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We use DO in our projects as a primary infrastructure. Switched to them from Amazon. Very happy with their service.

BTW, I'm shocked that this round was SEED. What happens when they get Series A. Will they continue to change game rules? I think yes.
Let me see if I can summarize this:

Some years back, a webhost whose terms of service said "no illegal content" yanked the account of a client who was hosting some illegal content, as they do routinely. The webhost is part of a large corporate structure that ultimately has Jeff Bezos as CEO. Because of this, we know that Bezos, in his role as a private individual, as the new owner (not manager, editor, or CEO) of the Washington Post will, at some point in the future, exert undue influence to kill legal but uncomfortable stories for the rich and powerful.

....wait, what?

I have no idea if Bezos will be a good owner or not, but this is the most tenuous argument. AWS yanking Wikileaks account may or may not have been a good idea; publishing the Pentagon Papers may or may not have been a good idea. Let's just accept that the former was a travesty and the latter was heroic. They're still radically different things.

TL;DR: We have absolutely no idea what kind of newspaper owner Jeff Bezos will be, but we are getting a good idea of what kind of blogger Corey Pein is...

(And if we're reading tea leaves, Bezos has supported libertarian causes in the past. Like them or loathe them, libertarians are the only real organised anti-establishment force in America; the flip side of a coin where Democrats and Republicans are only one face. As unlikely as it is, wouldn't it be amazing if Bezos leaned on the WaPo to hire Radley Balko? Now that would do some comforting of the afflicted and some afflicting of the comfortable...)
My WOT plugin screamed when I tried to visit their main site, seems they don't have a good reputation http://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/mindvalley.com
Indeed and will get worse with ipv6 rollout no doubt.
I'm more offended by their inability to do a spelling and grammar check on content going on their public web site.

But yeah, that was an attempt to be funny that just fell way short.
Believe me, Russian government is doing the same thing as NSA did. There are rumors about spying hardware installed in Russian ISPs. There are rumors about Russian organization that produces hardware for logging all internet traffic, decrypting on the fly encrypted data, filtering it and etc. Difference between this and NSA is than information about NSA is now public.
Really? I can see the content even on my mobile.
Screenshot for you http://imageshack.us/f/27/wfq.png/
It's not clear whether the products that are being sold here are Mindvalley's or someone else's, and if the latter, what the margins are for reselling someone else's products. Is it $15M in total sales, but MindValley gets 10-20% of that (still not bad), or something else? It would be more helpful to say what the profits are rather than the top line here. I know folks that sell "millions" online, but only keep a small fraction of what is sold, with the majority going to the original producer.

That being said, this is doing a LOT better than most of the SaaS products out there, and it looks like the OP is having a great time doing what he's doing.
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Quotes - female add

Beautiful and sexy code required.

We are convinced that woman are great programmers. Woman write sexy code: neat and clean. Many of them have long relationship... with PHP5, MySQL and Javascript. They like to talk and communication is essential in our work. Female programmers get along with customers very well and take such a good care of code quality, as if it is a pair of their new shoes. The best thing is that their detailed documentation and code organisation match the rules of Feng-Shui. Are you a female programmer with passion? May we invite you for coffee?

Male -

Need for programming

You are addicted to PHP, MySQL and Javascript since years? Your life makes no sence without programming? Your girlfriend doesn't understand, why you start learning the fifth php framework and your parents say, your head is full of unix and linux. Do you want to talk to us about this? We want to invite you to an anonymous or maybe very personal meeting. No worries, we will bring you to a team that understands you and will support your passion of programming.

They both lead to identical detailed jobs description.
Could you explain briefly why this is the case? I don't understand.
"In the age of digital wonders, more than ever we are dependent upon the vigilance of citizens of conscience to protect us against Orwellian scenarios of those many wannabe Darth Vadors lurking in the murky depths of the governmental bureaucracy..."

This is probably the most sober assessment of the current situation which is both optimistic and depressing simultaneously. The technology has reached a point to make a snooper's wildest dreams come true but at the same time there are more and more ways to get information about wrong-doing out into the open and to discuss it which hopefully results in action to correct it.

The awkward part of the Surveillance Age is that permanent vigilance is very difficult to sustain and any lapse or general complacency will be immediately taken advantage of. Keeping governments in check now appears to be a 24/7 task.
Most of the advice is pretty basic, solid stuff. It seems they don't have a product that is all that 'interesting' for people here, but then again, how many of us care about bingo cards, either?

