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Machine guns are designed for military use, which I called out as an exception (because the military is generally not legally liable when they use their weaponry). I would be interesting in seeing some statistics on how people use their handguns. Many I know use them for recreational shooting, but store them for use in emergency. Many carry them on their person with the claim that it is for personal defense. I've only personally known one friend who had a chance to use his handgun in self defense, and he was too scared to draw so he just handed over his wallet. Many times a handgun is simply a deterrent, not meant to be fired.

Anecdotes aside, deer hunting is not the only form of hunting. Boar hunting with pistols is common. Small game hunting with .22 pistols is common. Deer hunting with long barrel .44s and .45s is not unheard of, though not necessarily legal in every state. Handguns aren't something I personally agree with very strongly, though. I don't like easily concealable weapons.
Great interview.

Patrick and the other Slackers always have done a great job with this distro, and I've been a satisfied user since the fall of '93. (Except for having to pull all those blasted floppies down over a 14.4kb v.32bis modem, and praying the line didn't drop.)

I've always told people that if you just want to run Linux, get Ubuntu; but if you really want to LEARN Linux, run Slackware.
Yes, information does make people happy. And my point is that a message that says "this site is hosted at Heroku" gives absolutely zero information to the vast majority of internet users. Most people simply don't know what that phrase means. It's no different than if someone suggested a new feature that is only visible for Opera users. It's just a waste of time and effort to do something that caters to such a small sliver of the market.

Also, a Heroku-specific error page would give zero help to the problem you describe above. Anecdotal evidence in this thread suggests Heroku sometimes goes down briefly for small chunks of its users. So if you see the Heroku error, it could be for just you. Or it could be system-wide outage. It wouldn't even solve that problem!
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How did you know you were cracked?
Yes, I saw that. I'm hoping Proxino will add more structure to that data and ways to interact with it.
Just be careful how you explain yourselves to the border staff at the country you're visiting.

If you tried this as a non American going to the US to work on your startup and you told the truth, expect to be on the next flight back.
Is a 10.5 hour work day normal at Google? These seem like startup/finance hours. I hope the author is getting paid well.
I'm sorry, I edited my comment (the broken zone is more troubling to me than the impetus for using it) and made yours look out-of-place. You responded to something accurate the first go, and I agree with you.
Patches welcome.
> If you had a setup with a hosted machine at Rackspace and the power goes out, you don't expect a custom error. So why would you expect one from Heroku?

Because you pay them to be a platform? (As apposed to paying rackspace for some hardware to run things youself)
Yeah sure, bcrypt(salt, md5/sha1(password)) is in general less "secure" than bcrypt(salt,password)#, it's still more secure than md5/sha1(password).

# Note though, that you need at least 20 printable ascii chars to get the 128 bits of entropy possible in an MD5 hash, so for _most_ passwords, you could optimize your cracker by only bruteforcing bcrypt(salt, md5/sha1(password)) using shorter strings as password guesses rather then needing to bruteforce the whole 128 bit MD5 space. With bcrypt and salt though, that turns into an "only practical for state-level attacker" I think.
Oh wait John does talk about focus! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYa8kirsUfg#t=7m32s

He seems to have not heard of the latest Volumetric 3D display technology: "time-multiplexing": http://bankslab.berkeley.edu/projects/projectlinks/fastswitc... (the bottommost diagram, labeled "Switchable lens volumetric display.", made practical in 2008. The diagram labeled "Illustration of 3 mirrors display" is a bulkier 2004 technology.)
and this affects startups how?
I think it is likely that both Apple and Microsoft will be around 50 years from now, so they will serve as reminders of their founders. For example, JP Morgan Chase still survives today to remind us of JP Morgan.

I don't think Steve Jobs will be remembered as a business entrepreneur, he will be remembered as an innovator or inventor, similar to Thomas Edison. Edison "invented" (in reality, oversaw the mass commercialization of) many of the technologies that became the building blocks of the industrial revolution. Jobs "invented" (in reality, oversaw the mass commercialization of) many of the technologies that became the building blocks of the information revolution.

Accurate? No, not really, but the popular perception of Edison is not accurate either. These are the modern myths of America, and myths are not remembered for their accuracy.
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I know this is likely going to be better than "other options in Australia", and I respect their efforts for making this happen, but that's not my point. I was comparing "options in Australia" to "options in the rest of the world".

