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CSS filters are already in Chrome and Safari, and allow advanced styling as as blurring, warping and modifying the color intensities of elements.

Isn't it funny that the first browser to implement these "filters" was IE 4.0 [1]. And at that time using any of these filters was a bit frowned upon and amateurish. Now suddenly everyone is gung-ho about it and calling it the API that will transform the web in 2013.

[1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms532849(v=vs.85).as...
I think for the most part daily deals were a macro- experiment. Everyone jumped on board - startups, businesses of all shape and sizes, as well as end-customers with high hopes everyone would win.

I think what were finding out through the experiment is that it just isn't really sustainable for much of anyone. I dont know if that segment will be disappearing anytime soon but the model will have to adapt.
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Even if what you're saying is true (which it isn't), it's completely optional. Don't want to use `let` scoping? Use `var` instead! etc.
It feels like the deals have gotten significantly worse over time and now it just feels like they are selling coupons.
"The company has deliberately avoided filing patents on its heat exchanger technology to avoid details of how it works - particularly the method for preventing the build-up of frost - becoming public."

Evidence that the main use case for patents - protecting true innovation and development - does not even need the patent system.
If it were just about SW talent, I'd suspect that the G.O.P. could find plenty of willing and capable engineers in the finance sector to lead the way (assuming that the IT teams in the finance sector are aligned with the G.O.P. along with the more outward facing facets of the industry).
Given the location and history of England, English is probably the biggest mutt of the Indo-European family.
Was that just a warning from Google, but still allow you to do it?
Thanks very much for that. This is one of the reasons I love Hacker News!
Article seems poorly researched. "OpenFeint" is shutting down, but GREE completely replaces it, at least on Android. It's also far beyond score boards, with things like virtual currency, sharing screenshots, push, etc.. So there is no vacuum at all. Not to mention we have Apple's Game Center, Amazon's Game Circle, Papaya Mobile, etc..

I guess I am happy HeyZap is growing beyond the useless, check in from your app, but with our app linked and not yours, roots I last heard of them being at. Seems like they are growing so that they actually provide something useful.
Yes, I agree that it is an excellent idea.
> The reasoning you're using here about exposed attack surface and complexity is faulty.

Could you point to the fault?
I'd be loath to put my credit card info there since it's on an HTTP (not HTTPS) page. How is this remotely secure?
We've been running these "situationals" for a few weeks now. This is the best one yet in my opinion. The teespring guys had to step outside their comfort zone to think about building up a pipeline of inbound customers.

Thoughts or suggestions for the next one?
Selecting music to play at any given moment is entirely human. Play Strength was not intended to make music selection automatic.

I think humans can make better decisions with data. Play Strength attempts to expose insights already locked inside your music library.

For example, one of the big changes in driving some hybrid vehicles is a real-time monitor of how power is flowing in and out of the battery. I think just seeing that data changes your driving habits.

That's what I was going for with Play Strength. Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
What's the security model for browser-native audio recording?

That's a worrying security hole, if you can record without getting any permission from the user -- sites could eavesdrop on visitors and upload the audio to who-knows-where (knowingly or not, via an XSS hole...).

I believe Flash needs to prompt you to access your microphone and webcam; browsers should too (even more so, because someone who has disabled all plugins may feel safer...).
Well, maybe. Alex works at Stripe. And wrote about having a browser API for payments.

http://blog.alexmaccaw.com/one-click-signups-and-purchasing
A job pays money, but it also involves a bunch of other things, like interesting work, a sense of purpose, and a manager who isn't an asshole.

More money can replace all the non-money things, in the same way tofu can replace bacon: It's a good enough replacement for some people, it'll never be a good enough replacement for all people.

It might be difficult to attract top tier job candidates if you offer an all-tofu diet. You might have to hire non-top-tier candidates.
No. If you view source it will be a blank page. They use CSS for formatting.
79, narrow columns easier to read (think newspaper), printable, keeps nesting to a minimum, and helps keep edits (in version control/diffs) reasonably surgical. On widescreen allows two windows to be side to side.
Thanks for the kind thoughts!

I agree, the whole concept of a cloud-based music library is very new. Forget music, the concept of the cloud is new! I'm looking forward to a holiday filled with questions like, "where is it, who owns it, is it secure?"

Once people are comfortable with the paradigm shift, will really be cooking with gas.
But now so aptly named.
I still want to nitpick on 'perpetual'. Not in any conceivable usage, but in the context of that post.

"Few seem to want to hear it, but the housing 'recovery' is based strictly on a Fed that provides perpetual QE to hold down interest rates forever. ..."

