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"I think we need Hollywood to make a movie and have Kristen Stewart as a web designer and Robert Pattinson as a web developer. That might help with the situation..."
Plus, with the weather as crappy as it is today, we have Carasso making homemade mac and cheese, and Smithwick's, Widmer, and Lagunitas IPA on tap :)
"Classic touch typists are at increased risk for RSI."

Link? A quick Google search only produced claims that touch typing reduces RSI, though I wouldn't at all be surprised that the evidence for those too would be the classic "proof by common sense".
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IE6 doesn't easily support png transparency. It basically just looks like a flat colored boxy button with a border.
I'd advocate taking a longer-range view-- both of the design of your site and your relationship with a designer. If you're at all successful, there'll be lots more design work to do. So why not use this small initial project as way to get to know a high-quality designer whose work you'll be proud to see on your site?

Also, though it may seem like the "tweak" you want should represent only 30 minutes of effort, in reality, to produce quality work, the designer will need to spend at least 30 minutes (and probably more like an hour) just exploring what you're looking for with you before they can even get started with the actual design. And a good designer will want to develop several different options for you to choose from. Pretty soon you're looking at 2-3 hours minimum even for what you've described.

Bottom line... I started out the development of our webapp vastly underestimating both the value of and the time it takes to produce quality design. I encourage you to avoid doing the same.
I have this problem with ctrl. I have a habit of making capslock act as another control key. When I get to other systems I'm constantly fumbling and turning caps lock on and off. However, I think it's pretty obvious from the speed of my fingers that I know what I'm typing but I just seem to be hitting the wrong keys.

And of course, switching editors and operating systems can really confuse you. I can't count the number of times I've copied something, gone to insert it into the editor, and realized that the system I'm on doesn't automatically copy highlighted text.
what, i'm being voted down? so sources don't matter? i don't know whether the emails are authentic or not, but certainly there is cause for concern, no?

if you look at the other articles of the author, tony hake, you will see they invariably fall into the "climate change skeptic" realm. maybe that's fine, maybe not. the warning is simply: wait for verification before jumping to any conclusions.
Ask HN:  Are there any meta question answering sites on the web?
Such a service would forward your question to appropriate web forums and bring back the answers to you all in one place.
I had to jailbreak my iphone to get basic functionality, and I have installed a number of unapproved apps on it. All of my previous phones and pdas have had unapproved apps as well.

I'm dumping my iphone as soon as the Milestone becomes available because I am sick of the way apple does things.

The approval process has little to do with security and a lot to do with money.
The text of the bill: http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2009-10/digitaleconomy/d...
California students occupy buildings to protest fee hike
Pystachio: Python-to-JavaScript translator in JavaScript
It doesn't seem odd to me; just because you find something to be true doesn't mean it doesn't need a citation.
Hello HN,

I started work on this project a few months back and revisited it last night to get a very early version up. (Release early!)

Live demo: http://www.avatrion.com/pystachio/index.html

So far the project consists mainly of a port of Python 2.5's tokenize.py and does not yet perform any actual translation. Pystachio looks for embedded and external scripts with type="text/python" and proceeds to parse the code. The comments in the demo page tell a little more about what's going on and what you can do.

Inline python (inside event attributes) is also planned, and an example of how it would be used is included in the demo as well.

I'm posting this early to hopefully gather some thoughts from you guys on how to go about translating Python to JavaScript.
EPA climate change e-mails (from June)
Your argument makes the unfounded assumption that those vendors would have done the work you "lost" if the code had been GPL licensed.

As a counterpoint, FreeBSD has progressed at a steady clip -- I fail to see how it is significantly behind Linux, and is significantly ahead in many areas.
I'd imagine that some future revision might enhance the support for IE6...
I am from Europe and several of my colleagues went to work to our USA branch (within the same corp). They told me the same thing I am reading in the article - in USA, they work harder and more hours per day. And we are not a startup!

