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I'm not exactly a "font guy" either so I usually take a top-down approach.

Usually this means I go over to Google's rather extensive webfonts collection[1] and do a quick sweep through, picking all the fonts I like.
Then from there it's simply trying them one by one in the context and seeing what works.

It can be quite time consuming though.

[1] http://www.google.com/webfonts
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Wow, that guy is completely self-absorbed.

Yahoo has been paying attention to Flickr all along, Mr. Spiering insisted, and has made a lot of improvements since it bought the site in 2005.

As a paying Flickr customer for several years, I can say that no, Yahoo has not been "paying attention" to Flickr. At least, not in a way that is meaningful to any one other than the product manager.

He pointed out that the photo page was redesigned as recently as the summer of 2010 ... started integrating Flickr across its products ... Yahoo weather app ... integrated into Yahoo Mail soon...

Wow. None of that means anything to me at all. Flickr hasn't improved in any meaningful way, in terms of my end-user needs, in as long as I've been using it. A few painfully obvious examples are: 1) give me multiple photostreams. Seriously, my eBay photos go into the same stream as my carefully selected landscape photos? 2) Give me an uploader that doesn't consume massive resources and error-out regularly.
Redis would blow latency budget though, right?
The enemy of optimization is hard to maintain code

Then why add string serialization to something that doesn't remotely need it?

Using text in this case makes the wire protocol easier to debug and generally easier to maintain for forward compatibility.

If anything the use an unspecified string format makes debugging potentially harder here (UDP truncation...).
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From what I've heard their targets (assuming it is just one group, which I personally doubt) tend to be political, big commercial organisations (I'm not sure as this counts, they are not a high profile group even if they are or an interesting size), or those that take a specific stance "Anon" don't like (such as trying to arrest/charge/out/what-ever one of their number). This just doesn't feel like the sort of thing that would get them motivated to bother.

What is it that you think Anon might be able to do here? Even if they one of the scammers for a short time there are many more that will still be operating. The scammers are not a single large target like, for instance, Sony.
There are really Markov chain generated books on Amazon? I guess it is becoming a trash dumpster after all.
If the OP is talking about Startups, he's probably right. The only time I've ever felt physically ill was when I had my own business.

I've loved coming to work for the last 1.5 yrs every day (no exceptions!) for the small 3 person company that employs me.
I completely agree. So much clever engineering is being devoted right now to making HTML do things it was never intended to do. I'm not happy about the shift to proprietary native platforms but selfishly I'm so much happier coding close to the metal in iOS with a well-designed UI toolkit.
Firstly, you're not actually allowed to use freenode like that, technically it's supposed to be for open source projects right?

Secondly, I wouldn't run a server application like that on a publicly accessible server without learning pretty thoroughly about how to configure it securely, ymmv obviously but I just wouldn't do it.

Thirdly, there are a bunch of web configuration options that allow non-technical folks to login and do a bunch of stuff. If my client were paying me to do that for them they'd blow their Grove.io budget by an order of magnitude or two each month.
Backup device manufaturers are really missing out on big bucks by not making a small NAS that downloads all you cloud data. Give it access to Google/Dropbox/Flickr etc an have it silently back everything up.

I hope they've thought of this and I've just missed it. They won't be able to sell USB based backup drives for much longer.
Interesting. Is there an Apache FAQ or similar that explains this in more detail? (The Apache License FAQ http://www.apache.org/foundation/license-faq.html doesn't cover it.)
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Do you think? Whenever I get a change to use OpenID on a website I immediately do so. I personally think it's very useful but perhaps a bit too complicated for non-tech users. Although the OpenID provider buttons (think StackOverflow) do make it easier.
Specifically this works only in GTK apps.
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I really like using OpenID on StackExchange sites. I just click the "Google" button and I'm logged in!

What's funny to me is how many sites rushed to be OpenID providers, but there were not very many consumers. I tried counting once but I lost count at 15 OpenID accounts that I have from various sites. So much for single sign-on.
So awesome! some day all videos will be like this
Quick script to download all videos locally (I have no faith these will stay up for posterity).

Requires the cclive command line tool.
https://gist.github.com/1879275
I can't see it being the latter. I've used incognito mode to test logins for web development and there's nothing out of the ordinary.
When I first saw Josh Buckley present Mino Monsters at YC Alumni Demo Day last year, I thought "That kid at 18 is a better public speaker than I am at 28." Their company is killing it right now (congrats to Josh / TJ!)

