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I feel for you. I really do. You did a lot of things right: learned how to program, bootstrapped your startup, released a product (!), got users, went viral, etc. etc.

But.

1) All of this could have been solved with money, specifically money used to pay professionals. You got 30 THOUSAND signups and you didn't think of trying to get funding? I'm surprised VC's weren't pounding at your door. At the very least, that might even be enough for a bank loan from a savvy lender. Hell, you could probably find a recently graduated ('tis the season) CSCI student willing to just take sweat equity with those numbers. This is especially frustrating for me as I currently have a startup that recently garnered a whopping 400 (count 'em!) hits on it's signup page, and yet I still got emails from people trying to invest. Not nearly platinum tier, and thus far none have panned out, but still!!!

2) You claim to have worked in web design/development for a while, and you didn't hear about 1&1's horrific reputation? That's hard for me to believe. In fact, of any community, the PHP/JS crowd is probably most familiar with being burned by 1&1. (Not even going into the slimy overselling).

I hate to say it, but you should have known better. That said, I sincerely wish you the best of luck. You've succeeded pretty spectacularly thus far, and in the big scheme of things this is a pretty minor setback. Just keep shipping and you'll get it eventually.

Edit: I realize that it might seem foolish to some to go after funding when it's not needed, but I would argue that if you are making it up as you go along (not an indictment, it's how we learn) and you get these kind of numbers, you should feel at least a little obligated to your users to secure your product. If that requires money that you don't have, get funding.
I didn't interpret this as dissing him, but just an example of a typical approach to a designer's website. He just wanted to try to do something different. 30K in six months long term would not be that great, but this is his first six months, which includes figuring out how to operate his business - so it sounds pretty good to me.
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Not 'to be seized' - 'have been seized'

I had an account confiscated -stolen -emptied - whatever you want to call it.

This was an e-trade linked account. They sent me a warning so I wet in and checked that it was active -login, checked the account, regular interest deposits, all good,there.

Wrong.

I had to make a personal withdrawal or deposit in order to 'activate' the account or it was deemed inactive. All because I haven't bought/sold anything for 3 years in that particular account ( though I have in other accounts in the same e-trade account)

Now I have to apply to a govnemrnt agency to get my money back, the wait time is 6 weeks plus.

It's absurd, shocking, disgusting.

In the news is a pensioner who had been saving up for medical bills. Goes into hospital for major surgery, comes out afterwards and finds all his saving gone $22k.

The inactive period is 3 years. In other words, since the LOST finale aired. It's not that long.

Most countries have a provision to seize unclaimed monies. But three years? What on earth is the justification? Because they can't balance a budget?

If the government came into your house and took any jewelry that you hadn't worn in three years, most people would revolt. But apparently. Only in the bank is use it or lose it. So much for savings being the necessary per-requisite for capital formation.

/rant

For what? The current treasurer and government disgust me.
Some things have negative prices--you have to pay people to take them away. Stuff like garbage or sewage.
Ive always found this amusing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%F0%9F%8D%95
I'm not entirely sure whether or even how real names could really help with increasing profits for online advertising. I'd say interests and preferences would matter but I can't see how the name would.

Google+ does support nicknames and pseudonyms now, but yes there is a preference for users to use their real names. Also personally, I don't really think real anonymity truly exists on the web anymore and in such a scenario I trust the bigger companies more than the thousands of tracking companies but I'll write that rant sometime else.

Coming back to real names in Google+, I'm not entirely sure why Google+ prefers it, but I think it ties in with generating better social signals. Facebook really showed the way here. If people use their real names it's easier to find real friends. I also would care about signals/content created by friends with real names.

I'd care more what a particular friend I know has recommended more that what rockstar_spongebob has. Also if I'm rockstar_spongebob on a website, I'd lose the incentive to connect with only people who are my "real" friends and I'll end up adding lots of people at random. I think this is what happened on Digg and these "friendships" had no true affinity (atleast on Digg). I truly would never have cared about restaurants recommended by my Digg friends. Of course these reasons are just my guesses and I really have no research/data to back it up.
I use plex and Tonido. Both are quite good for video streaming
Developers are like any other person. "How hard can it be?"
OS X's/Cocoa's text handling figures out you're using a character from that range and automatically uses a font that has the emoji characters defined - Apple Color Emoji for that one character. I'm guessing this does or does not show up depending on the degree of explicit control one is exercising over the fonts when rendering text and what APIs are being used.
There's no point but to utilise any reserves laying idle. There's essentially negative interest rates on a lot of these accounts. I don't have an Australian bank account, but someone I know who does discovered that her account pays no interest unless some transaction worth at least a dollar takes place once a month. With charges, this is negative.

