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Ask HN: How about a Co-founders Search Site?
Recently, someone on HN started a HN Contractors spreadsheet so that it becomes easy to find contractors who are here at HN.

I was wondering if anyone would be interested in developing a website around that idea. Only instead of contractors, it would be for findingco-founders.

I was thinking that the site would have two sections.

In one, it would allow people wiling to work for equity to post their skills/resumes.

In the other, it would allow people to post their ideas (say a web app they want to build), and put up requests for developers, designers, etc, who have the necessary skills. And also indicate how much equity s/he would be willing to share with each.

The reason I think this will be good idea is because I am a designer and a very good one at that (my portfolio is at www.alexwyser.com), but I dont have any coding skills. My head is full of all kinds of interesting ideas, but I cannot execute them. If a talented developer(s) would be willing to work with me on my ideas, I would gladly give him/her 80% or more of the equity.

I understand that it is best to find co-founders from among you real-life friends/acquaintances, but some people simply don't know anyone with the right skills.

I am sure that a lot of people here have ideas they can't execute because they lack the skill and don't know anyone with those skills, and would find this site very helpful.

So what do you guys think? Would it work? Is it worth trying out? Would anyone like to work with me to build this website?
It doesn't surprise me. I know that I'm more likely to put my back out or pull a muscle when I'm stressed. I hold myself differently, and my movements are also less smooth.
I learned Dvorak and Vim at the same time and never noticed an issue. Maybe if you've already learned Qwerty Vim there's a transition?
Inline Javascript should just be for initialising objects. And inline CSS only if a element's style is never going to be used anywhere else, like in blog posts.
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And then they went sueing other people over it. And it seems that Xerox didn't actually think they gave Apple this permission, as they in turn sued Apple over it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_v._Microsoft
Here's the transcript: http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0ATkBKEXbo6n8ZGdrNzhoM2dfNT...
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How do you test this? Healing rates are hugely dependant on quirks of the patient... So you can't really have a control group not using the apartus... Do you inflict a second, identical wound to the individual to compare which heals faster?
On Linux or OSX, just put them under "~/.vimperator/plugins".

The vimperator directory structure is pretty similar to vim's. You can also have a "~/.vimperatorrc".
I find it interesting that he got great relief from acupuncture, which has been fairly well studied and found to have no benefit beyond a totally untrained person pretending to stick needles into you. Certainly points towards it being psychosomatic.
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A lot of my friends have moved from Linux to Mac as their primary computing platform over the last few years. I've considered doing the same myself. But now I'm determined that I won't, since I will never do business with someone as unethical and frankly fascistic as Steve Jobs.
What's the point, then, of a walled garden if it doesn't have a wall around it? cookiecaper says "There's nothing to fear from a .xxx domain" but if that's the case then, de facto, there's nothing to be gained from it either except a bit of marketing edge. If the argument is for "safety", then it has to be compulsory. And even if it doesn't start as compulsory, the "Think of the children!" brigade will soon start lobbying for it to be made so.

Smarter people than I have written about this before: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3675
It says so right on the frontpage:
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The packages used are hyperref.sty and pdfscreen.sty
Have you tried it? I'm interested to hear from people who tried following Dr. Sarno's advice but didn't have any success with it. It gives me a better idea for how much certainty I should claim when I advise others to try it. :-)
Unfortunately, I don't think so, at least not for serious commercial development. Android and the Web both have big drawbacks for producing profitable apps.

Apple has a huge line of people with their credit cards out on the App Store and everyone knows it. Android has relatively few users and they are not known to be big spenders in general. The Web has lots of users but very few are likely to ever find your product and unless it fits in a few well-defined categories it's tremendously unlikely they'll be willing to pay for it (and ad-supported is not a reliable business model).
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I'm pretty sure your TOC is put there automatically if you use pdflatex.
Take a look at http://www.tug.org.in/tutorial/src/fiscreen.sty.

EDIT: It defines the navigation elements as well.
More people are aware of iTunes? Plus it seems to offer download and catalog files similar to what you can do to media files in iTunes.
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I'm using it in Windows.

I've searched for the folders "plugins" and "vimperatorrc."

There is a "vimperator" folder in my documents, but with no "plugins" child folder. This vimperator folder looks like it just contains some history files....
No question now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
"Though you may find some some discussion boards and community sites that still encourage good manners and penalise offenders, they are becoming increasingly rare."

