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While it's not quite the same as TylerWM, ShiftIt works great and I've been using it for years.

I am actually using my own fork of ShiftIt, where I added being the ability to resize windows to various percentages of the screen: https://github.com/nileshk/shiftit
Though my fork is off of an older version of ShiftIt (the original from Google Code), and also pretty specific to my preferences, so I'd recommend checking out the official one first. I really need to update my fork with the latest changes from the official fork, because they added things like definable keyboard shortcuts.

TylerWM looks more like what I really want, as it appears to be more like the tiling window managers you see in Linux, where it dynamically rearranges all the windows on the screen.

Also, I've tried Divvy (not open source) and like it, and you can accomplish the "percentages" thing really easily with it, but ShiftIt has been more reliable for me, so I've stuck with it.

Edit: This was also mentioned in this thread and looks pretty compelling: https://github.com/jigish/slate
Hear!! Hear!!

I would only buy one if I can install a stock version of Android and get access to the Android Market.
I'm sorry, but there is so much wrong with this comment it's hard to figure out where to begin; it's completely inconsistent with mainstream economic analysis of inflation.
The members of our group all work day jobs doing medical informatics, so we're more or less medical data geeks who identified a hole in the medical informatics field and exploited it. I do it for it fun, although I can't speak for the other guys in the group. I'm the main programmer so I get a certain amount of enjoyment watching our traffic grow. Even though we're not monetizing our traffic (ads, etc.), there is a sense of satisfaction we get knowing we're empowering consumers, providing a research tool for pharma companies, providing actionable data to physicians, and generally taking obscure messy data and making it clean and usable. This project is very satisfying. Right now we're just happy knowing other people find it useful.
> This is the most likely explanation for the five "bricks" that the blogger claims to have heard about. They probably aren't actually bricks, but cars in need of servicing.

Your attack on this point is spot on. The point of the original post this one fails to rebut is that the cars are in need of servicing! Maybe that posts use of the word “bricked” is imprecise, but the real thrust of it was that it costs $40,000 to perform this servicing, which this post does not even dispute.
You could probably replace all those singletons with a sane DI system in a week, why couldn't you?
I bought it five minutes ago and it has now been turned off. I'll stick with Size-Up.

Damned discretionary spending.
What can you build, and how quickly can you build it? Probably the 2 best questions to measure yourself by.
put that tech in these and proceed to take my money
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Until you have the right to purge the data--all of it--that companies collect on you with or without your permission, this "Bill of Rights" is woefully incomplete.
Many of the things that "brick" an ICE can be repaired at relatively low costs. And almost all of those things brick the car by using it, Teslas will brick when you don't use them, you lock it safely in the temperature controlled garage and go away for too long and it dies.

It strikes me as a design problem of sorts, you've got a relatively expensive and sophisticated sports car with piles of electronics. I would think that maybe they could detect a certain critical level of energy is left in the batteries and flip a toggle that just shuts them off which wouldn't last forever but could buy you some more time maybe.

My grandfather's Buick has GM's onstar stuff in it, couldn't your roadster send a text message or something? Maybe they could have some sort of emergency mechanism to just plug a normal car battery in to gain a little charge from.

I like what Tesla is trying to do, they're changing the conversation and ultimately when I look at the auto industry I think more startups are needed. They're a startup though, the Top Gear story, I don't think it was bad or inaccurate, the Tesla just doesn't look like it's in the same league as many of the other sports cars they drive around and then this battery thing, rare as it might be they need a good story for it. How many drivers have run out of gas when they are experienced and know better? Stuff happens, it's more common than you might think, with an ICE it's just embarrassing and inconvenient, with a Tesla it might set you back some serious money.
talk about reuse, the article is from 2000
> and here they announce that they're also no longer trying to support the "rich motion graphics" use case.

That kind of sucks, as there's a slew of amazing things people like Joshua Davis had done with Flash. I've used it on several occasions to script my way out of a complex motion graphics requirement.

<aside> They should really expose the After Effects API to ActionScript though. Most of the hi-end compositing and motion graphics people I know now recommend or want to switch to Nuke because of Adobe's disregard for After Effects' scripting capabilities.
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Every day an industry lobbyist succeeds in delaying the release of inconvenient information is a quantifiable victory.

It doesn't matter if "the truth will out" eventually -- all industry cares about is the area under the profit curve.
RDL already pointed out that shipyards (and other large manufacturing sites) do operate this way.

There is one problem with a y-combinator approach to capital intensive work: someone has to be in charge. There is 'a' party responsible for delivering the product to the customer, and that drives everything else.

