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As a competitor of godaddy's that charges what some, no actually most, believe is an exorbitant rate for domains (compared to godaddy) we hear every day from people who want to know why we charge what we do. Why? Because we don't sell you things you don't need and lure you in with low pricing, loss leaders or bait and switch.

Here's some background. Each and every registrar, whether they are selling 1000 domains a year or a million pays exactly the same for .com/net/ domains. The variable cost is identical and essentially set by Verisign/PIR/Afilias and ICANN. As much as large registrars want you to believe they make it up on volume that isn't what's going on. They are selling you extra services and things that you don't need. There is simply no way to make money in domains at the prices out there unless you do that. It's that simple. Now I'm not even talking about the pre checked boxes that Dave is referring to. I'm just talking about taking advantage of people who don't understand what they need and what they should buy. (Like getting privacy protection on a domain used in a business as only one example under the guise of protecting you against spam and protecting privacy!). Or worthless cctld's

Now of course there is nothing new about this. It's similar to many things in technology. Such as selling a computer and making people think they need a large fast processor even if the are only surfing the web or using the computer for email (as only one example).

(Note: On .org and .info PIR/Afilias sometimes run rebates if a registrar exceeds a certain level of domains from the previous year or time period. But as everyone knows the bulk of domains are .com)
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because SOPA doesn't hurt them. It hurts SMALL businesses.
What a strange community. Who cares if a class is $2800? $2800 is only a few days of a programmer's time, and if he can learn faster in the format of a class, then it's money well spent. If you can learn from some docs and playing around, that's good too (but beware: you might be doing things horribly wrong and you won't know until long after the bad habits have solidified).

Disclaimer: I've taught programming classes like this (but only charged a few hundred dollars for 3 days).
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Different people learn in different ways. Some people do very well by reading material and applying it. Some really cannot and need it in a visual manner or in a typical lecture / exercise environment.

I have friends who went to Big Nerd Ranch who were book learners, but the teaching staff, presentation methods, and setup made it very worthwhile to them. I would imagine something like this would fit for a lot people.
>Make me fool once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me.

That's not how you say it. Not in Tennessee, not in Texas.

Fool me once, shame on you, fool me can't get fooled again.
For more info see this post on the jRuby site: http://www.jruby.org/2011/12/27/jruby-1-6-5-1

In summary, this is an attack being announced at 28C3 tomorrow. It affects most major platforms, including Ruby, PHP, Java, and ASP.net and possibly including others.

This is the CERT advisory, although its 403ing at the moment. http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2011-003.html

The two security researchers are Julian Wälde (@zeri42) and Alexander Klink(@alech).
But once they have set that up (which they have), they can build a feature once and deploy it on every mobile platform supported, iterate and fix things quickly without distribution delays (like 30-50% is on iOS?). It's not for everyone, and I don't like the Facebook iPhone app and I don't take this approach generally, but it works for Facebook because it works for most end-users.
This is something I struggle with. Do you have any suggestions for how to do customer acquisition remotely?
I agree, that everything has some inherent bias, the problem I see is that Wikipedia is often taken as the "gospel", from both western and a lot of non-western residents, and because of it's status as a "world-wide, collaborative, encyclopedia" it's assumed that it is unbiased --while people treat other sources with more caution.
Profiles? Sure. Users? No... not even close.

It's actually rather telling when the only way to make Google+ sound popular is to count meaningless automatic signups.
I personally think that most of that off-topic content that you mentioned sucks to have here (even if I do enjoy it elsewhere)

Exactly. It's not about if it's interesting to you... It is if it's interesting AND fits the purpose of HN.
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I spend a lot of time on Facebook, Reddit, YouTube, and HN.
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Isn't it trivial without the need to use something commercial?
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I can still go out to have fun, even if my primary mtb is in the middle of surgery. Having three bikes also means that when friends are in town visiting, I can show them around the city without having to resort to expensive taxis/zipcars or public transit.
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Unfortunately firing Ocean Marketing may still be too little too late. Amazon ratings for the product[1] are already in the dumps because of this debacle, and I doubt many of those reviewers will go back and change their reviews as the situation goes along.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/dp/B005CMZJL6/
Very important read for all of us. I now sit hear wondering what I can do - what we can do - to help our country. We are in a scary place.
Just because a company has the resources to hire doesn't mean it necessarily should. A company culture can only absorb so many new hires in a given period of time, and I think Facebook likes the culture and doesn't want to see it go away.
I also wish that the site would be more "on topic".

