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Ask HN: Can I earn 2000$ in 3 months by making sample apps/wireframes?
Hi, I am an android app developer(5+yrs exp) with a day job. I don't usually do freelance due to time constraints, but need an extra $2k by November this year. A lot of my friends usually approach me with an idea for an app and ask if I can help them out in visualizing it or if I can make a sample app which they can use to take feedback from potential users and investors. It doesn't take much effort and I generally do it for free. This led me to think that there must be a lot of people out there with similar needs, where I can do such work for a small fee instead of committing to a complete app. Wondering if such kind of work can generate the required amount? Do people really want help with such tasks or only my friends have this particular requirement?
I am not on any freelancer websites and not sure if registering now would benefit me as I hear people don't trust noobs on such websites.
> But: this is authentic. This is what we (i.e. hackers) are always claiming we want. Someone speaking her mind, shooting from the hip, etc. Not an anodyne blob of corporate-speak: this is an opinion, stated pretty clearly, and backed up with fighting words.

We also want intelligence and clear thinking along with it. We don't, as a rule, want loud and dumb as a bag of rocks. That way lies Donald Trump.

At the same time, this is a huge improvement over corporate doublespeak. It helps the stupidity and arrogance shine through clearly, which is one reason that I like it when people talk this way.
She also missed the fact, that there are things called laws. If the non-overridable (cogent) clause in the law says I can do reverse engineering for purpose X, I can do that and what is in license agreement is not relevant at all.
You're making the wrong argument. You get to control what you are subjected to. If you don't want to be bombarded by psychologically manipulative propaganda, it is just, correct, ethical, and legal(for now) not to be.

If you produce ad burdened content hoping that I will allow myself to be advertised to. I'm glad to crush that hope. You can charge for your content, stop producing it, etc. What you can't do is demand I endure you're fucking advertising.
I always wondered what would happen if instead of making donations a public disclosure, that we did the opposite. We make it illegal to tell people you donated to politicians. Totally secret.

You can't quid pro quo if you don't know about the quid.
What is about Kali that sets it apart from other Linux distributions?
> I wonder if one day we will find that sending all data to a data center for processing doesn't scale.

Of course it scales. Some problems demand more scale. Through more datacenters at it. Tweak the algorithms to distribute data more conservatively.
Unfortunately, the second seems to be implemented via a site that promotes Instant Runoff Voting (IRV), which is one of the only voting systems that manages the impressive feat of being worse than first-past-the-post voting (our current system). Not least of which because IRV is one of the few systems where voting for someone can make them lose. IRV encourages people to list their full preferences, but then completely ignores all rankings except the first until the first loses. So if you vote A>B>C, your vote does absolutely nothing to help B win unless A loses first.

There are several different systems that are quite a bit better, including approval voting (simpler) and Condorcet (closest to ideal, still easy to explain until someone asks what happens with a tie, which rarely happens anyway).

As for #3, sure, I'd love to see candidates' election campaigns funded primarily by citizens, at the option of those citizens. That doesn't mean I want to see them funded by mandatory taxes. Where can I cash in my voucher for an "all of these candidates suck" refund, for instance?

#1, on the other hand, seems like a great idea. Could go hand-in-hand with making sure it's a severe crime to deprive anyone or any group of their ability to vote (such as the various stunts that have occurred in past elections where certain districts "mysteriously" had malfunctions).
He doesn't even have to convince one about it - there already is a candidate that supports such reforms and that's Bernie Sanders. Is he guaranteed to win? No. But he sure as hell has a much better chance of winning than Lessig. He should use his crowdfunds to support him.
I think you would need to take a longer view than the remainder of the term that is filled out by the VP, and remember also that you will still vote for your representatives however you wish.
An article on edit distance without mentioning the person who invented it - Levenshtein. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Levenshtein
That's quite a bit different - there's probably a contractual (legal) obligation there.

I use my bandwidth to retrieve the web page, and my CPU/GPU time to render it. Arguably, my computer is doing some of the work for the "content creator" in any case. If we're going the Car Analogy Route, then I think the situation is more like you've bought some blueprints and chunks of metal. You machined the chunks of metal into parts, and then assembled a car. Does Ford or VW or GM get to demand that you put their badges/plates/etc on it?

This is to point out that physical analogies are slippery at best.
> Larry Ellison is the biggest asshole in Silicon Valley, and also the richest, so he must be doing something right.

