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Vistaprint will require effort and dedication on your part. You could put your Vistaprint in a safe location. It is questionable if Vistaprint will be able to go on that way. I am ready to start boycotting Vistaprint partially. This wasn't an innovative creation. Vistaprint has been the better solution. It is the time to try Vistaprint on your own.
This is a shameless plug, but using !g constantly on DDG led me to write GooseGooseGo, a trivial wrapper for DDG you can clone & run on localhost: http://goosegoosego.com
Oh Hacker News... Read the discussion, then view the source.
The money isn't really coming from them, though. Only 50% of U.S. households pay net taxes at all, so most of the lower-middle-class isn't paying anything, not even enough to cover their own use of government services, let alone anyone else's. I believe the top 1/3 pay virtually all taxes (>90%).
Ask HN: Linux for tablets?
Hello HN

I've been out of the game for a while, what is "the" linux tablet distro nowadays? I used Jolicloud once, are there any better options?
Thanks
Should Yelp and Kudzu intervene when their reviewers are being harassed?
They probably could have got away with it if they'd just added their affiliate code to Amazon links that showed up organically, they just got greedy.
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If you zoom in too much, it's very lagging. Strange, It should be when zooming out
(FF 5.0)
Great. You're probably going to be Ground Zero for next week's version of the "run this program to see who looks at your profile" rumor, and the week-after-next's bogus virus warning about running the script.
I would definitely use it. Add a [T] icon for texts as writing with the mouse is meh!
This article fails to mention that the result-tampering is provided as a default-enabled option.

Here is a screenshot: http://imgur.com/7C5oM
Well, the in-call double-height status bar is documented behavior. Of course you have to account for that possibility. But a different aspect ratio altogether?

On other platforms different screen sizes aren't a problem since that's been the norm from the very beginning. But why shouldn't we be able to make assumptions on iOS? It's an entirely different environment, one where, among other things, screen size and aspect ratio are fixed.

And yes, I don't think you should hardcode every last pixel in your iOS app either, but it's perfectly acceptable for your graphics to rely on the documented sizes. How should e.g. GarageBand account for a suddenly different aspect ratio?
Infinite zooming is nice. How is it implemented? I would like it as a library.
These are also interesting views on the South Korea data:

http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-KR-monthly-201007-201107

http://gs.statcounter.com/#mobile_vs_desktop-KR-monthly-2010...

That's desktop browsing (93% for IE) and desktop vs mobile (massive rise from 0 to 15% for mobile in last year).

So if these figures are right then in the last year Android browsing has gone from nothing to double all non IE browsing.
i moved from Tallinn last year :) many positive things can be said about this place, but having a snow (mostly dirty) for about 7..8 months a year, and seeing this mess made me move:
http://public.fotki.com/dmitri_don/tallinn-2011/
Unless you also see this as an opportunity to learn something new..in which case you could pick either ruby/rails or python/django (or any other ruby/rails framework)...or really anything, but those are probably your two best bet.

You also didn't talk about databases, but I think the same would apply. "Use whatever you know best", or pick something new if learning something new at this point (and on this project) is something you'd like to do.
What sort of cool new heuristic function could one have? All you need is the three shown there.
Adobe will get my constructive criticism when they build something worthy of it, and not a second sooner.

Until then, deal with it.
I am not sure when though the software was updated (either to have this checkbox or something else) according to Joel (developer) http://www.seroundtable.com/google-amazon-treatment-13881.ht...
>I know little about evolution and assume that bacteria are the most evolved because they have a faster cycle of reproduction, and stronger selective pressure.

That you know what selective pressure means probably puts you in the top couple of percentiles for evolution knowledge. The whole world is emphatically not like Hacker News.
Quite the way to show some good-will and consumer choice in light of all the negative press re: TMO merger.

Just switch to Google Voice.
I think you're running an old version of Firefox. :-)
To be clear, the double-height status bar changes the "aspect ratio" of the device. On WebOS, they have a really great notifications mechanism that involves slowly making the screen smaller (up to a point) as more messages need to be rendered. This is the kind of feature that Apple should be allowed to implement without causing havoc on existing applications, and would cause even more drastic disturbances in aspect ratio.

Also, on other platforms, there was at some point "the one monitor" that came with the system: the fact that so far we've only had two different aspect ratios on iOS devices (3:2 and 4:3) is no reason to believe that the next device won't be something more like 16:9. There is no reason that most applications couldn't be designed to be ready for such a seemingly minor change.
Didn't someone write an algorithm for music generation that produced pieces styled after classical composers that actually did have their style?

I can't find the page right now, but it had samples and they sounded quite good.

