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yatsykon Impressive JPEG Recompression

I've successfully converted 99% quality image which became 4.4 times smaller in size (identify shows 72% quality) after that I've converted same original image to 72% quality with imagemagick and I've got similar compression. Artifacts are look similar to jpegmini algorithm.

More interesting would be blind comparison experiment with with imagemagick compressed images with similar compression ratio. I'd be surprised if they could get 25-50% better compression with similar quality images.

yatsykon Notch's Livestream for Ludum Dare 21

I'd be very interested to look at live editing of experienced vim hacker to steal some tips.

yatsykon No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3

At least one customer had issues removing data without court order. So in order to satisfy your 99.9999999% estimation amazon should have at least 1B S3 customers which is way to optimistic.

yatsykon Linode turns 8; Disk space +25%

happy birthday from satisfied customer!

yatsykon Javascript Bitcoin Miner

Idea for browser extension: display warning icon if tab uses all cpu.

yatsykon The Hot/Crazy Solid State Drive Scale

1. You can backup entire partition

2. Restoring of Windows machine with lot of software very annoying and takes a lot of time (clicking dumb "I agree", and reboot the computer now, entering serials etc...) but with ubuntu or os x it's less annoying experience. Good package manager calculate dependencies for software. The only exception is when you need to install some proprietary software (less frequently than on windows) or you need edge version.

yatsykon Why we need an Open Wireless movement

and notify everyone who could potentially call me about my new phone number... I do sometimes but it's far from optimal solution

yatsykon Why we need an Open Wireless movement

1G costs about $30K if I decide to use my phone in other country, so I'd say that reports about cheap 3G is greatly exaggerated

yatsykon Morph C++ into Javascript

If C++0x is much closer to javascript CoffeScript to C++ is possible.

yatsykon Show HN: MicroEvent.js - js micro event emitter in less than 20lines

Backbone by documentcloud could be the other option to consider because 4k of gzipped code is not so big also.

yatsykon Goliath: Non-blocking, Ruby 1.9 Web Server

Very timely release: I'm creating facade to other http API. Something like the sample in the article. I faced problem with slow responses from other party so I need to move to async request handling. Would you compare Goliath to EM HttpServer or other options?

yatsykon Lists of must see TED-talks

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1324937 - sorted list of TED talks by @igrigorik

yatsykon The ABCs of virtual private servers, Part 1: Why go virtual?

I've benchmarked filesystem with iozone tool and got more or less similar results for guest and host except "Pread" test where host is 20x times better then guest (my assumtion that this is a bug of virtualization software or misconfiguation from my side). I've performed test few times with same results.

My be I'm wrong but I don't understand where I could loose performance.

yatsykon The ABCs of virtual private servers, Part 1: Why go virtual?

All that work you did to make your IO sequential goes to waste as soon as you put it on a VPS

Why? You can run only one VM inside each hyprervisor. Or you can run only one IO intensive guest.

I hardly see any reasons to run my servers on hardvare instead of VMs in 2011.

yatsykon Soywiki: a wiki built on top of Vim and Git.

There is also GitHub's gollum [1] . It's also uses git as storage. Gollum supports a lot of formats for page content and some of these formats have a good support in Vim.

[1] https://github.com/github/gollum

yatsykon IcedRobot to run Android apps on OpenJDK

It would be nice to try android application in desktop browser before buying. With this project I believe it would be not so hard to create applet (or how they are called in 2011) for browser and show some features of your android application without installing to device.

yatsykon Nokia Confirms Microsoft Partnership, New Leadership Team

Not so smart move for Nokia, but this move could be good for WP7. With Nokia MS could get some market share. But for Nokia it's dumb. They are betting on not so feature rich platform with very small market share, with small (comparing to competitors) number of third party applications. And what it worst this is closed platform controlled by other company.

Why not fork Android?

yatsykon Office comparison: 37signals vs Zappos

Zappos workspace is bad from programmer point of view. Open space with lot of crap, phones on tables. May be this workspace is good for communication, someone could feel more happy in this workspace and so on but it's terrible for hacking. It looks like this envirement encourage interraptions. 37s office much better for productive work.

yatsykon XMPP creator's "Locker" -- personal social media aggregation platform

I'm excited about project. Hope I'll get rid of custom scripts that download contact data and place into repository.

yatsykon Useful apps for Hacker News

similar list: http://hnresources.com/apps/

yatsykon Microsoft: 'We do not copy Google's results'

MS caught on:

- optimization for SunSpider [1]

- now scrapping google SERP

Curious what is next? Linux code is in Win7?

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1913102

yatsykon using GAE and DryDrop to host static sites for free

> you have a public repo, you don't want to pay for CNAME support on GitHub and you are obsessed with the idea of running your site on GAE :-)

You don't need to pay anything for CNAME support now. It was not true previously but now only "obsessed with the idea of running your site on GAE" reason remains.

yatsykon using GAE and DryDrop to host static sites for free

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yatsykon using GAE and DryDrop to host static sites for free

Application will be unloaded from memory for sure but to serve static file you don't need to initialize app (i.e. load jar file into memory and start it or parse python source), you just need to serve static file. So start-up time could be much better. It is interesting to know about actual experience on GAE for static files hosting.

According to GH pages performance is great.

yatsykon using GAE and DryDrop to host static sites for free

GitHub pages[1] is other great option for static site hosting. You are pushing to github repo and your site is regenerating. Jekyll [2] is used as static site generator. I'm using GH Pages for HNresources.com hosting. If I need quickly update site I could change source page on project page on github.com site without even using git.

One question according to GAE hosting: If your application wasn't requested for some time it is unloaded from memory and first request after that require more time. Is it still apply to static sites?

* [1] http://pages.github.com/

* [2] https://github.com/mojombo/jekyll

yatsykon Hacker News app for Android (with login, voting, and commenting)

FYI, there are three other android clients: http://hnresources.com/apps/ and your already added to the list

yatsykon The Widescreen Laptop Conspiracy

Completely agree with this article. Wide-screen of same diagonal is cheaper to produce. May be situation could be better if we measure screen in megapixels or useful area.

I've never watched any movie on my laptop. I don't need additional distractive windows with documentation, browser or sidebars. But now with different toolbars working area is very narrow.

May be one of the reason why sales of windows and android tablets so bad because all of them use widescreen but iPAD is not widescreen and has quite good screen with large useful area.

I believe that there is a market for laptops with high-DPI IPS non-glossy screens for professionals (not only developers).

yatsykon Car theft by relaying signals from wireless keys

Car thieves of the future might be able to get into a car and drive away without forced entry and without needing a physical key, according to new research that will be presented at the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium next month in San Diego, California.

Sadly but this future already is in Russia for a long time. This google translated article [1] from 2006 is about different code-grabbers. There is different car insurance price depending do you have additional not so easy breakable wireless alarm installed.

[1] http://translate.google.ru/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl...

yatsykon How David Blaine Held His Breath

This talk at TED http://www.ted.com/talks/david_blaine_how_i_held_my_breath_f... is interesting. Like the moment when he talk that his ex-gf used time that he spent underwater to read SMSes on his phone.

yatsykon Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator

With new Christmas theme background title of site is unreadable. Would you please use code like this http://closure-library.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/closure/goog... for correct text color selection?