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Everyone seems to be taking this article as gospel, but that is not the intent at all.

It is an exploration into the idea of basing typographical proportions on the golden ratio; it is NOT saying that the results are the only (or even the best!) way to set type.

Personally, I found the results to be compelling—paragraphs set with the Golden Ratio Typography Calculator look good to my eye (and in fact, trying to understand why certain text looks good and other text looks bad is the reason why I started this research in the first place).

In the comments of the article, I've expounded upon some of the questions posed here, and I hope you'll take the time to explore those if you're so inclined.

For example, some of you have deftly pointed out the lack of clear support for the w = l^2 relationship. I'm going to cover my reasoning behind this in a future post, but I didn't want a heavy focus on mathematics to take away from the impact of the article.

In the meantime, check out the first image on this page (http://dropshado.ws/post/12971305087/webkit-zoomed-out-font-...); the ends of each line of text combine to form a classic x^2 curve. This supports the claim that w = l^2 (but it does not prove it true, obviously).

Most people simply won't read (or even be able to follow) a barrage of mathematical reasoning, modeling, and graphs. That's why I left most of those things out of this article. However, these things are the hallmarks of the research I've done thus far.

Finally, there is a huge benefit to this approach to typography that is worth expounding upon here.

By establishing a mathematical basis to relate typographical variables, you can predict and control type with algorithms instead of relying upon arbitrary selection from designers.

This opens up the doors for sophisticated tools (like the Golden Ratio Typography Calculator) or even cooler stuff, like design controls that allow users to experiment with different fonts/sizes while adjusting all typographical and spatial values based on the resulting line height of the primary text (this is the vertical baseline grid on steroids).

For me, the bottom line is this: Designers rely on arbitrary selection for things like line heights and line widths, and I am convinced there's a better way to go about this.

Research like this is only the tip of the iceberg, obviously, but at the very least, I will continue to ask the tough questions and to challenge the baseless status quo.
No, It doesn't change the estimate of the number of asteroids near Earth. It just points out that more get caught in orbit than previously thought.
The type of id is universally quantified, that's why the free theorem holds. If it was id :: Typeable a => a -> a then it could inspect the type representation and do something different if it's an Int or whatever, but in this case the theorem is different from ∀a. a → a. The Wadler paper goes in greater length about why the universal quantification holds.

Also the computer can't, at runtime, introspect what you typed due to erasure (i.e. the types are erased at runtime) which is part of proper parametricity.
The original example of 'computer' was someone paid to do arithmetic.
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Godaddy's official position on SOPA - Just Posted
This was just posted today.
The examples you gave are all of events which are defined by some belief or cause, whose opponents would simply be out of place if present. That's very different from what's going on here, where the bearers of a particular opinion are being excluded from a business relationship as a punishment for expressing an opinion which is only circuitously related to that business relationship.
Look for another job.

Seriously. I'm not saying you should quit right now. Find something better, then quit. They don't deserve your talent.
eigenvector, apetrovic -- that used to be a more important factor some years ago, when the Free desktop was unusable for regular folk, and pirating software was much easier.

I'm not sure it's an important factor anymore, because the Free desktop has become more usable, and using pirated software has become much more difficult.

Nowadays, users who pirate proprietary operating systems end up with unpatched, insecure systems that can't be easily updated, and which require all sorts of workarounds for installing non-pirated applications, among other problems. Meanwhile, proprietary software vendors have been hard at work to make life unpleasant for anyone who attempts to use their code without permission.
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Saturn's rings are made of the exact same stuff as its moons, because that's what they are. One or more of Saturn's moons broke up millions of years ago under gravitational/tidal forces, and over time the debree spread out into a ring.

And BTW, there are plenty of examples of moons made of ice, and at the temperatures of the outer solar system ice can be harder than rock (and BTW, Neptune and Uranus are called "ice giants"--care to guess why?).
Reddit: Help us raise awareness about SOPA in the mainstream and local media
Donating to charity and giving extra money to his employees will garner a ton of positive publicity which will result in Louis being more of a household name and doing more sales. Just like the initial publicity about the "experiment" did.

It's already happening:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/tech-news/hap...

Edit: I would have to guess that the idea of spreading the cheer by the savvy CK has been carefully thought out.
> The value of the thing you bought doesn't change no matter what he uses the money for.

