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icoloma··on Feather: Open-source icons
Shouldn't SVG be compressed in the same way as other text contents like HTML and JS? Woff opts out of this behavior, but it's standard with all web servers.
icoloma··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2015)
Lock8 | Berlin, Germany | ONSITE | FULLTIME

Lock8 (http://lock8.me) is a young Berlin-based startup that brings GPS tracking and Bluetooth connectivity to bicycle locks around the globe. After a successful Kickstarter campaign, Lock8 was declared winner of TechCrunch Disrupt Europe 2013, raised a series A and is now searching to expand the IT team.

* We are currently seeking a Python developer to join our back-end team. Our technology stack on the server involves Python 3, Django, Ngingx, ZeroMQ and SaltStack.

* We are also searching for a JavaScript developer to join our front-end team. The selected candidate will be working with cutting-edge technologies like React, EcmaScript 6, Sass, RWD and gulp.

It's not required that you know all these tools already, but if you lack experience we will ask for a Github or StackOverflow profile to get to know you better.

We are a tightly-knit cross-functional team, so communication skills are vital. We are looking for strong problem-solvers, developers that like what they do and would be a good fit for our company culture. If you think you are a fit, we should definitely talk.

Please contact us at jobs@lock8.me

icoloma··on Nearly 5M of GMail accounts leaked
These passwords where probably not stolen from GMail but come from reusing passwords from other websites.

To check out if your account has been leaked: http://isleaked.com/en.php

To search through the ASCII file (only addresses, no passwords): https://mega.co.nz/#!b5lREBgS!LnC9yfR3RC--iMeNMWdQP7m1j4nUf9...

The discussion on reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/2fz13q/5_millions_of...

icoloma··on DynDNS ends free services
Has anyone compared Route53 with the new Google Cloud DNS? https://developers.google.com/cloud-dns/

I'm interested in differences feature-wise.

icoloma··on Show HN: Siri, open the garage
Google Now is integrating some information extracted from the user inbox, when the received e-mail includes the right schemas:

https://developers.google.com/gmail/actions/

By the moment it requires registration, but we are using it and works nicely. It's one step in the right direction, I suppose.

icoloma··on Amazon and the "profitless business model" fallacy
That was an actual game at some MIT presentations. Eventually the speaker noticed.
icoloma··on Our love-hate relationship with OAuth
If this is your case you may want to consider Mozilla Persona, which will default to OAuth for some providers such as GMail.

We do have bizarre situations like people logging in using Twitter or Yahoo accounts bound to GMail, but they are rarely an issue. It's more frequent the case where a user is trying to open their account page using the wrong GMail account.

Anyway, our plan is to detect multiple accounts with the same e-mail address and offer the user to merge them, but we are not sure about how to do this since e-mail addresses are not immutable.

icoloma··on Our love-hate relationship with OAuth
Most people are integrating libraries into the server side, I guess. Security HTTP proxies are something that I have only seen in banks.
icoloma··on The PyCon Incident
The repo they use for demos at GitHub says something like "fork? fork you!"
icoloma··on Sony Pirates KDE Artwork
...young Skywalker
icoloma··on Ask HN: Where are you storing your passwords?
I did a search on HN and SO and found nothing. Do you have a link to investigate further?
icoloma··on Kevin Mitnick
It strikes me as funny the difference in tone between the Shimomura and Mitnick entries in this website. Biased++
icoloma··on Ask HN: Best books you read in 2012
I can confirm that Pattern Recognition is (in my memory) even better than Ready Player One, which is also an amazing book. Thanks for the others, didn't know about them.
icoloma··on Show HN: an open source HTML5 + CSS3 course
You are absolutely right, it looks better now. Thanks!
icoloma··on Show HN: an open source HTML5 + CSS3 course
Sorry about that. We are strongly opinionated, since we have been developing with IE support since version 5.5 (that we don't miss much, truth be told).

The course has an entire module dedicated to make things work in IE: http://html5.instructormatters.com/0.3/browsers-and-seo.html...

You are right that IE10 is a standards-compliant, really good browser (not so much IE9). We were rushing to get the contents out and probably should re-check our browser assumptions.

Thanks for the heads-up.

icoloma··on Show HN: an open source HTML5 + CSS3 course
I am afraid there is no graphic designer among us. We are all IT guys.
icoloma··on Adobe Edge Web Fonts
Also, there is an extra DNS round trip by using an external web service. And I hate seeing JavaScript crawl into my <head> tag - certainly not for a web font.
icoloma··on Why you should not be displaying relative dates.
It gets even worse with DST. is GMT+2 meant to be Spain in summer, or something else?

Relative dates are a blessing where space is a constraint

icoloma··on AWS is down due to an electrical storm in the US
I can only talk about my experience, but I've had zero downtime with GAE since we migrated to the HR datastore. Development is x1000 harder, but then everything Just Works.
icoloma··on Make Better Select Boxes with Chosen
There is an icon to do the same in the CSS tab of chrome inspector
icoloma··on Top Technologies Used By YC Companies
Am I the only one that is missing node.js?
icoloma··on Show HN: An open source website preview generator tool using webkit (live demo)
Any insights about how it is different from webkit2png?

http://www.paulhammond.org/webkit2png/

icoloma··on Pagination 101
You can use a title attribute that displays the shortcut. Desktop applications (such as GIMP) do that all the time
icoloma··on The Rise and Fall of Programming Languages in 2011
These days I trust more the index of popular languages in GitHub: https://github.com/languages

I like to see it like an index of "in which languages are we innovating" or "which projects are worth forking"

icoloma··on Yahoo Axis
These days I still find many general knowledge questions (i.e. non-technical) being redirected from Google to an entry in Y! Answers. These are not strongly affected by time, so I suppose it's still playing a role (even if only as an archive)
icoloma··on Ask HN: What are the most inspirational blog posts you've ever read?
Don't work. Be hated. Love someone. http://halfhalf.posterous.com/dont-work-be-hated-love-someon...

Terry pratchett speech about alzheimer http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1986843/posts

And of course, steve jobs speech at stanford. These three are speeches instead of posts, but I found them true inspiring.