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Ask HN: "Porting" HTML from Firefox to IE 
Long time listener, first time caller.

I have a simple question.

Is there somebody I can pay to take an HTML4/CSS layout that works in Webkit and in Firefox, and make it work in IE?

I'm not talking about anything crazy. I don't need super advanced CSS tricks ported. There's no canvas. About the craziest thing I'm dealing with is Blueprint, which has been tested (heavily) on IE.

Yes, it's straightforward to figure out all the little mistakes and errors and bugs and fix them one by one, but it also feels like a huge waste of our time, and something I would pay to get rid of.

This isn't a typical web designer project, and it isn't a backend coding project, and it's a problem I'm sure many of us have had, and so...
E-books are perceived to be a large untapped market and every other display tech is basically a heaping helping of fail, so it is no wonder that this use case is in the driver's seat at the moment. OTOH, I think you are correct that in the long term we will probably see e-paper replacing a lot of displays that are currently poorly served by LED/LCD solutions. Batteries that can tell you the charge level before you stick them into something was one of the better examples of this I heard recently.
I've been reading some science lately on the different biochemistry, hormones, and mating strategies of men and women. It's fascinating stuff, and it's unfortunately somewhat suppressed from discussion these days (ex - the Harvard president being forced to resign).

Anyway, the numbers and science on this is fascinating. First off, biochemistry and hormone mix changes the behavior of people in society. People with higher testosterone are more likely to do traditional "masculine" behaviors (war, chase status, take risks, etc).

Now, hormonal production is somewhat cyclical in nature - whatever you're using, your body will produce more of. So men who partake in combat sports, lift weights, serve in the military, and generally act "masculine" will have higher testosterone. This also includes people to people interaction - guys regularly in fistfights or trying to dominate/refusing to submit to other people you'd expect to have higher testosterone.

So a society that had less patriarchy, a less warlike nature, full integration of workplaces, and so on - you'd expect to have lower testosterone over time.

You'd expect less crime and less violence in these lower testosterone societies. Then, because men aren't committing crimes or needing to defend themselves against assailants, their testosterone production would fall off more. Cyclical.

Not too controversial so far?

Okay. One step further - I've come to believe, from looking at numbers and research, that when men don't channel their energy into these traditional male pursuits, both genders' happiness suffers some. From my fairly casual research - I'm no expert - I think that women have a predisposition to very masculine men, and men have a predisposition to doing all our dumb guy stuff and fighting each other and racing towards being masculine. When men become less masculine, they are less happy. When men become less masculine, women are less happy. So crime goes down and society becomes more stable, but rates of depression and suicide go up.

All the numbers I've looked at bear this out. That doesn't suggest a course of action - there's tradeoffs in society. Violence and crime are quite bad things, and I'd very much like to see them scrubbed out of any society I live in. But at the same time, there's some consequences to lower testosterone production in men that aren't all pleasant. It's interesting to think about these tradeoffs, but hard to have an intelligent public discussion about it these days.
What Goes Around: Teledesic 2.0
Brewing a Better Rating System
But if all those people used twitter, you'd just have to check twitter hourly. That's half as many checks as 50 sites daily.
Ask HN: Service like compete.com that tracks total browser requests?
With lots of mashups and facebook apps these days, looking at compete.com or alexa doesn't really give a complete picture of the traffic that an app serves. For example, take the blog comment drop-ins like disqus and intensedebate. No one goes to their .com sites, but they get tons of traffic.

Still, in most cases of these services, there is at least 1 client request back to the SaaS domain, and this could be used to gauge the level of traffic.

Anyone know of anything like this?
I was not all that impressed until I saw the size of the original source code, dang.
You are still playing cute and don't understand how you'll be cut off by a judge (ie., common sense) in seconds.

Sir, is that the only large number that you published? Are you saying that your interest in this number has nothing to do with its presence as a key in TI's calculators? How come a search of your house found all those dumps of TI firmware? Seriously?