[By contrast here in the UK I’m well aware that the legal requirement is 20 days (4 weeks’ worth!) and everyone is keeping track — and actually taking them!]

This is funny - I am really surprised that the author is surprised about that. ;-) Of course, I take those full 4 weeks, and I am also required to do so, otherwise the company would have to pay me extra money for those days, which they usually do not want to do. We are also encouraged to take at least one two-weeks long vacation "to fully recover". Moreover, in my country we have as much as 15 non-working days (state holidays).

Anyway, I'd like to hear some perspective of you living in USA - it is really enough for you to have just 10 days of vacation per year? Is that number even correct? And... what you think is the actual reason that working so many hours and days per year is valued so much? What's the point - to make more money, or to prove oneself, or is it just a best spended time? I am really curious to learn more about it.
I'd say it's just a way to identify a degree of necessity.
That problem cuts both ways though.

You have the experienced people who are stubborn and want to do things their way because in their experience that works best but you also have the experienced people who know that the best way to do things is the way that the team is best structured to implement well and maintain efficiently in the future.

The passionate people have the same problem. Passion brings on a strong desire to do things "right" so some will refuse to adapt to the team, their passion dictating what the team should do and others will be more passionate about results rather than methodologies.
I'm cheap. Although it's an excellent question whether I spent more in electricity than I saved in fixing/buying systems. But I definitely saved inconvenience.
Open source has long existed and thrived without RMS and the GPL.
This is the future of mobile apps. As someone with iPhone dev fatigue, looking at this on my iPhone is incredibly exciting.

This seems runs just as well on my iPhone, except for the fact I can't do anything (missing arrow keys and control key on the phone).
I'm still disappointed at developers who are advocates ofopen-source developing for the IPhone.

A little hypocritical in my opinion.
I figured the room might be a bit too generalist to want to hear 40-50 minutes of crypto flaws, and so I was thinking about wrapping the crypto stuff up in a talk that made a technical case in favor of DRM.

If people tell me real-world crypto is going to keep people in their seats, though, I'm totally down for that; it's a much easier talk.
Ask YC: Review my webapp coded in the past few days
thank you for ideas.

1. I don't really think pledge-type would work for me. Tried once on microPledge and it has zero feedback.
2. Keeping separate open-souce version behind commercial few months sound interesting, but it would make managing my projects harder. I guess I need to keep things simple.
3. My target audience is developers. Providing just builds as a commercial service is nothing most of them would pay for.

I'm thinking I would probably do simplest thing possible. I'll offer future product as closed-source and stick a price on it. Say TotalFinder .-)
When your timebomb goes off, Apple will certainly hear about it and will be paying you a visit in short order.

You could try to circumvent this by using bogus information when you sign up for the developer program, but it's not as easy as setting up a false eBay account or something along those lines

If your a master criminal and can social engineer around all this, then you probably have better things to do with your time and skill.
No human can possibly behave objectively in all situations. We are constantly under the influence of bias (whether conscious or unconscious).
Other than Lessig, that trio does not even begin to represent me or innumerable other open source developers. RMS and Linus represent GPL and Linux developers, who are are only one component of the broader community.

The GPL/Linux ideals are clearly and fundamentally opposed to my own, and I would be insulted if RMS and Linus accepted the award on behalf of the open source community at large.
As a full time telecommuter for almost 3 years now, my opinion is quite different. I can barely imagine going back to a commuter life.

The few times a month when I have to drive during rush hour remind me how much better life is when not spent in traffic. And without the daily distractions of office life I get much more accomplished in much less time.

So long as you have good self control, and can work independently and self-motivate, it can be a wonderful arrangement. If you are lacking in those areas, I imagine it can be very difficult.
"Pay an expert to review my code" website (Ideas from my Dreams)
I spend most of my time watching things like hulu/cnn from the net over UGC internet content on my TV, but having youtube is nice. I'd certainly rather have it than not have it. The 1080p and 720p content changes the usefulness of it quite a bit though. I hope Boxee doesn't get banned. If it does, there will be a work around within 24 hours.

