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Is the message about what we do clear ? i would like to know if the HN community thinks that 'normal people' and not hackers will understand the site. Any feedback is greatly appreciated. Thanks a lot! http://adwizzy.com
The Toyota Pedal case certainly points towards liability demanding less code.

If there was a automation feature that prevented accidents in 90% of the situations where a human would crash but caused an accident in a situation that was 10% as likely to occur as a human crash, the result would still huge liability since the manufacturer would "definitely" be at fault in the latter case.
Of course you can't prevent it, however one of your application's goals is to work around email client filters that would block traditional tracking methods. Just to be clear, I have no problem with what you are doing.

I would like to know if blocking images is enough to not be tracked. Do email clients have sufficient image blocking or do they let through images specified in CSS (or similar) through?
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Yeah, I think the problem for Silverlight is that "success" is not a clear idea for such a platform, and if "success" is just large sites using it, then you've got Netflix at least. I'm sure Adobe counts "success" as installed base, but if you were a marketer, the kicking they are getting from the development community is not success at all.

It seems more cut and dried in the phone space. Sell units, make happy customers, sell more units. Android is not necessarily making numbers 2 and 3. We'll see when iPhone hits Verizon.
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What does the HN community think of having a public ideas website? Sort of like ASK HN: Rate my startup. Users can post their ideas from inception and receive creative input, reassurance that someone would buy that, or no-way don't waste your time building that.
Yeah I went back and read your comment again and see how you meant "evolution", which is perfectly valid (i.e., special case of emergent behavior). However, I know this is going to get increasingly pedantic, but evolution usually implies some sort of survival-of-the-fittest rule, which seems to stretch the definition here:

> That creates selective pressure on the name of ad-hoc networks in that convincing more users to click on them causes further replication.

I was thinking in a more formal mathematical sense. You can write a fairly short agent-based model (for example) to simulate the spread of "Free Public Wifi" and look for conditions where it remains suspended in the population. The analogy is closer to a virus than evolution.

But hey, I didn't mean to imply that what you were saying was wrong or --gasp-- a bad analogy in anyway, and I warned you that this was going to get pedantic. :)
Yes, that was what I just meant to google up as well. These maps were made by the venerable Buckminster Fuller. And he explains really nicely, how the Mercator projection was really sufficient when you navigate with ships, and how it even helps that the distortion gets you constant compass reading when you follow a "line" on the map, and what is a delicate curve in reality. It only entered the (first military, later public) conscience when air travel and intercontinental missiles became available that the geographic distance between Alaska and the USSR was quite small in places.

I know Fuller is a bit of a persona non-grata among scientific-minded people, because of his fantasy approach and his rejection of mathematics. But it was Einstein who said "imagination is more important than knowledge."
I use PHP as my scripting language. A lot of my server-side processing is done in PHP, including sockets and statistical analysis. I know it best, and am most effective with it.

Python is a bit more robust for all things higher-level, and I would recommend that before PHP any day (for someone starting out in).

Client side stuff is (for me) all JavaScript, always, using the JQuery library to ease my web pain.

HOWTO do divide Client from Server? Separate machines and insist that all back-end processing and storage goes on one set, and all client-side functionality goes on the other. Loading/parsing of archived data is a client-side process, as far as I'm concerned. Use standard protocols and formats to talk between the machines.
Is anybody else concerned about what a rogue app could do to your car? The SDK supports mostly read-only operations so that is better, but I'd be concerned if something like repeated status polling would impact my car while driving....
I have the keyboard in the picture (the Freestyle) but I do not have the "tenting" accessory that is holding the keyboard in a vertical position. He was suggesting I get/build that.

I have the VIP accessory which lifts each half 15 degrees, but that's still pretty far from 90.
Yeah, there's a global lock for transactions. I'm not sure it's such a big loss considering you still need a lock on the log file. Adding MVCC or per-object locks would mean rewriting most of BKNR, changing major parts of how it works, and a hugely more complicated implementation. And those things have a lot of their own overhead too. OTOH then you can just throw the objects into an mmapped file, put a REPL on a socket and bingo you have a multi-user networked ACID object database. But then you might as well just use Postgresql and Postmodern.

