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Trust that people won't commit felonies is one thing. But businesses don't win over customers that way.

All business is about establishing trust. But standard practice in business is never to expose yourself to undue risk. The business side of ride sharing just doesn't compute, because the benefits don't outweigh the risks of letting someone else drive your car in exchange for money.

Businesses carry insurance, and they operate under a completely different tort of liability. A well operated business will never risk sending employees to jail because a car they rented crashed. They may be fined, but you would need to prove willful negligence to get a criminal charge.

On the other hand, lending your car out as a individual exposes you to massive civil and potentially criminal liability. You don't have to literally booby-trap your car to be charged, you could be charged merely for a component failing at the wrong moment (hindsight is 20/20, and juries are people).
Comodo's DNS.com appears to be down too.
Interesting to watch the color gamut open up as color printing technologies improve over time. Blue/Cyan is the hardest pigment to work with, and you can see the blue-range grow over time as the technology to support it improves.
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Is there a technical reason why Akamai don't support this yet?

It seems that it would be in their interests to improve this. Both for a better experience for users and lower latencies from their point of view.

Or is it just that they're big, and it's a complex change?
Really? Reading your comment I realized that I just naturally I assumed Bill wasn't his real name.
It lacks the great Monty Python references, though...
This is not new, my packaged app has been in market for a long time now. The APIs are always developing. Such apps have been possible for some time now.

A shameless plug https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/fddboknafkepdchido...

edit: to be precise, my app is almost a year old and the packaged app stuff was there even before that. And in chrome world, twelve months is a very long time.
For what it's worth, I can confirm the site does indeed load properly in iOS 6.
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I understand things happen, but this is a huge outage for a DNS service.

What makes it much worse is the lack of communication or updates from them. They have intermittently posted on their status site or twitter account, but not once responded to any support request I have made (attempted phone, email and twitter).

I would recommend avoid them. Things happen, it's how you deal with them that matters and in my opinion that's where they have failed.
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I agree, the survivor bias in the startup world is intense. We're always focusing on the success stories and replicating what they did. But, like you say, for every "toiled away and finally made it" story, there are probably 5? 10? 100? "toiled away and still got nowhere" stories.

As someone who has written a little about trying and failing[1][2], I'll say that the community doesn't exactly embrace such stories. Instead, everyone piles on to armchair quarterback and tell you what you did wrong.

But, to anyone who is serious about succeeding, you need to listen and learn from both the successes and the failures. Otherwise, you're operating on far less than half the story.

[1] http://blog.aisleten.com/2009/04/06/what-we-did-to-not-get-i...

[2] http://peachshake.com/2011/07/20/entrepreneurship-stumbling-... (go about 10 minutes in to hear about failure)
Actually, here in Belgium my carsharing service (Cambio) tries very hard to aim at businesses too, although more for traffic between work and home/station than business trips. Since most private use is in the evening or at the weekend, this is an obvious way for them to crank up usage per car.
Wow, I was surprised on how realistic that was. Maybe I should watch the movie after all.
Yes, I've experienced the same when I began running. This is equivalent to a junior developer spouting out code without thinking. It's not only the act of actually physically typing the code, but the thought process involved - juniors are not able to think before they type. I'd argue that people like in the article have written more code, have spent more thinking, debugging and maintaining code than a huge, huge majority of "modern day hackers" ever will, in 21st century. They focused at the task at hand, and became extraordinary good at it.
I clicked the link last night, played with it a little, and liked some of the features, especially the column view.

I clicked on it this morning and it loaded the welcome article on the right and html on the left. Good shit!
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I would say the color gamut has narrowed recently.

Really good blog post on Hollywood going mad with teal and orange: http://theabyssgazes.blogspot.ie/2010/03/teal-and-orange-hol...
>"tweeting a picture of themselves with their new investors, M.C. Hammer or Ashton Kutcher."

