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Agree 110% - I destroyed my wrists at age 18 working 12hrs/day on a startup (who recently got acquired, congrats guys!) because my setup was ergonomically very poor and I had terrible typing technique.

Luckily, I had my parents' health insurance and was able to go to physical therapy 2x-3x a week. They were both able to reverse some of the damage done, and teach me proper typing technique and other "work hygiene".

I've worked just as hard since and I've never had any problems since, by rigorously doing my exercises and practicing good technique. I'm surprised there's rather a lot of discussion in hacker circles about the best chair, but so little discussion of other ergonomic concerns and typing technique.

My mom, who has been a software professional for over 30 years, has been dragging around the same external trackpad from job to job. It now has a serial to PS/2 adapter behind a PS/2 to USB adapter, but she swears by that thing. Mice are awful for wrists.
When I was at BYU as a student in the early 2000's, the engineering department had another all electric vehicle they were working on based on a prototype from a large U.S. car manufacturer. It was a standard 4-wheel road-worthy car that they were trying to improve. So they have a history of these types of engineering projects.
The article switches tense from "on sale" to "will have", which is a similar uncertain time detail to other articles about vaporous sub-$50 computers that have been published in the past.

Is this device shipping at the claimed price right now or not?
The problem is most likely stronger in France.
Ask HN: CSS and JS minification tool
I am looking for a simple script that would minify the CSS or JS file given as a parameter, in an efficient way.

I know about Yahoo's Java tool but it's overkill since I don't use Java AT ALL in my projects and would like to avoir having to install a JVM just for this.

The main technology I use is PHP but Bash or Python or Perl could be ok. This script would be integrated in our deployment mecanism, which is written in PHP.

Do you know any tool that could help me minify my files ? Or a lib that could be integrated into our deployment process ?

Thanks in advance.
"True" AI is a misnomer, though, and is still far away, as we still don't know what we don't know. But conversational AI? The processing power will be there and we know where the algorithms need to improve, and we have ideas on how to do it.

My point was more that we know what's left. That hasn't been the case before the last five years or so.
I hope that not requiring registration lifts SplitaCost above these.
Back(lash) to the future (health care cost control is hard)
You mean like MG Siegler?
This is how some sports betting scams work. I can email a lot of people with one side of a wager and another large lot with the other side. The next week I'll just use the winning side email pool to send out another split wager. All the while I invite bettors to join my foolproof pick service. In a few weeks I'm looking pretty good to a small group.
Here we go again with false dichotomies. Having such cheap tablets will disseminate more information which will help people in multiple ways. Just 5 in 100 having access to the internet is appalling and needs to be fixed, government or not.
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If this exact same phone had come out with the name "iPhone 5", and maybe a different case, people would be praising it to the heavens. People are weird.
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Is anyone really shocked? Here, I'll write out the tech media "design pattern" for a new Apple product.

1. Hype up killer pie-in-the-sky feature that makes zero economic sense for Apple (see: retina iPad, 4G iPhone with larger screen). Traffic spikes.

2. As launch approaches, use "inside sources" to mock up designs (Macrumors's "we think the 5 will look like this"). Report on supply chain behavior, leaked case designs, etc. Traffic spikes.

3. Live blog the launch event. Toss in snarky one-liners ("Siri? beam me up Scotty m i rite lolol") because you and your readers are too cool to watch the keynote but I guessssss we'll tune in anyway. Servers overload with traffic.

4. Write editorials complaining about how pie-in-the-sky features from #1 don't arrive. Cover your ass by reporting "supply chain delays" from unnamed sources. Hits among disillusioned gadget connoisseurs (heh) spike.

4.5. AAPL falls 2-3% even though the product will break sales records again. Yawn.

5. Break for a week or two to avoid tech journalism burnout, then repeat for next product. (e.g. iPad HD supply chain rumors in Nov/Dec). Traffic spikes.

Whatever.

EDIT: My favorite was the rumor about the iPad 2 getting a HD screen. The next best screen on the market (the Xoom) was like 140 ppi. Why would Apple drop $n >> 0 per iPad when competitors' screens are relatively abysmal and the iPad would sell out?

Anyone who bought that rumor displayed a serious unfamiliarity with the concepts of marginal benefit and marginal cost.

EDIT 2: Go read the child comment by chugger. It's all about the short positions.
One might argue that the consumer/beholder of the artwork is always right by default - as opposed to the artist setting the purpose and judging other people's views of his work by comparing them to that purpose. By this "the consumer is always right" definition there is no such thing as misaimed fandom because everybody is free to feel about the work as they like. If a piece of art (or a game or whatever) makes me feel a certain way, that doesn't make me wrong - even if that feeling was not intended by the artist.
Yep, in fact the server's memory usage grows the further each player is away from each other :)

We are doing Heroku-style spinning up and spinning servers on demand. We only pay for however much you play.
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Yes, probably about a hundred. More than one a week for perhaps a year and a half. Certainly more than 50, probably not as many as 150.