This also reinforces my hypothesis that going with "toy" boxes like roku, popcorn hour,etc. are a bad idea. We don't need to dumb down the hardware that's connected to our tv, but adapt it's purpose/interface. We have "OS'" for our 3 inch screens. We need one for our 50 inch screens.
I think a standard laptop is pretty much the most ergonomic possible layout. The too-big keyboard is one bad thing about the standard layout and the mouse on the side is the other.
Why do people post stuff like that? Why do people vote it up?

It's not like you can't google yourself some install instructions. Also, this "article" doesn't bring anything new. You can get this information from the REE documentation.

Please, stop voting on this :(
If you're literally just after a palette - about all you can expect from 30 minutes really (that was mentioned by someone else I think not the OP), barely enough time to view most sites in entirety and make basic considerations.

Well:

kuler - (from adobe) http://kuler.adobe.com/#themes/mostpopular?time=30, and
colourlovers - http://www.colourlovers.com/palettes/search?hsv=&sortTyp...

are both great for trying out different palettes and seeing what is popular. You can use a photo to base your palette on too - if you've a prominent image that epitomises your project or what-have-you.

I do some website design but I don't have a strong graphics background, I don't even own a pantone book anymore ... do you have a alpha/pre-realease we can see?
Microsoft "Cuzz": Fault injection testing optimized to find concurrency flaws
As far as amount of css goes, here's what you're dealing with to achieve something similar in only CSS.

1. Button reset - to get browsers to the same starting point
2. Rounded corners, Text shadows, and Gradients + vendoring
3. Background image fallback
4. Padding, Text size, line-height, etc
5. Default, Hover, and Active states for all styles

That's a lot of css to write, effectively reduced to a single mixin. Of course, it's also great that you can use the bare minimum html.
Canabalt: iPhone Game
Rackspace is hiring Java and Python guys. Considering talent over location. Ping me at michelle.greer(at)rackspace.com if you are interested or know someone else who would be. Thanks!
Looks like it's internal-only right now, but that doesn't matter, because the idea is so simple OSS folks could duplicate this quickly: Cuzz deterministically messes up thread scheduling to increase the chance that you'll hit a race.
This sounds a lot like what
Bruce Sterling was calling Spimes a few years back.

That every physical manufactured object would be accompanied by it's data tail, and that it would be blogging it's activities and be addressable over the network.
Certainly. As far as IE6 support can go without compromising on simplicity.
Ask HN: Has anyone here ever made an Ubuntu usplash theme?
Shouldn't be too hard with the resources out there on the web to help, but it's always good to be in touch with someone that can answer questions. Not looking to go too complex, but definitely want to have custom animations for loading bar,etc. included. If you could leave your contact info here or just drop me a quick email j[at]jasonlbaptiste.com it would be greatly appreciated!
I love these contracts that talk about viewing content on a TV. What's the difference between a 30" iMac and an LCD TV?

I claim the essential difference is whether or not you're sitting on a couch when you watch it. Good luck writing a contract that bans that.
And that is even with three young children in the house because they know that when I'm at work, I'm not available and concentrating

Interesting. With one little girl in the house I find the occasional interruptions when she comes to visit downright welcome. A minute spent laughing with her always puts me in a good mood.

I do imagine that three at a time could be a little distracting, though.
a lot of our stuff can be seen anyway. Anything that currently goes over the internet. Doing email on the cloud isn't much different from sending an email from outlook.

Second, you can encrypt things in the cloud
Likewise for me, in Brooklyn. Of course, I only have one coffee shop around - but I know several of the baristas there (one is in a great local band, Pass Kontrol), and often see the bartenders from the bistro-bar down the block (whom I also know fairly well). Add to that the fact that the coffee shop has a "bottomless cup" option with cheap refills, and I find myself dividing my time like this:

When I need to do a lot of photoshop work (slicing, dicing, css, et cetera), I work from home where I have a large monitor. When I need to do a lot of code work, I take my laptop down to the coffee shop.