This weekend I learned that Larry Ellison purchased ~90% of an island in Hawaii.
Gattaca (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119177) left a lasting impression on me. It initially reads like dystopian scifi but at it's core it's really about persistence and overcoming obstacles.
Why is this downvoted? These inbuilt add-ons might not be 'rogue', but are definitely the ones which many users didn't ask for, or aren't even aware of.
Are video editors about to be automated?
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Ingmar Bergman's "Winter Light". When I was younger, Tim Burton's "Big Fish".
how much time you can devote to this, given that you have a day job too?
Surviving TUI CRUD databases?
Are there any surviving text based database CRUD systems? Please ignore the Text vs Web vs GUI debate, assume there are valid reasons for continuing with a text user interface. I see nonstop churn on web frameworks for CRUD applications, is there a stable TUI I've missed?
I find it best to make sure not to fill out the "to" field in emails which I know are going to be "controversial".

An errant tab+enter in gmail can really make the day a lot more complex.

Edit:
Once it's been toned down, if it still needs to be sent (usually it doesn't), adding the recipient is the last step, and final filter that a nasty message should pass.

Reading a fuming email to a spouse or friend before sending is also a good way to keep them in the drafts folder and out of other people's inboxes.
Yes. It's easy to install and runs on Android. It's quite fast in detecting differences and then syncing 2 nodes. It's meant to permanently run in the background though. It cannot be not easyly automated to, eg, sync 2 nodes and then shut down. In case if concurrent edits, you end up with multiple versions of the file on disk. You have to somehow detect those conflicts (find) and merge the files yourself. It doesn't help you much with that.
Some do this already, you get a full page ad with a 5 second timer. Usually there is a "continue to site" in the upper right hand corner as well.
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>How is it unnecessary? This is a real theory

Well, the way you put it does sound like a conspiracy theory:

>I'm wondering what is the agenda behind this trend. The author seems to think that it is to make sure students remain babies and stay in college as long as possible to avoid facing the real world. Could it really be something that petty? I started thinking that it could be encouraged by politicians to create a generation of babies that would feel better about dealing with a nanny-state.

fwiw, I live in a country that probably would be classified as a nanny state, and the same dynamics are very well present here, too. My personal theory is that it's far more complicated.
synch Thing is really a good option. It has a good community that is actively supporting the product and the features include only syncing certain files is great. I was a former Bit Torret Sync user but switch due to its open source code.
If I ever ran for office, that's the approach I'd take: "Feel free to give me as much or as little funding as you like if you agree with my views, but the only way to change my views is to talk to me and convince me."
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I'd guess because there's a lot of commuting between NYC and the DC area.
I made 500 phone calls for Mayday last year on their behalf.

This is not Win / Lose or Patriots vs Seahawks.

This is forcing the most important issue to be confronted on the big stage.

https://lessigforpresident.com/
I'm building a social network – and documenting every step on video
When 0-days can exist in the 13% she handwaved away, it really makes you wonder how she's Chief Security Officer...
What Android digital signage client are you using?
This appears to have been taken down, I'm directed to a 404 page
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> Sounds to me a lot like Mitt Romney talking about how his wife has the most important job in the world, but she's essentially his unpaid housewife. Sounds hollow.

No, he's actually saying that raising the next generation is the most important job in the world. aka, Mom. And I think he's right.
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I'm in agreement with you; I listed 4 things and medical outcomes were only a part of it. But I'm not sure that my point was clear so I'm going to restate it while choosing my words as carefully as I can:

For the sake of argument I'm happy to say that this is a rape, that it is bad and that it does deserve some sort of punishment.

Leaving aside any legal framework which isn't at all relevant to what I'm saying (and how many people on HN are up-to-date on Swedish law anyway). But that leaves the question of what punishment is appropriate (not necessarily mandated by law, but appropriate given a reasonable person. Opinions will differ).

I think that a sincere apology and a monetary fine seem like an appropriate level of punishment. I don't think international condemnation by strangers is called for.

1) No actual harm appears to have been done done

2) As I've said in other parts of the thread:

2a) The evidence that this was intended to humiliate or remove any sense of agency is not convincing

2b) There is evidence he complied with everything the women asked him to do, except in one instance where he should have worn a condom

I don't think these circumstances raise grave questions about Assange's moral character. If this is rape, which strictly speaking it may be, then I ask rhetorically why is it outrageous?
This has been available on AWS also: https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/search/results/ref=srh_na...
Bingo. If you don't need HTTP as the transport layer, protobuf is the way to go.
> Do you remember what it was like before XML and Java?

