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> Reporters and editors are supposed to be very good at taking multiple sources, including the reporters own generated research, and mashing it together into something greater than the sum of the parts.

Can you give some examples of "reporters own generated research"?

The only one that comes to mind is Arthur Carlson's "As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly."
Another idea: Can you scrounge up a design on your own? Yes, it won't be awesome/perfect/high-converting (for now), but you'll get your app out and eyes looking at it before worrying about the perfect design. After it's launched, you can start iterating on the design on your own, as well as worrying about getting a professional designer. Whatever you have to do to launch quickly, imho.
I've worked with a lot of designers and have found a dramatic disconnect between the value they provide and the cost of their services. It is staggering.

Be sure to check around for services like 99designs.com (I'm sure there are others - try a search on HN too).

Also remember that there are tons of graphic designers, at least here in Houston. The same guy being billed out at $140 an hour might also work at the Kinkos around the corner. You might even try to hire an independent at $30/hr at your local co-working spaces, AIGA meetings, Open Coffee, etc...

You get cleaned out paying for the whole project by the hour, and a per-project quote is likely to be made-up nonsense. Just pay hourly, but pick a day of the week to review progress and cut a check. Be ruthless and switch designers if you don't like how it is going.
Xen.

OpenVZ and Virtuozzo are more like chroot on steroids. Those technologies make it easier to oversell hardware and you'll often end up with some pretty crappy performance.
What do you think the google front page is worth? Do you think it took a long time to design it?

What I am saying is that you shouldn't look at what a page cost you but how much it's worth to you.

If you want cheap, don't go to dribble go to 99designs.

There you can find plenty of mediocre and sometimes good designers who will do it for much less.
Welcome to the club, my company Cashier Live (http://www.cashierlive.com) has been at this for about a year now. We're focused on retail, and from what I can see here you're focused on restaurant/quick serve. This is a great idea to help get your payments product adopted.

One thing you'll run in to when you have merchants actually using this is a crushing load of feature requests and support. Since you're using Authorize.net for card payments, right away you'll have store owners complaining that their fees are higher than they used to be. (Maybe that's good for you, just tell them to use FaceCash) We've integrated directly with a few of the processing networks now to get around that. This will be a great tool for getting people on board with FaceCash, but you'll have to keep support/dev in mind or you'll be dragged away from it.

When I did a Show HN a year back, connectivity was one of the big question marks from everyone. I can report back that you'd be surprised how much of a non-issue it really is. MiFi cards and wireless hotspots are an almost bulletproof backup, it might be a bit slower but the store is open for business. With traditional POS, card processing is down when their connection is down so they're just as bad off as a web-based pos.

Point-of-sale software is well suited for SaaS, despite what many think, so I'm not surprised to see another join the club. Aaron: If you plan on sticking to restaurants/QSR shoot me an e-mail, have an idea I'd like to run past you.
My partners a pretty top notch designer, do you have an email that I could put you in touch with? He's currently building a portfolio . I imagine his quote would be more in lieu with what limedaring said.
I worked with Koush last year at Kiha Software (an Android software startup in Seattle). Currently, he is working on his own one-person startup http://www.deployfu.com/ which could be described as "Heroku for .NET (and other platforms)."
Most of them. Those who don't succeed have a big pile of successful startups who know them well and will hire them (if they stil have the startup bug). They've gotten a guided tour of the valley-style startup path-- next time will be easier.

It'd be an interesting experiment to track down all of the YC companies that have fully failed to date and ask them, "knowing what you know now, do you wish you'd chosen a different path?" My guess is that 90%+ would do YC again in a heartbeat (though perhaps with a different co-founder or different market/idea).
I don't know about in the US but in the UK it's certainly the case that there's a default expectation of privacy.
The UK has relied for too long on relatively cheap but willing tech. labour.