I think that's an important message: there are tons of 'boring' things that people will pay good money for if you can sell/market them well, and the product is reasonably good.
Node to node communication may work fine when there's few locals connected to each other. But if the project somehow would cover the whole world, wouldn't latency with a faraway node come close to infinity? Besides, how would the messages find it's way to a node, let's say 1000 nodes away from you? Natural development would be that few nodes would become much larger than the others, and those nodes would handle small nodes around it and communicate with other large nodes far away, but then the large nodes would become like ISP's and could be compromised by the government, effectively crippling the network. But it could be that the node-to-node communication would only be used as a fallback option for the information that is unable to pass through the bigger possibly under control nodes... I guess I should take a look at it.
As someone with basic C experience, could you link me to some resources about how to use malloc properly (ie, allocating a block of RAM and managing it yourself)? I find the whole thing fascinating.
If you pay the employees $80k/yr on average(which is pretty high especially considering its based in Malaysia), wages amount to $8 million. Assuming the costs of running the business is $2 million, the founder still pockets a cool $5 million.

Lots of assumptions, but just trying to show there is enough space for founder to earn 7 digits. But even if it's not, I am sure he's more than happy doing what he wants to do.
Hardy ... I cannot get offended. And I am an asshole. Kinda goes with the "spend time on the internet".
The rich and powerful already exert influence on the media - they fund it through advertising revenues.
Happily this app has already been made http://laughingsquid.com/augmented-reality-app-replaces-outd...
It's still valid and Koding always will be free. If you need more resources like a new VM or more storage, these kind of things will be paid. Hopefully it will be announced soon. Stay tuned and Happy Koding :)
Am I the only one who can't read through the happy-go-far text on the page and figure out what the company actually does to get to the $15m/yr revenue?
The US government seems to think the entire world is basically the American Empire. Everybody can handle their local issues as they see fit, but they can't make any demands of the US, no matter how reasonable, and they have to obey any demands from the US, no matter how unreasonable. Only the US, its interests, and (to some extend) its voters count.

The US is Rome while we're Gaul. We're fine as long as we accept their supremacy.
No contradiction to the point that GP made. Nobody said that Putin's Russia is more free than US. They just did the right thing in this particular case and made the "land of the free" look hypocritical as a result. This doesn't imply anything about how Russia citizens are treated by their own state.
> Business people do it for the dollars.

> But real entrepreneurs push the human race forward.

And Mindvalley is doing that by selling, ugh, stuff like Chakra7? http://www.chakrahealing.com/products/academy ? I got that from the link on the blog post page.

Even a highschool wannabe philosopher couldn't output such pretentious bullshit without feeling a bit shaken by the cognitive disonance. You, sir, are a true businessman!
I'm not particularly pro- or anti-Snowden, and I'm no fan of the Russian government, but I think this article is correct.

Imagine the reverse case - a Russian government agent reveals massive and pervasive, questionably legal surveillance by the FSB approved by secret courts and without proper political oversight. Said Russian arrives in the US and applies for political assylum. It would be appalling not to grant it, while obviously allowing Russia to pursue normal legal channels to apply for extradition.
I know that VKontakte is giving information and even messaging history about people to authorities on the first request. That what was happening in Belarus after election and protests related to "fair" election. People where requested to go to the KGB/Police. In "nice" conversation with "pleasant" people they saw messaging logs from VKontakte, movements history based on mobile phone data and etc. Requests from different country and VKontakte was still giving that information for free.

Good job, Pavel. Talk more about Privacy now.
yeah, I know, I will build campaign tracking links for everything.

thanks for your advice.

> Changing topic, nice pics you have in flickr

tx :)
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I long suspected that.
Herbs, dogs, trees part of India's Universal ID project (world's largest too)
Because the bank can reasonably expect to be sent back the contract they sent out, not an altered copy, unless they are specifically told that there are changes. If the guy sent his altered contract with a cover letter that mentions changes (which the bank ignored), he may have a case. Otherwise it's clearly deceptive.
A good story always wins
When you go to a store to buy a bottle of wine, how do you usually pick the wine? Maybe it depends on a certain grape, like Malbec, or maybe you fancy a specific country’s wine? Or maybe it’s even about price? I would argue that the most important attribute is what connects all these facets: a story.
I recall hearing about polls where like a third of US respondents believe that the US government was behind 9-11. Of course I don't believe it did, but clearly lots of us think we're run by a bunch of criminals. In comparison to graver problems (being the most incarceration-happy nation, mass international killings, etc), the Snowden thing is minor.

