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I think I need to clarify what IMSafer did. A lot of arm chair QBs here talking about how's it's evil or that abuse of children in a sexual way just doesn't happen...that could not be further from the truth.

No offense (well we know where this is going), but anyone saying this has no f*$%ing idea what they are talking about.

What we found in those years with IMSafer and later with the company that purchased our assets was mindblowing in a terrible way.

In the US we weren't allowed to really do anything with the data we found even in the most awful cases. When the patriot act was in affect there were opportunities to turn some of the data over to the gov agencies that deal with exploited children, but it was unclear.

In the UK they were allowed to more freely use what they found to put pedophiles behind bars...which they did on more then one occasion.

In some cases it appeared that children had installed the software as a desperate cry for help against their abusive family members.

In one particular egregious case the offender was involved in group chats where he would try to normalize the behavior to his child by having other sick individuals tell her it was OK. Then, they would setup times for her to be online with them while terrible acts were perpetrated on her.

No one is acting as if this was common. But, it did happen. And we weren't selling the chat, running ads against it or in anyway trying to monetize the 'fear' or grief of our users.

A lot of people here do not have kids and don't understand how hard it is for parent's to talk their kids about all sorts of issues around sex and drugs and rebellion etc.

In many cases IMSafer was their last hope and it was very helpful to a lot of people.

We never started it because we wanted to spy on kids or know people's gossip. We did it because we realized that parents were ill equipped to deal with the new online world.

Porn was a not a concern. To us that was your child viewing something. What we were concerned with was someone coming into your child's world and talking to them without your permission. If the child was having an issue with their parent's these kind of people would pick at that and try to show the child they were on their side to win trust.

Places where parent's thought their kids should be safe just weren't and still are not.

Also, some kids are susceptible to these kind of attacks by predators. In some cases parent's had kids who had been sexually assaulted in real life already and they were very afraid, because of their child's mental makeup now, that they would make easier targets.

We had adults buying plane tickets for kids and working out details to get them to fly across the country to meet under the guise of some camp the kid was going to, etc.

It's real whether you want to deal with it or not. We did our best to balance online privacy while helping people.

I feel like we did a phenomenal job and we didn't sell fear. It was never part of our marketing or selling.
I'm all for refactoring. Every once in a while, you just need to shake up that Etch-a-Sketch.
The whole idea of trying to do that may, in fact, still be a problem.
Since this is on the front page, I'll mention it here: I'm most interested in the names and any background anyone has on their origins.
Its cool and all, but I don't think I could convince my company (and probably any other) that its worth $2/user. I think maybe there should be plans that can be hosted on the company servers. Maybe a 1 time fee to license the software and then support plans or 1 time support costs?
Perhaps you should have thought of this before using a completely free "SaaS" offering?

Perhaps you'll think of this next time.
Is this what powers the new Dropbox Preview?
Thanks for posting this graph. My speculation just from looking at it is that just before that recharge the car traveled in a more efficient way (i.e. relatively constant 35-50MPH rather than 80MPH or stop-n-go 5MPH), so the rates of decrease in both charge and range with respect to miles traveled were less.
Dependency injection and mass assignment/run-time execution of new code are two separate issues.

Although both are convenience niceties, the latter is based on user input while the former is not.
You do realize that such ads are called 'stealth' ads and are quite possibly not legal in plenty of places?

What is acceptable for you and what isn't is your affair, just like it is my affair what I find acceptable.

I don't think you're helping the discussion with your continued personal attacks ('entitlement', 'disgraceful') so I'll leave it at that.
Because carbon taxes have no weird, unintended consequences.
For the people who experienced those insights, it is no longer speculative. They've seen it for themselves. That's why I invite you to practice instead of inviting you to debate.
Like I said, I can totally empathize. No, it's not cool to do that without any notice or consent. You didn't get the notice so as far as you're concerned there was none. I get that, it's totally understandable.

That said, I don't think your example of Twitter is a good one. They're too different for that to work. But I don't think getting into that would be very productive for anyone so rather than doing that I'll just say this: while I get where you're coming from I think you're expectations are just north of being totally reasonable. The core if it makes total sense but it starts to unravel when you consider your expectation that you want to " trust them with the responsibility of not altering our relationship in a material way relative to the terms of service of the moment when I signed up for their service". That right there, the way I read it, means either "I expect your company to provide the exact same service and follow the exact same policies that I signed up with forever" or "you can only change your service and/or policies when it benefits me". That's unreasonable. No company on earth keeps its policies and services the same forever. They change every now and then. It upsets people and sometimes a change is negative for us but we adjust and move on.

