skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks, sounds like exactly my perspective. google viewer version of Naur's paper https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=https://blog.itu.dk/SASU-...

People have tried to put more of the theory into the source e.g. literate programming. UML and design patterns can be seen as a (not entirely successful) attempt at this.

Crucial to a "theory" is the "data". A test-suite can record this data, suggesting that tests need not only be about the software (or testing it, or documenting it), but also about the problem.

On theories: Sometimes when a project expands in scope, a different theory is needed. Not to cope with the greater load, but to interpret it differently - like how uncropping an image can reveal a different interpretation.
Oh, interesting! I use Firefox 10, and I didn't realize that that validation came from the browser rather than your page.
Thank God. I always hated Growl.
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OK, great effort getting this up and running but the font rendering is, well, not good. For comparison: http://no.gd/p/snapito-20120217-043956.jpg

I set out to tackle this problem a few years ago and while it was easy to rig up stuff to do this in Linux, getting anywhere near the rendering quality that I saw in OS X was impossible. It seems it may still be :-)

It was a couple of years ago now and I asked on Twitter if anyone would pay for an OS X powered Web page screenshot service and had a lot of response but.. busy with other things. Would love to see one though as it seems to be the only OS to render pages with any finesse.
Is this a toy project or are you guys planning to develop it further? There is a couple of really neat opportunities to turn this sort of service into a good business.
But it works, not just the headline, but the condensed information. The Forbes article is 2 pages long in large font, the NYT article is 9 pages in a much smaller font. There's something to be said for providing useful info in a short form.
I tried http://kittiesntitties.tumblr.com and my patience timed out. Maybe 60 seconds and still no image...
That point makes more sense. Yes, I think that in the future privacy laws that try to differentiate between the "Digital world" and "Reality" will find the lines too blurry to draw. Were already there and were not even close to the mountains peak.
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No, no, no, no, and no again.

There is a simple preference you can use to disable Gatekeeper entirely.

The default setting is to require that the app either come from the App Store or be signed by the developer (app signing is available through your ADC account)

Disabling it is as simple as changing one setting.

EDIT: If I sound a little frustrated, it's because people keep posting questions like these, and it's getting to the point that it appears rhetorical. Take 3 minutes and read just about any article that covers Gatekeeper and the answers to these questions become abundantly clear.

The repetition of this question, stated in this specific manner, is causing a deluge of rumors and misinformation. I've already been told by two non-tech people, "I heard Apple is making everyone use the App Store in the next version of OS X."
I think it's struggling to process my request... i entered in "http://snapito.com/?url=news.ycombinator.com&x=0&y=0 into the URL. Looping perhaps?
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In the hopes of finding out the rendering engine Snapito used, I tried http://snapito.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwhatsmyuseragent.com%2F ; however, that seems to hang forever. I would chalk that up to heavy load from HN, except that other pages seem to work just fine.
Oh wow. The Orwell reference in the comments to that article are more appropriate now.

The day that OS X will require jailbreaking to customize is the day I give up completely on Apple.
Sedra/Smith was a classic - I remember I picked mine up used from the campus bookstore, and it'd been cycled through the course so many times it was almost perfectly annotated and highlighted for the way one particular prof taught the material.

Of all the textbooks I used in my schooling, Sedra & Smith is on the short list of ones I remember explicitly - along with Silberschatz & Galvin on operating systems (with the ridiculous dinosaurs on the cover), Oppenheim and Willsky's Signals and Systems, EOPL, and Stewart's Calculus.
Are you dense? It's unfortunate for users, rational beings who, having spent several hundred/thousand dollars on pro applications, can generally expect not to be served malware. I don't really need Apple's assistance to ensure that Ableton doesn't sell me a trojan.

You might be dense. Who said it's only for trojans? I wrote "to reduce the damage a badly written or mal-intended application can do to a system".

Sandboxing is not only about malware. If, for example, Live has a bug that eats your home directory, it won't have its day under sandboxing.

And who said anything different will happen to Live or anything? It's not in the App Store, and you will STILL be able to run it. The change is for App Store applications.
http://www.play-hookey.com/ is a similar site that has been helpful to me over the years. It has interactive examples as well.
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I agree with many of those points. The problem I have is that article contains enough suspicious information that it's easy for a reader to assume the other points are cherry-picked in order to justify a specific political viewpoint.