Better on the governments balance sheet rather than the banks. What are the savers doing with it anyway it seems.
This story is sensationalism at its best.

The full story is that inactive money is currently held by the banks and transferred to ASIC after 7 years of inactivity. The owner of the account doesn't lose their money, as ASIC advertises the details of all inactive accounts in an effort to locate the owners and return the money to them [1].

The new law changes the period to 3 years. As you can imagine, the banks are spitting chips, since they get 4 years less use out of the money.

One can argue that the change is good for people who have genuinely lost their account, as the inactive account gets visability sooner and is more likely to be reunited with its owner. It will be a nuisance for people who do want to leave an account untouched for a long time, as they will have to interact with the account every three years.

[1] https://www.moneysmart.gov.au/tools-and-resources/find-uncla...

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The problem is that not everyone knows everything about 'the market'. Advertising partially solves that, but relying on your social graph is also a really good way to find out which kinds of things in the market you'd like.

If I see 50 restaurants nearby, but ten of them have been +1'd by people I know and trust, that's great and helps me. And I'm happy to recommend my favourite places, books, games too. I think it's an important problem that Google (and others) are solving and it actually reduces the need for advertising.

What I really hate though is facebook selling their 'likes' to appear in your feed again and again, long after you liked it. It's a lie, because it gives the impression that you're liking it again, right now, which might not be true. For example let's say you liked tiger woods, that might be news feed worthy at the time. And if someone searched for tiger woods then yes show the like as part of that information, but to put it up again at a later date, say immediately after he's caught being dishonest is misleading people and sending the wrong message. The fact that they're being paid just makes it worse. What's more they don't even show you what likes they're putting on on your behalf in your own news feed which would give you the option to unlike <x> if necessary.

In short not everyone hates G+
A lot of these aren't Linux/POSIX projects so mingw/cygwin don't solve the problem. It could be as simple as a python project that needs to be bundled in exe form or a .NET project.
Long story short, money was tight, priorities were set incorrectly, and they got fucked.
Rental startup Flightcar (YC W13) lands in Boston, eyes more airports
People argue as though there is some sort of dichotomy; that either she ought to be prosecuted or exonerated entirely. Both are absurd. What she did was dangerous and clearly impermissible, and the school should take action. I don't think that this warranted legal action, but I've learned not to assert things about the law, which is a complex and unintuitive beast. There is a possibility of reasonable middle ground in which we don't permanently impede someone's ability to live their life while also deterring them from detonating explosives in school.
Generally blackhat is accepted as the term for anything less legal than greyhat. There's no "lower bound" like "Oh, he broke into a non-profit! That's not consistent with blackhat ethics!"

EDIT: To be clear, that doesn't mean that whatever community she's in doesn't disapprove of that behaviour, but douchebag and blackhat are not mutually exclusive.
This may go against the popular opinion around these traps, but does anyone else feel like the premise of success arising from the pursuit of "not X" a little flawed in that for every AirBnb story that makes frontpage, a hundred other "not X" ventures never see the light of day?
Expert admins are in the $100-150/hr range when they're consulting, and $100K+ salary range when hired. $100-200/month? Oh lord.
I can understand with those numbers why you may think that. These numbers are generally per server and fit a small shop pretty well. We also work with many companies that have hundreds of servers, and the rate is multiplied by each server. I could have been clearer in my initial post.

Additionally, for clarification about your wage comment -- we pay above average US sysadmin wages, and just posted a job for our 7th full-time admin.
I agree that baseball is easily the most "rigorously constrained game" there is, but I don't think that's reason to dismiss the use of more/better metrics in assessing startup founders and teams.

The same argument you make was once used to dismiss the value of metrics in other more free-flowing and less-constrained sports like basketball, but analytics has become a staple of the sport ever since. [1] And since then, advanced metrics have even found their way into Mixed Martial Arts (MMA), of all things. [2]

Sure, starting a company is obviously very different from sports and building a sports team, but I don't think it's THAT different. Sports is essentially a simulation of real life, and I think the move to using advanced metrics in startups is inevitable. If you think about it, even startups are a highly constrained and simplified (i.e. smaller-scale, less people, more uniform "path", etc.) version of running a big business. I see no real reason, besides general skepticism, why metrics cannot be used to improve the startup fundraising process.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APBRmetrics

[2] http://www.sloansportsconference.com/?p=8966
What does it cost you to have a Google+ account, if you only use it for reviewing apps, and things like that? You don't have to use the stream.

