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They don't want to make the music industry mad is my guess, same for video and movies.
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I so which I had enough karma to downvote crap like this.
One gig so far at about $1500. A nice average, but not indicative of a trend.
On Android, we ship all the locales in one package (since the Android Market doesn't have a simple way for us to deliver different packages to different locales). That accounts for part of the difference in size.

We're working on various ways to reduce the size, including moving the locale files into separate files that are downloaded at installation time.
When did that happen the first time? As I recall, Chrome started the second browser wars, which even caused IE to try again. FF was unable to do that.
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That's a yak-null; a first-order yak-shave.

Building your own hardware to build your own assembler to create your compiler to build your own OS to allow you to build your own CAD system to create your own board layout and test tools to build your own processor to create an assembler to...

There's always room for a higher-order yak.
I'm not a fan of trying to put spin on anything - when I submitted the story, the only edits I made to the original title were to satisfy HN's 80 character limit.
Yet it could collapse overnight.

Facebook is doing all it can to lock users in, but in the end everything revolves around a single user just saying that he/she doesn't care anymore and is out.

If the circle of 10 of my closest friends leave Facebook, I would probably leave as well. Many great services have fallen before Facebook.
Show HN: Read my semi-stealth copy
I'm trying to come up with a semi-stealth "about" for my newest project. The point is to give a little (clever) insight on the project, but not to give the farm away. Please let me know what you think...

"Want to pay $34/month or get roped into a six month contract? We know the perfect match for you. But it's NOT us.

Want to answer more than 400 pointless questions? We know a place that can give you such harmony. But it's NOT us.

Want to join a site that's all about free and all about flakes? We know a great spot for you to fish. But it's NOT us.

AKChances is different. And different is good."

If you want to see it on the web, the landing page is http://akchances.com and the about is http://akchances.com/about
Hey, fogus and btilly! Small world.
Somebody should create a simple little app on top of S3 that runs on all your devices and creates an automatically synced folder. They should make it free for the first couple GB too.

Then Cloud Drive would seem kind of lame.
Nag, a very simple todo list manager
Ask HN: Where are the best places to find Freelance jobs?
I am a designer working with a developer and we are looking to do some freelance work. We have looked on craigslist, but that does not seem like the best place to find jobs. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
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From the website:

"Open access can coexist with traditional publishing. IEEE will continue to allow authors to post manuscripts of their articles accepted by IEEE journals on their own Web sites or those of their employers."

Hence, it would be perfectly fine for me to publish on IEEE journals. Basically, if you want to read one of my articles you just have to look for it using google scholar. Is it that difficult?
I'd be curious to know if there are any design freelancers that do infographics, and what they charge...

We've had trouble finding great infographic designers that don't take a lot of time to manage, and I'm wondering if we should be paying more.

If interested in that or doing UI/UX stuff, check us out
http://feefighters.com and drop me a note

EDIT - looks like people are interested!
job posting for fulltime UI/UX here : http://feefighters.com/jobs/ui-designer-developer/

and Freelance infographic posting here: http://www.genuinejobs.com/jobs_detail.php?id=5606
(but just drop an email to josh@feefighters.com instead of responding to this one)
It would have made more sense if it wasn't called a "processing fee". That implies they can justify the cost with specific work associated with making a paper available.
Right now, the only big speed advantage is in processor-intensive JavaScript. You can see this in any JS-intensive application. For example, run the performance tests here in Firefox vs. stock Android browser: http://lookups.pageforest.com/test/perf-test.html

(These performance tests are based on a JS library to do efficient dictionary lookups; more info at https://github.com/mckoss/lookups)

In other areas, like startup speed, we know that Firefox for Android is still catching up to other browsers. It's improved a lot over the last year, and we'll keep on improving it.
Someone needs to do this with a Pentax 645D. 40 Megapixels of medium-format goodness stitched together would look wonderful.
I thought they should rig automated catapults to lob ice at the spent fuel pools. If solid ice could damage the fuel casings, crush it and repack it. Even if the missiles miss the pool, they would help by cooling the ambient air and slow evaporation from the pool.
Sitemaps?
Just look how much free publicity Apple gets by having a legion of dedicated fans. Imagine how much money they'd need to get that kind of media/social media coverage if nobody liked their products.
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I think my site works well for individual users, but would work even better within a community of users. My problem seems to be in making it clear what the benefits of the site are compared to similar sites out there. I get quite a bit of traffic so I guess I have a good starting point, but now I need to convert that into registered users.

