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Ask HN - open source website builder created in javascript? 
Is there a simple open source javascript website builder that I can use in other projects? jQuery UI is a really good starting point, but I wonder if there's anything that took it further. I'm looking for:
- simple building blocks (text, headings, bold, italic and images)
- grid based drag & drop
- nice UI or themable
- can read initial positions from a configuration file (so I don't have to generate javascript code from php)
- use same code to display the page on the front-end?
Thanks for the links - looks like the COBOL jobs are not promoted as much (I couldn't find any on the four bank sites I looked at) but still there, and reasonably well paid too.
What baffles me is how this site users themselves seem to dislike PHP a lot, yet it's the most used language of these companies... So why the hate?
Colombia, by the way, has strict gun controls.
How congested are the roads there? It is legal in California, although I typically don't ride in heavy traffic so I don't feel the need. I'm told that it's also quite common in Washington DC, despite being illegal there.
although programmers.SE was originally meant to be the "anything goes" dumping ground for subjective conversations to get them off of Stack Overflow, that is not its current mission. See the FAQ (http://programmers.stackexchange.com/faq)
Realistically though, you can't do anything about gun control. You can, however, modify your car.
How about looking to maybe make this an even more unlikely anomaly? How about learning from "our" (society) mistakes?

As a whole, when we hurt our self, should we just be sad and move on and do it again and again, or should we learn and take measures not to make the same mistake?

Random and stupid and pointless deaths like this should be cause for conversation.
I don't get it. And I'm almost a Google fanboy. I got a chromebook at Google IO last year. I use it very sporadically .. typically when my iPad is out of power.

The chromebox looks nice .. but can it really compare with a Mac Mini I have hooked up to my TV? I thought Google TV was supposed to take on that role.

Google TV, Android and Chrome ... there can only be one!
The true believers from all of the political philosophies are disappointed with the two party system, not just libertarians. I've heard similar Coke and Pepsi thoughts from socialists, environmentalists, anarchists, christian right, Tea Partiers, Ron Paul'ites, Ralph Nader'ites, etc.
So how do you address the points made in the GP post? Specifically, attacks, hardware failures, other issues that immediately impact customers? I assume that you don't wait until monday to address a failure that occurs thursday night, right?
Why Does Time Go Faster As We Get Older?
Perhaps I wasn't clear. Google is hiding referer data, particularly the query string, for a growing number of searchers. Today it's anyone logged into google, or about 60% of traffic to my blog. Tomorrow, they may well do it for anyone. Right now for the logged in users, and potentially in the future for anyone, the only ad network that can still see the search terms in the referer string is adsense, because Google search can pass them to adsense internally. No other ad network can see them. This is obviously incredibly valuable for adsense. And it should trigger an antitrust violation because they're using their monopoly / near monopoly in search to juice their offsite context and display ad networks.
I've never been on a motorcycle (I like my skin where it is) - what kind of exercise it?

There is a substantial difference between resistance and aerobic exercise - I find it's good to have both, and that they both compliment each other. Stronger leg muscles mean higher jumps and a faster stride, and aerobic training means better use of oxygen, so more reps, etc etc etc.
> The mind doesn't create the whole reality.

Reality as it is created internally, not externally. I believe that the Universe exists regardless of someone observing it.

I'm also referring to the fact that we experience the "outside" only through our senses and our mind. Both fallible. And nothing else. Hence we create the whole of our own reality, where everything is projected inside the mind.
I'm curious what benchmarks you're deriving that from. I've not found that to be the case at all.
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Employers use "years of experience" as a concise way of indicating roughly how much skill they're expecting, as much as anything else. If you think you have that much experience, apply anyway and let your CV speak for itself.

If the company is the kind that filters out qualified candidates on a technicality, well, hopefully you didn't really want to want to have your time wasted by a callback from that company anyway. I'd still suggest not directly mentioning it anywhere, though, just in case it prompts an HR person to skip your application without looking any closer. It also communicates a lack of confidence. Again, your CV should be able to speak for itself.
It's terrible that you can't even wait more than a few days before politicizing someone's senseless death.

You are a disgusting human being.
No. Anarchism is against hierarchy, libertarians are against government. Libertarians are usually proprietarians (called "anarcho-capitalists" sometimes), people who think that properly-extended property relations/rights can solve every governance problem.
The day a libertarian realizes the world is not comprised of sets of well meaning rational actors is the day they get a clue

Very few, if any, libertarians believe that "the world is comprised of sets of well meaning rational actors." Some consequentialist libertarians whose arguments for the libertarian position are rooted in economics might almost argue that, but deontological libertarians hold to libertarian principles because they believe that the initiation of force or fraud is simply immoral.