While this is true, I don't think it is the whole story. Money is also a signal, and understanding how you signal is part of being an aware consumer/investor. You might not like Nike's labor practices (how it uses the money it makes when you buy a pair of sneakers) and therefore not buy Nikes, although you find genuine value in their product.
So the lesson reinforced here, again, is that once you're already famous for something, the Internet makes it easy to sell things to fans directly. We already knew this. But it's great to see it happen.
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Ask HN: Is SOPA permanently shifting our focus?
This could be due to me living in my own bubble (like all of us, in some way), but to me it appears as if until SOPA appeared, a lot of the focus and attention here was aimed at presenting pro-piracy arguments.

Record companies essentially scamming their artists, or the bad-bad settlement schemes which abused courts and sometimes ended up targeting innocent people, are a few example of why this was brought forward. Will this be forgotten post-SOPA?

What worries me is that, if we actually manage to "beat" SOPA, we would be happy with a situation where piracy remains illegal, despite that it may not be optimal for anyone, except for the film and record companies.

tl;dr-version: If we beat SOPA, will we still remember the pro-piracy battle we fought before it appeared?
GoDaddy's position doesn't strike me as malicious, but rather hopelessly naive. "We can't imagine the powers in this bill being abused" seems to be their position.
This seems common for anything that is rooted in new media and doesn't look like the traditional newspapers and magazine websites. You still hear the word startup used with Facebook and twitter occasionally even though they at clearly not.
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Thanks! Although over time I've also come to accept that I will never be near as fast as the natives (or people who learn to read from when they were a child).
Visa and MasterCard are not the only credit card companies. I use American Express almost exclusively, which doesn't seem to be on the list.
When was the last time you made a coffee with your computer? You're talking about scenarios that are entirely unrelated to how computers are used 99% of the time.

In every office I have worked in, people are already talking on their phones, I don't see how talking to your computer is any different.

Orders of magnitude different. Is every single person in your office talking all the time, at once?
Amazon EC2 new pricing for reserved instances might serve your friends' needs:

For a 24/7 instance, a "Heavy Utilization" Micro instance with a 1-year reservation costs $62.00 up front, and then half a cent an hour, which is $3.80 a month, or a total of $105.80 for the year, plus bandwidth.

Set up Varnish so the static site is served from memory and it'll run forever on that.

That said, setting up a web site on S3 isn't hard, but maybe it might be a neat product to provide an FTP interface to S3 for people who are set in their ways.
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I saw DNSimple (https://dnsimple.com/) mentioned in one of the GoDaddy threads. Haven't used them personally but I'll be investigating them soon.

Another HNer recently launched Badger (https://www.badger.com) but I believe it is only open to beta testers right now.
Cheezburger is a perfect example of a company that has a lot to lose from SOPA. Its a site full of parodies and humor often directed against large brands. I expect that there are many people who would jump the the chance to make Cheezburger vanish from the web.
This is why I think Youtube would've died a long time ago under SOPA. The cable companies companies and TV networks hate Youtube, and it would've been a piece of cake to take down Youtube before it would've grown too large.
I wrote my Congressman (Schiff, a SOPA cosponsor). I got a letter back making the claim that "it only creates tools that will allow the Attorney General, with an order from a Federal Judge, to take steps against foreign infringing sites."

My understanding is that even if it is possible to lawyer it this way, it isn't the intended or likely outcome, that the law creates such an onerous burden on anyone getting a non-adversarial complaint about a client that they'd be forced to shut them down or face severe penalties.

As to what to do about these bad actors, I'm not sure what the best plan is. Would huge billboards with the Congressman's picture and "Adam Schiff supports internet censorship" get the message across? What's the most effective way to communicate to constituents what's going on?
Too much SOPA on HackerNews
We don't know what's universally optimal, but we can test different ratios/mathematical bases and see what the results look like.

To my eye, Golden Ratio Typography seems to hit the sweet spot.

In a future article, I'm going to talk about the notions of a "sweet spot" and a "good eye for design" and show how these concepts point to the existence of universal subjective preferences.
So you don't change name services every year for free.
NearlyFreeSpeech? I haven't used them, but they always come up in discussions like this.
ff9 doesnt work for me. chrome does. you mentioned ff8?
Before we go off half-cocked here, let's take a minute and ask ourselves how good a plan that relies on lawyer's being embarassed to have to argue both sides of an issue can be?
here is one i found which is done very nicely.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9oeJgrVrq0&feature=relat...
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I've looked at Derby and it seems like a fantastic idea. I was considering giving it a shot for my next side project, but I'm a little confused as to whether it supports any form of persistence or not?