In other words, it isn't convincing and I don't think it's a good link for this context. Others might be:

http://www.paduiblog.com/pa-dui/pennsylvania-takes-the-war-o...

http://www.lawyersmaine.com/blog/the-wars-on-drugs-and-dui-t...

These talk more about the justice involved, without getting into misinterpretable numbers like the Reason article did.

Anyway, for the original questioner, try doing a search for "War on DUI" for more essays like these.
Not bad - definitely a solid start. This happens to be on my own idea list:

11. Full-page screenshot service that doesn't suck

I'm happy to be able to tick it off as completed by someone else. :)

Edit: I tried sending it a url with Typekit fonts on the page. No dice. I'm assuming that Javascript is turned off?
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This is exactly what I thought. I think SS just emailed GoDaddy and GoDaddy just shut down everything.
Everyone is moving to different registrars, mainly NameCheap, I just hope they will be able to stand up for their users and ask for a court order. If other registrars start to shut down at the whim of the US Government, then we might have to move to registrars overseas. Unfortunately, that doesn't even seem safe to me, since there has been news of US pressuring other governments to put out SOPA-like laws. There is also the case of the British kid who was extradited to US.
This works:

http://snapito.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwhatsmyua.com%2F&x=...

Seems to be using webkit.
Moved to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=448434 in 2008 but the same problem.
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I definitely agree. This is already a pretty core functionality of OKCupid and, in fact, I implemented this same idea my senior year of school (called it the "senior scramble" -- it got ridiculous). I'm fairly certain this concept has been around longer than the internet and it hasn't gain prominence for a reason -- fortune favors the bold.
I currently use the imgur extenstion for this. Main problem is it compresses badly for long pages. This looks interesting though.

I found the survey annoying especially as it asked me about a site I had no knowledge of. Either have an unobtrusive survey or don't have one in my opinion.
Ultimately, if the intended users are dissatisfied, then Apple missed the mark

Not really. System 9 Users also complained about OS X 10. How it wasn't like OS 9, how it missed some features, how it was unstable etc. But putting a nice foundation down is better than giving instant gratification to your users in the long run.

By the way, you left a complaint off your list: Zero compatibility with project files from previous Final Cut versions. Hope you've got some free time to recapture everything you've ever shot.

Or just use the old version for your old projects, and only move to the new one for new stuff?

What kind of Pro jumps to a new version of a core tool anyway as soon as it it released? Most actuals Pros keep their setups steady for many years. Which is why I think most of the noise is from low production tinkerers, that already use both FC and Premiere etc.
http://snapito.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsupportdetails.com%2F&#...
It would be cool if he could see X-rays in the 10 nm range from what I have read UV and X-rays seem to overlap in that area at 10 nm. But the link to his page shows he can see 340 to 350 nm at best.
Because right now there are only 2 companies in the world with sufficient technical chops to build a competent end-to-end modern search engine. It's a HARD problem. No startup can do it.
> Gathering experimental evidence by having many different people from many different demographics read...

Why don't I get it peer reviewed why I'm at it. Then I can post in on hacker news in 2014.

>> How would Arabic look if you hadn't encountered it before?

> Probably weird. Distinguishable as a writing script, though. Your point?

That you probably would have found many flaws in it to point out, many of them probably valid, in relation to what you are familiar with. You likely wouldn't have given it the time or consideration required to discover the positive points it may have that are discernible when using it in practice, which could outweigh some of the negative points people enjoy focusing on at first contact.

> It's also completely lacking in things like contrast, visual cues

On what are you basing that? Go to dotsies.org and look at the bottom-left of the page, where you can compare the doties paragraph to the text above it. Gradually move your chair back from your screen until you can distinguish nothing. You'll likely see the distinguishing visual cues in the normal text go away before those in the dotsies text, despite it taking up less than half the space.

> your argument simply aren't very convincing. Sorry.