Has no one else picked up that the only reason Arrington responded was because Bilton very obviously was taking a stab at MA in his Techrunch days. Who else was proudly posting pics and tweets about MC Hammer at the TC after parties, or blasting TC headlines about Kutcher being at an event.
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Actually, romans were usually tolerant of other religions. Yes, some religions were persecuted, but that was usually due to political reasons. Many (most?) christians were persecuted not for not following official religion but for creating unrest and speaking against Rome.
This took down services like Fogbugz on demand.
Sounds like there's a need for a meta-like system which would then allow you to give more or less weight to a friend's tastes.
Doesn't have to be his real name; how many employees were scheduled sometime during the last 2 months to have appointments at 9 at a building called 'Milago'?
The issue with Pakistan is that there are a number of competing elements within the government and military. Some are sympathetic to American interests, some are hostile. Sme sympathetic to al-Queda, some afraid of radicalized Islam.

Parts of the ISI, their counterpart to the CIA, helped foster terrorist training camps in Afghanistan with the aid of American weaponry and money during our covert push against the Soviets. This was partly done so that fighters trained in those camps could then be shipped to Kashmir to do battle against the Indian army in that region.

Pakistan is a very difficult topic. I recommend two books by Steve Coll to understand it better, "On the Grand Trunk Road" and "Ghost Wars," two fascinating books on the recent history of this region. I recently read both and they're worth your time.
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I immediately starting scanning the colors to see if this blog post from a couple of years ago was vindicated about all movies being teal and orange:

http://theabyssgazes.blogspot.com/2010/03/teal-and-orange-ho...

It is.
Not only this is from 2010, but I also don't understand the point. It states "he solution would be to use your ISPs DNS server rather than these Global providers." But this is only true if you are a strictly local website (how many of those are there?).

From what I saw, if you are receiving traffic from different Geo-locations (as most do) you should stick with Global providers.

He should be comparing the same ISP for all cases (not changing each time to another local ISP).
Completely bypassing any standards bodies, as usual, I assume. No thanks.

I'll stick to the browser made by a foundation, not a for-profit company trying to gain control over the web. I remember IE6.
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To that note, is there a page listing out all of these settings overrides? I'm thinking we could each have our own versions of .vimrc for JSBIN :-P
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As a stopgap measure, use something like https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere/ to force SSL for HN. There's even a rule by default iirc in this one for HN.
I don't usually do this, but I am genuinely curious about this happening. At about 10:31 BST this morning the following item was submitted (not by me):

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4280213

It quickly gained an additional 5 upvotes, and I was looking forward to the HN community's discussion, because I am about to revamp a certain site, and was looking to see what people thought about the specifics listed on that page.

It got to number 7 on the front page at about 11:10. Then it disappeared. It's now down between 900 and 950 or so. Yes, I went and checked.

I was disappointed - I always look forward to in-depth and/or illuminating discussions on HN - but more than that, I'm really curious to know why this item has been flagged so heavily, or, alternatively, buried by the moderators/admins.

So please, here it is again. You're (obviously) free to flag it again if you feel the need, but please, let me know why.

Thanks.

Added in edit: If you upvote this submission then you should probably go upvote grn's original: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4280213 .
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It would help to test your code before posting it. You haven't imported javax.crypto.Mac, so it won't compile.

Also, your conversion from strings to bytes and back is just wrong - this will not work as expected when run on machines with a different platform encoding. This is a real problem when writing security code - I've seen code that attempted to get the bytes from passwords on a japanese website in ISO-8859-1, effectively making all passwords of the same length the same value.

// get bytes in UTF-8 - always supported in java
// as its specified in the JLS, and supports every
// code point that can appear in the string
byte[] secretByte = macKey.getBytes("UTF-8");
byte[] dataBytes = macData.getBytes("UTF-8");
SecretKey secret = new SecretKeySpec(secretByte, "HMACSHA256");
mac.init(secret);
byte[] doFinal = mac.doFinal(dataBytes);
// Hex supplies a method to get a string directly. Use it.
String checksum = Hex.encodeHex(doFinal);
Ask HN: Anyone making a living from  Desktop apps?
is there such thing still developers that make desktop apps and making a living out of it ? that is i guess indie small teams not the big companies like adobe
It's not all harmless roses. I lost my job two months ago because I asked in the performance review to be able to do the job that I signed up to do, and that we agreed on the position description terms in an update six months previously.

