skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It sounds to me that he doesn't see this from the toxic client's point of view, and is at risk of passing up work that he views as toxic, but really isn't.

We just had a quote in for some mailshot work for us that looked awfully highly priced for what it was as everything on the quote had things that we could do ourselves with mailchimp, but the key thing that we would've relied upon for them to do that we couldn't do ourselves (mailshot template design, modifying the content to maximise attention) wasn't even mentioned on the quote.

When bidding, it's sometimes easier to justify your prices by highlighting the value in the things your potential customer can't do, rather than the stuff they can and try to do it cheaper than their internal guys. There are toxic clients out there and they should be avoided, but sometimes cheap, good and fast means cheap enough, good enough, fast enough and (most importantly) takes care of my pain.
Here is a good (and long) overview from the NASA with wind tunnel simulator Java applets: http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/airplane/right2.html
Tell HN: Starting a search startup, please review our project
The website is http://www.metahint.com

Currently we have a working prototype for searching some of our favorite blogs. We are soon sending out beta invites, and opening it up for general use.

Our idea is to make an embeddable search widget for websites, that generates suggestions from the content of the site. This came from the frustration that the search boxes on the vast majority of websites today do not suggest anything. While Google and Bing suggest previous queries, for small websites that might not be useful, so instead we extract phrases from the text and rank them by how well they describe a given page.

Let us know what you think, we are lkozma and pceelurd, lkozma has been on HN since the first days, when it was still SN.

Thanks !
Have you looked at 2 Checkout?

http://www.2checkout.com/community/
I once made the mistake to work as contractor (Ruby) for a company that fits in the article's description.
The customer was unable to deliver me input for serveral months but begged me to sit in their office all day. Just sit there and do some research (no kidding).
Then around 6 weeks prior the launch date (which was not communicated to me upfront) the hurry started and it was totally rediculous: No specs, no clue, no decision making.
I spent 4 weeks (including weekends) working ~10 hours (+1.5h commuting) per day to fix the sh*it as far as I could so that we had something to launch. Code quality was horrible of course.

I felt totally burned out after the launch and there was not even a big financial neither emotional reward in doing this exhausting mess to save my customer's back from his angry client.
Three days before my contract ended, the general manager had a conversation with me in his shiny office. He told me, that they wanted to extend the contract for 6 months (~60.000€).

I answered: Thank you, but not under this circumstances.

Best decision for my physical and mental health in the last 5 years. If you've a choice: DONT DO IT.

Life is simply too short do work for such types of (in the end) losing companies and ruin yourself.
Yeah, like I said to sekizaru we'll definitely write a post on our blog in a couple of months.
No it isn't.

You have 99 people enter a crowdsourcing 'contest'. One design gets picked - and that person is paid.

98 people have worked on the project for nothing; which wouldn't be the case if the winner was hired in the first place.
I don't think the Nobel committee has ever given out the price without having been slammed by someone or some government. The price is political so it's no wonder. Apparently, Chinese foreign affairs has already stated that this may damage Chinese-Norwegian relations (sorry no citation). Of course, equating the Nobel committee with the Norwegian government is as wrong as equating a newspaper editor printing Islamic cartoons with it, then torching down an embassy.
Why is Ed Dale Advising people to put their crap on Flippa?
Celery is pretty awesome. Ask has done a fantastic amount of work and invested a lot of time into it. It's pretty quickly turning into the defacto task queue frontend for Django
I find it interesting that Apple's recent offerings of the iPad and AppleTV are surprisingly price competitive.

I know people have been getting their hate on for that Sony Remote for GoogleTV, but I thought a blackberryesque keyboard was probably needed for a web surfing device. Entering text on a PS3 using the standard remote or an Apple TV with its even more spartan remote becomes a chore quite fast.
You are responsible for the security of any information on your system. Thus you should want to be PCI DSS compliant even if it is not a requirement.

