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Ask HN: Where can I find iPhone UI Templates for purchase?
Hey guys,

I am not a designer. Is there anywhere I can purchase iPhone UI templates like themeforest have for websites? I understand styling in iPhone does not use CSS but I figured a standard background color or toolbar color or UIbutton color that can be integrated into your code as images.

UITableView can be customized using UITableViewCell and the background can be images.

I did a quick google search and nothing prominent stands out.

What design template do iPhone developers use?
"Throughout history kings and queens usually ate much better than the peasants."

Those terms post date this by thousands of years. Please cite research that supports this statement.
Android development tutorial: reading SOAP services
I'm pretty sure Michael Pollan's bank account disagrees with your second sentence.
I'm still declining the backscatter scans, so the hubbub worked. I can't help it if my fellow sheep walk right through.
250ish affiliate sales
400 hosting
15 mobile app ads
50 mobile app sales (should grow decently when i launch my first ios game)
Getting about 60$ a month with http://udeployer.com/ - considering the amount of work I put into it I'm definitely opting for more than 60 dollars, but better than nothing... at least I can have a fancy dinner once a month :).

Continuously expanding with some marketing, hoping to reach the $500/month mark someday.
DF does have very impressive depth and game mechanics. Unfortunately, its interface is one of the worst of any game I've ever played.

It's a pity that DF isn't open source either, as then its interface problems would have long since been fixed. But, as it is, its lead (and only) developer doesn't seem to care enough to fix it himself.
I started at a medium size company, went on to a large and am now at a startup. I think it's good to try different environments. Some people prefer the stability of a large company, but it wasn't for me.
And all these are replaced by Emacs :p
For viruses alone, I had been running McAfee's business edition (my school provided it). That was generally far less of a resource hog when doing something that needed compute power.
"People relate fat the nutrient to fat the body type because they share the word 'fat'."

That's like when people think that alcohol makes you depressed because it's a depressant.
http://www.bingocardcreator.com/stats/sales-by-month

These days BCC is in maintenance mode (i.e. I respond to emails, cut checks, and put out fires, but I don't do active development or marketing). It works out to a bit more than my old salary for roughly 69.5 less hours of weekly work.

I have two other businesses: I do consulting and I have Appointment Reminder. Appointment Reminder pays its own way now, but doesn't put a meaningful amount of money in my pocket. Consulting does (egads), but distracts quite a bit from working on AR.
Read up. Fasting can be quite healthy. (The only actual debate is on how good it is for you, not on how bad.) Especially intermittent fasting.
http://www.boingboing.net/2010/02/26/curmudgeony-essay-on.ht...
Awesome. The guy was a decent human being, but more than likely made 20, 30, 100 times back his purchase in goodwill. Brilliant.
> Repeat after me: The biggest [] issue in our society was directly caused by the [] authorities.

I know you're just turning a phrase, but the irony here amused me more than a little. ;)
Not to mention editor/IDE integration that streamlines common workflows making the need to use the shell for git commands less likely
Firefox add-on with 7m downloads secretly tracks your browsing history
Also, check out Boatmurdered[1], a "Let's Play" of Dwarf Fortress. It is pee-your-pants funny and contains some strong language.

The sequel, Headshoots[2], is also funny but not quite the same calibre as Boatmurdered. FYI, the name of your fortress is randomly generated.

[1] http://lparchive.org/Dwarf-Fortress-Boatmurdered/Introductio...

[2] http://lparchive.org/Dwarf-Fortress-Headshoots/
Is there some kind of Taboo about spelling out the names of the beers?

I live in Israel and it took me a while to guess Macabi, but maybe that's because I don't like lagers (stouts are the real beer anyway :)).
Short Version: Hosted Web App making just under $10,000/mo.

Using a throwaway account for this because I'd rather not share our numbers publicly yet, but in about 2.5 years since our hosted web app went live, we're generating just under $10,000 per month in revenue. That's working on it part-time for the first couple of years and, more recently, full-time.