I don't know if you've ever installed the full Kloudshare, but Will wrote the first Hold backed by bknr.datastore, so you've probably used it.
I find the new pricing chart to be misleading. By listing the free account next to their customer-enabled plans, at first glance I expect it to allow me to serve customers.

http://chargify.com/pricing-and-signup/

Took me a minute to realize I get nothing (except the ability to integrate... SCORE!) by signing up. Smart to drive signups this way, but I think expectations are being set incorrectly.
You should get out NOW so you can settle on a different company's services -- one that treats its customers better.
Most people make a business case for any feature that they implement or technology that they use. Just because something is a recommended practice does not mean it is a best practice.

When one looks at the numbers of older non-supporting browsers and people who intentionally turn Javascript off. It does not make a compelling case to adopt an older more costly development model that cannot support the superior feature set of the new development model. Just as COBAL was once a recommended practice it no longer is, the world moved on.

As for the 5% or less that still cannot execute Javascript for whatever reason, study after study has highlighted that you spend an exponentially larger volume of money to chase this market than you do on the 95% solution. Money that for all intents and purposes would be better spent trying to increase conversion in the 95% market or adding new revenue stream to provide to the 95% market.

So when we talk about best practices we should be mindful of the technical egos, as well as lack of any business grounding of some of the people that make up "Best Practices" that believe their way is the only way and always offset it with marketing 101.

JSP has best practices, ASP has best practices and PHP has best practices some conflict with each other and none are weighed against what you are personally trying to achieve. At one point in time in the industry unified programming environments where the DB, the code and the execution platform where rolled up into one technology where "Best Practice". The list of no longer in vouge best practices stretches from hear to Siam.

Whenever best practice is seen it should serve as a red herrin that someone may not be listening to opposing view points. People in the technical industry following other people blindly is why we get so much group think and brain dead design patterns from people who believe in the Highlander model of development. JavaScript is standards compliant and that is all that should matter, the rest is just working the numbers.
I totally forgot about Windows somehow, I use it on a daily base too and I'm very happy with it :)
Cool idea, but the potato keeps going to people who are dropping it rather than to new people. If they drop it more than a couple times then they should be pushed down the queue.
I spent the last two days porting our code from paypal web payments pro over to chargify... and then they just jacked up their prices for starter level from 0 to $1,200 a year, and you still have to subscribe to authorize and the customer information manager - so they're just providing the gateway for $100/month. Ruined my afternoon, and probably tomorrow as I look at the other options like recurly.com , spreedly.com , cheddargetter.com , etc.
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Security through obscurity will not solve their (or anyone's) problems.

Also, someone claiming a system to be "cyber attack proof" is clearly misguided.
Yes, it is possible to create any plugin for erlyvideo and it must be GPL, because whole erlyvideo is GPL if you take it from github.

However, it is possible to contact me and receive code under other license.
Some Chargify alternatives:

http://cheddargetter.com

http://www.spreedly.com

http://recurly.com

http://www.braintreepaymentsolutions.com
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I agree completely - paying $1,200 a year to get started is a bit steep when it comes without notice and after i've been building the integration too.
Erlyvideo is also suitable for handling thousands of clients.
Why is this kind of thing on HN? I don't mean that it isn't of interest to Hackers... I find it extremely interesting! But StackOverflow has a community and a discussion feature. So if I want to comment on the question or its answers I can do that right there. And any comment on here is not visible to people who answer the question there.

Having a separate conversation is useful if the HN community is strongly disjoint from the source community, that way you get a completely different flavour to the commentary. For example, I'm glad when I see one of my own posts on HN and on proggit, I get two completely different kinds of feedback from the comments, and that's a benefit to me as an author and I suspect to the communities.

But is HN completely disjoint from StackOverflow where a simple programming question is concerned? Is it a net benefit to have two separate comment streams?
Ask HN: HIPAA Hosting?
My consulting company is working with a client to make some changes to their webapp (it's a health-care-related app - details aren't super-relevant). One of the items on their wishlist is "make it HIPAA-compliant". We're working with the client's lawyer to determine exactly what that means in practice, but it's clear that one of the items will be "host it on infrastructure other than the $10/mo. WebFaction plan".

The app itself is (relatively) simple systems-wise, so we don't really need a dedicated box and all the sysadmin and security headaches that come with it. But from my basic read of the HIPAA Security Rule, shared hosting (which abstracts away a lot of the sysadmin issues) won't cut it. We're primarily developers, not sysadmins, and certainly don't want to get into the server admin business on something with regulatory requirements.