Take a look at PayPal Website Payments Pro.

https://www.paypal-business.co.uk/process-online-payments-wi...

Why don't you want to use PayPal. Its a pretty safe path to start accepting payments online and you can use their transparent API so they are not visible. Get an account, read their API docs and security best practices for the language of your choice (and in general). Implement an example from the docs on your server and grow it from there. Don't store credit card data on your server and don't cut corners when checking integrity of communication between you and PayPal.
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A valuable spare-time student exercise that will benefit the world: Rewrite these pages, perhaps every single one, and turn down the vitriol by about fifty percent.

I base this suggestion on a sample I visited:

http://amasci.com/miscon/eleca.html#frkel

Let me break down this page: A TITLE IN ANGRY ALL CAPS. A paragraph stating the misconception. Three paragraphs of ranting about the badness of the misconception without actually explaining what is bad about it. A list of sub-misconceptions, again without explanation, but with a helpful WRONG next to each one, in case you needed more shouting. Then another paragraph of throat-clearing. Then, finally, some explanation.

Everyone gets enraged by idiots at one time or another. But capturing that rage in print is rarely productive. Rage tends to be repetitive and soon becomes grating. Fortunately, there is good stuff here; it just needs editing and rewriting, possibly over a nice drink in a relaxing place.
here's your citation:

Chinese Foreign Ministry:
The Nobel Committee awarding Liu this prize, which runs contrary to the principle of the Peace Prize, will bring damage to two-way relations.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11499931
.. or developers who complain about work being outsourced to cheaper economies.
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There are a lot of product companies in Bangalore, Hyderabad,Pune.
I suggest you join communities like Barcamp, DevCamp, etc. Sign up for BarCamp Bangaore and you should get all that info..
Google Chrome - (Bookmark Syncing across Home & Work)

Google Apps - Email, Video Chat & Calender

Market Samurai - SEO

Google Analytics - SEO

Chargify - Payments

Geckoboard - Live Dashboard

Basecamp - Project Management (Mainly to-do's)

Dropbox - File Backup

Mailchimp - Email (Cant recommend them enough)

Xero - Accounts

Zopim - Customer Service / Lead Capture

Load Impact - Website Stress Testing
May the SandForce be with you
For some reason, I'm impressed whenever anyone does anything clever in ASM, even if the performance benefits don't add up to much these days.
The trick is that through their mapping, they have an array of "attributes" for every element, with a specific offset for each attribute with a certain name. During construction, they build that array according to the names, so they do the lookup once during construction.
You're way off mark -- there are a lot of products companies in India doing development -- real development. Add to that a few services companies that have scope for development too.
Offtopic, I remember seeing this when you announced it. How's the site going?
20+ MooTools Plugins
Mootools are one of very famous Javascript Framework like jQuery, designed for the intermediate to advanced JavaScript developer. some good qualities in mootools are

* MooTools is a lightweight, object-oriented and very popular framework.
> What could possibly go wrong.

The combined corporate mass would exceed the Tolman–Oppenheimer–Volkoff limit and they would collapse into a black hole?
here is the official citation

http://www.fmprc.gov.cn/chn/gxh/tyb/fyrbt/t759532.htm
Clients or Grinders: Understanding the Three Market Types
Wanting it fast, good, and cheap is also a red flag for lots of other little bonuses, such as:

- You will constantly wait for them to make a decision.
- It will be your fault they took so long to make a decision.
- They will have emergencies of their own making.
- It will be your fault they have emergencies.
- They will commit to little or nothing on paper.
- It's not their fault because they never committed to that.
- You think you have specs; they think you're prototyping, so...
- You will do much work 2 or 3 times.
- They will constantly change priorities.
- They will forget they changed priorities, so...
- They will complain when a lower priority isn't done.
- You won't get paid on time.
- You will spend lots of time trying to get paid.
- They will always find some excuse to not pay.
- You may never get paid.
- If it's good, it's because they thought of it.
- If it's bad, it's because you suck.
- You can't win.