I get why you're leaving but still don't think Disqus is in the wrong. They obviously need to change their service to continue to provide the service. For some, like you, that's not acceptable but its still not that big of a deal. One thing I think you're forgetting is that there's a huge gap here between what you experienced and what the reality is.

What you experienced what a major change in service without your consent or knowledge of it at all. That's certainly a reason to be upset.

But the reality of the situation is that your case is an exception. Disqus did provide warning and a way to opt out. Now, had you not missed the announcement about this would you still feel the same way today?

To be clear, I'm not telling you you're wrong to feel this way. What I'm saying is that it's wrong to characterize Disqus' actions as being sneaky or in breach of trust because they did provide a warning and a way to opt out - you, unfortunately, just happened to not get the memo. That sucks.
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You can only tell if you get the raw data. Omission of data is the biggest problem.

Another good way to manipulate data is how you pick your axes. like having the x-axis be miles instead of time. Both are valid, but they show very different pictures. A miles x-axis emphasizes the parts where you were driving fast, while a time x-axis emphasizes parts where you are driving slow.
My point is that there seems to be an entitlement to be outraged over free services you don't pay for now days, and that people seem to think they need to write blog posts to publicly shame companies when they alter services they are offering to the public for exactly zero dollars.
"If you really look at the two accounts, it's not necessarily clear that they're contradictory except in a couple of statements on speed ..."

So what does Broder have to say about that?

"It happened just the way I described it."

http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/12/the-charges-are-f...
You're ignoring the part where this is an utterly unethical way of advertising regardless of how it came about.

Them offering to share revenue makes it stink even worse. Even if it's 100% opt-in, they're basically trying to bribe their users into misleading their visitors.

Terms like "benefit of the doubt" and "good faith" don't apply to companies that do business like that.
Hey - Garret from HipChat here. We're still working on retina assets for some of the app icons, and haven't started on retina versions of the emoticons quite yet. Hang tight!
Right, that's what "bait and switch" means.
>True, but I think the bigger point is: why do you believe you have any right to demand anything? The service is free, you should be expected that the service you are not paying a dime for may do things you don't quite like once in a while.

I think it is more of a feeling of breaking a "gentlemen's agreement". When a free service provides a service for X amount of time (expectation building), and you provide them with lots of data and additional users (network effect), and then suddenly they change the rules, it is upsetting. Being a victim of bait-and-switch is not a pleasant feeling.
It doesn't support SSL connexion to the database or it doesn't support HTTPS ? (And does it work if you put it behind a proxy?)
Once upon a time a Linux distro attempted to solve this problem, http://www.gobolinux.org/

Sadly I don't think it gets much in the ways of updating anymore.
Hi Jacques, I’m Daniel from Disqus. Hopefully I can clear some stuff up.

As others in this thread have pointed out, we haven’t really been shy about what we’re doing here. You can see a progress update of how things are going on blog.disqus.com (it’s the second post down as I write this).

We’ve put a lot of effort into being communicative around what we’re doing with discovery and advertising (we call it Promoted Discovery). I don’t think “bait and switch” is accurate in describing how we approached this. It was about a year ago that we started talking publicly about the idea of a revenue-share ad product within Disqus.

As our ideas matured, we started sharing those details with our userbase. This was about 6 months ago. As with many of the things we do, Promoted Discovery was rolled out gradually so that we could learn and get better. Along the way, we blogged, sent out emails, and surveyed users. We’ve done half a year of messaging and we’re still not done with the full roll-out. It sucks that our messaging didn’t reach you, but you should know that you can configure how everything works, or opt out completely, on disqus.com/admin/settings. When new users sign up, they also are introduced to what Promoted Discovery is and have the choice to configure it.