It's targeted at developers/designers, and the growth has been very slow and steady. There's never been a break-through moment as revenue has grown at an average rate of about 3.5% per month since we launched.
Indeed. Also, a slightly more succinct fix for IE6/7 would be:

function foo(element, a, b) {
element.onclick = function() { /* uses a and b */ };
element = null; // avoid memory leak
}

The closure contains a reference to foo's activation object, not to its properties. As a consequence, you can clear out the element reference after the event handler has been defined and this will break the circular reference.

The above technique is also useful when creating anonymous functions for other purposes when element references happen to be lying around. Depending on how long these anonymous functions are kept alive and what you do with the elements in the meantime, this would normally lead to a memory leak (due to the dangling reference to the DOM element, rather than a circular reference as described in the article).

See http://jibbering.com/faq/notes/closures/ for a seriously nerdy deep-dive into closures in JavaScript.
This was one of the Rails weaknesses when compared to Django .
Glad to see it's available now as well.
Missed email reminders have plagued Google Calendar for years
Google's calendar service for home users and businesses has been plagued with missed email reminders for years, and Google is still struggling the fix the problem, according to support forums. One support forum on Google.com titled "Google Calendar Email Notification Not Working" was started in September 2010, and is still going strong with dozens of posts this week alone. Another support thread on Calendar email reminders begun in January 2009 is still active, while an older thread shows the problems date back to at least 2008.
I recently watched the Demolition Man for the first time, and not expecting much was pleasantly surprised.

It is better than your average bland sci-fi actioner for 90s and 00s. Sure, the action is about the same as in other movies of the genre, but the biting satire brings it above the fold.
Probably not completely the same. There's a variable reward schedule behind browsing HN (and that can be addictive). Smoking seems to give a different `reward'.
Stallman's Dystopia
It's simple, really. It's not their money. If they run short of funds, they'll just dig into the taxpayers' wallets.
Easily? Meeeeh. I really, really like Reason, but for me it lives as a bag on the side of Ableton (Record doesn't cut it) and I've never had an issue with Ableton either.
The Online Custom Motorcycle Industry Is A Hot Mess
+1 for tmux. It's an amazing improvement to screen.
Yes, but it's not in Scotland.

My point was that the size of a 'small town' varies by context, and that a town of 1,000 would be tiny even in the context of a place that doesn't have many people.

Also, 'city' in the UK is to do with a special government/crown-granted status, not really the population per se.
ThePirateBay, The Ruby Gem
True, but I think the sentiment is correct at least in selling food. It's hard to get rich selling spinach, but it's easy to get rich selling Sugar-Frosted Excitement Pops - now made with whole grain-like substances!
The top 10 websites built with Ruby on Rails
seems interesting.
pitching investors through this new medium would be more interactive.
less than a thousand from rental propertie'S'?
It's obvious to you, dear HN reader. But please step out of this little bubble, and ask random strangers on Main Street (or whatever the equivalent is in your domicile) if they know how the "like" button appears on their web page; if they know what HTTP Referer means; etc.

I'd wager that 95%+ of the users on the 'net wouldn't know the implications of these buttons.
Yes, of course. You are following the Atkins diet, basically all fat and protein, very limited carbs. This is an effective way to maintain or lose weight and it's been shown to have positive cardiovascular effects.

On the other hand, the best studied and most effective diet for weight loss and cardiovascular health is the Ornish diet, which is almost the exact opposite: no meat, no fat, lots of vegetables, rice and non-fat yogurt. Plus exercise and meditation. Both work and they are on opposite sides of the fat/no-fat spectrum.

(My own experience is that cardiologists are eager to recommend the Ornish diet and don't really believe the studies favoring the Atkins diet. Doctors are people. They believe what the culture believes.)

The success of both of these diets may suggest to some that nutrition is too complex, that all people are different, that different people react well to different diets, etc. In other words, don't listen to science and follow your gut. That path leads to your gut hanging over your belt.

