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"Oh, and one more thing: OS X Mountain Lion boasts complete integration with Twitter, just like iOS. Microsoft will need Facebook integration in Windows 8 more than ever if it’s going to catch up to Apple (remember, Microsoft is a Facebook investor)."

This paragraph really makes my blood boil. I suspect "complete integration" means the same thing it does on iOS, oauth without an NSWebView. What, when I right click I'll be able to tweet the text I've selected? Give me a break.

There is little need for anybody to "catch up" to a feature that everybody already has. Now logging in with twitter is slightly easier and faster. I can hear you already, "twitter integration gives users a default account and eliminates the mental friction of signing into things". I'm sorry, how many programs do you log into daily? You generally log into web apps, and the browser already has pretty good oauth support.

This is a fantastic opportunity for Twitter, I wish I knew how much iOS5 has helped them grow, but I bet being shoved in the faces of OSX users will drive adoption even more. It's also a good move for Apple, they get to say "now we've integrated twitter across both iOS and OSX."

So, it's good for Twitter and good for Apple; Let's not pretend it's good for consumers.
Yeah snapshotting itself is a big no-no :-) nice try ;-) LOL
Ask HN: What is the best way to record tech presentations?
My startup is going to be producing and organizing a lot of tech presentations over the next year, and I wanted to get a robust, convenient solution in place for high quality recording of video and audio.

After doing some research, it looks like a video framegrabber, a video camera, and a few wireless mics is really the way to go. There is a company that sells an all-in-one box that purported does what I need, but I have heard some negative reviews of their other framegrabber devices (specifically the VGA2USB box): http://www.epiphan.com/products/recording/lecture-recorder-x2/

I thought that given how many tech presentations and conferences happen every year, this must surely be a solved problem with someone having documented some best practices. Sadly, this is not the case, so I am seeking the wisdom of the crowd here at HackerNews.

What kinds of setups have you seen for doing high-quality recording of technical presentations? What is the easiest to operate? What setups are the least error-prone?
If JotForms charged $10 to $20 no one would use them. A competitor with more thoughtful plans for discouraging phishing would wipe them out. I imagine most of these forms could be automatically detected.
It knows your naughty thoughts and is busy thinking nice thoughts.

Or in fact the website has some missing artefacts which confuse Snapito! Consider that bug firmly raised.
With the Mac App Store in Snow Leopard, or Lion's Launchpad (and touchpad), it seems clear that Apple's been headed in that direction for a while.

What strikes me is how they're doing it iteratively. Not because it's surprising; graceful iteration has been OS X's single best feature for about a decade running. It's just interesting to observe the enormous contrast between what they're doing and the "try and alienate all our users by being as disruptive as possible" approach that Microsoft has chosen to take with Windows 8.
"...when they have proven time and time again that they will purposefully hobble their software/devices in such a way as suits their business models and bank balance."

Care to list any examples?
I deployed CurveDNS a few weeks ago for a few of my domains. It's pretty easy following the instructions here:

http://curvedns.on2it.net/docs

I wrapped the CurveDNS binaries with fpm, which made installing it on all the servers very easy. For the DNS server I used the djbdns stack (already in debian experimental, patched with IPv6 support). The big advantage of this is that tinydns's data format is atomic on a line level, so you just cat all the zone files together and build the data.cdb file. I do this with Rake and and push the zone all over SSH to the servers - making an internet facing change is usually as trivial as adding a single line in a text file and running rake.

Glad to see the client side of things is becoming as easy to set up as the server side.
Josh if you see it still let me know. I just hacked a quick JS fix and tested in FF10 and all seems to be well. But as you know each version of each browser has it’s own little features :-)
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You forgot the endless sarcasm. What's HN without a sarcastic reply for everything on the webbernets?
If these guys are saying this stuff in public, imagine the stuff Lin has heard in the privacy of the locker room or on the streetside court. But he still got to where he is today. So I wouldn't worry too much about the barbs he's facing. In fact, I would speculate that he (Lin) gets fired up because of these barbs and takes his game to the next level.
This particular article doesn't say that about gatekeeper though - the GP's question is valid:

If that weren’t enough, OS X Mountain Lion is introducing Gatekeeper, which will, by default, limit the apps you can install to apps from the OS X store or verified Apple developers.
Very interesting concept!!!
The link goes to the mobile version of the article, which (at least on my desktop Safari) doesn't show two elements, an image and a video, which are really needed for the text to make sense.

If it's possible to edit the link, I recommend replacing it with the non-mobile version:

http://www.good.is/post/the-alarming-rise-of-jeremy-lin-s-bl...
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"I got really unhappy with it when random open source tools suddenly disappeared offline and became $2 pay-to-play software on the mac store."