So true. HN seems to be the only one.
Wow, 50 more billions was needed to develop Ares?!

If USA is in dire need of prestige that doesn't come from its industry, why not put more money(+) into research to eradicate diseases of the world's poor, like malaria? Oh wait, an industrialist is already doing that...

Why not e.g. give a few billions to DARPA for energy and health research? The USA should get both prestige and real jobs from that.

(+) Say, a tenth of the money earned from the cost difference between Ares and the private alternatives being built now?
I think you mean "Triumph of the nerds". There was a follow up to it called "Nerds 2.0.1 - Brief History of the Internet"
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This is hilarious. I had this idea years ago, but never had the opportunity to implement it. It's good to see a company with a sense of humor who realizes that no one reads these things.
Please submit your art entries! Presumably Eyjafjallajoekul will stop flights for longer than people imagine...
You mean running an app store with a forced monopoly on its respective platform and a (albeit not 100%) monopoly on the wider smartphone app market. Yes, it is similar in some ways.

However, this is not necessary for the statement "If Steve Jobs ran a country, it would be China" to be accurate. It need merely be shown that the general principles Jobs abides by match up in some general way to the philosophy of China. Whether his current company is similar in any way to a country is irrelevant — just whether his actions could lead one to believe he'd run a country that way.
If you have RSI typing pain and haven't treated it, spend a whole day typing with wrist braces. It convinced me to switch CTRL and CAPS LOCK on my keyboard. I love keyboard shortcuts, and bending my wrist to hit CTRL was causing my left pinkie to go numb.

I also have 'evasive action' that works well. When I feel pain typing, I immediately stop and give the offending hand a workout with a stress ball for 5 minutes. Then I massage the tendons in my forearm and then stretch my wrist on all axes. I haven't had significant RSI pain in a few years, and at this point I'm not brave enough to test which part of the routine helps most :D
I'm not sure, but according to the patch, only client and proxy are open source. Cloud print service seems to be closed.

http://codereview.chromium.org/1566047/show
No, they did not. Take a look at http://www.tug.org.in/tutorial/src/fiscreen.sty.
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i bet, it needs 80% of all cpus, as you can see, to show all that graphs =D
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>>If you had to put up sensitive cargo (commercial or military) that costs on the order of $100 million

Some payloads will always be that expensive.

But I've seen quite knowledgeable people (Henry Spencer etc) who argued that the launch costs are driving the cargo costs. With a launch cost of X 000 dollars/lbs, then you have a large incentive to remove weight.

As I understand it, some problems can be solved easily if you can throw weight at them (e.g. temperature control, vibrations?). You can earn money by weight addition reusing common satellite platforms, etc.

So, as I've understood it, lower prices on launch will lower payload costs.
I have suffered from RSI repeatedly over the years. I use an ergonomic microsoft keyboard, and this really helps. However what made the biggest difference was when I started using a Logitech Mouseman Marble mouse. The pain in my right arm/wrist vanished. I will never use a normal mouse again.
Sure, but is it up to the programmer to "subclass" or somehow specify that his type implements IterableMixin? Or is it up to the python interpreter to realise that it implements certain functions and automatically do this?
Sorry, couldn't find a link, but it's on TV here (Aus) at the moment.
They are interested in generating controversy, which generates buzz, which generates ad revenue.
I have no problem in believing that things like this can help with the pain (a lot). But still, author says that now he is able to type in any uncomfortable position for as long as he wants, and it sounds little scary. "See? I don't feel any pain, it's great." Well, wasn't there some reason for that pain in the first place? Maybe you feel great, but still, are you sure that you aren't permanently hurting your own body? RSI isn't just a state of mind…
Yeh, I dug around a bit more and, quite scarily, the advice appears to come down to "ignore the pain and it will go away"

Now I appreciate that if the cause is purely neurological then it is a beneficial thing to do. But if it is physical in some way; well that just feels problematic.

If you can tune out pain (and I know this is possible) then what damage are you potentially then doing....
I was thinking the exact same thing. I made a post here before I saw this.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1270235

I personally feel that this would be perfect, since it would allow some very talented people come together to build something great.

BTW, if any of you are about to start a startup and need a good designer to design your website or app interface for equity, let me know, I'd be happy to help you guys out.
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In Denmark, and to a slightly lesser extend Europe, consumer protection is so strong that pretty much any language in the T&C is pointless, and thus there's no point in reading it.