The same happens with a lot of different things, such as the cost of computer hardware/software, furniture/home appliances, cars, etc. Occasionally it's possible to work around it: I buy most of my gadgets from Amazon or other US/EU online retailers, and even with international shipping it's cheaper than buying locally. Unfortunately we often get hit hard on the larger, more expensive items that are impractical to import: IKEA furnitures cost 3x as much as in the US, cars 2x as much.
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I can't patch your registrar misconfiguration, but, thanks for the response.
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Hey, another SKS hunter! Besides a 30.06, that's hands down the best hunting rifle I've ever used. It doesn't have the range or stopping power of a 30.06, but it's so much more reliable. If you need to get two or three shots out (depending on how many licenses you have) at a herd of deer... the SKS has never let me down when it comes to dropping my limit in a single morning. I've had the 30.06 jam up far too often.

Back at the handgun comment further up the discussion, my grandpa used to carry a .22 pistol with him hunting in case the deer was wounded but not dead. I don't care much for pistols though.
Yes, fixing this is high on my todo list. I chose to launch first anyway. You know, MVP and all that ;)
Don't use ASP.NET membership? I can't get over how much effort they put into MVC ASP.NET and they still carry that cludgy mess around.
Ask HN: Most impressive chatroom features?
Are there any chatroom products that you find very impressive and elaborate? (I already know of Campfire.)
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Like many Cloud platforms it's a way to charge you by the minute for what the rest of us get for a flat monthly payment.
That's because before the Southern Strategy the Republicans were to the left of today's Democrats.
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That annoys me too. Also the cryptic error messages, the Windows client is (I assume) for people that aren't all that familiar with git and would prefer a UI so when my commit fails and I get an error message that a) when googled produces 0 results b) doesn't link to a help doc and c) has "open shell" as the solution it's very frustrating.
Not at all, it's accurate. We're going to stack another $5 trillion on in the next four years.

Since when are facts sensationalist bullshit?

From this day four years ago to now, we've added roughly $5.89 trillion to the public debt ($9.869t to $15.765t), and that doesn't count all of our liabilities, that's merely a fraction of it represented by the so called "public debt."

I'd love to see the math on how you propose we ever pay back the $11 trillion in new public debt added from 2008 to 2016/17. Clinton ran the biggest surplus we've had in a very long time ($236b), and it was fake, because it didn't include the money borrowed from inbound Social Security money for the non-existent trust. If we could magically run that Clinton surplus rate from 2017 to 2102 (about 85 years), we'd finally pay off the $20 trillion in public debt we're going to have four years from now. That assumes we never once slip up again, and constantly pay $236 billion per year strictly toward only the public debt.

So, a mere 100 years of record surplus' ought to do the trick.
you really need more than 5 rounds to take down a single buck?

I have an SKS with 5 rounds in it. I don't need 5 to take down one, but it's not uncommon to fire two or three shots at once. It's nice to know that if you do that, there's still two or three left if the herd swings back around.

Other than that, 5 rounds is the smallest magazine they make. Bolt-action is a great detriment when it comes to hunting.
giant comma:

<a>,

cut off right side of picture:

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text overlay:

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Is this to say what matters in terms of the response you get is which DNS server you query? And consequently whoever controls that server?

You run your own .arpa zone for 10. So you control the PTR responses for 10.0.0.1 that are directed to your home DNS server?

Isn't it true that anyone can download a copy of .arpa zone for the public address space? You could load this into your .arpa zone on your home DNS server. Couldn't you shave off a few queries out to the internet for each PTR lookup that way?

Running a home DNS server sounds like a smart idea. You say "nothing is to stop...", and due to the "rules" allowing out-of-bailiwick delegations that's true (and also a source of some annoying side effects: cache poisoning, extra queries if glue is ignored, etc.), but what if you designed a DNS server to only query authoritative servers? Then getting the right response would become just a matter of selecting the proper authoritative server from a list, verifying you are actually connecting to that server and then securing the connection from tampering, right? DNSSEC wouldn't address those needs, would it?

Anyway, running your own DNS server sounds like a smart idea.

No spammy web pages like OpenDNS?

Do you connect to your home DNS server while you're staying at hotels to avoid paywalls? If these devices were not crippled maybe you could travel with a good /etc/hosts file with all your important websites listed.
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Hell, the people I know who don't work for the government scare me with the kind of advanced research they do. And if it was government funding they might farm out to the private sector if there was more advanced research there with this kind of attack vector in mind.
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If you are building a PhoneGap application, why would you need:

-moz-transition: opacity .15s ease-in-out;
transition: opacity .15s ease-in-out;

A PhoneGap app runs in a Webkit view on both iOS and Android.
On that note — avoid Yellow Cab. They don’t give a hoot about either customers nor cab drivers.
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Too late for me but perhaps some other developers can be su* I mean persuaded to use their stuff.
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>Gamers have shown that they are willing to pay a whole entire dollar per game for some of the absolute best indie games released in recent years.

