skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who is a designer/developer who also runs several successful e-commerce websites here are my 2 cents:

Stay away from sites like 99designs and other low budget crowdsourcing sites as they only attract low quality designers who tend not to know much about UX, conversions, usability, perception, etc.

If this project is serious enough for you to quit your job then you really need to make sure your design is going to be flexible enough to accommodate all of the changes you may need to make in order to increase conversions as you begin to acquire customers and analyze data.

Here is my suggestion: the designer should create a design that fits within a CSS grid framework like 960.gs, Blueprint or the Less Framework. The designer can also create their own grid and you can generate the CSS using several online CSS grid builders like the 1kb grid.

Then figure out how many UNIQUE page templates you will actually need (things like a home page, a pricing page, a general inner page that can also double as a blog page - if designed correctly, and a signup page - it's very important to have a flexible signup page that you can easily make changes to).

Most likely you will be re-using elements like headings, paragraphs, sidebars, menus, buttons and lists throughout your site. You can use the CSS grid to build multiple layouts for different page templates or sub-page templates and then reuse the elements and their styles for the content of those pages.

If you need help get in touch. We do a lot of design and dev work for startups and this sort of thing (flexible interface design at a reasonable price) is something we do all the time. Heck, we may even build the templates using HTML and CSS right in the browser and skip the PSD files altogether!

My website is on my profile page. Our pricing is very reasonable and we're located in the U.S. - Detroit, Michigan to be exact.
This and the comment suggesting that if you went to Carnegie Melon this would all be obvious were a bit of a turnoff.
"What's the Worst That Could Happen?" Maps, Photos and Thoughts about Fukushima
AT&T also blocks installation of non-market software on their Android phones, so if you wanted to install a recent build of ConnectBot or whatever, you were SOL. That is, unless your phone can be rooted/reimaged.
As a new T-Mobile customer who recently switched from AT&T this saddens me. I finally thought I found a decent provider with their Even More Plus plans. So much for choice and competition.
I think it's just based on a whole lot of anecdotal data. It describes me - introverted - fairly accurately, so I go along with it.
I know a designer with stellar jQUERY, CSS, and HTML skills; $20 per hour; at most 10 hours per page; design and development. Let me know if you want to reach-out and talk to him. Josh
Don't yell at anyone.

Figure out the mistake and help them to correct it. If you're impressed by who someone is and that sort of thing then don't do it because you never know where they will be in 5 months, let alone 5 years.

If you're just a decent person don't do it because it's disrespectful and you bring disrespect to yourself by treating others that way. It also shows you to be out of control with your emotions.

One of the things that struck me most in the past few days was while waiting in line to get into Hipmunk party @ SXSW to see Alexis outside handing out bottles of water. Out of all the people I've met, ideas tossed around for startups, everything @ SXSW, Alexis had the most impact on me in terms of his dedication to helping people out.
You missed the "and never substantiated" bit of my reply. The post I was responding to had asked for verification. Of course, there is none, so we are left with one guy vs. many.

In your scenario, we have had verification. It's called comparative genomics. And before that we had morphology.
I'll agree that saying "better safe than sorry" is probably the wrong way to view life, but taking what other people say with a grain of salt lets you question what people say more and come to your own decisions about life.

Also, "people suck" includes yourself, so you can think about it as a way to think about what you are saying and doing and see if it is up to a level of quality that you are comfortable with.
Understanding HN's Reaction to The Lifestyle/Micro Business Issue (audio)
Yes, you could actually, but I've never seen anyone do it.
Remind HN: Deadline to apply for YC Summer 2011 is tonight at 8PM PST
Good luck!

And don't forget to click "Submit" on the main page after you click "Save" on the app. Easy to miss...

http://ycombinator.com/apply.html

For anyone who's either considering it but thinking it's too late, or just finding out about it, go ahead and apply. They accept late apps. I only know a few YC teams (current and past) and two of them applied several days late or more. Not recommended and YMMV, of course, but can't hurt.

http://ycombinator.com/late.html
Who are all these people who chronically mistreat the waitstaff? I've been to restaurants with hundreds of different people and I've never seen anyone act abusively towards the servers.
We might be able to help you.

Senior Axure Experience;
Microsoft Business Intelligence Certification;
Senior jQUERY HighCharts Experience

Let me know.

Josh
I know this is superficial and I am no one to comment, but I still do not like his nick selection (for professional purposes.)
I have Optimus V running AOSP Android 2.3( custom rom ) and it runs amazingly, underclocks when not in use , overclocks when using, great battery life and responsiveness. For the value of the phone and not being on a contract its an amazing deal.
The way they monitored people during the human plutonium injection trials[1] for the WW2 nuclear program was monitoring the radioactive content of the human excrement and urine, not sure how practical that is. They injected people that had terminal illnesses and short life expectancies with ~5 micrograms of plutonium(and other elements) to ascertain the effects, so the dangers to nuclear scientists working on the program would be known. The study didn't find much in the way of damage (i.e not fatal or cancerous) to those studied, but the isotope injected seems to be of high importance as some isotopes are more radioactive than others.

