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Unsolicited suggestion: it's very interesting to follow what entrepreneurs are upto, the ups and downs of launching a business, you should consider blogging about your progress. This is something the indiehackers guy does and it's fascinating to read.

Good luck with oldgeekjobs!

> How much hands-on tech involvement does Musk actually have in his enterprises?

From multiple interviews, Elon has stated that he spends the majority of his time on engineering and design problems, and very little time on business, PR.

Any update on how the site is developing?

IIRC Google suspended the accounts of people who did something similar(automated random searches). I think it's against their Terms of Service.

* gandi.net

* amazon route 53 domain registration

* Google domains, if you are in the US

Just curious, why aren't you using Namecheap?

The code samples are striking: they demonstrate how verbose Java can be, compared to Python!

It's nice to have a single interface to access multiple sources, but when you click on the comments you are taken to the origin site's comment section. If you could comment directly from your webapp that would be a very useful.

It's still not very clear what the kit includes.

My guess is that this will appeal more to wantrepreneurs, if at all.

By the nature of startups, there can be no levels to build a startup.

Apart from his argument that Python 3 is not turing complete, which has been torn apart in the comments, can someone evaluate the other arguments. Are the other criticisms valid? If not, why?

A censored [favorite service] with state surveillance is better than no [favorite service] is the new normal. Really?

It's kind of depressing to see where the world is going,, where the world bends to the will of state actors eventually. Given a long enough timeframe any draconian law can be made the new normal and I think that is what is happening.

It's also sad to see the internet become a tool to control entire populations and have them see and experience the world in a way that is convenient for state actors. And every effort to circumvent state control gets regulated before going mainstream. Eg- Look at Bitcoin, the calls for KYC norms, asking customer data. Another example is Tor, numerous attempts to unmask users.

The free plan or a paid plan?

If you are using the free plan, note that you aren't really getting DDoS protection. They offer "I'm under attack" mode which can be bypassed easily and it does not protect against l3 and l4 attacks.

Creating noise on HN, reddit is a sure way of getting their attention, but there has to be a better way to deal with issues when everything is automated. Does Google have a single point of contact for such issues?

>> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

>> Please avoid introducing classic flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say about them.

Consider reading the HN guidelines, unless you are actively trying to get hell banned.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I was configuring a 15 inch Gazelle: i7 6700HQ + 32GB RAM + 250GB SSD comes to around $1300. Good value.

Anyone have experience with System76 laptops recently? How is the build quality, battery life, service? There are not many reviews about the laptops.

> The key detail for me is that if you delete the call from the log on any device, the next sync will delete it in iCloud.

I highly doubt that it is a hard deletion of data. My guess is that it would be a soft delete, so your call log won't show up on your iPhone, but the data will be retained on Apple's servers.

One thing I noticed about installing multiple desktop environment on Ubuntu: they all have different default apps that are always installed. So when you have two desktop environments, you end up with 2 different terminals, 2 different file browsers, 2 different archive managers etc. You could uninstall apps that have the exact same purpose, but it would be nice if there was a formal way for DEs to recognize and acknowledge the existence of another DE.

Rant: When I first wrapped my head around the concept of a desktop environment, the first thought that came to mind was: why don't Microsoft and Apple abandon their proprietary OSes and just build and maintain a solid desktop environment for Linux and the BSDs. It would save them a ton of money, resources, developers, it would improve security. The major drawback was porting the apps written for their OSes to Linux and BSDs, which was a deal breaker. Then came the announcement of Windows subsystem for Linux, first thought: incredible engineering feat but MS did the exact opposite of what I would have wanted, which was a Linux subsystem for Windows. It would have solved the issue of porting Windows apps to Linux. Now I am beginning to realize that all decisions technical or not, are just ugly politics with nice explanations to make the decisions seem like the right thing to do.

What is the easiest way to explain to the average citizen that the "Nothing to hide, nothing to fear" argument is not a good reason to let the Government keep tabs on your online activities? Most people don't give any thought to online privacy that it truly scares me.

Is there any way to mimic Zcash's z-addresses in Bitcoin?

I like the ideas behind Zcash and it solves important privacy issues, but I don't like the idea of a for profit company being the heavyweight behind Zcash.

From what I gather, Bitcoin is more of a community effort than most other altcoins, which inspires trust.

I looked up Zcash's price chart, it fell from ~$1300 at launch to ~$90 now. Ouch.

* Elon Musk

* Paul Graham, haven't heard from him lately

* Pieter Thiel (ideally a long interview about Trump, Palantir, seastanding, Libertarianism)

* Sam Altman (sneak peek into the upcoming MOOC, things he's working on, OpenAI)

* OpenAI team

* Failed startups: Homejoy to begin with

Please ask HN for questions, before going to interview people. Ask deep and difficult questions, and avoid boring, generic questions.