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More info http://www.theverge.com/2012/12/3/3722112/tumblr-hack-gnaa

Tumblr are suggesting you log out/clear cookies if you visited any of the hacked sites

> There is a viral post circulating on Tumblr which begins "Dearest 'Tumblr' users". If you have viewed this post, please log out of all browsers that may be using Tumblr immediately. Our engineers are working to resolve the issue as swiftly as possible. Thank you.

I'm not sure, it's 5TB/month @ 100Mb/s then 10Mb/s after that. You'd probably struggle to use 5TB bandwidth on a server that small

https://www.ovh.co.uk/dedicated_servers/kimsufi.xml#bandwidt...

Actual list is available here

https://gacweb.icann.org/display/gacweb/GAC+Early+Warnings

Looking through, the first thing that I noticed is the number of domains rejected by Australia, looking through the PDFs the reasons all seem valid, it's just strange that Australia is the one rejecting them.

Yeah, ComputerCraft (http://www.computercraft.info/). It's also in Tekkit

You already can, and you can program them in LUA http://computercraft.info/wiki/index.php?title=Turtle

moot - adjective 1. open to discussion or debate; debatable; doubtful: a moot point. 2. of little or no practical value or meaning; purely academic. 3. Chiefly Law . not actual; theoretical; hypothetical.

-Via Dictionary.com

Given the nature of the service (being commenting/discussion) I struggle to see how this would stand up in court, however I'm not a lawyer.

We launched a similar sort of thing yesterday, taking advantage of our community we're sending people free stickers if they take a picture of themselves at a polling place or with their ballot papers. http://dft.ba/vote

This idea seems pretty cool, could you not just add an entry to peoples calendars (Might reduce the number of people you could influence to just smartphone users, but I would imagine most people would have smartphones. Guessing it's using Twilio?

I've never really understood Uber, in London there's a company called Addison Lee, do basically the same as Uber London and have for years, have loads more cars, more experience and charge about 20-30% less than Uber. I've never been to any of the other cities where Uber operates but I can't see why anyone would pay more for Uber over Addison Lee. Have I missed something?

I'm assuming their servers are in LGA11, according to Internap the basement has flooded and damaged the fuel pumps for the generators. They also said in an earlier email they have no staff on site and are urging all customers to shut down their servers.

Edit: here are the emails I've received from Internap regarding LGA11 https://gist.github.com/3980482

I really don't understand this article style

>Adobe made a clear statement: we don’t care about coders.

>“Adobe made a clear statement: we don’t care about coders.”

They write a sentence then quote themselves in big text with highlight. Is this a standard way of presenting an article?

Maybe a little bit of a sensationalist title, websites switching to HTTPS only isn't that much of a threat, yes the bill is bad and yes he should be opposing it but Ars seem to frame it as though it's drastic or has a negative effect on anyone. While I disagree with the bill and the concept of monitoring peoples internet, I don't think they're doing it so they can find out what you're reading on Wikipedia or who you're messaging on Facebook.

Twitter and HootSuite have entered into a "partnership", there are some clients Twitter have deemed "useful" or in some way beneficial to the service as a whole, as such these partners get special treatment. I'd imagine HootSuite doesn't have to worry about client limits and things like that, however in return they have to help Twitter drive consumers back to Twitter.com/Twitter owned apps. That's my speculation, HootSuite are killing off Seesmic and their "consumer" options because Twitter asked them too.

From the blog on HootSuite's site

> Consumer users of Seesmic encouraged to explore new tools, apps and features available at Twitter.com

Guess that's the side effect of these new Twitter partnerships, also a very round-about way of saying they're shutting

http://blog.hootsuite.com/welcomes-seesmic-users/

Just ordered one. Completely useless, expensive but ridiculously cool. Who's going to be the first to write a Hacker News publisher for it?

This isn't a particularly constructive comment, it's just something I've wanted to say for a while but not really had a chance.

I'm not a regular user of Batch, but Dailybooth is one of my favorite/most visited websites. I can't help but feel they don't really want it anymore, like they're just supporting it because they have to. I don't think there have been any updates to the code for about a year, 20% of the live-feed is spam and it goes through periods of being completely unavailable, the home feeds/notifications not updating and seems to have random 5xx server errors constantly. It still seems to have a reasonably active community but it's been mostly abandoned. I'm not sure if it's because they couldn't monetize it effectively, they don't have time/resources to maintain it constantly, or something else, with this (presumably talent) acquisition I wouldn't be surprised if it's been shut down within a few months.

