the product or to cancel your account.