To a certain extend this is a good thing, and it's been instrumental in persuading people that online shopping is safe. But I think it's a bad idea to completely remove the right of consumers and businesses to enter into specific agreements.

There was recently an EU ruling deciding that if you buy something online, regret the purchase and return the goods (this is already the right of the customer), you're entitled to a refund of the shipping charges also. Before this ruling, the vendors only loss on a customer regretting his purchase was handling (time) - this is comparable to the risks of running a physical store. But now the vendor stand to loose actual money from shipping - and this is a bad thing.

First, this loss has to be covered on the margins - the consumers end up paying anyway, it's just less transparent.

Second, it pulls away the competitive advantage for vendors already offering this service, and hands it to the ones that don't. I.e. benefiting those who don't go the extra mile to service the customer on the dime of those who do.

Third, it could hamper e-business in areas where shipping is expensive.

But the most troubling thing about this is consumers getting used to vendors having zero rights. I witnessed an exchange on the forum of a club recently, where somebody was organizing a party with dinner. The cost was roughly €20 and should be transferred to the hosts bank account in advance. One participant voiced concern that something might come up, and another (not the host) casually stated that he should just pay, he could always reclaim the money.

Even if this in a narrow legal sense might be so (and I'm not sure that's the case, but IANAL) this is simply no way to treat volunteer hosts of a party, that, at the time you've decided to not show up, already spend your money on food for you.

Entering into an agreement is a two-way commitment, and even though we should make it hard for shady vendors to defraud customers (including taking their souls), teaching the customer that he has no commitments or obligations is a bad idea in the long run.
Thanks for the idea
I wanted to try out a similar experiment. I think that if the idea for the startup is good enough, it would attract a lot of talented people from the community.

I'd love to see how this works out.
tcgrep is good, too.
Here's my list of things which helped me: Logitech Mouseman Marble, the flat Apple keyboards, regular Pilates, and a conscious effort to sit up straight while typing.
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Don't forget to do exactly the opposite of this.

If you don't want the text to fill the window, reduce the width of your browser.
> There'd be no way to keep pornographic or sexual content constrained to a .xxx domain even if regulations were implemented to try to make it so.

But how much harm could they do in trying? That is the question you should ask. Look up Anthony Comstock if you want an example.
A concrete suggestion to solve this: Make a standard T&C that's quite tight on it's protection of the consumer, but allow (some) exceptions to be made, on the condition that the exceptions are clearly stated (and not hidden in the bulk of a long T&C) and each exception must be individually and specifically accepted on checkout.
I know that there are similar devices coming on the market in USA soon. The devices are in FDA trials now, which can take a few years.

Also, I should point out that here in the USA you still should go to a doctor for your wounds and not try to DIY a bandage. Even these NPWT treatments described in the article need someone who knows what they're doing to apply and change the dressings. Remember that you are more likely to die from the infection than the wound itself!
Natural experiment. You take a whole bunch of people who have naturally received wounds, classify them as best you can by severity of wound, some people get suction, some people merely get bandages, and keep track of how long it takes people to heal. With enough people in the study (probably not all that many if the effect is as large as the article makes it out to be) any difference in individual healing time or minor problems in the mischaracterization of wounds will average out. Problems like this are exactly why statistical tests take into account things like standard deviation.
"If you want to see what people believe, look at how they spend their own money."

More along the lines of:

"If you want to see what people are blissfully ignorant of, look at how they spend their money"
you are right. It turns out OSX support is here now. Do I have to be binary compatible to Linux to use it on FreeBSD?

It's a great tool nonetheless.
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You may not have it quite right. You may be looking for "utter failures". But that does not necessarily have to be the case. Zuckerburg had other ventures, it wasn't that they were utter failures, it was rather that he just kept chugging along.

I think that's a better answer to watch out for. Successful people are actively chugging along. They don't stop.

I don't know these guys' stories too well but I would bet they actively did stuff all their lives.
Yet my girlfriend drags and drops onto Gmail every time before realizing she is making a mistake.
Mozy used to include "DO NOT TAUNT HAPPY FUN BALL" in their T&C...
Perhaps its easier for animators to see the influence of a cage on a vertex, rather than a bone? I was wondering about this.

The cage is a nice wire-frame around the object of interest, and you can easily see how close the skin is to the cage, for some kind of intuition about influence.