My phone presents the text and asks whether I want to do the obvious - it's almost always been a URL, and almost always the URL itself has said what it is.

I've never had a problem.
Fair point on what is "mainstream". I was thinking in a US-centric way, I admit. Here the two best selling phones are iPhones (as far as I know).

But after thinking about this more, I just don't think it is helpful to analogize to the iPod. The difference in markets is huge, and I doubt the iPhone's share will ever be like what the iPod's was (and still is).
As a learning device, it's amazingly well priced. See it as a replacement for 1,000 textbooks and it suddenly makes beautiful sense and all for the cost of a single textbook.

If India now creates a national or city wide free wifi network, their economy would skyrocket in the next two decades.
Apple botched the iPhone 4S launch
Now that is some transgressive art, when the piece itself manages to ultimately affect the artist himself. And I don't mean the way any piece affects any artist or merely bringing up strong emotions, but actually changing the artist's opinions on the same dimension the work was intended to be about in the first place.
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2.3MB of data for a one page site! While its pretty that is crazy big!
TL;DR - Nobody in enterprise took us seriously, so we did a bunch of cosmetic stuff like put fancy faceplates on our hardware. We also made our documentation top notch. Then people took us seriously.

I wonder which was more of a win, doing the great documentation or making the equipment not look cheap. I'm betting it would depend greatly on who makes the purchase decisions in the customer companies.
I agree. The simplest way to make this clear is to simply let the Greek banks default (and any other banks for that matter). This will expose the German banks and the German Government will be forced to bail them out. This bailout will be a much easier sell than the current one as it will be clear to the German taxpayer that they are bailing out their own banks who made bad bets out of greed, lack of diligence and just plain ineptitude(just like all the other bankers around the world).

There is this constant argument about "confidence" going around. We must maintain investor confidence etc. There is a limit to that and its much shorter than its usually stretched to. I've seen the same thing in software where management will cover up a systems flaws and press on with new features. In the end it all falls apart and a post mortem always reveals that they should have faced up to the problems sooner. So fk confidence, the whole thing is going to fall apart anyway and the longer we leave it the harder it will be to fix. Let the Greeks default and let the bankers take the hit, replace them with some talented young people (there are plenty) and lets get fixing things now that they are no longer covered up.
Hackers and Quantitative Analysis Ptosis 
I can't begin to number how many times I've seen the likes of reasoning presented in "Brain, Bytes, Back, Buns - The Programmer's Priorities"

The reasoning consists, usually, of taking some expenditure under consideration, dividing the initially investment over the expected life time, posting a per day cost and then comparing that to both added comfort, performance and expected productivity, moral and monetary correlations.

For the most part this is an improvement over an average consumer's purchasing rational paradigm.

But often it's actually as bad or worse.

I think this may be an outgrowth of the rise, which seems to correlate with the rise of computational analysis. Quantification is king.

Too often, however, it's horribly abused.

Often we seem to disregard some portion of the non-, or not easily, quantifiable.

This leads to all sorts of what we could at times call extra-code-icular 'premature-optimizations' or, as they were once called - 'fails.'

For example that "buns" component. In any given circumstance there are a massive swath of other factors I've rarely seen cited but need consideration. Throw in some non-/difficult to quantify factors of both risk and opportunity loss and then try to imagine potential impacts on that extrapolated low looking number, because there's always risk and always opportunity cost.

Take the spiffy chair and consider the potential that for some reason or other you in one of your pivots or planned or unplanned contingencies find the need to travel or base operations for a time out of a different location.

How's that chair equation working out now that you've got to transport it to another location? How comfy is it as you're coding on the other side of the continent from your home office because either a co-founder or an investor or a client or some other previously unknowable factor has popped up?

I'm not speaking as some great guru but a poor sap who's realized how many times I've upsold myself for functionality or opportunity that I've never come close to even breaking even on.

I know that quantitative analysis is a seductive siren. But realize that for all the beauty and power and reach of our linear equations we, to give old Rummy a shout out, "don't know what we don't know, and that realization should play into all of your analytics.

Your numbers will fail if they are all you lean on. Think outside the quantifiable and learn to respect the gut and differentiate it from an over active desire to analyze yourself away from it and common sense.

Just because we're well reasoned folk doesn't make us impervious to marketing tricks' least of all the ones we play on ourselves landing on our own ptosis
Great point.

