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Original discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3397810

Does HN find it acceptable to repost things like this? It's a slightly different format (link vs no link), but it seems rather quick to be reposting.
Amazon put out an update. Did you update yours or is it still wonky after that?
> He dismissed Javascript rather quickly without really explaining why.

Actually he did not, and visibly considered it a good contender, but wanted to look for other options before jumping to conclusions. In the end he simply did not go back to JS since Lua fit the bill.
It would have been nice if the submission title noted that this is from 2003.
I'd like to unpack that concept of "fear of success".

No one is likely to fear the commonly visualized trappings of success - money and material wealth, adoring fans, love pouring in from everywhere.

If people fear some aspects of success, they are likely to be things associated with visibility. Like the responsibility to keep executing and following up, the scrutiny, the potential for being a one hit wonder, the detractors and "haters".

But generally, "fear of failure" can be explained simply by ... fear of failure.
This post was created to generate controversy. Don't get sucked in.
Also, how do you distribute the basic materials to each home?

How do you print an ipad let alone a lithium ion battery pack without lithium?

You would need a true "universal assembler" convert one element into another. At that point...I don't think you are worrying about a "jobless" economy.
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They were all blocked on 23rd December and I think only for that day or may be two. Pretty old news actually ;)
In examples like this, is the web page containing the payment form within PCI scope?

I would hope you are at least required to perform PCI level security testing on the page, to ensure it doesn't contain any dodgy Javascript and the like (<script src="some-js-I-didn't-audit-which-steals-stripejs-card-data"...).

Likewise, as there's a webserver serving the page, presumably it must have some level of testing, to ensure it is unlikely to be serving compromised web pages?

As I understand the form in the example, if the user's browser has Javascript disabled, then the form submits the credit card number to the server - putting it in PCI scope(?)

<form action="/plans/browserling_developer" method="POST" id="payment-form">...<input type="text" size="30" autocomplete="off" class="card-number"/>...</form>

It would be interesting to know the PCI process for such a setup.
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Bluehost has a reputation of being crap. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1471861

http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=blu...
It's because tech-savvy people are smart enough to click the "No Thanks" link. ;-)
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Godaddy is now requiring a Photo ID for domain transfers
I believe (and this is my opinion) that a major cause of piracy is lack of access.

As demonstrated yesterday, in the thread about reading Godel, Escher, Bach.

A few people wished there were an ebook version of this to read on their Kindle, and a couple of others responded that there's a torrent on TPB for a PDF scan, and another linked to a direct download from one of those briefcase sites.

For my tastes, a PDF just isn't acceptable on Kindle either, but obviously the lack of a purchasable ebook has driven some number of people to alternate means.

I wonder if failing to open the catalog right away is teaching people how to pirate ebooks, and thus opening the door to future woes.
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I'm not using iOS, so I can't try it out, but a couple of thoughts.

1) You're not winning any customers with that home page. It looks like spam, and isn't especially attractive.

2) If you built it with PhoneGap, why is there only an iOS client?

3) How is this any different than twitpic?
As I understand Stripe, if a user doesn't have JS enabled you shouldn't be displaying the form. The idea is that the Stripe JS SDK pulls the values out of the form and then returns a tokenized representation of the payment which is processed on the backend. Thus the server never actually handles payment credentials directly, i.e. your cc and such are not POSTed to the backend. I think this is how they get around some of the more stringent PCI compliance requirements.
I've thought about excluding an employer from my resume. I left Google in April, worked at another company for 6 months, didn't like it and resigned, and started at Strava (which I'm loving) in November. I have a decision to make: do I include or omit the 6 month job on my resume?

A resume, and a LinkedIn profile, are about getting hired while telling the relevant truth. It's putting the relevant experience in front of the recruiter, interviewers, and hiring team. If I feel that I didn't learn much at the 6 month job, I may omit it - not to wipe my history, not to hide anything, but because I may conclude it's not useful or relevant to the hiring company.

Resumes should tell the truth. They should be trimmed to be most relevant. And maybe that's omitting irrelevant career experience.
I don't know if you have been keeping up with the pirating scene around ebooks but there are now torrents with massive libraries of high-quality, drm-stripped mobi (Kindle) files. It isn't all poorly formatted PDFs anymore.
It might also be that "in an ideal world nobody would be stupid enough," "an enormously stupid idea" and "most ridiculous bullshit in human history" aren't really arguments, and thus not really further the conversation.
In Stripe's official examples the credit card form elements don't have names so they don't submitted. According to them, the only thing you need to do for PCI compliance is use stripe.js in the browser over HTTPS.
Same discussion in Gmane:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.general/699983
until the attacker picks on your JSON parser or such, of course.