From the comments

> I believe it's Google Closure compiler putting commas in there.

Someone else linked to an explanation of why

> http://blog.vjeux.com/2011/javascript/javascript-comma-trick...

</fact><opinion>

So from the looks of it, the problem is in Opera's javascript implementation.

I'm not sure how much Google uses Closure Compiler internally but I wouldn't have thought they would use code they knew to cause issues in some browsers. I guess that ether means the Opera implementation is wrong and the code should work fine, or Google didn't test this as fully as they should have done

dlvr.it provides this out of the box. There are probably other services that do the same. I think TwitterFeed provides options for only posting certain content but it's been a while since I used it

http://gopotato.co.uk/grabs/Screen%20Shot%202012-07-10%20at%...

Yeah it's one thing that does a very simple job that I have to give both my twitter and github auth too. I might forget about them or not be sure how to disable it. Are you going to build one of these for the 20 or so other feeds I put into my Twitter? Yeah it's a nice idea, and the implementation seems good, but it's not really fixing a problem so for most people it probably won't be worth the effort.

dlvr.it allows you to create filters on items. You can get it to post as much or as little as you want and it provides full customization for formatting, you can even find and replace within the text

Why not just grab your RSS feed and put it into TwitterFeed or dlvr.it?

I assume (hope) this doesn't include enterprise products.

While it's always nice to have a pretty frontend, why not use Google Apps or Exchange reminders as a backend? Yet another account, yet another site, disconnected and needing individual management. I use Exchange reminders, to set it up I just add my Exchange account to my iPhone or Outlook and it's done. It's not pretty but I don't have to remember another site

While it looks like a very fancy site, I wish they'd made it a fluid layout. It looks weird on my big monitor

http://gopotato.co.uk/grabs/Screen%20Shot%202012-06-27%20at%...

I assume there isn't a technical reason for Apple to take the store down every time they launch a big new project, do they just do it for dramatic effect?

Are URL shorteners still relevant? I think the only real usage for them was Twitter, and since t.co all links take up 20 characters regardless of the length of the original link (Even if it's shorter).

The other use would be advertising, but doing sensible on-domain links like ourcompany.com/product are much better and easier to remember than bit.ly/aZq14

I'm sure there is/would be a political reason, but it's most likely some marketing person refreshing a Google alert feed then (metaphorically) hammering anything that isn't one of their official sponsors. Just a theory

I believe unless you are officially a sponsor for the games, or have recieved permission to use branding, you may not use the phrases "2012 Olympics", "Olympic Games" or "London 2012". There was a hotel had to change it's advertising to "Need rooms for the big event this summer" or something allong the lines because they weren't an official sponsor. And a Cafe had to change it's name from "Cafe Olympic" to "Cafe Lympic" [1]

From the 2012 Olympics "Using The Brand FAQ" [2]

>4. Who is allowed to use the Games' Marks? Official commercial partners, sponsors, suppliers and licensees are allowed to use the Games' Marks in accordance with the terms of their agreements with LOCOG or the IOC. See our current partners. > >We have also granted a number of non-commercial partners helping to deliver the Games the right to use our brand. This includes central government departments, the Greater London Authority and boroughs hosting various events for the Games.

So it's more likely than anything they were taken down just for using the Olympic name and modified logo

[1] http://www.businessweek.com/ap/2012-05/D9UTL52G0.htm [2] http://www.london2012.com/about-us/our-brand/using-the-brand...

None, but for something that's attempting to generate very simple markup

  <!DOCTYPE html>
  <html>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <title>TITLE</title>

Is nicer than

  <!DOCTYPE html>
  <html>
   <head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <title>TITLE</title>
   </head>
   <body>
    
    </body>
  </html>

Why do so many people still use redundant HTML tags?

The opening and closing body and head tags aren't needed, nether is the closing html tag. It doesn't make that much difference to the page as a whole but it adds another level of indenting to your code and makes it more complicated than it needs to be.

Why naturally jump to the conclusion that Comcast (Who, while many will criticize, probably know vaguely what they're doing) is broken before researching /why/ it wasn't working? DNS isn't the most simple thing in the world, and things like this can catch a lot of people out, particularly if your DNS host doesn't tell you root level CNAMEs are not recommended, but automatically assuming someone else must be doing something wrong, just because you think it should be working, is frankly stupid. It's the sort of thing I'd expect from TheDailyWTF or /r/talesfromtechsupport, not a reader of Hacker News.