Durov's whole line about "betraying the principles it was once built on" is a reference to the usual quasi-religious nationalist founding mythologies.
I totally agree with "trying to come up with pointlessly precise definitions of what they do"

what i am trying to say is, what makes product successful is not the interface design.

I don't care if your product looks so beautiful and lovely if i can not use it with bad bandwidth for example, or on my mobile.
I don't care how cool colours you use, if i need to click everywhere to find what i am looking for.
I just don't understand how someone can be proud about modern Russia in any way.
Then use their Amsterdam data center..?
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In essence, the US government (not it's people) could be regarded as the global bully. It's probably because bullying works and is economical. It makes sense for them and the world where the US would have to apologize for it's behaviour is not the world we live in, no matter how much we would want to.

But isn't it also a slight sign of weakness? Comparing to China, it's apparent that US more often resorts to bullying tactics. Especially if you count in military operations in that spectrum. If the US were an economical power the bullying would not be more economical than a more long-term, silent and behind the scenes overtaking of the global economy. Which is what China is engaged in and US has been in the past.
I think it is mainly a logistical issue. The problem is that encryption keys are a single point of failure. IT practices at most businesses would have to be very rigorous before a design with a single point of failure for any significant part of the IT infrastructure could even be remotely considered.

Changing business practices to decrease the risk of using end-to-encryption to an acceptable level has an associated cost which, at most companies, probably dwarfs the cost of its technical implementation.
The 2 MVP's that I'm working on currently are :-

http://www.postalcandy.co.uk

Was just using this to gauge interest but have shipped quite a few orders already through the MVP setup. Working on a much better branded site with some decent product photos. I would love it if this worked out!

http://www.foundcamera.com

This has exploded with popularity lately and I have a backlog of 100+ items to post! Considering implementing gravity forms to allow user generated content or completely rebuilding the site with better blog post section to encourage people to comment & discuss.
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How about creating a wiki page with the project architecture? It will definitely help me understand the code much faster.
I really don't get how people can be so naive on HN. Let's talk about Snowden all day and wish we were more like Russia, where it's perfectly ok to say anything you want.

Sorry guys, but not every one really believes the NSA should be disbanded. They have a real job to do. Certainly there needs to be limits, which we could of course discuss for years on end, but I don't see the point of doing it in a forum that really isn't suitable for the topic.

Ok, back to the echo chamber. 4 downvotes and this message disappears. Well, I do need to try occasionally. HN used to be a great site.
That idea has always fascinated me - the multitude of "hidden" small businesses and markets totally off the radar of hackers, and therefore effectively Terra Nullius for smart, curious hackers like Patio11:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra_nullius

There are so many tech-illiterate people controlling so many markets and so much wealth. Anyone who's ever worked at a small or off the radar business (or even a Fortune 500 company) knows how many backwards, inefficient processes (and people, let's face it) that are there just waiting to be disrupted.

Andressen's famous essay on software eating the world does it much more justice than I can:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405311190348090457651...

As software expands its reach more and more into the real world through mobile, RFID, and the "Internet of things", it's just going to accelerate.

It would be fascinating to see any resources HNers might have on trying to discover these areas that have been under-served by tech so far. I've read plenty of articles on the actual development process (many by Patio) once you identify an under-served market, but best practices on how to find a big list of potential areas (that may or may not be promising) to investigate would be interesting. Maybe something like an Atlas of the small business world?
Just a publicity stunt.
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If this method really works it would be amazing for medical research. For instance, you could take a cancer biopsy and pull out DNA strands for individual cells. Using single molecule sequencing techniques we could then map the change of the cancer across the biopsy and learn so much about how it grows and transforms.

Current DNA extraction methods involve completely 'mincing' the cell and then trying to separate the mush that you get left with. When dealing with single cells this is far too clumsy! It sounds as if this new method would produce a clean way to get the DNA out of (or into) cells.
I don't think they should go to jail for their offense. But it remains to be seen if they will attract female developers that way.
> Woman write sexy code: neat and clean.

Just like writing good code, I can attest to that shitty code is independent of race, gender, eye colour and all that.
Once I started writing a compile-time DI framework in scala I discovered the type system is basically already there.
You are mistaking free speech with access to the media.

Private meshes usage doesn't grant mass media attention so I don't see why a bunch of hackers communicating freely on their little line grant them a better "free speech to change things" than the other 99%. Private meshes aren't tools to raise awareness but tools to have a different network. It all depends on the message you want to send and the recipients you want to reach.

Right now private meshes users are much less than 1% of the population anyway.