[1]http://inpp.ohiou.edu/~massey/pdf/10_human_Pu.pdf
Says who? For example, has anything relevant changed in the US (which seems to be the relevant jurisdiction here) since this post by a lawyer in 2007?

http://arborlaw.biz/blog/2007/07/17/legal-issues-in-forwardi...

A few minutes of Google-fu finds several essentially similar articles over the past few years.
Popup Windows are Dead, Long Live Modal Windows
Using the Loggly Node.js Library
I already replaced this model once. Got the replacement and and had 1 freeze so far but none after I switch to discrete only
We don't have a small number of wireless providers because of some collusive conspiracy. We have a small number of wireless providers because it costs billions of dollars to create nationwide wireless networks in a country the size of the United States.

I completely understand your frustration at having to choose between two goliath companies for wireless access that works when you get off the plane no matter where you fly. But them's the breaks. What you really want isn't some legal action that increases to 3 from 2 our number of options; what you want is a technological improvement to reduce the cost of providing nationwide wireless access. You can, seriously, go work on that and maybe get somewhere.
Our blog post was mostly expressing our shock at the dirty recruitment tactics.

But I think you're right about the salary; we should have researched the job posting more thoroughly to get the title, expectations and salary aligned.

£38K goes much further in Leeds than in California and even London, but we're learning that we need to offer a better package to get the right people.

We're also new to all this, and sharing our experiences and blunders as we go...
TIL it's pronounced 'oiler'
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Actually, Cingular Wireless acquired AT&T in 2004, and then opted to convert the Cingular brand to AT&T in 2005. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cingular_Wireless
Wow, really impressive demo vid.

But what's up with the multiplayer example at the end...no cofounder to play with the second iPhone with you? Or are they too busy holding the cam ;) ?

Good luck, looks really promising even if you don't get into YC!
"Dictators are efficient. Therefore, all efficiency is tyranny". Got it! :)
Apple iPad 2 & Apple iPad 1 - منتديات قروب الساهر
It is generally speaking nowhere else in the EU either.

There are tiny spots where you could earn an American-level salary as a software developer, but generally speaking it is a European rather than a UK phenomenon.
Sometimes just avoiding the situations where we are less rational is more cost-effective than imposing the "most rational" course of action

Examples, please?
I meant link to job ads, etc. which provide backup for the statement you're making ?

For example Facebook on Glassdoor (which tends to overestimate salaries), doesn't have a single developer on $165k+.

As it happens I've got Apples H1B filings for last year handy, of all of their H1B employees the highest paid software engineer is at $155000 and he's a specialist in wifi technology. The average H1B developer at Apple makes $88,000/year.

Do you have any evidence at all to back up you ?
I never did figure out that it was a coffee cup, but for some reason I really enjoyed staring at it. I'm still not sure why.

Looking through the rest of your blog, the visual design is really well done, in an understated way. If you felt like expounding on this sort of thing, I'm sure you'd find an enthusiastic audience.
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No matter how much you focus your nerd powers, you are not going to prove that's it's unlawful for a reporter, having received an email addressed to the reporter, to report on that email. Please stop trying.
Yeah no kidding - I was in Fallujah, and went through 6 months of bootcamp. In addition I've worked under high stress in the civilian world and there is absolutely no comparison to the training in the USMC and what menial (and trivial BS) that these startups go through.

If you want to participate in high stress and get your kicks from it - join the USMC and see if you can make it. Unlike the drivviling worthless companies that make it out of incubation by sheer luck, do something real with our life.

lz
I'm aware of the pun. I consider it a bad one.
How does Smalltalk get lumped with C and Java and not with Python and Ruby?
"...makes 1 mistake of being rude to the waiter..."

This is where you are losing everyone. A mistake is forgetting your keys or making a math error on a spreadsheet. Treating someone with no respect, hitting someone, etc. Are not "mistakes".
That is simply a luxury of time you often cannot afford. Who knows when his next explosion could come? Could be in 6 months at crunch time. Unless you're desperate for the help then it's best not to get in to bed with this kind of person - yep based off that one experience.
A small change in screen size will not affect the usability of touch interface.

The hell it won't.

Right now the screen on an iPad is 5.86" by 7.79", for 9.75" diagonal. Multiply those dimensions by 90%, and you get a diagonal length of 8.78", an inch smaller. Except you've just cut the total area of 45.6 square inches down to 37, a difference of 19%.