I see you have an open issue on github (https://github.com/codeparty/derby/issues/9) about initial persistence with MongoDB which is still marked "open", but the documentation implies it's already working?
I'm sure Mozilla feels very precarious getting such a huge chunk of money from a single source. But:

- Mozilla isn't a company, it's a non-profit (this deal was done by Mozilla Corp, yes, but that's a wholly owned branch of the foundation). Reducing their reliance on Google for cash is never going to be Mozilla's aim as a whole.

- Three years is a hell of a long time. When the last deal was negotiated, there was no Bing, and no Chrome. The world was a very different place. No matter how good their strategy is, it's going to be a terrible one for the world in 3 years time.

- The interests of the Mozilla foundation and Google are broadly aligned - they both care about an open, free web. That's a rare thing to find in large industry players these days.
Wow, I hadn't realized SOPA is kind of "Los Angeles vs. San Francisco" till I saw this map.

Is that really the case? Or is the data in the map incomplete enough that it only seems so?
A properly-angled matte screen will have less glare than a properly-angled glossy screen. And a matte screen is less finicky about how it's positioned, which is an advantage when you are seated in a place that limits your options.

Plus the glossy bezel around the usable area of the screen acts like a mirror. The brightness of the active region overwhelms a lot of reflections, but that doesn't apply to the black bezel.

I work on a glossy iMac, and I've been tempted to get strips of matte black material with which I could cover the bezel, using magnets to hold them on.
LAUSD, where this pilot was done, is facing existential threats from progressive budget cuts, a school-board/teacher-union faction fight, and charter schools (however you feel about these things), and working on better school lunch is at best a sideshow to the real and huge problems. No surprise the pilot did not scale.
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For those looking for alternatives, it is worth noting MediaTemple's unofficial position on this topic: http://twitter.com/#!/demian_sellfors/status/149950134556426...

(Demian Sellfors is the CEO.)
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Actually I think it is looking more sustainable now that bing has high interest in the position as well. As long as Firefox holds a market share similar to its current one and bing holds its market share to keep ms interested in pushing it the decent sized deals should continue and probably grow.

What would to suggest as an alternate revenue source?
Drugs and guns. Everything that has ever been banned by decree was once a free tool.

The types of chemistry sets popular in the mid-20th century have been banned for being too dangerous to children.

The democratically-elected governments of Turkey and Venezuela have effectively outlawed opposition parties from owning television, radio, and newspapers by alleging unpaid taxes in amounts that would bankrupt the companies if they paid, and having partisan judges hand their assets to the government. Media that echo the party line do not face these charges.

In the early 1990s, the Anti-Defamation League was caught using a private investigator to collect information on neo-Nazis. They were prosecuted and forced to stop collecting information on racists as a condition of a plea bargain. Collecting information on one's political opponents is now a standard practice of both the Democratic and Republican parties.

Your right to use a courtroom is being taken away. If you are lucky enough to have a job, did you read your contract? If it contains the word "arbitration", you have given up your right to sue your employer for any cause. They can decide not to pay you this month or demand sexual favours from you or your spouse, and you cannot take it to court. You can take it to a private, for-profit judge who is paid by your employer to rule in their favour, and they can order you to pay your employer's court fees for daring to challenge the situation. If you don't like it, you can quit; good luck finding a job in this economy. And people say there's no need for a union in the tech industry...

Specific to computer technology, the DMCA made it illegal to tell people how to crack access-control schemes. The two guys who cracked Cyber Patrol and published its list of blocked web sites were sued and had to surrender the copyright to their work. Warez and porn BBSes were shut down in the early 1990s; this is fairly equivalent to seeing warez sites shut down today.
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I didn't mean to imply such a close relationship between price and volume with my example. What I meant to ask was, if more people saw it but he made the same amount, would he like that more?

I know this is a deeply nested comment so that might not be the right place to put it, but this is the idea I'm trying to get at. Louis CK is performing an experiment about the production and distribution of entertainment. I think that's great, and I'm thrilled at his success both because I think he's quite good, and I think the current model(s) are very broken. The existing model seems to have a funnel effect: e.g., in music, labels pick bands to invest in, and those bands get a disproportionate share of the spoils. So I guess my question is, what price for content like this best for me, the consumer, in that it stimulates and supports a diverse landscape of content and performers? Is $5 the right price?
Is .onion technically considered a TLD? Even thigh its outside the DNS system?
It differs because Keynesians also follow the rest of that quote: . However, doing so would reduce consumer demand, so that the aggregate demand for goods would drop. This would in turn reduce business sales revenues and expected profits. Investment in new plants and equipment—perhaps already discouraged by previous excesses—would then become more risky, less likely. Instead of raising business expectations, wage cuts could make matters much worse.

