jessepollak

Thanks Andreas! I know this isn't necessarily a "product," but thoughts on putting it on PH?

Thanks for the feedback! We just realized this document is actually out of date with our legal contracts.

I've opened up a PR with the change here (https://github.com/clef/handbook/pull/56), though it may be 10 years rather than 7, so I'm waiting for confirmation from our CEO before merging :)

EDIT: Our CEO's response was: "this is more complicated than just changing that number, give me some time to write the fully change up." Incoming!

EDIT #2: Updated with the 7 year number and a more depth explanation :) - thanks @brennenHN!

Hi everyone! I'm one of the members of the team, if you have any questions I'd be happy to answer here :)

Clef actually doesn't require internet on the secondary device. We just shipped offline mode a few weeks ago: it's not as seamless as the primary flow, but it works well and solves the problem. Turn on airplane mode, sync the wave and let me know what you think.

Fixed :)

Which version of Safari are you in? I've tested it in all of the latest versions, but it could easily be broken in an older one.

Haven't gotten to that point yet — I originally just set about implementing all the cards in CSS then decided to actually make it into something people could drop in really easily.

This looks great. Doing your taxes sucks.

One completely unrelated question (and I hate to be that person on HN): is the accelerated scroll on the website intentional? It's a really good looking site, but the scroll speed makes it very hard to read.

I actually haven't, I should look into that.

That doesn't really happen — I deliver before most everyone else is awake and I rarely have strict deadlines where adding an extra hour (most of which I would already have to do to get to work) would matter.

The couple times that I have had to back out, I either got my roommate (and co-founder) to take my spot or my employers have been understanding.

I was just sitting in the coffee shop (Awaken) and saw a poster advertising the job. Shot them an email and signed up. I think I got really lucky, but I'm sure there are similar opportunities out there.

that'd actually be awesome. your email isn't in your profile, could you shoot me one at mine?

I use WordPress with lots of caching and CloudFlare, but for some reason the caching wasn't working and I couldn't get it up. Had to move it to Medium and will fix the blog soon.

I actually only drink ~2 cups of coffee a week (one of which I'm just finishing right now at Awaken :).

I've actually experimented a fair amount with my sleeping patterns. For the most part, I find that when I wake up in the morning, I feel tired no matter what (up until around ~10 hours of sleep). What I've also found, however, is that this tiredness usually doesn't translate to how I feel for the rest of the day — I feel good all day no matter whether I get 6 or 8 hours.

working on a fix, sorry! EDIT: fixed.

I've lived in Oakland for ~8 months and I'm yet to be in a situation where I felt at risk (disclaimer: I'm a reasonably tall man and rarely feel at risk in cities). I live north of Lake Merrit, work in Jack London Square, and deliver bagels up and down Broadway and Telegraph on my bike. Primarily traversing that terrain, I feel very safe.

That said, there are other parts of the city that are much more dangerous. I generally put these in two categories: (1) neighborhoods with a high concentration of crimes like robberies and (2) neighborhoods where gang-related violence occurs. (2) is very often a subset of (1).

I'm not an expert, but from my understanding, (2) areas are heavily concentrated in East Oakland (east of Park Blvd), so if you generally don't traverse that part of the city, you avoid much of that danger.

Yes.

They Show HN'd to much controversy [1].

Started a $200,000 'crypto challenge' [2] which lots of people hated on [3].

Then someone compromised their protocol and they gave away $100,000 [4].

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6913456

[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6931457

[3] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6936539

[4] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6948742

EDIT: /launched/Show HN/s

This is actually something we thought we removed everywhere. I just grep'd our repo, found one lingering instance, and committed it out (will deploy when the traffic goes down). We understand it's deceptive and recognize the need to communicate to our users why Clef is more secure than usernames and passwords in a straightforward way.

I tried switching to LightTable from SublimeText 2 a couple months ago for javascript development, but was too confused and eventually gave up.

That said, the feature set seems very intriguing and I'm tempted to give it another shot (especially with all this news).

Does anyone have any thoughts on (or know of someone who's written about) making the transition to Light Table?

For your qualms about non-semantic HTML, I'd check out Neat (http://neat.bourbon.io/). I've used it a few times and it provides pretty much everything you ask for.

thanks :)

The first thing I thought when I saw this was awesome!

The second thing I thought was that I'd never remember to use it.

Just whipped up a tiny little chrome extension that will always redirect you to smile.amazon.com when you go to Amazon. It's not well tested, so could screw you up a bunch, but figured I'd share.

https://github.com/jessepollak/smile

This is complicated for me because I'm not 21 just yet, so I bars and dating are often out. And all my college friends are still in school, so those friends don't exist yet. :)

Regardless, the point still stands: finding balance is important.

Really, although I didn't explicitly say it when I wrote this, this piece was a lot about finding that balance. For the first time in awhile, I broke away from the people I spend 99% of my time with. I started out alone and lonely, but by the end it wasn't so bad anymore. I wasn't constrained by the settings/people/activities that I've become so used to. I went to the Watsi party, I did a scavenger hunt with strangers, and I made a bunch of new friends. It was refreshing.

Clef (https://getclef.com) — a replacement for usernames and passwords on the web.

It's cool because it allows the 99% of people who aren't technical to use public key cryptography to log in to websites.

This is really awesome. The UI/UX feels a little unapproachable and the feature set seems lacking (what do I do when I get to that page) , but I'm sure it's infinitely better than the alternative.

One small thing that's nice is the column summaries: http://cl.ly/image/2D1S2h0o0B09.

awesome! glad I could help.

Yep, that code was actually legacy code that ended up causing problems. I stripped it out :D, but only after I'd spent a few hours messing around with this.

I'll mess around with it and see if I can make it better :D. thanks again for the feedback, seriously.

Thanks for the screenshot, I'll fix that ASAP.