Yes – in particular, I remember liking the initial promise of XML 1.0 and then being disappointed as the initial simplicity was buried under layers of gratuitous complexity as the enterprise computing crowd jumped on board. Some neat ideas (e.g. XPath)

Similarly, my first database-backed web app was a Java servlet in 1996. I assumed it would become richer in the future but it was still pretty easy write and deployment was pretty simple at that point. Instead, the community chased off after more complexity (JavaBeans, the near-pervasive obsession with runtime configuration and the ensuing massive config files, nested abstraction layers, etc.) rather than focusing on basic developer productivity. We got massive piles of code like RMI (i.e. CORBA) before basic features like regular expressions, logging, etc.

> Could we have built anything on the scale of the web with CORBA?

No. We also failed, repeatedly, to do it with XML for reasons which are obvious to anyone who's ever used SOAP/WSDL/etc.

The common theme was seeing complexity and, especially, abstraction as a universal good rather than something with real costs and forgetting how important high-quality implementations are, particularly when you're relying on them to help with all of that complexity.
That's good news, but in my experience Ubuntu One file sync never worked very well. Maybe someone can improve it now we have the code.

It's also worth noting that this is a centralized, server-based file sync, unlike the peer-to-peer Syncthing and BTSync. It's more like Dropbox.
Supporting a proprietary platform on Raspberry Pi kind of defeats the point of the openness on which Raspberry Pi was built, no?
This is the exact reason why I moved to Firefox from Chrome back when Google started tightening the noose around developer mode extensions. I had written a few extensions for my own personal use and had no interest in putting them up in the Chrome Web Store. This was fine and good until Google decided it was A Bad Thing and Chrome started popping up annoying warning windows on every startup and then eventually disabled my extensions entirely.

I switched to Firefox since it let me have more control over my own browsing experience (and gave me a good excuse to extract myself just a little bit from the Google hivemind). I'm extremely annoyed to see that Firefox is now going down this route too.
Yeah! Or COBOL! PHP! INTERCAL!
I don't particularly like the sweatpants and the puppy rooms, etc. but I can live with it - they will grow out of it over time.

What I am much more worried about are two things:

1. More students are joining the constantly-offended-by-everything, humorless killjoy crowd.

2. They appear to be mostly uninterested in politics. But they should be interested in political change, given the bleak future that they face (with mountains of debt, etc). Quite a contrast to the politically-active 60s or 70s.
Oh yeah. Corrected. (Edited original.)
How would you propose to implement this idea?
Not at all. Makes brands with colossal marketing budgets sell more despite there being better alternatives from small companies. But that's how human consumption works, and it's virtually impossible to change that.
> I think the reason there's no override is that any malware installation routine would simply activate it and continue on its merry way.

> We see many copies of Firefox infested with rogue add-ons the user didn't ask for or isn't even aware of. Sometimes these add-ons even ship with big-name software, with no opt out or with the opt out squirreled away in some dark corner.

If malware is already executing on the user's computer, it's game over, full stop. That malware can do anything, to include using local-root vulnerabilities to patch Firefox to do anything.

Mozilla is _breaking_ Firefox for normal users, and making itself the arbiter of what users are and are not allowed to run on their own systems. That's both dangerous and foolish.
It is a distro built specifically for pen testing.
> There are FOUR VERSIONS OF FIREFOX WITH A SWITCH TO DISABLE THIS

While that may be true, requiring that you run a non-standard version of Firefox to be able to use "random" extensions will probably have a chilling effect on the Firefox extension ecosystem.

That, and it reeks of Chromeism.
>There is currently no story for using any high level language (read: language that uses GC) like Ruby or Python as a web language by way of WebAssembly.

Actually that's part of the whole point of WebAssembly -- as Eich put it. It's not just to speedup emscripten style ports of C/C++ programs.

Eich's words: "Bottom line: with co-evolution of JS and wasm, in a few years I believe all the top browsers will sport JS engines that have become truly polyglot virtual machines".
Do you also think that selling movies is broken business model because movies can pirated trivially?

Or that free software is broken model because GPL can be violated trivially?
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Shockingly (or not), I expect the vast majority of U.S. politicians would say that's exactly how they behave.

How much you believe them is probably a good proxy for how important you think campaign finance issues are.
Except for those that don't.
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10038805
I'm running into the same issues. DevFactor (http://www.youtube.com/devfactor) runs entirely on ad-funding and donations. After shutting down our WordPress site to roll our on RoR custom application, Google penalized our SEO for being offline so long.