Josh is very far at one end of the bell curve. The majority of aspiring founders are better off not trying to emulate doing things at a certain age, but rather trying to develop their own skills until they feel comfortable jumping off and starting something.
So awesome! poignant it should reference the now seminal massive attack vid? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbVRA6ZAhKo
You, sir, have pretty much summed up everything I love about webOS :-)
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YAGNI :)
You were the creator of viaweb? What was it like working at yahoo instead of running your own company. Did you retire early(?) or your job is flexible enough that you're still working? I haven't finished your book yet, only half way through, great discussion on the culture though.
As an alternative, just trust the HN home page algorithm.

Stories seem to move up to a relevant max rank position, stay there and then move back down. Big stories stay in the top 5 for 20+ hours.

Here's what I do: If I only have time to look at 5 stories per day, I visit once per day at any point in time and look at the first 5 stories. If I have time to look at 20, look at the first 20.

Set yourself a timeout, start reading at the top, stop when the time is up, repeat after 12 or 24 hours. Works very well for me, I get the best stories, and feel pretty well informed.
The performance bottleneck for virtually every webapp is the programmer. In other words, doing stupid shit. You can write a performant webapp using Perl and flat files if you wanted to.

The most important thing is to know how to use your stack. It doesn't matter what the stack actually is.
BrowserID solves that one: a disposable email becomes a disposable identity.
I think the crucial difference here is the number of entities I have to trust. People can generally do a bit of research on a bank before they join one, if a bank really sucks you can switch, and if a bank seriously defrauds you then you know whodunit and can pursue legal recourse. By contrast if I'm using a supposedly dumb terminal provided by some random cafe then there's absolutely no way to prevent them from seeing everything I do [1], or from inserting arbitrary commands into any service I use. And if I use the provided computers at many locations, as you suggest, there's probably no way for me to figure out who it was that screwed me.

[1] You say "cryptography". I say "Analog hole".
Yes. On PHP's end. Use PHP-FPM.
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One of my co-workers pointed out that the domain was available, so I quickly bought it only a handful of minutes ago :)
That's interesting because I happen to be something of a front-end guy :) I will have a look at it when I have a chance.
"I don't think it is such a bad thing to brag about"

Except for the fact that it is completely, 100% illegal. A guy at my sister's college went to federal prison for creating fake id's. Also, a friend of mine got caught with a fake by police, she got off with community service and no marks on the record, but only because of a very expensive lawyer paid for by her parents.
In the era of dark silicon, it might make sense to have those extra processors in the phone itself but only turn them on when you have an external source of power and a good physical connection for dissipating excess heat.
Worth pointing out for non-webOS people that the mail application on Touchpad/Pre is for all email providers, not just GMail.
I'm not sure how Amazon works; if they discount your book, and I buy it at the sale price, did you just get shafted out of some money? Or do they make up the difference?
What are these new entitlements and APIs, and how well do they address the concerns some developers had?
The network effects seem to be working in a female-friendly manner here. The Bros need to seek a new haven.
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Ah, this lends credo to my strategy of ignoring Sandboxing in the hopes that it goes away.

10.7.3 introduced a few new entitlements, but the situation is still pretty dire for most apps. Sandboxing is not ready for prime time yet. As evidenced by the fact that almost all of Apple's own apps are still un-sandboxed.
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In my experience: Amazon automatically discounts some books, a certain time after their release. I've published several through their subsidiary CreateSpace, and the two that sold more than negligible amounts were discount the same ~28%. One eventually went back to my 'retail' and the other stayed discounted.

Again in my experience, Amazon's discounts do not effect the author's take. At least in CreateSpace, the author's royalty is based on the retail price the author sets.
Maybe it's easier simply to classify things you wouldn't want to read and hide those as less interesting. Because of the variety of topics, training something to figure out what you like seems much more restricting on the flow.

E.g. if you rarely read things with ".js" (stupid amounts of js library posts here), it'll be easier to say this is uninteresting to me, vs classifying everything as interesting so the algorithm has to infer that you find js libraries uninteresting.

Although I'm pretty interested in node but not js libraries for api's necessarily, tough problem indeed.
Certainly. But at the same time men like him cannot be bound by rules designed to constrain normal teenagers -- for the simple reason that they are not normal teenagers.
The gesture area definitely made things fluid and easy, but unfortunately, it was absolutely not intuitive. If you haven't done (or have forgotten) the first use tutorial, it takes some luck to figure out how to navigate webOS. (I think that Clear has the same problem: swipe to mark as done/delete is not discoverable; it only works for people who already know of swipe to delete as a system gesture.)
We'll have albums in the 1.4 or 1.4.1 release (3-5 weeks).

We had a lot of going back and forth on how tags and albums should co-exist. Glad to say we've resolve all that now just have to add the feature in.