Does anyone here have suggestions for either a host that can make this less painful (not even sure what that would entail), or a firm that specializes in the sysadmin side of things? (Preferably with HIPAA experience).
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Thanks for the feedback and support.

Yes, we agree that this tool will not appeal to everyone, but it is something that a lot of enterprise users have requested and thus we have built it with them in mind.

We'd also like to emphasize that open-tracking is only 1 feature in the bundle of tools that EmailOracle will offer, but it happens to be one that we were ready to launch with.
I've used the glass of water trick myself, and it is very helpful. It's especially helpful because when you get stuck while solving a problem, you have a great reason to get up and walk around to think about said problem.

Just another data point: This hasn't affected my drinking habits in other areas.
Is the quality of HN posts declining?
I feel like that. What about you ?
Yes it is. It takes advantage of a known vulnerability to spread.

You can't expect a non technical person to understand the importance of strong, unique passwords. Most people can't remember more than one (and a simple one, at that).
I was piloting Chargify with about dozen customers to see if I wanted to make it the default platform for all of my customers. Now, definitely not. This bait and switch shows a complete lack of respect for everyone who has invested in the platform.

Chargify, I'm sure you'll be laughing all the way to the bank, but not with my money.

Does anyone sell an installable non-SaaS replacement for Chargify that integrates with Authorize.net CIM?
In the interest of transparency, this link was posted by me; I work in HP Corporate Communications although I am a long time HN reader and contributor (under username "colortone")
You didn't understand my point.

In case 2, the hypothetical person who has all this money but is hesitant to spend any portion of it on a decent laptop is probably scared of the concept of the "number" in his bank account dropping. This hypothetical person would not invest in stock.

If you invest in stock, then you sorta already agree with me. I mean, you are spending your money, and that's my whole point: if you're afraid to spend money then you're not likely to become rich.

And in Case 1, the hypothetical person already has a means of generating enough revenue so that he can continue to spend/invest without going broke.
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Articles like this make me less likely to give to charity, not more. The fact that someone this crazy wants me to do something automatically makes me not want to do it.

This is a horrible suggestion.
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http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1468802
Good catch, thank you!

All I can say is that when I quote other people to support my argument, people assume I support the words I am quoting unless I explicitly argue with them. He(?) quoted them, I'm ok with questioning them in the context of the rest of his post.

I disagree with the premise that reading a few chapters of a book and writing a crappy web site makes you an expert on anything, AI, DSLs, Ruby, whatever. Those are the words I took issue with. If you write for clarity rather than popularity (as I do), then I withdraw the suggestion of smuggery and suggest instead that those specific words are simply wrong. If you want to stand by them, that's your privilege, we can agree to disagree.

I agree with your statement I am not sure how anything I said fits into this Java-bank-interview vs Haskell-bank-interview discussion. I'm not sure either.
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Did they learn nothing from the Recurly debacle a few months back?

I don't think their pricing is bad but they need a starter plan that's less than $99/month.

Also, why are both Chargify and Recurly doing "bucket" plans with such high starting price points? Why not charge based on actual usage? If you have 500 paying customers you can justify $99/month no problem, but most people are going to take a while to build up to that size of customer base. These people can't start off with a $99/month plan. At least give maybe the first 10 customers for free, or charge on actual usage, e.g. $X per 10 customers or something like that.

One thing's clear at least, if I ever go into the recurring payment business, Chargify and Recurly are both very good examples of what NOT to do to win customer loyalty.
As a diehard mutt user, I wish them the best of luck.
A little bit but you can find interesting stuffs nevertheless.
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We're working on improving this - in particular reply-all listserv in the pipeline ;)
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No comments?! Oh come on! Well anyway I wrote quite a complicated configuration for zsh and screen some years ago. It displayed the last executed program as the title on screen, because the overview when pressing ctrl-a " doesn't help u much w/o meaningful titles. I did some more stuff too can't remember it.. anyway somehow I lost my configuration :( so I wonder if anybody is heavily using screen here?
Update on the Chargify support forum:

We appreciate the feedback and will make something available to anyone that built their business around this. It will not be free but we will give a large discount for a smaller plan. More information to come shortly.

http://support.chargify.com/discussions/support/3987-new-pri...