In other words, you've just reduced the area of every tap target by one-fifth. Put another way, you've created a fuzz factor of one-fifth in the size at which designers will have to expect their work to be rendered. It doesn't sound to me like an acceptable strategy from the Apple, Inc of this dimension.

I'm not saying your conclusions are wrong — I think Apple's going to have a robust presence at the low end of the market. I just think they're going to get there by defining the low end as last year's iPad, not by kneecapping their own margins, or introducing compromised products.
The faithful love an impromptu "amen" chorus.
I'll be reading. Smith was a great mind and his writing holds up.

Apropos of nothing, I used to live across the street from his old house in Lochend Close, Edinburgh http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Enlightened-crusade-to-sav...

I also used to pop up the road, The Royal Mile, to stretch my legs and have a sandwich near his grave in the Canongate kirk.

Read along with Hume and find out that the 1700s aren't ancient history. Heck, read Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan (written during the English Civil War. Yes, we had one) and discover the 1600s.
most of the objections so far are technical, but how about entrenched backwardness of most ISPs as a reason this wouldn't work?

"While most of these addons are simple services glossed with a thick coat of wax, Dropbox is a real benefit and definitely would be worth a line on my bill."

If something's actually worthwhile and not a gimmick, it likely won't work. We get gimmicky commercials demonstrating people being impressed that they get to spend "only" $99/month (for up to X months!) to get "unlimited phone, cable AND internet! (restrictions apply)" service. Or "choose which 3 of our 4 services you want - you've created a custom service plan! w00t!" commercials.

All of these serve only to let them continue to ride the gravy train of massive markups ($40/month for a voip line which doesn't include non-US calling?) and lock you in to future price hikes. I can't recall any service an ISP has ever offered me that had any real benefit to me as a user. I don't want your crappy webmail, I don't want your embedded virus scanning on my PC, I don't want your 5 meg webspace.

A branded dropbox or carbonite-style backup service included at a reasonable price? That would smack of real value - current mega-ISPs would run a mile (or a kilometer) from that one.
Ask HN: Regarding Bringing on Our 1st Technical Co-founder
We have met someone we would like to work who programs in Python. They seem like a good fit, and are ready to be on board. They currently have a full time position but are willing to quit to work full time if we can offer something in the form of equity and bring them on as a technical co-founder position.

Here is where we are at until this point. Two co-founders non technical. Working full time since September and have a working prototype we are privately beta testing. We have been working on this non stop without taking salaries, and have funded this ourselves. We currently have no funding but have applied to different startup accelerators (including Y combinator).

What is appropriate in terms of offering a percentage equity? And what sort of vesting schedule? If there are any other details or questions please feel free to ask in the comment section. Our startup is SpotHero.
Because I thought of it later and clicked in the wrong place and didn't notice. Thanks for the pointer. Editing parent.
Yep. $100 for 1000 minutes with a 15% bonus on the next refill, 1 year expiration.

For folks who hardly ever use their voice minutes, nothing else even comes close.

Grrr.

(Well, there's Virgin Mobile, but they have almost no network -- I think it's Sprint w/o any roaming onto Verizon.)
Try the Pomodoro technique... set a timer for a period of time (between 15 to 30 minutes long) and focus on working on a project constantly. Once the timer sounds, stop working (even if you feel like you could keep going) and have a 5 minute break).

There's also the (10+2)*5 technique were you work for 10 minutes, stuff around for 2 minutes then repeat 5 times. After an hour you've had 50 minutes of productive time and 10 minutes of "play time".
It looks they built their own custom comment widget. You are absolutely allowed to incentivize users to use your own app's functionality.
This post should consider the time of the industries. It would be more appropriate to compare VC's to the record labels of the 60's up through the late 90's.

The reason the analogy is ever made to begin with is not rooted in the nuances of these two industries. It comes simply from the big hits nature of both industries and how they both survive off the massive winnings of a very small group of rock stars.
You did read the article I posted that was written by a lawyer, right? Or spend even two minutes Googling for similar articles by other lawyers?