I believe one major factor that enabled this was the boom in home computing in the early 80s. I don't know whether it is fair to call this unique (to the UK), but it certainly helped to have the BBC heavily involved with the BBC Micro effort and even TV coverage: 'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Computer_Programme. I remember back then even the shallowest computer user might have had a go at typing in a program from the back of a magazine.

This provided two generations of willing workers, the first being the adults taking up computing, a few would become entrepreneurs and many of the rest would see it as a career transition and happy enough to get a "bump" in wages for skills in a new domain.

For some, this "bump" was pretty significant for them personally, I've known good people in the UK tech sector who started out as car mechanics, waitresses and the like where IT has improved their personal circumstances no end.

Then there's the second generation, these are the kids who grew up in the 80s boom time and it would seem natural for many of these people to make their hobby their career.

But the problems start here.

Firstly, there was no third generation to follow on, both mainstream culture and even schools completely forgot about programming. Kids grew up with consoles, with few having an idea what it takes to make the games they play. Schools replaced programming with "IT skills", meaning spreadsheets and Word docs, ostensibly because it was easier to train teachers to 'teach' this.

Secondly, there is often a working class attitude in UK tech which shares some similarities with Jante Law. This is debatable, but I do think part of that comes from the first generation, who never thought they would be doctors or lawyers so had lower aspirations and feel pretty grateful for having a 'decent' albeit moderate wage.

However, for the second generation, they would more likely have gone to university and studied Comp. Sci. or a.n.other course and entered the industry. When they look at their similarly educated peers, they will often find themselves on a lower rung than those who chose to go into management or one of the older traditional professions.

That second generation now have kids going to University, and I am guessing that they have a slightly less rosy perspective on the IT sector than when they first started out.

So the net effect of this is that the number of Computing graduates is declining
http://www.cphc.ac.uk/docs/cphc-computinggraduates-june08.pd... .

Perhaps the same thing is happening elsewhere, but I think in the meantime it is time for UK tech. to start weaning themselves off mediocre salaries for tech. sector professionals.
Brad Kuhn says: "Google wasn't seeking to circumvent the GPL at all." That's wrong. Not only did Google throw out numerous GPL notices from the original headers, but it explicitly stated in the context of Bionic its goal to "keep [the] GPL out of user-space" on page 36 of this official presentation:
http://androidteam.googlecode.com/files/Anatomy-Physiology-o...

I already pointed to that from my blog post on the Bionic story (http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/2011/03/googles-android-face...) but just wanted to show this example of a definitive error in Kuhn's generally very unconvincing blog post.
I mean, pull out your handy dandy globe. Note the positioning of Japan and Chile. Which do you think matters more to their tectonic plates -- ice, or that little blue splotch labeled the Pacific Ocean.

I pulled out my globe. I noted that the ice which is melting in Greenland largely winds up as water in the Pacific Ocean, which pushes down on the Pacific plate. Therefore melting ice does change the Pacific Ocean.

Obviously global warming is not the cause of earthquakes. But they could be the straw that breaks the camel's back. So an earthquake that otherwise might have happened in 10 years tips over now. If that kind of timeline compression was happening in several places, we'd get an increase in earthquakes.

Let's see how big this straw is. Looking at the graph at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Current_sea_level_rise I note that the level of sea level rise in the last 30 years has been roughly 10 cm. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Plate I note that the Pacific Plate is 103 million square km. That's 0.1 * 103 * 10^6 * (10^3)^2 = 1.03 * 10^13 cubic meters of water. With a mass of about 10^16 kg. Pushing straight down on a plate that over most of its major earthquake faults, including the one that just rocked Japan, is subducting (ie being pushed under nearby plates).

I would not have thought of that. But having had it pointed out to me, it does not seem obvious to me that there is no connection. I don't know how likely the connection is, but it I wouldn't mind seeing research on the topic.

In the end I consider it about as likely that this is a coincidence, with numbers that look more extreme than chance would seem to explain because earthquakes in one place are correlated with earthquakes in another. So we should tend to get bunches of earthquakes.