No apology necessary. Though, arguments on both our sides are mostly superfluous, and arguments from those who haven't tried it are partly speculative. The key question is whether it is useful, and that can only be determined by trying it out.
Nice and useful concept executed beautifully.
You might be surprised at how much programming you can do in a day if you work on two or more different kinds of projects. Shifting gears can be difficult, but taking a break from one project to work on a side project can actually let you recharge a bit for the main project.

Mental fatigue is not just a function of effort. It's also a function of monotony.
Even your parody is flawed.

If you go back to when the Latin Alphabet was introduced there were approximately 100 million people in the entire world, and only a subset of a subset would have been required to adopt this. Over nearly 3 millennia, the Latin alphabet has been improved upon and become widely adopted by even common-folk, to the point several billion people are familiar with it. You're task of adoption is several magnitudes harder.

Your alternative provides no significant value over the Latin Alphabet, unless you want to use it for a simple obfuscational encoding.

If you want to reduce the size and amount of visual information provided, look at Kanji, mathematical syntax, or shorthand notations (although these tend to vary by person).

Don't get so defensive. As it is it's not very good for tons of practical purposes, many that have been pointed out here. You even said that you can't interpret it as quickly as you can the Latin Alphabet, yet. Find a way to fix the flaws that have been pointed out, and come back. It's a novel approach and idea, but not practical for any use, currently.
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I believe that it will be one OS with two or three UIs. For instance, you'll have a device that will look like an iPhone or iPad when you use it like an iPhone or iPad, touch screen, big icon dashboards. When you plug that device into a docking station and monitor, it spits our a more OS X like OS. Though it's still the same OS, just a different view of it, now that you've got more real-estate. I like to think of it as a responsive OS.
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What he said was offensive, but I can't say that I'm alarmed that Floyd Mayweather said something stupid. He gets hit in the head for a living.
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Where does "without punctuation" come in to it? They say "Numbers and punctuation aren't altered." Sure enough, the bookmarklet doesn't remove punctuation.

Also, the bookmarklet seems to skip over paragraphs that have a character they can't represent. I tried it on your post and the paragraph with the 'ñ's wasn't altered.
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The "Please enter a URL" prompt also happens in Chrome (version 16.0.912.77)
This is pathetic. The guy is making a mountain out of a molehill. I doubt Lin cares the slightest about Carmelo's seemingly "obscene" gesture. I doubt anybody should. That the author mentioned the bow three times over the course of his article shows that he was grasping at straws. Who the f'ck cares about race, anyway, except the people who purport that racism is the single biggest degradation of American life, as the author seems to be saying?

Terrible article.
I don't understand this belief that Apple should support obsolete technology.

Lion is the _second_ version of OS X not to even run on PPC. Why should the developer tools they distribute for Lion support it at all?
There's at least 4 tests that I know of as a Pomona student.
Well, if your service works for a pair of users, then they might want to recommend it. Perhaps you could prompt users to have the app post to their wall or whatever if they have a success.
So you think OS X server and iSync that I just mentioned were peanuts? Keychain syncing? Xcode is a mess too, Xcode3 is barely supported on 10.7 and breaks when you upgrade your device, and Xcode4 is not backwards compatible with anything.
It's more the annotation/cropping feature set that would make it valuable. Currently to mark up a site, I need to go to that site, open skitch, take the snapshot, then edit it in skitch, then save. Then attach it to a gmail message and send (or upload to dropbox and send the link).

If there was a cloud solution that could do all of this, and provide a link that I could just send someone - it's just so much easier.
http://snapito.com/?url=http://www.useragentstring.com/
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I never use Launchpad, but I'm glad it's there since I've always had trouble explaining the Applications folder vs the Dock to people, and Launchpad solves that very nicely for non-technical people (especially ones with iPhones/iPads).
Reading the linked NYTimes article, I found the most interesting component to be that Target's goal wasn't just trying to sell diapers, but rather trying to get customers to form buying habits. Pregnancy just happens to be a very vulnerable time for consumers to start new shopping routines, and that's why it received so much analytic focus.

It's a travesty that Forbes glosses over this point. The data mining isn't too surprising, and a habit of shopping at Target is what keeps making them money long after the baby has been born.
I think it's because you've specified the type attribute of the input box as URL. Certain newer browsers will force validation on that (latest chrome and ff both do).
I have fully working eyes, but the concept of self-induced synesthesia is interesting. Especially for the purposes of getting extra-human senses. (Even if they're not that useful in practice.) Of course, if your eyes can already see color; glasses with a screen filter might be more efficient.
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For pregnancy and other medical discoveries, I wonder if a case could be made for HIPPA violations.
Agreed on the rendering being off a bit.