Maybe this? http://artsites.ucsc.edu/faculty/cope/experiments.htm
...so it's "top 10 locations I'd rather be right now"?
Doh - it seems to crash safari when I go to it on my iPad? iOS 4.3.5
Any open source alternatives to Disqus that I could host myself? I don't want to use Disqus - apart from wanting to "own" my comments, it is also incompatible with my browser configuration (blocking 3rd party cookies).
The Galaxy S was out in South Korea the same day as the iPhone launched globally (and had been launched elsewhere a couple of weeks earlier), so it's incorrect to say that the iPhone was delayed until the Galaxy S was out, though obviously any delay is still an advantage.
You're really pushing it if you're classing Moscow and Tel Aviv as "European" cities...
If you do this from the beginning, it is not a big deal: and in fact, it really helps save you time later when things change. It simply is not difficult to compute a layout rather than drawing one in MS Paint... I mean, even Xcode's Interface Builder solves this problem quite well... I frankly am surprised so many people are disagreeing with this "aspect ratio" bullet point, given that if you take a random non-game app from the App Store and change its aspect ratio it is almost always going to do this correctly: Apple makes it hard to screw this one up. ;P
Team Fortress 2 (PC) is still a big draw for me,even after playing it for a few years. It's easy to drop in and play but also has a lot of variety and team dynamics.

GT5 (PS3) online, though unless playing with friends can be frustrating with wreckless online racers.
This is awesome, I'd just like to have a tool to write with my keyboard.
Excuse me? The study of better heuristics to guide search is a very active area of AI research. See, for example, Sturtevant et al's 2009 work on True Distance Heuristics or their 2011 work on compressed heuristic functions presented at AAAI last week.
Apart from the fact that a screenshot utility - by nature - should have nothing to do with tampering Google search results, the developer of this extension could handle the situation more decently by explicitly mentioning this feature in the description page, setting the option as default-disabled and then ask the users to support the extension by enabling this option manually.
Does anybody remember or have a citation for the story about how the NSA made some recommended changes to Rijndael, but nobody understood them at the time? This was back in the mid-90s, during the AES/DES replacement assesment and competition period.

It was then only years later that the NSA changes were understood to be strengthening the cypher against an attack type that was unknown to the public at the time, but that the NSA obviously knew about. I remember there were also suspicions that the NSA were attempting to weaken the algorithm, much as they did with DES.

It was the case that the NSA were always 10-15 years ahead of the public in crypto (or even longer in terms of the discovery of public key crypto). I wonder if their old proposed changes to Rijndael have anything to do with this, or if they knew about this type of attack but still recommended AES.

Apologies for being vague about the story - but I do remember those details. I can't recall where I heard about it.
We used this everyday at work, but it's gone now.

But, I wonder how many people will actually notice this and remove it. Unless this creates a huge storm, I don't know how many of it's supposed half a million users will care.
Throwing in a Swiss boot - http://startupchart.ch/ - of course Switzerland is a country, not a capital. But then so is Sweden...
Microsoft following in Apple's footsteps? Unheard of.
Giggling You forgot to mention anything about scalability.
With an option like this clearly visible, might this be an acceptable way to make money with a Chrome extension? There certainly don't seem to be many options available for developers, apart from the other highly annoying way of periodically throwing the user to a "your extension has been updated!" page with ads on it.
Say what? Moscow is most definitely European. It's located something like 850 miles west of the Urals.
I still don't understand why 'people they trust' would have access to their 'personal' facebook account.
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Zooming out too far on chrome makes the input not show up properly, and occasionally crashes the browser window.

Additionally, after zooming out for a bit, I wasn't able to get back down to the layers I was drawing at before.
Actually, I found the documentation reasonably poor. It does a good job of explaining the API but does little to provide a would-be user with any insights into why the search works, how it works or how efficient it is. It doesn't even discuss why (or when) I might choose one of the three given heuristic functions over the others.

i.e. despite its length, it's not actually a very useful document.
I had a professor who was a control systems engineer. They had a helicopter simulation hooked up where you could attempt to fly it both with and without the control system. I don't think I was able to move it more than a few feet without having it flip over when I wasn't using the control system.

And if you want to bring math into it, he was also damn good at solving the matrices filled with hairy PDEs that described the whole system.
So what continent do you think Moscow is in?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe
Working fine on 4.3.5 here, just emailed a link to several friends to see what happens over the next couple of hours with it. The best bit about it is the super-low barrier to entry/sharing.
Israel is not in Europe. Why is it on the list?
Ads are Google's cash cow; they'll care.

