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edd··on Playdate pre-orders begin in July
> I bet you could even make it yourself in a weekend

This is it: the peak Hacker News comment.

edd··on Deliveroo users are getting defrauded
From this Deliveroo engineering blog post:

https://deliveroo.engineering/2017/09/05/improving-password-...

"Therefore, from today, we will be informing our customers when we determine that the password which they use for Deliveroo is publicly known in some way. We will contact the impacted customers to request that they change their password, and advise that they also change that password at other sites where it is also used."

edd··on Focus by Firefox, a Content Blocker for iOS
Any reason you're not supporting the iPhone 5 or 5C? Is there something you need which they don't support?
edd··on Show HN: Web startup security is failing and we're fixing it
Just so you know your responsive design is covering the request invite submit button when your browser goes somewhere below around 900px wide (Using chrome latest dev build).
edd··on 9-Year-Old Who Changed School Lunches Silenced By Politicians
I am not saying I agree of disagree with the use of the law in this case but the problem that is associated with children having cameras at school could be fear of things like this: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29017808/
edd··on 9-Year-Old Who Changed School Lunches Silenced By Politicians
From wikipedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photography_and_the_law]:

"In general under the law of the United Kingdom one cannot prevent photography of private property from a public place, and in general the right to take photographs on private land upon which permission has been obtained is similarly unrestricted. However landowners are permitted to impose any conditions they wish upon entry to a property, such as forbidding or restricting photography."

I think the council would argue that they are enforcing the ban of photography to protect the children from people who might want photographs of the children. I know when I used to work with children we had to get written consents from parents before any child could apear in a photo and in some cases we were instructed to make sure some children were never photographed and step in the way if we saw anyone with a camera.

edd··on IPad '4G' claims face scrutiny from UK regulator
Unfortunately money isn't the thing holding back UK 4G adoption. You can read more about the delays here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17853286

But even then because no two countries will be using the same spectrum my understanding is that UK 4G will be incompatible with US 4G.

edd··on Show HN: I decided to document and share my high-level CSS best practices
The reason I would advocate using hyphens is you should do what the language (standard libraries) do. For example:

    css:
    margin-left, border-bottom (hyphenate)

    javascript:
    getElementById, documentNode (lower camel case)

    ruby:
    each_index, has_key? (underscore)
edd··on Show HN: A Collaborative Code Editor (like EtherPad with Syntax Highlighting)
Once it finishes loading it completely breaks my browsers back button.
edd··on EasyXDM – crossdomain javascript done right
For people who prefer code to do the talking you can find the EasyXDM repo here: https://github.com/oyvindkinsey/easyXDM
edd··on Hacker News rips off Reddit or so Mashable claims...
This 'rip off' was much more evident before Reddit got big (the first time) and redesigned the voting buttons. Before that the designs were almost identical.
edd··on Sprint.ly: New software development management tool from Joe Stump
Interestingly Vimeo does let you jump forward if you use their html5 player.
edd··on http://(Type any keyword here).jpg.to
I don't know what you think the site is doing but that is exactly what it is. It didn't curate the images, people didn't upload the images. It searched for an image that matched your word. No google didn't licence the image, but it only displays small thumbnails with a link to where it found the image. This is displaying the full size image with no link to where it found the image.
edd··on http://(Type any keyword here).jpg.to
If you are not going to validate that you have the rights to display the image the minimum thing you can do is add attribution to every page the image is displayed. Not a separate page.
edd··on http://(Type any keyword here).jpg.to
As 'cute' as this is please find a different API to use or at least find a way to attribute where you are _stealing_ the images from and ensure that the owners of the images are happy with you using the images.

Just because an image is on the internet does not mean you can reproduce it. I ran a couple of words I knew return copyrighted images and sure enough they come up.

edd··on Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (November 2011)
London, UK - Full Time - http://spider.io

At spider.io, we look to catch bad people doing very bad things.

We catch botnets, browser emulators, clickjackers, traffic launderers, bots that probe for weakness, bots that learn. At spider.io, we look to distinguish legitimate human website visitors from nefarious automated traffic.

It’s a hard engineering problem. It would be a hard problem at toy levels of traffic. We need reverse Turing tests. We need to analyse from the application layer to below the TCP layer. We need clever stateful classifiers, that classify information based on previously received information. And if this isn’t hard enough, imagine doing this across four times the number of messages each day than the number of tweets received by Twitter each day. This is where we’ll be before the year is out. And for us this is just the beginning.

If you're an engineer and would like to help us make this happen, check out our careers page: http://spider.io/careers/

edd··on Impressive html5/css3 clock; no Flash.
It is a protocol relative url. This way if you are looking at the site over https then the assets will also come down over https.
edd··on Impressive html5/css3 clock; no Flash.
2.3MB of data for a one page site! While its pretty that is crazy big!
edd··on Seven Minutes in Ubuntu: A Mac user's first impressions
"I really miss middle clicking links to open them in a new tab"

Hold down CMD while clicking (or the Apple Key as its popularly known).

edd··on What Safari’s “Reading List” in Lion means for Instapaper
Either Apple have worked on the speed or hardware has just got better but Spotlight is very usable for most people I know. This is especially true of those on a new MacBook Air where it appears instant. Also if you use it a lot it caches the results you hit, so for repetitive app launching it has always worked adequately.
edd··on Rate my App: Tea for iPhone--getting quantitative about tea
Website doesnt seem to fit on an iPad sized screen, I can briefly read the content but then the iPhone comes and overlays the right hand size. Looks slick other than that though.
edd··on Instagram Now Adding 130,000 Users Per Week
While I know what you are trying to get at please for a moment think about what you are saying. For most people photos aren't about optical perfection. Photos are a trigger. They are there to trigger a feeling of what a moment was like, to capture what the smells, the sounds and the atmosphere were like at a given point in time. A photo with a new born baby, you and your first girl/boy friend, you an your degree certificate.. these are personal moment with personal feelings. Its about what the moment means to you.

I look at photos I took 10 years ago with my 620x480 camera and I am not upset I didn't take them with a film camera, because the photos still have all the important things to let me relive that moment.

edd··on Nick Denton speaks about Gawker redesign
Why oh why lifehacker do you always redirect me to uk.lifehacker.com and lose the article I was trying to look at.
edd··on Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol (HTCPCP/1.0)
This is the RFC April fools from 1998. You can see a list of all the April Fools RFC's here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools_Day_RFC
edd··on Confirmed: Personal Hotspot feature coming to all iPhones in iOS 4.3
And the UK on some networks. O2 for example charge more, 3 just take it out of your phones data allowance.
edd··on For what are the Windows A:\ and B:\ drives used?
If its any consolation I am only 22 and felt a bit old as well knowing entirely what was coming after clicking the link.
edd··on Verizon iPhone 4
In the UK O2, the original iPhone network, have in the past held off letting any new customers buy the new iPhones for the first month to make sure their existing customers can upgrade first.
edd··on Instagram sends passwords in plain text
I don't want to alarm anyone but so does this site. If your not using unique passwords for every site you use then you really should consider doing it. Tools such as 1Password make it ridiculously easy, there really is no excuse.
edd··on Skype for Mac 5.0 beta released
I created one for the old Skype for mac: http://edds.github.com/Simples.SkypeChatStyle

I will be converting this to the new Skype at some point over the next week. The styles are full HTML, CSS and JS. The messages are all placed into the view with JS so its fairly easy to customise to your hearts content.

edd··on Homeless Man Leaves Behind Surprise: $4 Million
Posted and "[dead]"ed yesterday: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1744855
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