The simpler explanation is to look at what both the Atkins and Ornish diets restrict: "Sugar and simple sugar derivatives -- honey, molasses, corn syrup, and high-fructose syrup" (WebMD).

The accumulating evidence is not pointing to carbs as the culprit, it's pointing to sugar.
Not really, it turns out the carbs from glucose (pasta) are actually pretty good for you. If she also cut the carbs by removing fruit juice and soda from her diet, then it would have been the right approach.

For more info, watch the Lustig video already linked in this thread.
Are you using Google Adsense?
The big downside of these (for me) is that they don't let me use the great bash completion that git (optionally) provides.
why nmap is not listed?
I believe his exact words were: "Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists."
> Appointment Reminder pays its own way now, but doesn't put a meaningful amount of money in my pocket.

Do you think that, given enough time spent developing/marketing it, AR will provide as much recurring income as BCC?
Learning from Mistakes: Your Startup Failure Story
In as much detail as you are willing to provide, describe a startup failure in which you were involved - what mistakes did you make, what mistakes did the company/team make?
It would also be interesting to know how long the project dragged on before it finally collapsed, or how much time was spent trying to fix it instead of a pivot or walk-away?
Did you implicitly define overeating as eating past the point where you stop being hungry? Because that's not necessarily what the parent comment meant. They could have meant eating too much for your activity level.
I think a great solution is to work for a late-stage startup, or a startup with plenty of funding, or a company that's recently entered its growth phase. You'll have the security and resources of a larger company (and more time out of work to pursue your own projects!), but you'll still be one of the first 5-20 people in the office. The atmosphere will still be very scrappy and creative. And you know your bosses/mentors have a proven track record of success, because the company has already made it pretty far - there will be plenty to learn and absorb.
You weren't the only one. I remember learning a bit about powerpc assembly several years ago, but never did anything with it. I've since learned a fair bit about sparc, and was eager to compare. Oh well!
Well this level of incompetence cannot just be blamed on the upper management. It looks very bad for the devs and IT people at Sony too.
I set up a web dev blog in 2003, at ILoveJackDaniels.com, and after a few months of rubbish blogging starting doing free cheat sheets to download. At its peak, from AdSense and text link ads, it made about $1200 per month. I had to move domain (trademark heat), and moved to AddedBytes.com. Lost lots of traffic and links, unfortunately. Ad revenue dropped over time (around $100 at its lowest), and I recently ditched the text links and adsense to go with CarbonAds.
Too Many Sign-Ups to Give TechCrunch Hackers the Promised Two Tickets Per Team
I'd happily double my food budget for the sake of my health. And potatoes and eggs are cheap. :)
My operating system doesn't have a package manager ;)
Cool, where's the config file for that?
Peter Thiel Shuns Hot Idea for Bigger Picture
I have 4 apps on the Mac App Store. It took me a total of 2 months to develop. I make roughly $3300 in sales per month. After taxes and Apple's 30% cut I make roughly $2000.
The point isn't to eat what cavemen ate, it's to look at what their bodies were optimized for and eat things with similar components. Dairy is a very good source of saturated fat, especially for a vegetarian like me.
Ask HN: Review my startup: http://thewallmachine.com
FunctionSource: Your Source for Developer News
It would be great if they prompted the user to install antivirus on the first boot like they do with browsers in the special edition of Windows 7.

I'm sure it would be a mess, and some programs give a false sense of security, but it would probably be the best trade-off.
It may just be my setup but on your http://www.bingocardcreator.com/expenses/expenses-pie-chart page the yellow text on the yellow background isn't even readable. Is it the same for the rest of you?
Update: Looks like it rotates through colors for every refresh... So, if you refresh enough you can read all the sections of the pie chart.
Assuming income = revenue - expenses, he should be glad it's not negative. Many people lose money on rentals.
This sounds like an excellent way to live with chronically high cortisol levels and ensure that you never retain significant muscle mass.
Probabilistic profiling by stack sampling
Design Axioms
xmllint is another hugely useful xml tool.
Previously discussed here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2284007
I'll listen when I have some time later. Does he also address the dose dependent problem in his cited studies? Of course if I'm drinking 6-7 sodas a day that's generally going to be a problem, but it doesn't mean sugar is evil. Too much water can kill me also, but I don't see people saying water is evil.
I don't own a hat, but if AR doesn't become larger than BCC, I will buy a hat so that I have one to eat.