This has nothing to do with Apple.

"For anyone who doesn't want to play on the app store they now have to now get 'certified' by apple that they are allowed to write software for the mac. If you don't play by those rules, you can expect your software to be widely ignored regardless of the quality or malware status."

Sensationalist drama. The people who will be looking for software outside of the Mac App Store are the people who will know how to click to disable needing signing.
HD screen size battle moves to the smartphones - in search for the golden ratio
Given that the Geek2English translation obscured useful detail: Safari blocks third party cookies by default. You can work around this default setting by using an iframe to submit a vestigial form, which will convince Safari that the domain doing the submitting is a first party, not a third party. After you have any cookie on the machine, broadening the scope to include e.g. cookies from your house advertising network is easy. Google says "Whoopsie, we didn't plan on that happening." Cookies are still just cookies and their newfound relevance to the WSJ is still refighting something the Internet largely settled back in 1996.
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I really like where Apple is heading with OSX. With iCloud and a common set of features/services iOS and OSX are developing a very symbiotic relationship. It kind of confuses me to see people saying Apple is trying to turn OSX into iOS. It's really the exact opposite from my perspective. They are evolving OSX to be part of a future where SmartPhones/tablets are a major part of how people use technology. There has to be some degree of feature/usability parity for these devices to co-exist happily. Why should my $500 iPad have AirPlay and not my $1500 Mac? If I like using the Reminders app on my iPhone why shouldn't I have it on my Mac? I've yet to see any good argument against these features that doesn't rely pretty heavily on nostalgia or fear of change.
OS version update for something that Windows would call an 'optional update'. Way to squeeze every drop of PR out of a few new icons Apple!
You might want to move away from Mac's then. For some reason that's where it's all heading. By the end of 2012 you will be squeezing and swyping all over your 27" screen.
It’s a test of the water in regards to a more user focussed website snapshotting service. Rather than the usual aimed at integrating into third parties. In reality it was put together in a couple of hours as a POC - underneath the covers it uses the code from main project http://boardcast.it which is still pretty experimental.

Love to hear of any ideas/suggestions you have, feel free to drop me a line neil AT snapito.com if you like too. I’m all ears.
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You could go with a foreign registrar. I used to like gandi.net because it was based in France, so it had to observe EU privacy laws (you'd still be subject to the US with respect to .com domains though). However, Gandi.net now also hosts in the US, so I don't know what that would mean. Plus, hosting in a different country could expose you to their local laws.
Open letter to every UI designer trying to change 30+ years of usability of desktop interfaces, mouse actions and shortcuts behavior to 'iPad style' that has been out all of 3 years: DON'T!!
Why thank you kind sir/lady.

So this came about because people keep asking me for what tool to use to full page snapshots. And while there are tools that do it on your local machine, most web tools are just focussed on integrating with other sites not the user experience. So I thought I’d give it a quick go - I’ll probably add the scaling stuff at some point, just want to keep it nice and easy for users at the mo.

Thanks for the feedback!
>So it seemed feasible that we’d wake up one day and Apple would decree that all Mac apps must be sold through the App Store.
>But instead, Apple went to considerable effort and expense to find a middle ground.

Offering an option to users that locks out even signed apps is a middle ground? Huh.
why the downvotes? That's where I am imagining this going, as well.
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>in the grand scheme of racist gestures, Anthony's falls low on the totem pole

I don't think it was a racist gesture. I think it was an attempt to respect Lin's race that may have been slightly misguided.
Conceived of, developed, designed, and launched in 24 hours: https://github.com/paulirish/lazyweb-requests/issues/53

Tech: HTML5 drag n drop, FileReader, a[download], GIF encoding on the client, BlobBuilder, postMessage, <input type=range> (with Firefox polyfill), appcache, transforms, etc. Oh! and the aforementioned * { box-sizing : border-box; }
I pretty much agree with much of what you wrote. But feel compelled to point out a couple of things.

Unix was initially widely used on DEC computers - PDP 16 bit and then VAX for 32 bit versions. DEC management were less than impressed so they scrambled to improve on Unix and released VMS. The key designer of VMS was lured by Microsoft and thus NT came about. Once you strip away the GUI, a lot of Windows server is quite a bit like Unix.

In the world of heavy duty servers, Unix and its many derivatives were there first - by a long shot. The key players were Sun - Solaris / SunOS, IBM with AIX and HP with HP/UX. More recently IBM have been building super-clusters using Plan9 which is a descendent from Unix and created by same guys. The increasing performance of x86 multi-core CPUs and the freedoms of GNU/Linux effectively negated the early advantages of the proprietary Unix based systems and that is the core reason for their decline, not any competitiveness from Windows server.