Incidentally if you go and actually read the linked article, rather than just react to the title, you'll find that this is fairly close to the tone that they take.
We don't suck as much. Have you ever used their sites? It's like someone loaded up every bad fad diet ad into a shotgun and pointed it at your face.

We get several messages a day from people along these lines - here is an example from yesterday I just pulled from our suggestions/comment submission system: "I love your site. After spending frustrating hours with Map My Ride, your site is so easy. And, even better is the Cue Sheet. Thank you."
You'd be surprised sometimes. I've seen it make accurate predictions for CO ski lift tickets a decade into the future and a dozen other examples
The dichotomy that's implied by using two classifiers ("extrovert / introvert"), rather than just scoring "extroversion" on a scale of (say) 1-10 is just brain-dead.

Perhaps more importantly, it's unfalsifiable, untestable. There's no possibility of identifying a person who is neither introverted or extraverted.

This is like having a theory that people are either short or tall, and then trying to determine shortness vs tallness by having people take surveys about whether they are comfortable in airline seats or have trouble reaching items on the top shelf. Of course everyone will fall into a little of both categories, but mostly all you are doing is wasting time.
Codified startup advice
This from a person who questions climate change and is an advocate of insider trading.
I got a local company to do PSD mockups instead going all the way to HTML. They redid my logo and gave a facelift to two of my pages for not a whole lot more than what you're quoting for one page.

With the PSD I sent it off to a chop shop ($150) and did my own coding to turn it into a Wordpress theme for the main page, and then applied the application template to the rest of my pages.

Most of the work was in the layout, so once one page was done, all the rest were pretty easy.

If you're willing to do a lot of the grunt work yourself, pick a couple of pages from your app and find someone to give them an update. If they're not doing HTML and the copy and menus are already set, it shouldn't take them a whole lot of time.
Which is also a Dup, but didn't show up in SearchYC (still doesn't). After someone pointed out it was a Dup I deleted it, but it had already reached the top spot and PG resurrected it and asked why it was deleted. Was Dup detector running and missed it too? Does it run off SearchYC?
I always recommend getting some kind of hourly rate, as well as a percentage. That way if the stock ends up worthless, you still got paid something.
Although I'm not quite at that point yet (very close)...

1) SaaS w/ monthly subscription

2) I'm about 8 months in and monthly revenue has finally ramped up to a point where, if I were to make this much each month, profits would be well over $50k

3) The biggest hurdle has been customer acquisition. The first chunk of customers I got through a deal when starting the company. The rest have been a struggle. Managing marketing efforts while still hacking all day is a lot of work. I also have no real internet marketing experience. One other hurdle has been dealing with a deadbeat co-founder.

4) I started with one co-founder but he has since gotten a job and I have quit mine. I'm working 100% full time on the startup and he hasn't contributed more than an hour in the past 4 or 5 months, so it's pretty much just me.
Brad Kuhn writes: "But, to deny that it's possible to rewrite a C library for Linux under a license that isn't GPLv2 would also imply immediately the (incorrect) conclusion that [...]"

This is pointless and may mislead some readers.

Without a doubt it's possible to do a non-GPL library. In fact, my blog post on this subject advocated glibc all the way, which is LGPL'd, not GPL'd.

But the fact that it's possible (if done right) doesn't mean that Google's reprocessing and repurposing of the material in question is in line with copyright law and the GPL.
I would actually give the SandForce drives a try. They have better garbage collection. TRIM is coming in Snow Leopard, but it is always nice to have good garbage collection on the hardware.

SandForce wins right now in $/gb, and 4K writes. It loses in anything that is limited by the SATA2 bus, such as sequential transfers.
I'll have to get him to run successive compiles and see.

The other advantage of this model is that it is upgradable to 16GB RAM, according to OWC and others [1]. The upgrade is a ridiculous cost right now, but it can likely only go down.