That assumes that people don't already own some of the games, and that they actually want all eight of the games. For instance, I already own Braid, Limbo and Psychonauts (and paid $10+ for each of them), so when the bundle came out I paid my $10 for Bastion and Sword and Sorcery (and I was only really interested in Bastion). Of the additions announced today, I already own Braid and SMB.

I think it's a lucrative week for the devs, but I think a bigger issue is that when you offer games so cheaply you significantly reduce your potential purchasing base for the future when you essentially give it away. That being said, I've seen plenty of stats which show game sales slow to a crawl very quickly unless you push it up with significant sales - it's not like 'work' software where a big sale can significantly decrease your perceived value (imagine if Adobe sold it's Creative Suite for 75% off once a year - no one would ever purchase at full price again!). Gamers are an impatient bunch and are prepared to pay full price for something they're really excited for.

You have to try and find out whether the increased volume generates more volume than it potentially removes in lost future sales, and I tend to think that it does - especially for games like Bastion which had a huge marketing effort when they were on Xbox Live Arcade which would have given them a lot of full-price exposure.
The comments on the listing might explain why they haven't gotten any bids. 37Signals seems to be relying on their name to sell Sortfolio as opposed to using best practices for selling sites on flippa. They haven't provided any traffic/revenue proof, responded to questions, or put any visible effort into the sale beyond listing it. Sounds like they aren't too serious about selling it on flippa.com.
My question is; Is there a solution here?

This will only become an arms race, or skipping that entirely; the web will just be a destructive place. Another battlefield. Where in the history of civilization can we pull similarities and find a solution?

As the facts appear today; someone (or group, or government) attacked someone else (or group, or government) abusing a mechanism millions upon millions rely upon. Now the instructions to mimic that abuse is in the hands of another malignant.

How have we avoided this in the past?
That is just an awesome story. Goes to show that one of the most important things a new business should provide is unbelievably good customer service.
I think you might need to read this: http://www.geekwire.com/2011/experiments-video-game-economic...

Deep discounts don't "devalue" games, they bring in massive increases in revenues when done correctly. For example, in a particular experiment that Valve performed a 75% reduction in price resulted in a factor of 40 increase in gross revenues. It's hard to argue with numbers like that.
Reminds me of a support call with Ruth in Idaho years ago. It didn't result in $4M, but it wasn't small potatoes either.

Like Bob, she was new to computers. I spent 10 hours over 2 days walking her thru the basics of using a computer so she could use our insurance company software. She was very thankful.

So thankful she sent me a box containing ... two giant Idaho potatoes, nearly a foot long each.

I said it wasn't small potatoes.
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You know St. Paul? I was an atheist.

God says...

pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of mine heart I
have willingly offered all these things: and now have I seen with joy
thy people, which are present here, to offer willingly unto thee.

29:18 O LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep
this for ever in the imagination of the thoughts of the heart of thy
people, and prepare their heart unto thee: 29:19 And give unto Solomon
my son a perfect heart, to keep thy commandments, thy testimonies, and
thy statutes, and to do all these things, and to build the palace, for
the which I have made provision.

29:20 And David said to all the congregation, Now bless the LORD your
God.

And all the congregation blessed the LORD God of their fathers, and
bowed down their heads, and worshipped the LORD, and the king.

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God says...
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For one, salts prevent using rainbow tables. A random combination of hashes with tweakable knobs, or whatever his suggestion is, is just a complicated way of salting except you have the possibility of weakening your function if you don't know what you are doing (as another has already mentioned, the unexpected behaviour of combining DES should be remembered).
Non-cash economies would be my answer. Find business models that don't rely on consumers having access to money, unless you are providing necessities. Say said it best: when there's not enough cash available to satisfy desires, people find ways around it. If you can arrange to be that way, you can still profit.

As for investments, pick your index, close your eyes to the ups and downs and pray someone in government realizes that when people are willing to give you a negative real interest rate you should take their money and do something productive with it.
Have to second this. I've never really had any issues with GD's CS. Fast and responsive. Too bad their policies are so horrid :(
The reason they don't allow special characters is to prevent situations where the customer has forgotten his password and needs to go through an excruciating verification process to access his own account.
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This needs a few more upvotes and comments. This is a gem.
I think you could replace Passive Income with anything really. It's anything a person has decided will help them escape their situation and person.
I think you're right about how awful the content has gotten here.
Oldie but goodie. Excellent non-biased paper on using PHP for large sites. Please share your thoughts and experiences.
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How on earth do I have a "pat-us-on-the-head" attitude?

You're just infusing your comments with what I think is political (possibly Ron Paul-esque) rhetoric without understanding how monetary policy transmission and Fed lending works even when I am trying to explain the thing and providing verifiable facts.