Aside from being owned by me, though, those two businesses are as alike as a kitten and a kumquat. (e.g. AR could take external investment, something which I am kicking around doing later. BCC would be an extraordinarily poor candidate for it.)
Between 3000 to 5000 a month USD spending about 10 hours a month on support. Last year, made about $40K. Nothing to sneeze at, but nothing to get too excited about either.
I'd be curious to see this too. Being an iOS developer, I realize that it's not a trivial task to abstract the UIKit classes so themes are created. Let's see if anyone did this.
No, there are not always alternatives.
Yes. When I squint, I can tell that it says Advertising, in case you can't make it out.
Clickable - http://thewallmachine.com

Pretty neat idea and certainly will make things fun for those that either don't have time to boot up Photo Editing Software or the know how
We use it 'wrongly', and will continue to (unless you want to not be understood), but hey - it's interesting that somehow it got mixed up! I wonder who got it backwards first?

Similarly, Joel has an article on Hungarian Notation that says common usage is wrong. Would those who defend the (current, wrong) usage of "steep learning curve" not find it interesting that the proper H Notation was a lot more useful than current usage?

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Wrong.html
Great design. Advertise on icanhazcheeseburger and you're golden.
Over the year I average $30 a month - but only with about 30 minutes of work a month. It's sad, but I bet I spend more time checking on that income than I do making it. These are mostly old learning experiences and playgrounds for me and I rarely update them.

60% is from Adsense on a sports-related niche website. I make most of that during a couple bursts related to sports seasons - playoffs, spring training, opening day, March Madness, etc. I absolutely stumbled upon that niche from seeing traffic on a related blog post I made. If I really did the SEO and worked on the site I could probably make 5-10 times as much, but I couldn't really grow to other niches.

39% of that is from Amazon affiliate links on a niche gift shopping site. That occasionally lands a sale throughout the year, but it booms from October to early December. This is something I could easily grow to lots of other niches - if I built out the automation. It doesn't really excite me, but shoveling Amazon affiliate links onto dozens or hundreds of niche shopping blogs should be lucrative. I would only focus on the Christmas shopping season though, unless you targeted different holidays like Mother's Day.

1% of that is from a few photos on iStockPhoto. That's where I actually want to put more of my effort going forward. I like the challenge of taking good photos and I like the idea of making my photography hobby self-supporting. But I also think the stock photography (and video) I produce will have a longer sellable life than anything else.
I'm in the same boat, it's a comfortable way of life but I always struggle with how to bring it to the next level.
Colors get chosen randomly on page load, so just refreshing will probably sort you out. (The actual stats are cached, the presentation layer not so much.) I have a string around my finger to fix that someday but today is not a good day and tomorrow not looking great either.
Here's a few of my favourites.

agrep - approximate grep based on edit distance).

GNU Global - source tagging system that integrates with the shell (less -tfunc displays the function given in the shell).

xmllint - xml validator, pretty printer and schema validator.
I have been using put.io for quite some time. Amongst other things they also provide the option to download torrent files and convert them into mp4, just like fetch.io.

For me there are several benefits with using a service like this over downloading the file directly:

* I can start a download, close my laptop and go to a different location or bring it to lecture or what not, and the download continues.

* If my laptop is in for service I can download and stream a show on my iPad.

* It is just extremely fast. Downloading a torrent to put.io and then streaming it is in my experience much faster than downloading the torrent directly to my computer.

[edit: fixed formatting]
That's a big and undeserved generalization.

I am totally on board with the fact that there are some programs that do this - Norton's suite of anti-malware programs is basically regarded as malware itself. And it even comes preinstalled on a lot of computers.