Note the "wage cuts could make matters much worse".

I'm unclear if you think that a "stimulative wage cut" (!!) is Keynesian or not. To be clear: it is not - under no circumstances would a Keynesian think a wage cut is stimulative.
> What's actually being paid for, here?

For this - http://img585.imageshack.us/img585/7109/googlevy.png
My bad, they added support in FF10 and I was testing in FF11.
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To borrow from my favorite author:

Already established legal remedies for rights-holders like the DMCA vs. SOPA:
"It's the difference between using a feather and using a chicken."
How hard would it be to compile a list of major products and services provided by these companies? If there were an easy punchlist of "Hey, this product supports these companies, and here are some alternatives", it might be a lot easier to organize and conduct boycotts.

Hell, I'll even throw you a business model - build a product that helps conscientious consumers avoid products by entities that they oppose, and make money advertising and earning affiliate revenue from those products' competitors. Advertisers would kill for those pageviews.
Your right that for Google whether a user is using Chrome or using Firefox with Google Search it shouldn't matter much on the bottom line and they don't have to worry too much about feature support from Firefox as they are quick to propose/ adopt standards.
I hope mozilla can now afford H.264 licenses. They are the last holdout to make web video easy.
You may be right on the absolute numbers. However, a) the HN readers that are most inclined to move from GoDaddy probably have control over more domains than the average person (either personal or via their responsibilities for their company), so the effect may be larger than you think, and b) if people send e-mail telling GoDaddy why they're moving (either oop@godaddy.com ("Office of the President") or suggestions@godaddy.com) then it may also have more impact than the raw numbers would indicate.

At any rate, even if it doesn't change GoDaddy's behavior, at least some number of people will have taken the effort to move away from a company with questionable ethics.
Try, for a start: http://www.yelp.com/c/sf/isps

And: http://www.dslreports.com/forum/sanfran
Maybe, but why take the risk?
Politicians and most judges, and almost all lawyers, are paid specifically to come up with plausible sounding reasons why nothing violates the constitution.

It's a prestigious line of work, with a long and glorious tradition.
No, you took the Moon's velocity relative to the Earth. The Moon orbits the Sun and its velocity relative to Earth is only useful for astrology purposes.
I don't see how SOPA is "circuitously" related, since YC deals with Internet companies and SOPA is damaging to fundamental bits of Internet infrastructure. IMO, it's no different from the PETA/fur manufacturer analogy in that the viewpoints are almost diametrically opposed.
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I don't believe there was already well-established and popular Web-based brand named "Santorum" before that. There was just a rather backward politician. Your average politician is about as adept at SEO as your grandfather. You may as well show a video of you beating up a little kid to prove you could take Jason Statham in a fair fight.
Make sure you tell them the reason why you quit, too. It matters.
According to Keynesian theory, the only reason those capital-owners don't hire workers is because real wages are too high. If wages were lower, the capital-owners would hire workers to increase their own profits.

That's not true - Keynesian theory says capital owners don't hire when demand for goods is insufficient.
And: http://www.netindex.com/download/4,30/San-Francisco/?tab=1
Am I the only one who thinks it's really weird that we throw around these lists of, "things programmers must read," but we don't ever throw around lists of, "things programmers must program at least X times"?
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First I would do some research.

Does he support SOPA? if so why? how strong?

What is his technical background? Would it be useful to have simple explanations of different parts of internet technology?

What technologies does he use? How would those be affected?

Second I would be prepared to explain in as much detail as possible how hurts my business and future business plans. In your case bizen.com in particular and potential entrepreneurial opportunities in the future.

Good luck and I look forward to a follow up post about how it goes.
You are making a lot of bold claims about subconscious programming and mathematical symphonies and beautiful blueprints provided by nature that can be seen in art and architecture throughout history. This sounds a lot closer to gospel than incidental recommendations.

Replacing arbitrary numbers with arbitrary formulae doesn't make the whole thing much less arbitrary.
I guess we're pretending the part about obeying orders isn't in there, then?
They are threatening to dump them, they haven't officially done it yet.
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> We have to use DeleGate because HAProxy does not support SOCKS.

HAProxy supports TCP mode, which I imagine can deal with balancing SOCKS just fine. Not sure why he's running it in HTTP mode there.