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Because a phishing page is basically just a mirror. No successful phishing can really occur unless you provide the page with information, though, so as long as you don't fill in any forms or download any weird applets you should be okay.

(The linked URL was, when I checked, a legitimate and non-malicious mirror of the original.)

EDIT: Obviously a phishing page is not a proper mirror - but they both share the attribute of being very similar to another page, and with "name.tld" as a sub-domain it makes sense that a browser might incorrectly label a mirror as a phishing page.

I opened the page with the intention of mirroring it, but I decided there was not any information worth spreading.

This is just a disgruntled former employee complaining about the common (legal) business practices of large corporations. Am I missing something?

Pi sounds like nothing. cos(2.pi.f.t), on the other hand...

Exactly. I don't know why s00pcan is being downmodded, it seemed like an honest question to me.

I decided to build one of these ideas - check out http://firstfan.me! (@wendyhk wished there was a site where you could record the time & date you discovered a certain band. I am in the middle of mid-terms and couldn't crank out the site just yet so I made a landing page and I'll put the site together in the coming week.)

Great idea! I like it a lot... sorry I can't be more helpful/critical but it's working nicely for me and it looks good! Well done.

Just do both. Your early code will probably suck. Your early startup ideas will probably be quite flawed. But working on real project will make coding more fun, and all your "failed" startups should teach you something for the next one.

I've been coding for a long time, and sometimes my code still sucks but it's better than it used to be. I haven't been bootstrapping "startups" for quite as long but I've already made a ton of mistakes, and learned from them.

PS. Wouldn't call myself an HN "Elite" by any stretch, but my $0.02 nonetheless.

Sounds about right. I think it will be very hard to track down the market for this, though. Unlike commissioned visual art, these songs probably won't appreciate in value nor can they be hung out ad infinitum for the world to see. Good luck!

It's a fun and unique concept, but I think the general public greatly undervalues what it takes to write, record, and produce an even half-decent song. That's going to make it very difficult for you to present a price that makes sense to people. (What sort of price did you envision?)

Also, this is obviously not very scalable. I think the target market is tiny, though, so that is probably not a big deal.

Ohh I see. That's awesome, thank you very much! I'm more of a Python guy but I might just use this for my next project anyways - I'll be sure to let you know.

I like this sort of thing, and was having trouble finding something to use a few weeks back. (I remembered a post from launchrock but I couldn't remember what they were called!)

"One problem, though, is that I would have to sign up for each project and then promote the links."

How is yours different? Sorry, I looked at your demo and re-read your post but I still couldn't figure that out.

Wow, well I feel a bit dumb for answering with such certainty then! Apparently I have been misled. Thanks for setting me straight!

741s are still going strong! In fact, as far as I can tell (electrical engineering student) they are the most prominent op-amp in use by far.

I don't think it's really fair to dump on these guys because of this. I definitely agree that nobody should depend on a 'beta' anything in any serious capacity, but Djangy was pretty obviously a small operation trying something out. I was a beta user and absolutely LOVED it, even though I didn't have the best support experiences ever. Anything I hosted with Djangy could easily be moved elsewhere - I highly doubt there were any users with enough data to make migration difficult.

No worries! I had actually forgotten to test it with AdBlock and was sort of curious how it would handle it, so thanks!

Basically, except that you get the ad right away. There are existing ad networks that let you set a "maximum bid price" for sites but that often turns into a race for the bottom, price-wise. This is different - you can buy any ad immediately as long as you pay at least a dollar more than the last person, and it will be yours until someone who is willing to pay more buys it. The idea is that this lets the market determine the ad value of a specific site rather than keywords a la Google.

Does that make sense? I am trying to refine my pitch, I think the website copy is unclear but I'm trying to make it better.

Cool, yeah I'm obviously not a designer either :) It would be something to work on if this ever moves forward. As for the blank ad - that's a strange problem! What operating system are you using? It worked fine with everything I tested, including Chrome on Windows. Do you have any plugins on? It should work without it, but do you have javascript enabled?

And yeah, I understand what you mean. I would build a sort of "ad marketplace" for advertisers that allowed them to sort ad spaces however they want if there is enough interest.

Clickable: http://www.adfrenzy.net/

I like school, I'm not planning to drop out, but this guy isn't convincing anyone. His basic premise is that school is the "safer" path - something that I don't think the Zuckerbergs of the world have ever found terribly appealing.

Thanks, that's helpful. Did you limit your targets to professors working where you did your undergrad or did you try to cast a wider net? If so, did it work?

Cool, that is also encouraging. I'd like to work for a while to gain experience and hopefully pay off some debt but most people say it's harder to get into grad studies when you've been out of the system for a bit. As long as harder != impossible, I'm okay with that.

That's very useful information - I didn't realize some institutions worked that way. Do you have any insights with regards to getting the attention of a specific prof?

Wow, thanks. That's encouraging. If you don't mind me asking, how unrelated was your bachelor's? And from what school? What sort of references did you provide? And did you get in right after your undergrad, did you have applicable industry experience, etc?

I understand where they're coming from - browsers shouldn't let websites just play sound automatically because it is annoying as hell. I hate Flash sites that do that. So drawing the line somehow is tough, I guess.

There was a post on HN about this problem recently. I can't find it, but it linked to this blog post: http://www.lockergnome.com/web/2011/02/01/google-apps-domain...

Aside from allowing accounts to be created before domain ownership is verified, I believe it is possible to maintain an account after registration expires. Hopefully Google plugs these holes soon. In the meantime, for your case, I suppose you are at the mercy of Google Customer Support. Good luck!

Wouldn't be the first time ethics conflicted with making money. There's often some compromise to be made and everybody handles it differently, but that is really no excuse for storing passwords in plain text - implementing a password reset is trivial and users understand the process well.

Thanks for the clarification. I still disagree with his view but it is rationally presented in the Cato article (I should have followed the link before writing an angry comment) and not bigoted as Gawker makes it seem.

Is this for real? What a dick.

Thanks for the link - it's easy to forget that people such as Thiel who display enormous intelligence in one domain can be such morons in another.

I realize that this is a bit of a knee-jerk reaction and if anyone wants to have a rational discussion explaining why Peter Thiel might not be a fuckwad I'm all ears.

EDIT: Okay, I understand why a downvote might be appropriate if that didn't come across as a very level-headed comment. But seriously, if you don't think Thiel is a dick for saying that about the women's vote I'd be pretty curious as to why. My views align pretty closely with libertarianism and I'm certainly all for people honestly expressing themselves but I find it frightening that someone could legitimately believe that the women's right to vote is a bad thing.

EDIT 2: Well, I'm an idiot. I didn't realize the context of Thiel's comments as dsplittgerber pointed out.

HTML, CSS, and JS are actually pretty good at doing what they were made to do. Unfortunately, that vision bore little or no likeness to modern web applications.

The time is ripe for changing the way people use the internet, and I think that is part of what the whole "native app markets" thing is about. The problem with that is multiple platforms - multiple browsers together with their cesspool of languages pale in comparison to the pain of developing for multiple platforms. There have obviously been a lot of attempts to make it easier, but they all sucked in their own way.

It will get better, and we'll have new things to complain about at some point. Until then, developing for the web means cobbling together antiquated standards and forcing them to do things previously unheard of. Which, ultimately, is kind of fun.

EDIT: If anyone else is interested in discussing what a solution could look like, I'd love to chat about it. Would certainly be a very fun (if not extremely ambitious) open source project. (Contact through my profile.)