Adding a balanced tree does not touch on average-case performance in any meaningful way, which is why I'm advocating it.

Everyone is using simple hashes for hash tables in order to get very good average-case performance.

If you keep that fast hash function, and only go to a tree when getting pathological input, you'll be impervious. That was my meaning.
Very rough comparison, no metrics, inaccurate :(

I would love to see what not and whats for at least. Very little of that.
We've been working on this non-stop for six months... it's not just a landing page. We are are a fully functional ICANN accredited registrar. We offer domain registration/transfers, DNS hosting, WHOIS privacy, email forwarding, url forwarding, etc.
When you transfer your domain to another provider, the existing time is still on the domain and they are extended by another year.
I've been moving my domain away for months as they expire ... I have a few that are ready to expire and I waited for today to do it ... Plus I'm going to move a few other important domains before the expire today ... The rest wilt have to wait till cash flow changes ...
Short answer: No.

Long answer: The best you can do is delete all services on your account, delete your payment information, and trash the registered name and address.
Just store all the dates and times in UTC, then convert to local time
I'd love to, personally, but does anyone else feel like they're too busy working on their product to worry about this? Maybe in a month or two when our codebase is more stable.
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Interesting. :)

Any rulers out there want a calendar named after them?
Can anyone verify this is happening to them? I know that some TLD's have specific transfer requirements (like .org IIRC).

Edit: More info is here in the discussion:
http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/nuza8/godaddy_go...
I'd really like to see proof that it was made up. It sounds reasonable on its face, rogue elephants trampling crops and people isn't unheard of.
Specifically of the memoization technique known as dynamic programming.
> Yes, of course each one of edw519's bullet points refers to something important and true

Isn't edw519 making an error in his implied equivalence of the power relationship between the B.S. and whining of the dependent ones?
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The article has links to much fuller reviews of the distributions mentioned. This one is just an overview.
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The UK situation is a bit frustrating. Paper books do not have VAT, but ebooks do (and it's 20%).

I recognise that authors and publishers deserve a fair price for the product, but it's frustrating to find an ebook at £14 and the same print book at £11.

I agree about the convenience. I can either pirate a high quality movie and play it on whatever I like. Or I can wait for it to be released in my region (if ever), buy it on one format to watch it on TV or another to watch it on a laptop. (And watching some optical disc formats involve e breaking a different law about circumventing copy protection measures.) So, I pirate the movie and then rent it (if I didn't enjoy it that much) or buy it if it's good.

Rather than following the market -and the money- people are using weird measures to protect their product, not realising that they're doing nothing to prevent rampant pirates (who will always pirate, even if the product was a dollar and had no DRM) but they are also alienating some existing customers.
You aren't allowed to use fake whois information in accordance with ICANN.
Thank you for denigrating everyone who chooses not to do business with a reprehensible company as a "snob or hipster", jerk. Go read their ToS. They suck for more reasons than the one everyone is talking about now.
I don't mean to offend or spam. We just removed the "invite-only" aspect about an hour ago and are now launching to the public. It seemed like a "Show HN" was appropriate.
And another one from Google: There's no reason to delete things, ever.
Seems quite spammy.
Changed. Figured that the time it would have taken to write up something about people being able to look past racial slurs blah blah blah was more than just "fixing" it.
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same way, why not charge $5 per month for facebook? paid users see no ads, their info would not be sold to anyone etc etc. If 1/8th of the people pay, that would be around 500 mil per month (assuming 800 mil members).

I don't think either of these ideas would work though.
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You would probably do exactly what people who are born on February 29 do.
I've got a few servers personally that I run, all are either Debian or Ubuntu. That's what I run on my laptop and desktop, so it makes it easier for me to develop locally.

With virtualenv, github, fabric, etc., deploying isn't as much of a challenge as it used to be, but I like to keep it as straightforward as possible.

For the day job, we use RedHat Enterprise, because our target market is enterprise, and that's the most widely accepted Enterprise Linux distro in the enterprise.

I'm not a particularly big fan of RH-based distros, but I vastly prefer RH to Solaris or Windows, so I count my blessings.
It would have to be to someone that you know and don't mind being exposed to said domain as in accordance with ICANN you can't use fake whois information.
/thanks, found it! Cannot believe I did not see it there earlier.

Though I do not expect it to work after importing… …I have A LOT of feeds -- I see the subscription titles showing but it seems to be stuck on "refresh" right now…
thanks for the answer, that's great news!
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The most interesting bit here is that Amazon is finally releasing (some) numbers.