I think one of us is trying to convince himself that he's right despite the absence of any supporting data, but I'm afraid you might be mistaken about which of us it is.
Thanks for your feedback/comments so far!
All this could have been avoided by using:

if(getenv('tumblr_env') == 'production') {
//See: http://php.net/manual/en/function.register-shutdown-function.php
register_shutdown_function('five_hundred_err_func')
}
Also, I believe that, if you have submitted an application before the deadline, but then edit and resubmit after the deadline, your application will be marked as late and reviewed accordingly. So be sure to get all of your edits in before tonight.
As for you comment, if I were in the mood for trolling I would say: likewise. If you introduce a static error in a file, hopefully a tool will detect it, and the sooner the better. That you can't even run any code in the file because it makes no sense any more won't prevent your unit tests from running on other files (or at least a subset) if your program has at least a semi-correct architecture. At this point you just have to use the diagnostic information the compiler gave up to fix the syntaxic/typing problem, instead of trying to fix it at a latter stage for a greater cost. There is absolutely no point in trying to test a program that statical analysis has proved to be wrong.
see also http://linkstore.ru/fbstat
Google Custom Search Engines have been broken since Friday
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Vesting Schedule: Three to Four years - and you should give something within 90 days (or sooner) in good faith. The vesting will be given on the anniversary of years one and two - and then likely monthly thereafter. The earlier vesting could be a point of contention - as you may give away something for nothing. But if you look at it from their perspective, they're also giving up something for potentially nothing. Very delicate.

Percentage is a tough one. Depending on who you talk to, they'll tell you very little for a pure developer - more for higher level positions. As a developer, I find this offensive! :-) Anyway, check out the blog for Mark Suster (http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/) as he has some excellent advice for the question you're currently asking. Browse through many of his articles! You'll find vesting and percentage info within the posts, and many more nuggets of gold.

Best for you and your startup!
US -> Canada carrier rough equivalency chart

Bell, Telus, Rogers = AT&T
Wind Mobile, Mobilicity, Videotron = T-Mobile*
Public Mobile = Sprint/Verizon
Bell, Telus (old network) = Sprint/Verizon

* T-Mobile USA also has a legacy 2G/EDGE/GPRS network, whereas Wind et al. do not.
The video demos on Palantir's analysis blogs are pretty mind blowing.

http://www.palantir.com/government/analysis-blog
Thanks, ha yeah I'm a single cofounder. I'm getting a lot of help now since announcing it, but technically still a single cofounder.

I was living in Chapel Hill/North Carolina at the time and didn't know many people there. I moved to SF on the 1st. Here to raise money and find cofounders for sure. All my good friends are up Vancouver/Canada where I'm really from.
"No matter how many pieces you break it into, it always comes back together"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsCp-1hgfxI
I agree with your math, but speaking as a developer taking off half-an-inch diagonally just won't make that much difference usability wise. Touch targets are pretty generous in iOS - the device would work just fine, especially for the casual use a lower-end device would normally see.
Great blog post Matt. I've been using jMockups on and off and I really like it. I'm a designer and it really speeds up the process of iterating through ideas.

That being said, Matt, it'd be awesome(for you, as marketing material perhaps) if you could showcase how jMockups helped increase sales/conversion rate of a certain website that uses your product.

Keep hustling man!
As much as I'd like to think that's true (being in the UK and a privacy advocate myself) I've never seen anything that would "certainly" describe the legal position in this case, such as a precedent from a case in one of the higher courts. Are you just talking about something like the general privacy right under the ECHR, or something more specific to e-mail?

I've found various opinions on-line from UK-based commentators suggesting that if an e-mail isn't explicitly marked or otherwise understood to be confidential, and it didn't contain any sort of privileged information or information that would normally be expected to remain private, then it wouldn't automatically attract protection under any privacy law. Most of these related to an individual republishing messages send on behalf of a corporate body rather than the other way around, though.
T-Mobile gets the iPhone, Apple gets fast new HSPA+ network
It's actually from May 2010, so for all I know has been posted here before. But I thought it was quite good. The story that goes with this section (below) is particularly good but I just don't want to quote such a huge chunk of it. If you want to read that much of it, check it out for yourself.

Excerpt:

Create/Invent Exactly What You Want

If you can envision something that doesn’t yet exist, something you have a distinct need for, then you may be on to something. If you can create it — whatever it is — and use it to positive effect (enjoyment, efficiency, whatever) then you might have something that could really take off.

Paul Graham discusses how this idea relates to technology startups in this essay, but there are ways to apply it beyond starting a company, or creating a product or service. Following your own taste, rather than what you imagine other people will like, is also the best way to proceed in artistic pursuits. This might sound obvious, but most entrepreneurs and artists don’t apply this principle. Instead, they pander to what they believe the public wants, or what they believe will be a commercial success. This strategy might slightly increase the odds of mild success in the short-term, but it will squash any chance of wild, break-out success (black swan success). For that, you need to invent (or create) for yourself.
I just started using loggly for some node apps I have running. It was a complete random find but I'm really happy to be using it. I started out by setting up logrotate, but then I only have access if I ssh into my server. This is much more portable, like if I want to move a node app over to a different setup like dotcloud.
Google seems to have made a new release of their javascript code on Friday evening which has broken all(?) embedded Custom Search Engines.
Just because they're investors doesn't mean they're off the hook for writing like crap. Having a lot of money isn't a free pass for mangling the English language.