And if you ever want to read reviews of an app written by your friends instead of complete strangers, and want your friends to read your reviews, which is a feature many people like, how do you suggest that Google should implement that feature? Having one friend list for every single Google product like before?
He fixed it!
I wonder how many "unicode complete" fonts exist. It must be nearly impossible to meet the entire spec.
Because if

0x7FFFFFFF = 2^31 - 1
0x7FFFFFFF + 1 = 0x80000000 = -2^31

then

2^31 - 1 + 1 = -2^31
2^31 + 1 = -2^31 + 1 (adding 1)
2^31 = -2^31 (subtracting 1)
1 = -1 (dividing by 2^31)
Read closely. All I said is that the particular idea in question spread quickly because it is true and because true ideas tend to spread quickly. It is completely irrelevant if non-true ideas also spread quickly. What I said still holds.
I think the most surprising thing about this was that I learned people still use IRC.
The only time I've seen whale here, it looked like this:🍣

I'm glad emoji have been standardized. Back in the dumbphone days each carrier had their own set of characters, meaning the smiley face you sent😘 might have come out as a piece of poo...
Sometimes. Standards bodies are not themselves entirely benign. They're extremely susceptible to capture, and the incentives of those people not in service of some commercial agenda are often not aligned with users either.

People sometimes lose sight of the real goal, which is interoperability. Interoperability is harmed not just by deliberately idiosyncratic implementations of old ideas, but by refusal to adapt to new ones.
if 51% of network agree with that, this can happen too. agree = download and use client with this "feature"
> What's the point of this legislation anyway?

To improve the on-paper budgetary situation for the Commonwealth.

That's it.

The money seized goes, per the Constitution [1], into Consolidated Revenue in the first instance and that makes the books look better.

For the same reason, they're now grabbing unclaimed superannuation accounts and requiring many businesses to pay tax monthly instead of quarterly.

Most of the money will eventually get paid back out. But in the meantime it pumps up the forward estimates.

If this were being done by the directors of a corporation, ASIC would be down at a courthouse right now pressing charges.

[1] http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/coaca430/s...
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This is kind of interesting, I'm seeing three different headlines for this article.

Tab title: "Some Cockroaches Avoid Sweet Flavors as a Defense"

URL: a-bitter-sweet-shift-in-cockroach-defenses

Article title: Wily Cockroaches Find Another Survival Trick: Laying Off the Sweets
Google doesn't have a monopoly in instant messaging. Far from it, they are lagging behind Facebook, WhatsApp, etc. What good is Google doing for the world having an open product that almost nobody uses?
This is even better for consumers and even worse for banks - no monthly account fees and automatically adjusting interest rates once the money is sent to ASIC.

Reactivating the account and getting your money back isn't hard either - you just find the unique identifier online https://www.moneysmart.gov.au/tools-and-resources/find-uncla... and take it to the bank.
Agreed with the consulting price point, and we charge this. But we also let you get in the door for a few hours a month at a reasonable rate. It's been working for many years now.
Note: It has now been fixed.
They edit the articles after they post them, sometimes including the title.
Emoji is such a weird thing. On one hand, I use them constantly for IMing. A quick 👍 is 10x better than the single-character "K" response in terms of expressiveness and playfulness.

On the other hand, the symbol coverage seems very random to my western brain. For example, there are three different mounds of rice, but no tacos. Nine different commuter trains, but no motorcycle. Also, the seemingly random assortment of flags.

I know this is a result of their Japanese origins, but if I had my druthers, emoji would be a little more inclusive, and then phones would have a little emoji-editor where you could edit your keyboards so they only included the symbols you wanted to use.
I didn't realise that it applied to every account individually at a single bank. I'd have thought transactions through any particular account would be enough to show that none of the accounts are "lost". Any other activity such as logging in and checking the balance should be sufficient too. Otherwise, it seems that it's just a government cash grab.
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A 201x car like the cruze has very modern things like side curtain airbags and stronger frame and such that the 1990 Tercel could not survive from a similar impact.
Pretty sure Google is going to be the system that manages self-driving cars. No other organization has shown able to manage data at the scale they do.
I'd advise to stay the fuck away from philly. There is no startup energy in this area.
The actual amount he has made is not impressive, but starting from nothing is impressive.

Through word of mouth, and repeat business he will be able reduce the time required to acquire more work. He can use the skills he has acquired to be more productive and valuable to future customers. New clients and repeat clients will also be willing to pay-up since he is now a trusted resource, with less risk.
I've only just noticed (since you made me think of it) that 'fortnight' is an abbreviation of 'fourteen nights'.
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This comment is the worst piece of crap I've read here. It reads like the worst kind of egotistical, entitled, and insular stereotype of people in this field. You ought to be ashamed.

You mind, "_is_ Olympic material". Bollocks. Did your Olympic class mind research the fatality rates and lifestyle for Alaskan fisherman? Happier in medieval times? Are you out of your damn mind? God help you that you have to deal with a boss that makes more money then you and doesn't recognize what a snowflake you are. I can't believe you have to deal with mundane tasks like the rest of us peons.