And quite a few of us hold to libertarian positions because we've seen the damage caused by government.
Either the governor libeled the company, or he spoke truthfully. I don't see Schilling claiming libel, so essentially he wanted the governor to misrepresent the financial health of the company, right? Who, besides the people standing to take a loss, would be in favor of that?
I think I know what you're trying to say: that it's not hard for us to learn some facts, but they're less useful without a broader knowledge of human physiology that an MD would be presumed to have, and we don't. And there's certainly truth to that.

On the other hand, there really are things the lay person can learn and understand well, even in the complex human body.

I have an unusual, if not rare, condition (Crohn's Disease, which GPs now usually seem to have a decent handle on, but that wasn't the case 20-30 years ago). I've had the condition for over 30 years. Barring advancements in science (which I follow anyway) and other possible complications (which I would be discussing with my GP and GI docs anyway, much of what the system forces me to use them for is not only a waste of their time, but problematic for the patients like me because it forces me to wait for an appointment to get the necessary care.

When I have a flare-up, I know exactly what needs to be done. If I walk into a GP's office, or even a GI doc, all they're going to do is rubber-stamp the prescription I know I need, and ask me to come back later to follow up. I already know what I need, the system is just wasting everyone's time, and withholding necessary care.

The thing is that the human body doesn't really follow a strict blueprint: my own deviation from the norm is the reason I'm there in the first place! So by definition, the doctor can't just give me a textbook answer. It all depends on the way the disease affects me personally.

Now, it's true that I may not have sufficiently broad understanding to see when a complication is arising, to handle it specially. But that's no reason to forestall proper care. I'm perfectly capable of starting the treatment on my own, and visiting for further consultation in the timeframe that first available appointment allows. (If such a consultation is so critical, surely getting the treatment rolling is just as much).

But the way care is delivered now, the doctors comprise a priesthood to which we must show obeisance. In my experience, the system could work both more efficiently as well as more effectively if treatment were more of a partnership, with the doctor contributing the deep understanding that he's worked hard for, but a patient also contributing based on the very focused opportunity to learn about his own condition, especially given the unique and personal ways that illness can affect each of us.
Desaturating Colours using Javascript
I find it hard to believe that 15% of these sites don't use CSS?
And that may allow them to increase their ad revenue, perhaps even a lot. But is it enough to take control of fully 1/10th to 1/5th of all advertising spending for all media (print, television, radio, billboards, and online) for the entire world? Imagining that capturing that much of the market is a sure thing is just silly. Are they going to be able to get circa $20 billion in ad revenue a year from the Asian market? Within the next 10 years? How?
I would assume so, they do a good job of keeping the costs low and using the same venue will probably mean that.
If nobody had guns from whom would the outlaw purchase(or steal) them from?
To hazard a guess: the higher-ups at Google think (know?) that the future lies in the open web. Android is a stopgap to compete in the current mobile environment, but I'm hoping ChromeOS displaces Android entirely in the next 3-5 years. WebOS started down that path, and Mozilla is really doing it right with B2G. I think Google realizes the same.

This transition can't happen suddenly. Google may also be waiting for the rest of the mom-and-pop web to catch up with the capabilities of native apps (via WebRTC, WebGL, etc) without having to depend so much on extensions, NaCl plugins and the like. At that point, ChromeOS will "just work" for rich applications alongside the rest of the web, which neatly sidesteps any fragmentation issues.
Why would Google push towards the high end? They already have people complaining Chromebooks cost too much. It would be a massive waste of money and effort to build MacBook Air style Chromebooks, with an absurdly small market even if done well. And I don't think Google could do that well.
Wait, I don't understand this bit. Surely the employees don't have options with a face value of $38, do they?
Twintour Morocco - Morocco Tour on Harley-Davidson Motorcycles
The problem revolves around being able communicate what's going on. If you try to be helpful and informative and say something like "Object-oriented software engineer (Perl)" as your job post title, you immediately (a) get every schmuck who once did testing with Perl who is now searching for 'perl' to apply, even if they don't know any OO, thus jamming the interview process, (b) immediately get most anyone else to say "ewwwwww, Perl, I'd never be interested / I have no experience". You have to end up saying "Object-oriented software engineer in a dynamic programming language", request people in with experience in (e.g.) languages such as Ruby, Python or Perl, and only mention that it's actually in Perl further down the post once you've got their attention with the rest of it. This is a trifle more manipulative and less straightforward than a decent straightforward honest software engineer would instinctually prefer. Anyway. It's true, a couple of of the best candidates actually hired there came from Python backgrounds.

By contrast, I assume you can say something like "Object-oriented software engineer (Python)" or "Object-oriented software engineer (Ruby)" (or Frontend Engineer / Backend Engineer / etc) and not have this particular set of problems. I don't know what problems you would have, but... not those.