BTW, it has to be uninstalled. Patrick Altoft notes that it still affected his search results even after disabling. http://www.blogstorm.co.uk/google-partners-with-amazon-to-sh...
The library is already out there, I open sourced it: https://github.com/florianguenther/zui53

(but it's very early beta, bad documented)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest
Yeah... Peeps I know in the Republic of I who bought are average 100K in negative equity, meaning, even if they sell, they still owe 100K. The risk depends on the market levels. 7% annual rent to price, or 3.5 times median income is the general long-term trend (OECD report), and if your house is way above that then worry.
And I actually was about to spread the good word about this extension to my coworkers because this extension is very useful compared to other screenshot tools because it can capture the whole page instead just the screen area.
http://sketchub.com/pln5jl8d6d
To offer another very diverging datapoint: In Germany, renting is the norm, though owning something you aspire to, either as a home you plan to spend the rest of your life in (thus protecting you against market troubles) or an inflation-safe part of an investment portfolio. Speculation on home prices is virtually unknown (and there was no housing bubble).
Did you actually look at the code?
As soon as people stop letting non-engineers get away with total, utter technical incompetence and stupidity.
While I agree that what you listed would be useful to include I think it's important to note that it is documentation of his implementation (what the various parameters are for) and not of how A* works. To that end he did a good job. I especially like the little ideas he throws in under "Extending astar.js." He links to the Wikipedia entry for those who want to know more about how A* works.
Ask HN: My project is getting traffic but the product fails. What do I do?
My website is http://textbookcentral.com.au/. I launched it during Australia universities' semester break at the beginning of last month.

My plan was whenever a student types "<course code> textbook", they'll get my website near the top. Try google "COFA0217 textbook" and see for yourself.

It worked and I'm getting on average 50+ visits a day, 75% from google, 15% bounce rate, 5 pages per visit. It has declined gradually by around 10-20% since the beginning of the semester, because, I'm guessing, students are no longer looking for textbooks now that we're approaching mid-semester.

How it works: Visitors find their university course and click "Buy textbook" or "Sell textbook". When there are buyers and sellers for the same course, they are both notified.

I've had around 400 offers+requests made in the past month. Considering there were only 1700 visits last month, an average of 0.23 offer/request made for each visit sounds great.

The problem: I've matched less than 10 courses so far. All the students were making offers/requests for textbooks for different courses, rarely matching up. I thought e.g. popular subjects would get more offers/requests but... not really. With 400 offers and requests and a 2.5% success match rate? I think that blows. :(
No wonder alcohol is called the "social lubricant". :)
Ah, no no no no no!!!

House prices can and do drop 40-60% from a peak. If you got a 95% mortage, you can really be hammered.
Sure, but if you're hired to write HTML code then I guess you won't be using tools like this. You know how to work around browser perks. But Joe who just wants a website made probably doesn't - and he doesn't care.
There is too much negativity on the Internet, but there's also too much of just about everything else. The ease of publishing on the Internet means that people don't think too critically about their work prior to publishing it.

For example, if these guys were publishing this benchmark as part of a study or argument in a quarterly magazine -- and this was there only opportunity to publish it for the next year or so -- then they would have been far more critical of their own work prior to publishing it. Instead they've quickly thrown together something and pushed it onto the Internet without too much further thought.

So long as it is civil, criticism is fine.
Modern Tools Help In Wedding Photography But That Needs Proper Learning
It is very important for the wedding photographers to have the most modern tools with them because people want to hire the services of those photographers who can provide them the pictures as per latest technology. Latest technology helps wedding photographers so wedding photographers should learn it properly for good earning.
So, to clarify, the "feature" I was referring to was replacing the system font (Helvetica). Even when we requested Helvetica by name, we'd get the random replacement. Are you suggesting we license and distribute Helvetica with our application? It's just not fast enough (at run-time or code effort wise) if we have to to calculate font metrics for every single static label in the application to make sure it fits in the space allotted.

Some assumptions are valid, not lazy or bad. It's simply not possible to account for every possible scenario when all bets are off.

[Edit]
Note: In this particular case the label flowed over a button on a non-scrollable pop-over dialog. Not being able to click that button in the registration flow kept people from using the app at all. This was ages ago so I can't point you to the reviews, but there were enough of them that it mattered. It was also in the days before we added in-app reminders to leave good reviews, so basically the only reviews were from font-breakers.
Hilarious how many people on Hacker News care what the HTML looks like.