1. http://blog.macsales.com/9394-macbook-pro-2011-12gb-and-16gb...
Having used Linode, SliceHost, and AWS I would say they are all about the same.

I had a severe crash at Linode years ago causing a complete loss of data. They did work with me for days trying to recover the filesystem and I found their support staff knowledgeable and helpful.

I never had problems with SliceHost so I don't know much about their support.

I'm using AWS because a reserved micro instance is super cheap at just under $10 and because I manage a much larger AWS infrastructure at work so it's nice to work with the same APIs for my own stuff and work. I also think the skillset is more transferable if you're learning.
Those in the US have a highly distorted view of IT salaries in the US...

There's a bias effect caused by the fact that the only people willing to talk about salaries are those with high salaries. Government based salary data often shows much lower salaries than sites like GlassDoor report.
You're asking for bespoke work. This is essentially the same as wondering why a tailored suit costs so much more than the 3-for-$10 t-shirts at Walmart.

First, figure out if you want or need bespoke before you commit to a price.
Not sure I understand vesting in general, but I will do some research to have the questions you have here answered. Thanks!
Ok - VCs are not like record labels. I'm convinced. Who cares?

I know this post is by a venerable member of the HN community and so questioning his posts may get me downvoted into oblivion, but I read this post and wondered why this matters at all.
While it seems hard to believe anyone could take the quoted “Sorry bro, you’re not Hashable enough” as being an actual attributed quote, to avoid confusion the writer should probably have just italicized it.
Brad Kuhn has an interesting take on modifying large codebases: "If someone actually does all the research to prove that Google did, I'd easily offer a 1,000-to-1 bet to anyone that such a copyright infringement could be cleared up easily [...]"

I've been in the software industry for more than two decades, and I've worked with such companies as Blizzard Entertainment (I actually edited a small part of the C source code of Warcraft II - Tides of Darkness, for an example). I know and I'm sure pretty much every reader here knows that it's never just a quick and simple thing to change something in such a large and interwoven codebase as Android.

Any change can result in unforeseeable run-time issues even in parts of the codebase where it seems counterintuitive.

I don't deny that it's doable -- in my own blog post on this I advocate replacing Bionic with glibc. I don't claim it will take five years. But the idea that this can be done in no time and without any risk of incompatibilities and other issues flies in the face of everything any technical decision-maker at any significant software company would say.

It may work in a "release early, release often" world. I doubt that the likes of Samsung and Motorola plan to "release early, release often" their Android-based devices.

Such an absurd downplaying of the issue calls into question that Brad Kuhn seriously wants a solution. It seems he just wants to be an apologist.
http://www.theonion.com/articles/senate-candidate-drops-out-...
I've seen psychics make accurate predictions, on occasion. That doesn't mean that we should apply that technique widely.

The number of external factors involved in predicting CO ski lift tickets a decade into the future so immensely overwhelm the model implied by the Rule of 72 as to beggar imagination.

So, yeah. I'd be surprised.
You can chew an arbitrarily large amount of time at a large corporation if your decision making process requires more than one signature. A high end bespoke firm builds this into all estimates.

*That's great Lime, but does it really connect with the marketing message? Maybe if you added a bit more "pop" to it. Also, wouldn't it be better if it were teal?"
Supply and demand. Senior designers only have so many hours to give, and the smart ones raise their rates as quickly as possible when they realize the high-budget clients are the best path to wealth and a sane schedule.

For a brand-new startup, your design is going to evolve quickly. I'd go cheap-and-quick (99Designs, TemplateMonster.com, etc). Hopefully someone on your core team is solid enough at design that you can wrangle the theme that you buy... Your design should be evolving every day.
Hope you allow regular receipts too. Email receipts might be harder to convince?
What makes the difference between the one developer you would hire and the 89 engineers you wouldn't?
I don't actually know if Delphi is fast or not, I'll take your word on it.

