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I'm annoyed by domain squatters as much as the next guy - but how is this different than owning any other property? Do you hate the land owner that sits on vacant land waiting for it to appreciate?

Apple does not allow in-app payments for physical goods.

Congrats Drew and the rest of the team. Quite an accomplishment!

I believe so. My photos on two drives were about 3 months out of sync and and it seemed to only sync those that were missing.

AeroFS isn't as refined as Dropbox, but the flexibility of cross-computer sync makes it pretty ideal for large media storage. I have almost 200GB of photos, and dropbox really wasn't an option for that. They release updates to the product every few weeks, so it's getting better.

Gripes: 1- It's a lot chattier than dropbox. This could be a tradeoff for being a distributed protocol, but it's something that dropbox seemed to improve in over time as well. 2- Iffy compatibility with Lion: I often get "AeroFS is already running" messages. 3- They recently added the needed ability to change the location of the AeroFS Library, but I'd love to modify the location of each Share in the Library. 4- This is likely beyond the project's scope, but I'd love to be able to access my files without syncing in a pinch. 5- Better activity view: Dropbox's menu icon changes to indicate activity. I find this useful, so I can shut it off if my connection is slow. AeroFS's icon doesn't change, and to view activity, you need to open Preferences.

Positives: 1- Unrestricted size, great for large media libraries 2- Seems very fast, especially over LAN 3- I love how you can set up multiple shares - one for a workgroup, one for personal projects, and one for photos, and you can sync those among any computers you want. 4- It makes offsite backup effortless 5- Auto-updates are great

Us as well. We have it installed on a central mac mini, and each client has a copy. It's a lot better than DropBox's current team solution, which forces you to dump your personal dropbox account.

AFAIK, right now, this is not supported. You can have multiple shares/folders though, so it's closer to this than say, Dropbox.

Their logo makes it even worse!

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They probably had considered the safer cap beforehand knowing that this could be an issue - and used this event as an excuse to roll it out.

The fact the police were involved rules this out as a conspiracy. And it just doesn't follow that even if the hotel industry is taking advantage of the situation (they probably could care less), EJ was involved in a conspiracy.

Can we move the discussion forward please?

I love what AirBnB is doing - and I know they'll pull through this. But there's one policy of theirs that just needs to change: Stop penalizing hosts for declining reservations

My wife and I used AirBnB to rent out our place in San Francisco very early on in the life of AirBnB. At one point we'd booked about 60 reservations and were making a killing. It was simply wonderful having the freedom of place that AirBnB afforded us. Trip to Hawaii for the weekend? Our rental earnings for just the weekend easily paid off the flight.

We stopped using AirBnB (and renting out our place in general) for a variety of reasons, but the primary reason was safety. We were finding that 9 of 10 reservation requests were from people without AirBnB ratings nor profiles, but the moment you decline a reservation, for any reason (even if you know the person isn't legit), your search ranking drops considerably.

The way AirBnB determines your search ranking for a particular area is directly related to how many successful bookings you've had over a trailing 60 days. This is why the top 50 places in SF right now on AirBnB are "full time" or professionally-managed rentals, and not normal people just renting on the weekends. At one point we were renting out our place consistently almost every weekend, and because airbnb's search interface is so poor, making it into the top 20 for an area resulted in a twentyfold increase in reservations.

The problem then becomes, as a host - do I decline reservations from people I know nothing about and take a rating hit that may prevent me from renting again, or, do I accept the reservation and "trust in humankind" that everything will be ok?

We obviously took the latter road, and for the most part had great interactions with the people we met. However, after a couple of "close calls" - an elderly couple who almost burned our place down and an obviously high-functioning crazy person, we decided that it wasn't worth the risk anymore.

I really want AirBnB to work - and I understand why they maintain this policy of penalizing you for not being generally available, but in light of the recent incident, I hope they rethink it and help promote "real" hosts who don't do this as a business.

Nice to see Blogger getting some love. They seemed pretty stagnant for awhile.

Remember folks, unit testing is your friend.

I've bought $1 screwdrivers and $10 screwdrivers, and I can saw with some assurance that 1) there wasn't a 10x difference in utility and 2) my annoyance at #1 made it a far worse experiencs

In that case, who's up for some picketing?

Also - design for your target customer. If non-technical business owners are your customer, go with a design that makes them feel welcome. Terminal icon? Blocky font? That tells me this site is for developers.

Design is really important to me when deciding where to take my business. I love the idea, but the web site could use some serious design love.

For instance: That block of text might be good for SEO, but no one will ever read it.

Regardless if these plugs actually increase efficiency, their novelty will make them a commercial success. Who doesn't want a car with a Laser-Powered Engine(tm)?

For what it's worth, the Mosso -> Cloud Sites transition was pretty seamless.

It depends on how you look at it - at one point Slicehost was forked to become Rackspace Servers.

Rackspace Sites user here - same control panel, different product (was called Mosso). CP is pretty terrible, but services are fast/reliable.

Misleading title: Slicehost accounts will be converted to Rackspace cloud accounts. They are killing the brand, not the product.

I'm just seeing a lot of lonely-sounding dudes. A missed-connection site without the womenfolk isn't likely to have much staying power.

My data on SL Cloud is about 6 months old now - but it's seriously far behind their dedicated offerring. A poor control panel lacking vital functions, frequent downtime, and slow io mire it.

Hey @panic - I love the shiny new products, but could you pretty please update Coda a bit? It used to be my favorite editor, but the lack of git is killing me!

That is correct. Apple does not currently allow in-app billing for physical goods, but they also don't currently regulate physical goods purchases either.

I disagree that this would appear a "career limiter" to smart people. Most people in tech work for the same company for only a few years, so it's challenging to make any significant career advancement within an organization.

But give them an opportunity to serve as team lead on a successful project or several, and you've got plenty of resume mojo to spread around to everyone.

> new story submission require at least x minimum karma level

This seems to have worked well for stack overflow. Just spitballing here pg, but what if you extended this to commenting as well? HN could be open to browsing, but to comment, you needed to be invited by another member with x karma? You could quantify this by requiring 10 karma to comment and 100 to post, and allowing a user to gain x karma by getting an 'invite' from an existing user with 100 karma.

Of course, without data, it's hard to draw conclusions about the fundamental issues.