Honestly, I wish we could tattoo these people to save the next developer all the heartache. Listen to OP; as soon as you realize they want it fast, good, and cheap, run the other way.
> The few I know making that range are oddly enough managers,

Why would this be odd? Management salaries are always the highest and I know of no exceptions to this.

>I do know a few contractors making in that range

It depends on the area. If you live in a low cost of living area of course salaries will be lower. If the cost of living could some how be low and the salaries high then everyone would move there (driving salaries down and costs up). So the best is, as noted below, live in a very low cost area but work in a high cost area. Failing that live and work in a high cost area.

I'm a contractor, I'm well past $150k/year and I'm just getting started. My next contract should add at least $100/day.
According to Norwegian newspapers, he probably doesn't even know that he was nominated. The Nobel Institute have asked the Chinese government to tell Liu Xiaobo about the prize.

Liu Xiaobos wife says the Chinese police have allowed her to tell her husband about the prize on Saturday.
Can you supply references to compilers producing faster code than assembler written by hand? I'm under the impression that the programmer can still do better, if she's willing to put in the effort.
From the FAQ:

Assembly is fun.

Do you really think I would have written a parser in assembly in my spare time otherwise.
There is something about the tone of what you just wrote that deeply annoys me. Had the boys father been a Christian leader would you have been concerned by what exactly that entails?
Microsoft pays licence fees for 74 smartphone patents
I ran into a great quote the other day, "Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them." I'm going to start keeping this in mind with every one of my technology interactions.

Two days before that, I spent probably 20 minutes of my day playing around with a flash gravity simulator somebody posted over here.

Why? Am I to be in charge of hand-manipulating the orbital mechanics for dozens of bodies any time soon? Probably not. Because the interface has become the app.

It's not about value any more, it's about stickiness. Tens of millions of folks spend hours on Farmville each day. Is this because they are just technically inept people who would be wasting their time doing something else anyway? I know this is what some folks would like to believe -- it makes them feel better about making more of the same stuff. But I don't buy it. Even if it were true for 90% of Farmville players, that still leaves 10% of the remaining users who would have done something that had more long-term value to them. Taking self-perceived long-term value away from millions of folks for days or weeks should be at least very noteworthy.

Many web startups have found the magic equation: stickiness beats value. Expect to see more of the same.
Not bad. It paid my rent this month.

Conversion rates are good, but getting links and traffic has been difficult. If I could move the site up from #7 to #1 for my domain keywords on Google, I'd be very happy.
I've found that the best thing to do with these people is send them offshore. Let them see what cheap, "fast" work looks like. Let them have all their preconceptions shattered, and their sense of what it takes to build software modified towards reality. Let them get all the frustration out of their system until they're ready for you to show them what good, genuinely fast work looks like.

The quickest way to accomplish this is to tell them your rate upfront. They'll go "ouch", at which point you can gently point them towards rentacoder, safe in the knowledge that they'll be back in 6 months time with a bit of perspective and a willingness to pay your extortionate rate so long as you promise never to put them through anything like what they just suffered ever again.
They would take the object away, blow it up, and hold a press conference to say that nobody is safe, and more government power is needed to meet the threat.
/me leaves work to head to costco!
We need more articles like this one or Max Klein's Dark Angels, the web startup world is like being at Disneyland the whole year!