However, I'd be skeptical that the parser is one of the main reasons for its fast compile times. In my experience, parsing is really a tiny amount of compilation time. The VB.NET compiler, for example, uses the same parsing technique, and it is ... "not fast" at compiling. It spends most of its time binding symbols.
Could you explain? I think the intention is that you earn from the housing market's growth while keeping your investment liquid?
Ignoring the impossibility of a publicly-held company "hating" things, if Apple "hated" iOS jailbreaking/hacking, there'd be members of the teams that develop the techniques and capabilities in court just like geohot.

The iTunes cracking restrictions are probably related to their contracts with providers selling stuff on the iTunes store. The requirement to use iTunes for managing iOS devices is simply because no other software has been written to do it.

There's no documented requirement to only use Mac OS X for iOS development. Infinity Blade (seen here on the left: http://www.apple.com/ipad/from-the-app-store/games.html ) was mostly developed in Windows ( see http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/GettingStartediOSDevelopment.... ).
The .xxx TLD seems to be a mechanism to make the TLD operator a lot of money and is not likely to improve the Internet. It's a protection racket: If your businesses or organization is concerned your public face and image you will need to own and operate the .xxx version of their domains names (and variants) and probably hide behind the privacy feature of the domain name seller. If you don't some evil person will put up a website with material you don't want to be associated with your name. There may be come minimal legal recourse, but it is costly.

How does http://news.ycombinator.xxx sound?
This isn't a hard problem to solve exactly though; anyone with a calculator that can compute logarithms can find the exact time. A bit of algebra and the formula for periodically compounded interest will tell you that an investment will double in time
t = ln(2)/ln(1+r)

The value of this rule comes in the fact that it can be computed mentally. I certainly can't tell you what ln(2)/ln(1.06) is, but I can easily compute 72/6 = 12.
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So much valuable info in a nifty flow chart. Usually I hate flow charts, but this one is good.
I totally agree. If you are not write limited, it is also very easy to scale reads with slave servers or materialized views in some cases.
"What It Feels Like to Have to Read this Drivel"
They must be pretty confident that the H.264 patents don't apply to WebM at this point; I'm sure Texas Instruments required some assumption of liability on Google's part.
That alone doesn't mean the person is smart and rational, but I'd say it's a good start.
Yeah, programmer salaries in the UK seem very low. I'm Canadian, but my husband also has UK citizenship. We were contemplating a move to the UK, but it would have meant taking a significant pay cut, even though the cost-of-living was much higher and software jobs were clustered in the most expensive areas.

Ultimately it's the same problem that pushed my father-in-law, who was a programmer in London until the seventies, to emigrate to Canada. Not much seems to have changed.
Sure my colleagues and I do this all the time. We announce every new customer with a press release so we're not giving away any secrets that way.
1000 hours is half a year of work. Do you have an indication that this guy is not a bozo? Because I have one piece of evidence which strongly suggests bozo: he's trying to get a technical cofounder for 5%.
Thank you for this. The "official" definition of extroversion and introversion and the "colloquial" definitions are bit different, I think. I have a greater tendency to buy the colloquial version. The former was a definition invented by one dude and never substantiated, whereas the latter is the current evolution of the word as defined by what people find most useful.
XY problem
The bump in CS uptake was due to the dotcom boom rather than any long term trend. CS still has a higher average salary than most other subjects.
From what I have seen, it is a great team of people. And yes I do believe in what the company is trying to accomplish.
Sunnyvale is best place to date a nerd
80% of statistics are made up on the spot. Only 1.23432% of them have too much precision, and 64% of statistics are worse than lies or damned lies.
If we would go out regularly regardless of the fact that we work together, then they would be the exceptions. The difference is that a lot (most?) of the "Social" engagements I have with coworkers are clearly work related. Those dinners, weekend picnics, and snowboarding weekends I have with them are business/work related, not something I would have likely done if I had never worked with them.

Ergo, they stay in my linkedin compartment.