That's a much stronger statement than saying it's open-ended. Maybe I should have let it slide as a little hyperbole, however I disagree with overall thrust of the comment.

Plus, the Fed's current policy is only open-ended in the sense that the recovery is not guaranteed because nothing is guaranteed. On our current trajectory it's not looking too bad. A lot slower than we'd like, but there is progress.

I do not think it is unreasonable to expect the recovery to be complete to the Fed's satisfaction (with respect to their QE promise) in three or four years. (I'm not saying we'll have unemployment, for example, where it was in 2007 anytime that soon). If you add on a further period of QE to let them meet the commitment they have made, then I grant that is a long time but it is not forever.

"Policy parameters = f('hope') is not what they get paid for, or why they are entrusted with power. "

I was being a little flowery with 'hope', is all. They do have to act on what they believe are the facts and what they believe will happen, whether or not I call it 'hope'. However, what the Fed is supposed to do is look after inflation and unemployment. They've been very assiduous about the former while neglecting the latter for some time now and are finally allowing the idea that inflation could go a little higher than 2%.
Microsoft Reportedly Planning OS X-Style Cheap, Annual Windows Updates
Chrome does prompt the user when a site requests webcam or audio (microphone/line-in) input.
Mediator Appointed in ‘Do Not Track’ Efforts
So, TCP over HTTP, which is a protocol built on top of TCP. Does anyone see that this is rather silly?

If you want a client-side app that uses TCP, why must you do it over the web? The appeal of write-once-run-everywhere?
5 Roadblocks to Productivity
Man, this is perfect. Definitely a must have bookmark for anyone using bootstrap. I mentioned something like this a while ago on a HN comment (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4595229), so I'm really glad someone came through!

On a side note, Why isn't there a place to add your own resources?
> Porn is the canonical example

It's the same with weapons design and scientists, or battlefield medicine and doctors. At some point the challenge overcomes the ethical qualms. Or, in some cases, the need to eat becomes pretty overwhelming. Morally dirty but technically difficult jobs often pay really rather well, partly because many talented people are turned off by the field.

Real example: a good friend of mine was in my physics class at university. He was a pretty peace-loving, anti-establishment, idealist type like all of us at that age, yet he's now a government employee spending his days inventing ways to make ICBM warheads invulnerable to anti-missile systems. It's cutting-edge materials science stuff, and he loves it. (As a cold war kid myself I'm slightly ashamed to say that I found the whole thing deeply cool and I'm quite jealous of his job.)
You're blowing my mind here. Really good stuff.

What I think is really cool is that all this stuff is coming. There are a lot of stakeholders deeply invested in seeing these ideas come to fruition.

To the future! Cheers.
the project is not in your github repo anymore. clicking on that link from the demo page will take you to a 404.
Advice: How to not get a ticket?
Also have a look at ProfitBricks: https://www.profitbricks.com/
#awesomesauce
I don't think daily deals was the end-goal. Getting small business customers was.
Or just ignore IE8 and assume the "revenue loss" from anyone running that browser not being able to navigate your site is worth the loss of headache.

I always wonder why it is an assumption IE support is mandatory. As others in this thread have pointed out, Chrome / FF now have a combined 700 million and I'd assume between 50 - 70% of the browser marketshare. At some point, using backwards broken nonsense to support outdated browsers becomes a financially unfriendly situation, especially when you can't reproduce a lot of the newer goodness (like html5 localstorage or websockets) in older versions of IE.
My guess is a large % of these laid off workers will be sales people in the disparate cities. Call center workers too.

LS seems to be going after small businesses but w/a different end goal than groupon, groupon looks like it wants to be the merchant provider for these companies, LS, not sure.
I'd also suggest that clicking anywhere on the body should dismiss it, and behave like cancelling.
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Well, you didn't read the post apparently and only a title :(
Because people like AGL, CPercival, and me do care, i.e., we develop network applications, care about users, and prefer to avoid rather than troubleshoot random brokenness.

From today:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4840330
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4844121
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13596019/openssl-1-0-1-ha...
Amen.

I do feel like the recent releases have almost been done with no regard for the current ecosystem. How have none of the management commands in django-extensions been brought into even contrib, let alone core, yet? I haven't built a project in years that didn't include extensions. Even just the shell_plus command.