Also imagine the space you save by not having a user serviceable battery compartment. No latches and contacts in a little plastic housing and walls to separate the battery from the rest of the device. You can make it any shape you want and fill the entire device.

I don't think giving away those benefits are really very worthwhile in any device I own. That includes everything from my toothbrush to my laptop.
Oh, this is enough info to fix it, I think. Thanks. Numpad probably sends different keyCodes than keyboard numbers, and the (hacky) number field doesn't consider them numbers at all. I'll look into this soon.
I kinda liked it...cute, non-pretentious, but still promises something epic. The message is "Some things go great together.. something big is coming"

I don't mean to feed the rumor mill... but a lot of people see a second device in that footage. Perhaps a curved-screen tablet that the Nexus docks into.
The interesting bit here(I don't wanna say "problem"), is that we're actually a few steps further down this staircase of "let's ship". Unix wasn't exactly the purist ivory tower to begin with, then it merged with the partially compatible BSD, then we got some not-quite-Smalltalk GUIs on top of that, and now we're building elaborate web stacks on top (and/or instead) of that. And I don't even want to talk about mobile apps that in an almost unholy ceremony combine that again…

It's a Babylonian tower made of mud (some would say camel poo). But it's brightly painted and has a good view, and all your friends live in it.

Personally, I don't wanna move out either, but I still have to turn my head every time you see the paint come off somewhere…
In any case, both Unity and Gnome Shell still have animations when switching between workspaces. You shouldn't specifically need the cube.
I've also found that having a laptop with you with your preferred IDE ready to go is a great idea. I suck at hand writing but type like a champ, and feel that "whiteboard" coding is more of an exercise for those who were TAs in college than someone who can show how to really code in person.

About 1/2 the time my suggestion to write live code was shot down. I do fine on the whiteboard, just hate it.
That's never been an issue before. Other iPhone product cycles have been well under two years and still introduced new features. Hell, the original iPhone was dropped en masse by pretty much everyone in favor of the 3G when it was released after just a year. That sounds more like an excuse than a "real reason" honestly.

The real reason, of course, is that Apple didn't have anything revolutionary to ship (other than an out-of-house software product that they turned into a "hardware" feature by fiat). I'm not convinced that's bad, really. I think a bigger issue is that smartphones are turning into a mature product and there's simply less revolution to be had.

But my gut is with the many other people who have voiced similar intuitions: this feels a lot like the mid-90's, when Apple stagnated in the face of clear motion in the industry, chasing old markets while new ones opened. Is the iPhone 4S the new Centris?
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What we have been seeing that web-malware that appears intermittently, only appearing to certain browsers and not appearing twice in a row to the same browser/IP, is usually pushed in via a FTP credential compromise.

The code often resides in template file, in config files and/or sometimes is also put into the database.

We've seen a lot of these kind of "intermittent" malware through the recent timthumb attacks on WP sites:http://www.stopthehacker.com/2011/08/30/timthumb-malware/

You've already got a lot of good information from the other responders, so I will not repeat the obvious, but great, points. Change password, check plugins..
Here is a summary of the research paper.
http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2010/12/case-for-ramclouds-...
But yeah if you just want a device that will make you feel like your peers envy/admire you.. then maybe get whatever Apple makes.

Or you could just disconnect a couple of wires of your ego from the collective opinion of your friends or acquaintances.
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Glad you liked the design.
If you have any other thoughts or feedback please dont hesitate to sare them
Trying to imagine how that got put together. It looks like it involved a lot of patience.
can play 1080p video

This is a big surprise to me given the low specs. Can it do this well?
signing a two year contract on a 3gs is hardly a trial basis.
I heard it's going to be big, with 4.6" screen.

I'm an Android guy but I'm not sure I'd want to carry a device that big. I'd have to try it out first.
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Web apps are dead, long live web apps
Very cool! Technology/innovation should be about that. Just like how technology made the woman hear her own voice for the first time. If we could make new tech lead to that kind of reaction, that would be priceless and worth the effort...
Tata should pump some money into the perhaps now forgotten Africar project.

A plywood car might suck some of the perceived stigma off the nano.

Perhaps though, it's time to think about alternatives to building yet more 4 wheeled polluters, though it's morally hard to tell Indians that they should stick with their scooters.
Jerry Brown repeals law that forced Amazon to terminate CA Associates (email)
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They said that it was the best GPU in smartphones. The processor shouldn't be radically different from any other dual A9 at the same clock speed and I'm guessing that the one in the iPhone 4S is a slower clockspeed. As for the GPU, that again will depend on what speed it is run at. There was speculation that the iPhone 4S would lose one GPU core compared with the iPad 2. It appears to have both from what information is available, but speed hasn't been specified. They may have lowered it for heat or battery reasons.