Put ycombinator in charge of a shipyard and a lot of cool stuff will happen, but delivering a finished boat on time and on-cost is not one of them.
If one writes an article about a supposed relation, formulate it in the beginning. This article just assume you know what Hicks law state: The time spent to chose an option is increases with the amount of choices you have. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hicks_law
Divvy's a great alternative - http://mizage.com/divvy/. I've been using it for nearly a year now and very happy with it.
Can you produce something similar to what you've done, but new, with little to no referring to references?

Are you producing cooler things today than yesterday, according to some definition of cool?

Are you still discovering new things about Ruby/Rails (insert any technology here)?

Do you understand my questions? :-)
Photoshop Tutorial: Create A Battery Icon.
Hello friends, today in this Photoshop tutorial we are going to create a wonderful battery icon. You will learn how with the use of gradients and some lights we can create a beautiful icon, which pleases everybody’s eyes. Though it seems easy to create an icon, but lots and lots of research go into it.
It's a common practice to "rent" content from 3rd parties. You (as rentee) get your cut by affiliation or minutes fee.
Laser cut pancakes are going to be bigger than 3D printing
The blog post is from 2005[1].

[1]: http://www.a1k0n.net/
While it's not quite the same as what you expect from tiling WMs in Linux, there is Divvy for Windows: http://mizage.com/divvy/
Gosh I don't know. Maybe sleazy sites getting pushed to the margins would have to develop non-sleazy business models or die trying. In either case, it's a win for the Internet.
Tesla needs to publish an exhaustive analysis of the problem. What will brick it, what will harm the battery X%, what happens when you discharge fully repeatedly, what it will cost to fix at each point of damage.
In other news: jrockway threatens "consequences" (including, but not limited to, whining on twitter) unless everyone gives me chocolate covered espresso beans.

Wait, my threat doesn't influence you? That's a shame, because I really wanted some caffeinated chocolate.

(Also, we don't even need to publish the study anymore, we have something even more damning than scientific fact: the Streisand effect. Maybe they should threaten "consequences" for talking about their threat of consequences. And so on.)
The thing is, there is reason to believe that these shortages are exactly what the DEA wants. Shire Pharmaceuticals has convinced the DEA that Vyvanse is the solution to the adderall abuse problem, and the DEA apparently doesn't understand that the American healthcare system simply doesn't allow everybody on generics to switch to an expensive name-brand medication. They're basically trying to manipulate the marketplace in order to force patients to switch to a drug that they expect to be easier to control. Of course, economics aside, Vyvanse is not a drop in replacement for adderall, and many people find it less effective or more prone to side effects.

So it's also a good example of a government regulation that isn't in sync with medical science.
If you run your ICE without oil, yes, you will kill it. And maybe these should be thought of in the same way, but people worry about this because draining a battery to zero seems like running out of gas, and most of us have run out of gas at some point or another. Granted it's not the same because in the short term the battery management system should reserve the bottom 5% for the health of the battery.

But the second reason people are worried about this is killing that last 5% and bricking the battery happens by doing nothing. Bricking an ICE while it is unused, sitting in your driveway takes decades. With a replacement $50 battery and $30 oil change I've restarted engines that have been sitting unused in junkyards for 40 years.
So that actually raises a question in my mind, does that make all database that don't include something new created by someone (I'm thinking book database, research databases) as non copyrightable?

I'm thinking of phone books as an example.
| So, is it possible to totally discharge the battery pack or not?

Physics says "yes".
I think the problem is that when you change a table structure in MySQL, it takes quite a bit of time to do the actual writes. Adding a column tends to force a rewrite of the table. Braindead I know....

I think the problem is that MySQL isn't really a standard SQL-world db. It has some of the advantages of one, but not all of them and some very annoying gotchas.
Microsoft Adds New Feature To Bing Called Linked Pages
There's bug.n[1], I haven't used it (I mostly use WIndows for gaming, where the WM is mostly irrelevant), but some people say they like it.

[1]: http://www.autohotkey.net/~joten/bug.n.html
How good is OCR on the iPhone? It seems the ideal solution would be: 1) Take a picture of the bill, 2) It gets split up into items and amounts 3) Select a user and 4) select all of the items that they are responsible (or split if necessary). Great looking site. Good luck.
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From the article:
"The battery management system of the Tesla Roadster keeps the battery from being discharged to a damagingly low state of charge under normal driving conditions. It's true that a full discharge to zero percent state of charge can potentially be damaging to a battery. However the battery management system of the Roadster won't allow the car to reach that low level of charge."
Update: they helped a brother out, and the stack is actually executable on those binaries. I found out after mailing the organizers in exasperation. I was under this impression because newly-compiled binaries had no-exec on the stack, and I was off by a little when I tried to exploit it the first time. Doh!
It's commonly called a non-orientable 2 dimensional manifold. Locally, it looks like a smooth deformation of the plane. The non-orientable bit is what distinguishes it (globally) from something more like a cylinder.
And really not all that interesting. Weird. Hi, HN.

