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Wait what?!? That person added the posting on the 21st, but refers to 15th and 16th.

Seems like an awful way of bashing people IRL.
I had the worst time trying to move my domains out of Godaddy. I emailed them, called them, got codes, configured options, and it still did not work, and nobody could explain me coherently what's wrong and how to fix it. Fortunately, it was not a very popular domain, so I just let it expire on Godaddy and then re-purchased it on another registrar. But since then I'm never touching anything with Godaddy name on it. It may be cheap, but there are other cheap options and this one isn't worth it.
If it's really fraud, there's criminal liability. Meaning the person behind it is responsible, as well as the firm.
Is it possible for someone to disagree with you without you calling them a liar and belittling them?
That's actually not terrible. That's a pretty good thought framework for thinking about this problem I think.
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Even (especially?) geniuses compartmentalize. I applaud life saving and misery reduction regardless of who does it, and I'm not going to make my approval contingent on an apology for past wrongs.

The Gates foundation seems to be doing the best they can to model as far into the future as feasible so as to make best use of their resources. Models that propose death and misery as their means are rightly viewed with skepticism.
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I have to disagree with the Javascript design issues.

I've used both Python and Javascript for years, and the more I use Javascript the more I realize how ad hoc Python really is. So many of it's features (metaclasses, raising an exception to break iteration, the MRO, the import behavior, etc.) seem to be hacky solutions to problems of it's own making. Javascript is a much smaller, and therefore simpler language.
>Not really.

What do you have in mind? I was thinking about it, but could not get anything fixed to 1984 that could make it a relevant date.
Why shouldn't someone feel obliged to give to charity?
You can have a female founders conference, whose purpose is to uplift women, and allow men to be there as well. True story: I once attended a "women in tech" style conference as a hiring manager looking for potential recruits, and I won a random drawing for a prize. It was a purse with a company logo on it. Yes, it felt pretty sexist that no one expected a man would be there.
I'll jump on the Gandi bandwagon. Great customer service, communications when things go down, support for IPv6 and DNSSEC, an easy-to-understand API, reasonable prices. I am really happy with them. Just transferred the last of my domains from GoDaddy last month, and I'll be off Dotster before the end of this month. (I left Network Solutions a long time ago, and good riddance.)
I view this as a political sensitization, and I think it's greater than trying to talk numbers and topics about charities and myths.

I think this foundation is showing that you can be optimistic and right at the same time for many things about charities, but it's not the organization and the means and the money sent that will effectively change things.

I don't know how this foundation works at the political level, and what are the political issues, but I hope it will make people really reflect their view on the world. You don't often have billionaires initiating a communication campaign and articles about charities, and attracting that much attention.

I don't think Bill Gates would really like to answer the question "when did you encounter politics in that work, and what was good and what was not ?", because I don't think that he's a very political guy, but at least he has enormous talent for everything else.

I honestly thinks that diplomacy and politics can immensely help charities. I wish this foundation is not just doing this mission without minding the geopolitics, and has at least a few political partners and advisors. I wonder if they tried to do some lobbying, if just think there is a lot of potential if you try to approach foreign aid with a moderate amount of politics.
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How about if you aren't a security expert you shouldn't be programming at all because it's all about the weakest link, right? Don't use Java, C, C++ either.
As someone else said, it's a hot-button issue that brings out a vocal minority of the insecure and/or deliberate trolls. I know it's ugly, but please consider sticking around to try to help.
Perhaps, but people who are similar in some way (in this case, gender and profession) will always want to meet in a specialized way. Conferences are already specialized (CSS conferences, JS conferences, conferences for health startups, conferences for email marketing...)

Like it or not, being a female founder is way harder than being a male founder. Raising money is so much harder since you don't fit the Mark Zuckerburg stereotype. A friend of mine hid her pregnancy while raising money because she didn't want to be asked whether she was committed or not - would a guy with a pregnant wife be asked the same?

So yes, personally — I am very excited about this conference and meeting other female founders and talking to them about their experiences. Finding other people like me. Definitely comfortable with these kind of conferences being a part of society because I find a lot of women don't want to start a company since it's even harder than being a dude, and I want that to change.
Or he could squeeze in a square of white ink.
Strange to see that -- I'd walked past their office in our building (1550 Bryant) and always saw that it was empty.
What a shame, I was really excited to try out their service. I never considered that USPS would ban them from providing their service, but I'm sure it has something to do with all the revenue that the USPS makes from spam mail.
> Where do I sign up?

We've already signed you up! Please find the attached invoice.
1984 wasn't about "this is the big event that happened in 1984".