I wonder how it will work for someone like myself, who has spent a month integrating Chargify into my app but who hasn't launched yet. Discounted plan or $99/month?
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It is obviously intended to as sarcasm, with the intention of making you think.
The SAT correlates well with how well you do in your freshman year, but it's not a(s) good predictor of lifetime success.
Agreed.

First, it's crazy that Chargify is not talking about this here and responding. (Update: they are responding quickly via Twitter)

Second, when will companies understand and learn that you simply CAN NOT do this. Hell, how can any board member let a company do this?

We just started looking at Chargify for all OpenDNS enterprise users (doing many $mm/year in transactions) but we thought their pricing might not scale up for us. So we had it on hold. The distinction between free and paid customers was critical for us.

Now I know I was right not to pursue it. We'll continue with our home-built solution.
Wow, really? Chargify just lost its position as the best choice for subscription management. Extremely glad we didn't launch yet with Chargify...

Here are some Chargify alternatives that we are looking at: Recurly, http://recurly.com/pricing/ at 200 transactions and 500 users $29/m - Spreedly, http://spreedly.com/info/pricing/ at $19/m + $0.20/transaction or 2% per transaction if less - CheddarGetter, https://cheddargetter.com/pricing at $39/m -> 1000 customers, $0 per transaction.

At the moment, we're probably going to switch to Spreedly, since the rates look good and they've been around for a while. Depends on what kind of dunning management they have.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but it's pretty ironic that it was part of the lean startup bundle.
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Provocative, but not very subtle.
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This just seems unlikely. The difference between 100 points at the top end of the scale is minute -- a few problems swing -- and the change in a 1570 to 1600 is quite literally an issue of missing just a couple problems in either section.

The SAT is a horribly noisy measure of excellent in either verbal skills or math, much less actual intelligence. I can tell you I managed to never peak over 700 on the math section only to get a perfect score on both the Math IIC and GRE Math sections (much harder tasks).
Nope - because people very rarely create ad-hoc networks these days - full infrastrucure-mode APs are everywhere - the only time people tend to select ad-hoc without realizing it tends to be he one called "Free Public Wifi" - it just happens to show up in airports and hotels and is passed around from machine to machine because of the name. Lots of people try it out (it never actually works) - but it's enough for the netowork name to keep propagating.
Wow thats a real bummer, I was about to integrate it into an app, but I certainly don't want to blow $99/mo on something that may or may not earn me a small fraction of that

Has anyone used Spreedly or CheddarGetter etc? Thoughts?

Are there any robust open source self-hosted solutions? (For Django, Rails, PHP?) Considering its just a subscription management wrapper for Authorize.net, shouldn't be too hard to cut out the middleman
I just registered this account to comment, yes, i do feel the same. HN used to be a different place not so long ago.
I noticed a pattern with many of my side-projects: I would work furiously in my spare time for a few months, and wind up with something "very nearly done". Then I'd take a break for a week or two, just to get some perspective and figure out what really needed to be done to "finish" the project.

Of course I never returned to any of these projects.

My new approach is just to do something on my current side project, without fail, every day. There is no "finish", there's just work, and it really is more enjoyable.
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I'd love to see it happen, but it's not looking great at this point, at least for the near future. It's entirely possible that the Midori project is continuing behind closed doors, but Singularity (the kernel and base runtime) has entirely stagnated from what I've seen. Since they're already working with an open source (if not Free) base, I wonder if they won't just pick up one of the pure-managed OS projects out there and use that (e.g. Cosmos, Renraku, SharpOS, etc).

Disclosure: I'm the project lead for Renraku, so I have a bit of a vested interest in seeing that happen.
I work for a company involved in the games industry. You'll probably find more money in the financial sector though
There is in some areas, of course. A tourist district in a town near me, for instance, provides free public wifi.
It's an emergent behaviour of a complex system involving people and machines. What's fascinating is how this non-functional string/ad-hoc netowork beacon, whatever oyu want ot call it, with this specific name, has spread globally to every corner of the world as far as we can tell. Hit any airport or hotel lobby in the world where there are laptops around, and odds are you won't have to wait long before you see "Free Public WiFi" pop up. That, in and of itself, is fascinating. It's been going on for a decade.
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Oh wow I only played the first three levels (did not finish the third)... How much more ridiculous can it get?

That said controlling a machine-gun/flamethrower/chainsaw wielding T-Rex that also has a jet-pack and missiles is truly awesome!