Windows Server won a lot of support because it was easier to click around on a GUI than to remember commands. Of course, the real Windows gurus use command line stuff and scripts. But they are the minority when it comes to Windows sysadmins.

The vast majority of big systems, think Google, Amazon, et al. use Linux systems.

Now for a fun fact. Back in the 1980s, when Microsoft only had MSDOS, they actually licensed Unix from AT&T and sold it as Xenix. Once Windows gained a foothold, they sold Xenix to Santa Cruz Operation (SCO) who marketed it quite vigorously through the later 1980s and 1990s. A lot of office servers ran Xenix on IBM PC/AT hardware - some tricked out with larger disks and extra memory cards.

You have to wonder how things would have panned out had Microsoft kept Xenix and wrapped their Windows GUI around it. That same strategy worked out pretty well for Apple with OS-X which is Mach/BSD at the core with a very nice GUI on top.
>If we could make a tool that does everything as well as humans

That goes so far beyond anything we have any experience with that it's impossible to speculate. Every technological advance in history has been a labor saving device; a device that does everything as well as humans is no longer a tool, it's our replacement (i.e., strong AI).

>People have been retreating up the skill chain as technology has become more and more advanced.

The majority of jobs created by industrialization required less skill than previous jobs (e.g., farmers to assembly line workers).
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GOOD's mobile site needs work. Even though the article has a large number of social media shares and is decently positioned on the non-mobile home page, you won't find it anywhere at http://m.good.is no matter how many times you click or tap "load more stories."
It depends on their terms of service. Jotforms can pull any form that didn't adhere to their ToS. I suspect GoDaddy thought they were doing the same. Unfortunately, GoDaddy is horrible at dealing with things like this and likes to take a shoot first, ask questions later approach. However, the difference between the two is that GoDaddy will carpet bomb the entire site with huge. Ollateral damage while Jotforms can use a sniper rifle to take out the offending form with minimal collateral damage.
It will be most effective to grow the language from the bottom up by: propagandizing the benefits among developers, building bridges to other technologies (simple APIs), befriending other alternative language communities who are selling the idea that Java isn't necessarily the best and only way, and bury Clojure implementations in larger contexts.

That's not exact but it's a rough approximation.
Wow that's really cool tech.

Not gonna like though, I thought this was going to be about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphex_Twin
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A comparative clarity enhancing corollary to the summary of the summary:

DNSCurve is like ssh - no central authority, secures and hides the contents of the connection, not the data at rest. Server keys are published as part of the NS record of the domain.

DNSSEC is like PGP with SSL's centralize certificate authorities - trusted parties use keys to sign zone files which can be stored on an untrusted server but still authenticated. No encryption on server-client communication.

They're really complimentary techniques with different goals and means of achieving them.
So, it's good for Twitter and good for Apple; Let's not pretend it's good for consumers.

It'll be great for consumers. Instead of having to save, then locate a picture using a Twitter client, they'll be able to tweet the picture from iPhoto or whatever photo app they're using.
That is clearly not true, when does a game that worked one day to stop working the next day on for any native desktop program, or on a mobile or console platform?

The only conceivable time that I could imagine it happening is when my phone does a major version update, which happens a maximum of once in the entire phone's lifetime, is very visible to me (it would be clear to me that it isn't completely the developer's fault), meanwhile chrome updates every week silently. If any website works one day and not the next I would always assume the developers had pushed a bad build.
Found this - https://secure.futureprice.com/

Also, more options by searching http://www.programmableweb.com/apis/directory/1?apicat=Finan....

Other option is to do "real-time" scraping. MarketWatch and Yahoo have pretty good data feed to consume.
> At TED, “everyone is Steve Jobs” and every idea is treated like an iPad.

Great quote, that says it all
> Thoughts?

Not bad!

> More common consonants use smaller (sparse) dot patterns getting denser as you get into less common (frequent) letters

A few mappings emphasizing fewer dots for frequent letters (making for "sparser" words) were tried out and moved away from. The more speckled-looking words tend less to form concrete shapes and create "blocks" that stand out to the eye. If words are too dense you get similar issues, only in the negative. The optimum seems to be on the sparse side, but not overly sparse.

> Also worth noting: where possible I tried to make the glyphs memorable ("i" is the best example, followed by "o" and "z")

The original dotsies O and I are relatively memorable.

> More common consonants frame the center dot (to contrast the vowels which touch the edges/outside dots)

I could see how that could be interesting. How that would balance against the trade-off of ambiguity between similar letters (like s and t) would probably be hard to tell before one tried it.