With no functional receptionist (we kinda had one, but she was always offsite or legitimately busy elsewhere), my day was interrupted more and more and I couldn't focus on my actual role. I was told that my role now includes general reception, and I refused to take this unilateral change. This was an issue that I was always careful to diplomatically make them aware of prviously, so it's not like they were blindsided. That was the end of my employment there.

My circumstance was a little unusual, but seriously, it's not as feelgood or harmless as it sounds to 'just ask for it'. I wasn't even asking for more money. I was asking to do my job as agreed upon in the countersigned job description. And this was at a generally ethical workplace that just had a cashflow and hence staffing numbers problem.
Yeah, my sentiments exactly! And I kept hearing about how google plus is a great blogging platform, it really doesn't seem like it.
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"Debuggers are not like washing machines where you can throw in your code and some soap, go get some coffee and watch TV, and then 30 minutes later the defect is removed."
IMHO this first sentence shows that the author has a false perception of what should a debugger do.
Above all a debugger is a tool to find bugs in your code, not a box fixing things with magic.
Having used extensively the Perl debugger (while debugging Perl, of course), I hardly see any other way to get shit done : you can put breakpoints in your code, see the value of your variables, and so on... largely more effective than putting print statements on the wild, or calling Data::Dumper.
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Going on 8 hours of Zerigo's downtime I've had to move all of our Zerigo DNS to DNSMadeEasy. It's a shame, because I really, really like Zerigo, especially their API.

Shit happens, but 99.9% (8 hours a year of downtime) is completely unacceptable for a DNS provider.
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I think Vegas is the exception, to be honest. And it's ruined my perception! Before I was old enough to visit the casinos, I assumed they all served free drinks. I've never experienced it (though 90% of my trips are within Canada).
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Well, that explains why my wife woke me up complaining about half the internet not working. Our ISP is 3 (drei.at) and she was using their DNS, guess there are issues all over Europe.
A bit of biz feedback, as e-readers with locked-in formats become the norm (ebooks are now outselling physical books I believe), where do you see the opportunity for growth in your site?

Though I agree with nagarch about design, I don't think the design is THAT horrible. You've done a fine copy of pintrest. As a UX is just might not fit this use-case very well.

But if you're looking to build a business of this, make sure you've got a big enough opportunity.

Also, the price on books seems to only be a dollar here and a dollar there. Is this a big enough difference for people to leave their regular bookstore?
Certainly still an option. There's a long history of folks like that, the market for e.g. Mac apps was if anything helped by the launch of the Mac app store (some devs more than others, long story, ask them for the specifics). I could give you two dozen examples from my social circles but most of them would not appreciate the publicity.

That said: can I talk you out of it? I've done both, and from a business perspective doing it as a web app is a MUCH better option.

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2009/09/05/desktop-aps-versus-web-a...
Ric Richardson reaction to negative press on Uniloc vs Majong
> People are mentioning Fluid and Prism, but nobody is mentioning HTML Applications http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML_Application.

Or ios's "Add to HomeScreen" alongside "Offline Web Applications"[0], which I believe has been there since the first iphone.

[0] http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/...
I run a DNS hosting service (SlickDNS, www.slickdns.com) and have seen a spike in signups today as a direct result of the Zerigo DDOS attack.

I can't claim that SlickDNS is invulnerable to DDOS attack, but FWIW it does run tinydns name servers which have good performance and excellent security. So if you're impacted by the Zerigo outage, feel free to check out SlickDNS. There's a 30-day free trial with all plans and record updates are pushed through to all the name servers in under 5 seconds.
Here's some Slashdot Moderators talking about the fact they didn't delete it:

http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/wzmdu/censored_s...
Ask HN:Does being a polyglot(programmer) helps improve coding?
The advantages of bilingulaism has been a topic of much research. Eg.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/18/opinion/sunday/the-benefits-of-bilingualism.html?_r=1. I held the opinion that learning french might not help me write better english?

Learning french might provide its own learning experience and probably few cells in the brain will get activated making it sharper. My question is does learning two prog. languages help coders write better code?