That would be another cool feature for this - to pick your browser/OS to point out browser specifics bugs. There's already http://netrenderer.com/ for IE - but it doesn't let you do anything with the image.

That's obviously a very limited focus for a great general use app, but an idea.
I'd probably pay you a small monthly fee to automatically take screen shots of a few web pages so I could have an historical record.

I'm sure quite a few web developers, especially startup founders, wish they did a better job keeping track of iterations and design changes.
I don't think they would. I would suspect that Target doesn't consider pregnany to be a medical condition that someone is ashamed of. It's a huge change in a person's life. One that's usually celebrated; and, they want to be the store you go to for your pregnancy needs by hooking you in with advertisements.

Personally, I don't find a problem with this at all. It's a life status "pregnancy" and the later status "with children". It's about the same as if I bought a lot of sports gear, so Target started pre-emptively sending me coupons on new sporting equipment for the upcoming season, and telling me of late-seasons sales.

I gave them the information by purchasing there. I know I did, so ... I just can't see why this is bad in the general case.
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I would definitely pay for a reliable snapshot service with an API. 100%. Build this, take my money, please!
By then, it will be too late.
I wonder if the author was just as alarmed at the rise of Tim Tebow's atheist antagonists, especially in major media outlets. Maybe it's because there isn't a word for discrimination based on religious beliefs like there is for discrimination based on race, or because blacks are a protected minority where Christians are becoming increasingly marginalized.

Discrimination of all kinds is wrong, and the rise of Lin and Tebow show how bigotry is still alarmingly accepted in American society.
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> while not scaremongering your users or sullying the image of the developers.

Warning against unsigned apps being potentially harmful is not scaremongering, it's the entire purpose behind code signing. I couldn't care less about "sullying the image of developers" and I bet Apple agrees.

> Yet you speak as if this system were immune against social engineering.

No, I speak as if this system were MORE resistant to social engineering than all other desktop operating systems, which it is. It's also a step in the right direction, towards a system that is immune.

> It will only be if and when Apple decides to remove the option to run any foreign unsigned programs.

I imagine this is how it will end up in the future, the 3rd option will be removed from Gatekeeper. Frankly that doesn't bother me. As long as Gatekeeper retains the "signed, but independently distributed and not reviewed" option and Apple doesn't abuse it, I'll continue using OS X.

> You call a "Your computer is under siege!" message an 'improved user interaction' that will 'reduce user anxiety'?

Right, because all benefits and downsides of code signing are fully represented in this one dialogue box. Give me a break. I'm not even going to bother to rebut this, I just hope you'll think it through for two seconds before responding again.

> Have you considered a position in Smashing Magazine?

Not familiar with the publication. I just call them like I see them. Every effort Apple has made towards simplifying user interaction has met with that response, and every time Apple has been proven right and played out exactly like that. I don't know why people can't just give them the benefit of the doubt at this point.
What a fabulous little idea Andy! Duly noted.
"What can you even do when their core profile of you is completely off-base?"

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Like Browshot (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3144066) ? :-)
> If anything, a wider font means my saccades need be less accurate.

Then using a font where letters are, say, half an inch wide would be even better, eh?

> What do you mean by "proportional shortcomings"?

The ratio of the height to width is about the same proportion as a roman letter, resulting in letters and sentences that are very long and narrow, requiring a lot of movement from your eyes. Think using a telescope to examine a long garden hose vs a short fire hose. The visual field of the telescope is analogous to the sweet spot of your retina.

> humans don't read letter by letter but rather word by word.

You've hit on the strong-point of dotsies. Look a paragraph of dotsies text, and you'll see that in the words the letters appear to form contiguous shapes.
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Javascript is on but this is running on headless Linux without TTF so there’s the rub, clearly the fonts are a big issue so I’m thinking about the whole elegant rendering aspect actually. I think the comments about rendering on OS X actually have some merit if the cost can be kept down.