Even if you allow Apple all the benefits of the doubt here, I'm not sure it mounts up to easily arguing that it's vastly superior, "has a slower CPU, less RAM (guessing, sort-of) and a better GPU" maybe.
Things will be a little different on x64 but you seem to be reading the data just fine ;-)

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64/benchmark.php?test=all...

The problem isn't really "the benchmark is flawed", the problem is that most of us seem to wish for data that tells us more than it can, magical wishful thinking on our part - Will the application I haven't designed yet be faster, and scale better, and be completed by us faster, if we write it in X or Y? :-)

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/dont-jump-to-conclusions.p...
I'd venture that 2-3 hours is far too little for someone to learn the topics you list from the ground up. But I'm just nit picking :). Your point is well-taken.

But one big problem is that these are unknown unknowns for many people. Suppose a new but intelligent programmer finds Node and wants to decide whether it's good for some new project. How would that programmer know what to look up? How would s/he know that, e.g., user vs kernel space is even a relevant concern in the decision to use a single-threaded, event-based framework?
Could be wrong, but doesn't seem to work in Chrome under Ubuntu.
No explanation given as to how they decide who to accept.
You can talk to your phone. 8*D

I guess Apple pulled Siri out of the appstore yesterday.
You're doing it wrong, and the case for free forming
I would want my government to provide me with access to the best possible education, irrespective of my socio-economic status.

May be those who come out of such an education system will know better than working within a corrupt, bureaucratic and broken system.
Thanks for the mention! (I'm the founder of Blogalia :)

IMHO, greaterskies.com is interesting as a project, but:

- I don't think anyone will pay for simple visual star charts: there are free sites, free desktop programs and free tablet/mobile apps out there.

- If not for visual, but deep sky: there is 3Atlas from José R. Torres (9, 11 and 13 mag sky atlas): http://www.uv.es/jrtorres/tools.html Available for free in PDF.

- The marketing problem: find your tribe! There are some forums, like cloudynights.com (or http://www.asociacionhubble.org/portal/index.php/foro in Spanish), but this are mostly for dedicated observers.

My 2 cents.
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Can't submit comments on the site. I wanted to submit:
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Instead of coding on the whiteboard, have you ever tried setting up a work station / projector combination ? (I'd even consider dual projectors for a dual-head setup).

I think it's much more realistic to watch how a potential candidate actually "types" the solution. They may stub things out, then go back and fill it in, they may write one version from top to bottom, or they might continually copy and paste code around the place. There are a thousand possibles.

I think actually watching them type and interact with the IDE will give you a lot of understanding that watching them struggle to draw a coherent "}" on the whiteboard will not.

-Dan
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checking out the source i noticed all the hrefs are missing http:, how does that work, whats the purpose of this?

<link rel="stylesheet" href="//aprilzero.s3.amazonaws.com/a0/lib/c/styles.css">
5 months is a long time to be prototyping.

You need feedback from real users not co-founders. Who else has seen the prototype ?

Perhaps you can gently turn this around by introducing the concept of the MVP and estimating how close you are to it.

If you can negotiate everyones perception of the MVP down to what you already have, then the next task would be to show it to potential customers.

So your co-founder needs to be aware that you're only going to be concerned about real feedback from real customers.

This would benefit you all.
This is one of the biggest reasons I use Ubuntu over Fedora- their font rendering patches and the custom font are so much nicer looking than anything I've been able to achieve in any other distribution (or even Windows), and they look that way by default.
It would definitely be contrived. Let's see how contrived! ;)

class FizzBuzzer():
def __init__(self, num):
self.mod3 = num % 3 == 0
self.mod5 = num % 5 == 0

def check(self):
s = ""
if self.mod3:
s += "Fizz"
if self.mod5:
s += "Buzz"
print s

def main():
buzzer = FizzBuzzer(n)
buzzer.check()

Yeah, that's really contrived. Still, you display a familiarity with encapsulation, objects & their attributes/methods, etc.
Also try masking your user agent as google bot. In the past i've seen people mask the results for google bots to build backlinks.
Rename your wp-admin. Its a known target.
It is a protocol relative url. This way if you are looking at the site over https then the assets will also come down over https.
Software updates and pre-installed crapware, as you mentioned, are now a thing of the past when you consider the works of the community creating customized roms for just about any Android device out there. The device owner can simply apply an update or delete any app themselves after rooting. Yes, rooting is risky and hardware manufacturers should keep their damned devices updated, but the process is simple enough to perform and the benefits are really great.
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