Don't get me wrong, I'm on your side, but this defense is called "playing stupid" and it is known not to work.
Until you try to leave and realize you're just too dependent on them. They pull you in by inches, and then you realize you're miles from getting out.

I actually love most Google products, and I'm willing to deal with them for now. I just wanted to provide the counter argument.
thanks. he updated his comment to say 3Gs...
Am I the only one who doesn't enjoy discomfort/missed-context humor no matter the subject/participants? I always just feel embarrassed and ashamed that I can do nothing to help the fictional character out of their predestined impasse, and angry at the author for putting me in such a situation.
You Aren't Google or Apple (so don't design your home page like theirs)
They're probably waiting on Intel to launch the next version of the Xeon, which always lags the desktop/laptop equivalent by a bit.

Hopefully, the next Xeon won't require FB-DIMMs... those are probably adding quite a bit to the MacPro's price tag.
Goodwin by indirection it is :)

I suppose the exception would be people who are admitted racists.
Sliding keyboards are nowhere near as good as BlackBerry style keyboards.

I had an E71 for a while and the reason I loved it was because the keyboard was _always there_. It was never a pain to pull it out, wait for the screen orientation to flip, enter, close again. You just typed away.

The comparison to the G1 or the N75 with pull out keyboards was huge. It just added a mental road block into every action.
I've seen a lot of these "what you should include in your pitch"-type posts, and it's alarming how little overlap there is.
Your argument would be more valid when comparing for example the PPC32 to PPC64, but for IA32 vs AMD64 you are missing:

- IA32 is register starved ISA, AMD64 is not. It has doubled the amount of general registers.

- AMD64 doesn't have to support the x87 FPU baggage. As a result, it is simpler to deal with fp math.
Your right, I just didn't see the possibilities.

Banner on fly: "I bet you wished you had a Kill-m-Dead Flyswatter right now!"
> In what way is mysticism small? It is bigger by most definitions

Saying "infinite" creates a vague sensation of bigness that isn't anywhere near as big as, say, 3^^^3 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knuth%27s_up-arrow_notation) to say nothing of really large numbers.

The idea of the night sky as "infinite" is nowhere near as shocking as the idea of galaxies a septillion meters away. It's like the difference between Thor, versus the machine superintelligences of Iain Banks's Culture or the Powers from Vernor Vinge's A Fire Upon the Deep. You can imagine the "infinite" Jehovah demanding the worship of Israelite tribespeople, but it's rather harder to visualize a mind 10^50 ops/sec large bothering to do so.

If you think of mystics as primitive amateur philosophers and science fiction writers who demand that their work be protected from ordinary criticism, you can see there's no way they'd be able to keep up with modern science fiction writers or modern mathematicians. In this light, words like "infinite" or "unimaginable" are just words - showing instead of telling, mere adjectives, a demand that we be impressed which isn't backed up by any actual ability to conceive of impressive things.
That is pretty cool but really, could whoever wrote that not have spent however long that took (which I'm guessing is quite long) doing something a lot more worthwhile.
Controversial caterpillar-evolution study formally rebutted
Slim, warm superconductors promise faster electronics
Clever stuff - it's hard enough to get one quine working!
PG extols the virtues of Silicon Valley, which is basically coincident with the South Bay. He actively dissuades (unsuccessfully, in many cases) YC founders from living in SF.
This will vary with the model of RV, but most of them are pretty well insulated. Most have a metal frame with sheet foam between. The outside skin is usually fiberglass, which makes a good vapor barrier.

The volume to heat is pretty small so it's efficient. The biggest problem in really cold weather is condensation on inside of the windows. Some of the more expensive RVs have dual-pane windows with don't have this problem and are even more efficient.

Road handling varies. Most RVs are heavy which aids snow traction. And rain isn't a problem either (except for the noise). But wind -- that's a problem. Most RVs are tall and boxy. RVs with long a wheel-base in relation to length do better in wind than those with large overhangs aft of the rear axle.