Also, we ended up ditching Lisp. Goofing around in Lisp when we had no idea how to deploy it wasn't really a smart move for a four-man startup, in retrospect.
It might be wrong, but he makes a valid argument. And I am right there with it.
Coverity: open source just as reliable as commercial code
Has anyone come across an emulator/simulator for experimenting with stochastic logic?
Hollywood was born to avoid patents?
This can be something amazing, but it has to be certified as reliable to be accepted mainstream. People will mistrust something like this until they are certain they can rely on it. Consider Wikipedia even five years ago, if you'd cite it no one would take you seriously, now its considered the #1 place to go. I'd love to be able to recommend this, I wish you best of luck with this!
+1.

P.S. To the author: Some of us elders didn't "learn" to the use the internet either. We built it.
That was always my preferred alternative. WWW just sounds kinda stupid, especially when people try to read out a URL on TV or radio.
How can we let someone freeze to death in today's world?
It's not an argument; it's a series of assertions about how economics works that are not backed up and incorrect. If you want to state opinions, that's fine, but this isn't religion where you can just invent facts.

In particular, nobody who studies the matter argues that all government spending automatically produces inflation; not even Milton Friedman took that line (and empirical data doesn't support it).
"Work force participation rate? hyper implosion. Government dependency? skyrocketing. Real wages? declining. Inflation? pain at the pump and grocery store. Trade deficit? Near all time record highs. Savings rate? miniscule. Household wealth? Less than 15 years ago. Standard of living? Hasn't moved in in 50 years. Debt? On the moon and rising faster by the day. Entitlements? $100 trillion unfunded disaster. Stock market? Hasn't moved in 15 years inflation adjusted."

You just explained everything wrong with our economy. Don't forget, we also have two parents at work while standard of living has remained the same. If I could sum up with whats wrong with our country right now, that quote would be it.
This does not look like a very well-defined or comprehensive list, but it is good to see some kind of movement.

I support immediate and binding legislation to fix things in the states, but overall, looking at the politics, I really think this is bad news. Here's why:

1) It's not something that's going to pass. It's not like the White House got together with members of the opposing party and came out with a bipartisan document that would survive the election cycle. There's no indication of having the votes necessary, there's little or no coordination with members of their own party on the hill, and there's no competing sets of legislation where this would be a beginning negotiating position.

2) The fixes required, I believe, are going to have to be constitutional amendments. Something like this would be a nice effort (if it had a chance of passing), but the situation is so murky that we need real absolutes, a real set of rights, not an addition to the current system.

I'm left with the somewhat sad conclusion that this only begins to firm up opposition in the Republican party -- although they'd never admit it with Ron Paul currently doing so well in their polls. This is a statement something along the lines of "Hey! We get it! We're on this problem and we want to fix it."

That's a great political statement to make. But I think in terms of actually fixing the problem, it takes us backwards rather than forward. A simple statement along the lines of "Something is really wrong with online privacy. We look for partners in the opposition party to move this forward immediately." could have done the same thing without as much counterproductive posturing. I leave it to the reader to determine whether the goal here is actually fixing the problem or staking out a political position for the upcoming election.

I remind people, including Ron Paul supporters, that's it's very possible for elements of a party to make all kinds of noise that folks want to hear -- while actually creating a long-term fight that will continue to draw donations and support. There are many scenarios in politics where creating a good fight is much more advantageous than fixing the problem. In my analysis, this is the purpose of that document. I'm desperately hoping over the next couple of years that the Republicans do not rise to the bait. The last thing I want to see is the Republicans spinning libertarian values as some excuse for my every move to be tracked.
If you actually look at the people that went from the middle class to 10+ million a tiny fraction of them got there though start ups. If your goal is to actually have a good shot at 10million by mid 40's there are plenty of professions that can give you better than 10% chance of getting there and even if you fail your still making 3-5 or more times what the average Programmer at Google makes.
This is one emerging technology area that gets me beyond excited. I can't wait to strap on a wristband and then pull up the "Google Analytics" equivalent for my body on my iPhone. I would love to geek out on that.

The Jawbone Up was the closest I've seen yet, but unfortunately the device had some inherent flaws. (I wore one for 2 months) No blue tooth syncing, not quite durable enough for 24/7 wear. Some ergonomic issues. But the price was right, the software was good and the hardware looked good enough to wear all the time.

Personal biometrics monitoring is coming in a big way, and I can't wait.
You say "that companies will...", but the whitehouse.gov version says "that organizations will...". I think that's quite a significant semantic difference. Is the government subjecting themselves to these same rules?
I'm still in the early phases of this and not that dogmatic about it, but I'm noticing in my life I'm starting to trend towards a "fight the cloud; own your personal computers" party line. Augmented reality can be a greatly empowering technology, but you should own it. And you don't own the cloud. He who owns the CPU calls the cycles; be someone who owns, not someone who is owned.
Ask HN: How to protect equity before the corporation is formed?
I've been working with my partner for a few months on our project, and each of us has put in a lot of work, and we share the IP, in the sense that we've been collaborating all along.