Wish I could stick my desk in the living room, but there really isn't any room! It is perpendicular to my south-east-facing window, though, so I get a lot of natural light which seems to help my mood quite a bit.

I couldn't imagine working from home if I lived in a suburb, though. The occasional ten minute breaks (when I'm out of home, instead of out of the coffee shop) to go down and get a cup (or just to have a smoke) are quite nice, because I see a lot of people that I know from the neighborhood. I wouldn't be able to get that, no how no way, out of a suburb.
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RJMetrics is hiring an exceptional User Experience and Interface Engineer (Philadelphia / South NJ)

http://rjmetrics.theresumator.com/apply/
you're making my point for me. If it isn't a certain place, then how can it possibly be evil?
Push for quality, push for creativity, and push for time -- in that order.

I think its easy to try to push to get things done fast first, especially for non-technical managers, but this can be really counter-productive because it starts to disenfranchise developers as the work becomes more drudgery and harried tedium. When you push for quality features and creative solutions first and only then push for time, the deadline crunch can really kick most people's minds into high gear, and they can generate elegant and satisfying results.
I get 12 vacation and 5 sick days/year, plus a few (maybe 9) holidays off. I think I'm probably at about the median of vacation days for a standard American professional (maybe on the low end for the software industry).

I like the month plan better. I think there's a split in ideology here. A lot of people think we lose our competitive edge if we take more vacation. I think we'd really be at about the same productivity level but a lot happier. I think, in general, we're heading to the more leisurely schedule that you guys are. And I think that in talent-based work, a more leisurely schedule will bring about better quality and productivity.
Exactly. All the strategy/techniques/hacks mean nothing without the discipline to actually consistently carry them out.
Gameloft scaling back Android development in favor of iPhone
There are tons of HTML5 games already http://www.javascriptgaming.com/
Where else did you intern? I'm curious because I'd like to know whether an Amazon internship would be different or better than my other experiences (Microsoft/IBM).
This Bill is even worse than feared - see London based Telnic's (.tel registry) response to the government informing them that the statutory instrument to seize managerial control of domain registries applies to them:

http://prnewswire.co.uk/cgi/news/release?id=272545

Allegations of "abusive" behaviour on the part of registrars or end-users could lead an ignorant Secretary of State triggering this instrument.

So what's "abusive"? Well just for starters, registering an expired domain name is. Yes really, that's what the government believes (see the Digital Britain report).

So a company with about 12 employees has gone from being heralded at the UK IT awards last week for "the biggest innovation to come out of the UK since the www from Sir Tim Berners-Lee.".. to fearing nationalisation!

Brown thinks he can run the "Digital Economy" like a Soviet tractor factory. Who would want to invest in this?

What a joke.
Excellent little demo.

Shows how long I've been out of touch with CSS. Didn't know stuff like variables or rounded edges was supported.
CCP Games, the makers of Eve Online, are hiring programmers in Atlanta, Iceland and Shanghai. Apply at http://ccpgames.com/jobs.aspx.
Web version: http://www.adamatomic.com/canabalt/
Would you elaborate? I never tried Moneybookers myself but always thought they were good.
The room will indeed be quite general. You'll have anything from some (though probably few) 1st year students all the way to some (few again) professionals and masters/phd students. Most will be in between, skewing heavily to last/before last year CS/SOEN majors.

I don't feel very comfortable giving advice about the direction of your talk; I can only speak for myself. If you have questions I highly recommend you ask the director of presentations. That said, personally I think the case in favor of DRM could be quite interesting since I've never heard a technical person argue in that direction. (At least not while doing more than simply assuming the token devil's advocate role.) If you make a good case you'll definitely get lots of questions/objections after!
Well said. Once the TV (or whats hooked up to it) becomes "another computer", the same way our phones became "another computer", this will be a very very big issue.
40,000,000 more potential customers.
Solution, connect a cheap laptop to the VGA port on your TV. Done.
"The" random tree
Everyone likes to trumpet the VC-backed companies--the drama, the turmoil, the exit strategy....but what about all those single-founder companies? Eric Sink's experiment has a lot of lessons for everyone, VC-backed or not.
It's wrong in at least three levels.

