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That's a good idea. What I want is some end-user-friendly PGP-like solution. If it existed in a form that we knew millions of users already were used to using, or that we could roll out -- we would do it in a heartbeat.

Have to think about normals on it though. It's not good enough to think about tech savvy people like us.

But for those who care, it might be the best way. Thanks.

SPF is already baked in. You can't set up an email account without understanding the ins and outs of that stuff. It is one part of an arsenal.

That's the thing -- it's not an "easy" loophole. Like any arms race, every website is in competition with its foils -- scammers, phishers, spammers and their ilk.

I disagree that it's not possible to stay ahead of them. That's our job.

We're investigating this. We'll update asap.

That's a war we will fight when we have to. And we will fight it with relish and aplomb.

Appreciate the concern, and we hear you. We're still investigating this particular case. Normally we'll catch these types of spoofed emails. What we need to do is refine our system.

To be honest, we haven't had many complaints about spam emails or spoofs -- it literally never happens, otherwise we would hear about it all the time. We answer every help email we get -- so we have a decent idea of what our users care about and what pains they really see.

If trust is an issue, we will fix it.

We do a mix of these things. In this specific case, it failed. We're investigating.

We support custom domains, so its just an A record or CNAME away from blog.crocodoc.com =)

You must be new here.

Standard reply here: If you don't like it, don't vote it up.

Also: Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think something is spam or offtopic, flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "flag" link. (Not all users will see this; there is a karma threshold.) If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did.

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

This is the kind of lack of civility I'd like to see less of on Hacker News. Pointing out someone is wrong is probably enough. It feels good to shout bullshit at someone, but lowers the level of discourse and also makes it more acceptable for people to speak and behave trollishly.

Subtle jab at Sequoia -- on the one hand, yes, macro trends went against Zappos heavily. On the other hand, the board didn't have faith in Tony's groundbreaking worldview.

You can tell through the heavily filtered language that Tony went through hell and back on this one.

Keep in mind that there are 400+ YC founders out there now, and we roll deep. A lot of us do keep tabs on Hacker News and we do vote up and support our friends.

So no juice needed. Just regular voting.

I've added Clojure support to our CodeRay library -- this should be live in about an hour or so on our site.

And hosted coldfusion scripts. =D

Yeah, line numbering is tricky. That's why we hide the numbers when you click -- it's a mode that's built into CodeRay.

Note you can still just paste github gists on their own line and we expand those too -- so that's still another option.

Also you can probably just hide line numbers completely using CSS if you customize your theme.

Organizationally it is a mindshare problem. Every successful tech company faces this. Windows Mobile was always the 'little brother' of Windows and Office, and could never get the kind of resources and talent needed to win in that space. Google Reader is arguably an example of such a team at Google. Mobile Me is a little brother to Mobile / Mac sales.

If your users expand to the full set of all iPhone and Mac users... then your mindshare and resources internally expand. And you can finally improve the product.

Also http://pmarca-archive.posterous.com/

Kickstarter is a great thing to push people to get things done that they might not otherwise do on their own.

YC is a great way to kick your startup into high gear as well.

But that's where the similarities end.

They are not substitutes for one another. YC is also not a company. It is a pre-seed stage venture firm (with amazing advice from PG, Jessica and co) and a network of entrepreneurs who help each other.

You're right -- I misunderstood your initial comment. I'm going to think about this some more. Really appreciate the feedback.

We would love to be able to put the full blog post title in there. The Facebook Stream API limits what we can put in that space.

I think this is a good candidate for an advanced setting. For other autopost sites we allow customization here. We'll discuss with the team.

Other themes have less obtrusive versions with transparent logos. Most people end up leaving the basic theme because that's what simplicity is about -- reducing the number of choices. People who care a lot can change it. Most people don't care.

This was literally a bug fix due to user complaint about blog name truncation. There is no conspiracy here.

Your blog http://gpapps.com/ is not hosted on Posterous.

This is unrelated to the discussion at hand.

There's no Google impact here -- Viglink is javascript behavior. Link juice is utterly unchanged.

Viglink does not strip existing affiliate codes.

Sorry, I probably meant novel. What's novel vs. what is actually useful.

Self expression is useful, and it comes in all forms.

Cool quotes and funny photos are the social-media version of PowerPoint -- a limiting medium that squelches higher bandwidth idea transfer.

Did you know we support embedding Github Gists? Just paste the gist URL and we do the rest.

Markdown etc has been a much-wanted feature, even for ourselves internally. We try to focus on normals as much as possible, so it hasn't hit the top of our priority list yet, but it has been rising in the list without a doubt.

Thanks for your suggestions. We're working hard to get better every day. There is obviously a lot of work left for us to do, but that's what helps us jump out of bed every morning.

I agree short quotes, clips and photos are fun. But it's not where "it's at." I think Twitter already won that battle.

I disagree completely with your description of longform blogs. You're focusing on what's cool at the cost of what is essential.

That sounds like a lot of work, to be honest.

Interesting artifact: Amnesia is one of the hippest live venues / bars in the area, kind of ground zero for Mission hipsterdom. That it now has the art of Banksy really only elevates it to new echelons of cool never before seen this side of Valencia.