Next major milestones are mobile apps for iOS and Android in the 1.4 release.
I really like OpenID. As a rule of thumb, I prefer OpenID whenever I can...
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Note my %'s may be off slightly but it's irrelevant to the question.

If their book sales are similar to their Android App Store then as the publisher you get whichever is more between.

"20 percent of list price and 70 percent of sale price"

So Amazon can sell it for whatever it wants but will owe you 20% of what you listed the book at. It gives them a very wide margin to play with.
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If it has free shiping, why not buy 1.000 books for $10 and move them back to your inventory?
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In short, 10.7.3 introduced "bookmarks". Basically your app can ask for permission to read/write to a file/folder, and keep that permission indefinitely. Prior to that, if you wanted to write somewhere on the disc (say the Downloads folder) you'd have to use the sandbox save dialog every time. Now you ask once for permission, and keep a bookmark of that permission.

There is also a document-scoped version of bookmarks. Not clear on the use case for that.
My guess is that the facelift will be nice. A good "update" to Flickr that users will actually like. But the piece Yahoo! lacks is the persistence with new features and products to make them great.

How I've seen it go down is the product person in charge gets a promotion or leaves and someone else swoops in with a different vision. Basically, annihilating all the work and progress made prior to their arrival. Trust me, this is how Yahoo! operates.
It certainly would be an interesting idea, and while it wouldn't be difficult to write them, who in their right mind would buy them, much less not demand a refund?
https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Cocoa...

Security scoped bookmarks allow persistent access to a filesystem resource. That's the only one I'm aware of, but it's a major upgrade.
I love this.. It is truly a life changer
Google is a web company, why would Google invest significant money and engineering effort into filtering out things that only harm competing platforms? Google's own platforms (Chrome + the web and Android) are immune to this adware. It would be financially irresponsible for them to waste money helping a competitor.

>If Google wants to help make the web a better place...

I imagine Google thinks it is making the web a better place by investing in the web, not fighting loosing battles trying to fix old and broken platforms.
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The only real way to solve it is to use HTTPS. The Gmail team had this problem for the longest time and is one of the biggest reasons they added forced-HTTPS as an option in account settings.

Whatever you do, there will always be a non-trivial number of ISPs and company networks that have misconfigured proxies that overzealously cache sensitive data and display to everyone with not a care in the world.
It's my experience that smarter hirers are readier to hire you on your talent, and less on your experience. I've always thought that this is because people are egocentric, and, because it's easy for /them/ to learn, they presume it's the same for others. I've got 3 data points for this.
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One use case would be something with "projects", like Xcode, that need to have project files with implicit access to the files around them. IIRC, it's currently limited to files (rather than directories), though, so I'm not sure how useful it really is.
I've never heard of Clickpass, what is it?
I think this is a great step in the right direction, and we've already observed a compression of devices recently. Consider the Laptop, Desktop & phone. Who still uses a desktop? Its really just a matter of time until we compress the laptop and phone, we're a long way off in my opinion (in terms of actually usable hardware) but once we have the power and portable input devices (i think one could already structure an argument to say we have them) i don't know what would hold it back.

Good to see we're headed in a sensible direction.
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Is there a blog post associated with this decision somewhere? Is my scenario of logging in with a Google account that uncommon?

(just FYI, until this decision, HN had the most seamless signup procedure I've ever encountered on a website)
You're probably getting downvoted because all the answers you seek are readily available.

http://paulgraham.com/articles.html
Amazing how many people believe the fallacy (that VCs and others perpetuate) that you have to, or even should be, "first." Second movers (and later) rule. Apple, Google, Facebook, Dropbox, many more. Heck, all Facobook and Google do is copy other ideas or via buy companies and copy them that way.
I've got to say, I thought that quote was pretty awesome myself. A great concept! The public's input on a law -- who would have thought, huh?

Now if they could implement it successfully.
I don't envy the person who has to do a make-over for flickr. It works pretty well as it is (from a design perspective), and it feels as if it's hardened into concrete over the years of passivity, which makes it harder to argue that flickr needs to evolve its design like regular websites.

But Yahoo! can blame it all on themselves. How about they make sign-in and registration less of a pain in the ass for people with no interest in Yahoo! accounts.
Whats to say the data isnt in the cloud? I expect that the future of computing has a few layers.

1. Device (basically CPU) - this could be your phone or something similar

2. Storage local cache on your "Device" but sync'd with the cloud in case of it getting lost or damaged

3. Input. Lets face it, we all enjoy a good keyboard and mouse...if you're on the go touch screen does the job but I'll never write a document from one (unless I am super desperate)
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It's ridiculous to think about surviving the heat death of the universe when 50 % longer life spans would be pretty cool.