As always, we’re learning through feedback. Especially with the product. Are we finished with the advertising product? Not yet — the product has plenty of room to grow and get a lot better. But it’s performing well for many publishers and they’re happy with the revenue that’s coming in. We care about that because our core discussion product is going to get even better because of it.
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You expect something other than downvotes for posting a cliche everyone has seen a hundred times and adds no additional insight?
Ars readers weigh in: Bring us Siri on OS X
There's also Jeff Atwood's "Nobody hates software more than software developers"[1].

[1]: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/07/nobody-hates-softwa...
Amazon really doesn't have any competitors in the mail order business. Any would-be competitors are partners/clients.
Hrm, we've just moved to Flowdock, which is pretty nice. But has just got bought up by a large company. This makes me wish I'd gone with HipChat.
I just started to learn Raphael.js today, and built a simple game.
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If new features in any product/service aren't defaulted to 'on', no one will ever use any of them. Normal people don't change settings. As long as you're notified of the change (which Disqus did through email and blog posts) and it's not a privacy concern, I think 99% of companies will and should do exactly what they did in this situation.
"we're limited to the US, but we're actively looking into options for international payouts"

I get the feeling of déjà vu when I hear this phrase.
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I just want Amazon Fresh, then I never have to leave the house.
Uh.

So ... you're saying that you deny entropy?
I don't mind paying the subscription; I just hate AT&T with the passion of ten fiery hells.
What prompted you to change, and what has been better about it?
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The gif issue was an Adobe AIR bug, so it's definitely gone now. It was incredibly frustrating having them break functionality that many of our users love, especially because it wasn't possible for us to work around the issue. Sorry about that!
http://lesswrong.com/lw/gdl/my_simple_hack_for_increased_ale...

Apparently, very bright light may improve productivity as well.
You're entitled to this view, but if you are an entrepreneur running a free service, I'd caution you from believing it.

I run a free service with 50 Million daily end users and if I made such a drastic change, users would (rightfully) be upset.
Comonads are objects
I don't see why people out in the country are any less likely to be part of a mob, or why their vote should be worth something around 10 times what an "urban" person's vote is.
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GTalk Syntax Highlighter 0.3 released.
Nah, right now anti-tech is an attitude. As soon as someone works out how to sell things to it as a market, _then_ it will become a counterculture.
Anyone have a linux version? I'd love this.
You do realize that HipChat is owned by... a large company, right?
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Stating that it's the point of the Senate does not make it desirable. Not to mention the fact that it's not the _only_ point of the Senate: it was also designed to be a smaller, more deliberate body than the House, with each member trying to represent larger (and theoretically more diverse) constituencies with longer term limits (and thus less knee-jerk responsiveness to the whims of the people).

This function of the Senate is IMO far more important than arbitrarily giving group A of citizens multiple times more political power than group B. Equal representation of states was conceived of in a time when our nation was very different. The Senate's current form was an acknowledgement of the fact that each state was sovereign. The framing of our Constitution almost bears more similarity to the EU than it does to the US that we recognize today, at least with respect to the attitudes towards the relative independence of each state.

On top of that, the divisions that made a "state" anything more than an arbitrary administrative division based on an accident of history are largely gone. The urban-rural divide is far more of a dividing line in terms of demography and ideology than state lines are. Citizens of Los Angeles and Richmond, VA are far more similar to each other than they are to citizens of Shasta County, CA or Wythe County, VA. Just look at any per-county electoral map if you don't believe me.

This map, or something like it, preserves all the benefits of the Senate while going a long way to fix what's horribly broken about it: namely, granting huge amounts of political power to arbitrary blocks of citizens.
Hypertable has Reached a Major Milestone
"Love" is complicated matter.

Java is almost done from "Love".

Rails is done from "Love" of those who do not "love" java.

Hype.

I don't "love" java and Rails.
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Agreed if things are going right - but again, for the sake of discussion, one could fathom there being some sort of bug. I don't believe that this could realistically be the case, but I'm just trying to mention all possibilities...
"you can stop using their service if you dont like it."

That's exactly what they said they were doing: Did you actually read the post?

They discovered a shady, poorly communicated "feature" had been enabled, so they dropped the service.