But other programs work without a hitch.

Flashblock (or AdBlock/Ad Muncher/NoScript) also slows down my browser, but I can't be annoyed at an infinitesimal allocation of my resources to the extension.
The progress is the x axis, and the difficulty is the y axis.
This might only work for some companies, but it worked out well for me: Take one of a company's flagship products and remake it using open source technology.

You don't even have to do the entire thing: just enough to show that you understand the subject material and are a potential threat if left to your own devices over the summer with nothing to do. Put it up on github or your own website depending on the product, and include all the url's in the application or email that you send to the company. It will make you stand out and show that you are interested in working on the types of things they work on.

All it takes is one open source project gaining momentum to completely change a product space. It's less troublesome/expensive for the company to hire you than it is to try and fight a grassroots opensource movement later on. If you can make a company engineer think that they are getting a deal by hiring you early on, then you are pretty much set.

Bonus points: get the sales department to email the engineers for you.
Wow. Why not move the domain to an anonymous registrar (or 301 all the traffic to a new one), host the site on offshore bulletproof hosting, and put the roms back? That's a huge chunk of change you're probably missing out on.
$300-$500/month for a Windows desktop application. I wrote it to help out my mother-in-law since she found Photoshop too complicated to do what she wanted: placing text on pictures. Turned out to be a great learning experience on how to sell things online. See it here: http://www.pmesoftware.com
I generate about $1000/mo from an iPad app I wrote (that I haven't updated in a long, long time) and then between $5-10k from iPhone user interface design/development tutorials that I sell.
roughly $50/month for a news aggregator:

http://www.iphone2die4.com/

Bear in mind it's been flying solo since 2007 with only a single facelift about 6 months ago. No marketing or anything. Pays for the server, but that's it.
I know it's recurring, but I thought the OP was asking about things that "sell themselves", that is, no effort on your part to make an extra unit of money. Could be wrong though.
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that doesn't seem to be a very good criticism at all. he completely misses Lustig's point, skews the argument and tries to obfuscate his own lack of expertise with buzzwords and shallow analysis.
Fad books sell to a lot of people over and over. Of course you can get rich helping people to just eat healthy, but it's harder and you likely don't get the repeat buyers. But write a book saying x is evil or fat is not your fault because y is evil and you'll get tons of buyers.
I eat lots and lots of bread (what you would call "carbs") but basically no meat, and I'm quite skinny nevertheless. I do no sports (I've only recently started to ride my bicycle after a 10-year pause), nor am I on any diet or anything similar. So, yeah, I don't see how carbs are worse than fat.
I was earning approximately $10-15k annually from affiliate marketing from 2002-2006 (formerly giftsforaguy.com), but I didn't spend the time I needed to stay up-to-date with my search rankings.

When I tried to start over with a more general gift affiliate site in 2009, I found that the game had changed so much that it would likely take over a year to get back to the earlier level using organic SEO.

So I've put it on hold, hoping to relaunch using social discovery for customer acquisition.
Isn't that what an account with parental controls are for?

http://gigapple.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/system-pc.png?w=...
SHOW HN: MobileUserTests.com
Hi folks! As we have been building mobile apps we came across an interesting problem for testing our apps, specifically around usability testing. The process in getting our friends' and people we know UDID's for iOS app testing was cumbersome and the results of the tests weren't great (friends are very unlikely to tell you your app sucks). Getting non-techie people to install a package on their Android phones is also a challenge. And even if you can actually get past all these phases you need to get their feedback somehow (either a phone call or back and forth emails). Wouldn't it be incredibly helpful if you could actually see what these people were doing when they used your app? We thought so too. So we're offering a service to allow companies and devs to have complete strangers test their apps, specifically usability test them. All you need to do is give us a scenario and list up to 5 tasks you want the user to accomplish with your app. You'll receive a video of a user using the app performing the tasks you've outlined.

I'd love to hear community feedback on this service. Are there features or other things you'd like as part of this service? Is this as painful for you folks as it has been for us?
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