But otherwise, yes, this did smell a bit of link bait. Django is the wrong tool for projects where NoSQL, as a primary data store, is the right tool. Rails? Well, I could be flamebaity about the direction they've gone, but I think I'd rather use my time and karma looking into Derby, thank you very much.
Similar concept but a little simpler and avoids manually written recursion.

notes = cycle ["c", "c#", "d", "d#", "e", "f", "f#", "g", "g#", "a", "a#", "b"]
majorSteps = [2, 2, 1, 2, 2, 2] :: [Int]

scale note = map (dropWhile (/= note) notes !!) . scanl (+) 0

I think it's less clear, but if you want to avoid the rescan via (!!), then

scale note = map head . scanl (flip drop) (dropWhile (/= note) notes)

Both result in

λ> scale "d" majorSteps
["d","e","f#","g","a","b","c#"]
I think "backwards" is the wrong word. I'd say "uninformed" would be closer to the point.

CMSs manage your content usually through a database, and most of them provide a way to display that content in a structured format. See Wordpress and Drupal. WYSIWYG is not a necessary part of a CMS.

Bootstrap is a (mostly) css library to help provide a better front end development experience for a web site/app. It can be used with the front-facing portion of a CMS or any other kind of site.
"While at Amazon re:invent I had the opportunity to complain to some Amazonians..."

So what was their response? Was their response the `ec2-authorize` command to run?
It's one thing to prompt the user when you start recording and another to need to go to chrome://flags.

Permissions for privacy invading features should IMO have a unified interface like they have in the OS like Mountain Lion.
There's a difference between creating porn and building a porn site or whatever.
Kyle, amazing post! You mentioned that the 60% speed increase led to a 14% donation increase. You used webpagetest.org to measure the 60% speed increase. How did you measure the donation increase? Is there some sort of A/B tool for CDNs to help quantify the impact of speed improvements on CR?
Heroku and EC2/CE are different services:

Heroku is a platform that takes care of all the "plumbing" for you, you do a `git push` and your application is instantly running on their servers. They take care of installing all their dependencies and you never have to worry about setting up firewalls, front-end proxies, web servers or anything like that. If you need more capacity you just move a slider and you're done.

With EC2/CE you're doing all the stuff I just described in the last paragraph by hand [0]. It's cheaper and way more flexible but they usually require you to know how all that stuff works. By the way, Heroku runs on EC2, they just abstract all the nasty details for you.

PS: Google Compute Engine is on Limited Preview right now. If you're planning to offer a service that you care about you should consider this.

[0] In theory you can get AMIs that do install all of this for you but you'll usually end up SSHing into the machines and configuring everything to whatever you need.
TopCoat - Framework for lightweight applications based on web standards
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Mobile Startup Quantifies Black Friday Foot Traffic
A tool that painlessly provides you with a ready-to-use Bootstrap environment belongs on the list. That includes gem bootstrap-rails.
Far from the event horizon, a black hole acts like a point mass just like every other star. If, for instance, the Sun were to immediately turn into a black hole, the Earth would continue to orbit it as if there had been no change.
good idea and encourages the seller to hustle. ;)
The concept to which you're referring is that linguists describe language without shaping it. Its like saying scientists don't make physics, they observe it. With sociological phenomena the distinction between dictating something and measuring it is finer, but it doesnt mean linguists hate prescriptive grammars.
I agree and I think it is an important insight. Why did everyone jump onto this thing?

My intuition is that the turbulence in media, from mp3 players to PVRs to online newspapers to Netflix and other on-demand video experiences has seriously damaged the way in which small business would "talk" to their potential customers. This is a gaping hole that has yet to be well served.

So I wonder if the macro experiment was that something like Groupon would replace it those other forms of outreach.
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It's the same here (Rochester, NY). Groupons used to be to fun events, nice restaurants, etc. Now they're laser toe fungus removal and pseudoscience.
Nice work. Article suggestion:

Could you delve into the applications of retargeting for email auto responder campaigns?
> If you're a $250M venture fund, why not throw $250K cheques around and see what sticks

Because even $250M venture funds don't like to waste their cash if they don't have to. There should be some vetting process otherwise they're in trouble with the LPs. And $250K is too low for a large fund because of the overhead of doing a deal. You're just as likely to pick up a few million in capital for a more solid plan that you'd be picking up $250K for a weaker plan.

$250K is middle ground, that's more a big sum for an angel than a small sum for a large fund.

Smaller funds might try to do a $250K deal for a disproportionate percentage, that's not really a win for the company.
What (apps) do you use to stash away your ideas?
Imagine getting an idea in the middle of a night. What do you use to capture it so you can come back to it? Is it a diary? Or a piece of napkin? Or an app?