It was about "The year is 1984, and history has led us to this point."
The post was written prior to the 15th/16th, but scheduled to be posted on the 21st automatically.

In the event nothing went wrong with the 'date', she would cancel the auto post.

If something happened to her, the auto post would function as a dead man's switch and notify her Tumblr followers.
Our architecture is similar to that for a Twitter-esque system. Event streams are really pretty awesome. :)
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Service is down right now, just returning standard JSON errors.
I'm probably a 1%-er, given how much my wife and I earn. I don't give to charity.

Not because I don't believe I should, but I still don't feel like I'm at the stage where we can afford to, given how expensive life in the Bay Area is. We live well within our means (2 cheap cars, no cable tv, eat-in most days of the week, ...), but the idea of having to pay for a ridiculous mortgage to live in a safe area with good schools, pay for a nanny to take care of our kids because we work so many hours, having to save for our retirement, saving for our kids' educations scares the hell out of me, and puts a freeze on any extraneous spending of money. I feel like we are one dot-com-bust away from total financial disaster.

Once we have a more stable financial picture in the next 10 years or so, I definitely would like to donate my money, and maybe more importantly, my time, but until then, I think I will abstain from donating.
Well...actually, a fiat currency is one declared and issued by the state as legal tender. It's typically not redeemable for anything else, as a gold-backed one (USD from 1944 to Nixon) is.

And really, a currency like gold is valuable because it has a fixed supply and is universally accepted. Bitcoin has a fixed supply and is rapidly moving towards universal acceptance. It's totally different when a government chooses to make a dollar worth approximately X much and then prints 85 billion of them per month.

So, yeah, gold isn't a fiat currency. And Bitcoin isn't one either.
I help run a site called Doodle Or Die (http://doodleordie.com), which is very similar to DrawQuest. Much like them; we barely cover our costs. But we've largely automated away most human effort so that we can keep the site going for our community while we figure out a brighter future for it.

While our game is similar; I think the way we have approached it from the business standpoint is more realistic. We fully bootstrapped it ourselves and never put ourselves in a position where it had to make money. All of the people working on it still have day jobs. We see Doodle or Die as a great side project that we will continue to work on and maybe we will get it enough traction to attract a buyer. As much as we want it to be the next DrawSomething we knew that it would be a hard road towards that and therefore we were never holding our breath.

There is something to be said for going out and taking the bigger risk like DrawQuest did. But I think we have all agreed to save our bigger risks for bigger opportunities (i.e. we are all working at successful startups outside of Doodle Or Die that have a much better future). We never took the risk; and that's why you don't see us writing a blog about our failure. With all that being said we welcome DrawQuest users to try out Doodle Or Die.
You've never had a problem solved by turning it off and on again?
To my eyes, that's a sign of a weak rule of law, not anything to do with language.
Which force are you talking about? I'm talking about the one that mandates that people pay for contraception with tax dollars.
The United States' news coverage of the United States makes it seem like a pretty horrible place that nobody would want to live in. Bias certainly plays into it, but the larger problem is the fundamental nature of news reporting. The central fallacy is the idea that watching the news is a way to become informed about what's happening in the world. That's utterly false, it only informs you of some of the more notable or unusual events in the world, while largely ignoring more complex and long term developments.
Did you read this: "And am scheduling this post for a few days from now."
I should point out that, as I said in the other thread, I'm Catholic. And I didn't just inherit my Catholicism, I worked hard to find it. And I examined many of its precepts and tenets (including birth control), and found them each to be reliable and founded on a mountain of logic built on a kernel of faith. So they're my own beliefs. Not inherited, and not held blindly.

That's why I can't support the inclusion of contraception anywhere, among other things. I'm well aware that in some people's eyes this makes me an enemy of women, an enemy of the poor, etc. But I stand by my views without shame or regret, because I have acquired and maintain them with all the integrity I can muster.
Wow! Definitely time to get out of there.
For those who have no idea what Outbox is, here is their original landing page: https://web.archive.org/web/20140116081115/https://www.outbo...
> why save them now if it just leads to them starving later

We can save them now and have a couple years to solve the starvation problem.

> the concern that saving people now will put undue strain on finite resources tomorrow is real.

Indeed, it is. But their land is not producing at 100% efficiency. It would be a problem if it were, but, since it's not, the population that it can sustain is much larger than what it sustains now.
A trivial amount, like $200 last year.