Now, to be fair, it worked marginally better when the company-recruiters weren't all jerks about letting us post a programming challenge with the posting (because it didn't fit in with a preexisting workflow)... which makes it easier to find the random Spanish major with decent programming instincts and a little Perl. But still.
We killed that as well!
Edit: Apparently there are shortcuts that are not typical on Windows that apply to the Cr-48. I was a dope with my chromebook all this time! I should have known better.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_of_keyboard_shortcuts#Tex...

Original comment:

Unfortunately these laptops still have the same problem as the original Cr-48. None of these keyboards are suited for basic text editing as they lack the home/end/delete keys, which would be a minimum for a lot of people, and the entire 6-key cluster still-in-place would be much preferred.

This is the keyboard, by the way, which is identical my old Cr-48:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/815Dnur3O6L._AA1500_.j...

Making blog posts, using google docs, jsfiddle, Ace, StackOverflow, etc. All of these are a frustrating experience after a while if you are used to using a normal keyboard and are then forced to forego the home/end cluster.

If the difference between a tablet and a Chromebook is a keyboard, why can't they take writing seriously?
Gmvault can fail for multiple reasons, for example Gmail can cut the connection and throttle you for a while.
There are also bugs left or GMail emails that cannot be downloaded (email corruption ?).

For this reason, there is a --restart option for the sync and restore mode (sync being the backup).
The restart mode is a resume mode that will restart the backup or restore near from where it failed.

With that mode you should be able to download your 6 GB on disk.
Being rich is no problem. Acting like being rich means you're better than other people (or smarter, more hard-working, or even luckier, anything other than richer) is a huge problem, because it leads to a kind of economically-driven idolatry.
Actually, I think the idea is that conservatives are distrustful of government and are keen to limit its power and influence in their lives.
Google's still trying to sell netbooks? Really? Sometimes I wonder if they are aware that the iPad has completely obliterated the market for underpowered/overpriced netbooks.
I think the reason I find myself resisting this is that what you are saying is that you don't want us as whole people, you just want the specific parts of us that "make Stack Overflow great."

This desire is understandable. I sure would like to pick and choose the aspects of people's personalities that I had to deal with. But, in most cases, life doesn't work that way.

In some cases, asking us to leave behind parts of our personalities is a reasonable request. An obvious example is our employers. They want our coding ability, and would prefer we leave our sports fandom, musical choices, political opinions, relationship issues, etc. at the door before we come into the office. And since they're paying us, they get to make that request. If, say, a significant other told me to go be a sports fan somewhere else, I would probably take her up on that request, and also take along the aspects of my personality she does like.

But Stack Exchange is not paying us. Our rewards are the good feeling of helping someone out, and being part of something. Heck, you wanted to charge us money to leverage our SE work into employment opportunities.

That being the case, by locking us down like this, you are opening yourself up to competition from another site that welcomes us as whole people, not just the parts that help your site be awesome.

I want to be in places where I can be myself, which might include chuckling at the same old jokes or discussing how much my job sucks. The more SO/SE is a place where I cannot be myself, the less desirable a place it is for me to be.

One of the things SE/SO claims to be about is building a community. Well, guess what. Communities are groups of people not just their expertise in a given subject.
Going after the skeptics would certainly be a niche market that could easily be created, I get that for sure.

I still think there is a model where you can impact the wider lay internet audience by providing healthy skepticism for everyone. Between Twitter and Facebook, communities with large, lasting impacts on social knowledge distribution and the behavioral modification that follows really helps gain mainstream traction.

I guess what I'm saying is - please don't only solve the small problem of giving balanced skepticism to those who want it (and thus may have the drive to do it on their own), but make those who don't look for it want it in the first place by making it easy to obtain (paying for that service would not be one of those ways).

The lazy people will think paying for such a service is a scam, but little do they know they get scammed for free all the time with unbalanced points of view.
> > Short-term estimates are that gas prices probably won't go much higher.

> For which you conveniently fail to produce a cite. :)

http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=gas+price+forecast+2012

:)
Who are you to decide what is offensive and what should and should not be posted?

And yes I read the article and no I am not so foolish as to believe that there is only one possible cause for every result.
> They have autos. (No, they're not convertible.)

It's a side point, but many semi-automatic weapons can in fact be converted to fully-automatic mode with drop-in parts. Makes sense; if you think about it, it's actually harder to make an auto stop firing after the first round.[0] Manufacturers do take steps to make the parts incompatible, but only with limited success.