We haven't formed a corporation yet, so any division of equity is on a handshake right now. We've agreed over email, but haven't written anything on paper and signed it.

Is there any way to protect myself and the contributions I've made so far? I'm specifically looking for examples of boilerplate agreements that we could both sign which would be enforceable later when the corporation is formed. Basically a pre-nup for partners.

If one of us does walk away, what happens to the contributions we've made? Can the other person still use that IP?
Sleazy sites like the new york times? Come up with a list of your favorite sites and I bet, aside from Ycombinator, all of them sell ads on the exchanges. And the only reason ycombinator doesn't have ads is because it is an ad.

If you visit a website, I don't see how it's such a violation of your rights for them to take a note of your visit.
Reading through this, I wonder how much of this is a bet that consumers will be happy to let folks track them in exchange for cool deals on the theory that now that this is willingly disclosed, the gov. has an easier time arguing the 4th Amendment doesn't apply.....
This is a valid point. I think a couple of things will help resolve this: 1.) time on market, and 2.) letting the public know our credentials. I can assure you the backers of this project are qualified, but we're currently getting some legal issues squared away before we expose who we are. Also, when ads, or overt profiteering, is involved, this can cause issues with credibility as well. We're trying very hard to project ourselves as completely unbiased.

But I think with any project, especially one as sensitive as patient drug safety, time on market and the credibility of the individuals involved is key. We do have a medical doctor with FDA experience who advises DrugCite and has played a key role in the development phase. Honestly I know quite a bit about the other companies in this space, and we're really the only one where all of the players have worked in the medical informatics field for more than a decade each, and has an ex-FDA medical doctor advising the project. Once we post full disclosure on the site, hopefully this will help resolve some of the concerns you've raised. Thanks for the insight; I do hope we end up following Wikipedia's lead on this. And hopefully you'll feel comfortable recommending us in the future ;) Thanks again.
It may be a more capable device, but I seriously doubt it's cheaper. Kindle Fire is $199 no strings attached. Android phones costing less than that up-front tend to come with 2-year voice+data contracts at $50+ per month, or at least $1200.
> Goofing around in Lisp when we had no idea how to deploy it wasn't really a smart move for a four-man startup, in retrospect.

Would you mind expanding on that? I'd be interested in hearing about why you chose Lisp and why it didn't work out.
I don't hold out a lot of hope for actual AI. AI has been promised 'real soon' as long as I've been doing computer stuff, haven't seen it yet.

Automation can get us close. Already has, but this just moves the labor out of the field and into a cube.

But (I think others have pointed out downthread by now) capital intensive projects are always going to need someone to go out and kick the tires, work a nut loose, apply some ingenuity.

If you don't have those guys hanging around to kick the tires and whack a lug nut things will stop until you send a guy out to do that.

The probes we have on Mars .. you can wait a few months for the guys at mission control to work out a problem. You can't do that with an oil well.
I used a Firefox add-on that lets you [mumble mumble]. I found at least two add-ons that looked like they would work when I googled it.
Unfortunately 'privacy' is an overloaded word in US politics.

A "Right to Privacy" is never called out in the Constitution, but between the due process clause and the ban on unreasonable search and seizure, the supreme court ruled that it is implicitly there.

Then the supreme court ruled that partly because of this Right to Privacy, abortion should be allowed. (i.e. Roe v Wade). I definitely DO NOT want to have Roe v Wade discussion on HN, but it is important to recognize that baggage is associated with Privacy.

We really will never get all the states on board because of that.
It will be interesting to see how they price it.
I think $279 would be the sweet spot because if they bring it up to $299 then it would be close to a theoretical $399 iPad 2 (if Apple continues to sell them alongside the iPad 3 as has been rumored) Amazon needs to say firmly in the "low price" segment for now as their software/hardware is nowhere near as polished as iOS.
I totally agree. I think the Nike+ Fuel band has the best chance to be a cross over device that makes this "Quantified Self" idea mainstream. Technically, it seems to solve the data transfer/sync issues better than FitBit or Up did and with their marketing skill I think they can make a big push.
Piracy and ad-blockers are both theft
"A consistent reduction in cloud height would allow Earth to cool to space more efficiently, reducing the surface temperature of the planet and potentially slowing the effects of global warming."

So this would appear to counter act the global warming aspect of climate change.
I wish someone would make glasses using the Microvision laser retina displays. I worked in the MIT Media Lab wearables group as an undergrad a decade or so ago, and they were pretty awesome then, but aside from a couple of defense applications, I've never seen them ship multiple units. (http://www.microvision.com/wearable_displays/index.html)
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