I have been working on an app that basically captures your ideas. Not only that, it also aims to capture the circumstances that inspired the idea. e.g. time of the day, day of the week, your current location. It displays stats based on these variables and simply tells you in what circumstances you are coming up with ideas. What do you guys think about something like this?

If there is interest, I can post a link and show you guys what I have so far.
Does anybody else remember the articles about Tim O'Shaughnessy in entrepreneurship magazines?

http://www.inc.com/magazine/201203/liz-welch/the-way-i-work-...

Stepping back a bit, I'm starting to see a pattern. One day, the magazines are like, "Bobby Clampit built Something2.0 out of his own golden shit with his bare. ALONE." Ten month later we have an announcement that reads "And, ah, Something2.0 announced 2,000 layoffs, whoops, the core co-founder team is releasing statements that..."
I actually did. I was quite interested in the redis example. For about 10 seconds, which I then went "wtf is this useful for?"

We really need to stop reinventing the wheel
Just out of curiosity, if you had a web app like Gmail, and your user accidentally went to close their browser window with an unsaved email half done, how would you plan on warning them without blocking events?
Can't say I'm surprised by this.

I pass their fancy offices [1] all the time, but I'd have a hard time naming anyone who uses their deals regularly.

They've gone from expanding rapidly [2] to laying off heavily in 7 months.

It's a shame as they were often touted as a success story for tech [3] and business in general in the area.

1: http://www.businessinsider.com/living-social-office-tour-201...

2: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-business/post/li...

3: Yes, I know tech is relatively small part of the daily deals business. I'm talking common perception.
waking up to the reality that 80% of economic activity is unproductive sounds pretty doom and gloom to me.

you think the other 20% will just absorb that labour?
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site looks good looks like its still going through some polishing.
FYI for the Flash screencasts, if you're going to support mobile devices(with responsive twitter bootstrap) then you might want to consider using html5 video too otherwise you might miss converting visitors to customers.
What would you use to achieve the same thing with Redis?
The need to go to chrome://flags has nothing to do with privacy.
Yes. Formally, a singularity is just a "hole" in spacetime. As you increase the mass of the black hole, the singularity itself doesn't change, but the curvature of the spacetime around it becomes stronger.
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If you look on the demo page (http://fabien-d.github.com/alertify.js/), all of the alerts get injected into #alertifylogs.alertify-logs which is positioned by css and therefore should be easy to overwrite:

.alertify-logs {
position: fixed;
z-index: 5000;
bottom: 10px;
right: 10px;
width: 300px;
}
Save it in drafts and notify them when they come back.
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While I can only speak for Chicago, the traders/finance people certainly lean right, but the developers seem to generally lean left, at least given the last few GOP candidates. Most that I know are in finance because you can stay in Chicago and make substantially more than working at Google/MSFT/Facebook while working 7.5 hour days with no overtime (with a few exceptions, e.g., Citadel).
On one of the toilet paper dispensers at my college someone had written;

"Pull for Arts Degree."

Underneath it someone else wrote.
"Wipe for Business Degree."
I've been teaching myself Danish (a little) and this rings true to me. Mostly Danish feels like English but with different pronunciation, and occasional non-cognates. Danish certainly feels closer to modern English than German does.
Other candidates:

* Yahoo's Everest

* Greenplum

* Aster Data

All mentioned here: http://www.cubrid.org/blog/dev-platform/database-technology-...

The Register wrote that Amazon's solution is a column-oriented database possibly based on Postgres, like Yahoo's:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/11/28/amazon_aws_redshift_...
I'm not going to down- or up-vote you. But wanting something to block a UI execution thread is...novel. Thousands of man-years have been spent creating non-blocking systems for the simple reason that it opens up a lot of options.

But I guess in some circumstances having a UI-updating callback called when a modal dialog is up might be a little confusing for the user. And setting (and checking!) a global everywhere is rather messy. So I see your pain.

Ha, one way I just thought of to get frozen behavior is to take a snapshot of the screen, then overlay a canvas element with that image. As an added bonus you can do some transform on the image to make the effect look more native. When the dialog box goes away, the canvas goes away, and your updated state is presented as if it just executed.
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I think this is a great idea. From the moment I heard of WebSockets I was disappointed it was only a thing between the sockets-capable-web-server and the client and not a real TCP connection to wherever you want. This solves stuff :) However, I think that you should keep an eye on the possible security implications (ex. fooling the same origin policy, using your websockets proxy as a hub to attack other systems on the internet, ...)
Tell me more. What are some of the specific questions you have around that. E-mail + retargeting is pretty interesting.
I thought MTU of ~1500 was (realistically) the minimum nowadays?