I found that the faster I go the worse the handling in stiff cross-winds. Slowing down to 55mph helps a lot. Cross-winds are the worst. Headwinds suck your milage down (a lot) but a tailwind will help.
It's more of a proof sketch, really--there's a few unexamined assumptions in there. It was the best I could do off the top of my head and typing on a smart phone, but I'm reasonably confident that the overall structure is valid.

I was actually kinda hoping someone who knows more than I do would chime in and clarify things...
>whether or not I knew

Then by the same logic it is still ok if he is exempt from the rule.
I chose to work out and play h.s. football. I'm a developer at Intel, so maybe I learned a lot of discipline playing football? Or maybe I'm more inclined to do corporate work...

"It's easy to retroactively give a positive interpretation to any life choice"
Amen. I just can't get excited about fixing broken stuff on linux by tweaking text files any longer.
ah - the Goldman Sachs thread...
Announcing a lack of preparation. All PB talks begin with him saying that he hasn't prepared anything; that it doesn't matter anyway, because he doesn't have anything to say; and that in fact no one has anything to say. From which he proceeds to tell you interesting things.
It's an example where greater welfare may be derived from less overall wealth, if a) the marginal benefit of more wealth per member diminishes with each additional unit, generally, and b) the distribution between members improves, such that more members are in the steep part of the slope.

Proponents of capitalism usually point to (a) not always being true. That is, at some point, and under the right social conditions, the marginal benefit per unit picks up again, when instances of per-member wealth is great enough to finance capital-intensive production.
I thought someone might say that. :-)

I will get just as much out of paul's talks because I love his talks and will always pay attention to every word. Some percentage of the audience, however, will take a lack of preparation qualifier as a reason to zone out.
You shouldn't be able to SEGV a JVM no matter what bytecode you feed it (exempting JNI). So it is a JVM bug.
How much does an RV like that cost?
Completely agree. Its not something I'm looking to do right away, I just wanted to put the feelers out nice and early...
That's very interesting! I have a friend who worked on a project that was using this process but I never knew the name of it!
His examples seem to be more about making choices than risks. I choose not to buy a new Prius because it's an insane waste of money compared to the used car I bought at 20k miles. I also felt my choice was better for the environment (30mpg highway on a used car, compared to 50mpg new car).

His choice to buy that old car is a wise one, it will probably maintain value, while his expenses/maintenance will be lower on a car that's simpler to work on or buy parts for.
Instead of "Don't tell the audience you aren't prepared", I'd say simply "Be Prepared".

Paul Buchheit started his talk at Startup School by telling the audience that he was just going to wing it. I'd say he had one of the best talks of the day. Even if he didn't spend a second thinking about what he was going say, it was pretty obvious that he was very well prepared to give a good talk based on previous experience.

That said, I can see where Jason is coming from. Setting expectations is an important part of public speaking (actually it applies to a lot of things). If you tell me you haven't prepared, the first thought that immediately comes to mind is that the talk isn't going to be very good and I'm certainly more likely to zone you out.
Social programming should be a feature of a language
Students Help Ford Bring [Web 2.0] to Cars
I personally use SBCL, but I've heard a lot of people use Clozure Common Lisp (http://www.clozure.com/clozurecl.html) because it has better Slime integration (better stack frame inspector, etc).

The very best tools are probably Allegro CL (w/ its non-emacs IDE) and Lisp Works (and its own IDE too). I've heard nothing but good things about both (and have used Allegro CL enough to know it - and its associated libraries - are very impressive).

As far as I can gather no one really uses them since they are just too expensive though. They must be making money somewhere, I just don't know where ...
That's mean. It was a fair test, why spoil it?
Ah, so it is the contrast provided by lowering the expectations at the beginning which means they'll be shattered even more thoroughly by the rest of the talk. Makes sense.
I also thought it was goofy that this matrix didn't relate any of the associated turn-by-turn nav costs in the iPhone. You have to buy a pricey(for the app store) app and then pay a monthly subscription fee on top of that. This omission is odd especially considering that it's a blog, post and info graphic about costs.
Oh, I have no doubt it isn't as good as the BlackBerry keyboard. But it might be a good enough compromise for people who want something that's sort of iPhone-like but need a physical keyboard.
> Example: ~10M records are processed and transformed, various computations occur, and ~100K records are spit out. Lots of statistics. One type of run takes 12 hours on an 8GB, 4-core Linux box

That seems insanely slow, unless they are doing something insanely complex. In other words, this doesn't tell us very much.
I'd like to have that much time on my hands too.
What a very strange comment.

