tucson

I think the UI matters. HN is great but I feel the commenting system could be greatly improved. Collapsable threads anyone? In general I wish HN would use a StackOverflow-like system (rep and votes on comments).

what tool(s) can a web entrepreneur use to check if his site won't be hacked by script-kiddies?

Thanks for the feedback. And have a good canoe vacation. sounds good.

French-speaking countries.

Interesting. That's worth mentioning on your landing page. I overlooked that.

I applaud your service, but as a potential customer, I need something easier to use to provide websites on demand. Just thought this could be interesting for you to know.

I have more than 500 hits per month, all small businesses who want to create a "website". For many a simple bootstrap theme would do... with very little parametrization.

"I think the killer app for this will be a bootstrap theme where a few easy parameters (so easy your grandma can do it!)"

Absolutely agree. I have customers but don't have the skills to automate website creations. We need this gap bridged.

Give me an API to build a website based on simple parameters: [ domain name, title, presentation text ]. (for example)

I am looking for a way to sell ready-made websites to small businesses. Does anybody know of a solution that would take basic infos (company name, some presentation text) and produce a nicely designed (such as those themes) website ?

Google, Wikipedia and StackOverflow/StackExchange are my favorite "creations" on the Internet.

But StackExchange has been a big disapointment for me. No big traction on the StackExchange sites, and moderators constantly closing questions without providing better alternatives. It's really a turn-off. (StackOverflow is still great though).

> this will do nothing to improve the size of the name space

It opens new options for "local" addresses: biketour.berlin biketour.paris antics.london etc

wether this will stick is another story.

I see this as a small part of a much bigger picture: that "world" you refer to is a free market with property rights which IMO gives the best possible outcome for the society as a whole (refer to the "invisible hand" theory of Adam Smith).

Does anyone have an estimate of Instagram current yearly profit (or loss)? (sorry for the basic question, I do not know much about their service)

Can you advise which irc channel?

Assuming Google was ok for the deal they could have sold 100% of the company against cash or maybe Google stocks. Instead they sold I think only 5% during the IPO. Right now the CEO cannot sell more of his shares until May 2012 (http://ipo.nasdaq.com/Fundamentals.asp?cikid=826818&fnid...).

Thanks for the link. What I find troubling is to read so many articles pointing to shady business practices from Groupon and bubble valuation, and still the SEC lets the IPO go through and investors lose their money - that part did not happen yet but it seems written on the wall.

what is left?

There is a huge difference between saying Sarkozy might gain politically (FT title), and saying Sarkozy "timed" the shootings of 6 people which is what you implied. Or did I misunderstand?

This has been debunked. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_v._Strauss-Kahn#Conspi... "The New York Review of Books subsequently corrected one of its allegations, reporting that a "dance of celebration" between two Sofitel employees lasted 13 seconds, not the 3 minutes originally reported."

> This is a terrible graph. I suppose it depends on the perspective. From an investor's perspective it's actually a very interesting graph that visually (partly) explains the ongoing explosion of AAPL profits.

If you are so good as you make it sound, why don't you trade your own money and give part of the profits to charity?

Great PR for the Atlantic City Casinos? could that be the explanation for this great winning streak?

> I see nothing but a cold, miserable twilight in its future

GOOG profits are still growing, and they still control online search which I think will remain a huge cash cow for a long time.

Because the user experience has not yet suffered does not guarantee it won't. I am not saying that the user experience will be ruined, only that it is technically possible. We just have to imagine SO is sold and the new owners put more ads, for example. Do you know if the current investors are happy about the current ROI?

yes, but how can the need for ROI (on the $millions invested) not hurt the current user experience?

Can someone explain what this is all about and why this is interesting, for non-savvy?

To your definition of inventory: "a page view plus a slot available on that page which we could sell an ad against", Google does not sell an ad display, they predominantly sell clicks on ads and therefore Google has a key incentive to display ads that get more clicks per display, hence the importance of CTR (click-through-rate) because they will get more revenue for the same page views. I am sure you know that, but I think it's worth mentioning. So I would define inventory as "a page view plus a slot available on that page which Google can use to maximise revenue".

"It was uncovered that Google passess some of its data about users to third parties, especially ads agencies." Can you provide a source to back this statement? (I am not challenging you, just interested to learn about this)

To "get a feel for the domain name aftermarket’s trends" -> check out http://www.dnsaleprice.com/SalePrice.aspx

I somehow have the feeling that moving out of GoDaddy won't protect you from any of this. Potentially the US "authorities" can take down your dot com domain (operated by Verisign), your hosting if in US, or maybe even prevent DNS resolutions to your domain inside the US (they can ask large ISPs to update their DNS servers). What you are left with is using a non dot com, non US hosting, and avoid having too much business from US customers. Then you might run into the same in Europe, etc. That does not sound like a good long term strategy.

Thank you for the details. Is your .net domain safer than the .com? and if yes, why? Also, do you think the domain suspension could have been avoided if you had used another registrar?