Ad-earnings in December 2014: $700, Affiliate Earnings: $200, Donations: $25.

We now have a YT channel that is monetized, bringing in about $150/mo. Because Google basically declared us dead and dropped all of our ranks (we where offline for 1 month) - http://www.devfactor.io has gone from 300k uniq/mo to like 5k uniq/mo.

CPM rates have also been dropping :( Hard to offer such a important service that takes hundreds of hours to build up when the $/hour comes out to below minimum wage.

December 2014 CPM rates (website) where around $1.5. Now looking at $0.50.

Affiliate earnings have not changed (on a per/visitor basis), and I would suggest looking into affiliate programs as they provide more stability month to month (no reliance on ad-market CPM fluctuations.)

There have been weeks in the past when I've spent 80 hours or more on this project - bummer the good CPM rates are getting eaten up by how much noise there is in the market. Preference for quality is really a thing of the past for the internet it seems. To write and record a really good tutorial series, transcribe it all and pull out the important code can take 100 hours. Other blogs just hack out an un-edited snippet of code every 30 minutes and get much more traffic.

Once I finish migrating all of our old text-based tutorials to video tutorials, and get good enough to consider myself a "decent video editor". I have consider offering a "Pay What You Want" option for additional features and support. The nature of the project is of course a passion project, so charging outright would be hard for me to do.
It really sad Prolog/Datalog based languages never took off. Our industry has no problem embedding SQL strings and mini relational engines in our imperative programs. If you're going to encode your problems in terms of relations, why embed something something more expressive and powerful?

Good paper BTW, though I wish you hadn't prefaced the post by calling people post-literates. This paper deserves more reads.
Really good piece. Although it still seems like a bubble to me, but I understand his point about an anti-bubble of talent. There seems to be a "me too" aspect to this, where it's not just that doing a startup has become cool, but other routes for young people -- more studying, or getting a job -- are actively becoming uncool and unattractive, and carry a certain stigma.
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I'd guess its focus on penetration testing.
In the first case, you know you need some product, but not necessarily which one. You need a pair of shoes, but are you going to get Reeboks, Nike, Asics, or what? They all serve the need you originally had, advertising is just directing you towards one or the other.
> All that an attacker can do write text to a victim's terminal (and mess up said terminal using interesting escape codes).

I remember exploiting this issue more than a decade ago: http://seclists.org/bugtraq/1999/Sep/432
We'll have to agree to disagree and use for example cities and rural areas where literacy rates hover around 50%, see Detroit. Do you honestly believe these people have an accurate grasp on the civics of the nation, or the logic and understanding necessary to come to an informed decision?
I understand the idea of whitelisting sites that you want to support, but even that is tricky when their ads are provided by a myriad of ad companies, clearinghouses and ad auction sites. So even if the original website is good and trustworthy, the ad networks that you let through could still ruin you.
>I know how it feels to have a death in family when there is an important assignment.

Is he implying students should not be excused on the basis of such an event, merely so they can complete their assignment?

It's worth noting that in BUD/S, if there's a death in a trainee's family, they're usually excused and rolled back to a new class upon return, giving them the opportunity to complete their current phase of training.

If universities think they should be harsher in this regard than some of the toughest military training on the planet, then that's simply deplorable.
>Advertising is the method most people use to discover new products/services.

Do you have a source for that?

>How would you know there's a star wars movie coming out?

By being interested in science fiction movies, being part of a community of people with like interests, theater showtimes, etc.

Why do i need to know 6 months beforehand that a star wars movie will eventually come out?

Why would i need to know any sooner than a week before the release date?

>How would you know about new products and services you might be interested in buying.

By having an interest in buying them, and then doing research regarding which product will best fit my needs.

>which tell me about companies who provide things I might be interested in

Or do the advertisements give you an itch and a tool to scratch it?

>which has many adverts related to bee-keeping. That's valuable

In what way?

Are you incapable of finding a new bee-keeping related product without first seeing an advertisement?

Can you not google the item you need and then compare the options amongst each other?

Can you not simply search on amazon or some bee-keeping friendly retailer?

Are you not part of a community of bee-keepers who you can ask for recommendations about products?

If you've ever heard of:

Costco

Krispy Kreme

Kiehls

Spanx

Lululemon

Rolls Royce

Zara

Jiffy muffin mix

NO-AD sunscreen

Then you've disproven you're entire argument, as those are all brands that have $0 advertising budget, and do no advertising.