You really are idiots if you're worried about 'that much text' going over the internet. You have no concept of data.
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So, I do not consider slightly incorrectly placed labels to be a serious issue, and doubt users who change fonts do either. I therefore would like you to point me to the negative App Store reviews you are receiving due to these font replacements that are strong enough and in great enough number that you are seriously suggesting banning 10% of users (a subset that includes me, so I'm rightfully taking this personally) from leaving reviews to stop the behavior.
I had made something similar some time ago, with a few more features (async searches with priorities) and the ability to see what paths are tested:

http://www.gravytea.com/labs/ariane/
Would've been absolutely fine if it were:

1. Disabled by default
2. Publicized properly (and not sneaked in)
Instead of having tonnes of empty test pages, why don't we all just agree to use the parent of my comment as the test canvas for this thread?

Edit: I somehow cannot draw in the one I suggested. Sorry.
Assuming you are looking at a 30 year mortgage, you could look at the spread of the 30 year USD gov't bond over the overnight rate (3.52% http://www.bloomberg.com/markets/rates-bonds/government-bond...).

From wikipedia:
Liquidity premium theory

The Liquidity Premium Theory is an offshoot of the Pure Expectations Theory. The Liquidity Premium Theory asserts that long-term interest rates not only reflect investors’ assumptions about future interest rates but also include a premium for holding long-term bonds (investors prefer short term bonds to long term bonds), called the term premium or the liquidity premium. This premium compensates investors for the added risk of having their money tied up for a longer period, including the greater price uncertainty. Because of the term premium, long-term bond yields tend to be higher than short-term yields, and the yield curve slopes upward. Long term yields are also higher not just because of the liquidity premium, but also because of the risk premium added by the risk of default from holding a security over the long term. The market expectations hypothesis is combined with the liquidity premium theory:
Two sided marketplaces are hard. Is there any way you can fake the existence of one side of the marketplace? For example, there has to currently exist some way of buying used textbooks in Australia. It presumably is crazily inefficient, but it exists. Either a) roll up your sleeves and do it or b) pay some VA in the Philippines to do it for you.

Customer A: "I want a textbook for COFA0217 textbook."
Site: "We've got it for $30."
Customer: "Yay!"
Site: "We'll send you an email when we ship it."
Site in email to freelancer or yourself: "Acquire a copy of COFA0217 textbook for less than $30 and ship to $CUSTOMER."
Freelancer, 4 hours later: "Did it!"
Site: "Congratulations! We shipped your order. Tell your friends how much money they could make by listing their textbooks on our site!"

If you can't find a copy, you mail them personally, say that the book they wanted was out of stock, and refund their purchase (and/or you authorize but do not charge until shipment, which is similar to e.g. Amazon, but your credit card merchant account may or may not be happy with that).

I think Eric Ries called this the Wizard of Oz model: you can duplicate any arbitrarily complex system with near-zero engineering costs if you're willing to conceal a man behind a curtain. When you don't have traction, it's great, since it's just part-time work for yourself. Once you have traction, the "problem" of scaling solves itself.
It's pointless. We have more than a thousand Twitter followers, but they rarely ever click through on any of our content. The same content posted on Facebook yields very different results.
You can draw great fractals with it! Awesome job
Reminds me of how Burberry totally stopped using their signature tartan on the exterior of their clothing so they would stop being associated with chavs.
I would disagree with your characterization of Steve Jobs and James Cameron as horrible bosses to work for, but I certainly see why you say it.

Many, many people I'm certain have asked themselves "why, oh why can't Steve (or Jim) be nicer" (and still be the same in every other way). People just don't work like that.

Great post!
this is pretty neat, from a designers point of view here are some things I'd suggest:

- something like a photoshop navigator where you see your zoom level vs your current canvas. Currently it's quite easy to zoom out a lose your stuff.
- alternatively have a zoom % and return to 100% and center
- As well as the current freehand drawing style, have a version that straightens the lines for you.
- keep line thickness at any zoom level so it's not so bad when you zoom back in (although I can think of nice uses as it is)
- write text
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Totally agree, I'd like to be able to draw a straight line as well. I don't have that talent manually =) Some command such as shift would be nice for this, as well as the ctrl + z command
Partially true, but the police has legitimate reasons to use encrypted communication. They deal with sensitive information that should not be public to everyone.
The trouble is, you'd have an easier time selling the scraps of your lunch than you would a home in Vegas. Condos that were going for $180K in my old neighborhood are now at $30K and still going down. It's going to be a looong time before the city recovers.
It was 4.2b, my bad. Cydia was using some UI class from a private framework that got removed in 4.2 betas.
Is this research focused on search on two-dimensional grids?
I just keep getting errors. Viewer is also supposed to be replaced with the numeric ID, right?
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Part 2: http://www.viva64.com/en/a/0072/

Part 3: http://www.viva64.com/en/a/0075/