But it could grow fast in dense urban zone. I can foresee some weekends of hacking and configuring routers at home for the coming months.
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Works super fast on Firefox OS, too! Good job.

On Opera Mobile or Nokia Xpress it's unusable though, as expected; luckily the HN site works just fine in these browsers.
The initial meeting or the first few minutes when talking to investors is crucial. It can make your break your plan. So use it wisely and correctly.
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From experience of what happened when K5 introduced that: no.
In case you were thinking the spelling mistakes come from a dirty phrasebook [1]: the German part of the website is just as awful.

[1]: http://youtu.be/G6D1YI-41ao
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Disagree with the meta-moderation. It makes the site very echo-chambery, because people start modding up posts in line with the groupthink so that they will get meta-moderated positively.
It's poorly implemented. Slow, rendering kills browsers. Takes too much space in the screen in order to be useful.
It's just a shitty product and not built for decent software engineering.. Not for all types of engineering either.

That's my biggest problem. Say iOS developemtn is asset heavy and requires a decent way of sorting your assets with your stories. JIRA is complete shit for that. Trying to explain that to the agile coach or scrum master... yeah.
Its an interesting story, but if you dig a bit deeper into their business practices you will find stuff that is not so pretty. Thats pretty normal still, many successful businesses have some amount of upset customers, its the way things are but please stop claiming stuff like

> Business people do it for the dollars.

> But real entrepreneurs push the human race forward.

Seriously ?
Or pay by check.

I've long since avoided Safeway (going on two decades), but back when I both visited the store and had a card, but under a different name (usually some variant of "Fred Flintstone" or "Mickey Mouse"), I found that my actual name eventually ended up on the receipt if I every paid by check.

Lesson: don't pay by check.

Lesson: don't patronize stores with shopper surveillance cards.

Most recent notable experience: a few visits to Border's Books, in which the store's "loyalty card" was pushed ever more vigorously. I responded "no, the NSA's already listening to my phone calls and reading my emails, no need for them to get my reading list as well" (this was years before Snowden, though after the AT&T listening room was revealed). The cashier was impressed by my integrity, and commented as much, as I paid cash for my purchase.

The last time I was asked if I had their card was during the final week of the store's liquidation sale. And I was thinking 1) why even bother and 2) where will that data go after the company shuts down (it turns out it was bought by Barnes & Nobel, which may itself go the way of Borders before too long).

So. Yeah. I'll pass.
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Basically every great power has been described as a bully. The USA is no real exception.
From interacting with Vishen before a bit, I would say he is doing whatever he is interested in doing in the company. It's not quite running Google level opportunity, but still quite something.
What's the worst that can happen, right? Haha! Because DRM always works perfectly and the legitimate customer is never stung by it. Cool!
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Seeing this post made me very happy, actually. I've commented before about my perspective in the NSA and doing government work, but immediately get showered with downvotes because I have a point of view that differs from what other people have been rallying towards. I don't understand the motivation behind preventing discussion of actual facts or interesting points of view.

If 11 year old BBS-hacking NSA-conspiracy-fearing me had an opportunity to talk to and ask questions of former NSA analyst/programmer me, I would definitely have come up with a better discussion than the HN community.

At least my upvote will counter at least one close-minded person.
Maybe it's really a good news for Oculus, but if anyone here feel a litter melancholy?

Armadillo Aerospace run out of money and hibernate (2013), id Software had been acquired by ZeniMax Media (2009), id software President Todd Hollenshead has quit after 17 years of service (2013) and there's a long time without really big new Game.

Now John Carmack some kind of working for another company…
If you need both malloc and realloc, then these are not the droids you're looking for - the system implementation won't be that much slower than something you can hack together.

If you are using heap RAM for persistence over a long lived application, then again the system version is going to be helpful (you're going to allocate something like a 4KB chunk, and then you'll have to hang on to that as long as >= 1 byte is still needed from it, which will dramatically increase the RAM used by your process compared to what it requires.)

If your particular problem is just "I need to allocate some heap RAM because my arrays might be too big for the stack," then allocating one big chunk at the start of your function (of a size tailored to your particular problem) will save you a bunch of slow system calls.

Similarly, if your process is short lived, then you can also forget about free() calls, and just use one big buffer and your own allocator on it - see "everyone thinks about garbage collection the wrong way (2010)" http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2010/08/09/10047... (recent HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6131786 )
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Wouldn't Pavel then rather not offer job to Snowden, knowing that every word from Snowden would be listened by the whole world, and that the whole world would then learn about such actions too?