I wonder if it would be worth coding up a page that lets people make their own mapping and preview them on some text, and posting it to HN.
It made it into The Onion, which is close: http://www.theonion.com/articles/huffington-post-employee-su...
It also subjects you to Gandi's personal code of ethics, which they require you to agree to and may take your domain if you violate. It's a little strange and I wouldn't register a domain for an adult site there, at least.
They're not "going out of their way to prevent third parties from supporting it" any more than everybody else who doesn't ship an operating system with a PPC compiler. That includes Windows, most Linux distros, your grandma, the corner grocer, President Obama…

Apple isn't actually stopping you from compiling for PPC. They just aren't shipping the compiler themselves. AFAIK, they don't ship any compilers for hardware they don't support — no VAX, no MIPS, no M68k — PPC is not special in that respect. I don't see what's so terrible about that.
With a few minutes of thought and with reasons behind your choices, you've produced a more legible system.

Regardless of OP's protestations, the diagonal one dots, two dots, etc., have nothing to do with legibility and everything to do with alphabetic order mirrored in dot order.

Your system has both reason and rhyme.
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Who cares about default font size? Learn how to use your browser's text resizing keychords (usually C-+ and C--)
With Mountain Lion, Apple officially drops 'Mac' from OS X name
Yeah I think it’s the ‘with finesse part’ that is worth pursuing for sure.
Is it actually legal to track customers by their credit card numbers, or do anything with them other than use them to complete monetary transactions? Should it be?
Agreed. I'm trying to figure out the logic behind the decision to restrict iCloud and Notification Center access to Apple-signed apps, and I just can't. If you have installed malware on your machine, you have bigger problems than a few spam notifications showing up.
As others have said, you aren't the first one with this idea. The typical way to make this viral is to send out a message to anyone picked that "someone has a crush on them". The problem with this is that this "crush" might just be somebody making guesses as to who has a crush on them. OkCupid actually changed their behavior recently to say who rated you with a 4 or 5 instead of making the user guess, likely because of this problem.

Not proposing this as an idea (I'm glad you're not doing this) but just throwing it out there so you understand different options and the consequences of this particular virality strategy.
The 24-hour conception to launch is more impressive than the end-result, which is still pretty damned impressive.
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SkyDrive has been online since 2007, before DropBox even existed. While I agree that it's not copied from Linux, it's hardly fair to call it a DropBox clone.

Disclaimer: I work for Microsoft (on SkyDrive, actually)
Mentioning the font size here is like declaring the units used to measure something (e.g. inches). It's not a complaint about the font size being wrong.
Perhaps its a function of age (I'm 37), but I am genuinely surprised at someone not finding this a clear violation of privacy.

I'm 38 and I don't know that it's a clear violation of privacy. They presumably didn't realize that she lived with her father and that he would have access to her mail. To me, this one is a bit of a gray area.
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Methods of abuse never stop evolving so long as there's a free product available to attempt to hijack. The problem won't stop being persistent, and the government is only going to get more frequent in their take-downs. Switching from innocent until proven guilty, to guilty until lucky if you can even defend yourself, will eventually make it very dangerous to open yourself up via free services.

Worse, if the government keeps lowering the bar on qualification for shutdown, the margin for mistake will be so small that the best effort possible won't be good enough. There will be mistakes, fraud will slip through, and boom you're toast.

If the Feds keep going in this direction, at some point the risk of a free system will not outweigh the benefit. Before 2012 is over, there will be enough of these examples to start scaring the hell out of the average web service - if we're not there already.

Government enforcement of policies like this rely on scaring large numbers of operators through a small number of intense persecutions. It works unfortunately.
GPL is essential when you are hacking your own stuff because the last thing you want is for someone to take what you've done, improve it, sell it and then close it off...and Linux is GPL. BTW, GNU stands for GNU is Not Unix, which comes from the fact they had to rewrite AT&T's Unix utilities from scratch.

Windows is great for earning money precisely because it is so deeply flawed and requires so much support. It's an endless money pit for the people deploying it, and a guarantee of lifetime employment for you. I've hacked on systems like Windows that were closed source and unfree, and it was not rewarding except in money terms.
Maybe Apple will end up buying Twitter, after all.
It's also likely that businesses will reconsider outsourcing essential parts of their web infrastructure, such as forms, to third party providers. They'll be more likely to hire a web developer to implement data collection on their own servers, which would ensure that their business won't be impacted by someone else's domain being taken down (for valid or invalid reasons). Bad news for JotForm, but maybe good news for independent web developers.