As ryguytilidie says below, it is bizarre that behaviours like this are defended, and it needs to become less acceptable of a business life-cycle strategy. I'll point a bit of the finger at the host himself, PG, as he has oft stated that you don't need to concern yourself with revenue, but rather eyeballs. That is inevitably a bait and switch -- get them in on a clean, simple commenting system, sneak ads in (with hilariously misleading emails that they know no one will actually read) later on.
Comment from the post:

Antoine Labour: I am one of the 3 original engineers on the project. The other 2 have left the company, so I will claim, if you allow, that I'm the most senior engineer currently working on the project.

I have never heard of this guy.

He has certainly not given any input on the project, to the extent of my knowledge. For that matter, the Chrome OS project itself, the one that ended up growing and actually shipped products, didn't exist in 2006 when he claims he invented it.

Reading his blog post, it sounds to me that what he's really claiming he put together bits and pieces of a linux distribution based on the concept of running off of a ram disk. This has pretty much nothing to do with Chrome OS, I don't see in what way his project could have morphed into what Chrome OS is today.﻿
I never said it was the best. I just said that people could pick out Heinz. It has a very distinct taste.
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Balanced is fucking killing it.
Minimum Viable Advertising
Ask PG: Threshold of intelligence
In What We Look for in Founders, pg says that "as long as you're over a certain threshold of intelligence, what matters most is determination".

I'm almost sure (because of what I've endured in my life) that I'm determined enough to found a startup. However, even though I'm somewhat smart (as an undergrad I have way above average GPA and some nice accomplishments) I often wonder if I'm above said threshold.

Perhaps one way to find out is through your accomplishments. Still, the question "about the most impressive thing other than this startup that each founder has built or achieved" in the YC application form scares the hell out of me, when I think about what other people might have already accomplished at my age.

Should I wait until I'm better prepared before trying to start a startup? Or should I just do it now? I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing. I can't help but to be overwhelmed by all the great things some people have done, and how smart they must be.

Therefore I ask pg: How do I know if I'm above that threshold of intelligence?
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Opera borrowed Opera's Speed Dial, they placed the tabs at the top (above the address bar) like Opera did (and people kept bashing it for that), etc.
The news of Google OS around that time was almost certainly conflated with Goobuntu, Google's custom Ubuntu LTS install. The assumption was Google was prepping its own Linux release, but there was never any hint it would be made public.
Also - http://trycouple.com/
How about like this: http://enigma.io (they are still pre-launch)
> It's funny how people are going to die in the street when they're arguing for nationalized healthcare, but the healthcare laws somehow need to cover free contraception, abortions, and breast pumps.

Giving birth can be deadly, but more importantly providing those things helps to reduce the suffering and negative impact on society when people have children, planned or not.

> When taxes need to be raised, it's because children are starving in poverty, cops are being fired, and single mothers are being turned out into the streets.

Taxes aren't raised for any of those things in particular. They are raised increase gov't revenue and that revenue may or may not be allocated to programs to tackle those issues.

> Yet, we're wasting billions in foreign aid, sponsoring an Indian reality show for hundreds of millions[1], and wasting billions on obvious avoidable failures like Solyndra.

The TV show you refer to didn't receive hundreds of millions of dollars. Rather, the Dept. of Agriculture runs a program at a cost of $200 million, part of which went to that show. Note that the heritage foundation (yuck) link you posted makes no mention of the actual amount of money allocated to that TV show and what it was actually for.

As for Solyndra, they received a loan of $535 million from the Dept. of Energy, of which the govt can recoup up to 19% of $142.8 million of that loan (the rest is a loss). To claims billions in losses, you will have to prove that other companies that took loans under that DoE program have all failed and will not repay any part of their loans.

There is waste in gov't spending, for sure, but specifics are needed if we are going be even close to accurate about what is a loss and what is a gain, both in the short and long term.
While I don't know what happened with your sites, I just activated the "new" Disqus on my two sites. There are four settings you can choose for this:

(1) Comments only
(2) Comments and links only on your site
(3) Comments, links on your site and 'recommended' links
(4) Same as (3) but links may be above comment box

The default setting appears to be (2); I tried this under two different Disqus accounts with three web sites, and that was the setting "Discovery" came up with each time. This doesn't strike me as particularly outrageous -- the links they are inserting are only links to your own articles, not advertising (and not revenue-generating, of course).
Maybe I am being naive(going to assume I am), and i admittedly have never used HipChat. But could someone explain to me what this offers over say setting up your own XMPP or IRC server and using that?