I give to charities that seem to be cost efficient, like those in givewell.com
Hopefully she didn't just forgot to turn the scheduled post off.
Might be easier to send it to another registrar, and then let the other customer transfer it from there. Might cost a bit more but it could be the easiest way.
Indirectly. I don't directly donate to charity, but I do purchase Humble Bundles and similar things that donate a percentage to charity.
I like this, and mindmup is impressive too. My problem is that it chokes on my own notes file. If anyone would like to test a stripped down version of freemind, for a terminal, please make contact via my profile. The stripped down version can handle larger files than most other clients that I have tried, I made it after freemind got too sluggish for daily usage.
It's on HN because someone had referenced it in a different discussion, it looked interesting and I wanted to see what people had to say about it, so I submitted it. It's on the front page because people voted it up more than they voted other things up.
Assuming your workers can periodically report on progress, Socket.IO may fit the bill, has multiple implementations and provides graceful degradation for older browsers.
> A fork bomb will quickly take up your systems resources and invariably will force you to turn off your computer.

A curious analogy for being alive...
Just as students probably don't want to be reduced to a number between 1 and 4.
Firefox stopped using it on 2011-08-16. If you've seen Firefox using it recently when connecting through proxies, please let me know.
Just a thought exercise. How many cars would Mercedes-Benz sell if they would give out the cars for free?
I never set out specifically to donate, but every year I end up giving to pit bull rescues, local animal shelters, and Oxfam.
I'd simply:

- ignore older browsers (today practically all browsers support the video tag, caring about older browsers in this context is like caring about IE6, i.e. it's bad).

- stick with a compromise solution (H.264, yeah that's sad, but until Daala will come this mess will remain, but now Firefox already supports H.264 easily, so it's not a problem anymore). If the space allows it, I wouldn't mind encoding in both WebM and MP4, just for the sake of supporting free formats.
> For Beats' target market, they don't factor in price either.

Then they should be buying from good brands - for $300, you can get a 9 or 10.

> For whatever reason, whenever I'm looking for decent headphones, nobody indicates whether I'll be broadcasting what I'm listening to to my workmates or not.

Of course they do, you're just not familiar with the terminology. What you're looking for is circumaural (around the ear) headphones, rather than supraaural (on the ear) headphones. I would recommend the Sennheiser HD-280 PRO: http://www.amazon.com/Sennheiser-HD-280-Pro-Headphones/dp/B0...

I've had a pair for several years, and they still sound great.

> It might not be long before I'd be willing to shell out the cash for Beats just to not have to fuck with it anymore.

Getting Beats isn't going to fix your problem, as they are well known for noise-leaking.
No, the act does not cover private events such as this.
I had only troubles with network solutions. I curse the day I decided to use them. I don't understand how they still got reputation of a solid registrar.
The intrinsic value in Bitcoin is whatever someone is willing to do for it. Just like with beads, USD, or gold, it has intrinsic value if someone is willing to trade their possessions or labor in exchange for it.
I assume that their new work with a competing site means that they wouldn't be interested in trying to sell CarWoo? Otherwise it often surprises me that people abandon their efforts without at least trying to sell the codebase/database as a starting point to someone else.
I see what you're hinting at but the point of that question is lost on me.

That's like going up to Elon Musk and asking, why make electric cars when most people drive internal combustion engines?
I understand the purpose of doing this, but in most cases I don't see any extremely simple way to implement it. Lots of decisions tend to revolve around whether the development/maintenance time spent doing something justifies the efficiency provided by it.

Especially if you're building a minimum viable product, if something on a server responds 10ms later than a queue implementation, but takes 1 hour to implement instead of 5, I am inclined to go with the 10ms delay.
Is that still true? I though ICANN now charge some nominal fee (12c? 20c?) for domains even if you don't keep the registration past the 4 or 5 day "grace period"? (Not that it'd stop a truly evil registrar - if you can occasionally sell ~$10 worth of front-run domains for $39 or $69, you'd still be making money on 2% "conversion rates"…)
Yes, and I ask for people to donate to charity for in lieu of Christmas, Birthday and other gift giving events rather than giving me a gift.

My current favourite charity is freetheslaves.net
>DrawQuest got some traction, but found that selling paint brushes in a drawing app is a lot harder than selling extra lives in Candy Crush.

Selling brushes in a drawing app makes it seem like you aren't taking your customers seriously. I know it worked for Paper, but they aren't going to get any of my money any time soon. I've purchased several IOS and Android drawing programs, and several significantly more expensive programs for PC. I wont, however, purchase a productivity program with in-app purchases. Just tell me how much money you want for your program and I'll buy it. Companies should quit coming up with idiotic monetization strategies designed for the sole purpose of tricking customers out of larger amounts of money.
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I think putting a notice is a good idea, but if there's nothing personal or secret in it (db connections or anyting), just leave it in your github so people can find it.