I wish I had heard one of these talks.
Look at the gb_graph module of Knuth's "Stanford GraphBase" (the Stanford GraphBase is available for download at his web-site). His explanation of his graph data structures, written in CWEB, are the clearest documentation of a complex data structure that I have ever seen.
Most of the "backup services" (jungledisk, mozy, etc.) do either free or really cheap "personal" backup, but have expensive "business" plans.

RubyMine is free for "Open Source".
You're always free to take your ball and go home though: http://www.dataliberation.org/
Ask HN:Review My WebApp. An easy Media Page builder for blogs
The "why and not the what" is an important consideration, especially for incorporating design elements from Google. If your site's primary benefit is the ability to quickly access information - a simple search box makes more sense than attempting to organize categories in another fashion (you spoke of the conditioning in search). When Twitter switched their homepage to something reminiscent of Google, I understood, I accepted and periodically use.
A '96 Rialto like in the article will sell for anywhere between $10k and $20k depending on milage and condition.

I have to agree with the article -- those are nice RVs and they made a bunch of them. Basically it's a VW van cab (with engine and front-wheel drive) and the rest is all built by Winnebago in Iowa.
Oh, you use the Twitter home page? You have to sign out to use that, right? Is it that valuable?
Dhingana from your iPhone or iPod Touch | Apple Iphone Fun Site
I absolutely admit that OS X has a somewhat fuzzy appearance, particularly at small point sizes. This gets exaggerated with the MS Core/Web fonts, which were designed for the screen (stems that line up with pixel boundaries, etc), and have hinting that is specifically designed to be compatible with MS ClearType.

Ubuntu has similar (but not exactly the same) levels of fuzziness, but the rendering is inaccurate. Character tracking/spacing is the biggest issue, but there are others.

If you look at traditional fonts that are designed for print or general purpose use (e.g. Helvetica, Frutiger, Univers, Myriad, etc.), the accuracy and quality of OS X rendering stands out considerably. There is simply no comparison.. and once you get used to it, the small amount of "fuzziness" that you observe in small point sizes just doesn't bother you anymore.
When I used to write freelance articles sometimes I would string for the local daily and weekly newspapers. As such, they would assign me local crime stories -- usually something that sounded interesting. "Naked man in rowboat with .22 rifle floating around shooting at birds" or some such.

I used to have one source inside the police department that could make anything at all sound boring. He would start each interview off with "Well, it really isn't that interesting, but I'm happy to tell you a little about it."

After 20 or 30 minutes of taped interview, eventually I would agree that yes, it really isn't that interesting.

Since then I've made it a point never to say something bad about your presentation or story. If it's rotten they're going to figure it out anyhow, and no point in spoiling the suspense for them.
No. No it does not.
OS X has the glyphs clipped to an imaginary sub-screen-resolution grid. The same letter may in some instances take up one black pixel and in others take up two (and be greyish in both). That's what he meant by accuracy. On linux every identical glyph is rendered identically, no matter where it is positioned.
Me too. So many netbooks are coming out now that don't even work with Linux properly now like the Samsung ones and Ubuntu 9.04 even was broken with WPA Wireless on the EeePC 901. Also Dell only offer Linux on the very lowest model in their netbook range.
That's why I always go with different categories - I track an unusually large number of feeds, so not everything is of equal importance every day. On slow news days, though, I make my way down the categories I have organized in order of priority.