1m/week is very good, but weren't they already expecting to sell 5M Kindle Fires alone this year?

Amazon could get away no or sparse data with the eInk Kindles. Now they're competing in the tablet (which is according to some, a PC) market, that kind of secrecy won't work in the same way.
I never really put much thought into my registrar before. Godaddy had everything I needed at a good price. They were also big enough that I was confident they wouldn't go belly up leaving me with a problem.
BlueHost doesn't rate all that badly on the shared hosting chart (I am tracking this data - they are 6 out of 19 among some of largest providers). That sort of behavior sounds like crap, but it happens to most of them because of the nature of shared hosting. I am not sure that half a day to get a SQL load under control is normal though. I've had hosts just suspend my account right away when I go over or they kill the offending script.
This problem is closely related to the Frobenius coin problem: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coin_problem

It's an interesting problem. My gut reaction was to solve X1 + X2 + (...) + X6 = 200; X1, ..., X6 < 0, which would be C(205, 200), but that ignores the denominations of each coin, so it doesn't really generate what you want.
Yes it is, and it has been for at least a year.
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I have one domain that I manage at GoDaddy, but actually belongs to the restaurant that my in-laws own. I will be moving it soon, but I don't have the time at the moment.
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Here's the Ars Technica article on the matter: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/12/umg-we-have-...

YouTube's statement was added as an update at the end of the article.
Whatever. I was just pointing out that Apple sells things that are much more expensive than what you get elsewhere. If you choose to read more into it than that, then go ahead and knock yourself out.
This can happen with any shared hosting environment. Bluehost is no exception.
Yes, sorry - I missed that part of the point. You can get usually get cheaper alternative accessories.
I won't because GoDaddy no longer supports SOPA.
I'd offer my opinion of this piece, but the irony overwhelms me.
I think the most obvious exploit path is using thousands of query parameters, which are inserted into an "array" in PHP.

An ini setting seems like a terrible and incomplete fix to the problem.
We backport new features, bug fixes, hardware "enablement" etc into the same kernel. We keep the kernel structures and kernel symbols compatible (actually there's a big whitelist of approved symbols that your kernel module is allowed to call and we guarantee those will stay the same).

The basic reason for this is so software vendors can write kernel modules for RHEL 6.0 which will be binary compatible with all future RHEL 6.x releases. (The kernel modules will need to be recompiled when RHEL 7 comes out).

This involves lots of careful review of backports to make sure (eg) that all kernel structures like task_struct stay compatible. I'm not involved with this directly, but all I can say is it's a pretty amazing achievement over a ~4-5 year development cycle and ~7-10 year update cycle.

I assume that we keep the kernel major.minor version the same to reflect this. 'Course the release number changes each time ...
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Ask HN: What's a great email deliverability service?
I currently have a web app that sends out a fair amount of (non-spam) email, and I'm finding that some of it is getting caught up in user's spam filters. I looked around for a solid email deliverability service, and found there were tons of choices out there. Would you guys recommend any particular service? Price, reliability and ease of integration would be my primary concerns.
Out of curiosity, would you call OS X "open"? You can find enough of the source for OS X to create a booting OS here: http://opensource.apple.com/ . Obviously, this isn't all of OS X, but then not all of the Android OS is "open" either.

I'm not trying to be contrarian, but I think the people criticizing Adroid for not being "open" are primarily picking on precisely the vagueness that you have highlighted. There are ways that Android is "open" that really matter...to you. For other people, there are ways that Android is not "open" that really matter. Just ask Stallman, for example.
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Remember back in the 70's and 80's before cable TV? We only had channels 3,6, and 7. We loved TV but couldn't stand the commercials every 5 minutes. The internet has turned into one big TV commercial. Websites are now 10% content and 90% ads. It is so sad that we let this get out of control. Don't get me started on social networking and how they exist to be the big TV commercial to make boatloads of cash.
First link I clicked on, got a JS "404" popup, immediately closed the page.
If you look past the catchy headline and put yourself in Apple's shoes, and try to understand their point of view as a design-focused firm, you can come up with a different analysis of the situation:

> the manufacturers on the losing end need only modify their design to get around the imposed restrictions.

And that's precisely the point for Apple.

> The problem is that many of Apple’s patents focus on look, feel, and design, which means they can be worked around, as in the cases mentioned above. As a result, Apple could have a hard time securing lasting, sticky restrictions that would permanently prevent its competitors’ products from being sold in individual markets, let alone worldwide.

And Apple doesn't care because that's not the point.