It'd be really cool if github let you mark a project as 'abandoned' so people can easily see that it's not in use.
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Not even necessarily $50. There are fairly competent writers who can do 250-300 words for around $6.
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I read this imagining a git reset on actual people. Thanks for the laugh :)
Is your combined family income over 445k? That's how much the 1% make (2013). http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/09/17/d...
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And that's mainly because they conflate online piracy with counterfeiting of products, and that's exactly how MPAA wants it, because they can try pushing bills that "stop illegal harmful drugs...and also online piracy", like they tried to do with SOPA.

Same thing with the Pro IP Act that allows US gov to seize .com, .org and .net domains (much like SOPA proposed), and they seize hundreds of domains every year for both counterfeiting and online piracy, although when they do it they make it a much bigger deal about counterfeiting, and they latch the piracy ones to that operating, because they know people are more likely to agree with seizing of counterfeiting sites.
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I'm not an Economist, my background is in Physics and CS, so my experience is anecdotal. But I was really surprised by this story, so let me share my thoughts.

Once, I was programming a game and wanted to implement a simple economical simulation in it (how goods are produced and consumed by the population, maybe some price adjustments?.. I did not want anything complex or realistic, very simple linear approximation could be more than enough, I did not want to model agents, I wanted some sort of realistically-looking Production/Consumption/Supply/Demand behavior).

I asked a PhD student to give me an advice. Well, it took quite a lot of time, maybe half an hour, simply to explain the task I wanted to accomplish. Really, the whole idea of simulating things seemed to be foreign to her, and she could not really help me a lot. The economical models seemed to be almost orthogonal to the simulationist perspective. At least, this is how it looked.

It seems that Economics is very much like the laws of conservation in Mechanics. It describes the system from the high-level perspective, but does not really help too much, if you want to simulate individual particles (where you need Newton's laws, for example).

I have the impression that there is, probably, some intellectual predisposition among Economists. Maybe because of the way they are taught.
Edit: obligatory reminder: online polls are meaningless. pg please drop this feature. End edit.

Not charity as such but I loan money on Vittana. I believe they are actually making a difference and I think the little bit of money I have in their system can make more difference over time than a straight donation.

Also, any time a friend or a coworker is collecting money for a cause I pitch in. This has less to do with my belief in the particular charities, and more with my belief in my friends and coworkers.
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This is almost as bad as ResellerRatings.com

We signed up for something like $15 per month, a year later they upped it to $50 a month and we didn't notice. Still later upped it to $1500 per month and charged several grand before we noticed.

As soon as we realize the prices gone up we reached out, The rep on the phone instructed us to email the CEO to see if he could do anything. He replied with a straight face claiming that we had been notified (as this notifying us is enough, we should have to confirm).

Turns out the price increase had been buried three pages deep in a five-page mailer. We got a partial refund but not before threatening to chargeback.

The best strategy here is to publicize it and then issue a chargeback anyway, the only reason that we pushed was that some of the charges were too old to actually charge back.
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I commented in another thread about the "4chan users don't buy anything/aren't monetizable" problem[1], but while I used neither service, I don't think that 4chan users were a signficiant userbase of either Canvas or DrawQuest. Those services didn't really appeal to the average 4chan user at all. I think this was a deliberate decision to keep 4chan users from scaring the rest of the internet away, but I'm not sure it was the right one to make, because it's essentially throwing away the power of moot's name amongst a large and influential audience.

The real challenge would be coming up with a startup that could benefit from an early infusion of curious 4chan users without being "poisoned" by it. Probably one with less of a community focus, which is unfortunate for moot, since that seems to be what he likes working on the most.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7099531
They stole a few domains from me years ago, as well. They simply transferred them to someone else, rather than me. What a bunch of jackasses.
The same thing happened to me. I keep getting charged $15 for customer support I am not ordering, and I can't get it cancelled. After spending over 10 hours on the phone with customer service none of them have the ability to refund orders... Never use them.
"Armed with the knowledge of how much the dealer pays"

That is key, most of us don't have that.
What would the male-only version of the Female Founders Conference be?
Many patents that the USPTO issues are not valid. Consider buying some time from a patent attorney to see if the problematic patent is questionable.

One of the principal reasons frivolous patents are filed is to unjustly intimidate small operators like yourself.
About that idea, I say that its false, and relies on misunderstanding of at least what "backed by" means for a currency, and probably a strained view of what are "established laws" of economics, as well.
> It's an efficient market as it is.

That's a little naive.
I decided to write up a quick blog for public discussion outside of this thread

Blog: http://istommydrunk.svbtle.com/the-maleonly-version-of-the-f...

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7099636

If anyone wants to find it on the front page, it's there
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