After reading the article only hope nobody came with a social network for homeless...
70s Mod/Retro Fabric Category Description:Keyword: Novelty Fabric
The 70's are a time many people would like to pretend never existed. Polyester suits, bell bottom pants, disco, pet rocks and fat ties are some things that should quietly fade into oblivion. Nevertheless, the 70's also produced some great bands, actors and movies.
You might find my free ecommerce cheat sheet helpful if you go the custom solution route (merch acct, cc processor, etc): http://jumpstartcc.com
Pinboard (http://pinboard.in) is my choice for sharing bookmarks.
The compiler does a million things to speed up your code, which are mostly lost when you write pure assembly. I wouldn't be surprised if a c program was noticeably faster than the same thing in assembly...
So some people still use built-in memory allocation for large-scale memory-intense projects like mongodb eh? Pity that, they should have looked at why exactly memcached (and any other sane piece of memory-write-erase intensive application) does slab allocations.
Paypal is expensive and I have had too many problems with them to ever consider using them for my business.
I like it. How would integration work with my site? How would you make money with this?

I'd also be curious to hear what you're doing behind the scenes. Also, what's the general method for extraction the primary content of a page the way you do for the lightbox preview?

Overall, it's very fast and the results seem relevant, plus you've identified a niche where you can get a foothold, so I think you're on the right track :)
What about this?

http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/25855/?ref=rss
Drill Nears Trapped Miners
If you want to satisfactorily explain this to a school kid, it seems like the two most significant factors are a) the angle of attack during take-off - like packing the air under the wing while creating a vacuum above it and b) the curvature taking over the job of "vacuum creation" during steady flight.

A flat-wing plane with its wings slicing the air won't have any lift in steady flight. The only way for such a wing to get lift is to use some angle of attack.

The lift on a curved wing is enough to support its weight when flying fast, but too subtle to literally lift the plane way up starting from lower speeds as on the ground.

Does that about capture the essence of it?

Invoking the Coanda effect seems somewhat unnecessary. For example, if you have a wing fitted with zillions of tiny holes through which a small amount of air is being constantly ejected (to counteract the Coanda effect), it still seems (in my mind) possible for the wing to get lift using the angle of attack and curvature.
The device was paid for and they had nobody more interesting to track... The tracking itself is automated and, most probably, nobody would ever look into the data.

I'd probably find a desert and draw something very confusing for them.
I found that pretty impressive.

I'm pretty sure that the Google AJAX search API bases suggestions on your site though, and they have just launched the ability to edit suggestions. But I think your thing compares quite well with Google AJAX API, assuming it's going to be easy to setup.
If I was costco attempting to hawk my doomsday preparedness goods, I would purchase some ad time on Glenn Beck.
I've heard a VC saying that Pivotal is a great company to build polished software for you if you have raised a big chunk of money.

Anyone know how much they actually cost though? Are their rates through the roof because people throw their VC money at them?
Maven 3.0 released
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What Jeff Atwood Knows about UI
I feel like i was livin under a rock. Didnt knew there are good companies in India. I knew about Red Hat though. I will join the other communities like barcamp suggested below too.

Is there any google group or irc for people working in product dev and good service companies?
Consider a steep angle of attack on takeoff. The lower side of the airfoil is more exposed to the onrush of air, and clearly this pushes the airfoil upwards. But the significance of the Coanda effect is that the air also wraps around the top of the airfoil, adhering to the surface, so that it too exits downward. If it didn't adhere to the surface (which happens in a stall) then you would lose all the downward force of that half of the airflow.
So, are you pleading for the designers' "fear" of this crowdsourcing trend, a fear based on their time being wasted because designs from other people may be better (for any subjective definition of the term)? Are you honestly saying with a straight face that designers should be awarded for any and all their efforts regardless of the quality of their work?

I'm sorry, but they should just suck it up and change. Like the world around them is.

PS: I don't remember the last time that people rewarded me or anybody else just for trying. Perhaps kindergarten, but I have no clear recollections of the daily scrums in there.
7 free project ideas for an academic hackathon
Babbage's heart-warming message for the middle-aged
Norway started negotiating with China about a new trade policy in 2008. This was going well, and Norway might have been the first European country to get such a deal.

According to Norwegian newspapers, it is now a great risk that China cancels the negotiations.
'i have also read TAOCP thrice... i am well versed with algorithms and low level hardware and architecture... i am not a code monkey'

Keep telling yourself that, but if you are a developer, you will be a "code monkey" in one way or another until you've worked your way up a bit, no matter how good your background is.