I have nothing to say about schools of macroeconomic thought because then you are very likely to turn this in to a political issue (given that you consider fractional-reserve banking as "infinitely" leveraged) and HN isn't the right forum. I have my views but I'll keep them to myself.

Edit: Also, the Fed isn't "taking out" trillions out of the economy. Neither did it inject trillions into the economy. It is just swapping one sort of asset with another to ensure that liquidity, as a whole, remains constant. During the crisis, it swapped out non-performing assets (illiquid) with plain cash (liquid).

When the economy fares better and appetite for credit-risk returns, the illiquid assets also become liquid with a much fairer valuation. Hence, now the Fed would swap out cash for these assets.
(The author of the software wrote a comment here: "So you're just here to shit on things?", which he has since deleted.)

I genuinely and honestly cannot log into your Gandi account and fix your nameserver delegation, so that means I'm just here to shit on things? That's a logical leap for you? You are delegating xip.io to a nameserver that is refusing queries for your zone; that's seriously broken and can result in resolution failures, making your clever hack worthless.

I don't know why I bother providing feedback, since people from your school of thought (I'm looking at the 37signals community as a whole, here, which you're being a shining steward of) just get defensive and take your software being broken personally. You wrote a poor DNS server. Read the spec, study BIND's or NSD's source to understand the years of work that went into this before you, and understand the problems I've pointed out. I just get annoyed when people flagrantly misimplement DNS, because that starts trends, like Heroku suggesting for a long time that you use a CNAME for @ (don't do that).

I'm not making this up: http://i.imgur.com/zFNkV.png
The Fed fires up funding bubbles by encouraging risk. It pushes capital out of low risk paper and into high risk speculation (startups, stocks, whatever).

It's why we saw incredible funding bubbles in the late 1990s, the mid 2000's, and just recently, all timed very well to the Fed encouraging risk booms through artificially low rates and other similar manipulation.

Understanding how the system functions, helps you understand the funding environment, which benefits anybody trying to work on a startup that has to concern themselves with financing. It's not ideal to overly focus on this of course, but it matters.
What other assets?

This is why we have a new tech bubble: everyone is scrambling for somewhere to put their money, but none of them are willing to put it in the hands of consumers, which is the only place it will do any good.

This is why people are buying Treasuries like they're crack. Elasticity approaches zero when there is no substitute good.
Not true -- people will remember Steve Jobs for his Pixar films. I also suspect that Bill Gates may be remembered more for his philanthropic work than his tech work if he can pull off something big. As for tech we still associate Edison with film and records, so Jobs and Gates may still have a shot at it.
As long as you are being honest with your customer and explain this somewhere.

The problem is one of expectations, if you don't say anywhere what have you prepared for and what are you going to do when something you didn't prepare for happens, you are misleading the customer, as they will rightly assume you have prepared for most ordinary things (heroku outage, for instance.)
Tweeting: Broadcasting messages on twitter.

Live-tweeting (see also live-blogging): Broadcasting messages on twitter in directly relation to and following the goings-on of the event you're currently participating in .

Livetweeting also has the ability to be a kind of note taking. If you've ever watched a live blog, it's the same concept, just with a shorter text field.

If you haven't and have no idea of the concept, here's a recent one:

http://live.cnet.com/Event/Googles_next_dimension_of_Maps_ev...

--

Tweeting: Wow this conference is boring as heck, and the food sucks too #firstworldproblems

Live-tweeting: Foonly just announced that the foomatic v2 will have high-speed backchannel integration! #foocon2012
Let's see if Jason actually follows through with shutting it down if it doesn't sell. Remember this? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3941626
There isn't a standard way right now, though we'd be happy to add that in! In the most manual case, we can give you any kind of database export you'd like.

Our goal is to make the data for a user owned by the user - so when you move from Fat Free CRM to Salesforce, your data follows you without any special config at all.

If anyone contacts us for a data export right now, we'll take care of it ourselves and send it over :)
Does that actually work? On my machine pow has ipfw configured so that it only forwards requests to 127.0.0.1 not to 10.0.1.whatever so project.10.0.0.5.xip.io fails.

Filed an issue: https://github.com/37signals/pow/issues/293

Edit: a) I should RTF man page for ipfw, b) nevertheless my OS X behaved strangely. I rebooted and now everything works.

Anyway, great project, have been a happy user of pow master for quite a while.
Nice, although were I to write one, I'd probably just use PowerDNS and its pipe backend. Probably only some 30 lines of Perl/Ruby/whatever. Example: http://wiki.powerdns.com/trac/browser/trunk/pdns/modules/pip...
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They blogged about the sale.

I think one of the bigger turn offs might be the fact that the new owner will have to get everyone to setup their payment method once they switch. Because the current payment system relies on 37Signal's own.