With bones and vertex to bone weighting, you'd need some other visualization (like false-colour on the vertices) to show how much each vert is influenced. Also, the cage seems to remove the conceptual problem of a vertex being driven by multiple bones.

Hmmm. This is timely. Thanks!
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Nice. However - the upload box gets rendered behind the green hills. (Firefix 3.5.3 on Ubuntu)

Edit: it's not completely hidden, but largely obscured, such that I have to scroll down before I can see the form fields.

Edit 2: it seems to be a function of window size.
Drastic times call for drastic measures...

I remember when my dad called me to ask if I'd taken his Civ III CD back to Chicago with me. "I've been looking around for it," he said meekly. I told him, yes, I took it, but had recently snapped it in two. There was a pause before he said "It's probably for the better."
I've used Papers for a while and it's great.
You can just create the "plugins" folder if it doesn't exist.
Dictatorship of Google in Android?
You seem to have confused Daring Fireball with Roughly Drafted.
Applications that are in violation of the TOS are going to be rejected by the App Store.

As well as applications that are in violation of some future version of the TOS. Or compete against some future Apple product. Or that fail to meet an unknown arbitrary standard. The thing is, Apple is asking developers to invest in their product, and continuously changing the rules. Publishing for Apple products is becoming too risky.

I decided not to transition my sales force to iPad's because vendors like Appcelerator will almost certainly drop iPad support if the TOS changes. Developing glue code in Objective-C is like buying a supercomputer to play Solitaire. You can do it, but it's overkill, and that doesn't make it a good idea. We'll wait for the HP Slate or an Android tablet.
It's hidden pretty well (not on the blog, have to click to their homepage first).

http://app.teppefall.com/about/teppefall

(And it doesn't have much info either (when did the company start, etc))
I think comparing Vimperator to Vimium is not really fair. Vimperator does a LOT more than just adding keybindings :)
Simple, yes. Friendly, I'm not so sure.

It would be a bit more friendly if there were any information about how the site works (are there size limits? for individual files? for total number of files? for total size of uploaded items? can I delete an item once I upload it? how?)

Many sites now offer you an ultra-minimal start page, but in a way this isn't really friendly. The only way to find out about the service is to start using it. That's fine, but at least most of these sites have a link somewhere to a page with information about the service. I can't find anything like that here, but maybe I'm missing something obvious.
I tried to upload a 12 meg file, but "The connection to the server was reset while the page was loading" after about 60 seconds.
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Not here (OS X, tested on Chrome & Safari). What browser/OS are you using?
Nearly every job I've gotten past the age of 17 listed a degree as a requirement. I have about as much college now as I had when I was 17, which is to say, almost none.

Considering that I've never had trouble finding employment, I think that a degree being listed as a requirement in the job ad is quite often another meaningless bullet point that will be overlooked if you are attractive enough otherwise.

(obviously, there's some pretty strong observer bias here; the companies where that really was a hard and fast rule wouldn't have approached me, or wouldn't have given me an interview if I approached them. Still, I find that 'required' doesn't actually mean 'required' in many cases.)
in the UK, we have the Sale of Goods Act which will imply terms into consumer contracts, and a number of other statutory protections that apply default terms (and strike down others), e.g. UCTA (unfair contract terms act) and UTCCR (unfair terms consumer contracts regulations).
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Ask HN: monkeyswithrings.com or monkeysrings.com?
I need some SEO help. I'm considering buying a domain name. Let's say in the English language "monkeys with rings" is a common phrase. Let's say I want to make a website about monkeys with rings. But the Google keyword tool tells me "monkeys rings" has far, far more queries. Should I use "monkeyswithrings.com" or "monkeysrings.com"?
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Sorry yes forgot to include browser details, have amended question
Yes - we are talking to an experienced lawyer today.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1270058
Because competence of decision making is a spectrum. People aren't rational, period. There's no test for deciding whether someone is competent to make decisions regarding their health, so you can't declare them incompetent either.
I hear you - it would be really nice to go for it full time on this though
they should watch out, though. Taking the piss in T&Cs is a) an overt acknowledgement that they are aware that nobody reads them, and b) that they don't take their T&Cs seriously.
Since it is an essential part of contract formation that the parties and an intent to create legal relations (ICLR - hence why contracts between mates, family members etc are rarely found to be valid), points a) and b) could be evidence of the company having no ICLR, and all those terms and conditions - protecting their rights in a dispute - could potentially be dumped!