I imagine what's happening is that people submit and up-vote anything that's remotely interesting or important regardless of whether or not it is really "hacker news". But this site isn't supposed to be the only news source in the world. Even an important story can be an irrelevant one as far as HN's boundaries are concerned, if it would already be reported in the news somewhere.
let the customer's decide
I dunno. Yeah, there are reams of documentation and tutorials available online for Rails... but loads of it is crap, or it takes a "and now magic happens! * poof * your site can now accept credit cards!" approach that's a massive barrier to really understanding how the framework works.

This isn't really excessive for a 6 week course, especially if it's well-done. College costs more. As a concrete example, though likely on the expensive end, here's one example for a 2 week course over the summer: $3,500 http://www.internaldrive.com/idga/courses/teen-game-developm...
Yes, but (value) - (price) still decreases. Higher prices are not good for the buyer, as should be obvious.
The best part of all of this is that it's already happened... about 28,000 years ago!

Remember that our telescopes can only pick up what they can see, and they can only see light that has reached us.
Also, "won", how? Because of the failed soviet states? How about the much winning near socialist Norway/Sweden/Denmark and Finland? How about China?

And what does it mean, "it won"? Does it mean it's better? We had kings and despots for 1000s of years. Yet we still progressed towards something different (and/or better). The same could happen with capitalism or everything.
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Very curious - what was the referral link impact of HN?
You're right, profit tops out well before you get to "big money," usually due to limits on either supply or time.

In the used clothes example you are either limited by time (I can only hit ten thrift stores in a week) or supply (there are only ten thrift stores in my area.) After that, how do you scale up?
I wish I could upvote this again and again.
I HATE non-commercialism. It's like saying that a charitable hospital can ask for money, but can't run a cake-stall to raise it. Charities end up spending a huge amount of money soliciting donations. Wikipedia's lucky, because they can nag everyone on the internet for essentially no fee, and even partly deny service (by offering a gimped service). The Red Cross can't give disaster victims a nag message before helping and hope to make any more money, nor can they do it with a good conscience; so they have to spend all their money asking for donations from rich people who don't currently need their help.

It can go too far the other way, though. I heard that some of the "Pink" products gave a fixed fee to breast cancer, so buying their stuff wouldn't give any money. Others gave a tiny portion.

I'll concede that it's a good model for wikipedia - spend nothing, and nag users for donations. But it's not a great model in general. But it only works as a replacement for micropayments, and that's where unobtrusive advertising works better.
The physics on storing kinetic energy like that just don't work.

One intriguing possibility I thought of is the possibility of creating a black hole[1] in the path of the projectile. I have no idea how the energy calculations work for creating a black hole, and what exactly happens to one if a large mass travelling at high speed hits it - I'm guessing if the black hole was small it would just slice the object in half. If it was big enough to "swallow" the object then I don't know what happens - if I'm reading [2] correctly its mass-energy increases, but what that means in practical terms I'm not sure.

Of course, the issue with this plan is before you had a fast moving massive object targeted at planet, but now you have a black hole nearby.

[1] http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2010/01/22-01.html

[2] http://www.upscale.utoronto.ca/PVB/Harrison/BlackHoleThermo/...
The problem with Google+ is there are too many people like you there - perhaps which is why you are blind to it.

Facebook is full of human beings sharing their lives - Google+ is full of jerks who see Facebook as an API. Friend that? No thanks.
Depends where you are. Here in Ontario small claims court doesn't handle traffic tickets or landlord disputes. They handle things like suing your mechanic, or a business owner suing a deadbeat.

However, they still don't have the time to process your claim for damages awarded for loss of time due to junk email. Sorry, but I can't sue for the actual junk mail I get that actually causes physical expenses like garbage disposal/recycling plus time. However a judge is going to be royally pissed if I'm suing for the disposal costs of junk mail (probably a maximum of $5 a year at the dump)
That was almost as good a read as the main post :)
And yet, if you go to GoDaddy, you can find domain names for $1.99, and transfers for $7.99.