Of course those drop-in parts themselves are considered to be machine guns by the ATF, and are thus absurdly expensive and hard to get ahold of. A fully legal and transferrable drop-in auto sear[1] for an AR-15, which is a few ounces of machined steel that lets you use the automatic M-16 parts, would have had to be made before 1986, and these days goes for >$5000.

[0] See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputter_Gun . The ATF's original definition of a machine gun was a firearm which shoots more than once with a single trigger pull. Someone entirely too clever for his own good came up with the idea of making a gun with no trigger, which fired continuously so long as it was loaded. These were, for a brief period, completely legal to build and sell (although none were sold).

[1] http://www.quarterbore.com/nfa/dias.html . See also the Lightning Link, http://www.quarterbore.com/nfa/lightninglink.html which is literally just a couple of interlocking strips of metal. Cutting a strip of metal in that way is a Federal felony that can nab you >10 years even if you do not possess the actual rifle. They really do take this stuff very seriously.
From whom they get guns in the UK? Demand will create supply. Drugs are banned, does it mean they are unobtainable?
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That's a pretty narrow and shallow way to look at it. For one thing, over time guns would become harder to get. Fine some people will always brake the laws. But at least maybe school children would stop shooting each other to death in school then?

And yes, it might make even the dumb, and gangsers think before drawing a gun in public and shooting away. Nothing will be perfect but I think looking at most other countries gun shooting statistics we can see it can greatly decrease it.
Are you doing this regularly?
I'm interested. I love Perl, and would love to work for a company that requires me to program in Perl. Care to share which companies are these?

Thanks.
I work in business development at tech company where our core product is an API. Learning the basics of programming helps me find the right customers for our product, and then support them better. http://janineyoong.com/post/23665444733/learning-to-code-at-...
REST-assured: stubbing out external HTTP dependencies
Geany. Simple and lightweight. I can run the local server from the built in terminal which is great because I can easily find program outputs among all the other windows I have open.
Hulu - House: Everybody Dies - Watch the full episode now.
guns kill people just like cars drive drunk and forks make people fat.

Mexico has super strict gun laws, read the news and you'll see how well that is working out for them.
Well to be honest, I never tried to assert that Amazon was "defining the future of the internet." I was disagreeing with your point that Amazon shouldn't even be compared to Facebook, Apple, Google, or Microsoft. And to be fair, instead of noting Amazon's horizontal stretch, I pigeonholed myself talking about AWS (which by the way, is more than web hosting: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Web_Services#List_of_AWS...)

Maybe it's just that we work in different contexts. For example, at least in my field, EC2 is the de facto scalable distributed computing provider. For most intents and purposes, Amazon is the cloud computing service. Web hosting is not unique, sure, but many of the other AWS products are. If Amazon disappeared tomorrow, there would be no equivalent for many of them.

I think my point boils down to this: just because you might not frequently see Amazon on your end does not mean they should be dismissed. They are an important part of the industry right now and are absolutely worth considering in the same breath as the others.
Closing the Gap with Business
The real issue here, as I see it, is that Apple needs to be 100% consistent about its app store approval process, and exceedingly clear when they yank an already approved app.

Why are they yanking it?

In a case like this, the reason seems pretty clear cut "Because you used an unauthorized AirPlay key" - but the way the current system works, Apple doesn't have to give a reason, they just pull the plug.

I am an unabashed Apple fan, but I think this aspect of the platform is broken and wrong and I wish they'd change their policies.

For a much less clear cut yanking incident, check out all the recent news on how they did this to iKamaSutra, which had no stolen copies of anything and got yanked for no reason at all, AND they refuse to work with the publisher to fix whatever violations may exist.
A couple reasons come to mind:

- PHP might be the most practical choice for some of these companies. The founder or lead tech might be most proficient in PHP for real-world applications (even if he adores Python or Ruby).

- PHP might be the language that everyone on the team knows so they choose it to keep everyone equally involved in the production of the site.

- The people commenting on HN aren't necessarily people who start companies (truer now than it ever was).

Edit: Also, it might be the case that some of these servers purposely lie about what language is used on the backend to thwart script kiddies.
that also highlights one of my perl peeves - having to scrape function args out of @_ rather than declaring them as part of the function definition.
Adobe Dreamweaver is a framework now? News to me!

Seriously though: There is really too much noise in some of these diagrams to get much out of them. What surprised me most was nginx overtaking Apache in this sample group.
I was about to note that the OP clearly hasn't used Clojure if he uses it as a negative example in terms of reliability, but then I remembered — I promised myself not to get too deeply into these kinds of silly discussions.

So, dear OP, good luck writing your large-scale multithreaded high-performance distributed applications using Perl.

And BTW, I do use Perl quite a bit and I really like it, for certain tasks. But I'd never make these kinds of comparisons.