Despite the Jobs quote saying he wanted to sue Android out of existence, Apple does not really want to drive Android (nor other competitors) itself into oblivion, Apple wants people to stop copying their design. They want to force the copycats to differentiate, if not innovate.
Imagine living on a space ark. Any calendar would work, since there would be no incentive to line up with the motion of any particular planetary body.

Now, imagine we stopped caring about that anyway. Ok, leave days, but the rest? Superfluous. How about decimal time? 100,000 seconds in a day, count days and be done with it. When is Xmas? In 300 days.
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I'e never directly given a dime to Go Daddy, for domains or anything else.

I don't give a rip about the low-brow ads or the elephant hunting - I just don't like supporting businesses that operate like Go Daddy, and I certainly have no interest in trusting one as skeezy as them for something as critical as domain registration.
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Only one I really take issue with is:

> Nobody wants a [popular new product category that Apple doesn’t make yet].

To be honest, when you hear that from an executive at Apple, I believe they are being sincere. You have to understand that Apple does not think of the iPhone as "a cell phone that plays music" or the iPad as "a tablet computer" or the MacBook Air as "a netbook". Yes, this is parsing things rather finely, but if you think that doing so is somehow irrelevant, then I would assert that you don't understand Apple and the way they do things.
This can't be emphasized enough. For an experiment to be statistically valid, you have to run the experiment. Not part of the experiment. Not most of the experiment. The whole experiment.
> those with compilers/interpreters written in clean, cross-platform C should be straightforward options as well (e.g. GCC compilers).

C++ is essential for consoles (at least the 360) if you're not going the XNA route. Moreover, you have to compile with vendor-approved compilers, link with the vendor-provided libs and use approved graphics functions (e.g. DirectX on the 360).

Of course, many console games use Lua for scripting. LuaJIT, however, is not supported on consoles.
Any change you make to your contact details will lock your domain for another 60 days. That means, you will be stuck for another 60 days before you can transfer the name away from Godaddy.
http://help.godaddy.com/article/418 - Browse to the bottom and you can see it.
Celebrities may have brands built around them, but they are not simply brands. I know a lot of people who spend a significant amount of time talking to celebrities on Twitter, and they tend to draw that distinction too: If they perceive the celebrity is an interesting person, they'll interact. But if the celebrity just seems to be presenting a "brand," they're much more passive, because interacting with a brand tends to feel hollow.
The most recent one, the transition from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar, lasted for about 400 years, as different countries transitioned at different times, with, I'm sure, plenty of friction caused by the lack of synchronization.

Sure, but back then there wasn't even a globally recognised calendar. Nor did they have a near-instantaneous global communications network, or a global governing body such as the UN. These days, if the UN decided to take such a step, they could give 10 years advance notice, and on the decided day everyone would just flick the switch. We've already shown that w are capable of managing this sort of change when we went through the y2k "bug" without any major dramas, despite this requiring a large percentage of the world's information systems needing to be updated / tested. So I personally wouldn't anticipate any significant friction after the UN signed-off.
Share how many domains you're transferring/transferred from GoDaddy
just curious, where do you get updates for book recommendations or updates ?
No. Because I do not confuse consumerism with political action. Time spent moving domains from Godaddy in hopes of some indirect impact on SOPA would be better spent upon swaying my congressional representatives directly...despite the popular wisdom, they represent me within our political system, not various corporations.

To put it another way, moving domains as a way of expressing displeasure over SOPA legitimates the very logic which created it; that internet users in the US are merely consumers, not citizens. Move your domain day id premised on the idea that consumer choices are our most effective political act and accepting that premise is done at the peril of losing our legitimate political power.

supreme executive authority derives from a mandate from the people, not some farcical shopping ceremony to paraphrase Dennis.
just curious, where do you get updates for book recommendations or updates cuz that one is my favorite ?
Maybe they're referring to the $_POST array? You can't fix that in your app code.
Agreed, however I've been feeling for a while that Red Hat is becoming the new Solaris. Everything takes twice as long and is a couple revs out of date when compared to other distros.

I've been struggling to find the value in their services to justify this trade off.
If you watched the original un-cut video, you would've seen the hungry villagers in Godaddy T-shirts and Caps skinning and chopping the elephant. That was disgusting. He thought of making it as a campaign, but when it backfired, they edited the video,
Views are the reflection of the light at the end of the tunnel, but solve less than half the problem to date. Views work on SELECT, but not on UPDATE/INSERT/DELETE.

Also, what makes you say that database as an integration layer should always be avoided?
Also, I meant to say thank you as well. I would like to avoid offending anyone with variable name choices. So, thank you for pointing that out.
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