In the coming decades, We may or may not be able to significantly extend life, but it's not clear why it's unlikely, or why it causes harm to even think about.
HN's algorithm is great at pushing linkbait, self-help articles, and frameworks associated with popular languages to the top.

None of those are interesting to me, however, so a personalized HN classifier is awesome.
A cute baby dressed like a rabbit
I just found this cute baby picture. I am sure you will like it, because it will make you smile.
I wouldn't have clicked through if I hadn't read the HN comments first. A different article title might be more effective?
> who in their right mind would buy them

The sort of people who, according Phineas Taylor Barnum, are born every minute.
Congrats Rocío.
I never got my jet pack, but I DID get my handheld supercomputer. I love this. I love the idea of it and the 7 year old in me who had his world rocked by that TI-99/4A is stoked. I just can't be upset at any aspect of this - our computing dreams just keep coming true.
Cheap office computer costs 200-350$. Why would you buy a phone for 1000$ to replace it? It doesn't even run Windows. It will work only after 10 years when devices get cheaper, and only if they put x86 in it. Another problem is that phones are stolen much more often than Cs.
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Wouldn’t login sniffing on these supposedly dumb machines be a greater concern? Murders are more common within families after all.

While the I/O from those plugged-in devices could still be sniffed, including what appears on a screen, at least you could encrypt your communication when using a portable device.
That seems a strange assertion - I was under the impression that insertion sort beats bubble sort on small arrays, pretty much always, and even in 'nearly sorted' arrays, which is often touted as a strength of bubble sort.

http://www.sorting-algorithms.com/ gives a decent overview with n equal to 20, 30, 40, or 50, but nothing smaller. Now I'm curious.
Would love to see inline examples of the output, or a bookmarklet that gives you the generated output of e.g. an element you choose on an arbitrary site.

Also, you don't need to copy every child element's style. You only need to copy the styles that are different from the parent element and/or different from your current stylesheet.

For each element, I believe you can create an empty one in the place you'll be putting the final output to see what its computed styles are, and then use that to compare to the one you're reading from.
Amazon Appstore more lucrative for many devs than Android Market
The fact that the destination is the same does not mean that the journey doesn't matter. Most people are not indifferent to dying in 6 hours or in 60 years.
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True, good point. I sometimes forget that as I only use it for Gmail.
It used to be 18:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Minimum_Drinking_Age_A...
Those who harass on Twitter should be banned.
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This is cool from a gee whiz/novelty standpoint, but in practice this will have very poor usability. Why? Good touch apps have terrible UI for keyboard & mouse interaction.

For example swiping, pinch to zoom, etc. Many apps use a swipe to the left or right to perform and action. How would this work with a mouse?
It was a just a proxy to Google, no?
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It may not be a good thing, but it offers advantages currently unavailable in our current system--a way for citizens to shoot down piggybacked laws.

The flip side is that large, money backed entities could also use FUD to manipulate citizens into shooting down clauses in bills.
Graphic designers are breaking the web
According to this[0] you can also use your own domain and send all the mails to mailinator. I dont think those form validation software would so clever to check your MX records (or their alternate domain name du jour would not work)

[0] http://mailinator.blogspot.com/2008/01/your-own-private-mail...
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In case anyone cares, here's a jsfiddle for KnockoutJS:
http://jsfiddle.net/2pLk3/5/

I was curious how it would stack up - the answer seems to be "pretty well, actually". Of course, all the normal warnings about synthetic benchmarks apply. :)

Edit: I'm updated the JSFiddle to attempt to properly clean up the Knockout bindings. Probably. As I said, I'm pretty new to Knockout still, and may well have made a mistake.
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Beautiful, it works great! Will be perfect for what I need!
This article illustrates what's wrong with "enterprise" type software: HiPPO rules in that context, and it costs too much to do testing to validate any design choices. In fact, most "enterprise" development managers believe that software is fractally buggy (any piece of the whole has an infinite number of bugs) and so if something is in production, they will not change it unless forced to do so at virtual gunpoint.
I agree that the laws may not be fair, especially regarding drinking age.

Regardless, A CEO should not openly admit to illegal activity to a journalist (or anybody really). That seems very unwise and immature.
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To your friends, maybe.
To a national press organization? What good can come of it?
This might just be too little, too late. Flickr has been in bad need of a makeover for 5-6 years now. Sites like f.e. 500px.com - with its unfailing focus on photographers and their photography - ran past Flickr long ago.
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