I intentionally subscribe to more feeds than I need so I'm never without, but don't feel guilty about not reading them all.
i'm a bigger fan of code puzzles. i had no interest in a job at weebly, but i completed theirs anyway. why not do that?
I get that. It's always difficult to migrate data, no matter how easy it has been made to move.
Watch out though, T-mobile's 3g coverage is pretty terrible. http://www.t-mobile.com/coverage/pcc.aspx?WT.z_unav=mst_glob...
They only want to employ people with great skillz. You know, like nunchuck skillz, bow-hunting skillz, computer hacking skillz...
and has been ...
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I use periodically when I am logged into CoTweet or TweetDeck and they are buried. Also, think the homepage has value for first time users (yes, they still exist) to understand how the site functions. Type in a topic and understand "Oh, people share short comments and I can get different information on topics than Google would provide." So yes, that can be valuable.
I use literate programming, and Knuth's CWEB in particular, and I find it fits for me perfectly. Honestly, I think the biggest problem is that most programmers have never heard of it or think it's something like JavaDoc.
I find it astonishing that so few people are willing to try something developed and strongly advocated by the man who single-handedly programmed TeX, MetaFont, and the Stanford GraphBase, and wrote the most respected texts in computer science.
Freelancing, Time Management, and the Mobile Apps That'll Help You
Will do. Thanks ErrantX. You've inspired me to seriously consider putting up a splash page asking for email addresses - to be notified when it's released.
hmm... I guess some people don't like brown. I would be happy if ubuntu came with a non-brown theme that had the same overall quality as the default theme.
Oh, totally see how it provides value for new users.
Lots and lots of people live in RV's. The problem with the social impression of it is that it isn't a choice for most. They cant afford a house, so there is a stigma about living in an RV.

The other issue is that people want comfortable living over rational living. They want big and are rewarded by society for having big and living big.

But, this character living in an RV isn't unusual. It's actually quite popular, especially among retirees.
12 hours / 10,000,000 records = 4.32ms/record concurrently. (4 cores maxed out ≅ 16ms per item?)

Doesn't tell us much, but that doesn't seem insanely slow either, necessarily.
Tough crowd, eh.
Integration of Twitter
Do you think Twitter will ever integrate with emergency services? It could get involved with telematic systems in automobiles to communicate through GPS/Navigation screens the location of emergency vehicles to reduce the number of crashes with the public...

What do you think?
Use Virtual PBX. They've been around the longest (1997) and started the hosted phone service craze. They use their own service as well. I haven't found another hosted phone service that actually uses their own stuff. That's telling.
I think this totally makes sense - we are talking about a younger generation that is driving the need for web 2.0/social marketing integration with automobiles however, I find it strange that Microsoft would need outside assistance with growing Sync...
I agree. To my way of thinking if someone doesn't understand XKCD and laugh at it the first time they see it they aren't going to find it funny after an explanation.
Would be cool to integrate this into a Twitter news/meme app ... ala YC RFS3
I was wondering about the legal ramifications of living in an RV. I know that San Francisco doesn't allow it and occasionally cracks down on it, primarily because we have such a large homeless population that often camp in RVs. I suspect that most cities in the US don't allow you to actually live in a vehicle unless it's within a designated area (RV park for example). Maybe Austin is an exception.

Of course, it could just be an image thing. I suspect that if you kept it clean and in good repair, and moved often, then you could probably get away with it. RVs covered with graffiti, are missing panels or have 800 bike frames hanging off the back tend to make you a good target for a fine, and probably impounding.
I feel like this really combines the best of the granular 4 star systems with the specificity of a percentage rating. Really good stuff, I'd be interested to hear a follow up with user feedback on this approach and how it holds up long term.
I love that the sliding meter shows tick marks for your previous rankings of other teas - the UI reflects that your judgement of a particular tea is relative to your other experiences.
DevCentral Weekly Roundup Episode 109 - Branch Cache Chumby
Not sure about AT&T, but Sprint does not have a data cap either.
A main reason I plan to stay with Google is the ability to avoid visiting sites themselves unless I want to participate. For some reason constantly leaving and returning for information is not conducive for optimal consumption. Different information consumption needs indeed.