With namecheap, they list as $10, but you can get the price even lower and use the code "SOPASucks"*

* Conditions apply.
Conditions also apply.

All of these "conditions apply" kind of makes the point of my argument. For every $8.95 cert offer, there is another offer where you get a free cert by purchasing the domain name, or by transferring from some competitor, or by renewing some existing domain.

It is a true confusopoly. These schemes to extract more money from consumers may be slightly more or less scammy, but ALL domain registrars engage in these practices.

The sad part of it is that in the end, I don't know if I'd be better off being scammed into paying an extra $4/month for some service I'm not using, or being "socially conscious" and paying more to a company that does not pull these tricks, but that can only keep itself in business by charging higher prices.
"To build trust, local and international networks will use a friend-of-a-friend model in Knutson and Boyer’s projects. People can’t become full members on their own as they can with social networks like Twitter, Facebook and Google+."

Nice, so an exclusive club mentality.

"I respect pseudonyms as long as they treat them as pseudonyms and not as masks"

No privacy either. Even better.
One recurring point on HN in recent times is that there is a major talent shortage. It is very possible that Facebook is not able to find skilled Python developers to work on the SDK.
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Endless wars over oil, rare earth metals in Africa and the ever increasing price of iron ore would tend to indicate you might be wrong about that.

Just because a single 3D printer won't use much won't magically make resource constraints disappear.
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I believe he's accusing them of hypocrisy.
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I don't know the details, but to your and latchkey's point, I think the reason they support these SDKs (in addition to their generic Graph API) is that they're consumers of those SDKs. They have an iPhone app, an Android app, use JavaScript and probably the PHP SDK for internal stuff. So they're just making these public since they're good enough for internal use.

They could probably easily hire a Python coder to maintain a Python API (and Ruby, or whatever language), but it would be unrelated to the main work they're doing and probably lag behind since those languages are either little used or not used at all in house.
The news still seems largely contained to the tech circles, though the GoDaddy story managed to get a lot of press.
From everything that I've read and seen first hand in doing interviews, the reason for the major talent shortage is because FB, Goog, etc have first dibs on the best people. What I suspect is more likely is that their general interest primarily lies in languages other than Python.
Reading between the lines, Radical Honesty is a type of practice where one is constantly working to engage with every moment and every interaction, and not to always default to being "nice". Most people aren't aware of what they are thinking and how it shapes them. To be radically honest is a form of tapping into the mind stream and checking it.

Through being constantly aware of the mind's contents one is in a better position to elicit interesting relationships, beyond just mere niceties.
It is a very common problem in ad-supported content businesses. Reputable newspapers and magazines work hard to make sure advertising doesn't influence content but it's always a struggle.

For example, suppose that Coke buys $10m of ads a year. It's small money to Coke (with a $1.6bn ad budget) but that's 60% of Wikipedia's annual revenue. Then suppose that there's a press furor over the "Criticisms of Coca Cola article" and Coke threatens to withdraw their ads. It would be impossible for Wikipedia to be perfectly chill about maybe having to fire half their staff.

It might even be less direct than that. Might people make more content that garners high-paying ads, even if the quality is low? Could editors be tempted to make the content less accessible (or harder to tell apart from the ads) if that gets more click-throughs?

Accepting ads mean there is always a conflict of interest between getting paid and serving readers. Even if Wikipedians make the right decision 100% of the time, readers will still be more suspicious, and that's the last thing Wikipedia needs.
In my opinion, the quality of content on HN has plummeted since SOPA became an internet issue.

It is reminiscent of how the Digg community stopped caring about interesting stories and instead became wrapped up in its own cycles of bullshit, RIAA, Blu-Ray, iPhone, etc.
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> As it is with most things in life - you will not be given that for which you do not ask.

I agree with everything in your comment, but I would have emphasized that unlike women, men do not need to ask to be introduced to men, which is a major material advantage that men have in business over women. I do think it is awkward to have to ask for something like that.