- You are running Windows on a Mac. That's wrong #1. And it is really bad - there is a circle of hell dedicated to Windows users on Macs. It was opened in 2005.

- You are developing for Microsoft platforms. That's wrong #2. It was felt that there was no need to dedicate a circle of Hell to these folks because developing for MS platforms is punishment enough.

- You are probably using Microsoft tools. That's wrong #3, but probably a consequence of wrong #2. Again, it is self-inflicted suffering.

It's a question of taste. And a business decision. You could probably do the same with a cheaper Lenovo, HP or Dell. Obviously they are uglier than a Mac, but, again, Windows is uglier than anything else with the possible exception of AIX with CDE, so they are a match.

The only way to run Windows on a Mac and dodge eternal damnation is to do it inside a VM, preferably a stateless one.

;-)
Things are bad here with the DCMA, but things are really frightening in the UK which doesnt have the fundamental constitutional concepts of privacy, freedom of speech, and reasonable constraints on libel. Charlie Stross, a UK SF writer, has a blog today on this topic. http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2009/11/imbecile...

BTW: he's one of us.
Global warming - not exactly sure; climate change, undeniable; human-induced climate change, undoubtedly IMO. We don't need a net global increase to produce catastrophic global climate problems.

British weather reports are becoming dominated by flooding - there are several causes including climate change, poor location of housing, deforestation.

Ignoring climate change based on fossil-fuel emissions we still are running out of fossil fuels and need to find other secondary energy sources. If those sources are renewable then this prevents us having the same problem again in a few years when, say, Uranium reserves are depleted. We should then have an extremely strong impetus to ween ourselves off our current high levels of power consumption and to exploit to the greatest extent we can clean renewable power sources. If we do this then we also are tackling part of the cause of the [potential] greenhouse effect anyway.

If you're in a building and you smell smoke, see it in the corridors, feel warmer; you can assume that the smoke is coming in through a window from another building, or you can pull the fire alarm - there may not be sufficient evidence for either position, but some people it seems want to wait until their clothes catch fire before making their move. It would be too late.

- http://www.wired.com/beyond_the_beyond/2009/11/the-coming-ur... current supplies run dry in 2013 unless new fields are found and exploited.
Beware.. the login box only allows 29 characters as a username and the throw away account I created is longer than that! (No thanks to the "googlemail.com" requirement in the UK..) So make sure your full Google username is shorter than that.
Simple explanation of the IP Routing Process
This commit was an incomplete fix (i.e. you'd still get autorejected after 2 weeks of waiting). Looks like the complete fix was merged in from the uprise78 fork yesterday, so Three20 is safe for the app store once again.

See http://github.com/facebook/three20/commit/c62a4cfd26c19d9248...

Waiting 2 weeks for an Apple reviewer to press the "run static analyzer" button sucks.
The variables appear to be a SASS construct, not CSS.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sass_(stylesheet_language)
Virtual Network User-Mode-Linux (VNUML) web serve
Get a template, themeforest had the nicest themes out there for a reasonable price $20 - $40

if you can't even afford that, my suggestion is to launch as is, eye candy doesn't make up for features and functionality. Reddit is an example. I've seen other startups stuck in this redesign mode and IMO it's very distracting.
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Blister,

I'm a designer, happy to take a look. Feel free to email me.
Technically, "the" random infinite tree.
Green startup Opower has engineering openings: Senior Java Dev, QA, and Senior DB.

www.opower.com

My email is in my profile if you're interested and have any questions.
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And forty million other apps to compete with for attention.
Http://www.astalavista.com/index.php?app=onlinetools&module=encryptionkit