I've worked with PhD's and Master's CS students from around the world that have written bad code. We all do, but the less supervision and review, and the less people care, the worse the code. At the same time, it took me several years to realize that what people build up to be the ideal can be just as much of a waste. (Your team spends all that time working with the perfect process, but you've added overhead that never needed to be there, because the customer doesn't care. Think about the early success of Windows. That was a product of the lower end of "good enough" coding/design.)

But despite aiming for "good enough", you need to go through the rest first. Good practices and techniques are learned from working with good people. You should be so blessed as to have a great mentor as a junior. And as a mid-senior-principal/architect, you should be so blessed as to have great people working alongside you at least at some point (not big names, but just people you respect quite a bit at least) and in good environments (places were you respect the process as one of the best in the industry as far as you are concerned doing something you love).

Anyway, again based on what you said, if you have the opportunity to go into firmware, device drivers, OS development, etc. you might look into that. You might need to go out of the country, though (take a chance!). http://www.indeed.com/

You could also (assuming you have the money, which I'm pretty sure you do) continue education and go the engineering route if interested. Chip design, etc. can make a good amount of money, and your skills probably wouldn't go to waste necessarily.
.. and that upside down flight needs flaps on the wings.
Thank you for RapidXml information.

From RepidXml site:
It is an in-situ parser written in modern C++, with parsing speed approaching that of strlen function executed on the same data.

bold statement :)
It seems to me it's you who got things wrong. Explanation about wing forcing air down is very VERY wrong.
I totally agree. I would pay money easily for a site that does this + lightness and hue adjustment relative to a current gradient.
$800 is what it costs to eat in the DC Area for a month (if you don't cook)
Isn't the StackOverflow UI basically the same as the iphone UI. I mean when you first interact with either of them they both just present a long list of things.
http://www.metahint.com
It seems that inotify will be perfect for my requirement. Thanks a lot..
Looks interesting, thanks. BTW the page says "2009", might want to bring it up to date.
Q. You literally knocked on people's doors?

A. Yes. I was a pretty reserved, quiet person, so that was one of the hardest things I've ever done. I remember one of the first houses I went to, her name was Patty...she bought two memberships...Then she asked me: How many memberships do you have now? I said, 'Well, that makes three!' (Laughs.) ...To this day I thank Patty for taking a leap of faith.

This is almost my exact experience with Foreverlist except that I went to an auto swap meet and walked around for two days taking photos of cars and talking to people. At the end of the second day I had no actual paying customers, mainly because I was offering the first month for free, and then a guy named Mike approached my wife at the booth and asked if I could meet him at his car. She called me and I literally ran over to his car. We talked for a while and I took photos of his car.

A few hours later he showed up at the booth and I had already created his listing and showed it to him. He paid me immediately, despite the free month and then, to my surprise, told me WHY he paid me. He told us about something he had read on the internet which was this:

"If you associate the letters of the alphabet with numbers and add them up to get a percentage, you get 98% from the words "hard work", but if you add up the letters in the word "attitude", you get 100%, so a person with right attitude is always a winner…"

That's a pretty cool way to get your first customer.
Director of RIPE on how the last IPv4 addresses will be allocated
How to fix our schools: Let's ask the people who've already shown they have no idea
At least genius is a better term to throw around loosely than ninja or rockstar IMO...
The Ten Days that Disappeared
If the father had been a Westboro Baptist Church or Branch Davidian style sect leader? Of course. We don't know what happened. For the guy to post to Reddit starting off with a 'look I'm being investigated because I'm Arab! FBI is racist!' post while not giving any information on the circumstances, that just sounds like a PR spin.
Isn't Microsoft buying Adobe? This would prevent me from trusting AIR in a Google Product?!
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What does this mean?