In any case, it's great to get the word out there that this is something that women have to compensate for, both so men are aware of it and as a tip to women on how to get those male connections.
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I can definitely see the value in having a classroom setting learning environment. Sure some people can learn on their own, but there's quite a bit of noise out there in all the tutorials and how-tos.

If a $2800 course could filter all the crap out, teach the basics and get a beginner up to the level where a beginner can start teaching themselves then the $2800 is well spent.

Of course if the class doesn't follow through then it's just like most of the actual college courses I took - a waste of time.
I agree, but I think it's important to recognize that one of the disadvantages women have in business that they probably give off the impression "that furthering women in business is your #1 priority" simply by being women, and so, unlike men, they have to work to actively combat that presupposition.
That's been my armchair analysis of this. I was set to go on vacation, but it looks like I may scrap that and write a new frontend for our application and I'm trying to narrow it down between Ember and Backbone. I'd found something yesterday that would give you the KO style observables in a light standalone library, though the name escapes me now. Maybe it+Backbone.js is the most versatile?
As I'm currently in the middle of a research project on password security, I downloaded the passwords and had a look. I'm beginning to believe that you should just assume that if your site does not have any password creation rules, it will be hacked soon.

The specialforces password dataset contains passwords like "post"-- four lowercase letters found in any English dictionary, and even matches part of the email (@post.ca.gov) for the user. If a site lets you choose this as your password do not give your credit card info to that site, simple as that. A site that is built by someone who is so unaware of the basics of password security is likely following other insecure practices as well, like storing your data in plaintext and not properly sanitizing user input.

All the major recent attacks (phpbb, singles.org, rockyou, battlefield heroes beta, faithwriters, and now specialforces) have had this same glaring issue in common. In reality, if these sites are letting users choose any password then for the majority of users you might as well just store them in plaintext. Most users (70-90%), if left to their own discretion will choose a 6 or 7 character password with all lowercase letters, meaning it will be trivial to crack even if it's hashed and salted.
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Has anyone watched Kathy Griffin? It's like watching this principle in action. I have a friend who similarly has very little filter, though her heart is incredibly huge. She still runs into problems with it, but she styled her life as to also include radical acceptance and live at the point where she doesn't regret what she says.

It's fascinating to watch up close. I wouldn't suggest it to the average entrepreneur, however, because your silence and overstating/understating can be a large asset, especially when you have a reputation for being truthful.
Is this true even when using a third party payment provider like Stripe or Paypal?
Occupy Wall St. arguably didn't do much to affect Washington, or the regulations that affect the firms that protesters were blaming.

I'm not experienced in these matters, but it seems to me like a wiser alternative would be to found some kind of Tech Lobby that advocates for policies that benefit the internet in Congress and educates members of Congress about the internet.
I've paid far more for far less training in certain areas.

People who do ruby professionally have a culture problem.
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It's the idea of simultaneous transactions that makes it riskless. Whether millisecond forex trades can be modeled as "simultaneous" is another question.
I refused to deal credit card based payments b'c of chargebacks risks. With chargebacks, the credit card company will always side with their customers, often leaving the seller with no recourse to retrieve the money or the item sold.

In addition, there are enough scammers lurking around on craigslist that I didn't want to expose myself to those kinds of risks.

I was also buying/reselling items with fairly low-margins. Credit card processing companies e.g. square, paypal, etc. will only eat away at whatever little profit I was making at the end of the day.
$2,000 Macbook, $800 chair, no one bats an eyelash.

$2,800 to learn the skills that justify the Macbook and chair, and it's offensive.
Google is very unusual as ad-supported businesses go.

Most ads are distractions from content. At Google, because you are actively looking for something, people are much happier to get ads. Especially relevant ones, which Google has invested a zillion dollars in being able to do well. Google also has incredible power to shape the market, so they can get away with forcing ads to be in a form that users like, rather than one that advertisers love.

Google has a further advantage: people generally trust them, even thought they don't know how things work. The general public is much more skeptical of Wikipedia, partly because it's so open.
How many of these offended developers paid 30k for a C.S. degree?
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No, having fixed prices with a spread is market making. Taking other peoples offers is not market making.