EDIT: I read the civility note, but how does the parent comment have positive points to engage with constructively? Honestly. It is pure tripe. I bet that 6.8 billion on the face of the planet would do anything to trade place with this guy, and he's wishing that he lived in a time when 1/3 of children died before age 5 and 1/5 of women died because of childbirth? Just because he is suffering from malaise? Can't he watch Office Space or Fight Club to get it out of his system? Didn't more than 1000 Bangladeshis die in a sweatshop less than 1 month ago? What a stunning lack of perspective and empathy.
If you shop around a little, you'll find banks in Australia that don't charge account fees. And I'm not convinced that ASIC will pay decent interest rates, since the government cash rate is lower than typical bank rates for deposits (again if you shop around a little).
For anyone else who just sees a square: http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1f44d/
> The only situation I can think of in which it's somewhat ok for the government to raid a citizen's bank account is if the customer has been uncontactable for a number of years and cannot be found after a diligent search.

"ASIC's Unclaimed Monies Unit regularly sends letters to people and companies whose names match our records."
There are also private companies (Dun and Bradstreet etc.) who scrape the records and try to contact owners for a finders fee.
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ATL probably not a good choice either, Yellowjackets notwithstanding.
Dropbox uses local storage space... How hard?
Even Startups need PaaS
I am Australian. Remember those Energizer bunny commercials showing the other bunny running out of battery halfway through the race? And a quick google shows that Duracell ran a direct campaign against Eveready which was ruled ok by the courts, as well as a recent court decision in favour of Optus doing direct comparisons with Telstra for mobile phone plans.

To be clear, I do not believe the parent post who said 'this is not allowed in most countries'. I would be less surprised by a claim that this kind of advertising is uncommon in most countries.
Weird. I am on Version 29.0.1516.3 canary and they are just empty blocks.
I have a personal account with a credit union that is fee-free.

It's not that difficult to arrange. Here's my complete, step-by-step guide to getting cheap basic banking services:

1. Avoid the Big 4 Banks.
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It's SSL Story Time with SILICA
Copyright is somewhat legitimate because it recognizes that I may create an identical work especially if the problem space is small.

Patents are all about camping on an idea you hope is so obvious the next people will instinctively think of the same thing.
Yes, that's the whole point, 51% percent of the network would never have an incentive to do that.

If they did, it would destroy the value of the currency. Self-destruction with no benefit. If people lost trust in BTC there are competing crypto-currencies/state currencies. Destroying liquidity.
We're talking about a heart that has been sent into either a pulse less ventricular tachycardia, or ventricular fibrillation, due to the timing of the electric shock (generally during the S-T interval).

By 'stopped' I mean 'stopped being effective'. If the heart has truly stopped (asystole), then by all means, pump on the chest.
I said it for you, since a reader would probably be interested in that piece of information. I apologise for the cynical comment about the account being 3 minutes old, as that is ad hominem and being new to HN shouldn't come into it. Welcome to HN.
You should come work for Hadapt, we love Yalies :) PM me if interested.
I read it yesterday.

The patent refers to authorisation, not authentication. They are different. The usage described is distinct from 2-factor authentication as practiced by Google et al.

IMO he's just grandstanding and will be rightly ignored.

IANAL, TINLA.
My school doesn't have a .edu domain, can I still apply? with the school email address? ( .net )
You can _try_ using a defibrillator to transcutaneously pace an asystolic heart, but I've never seen that work.
Yes, it's a karma grab. I really want the karma. I'm hoping it's going to be turned into a new crypto-currency. I'll then be rich.

At which point, I'll be able to fund a karmacoin exchange in international waters, and invite Kim Dotcom to live with me. He'll be selling patents to large internet companies, and I'll have control over the world reserve currency.

But damn it, you've foiled my plans!
Breathable air.
"It's not like mobile number porting attacks have been used to compromise SMS-based 2FA solutions or anything"

Didn't Twitter get their domain hijacked once using exactly that attack?
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Really surprised by Snapchat here. As someone from an older generation, I never would have guessed that it would've been so popular. I fail to see the appeal. Very interesting perspective.
This is quite a good comparison. Both apps come out on top in different situations, and I'm surprised how good both Now and Siri are. The competition in this space is going to be really great for users.
I don't know what is "massively outclassed". I am just saying you don't have the same or similar hardware - there had not been 8 cpu cores in A10 series and their 6 CU GPU is not even from the same generation (it's old VLIW cores). And even if you had the same hardware - PC games could not utilize it the same way the console games can. JFYI PS3 runs modern games on the Nvidia 7800 with 256M system memory. Try just booting Windows in a 256M on PC.
Missing the grand thought experiment of an emotion-driven Spock, they just passed over the character development entirely.
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