Can the same concept be extended to programming languages as well? Can learning java help you write better C code?
Here is a personal experience from a friend of mine:

"I spend years trying to understand C pointers in vain, and only understood them after I learn Java. People say Java has no pointers. Actually every (non primitive) var in Java is a pointer, which references and derferences automatically."

Say i am a django developer and i learn RoR can learning RoR help me improve the django code i write or are they mutually exclusive.

What does the community think of it.

Thanks.
«All of which leaves just one question: what has the W3C ever done for us?»

It has given us good specs fixed in stone you could develop against and be sure that your code could still work in the next decade, thing XML or XSLT. Stable specs are also good for legislators and regulators, for they have the ability to pinpoint names and versions like "The minimum accessibility level for public websites is WCAG 2.0 level AA" instead of "all public websites must have a minimum level of accessibility".

We can debate whether the W3C model is good for a spec like HTML that is subject to so many business interests, but what standardisation model has been good for many other specs.
I actually have no idea about patents, I always hear bad things about them. Can anyone tell me if the founder of Uniloc is fundamentally wrong? He does seem to have a point (to my untrained eye)
Standards bodies are meant to formalize technology that already exists. Good luck getting a standards committee to innovate and come up with new features.

(BTW, IE gave us XmlHttpRequest. It was not introduced by a standards body. )
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Sounds good... but do you have a REST API? That's the primary reason I chose Zerigo in the first place.
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Because I think it's cleaner having it as the third argument on events instead of having a large list of stuff in _.bindAll in initialize (and additionally, I've found it simpler to explain it to others, but I don't know why). I think it's just one of those subjective choices.
In defense of patents (Ric Richardson of Uniloc)
Yeah.

I think of that stupid question, "Debit or Credit?"

The more I think about it, the more I see it as a hypnotic induction that prepares everybody for bad service. It's the perfect thing to get people used to the idea that they shouldn't experience customer delight, never.
When I think about the time I spent in the VC++ debugger tooling around through the MFC code to see what it was really doing as opposed to what I thought it was doing...

Yeah, bugs came from my "inability to understand the code under all program flows", or whatever, but it would have been considerably more difficult to understand the code without looking at it in use.
While beautiful, only a seriously limited amount of movies was analysed for this and the selection seems weird. The year 2000 for example only has 48 movies in this. I am not sure you can interpret anything from it.
It's a FAQ: https://www.slickdns.com/faq/#api ;)

The REST API is in final testing, and should be released later this week. It will ship with libraries for Python, Ruby and PHP.
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That's why people spouting "open-source is always less quality" and "without paying artists there would be no culture" are so dead wrong. People who feel the urge to create and do, will do so. And to me, things that were created for one's own enjoyment are pretty much always better than things created to be monetised.
Oh, I'm sorry. I thought that's just legal-speak for rape. What does it mean, really?
I've often read recommendations where people will something like 'Gimp is not as user friendly but a fair alternative if you can't afford to drop the $$$ that Photoshop costs'.
Having never used Photoshop I can't comment on how they compare but this type of comment did make me feel nervous about using Gimp and even probably negatively affected my progress in learning to use it.
Now, having used Gimp a reasonable amount I think it's about as easy to use as such a feature rich program can be expected to be.
Unfortunately because it's a program that I don't use very often, there tends to be a lot forgotten each time I return to it.
The HN rule wasn't there by default when I installed it, which was a while ago, admittedly.

One way around this is to use HTTPS-Everywhere with another extension called HTTPS Finder[1] (Firefox only, AFAIK) that tries to load secure versions of any HTTP sites you go to, and writes HTTPS-Everywhere rules for you if it finds one. It asks if you want to add the rule or whitelist the unsecure version.

Fair warning: you'll probably end up being annoyed with it fairly often, and have to whitelist more sites than you expect which have expired or improperly configured SSL versions.

It's more than fine for HN's core audience, but it's not exactly ready for primetime for the average user.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/https-finder/
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I posted this here hoping hackernews would already have a discussion going on.

Anyone here agree with Richardson?