From what I am reading, that has been the big hurdle for just about every startup out there. To your point, antidaily, having more users, real or otherwise, does seem to have a snowball effect in terms of traffic and users. It would be nice if all of my users were the real sort with their own ideas and content.
I think this is might be too stealth. I checked out the site and I still have no clue what your company is doing.
Ask HN: Best unintended use of your webservice?
I build a website called favstar.fm. Its purpose is to provide feedback on tweets - and easily show who is favoriting and retweeting your tweets.

This morning I woke up to discover a Japanese user has been using it as a canvas. Visit this tweet and click on the 'others' link next to retweets and you'll see a cool picture that they've put together by carefully setting up avatars for over 60 Twitter users, and then making them retweet a tweet in just the right order.

http://favstar.fm/t/30772880274886656

Has your webservice been used for something totally different than what you intended and produced a nice result?
Dolphin HD may not be free, but it has supported ad-blocking for a long time trough extensions.
I admitted to being wrong, didn't I? :)
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I know several people who keep their iTunes Music folder on Dropbox so they can use iTunes/sync iDevices across multiple machines.
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It's 2011. I want some future, damnit!
I thought the exact opposite. To me, it's completely obvious it's a dating website. The about page is referencing Match.com, eHarmony and Plenty of Fish, other dating sites.
Rather hilarious & honest dev job posting
Microsoft didn't even have anyone working on IE for most of the five years between IE6 and IE7 (2001 - 2006). Without competitors like Firefox to keep web standards and cross-browser compatibility alive through that era, it would have taken a lot longer to dig ourselves out of the IE6 era.

(Remember when IE had 90% market share, and web developers routinely wrote IE-only code?)
And a webserver!
actually proper intermittent fasting doesn't result in muscle loss (look it up). I agree with eating less carbs- but you should specify the carbs- the bad carbs are the ones that come from processed foods and grains, the good carbs are fruits and veggies.
One way: have you ever delivered something which someone would pay $X,000 for? If so, then you are good enough to deliver something someone would pay $X,000 for.

I think many people get hung up on skill though. Clients pay for many, many things. Skill is only one of those things, and it doesn't dominate, either. Clients can also pay for:

criticality of work
urgency of work
guaranteed availability
hard-to-find expertise
communication skills
perceived attentiveness to needs
lower perceived risk
corporate politics
measurable results
warm fuzzy feeling

Of these, if you could only have one, I'd probably go with the ability to give clients the warm fuzzy feeling. You will never go hungry if clients get the warm fuzzy feeling from working with you.

Hat tip to tptacek, who taught me the importance of some of the above.
Forecasting out that far is a fools game. There were no Android phones just 2 years ago, so it's remarkable that IDC thinks they know what will happen in 4 years.
I believe you mean, "EVERYBODY GET IN HERE"
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Where/how do you find these freelance gigs?
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Now I finally know what they've been doing for the last 4 years...
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I thought this was a joke at first, but am pleasantly surprised.

I actually checked my calendar, but realized it is still 2 days away.

T minus 2 days for the most ridiculous headlines of the year.
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Considering Netflix accounts for 20% of evening traffic? Nope.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13506_3-20020434-17.html
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I understand, the spin came directly from Velocity.
Wow, impressively positive reviews. I'll have to read it.
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That's true to a certain extent: many of the costs are indeed incurred by people other than the driver. By no means all of the costs, though. I'm sitting in Starbucks in central London right now (heading to the London Clojure Dojo in a few minutes :-). I got here by train and on the tube and I wouldn't dream of driving here. Looking out of the window, most of the vehicles that I see are buses and taxis, with very few private cars in evidence. It looks like a lot of people agree with me and wouldn't dream of driving here.

In my experience, many of the world's big cities have already driven private cars away (at least from the centre) and replaced them with an efficient public transportation system. Cities such as New York to Melbourne to Hong Kong are similar. The reason is that the driver really does pay a cost, being stuck in a traffic jam. If the public transportation system is good enough then it's an easy choice not to drive.

Of course, London already changes motorists to drive in the centre of the city so maybe that tips the balance even further away from car drivers.
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Good point on focusing on revenue, focusing on revenue is how I finally stopped worrying about whether my startup would succeed or not based on something as arbitrary as whether I used .NET or not as the platform (the consensus on HN is decidedly anti-.NET). Platforms and business designations are just distractions from running your business.
The encryption key and the password are two separate tokens. The password is supplied by the user, while the encryption key is a randomly-generated 26-character string. (In some earlier versions of Firefox Sync, the key was also supplied by the user and was called a "secret phrase.")

The password is sent to the server, but the encryption key is not. For more info, see: https://support.mozilla.com/kb/where-can-i-find-my-firefox-s...
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Rule of thumb is to estimate hours and a reasonable rate given the scope and time of the arrangement. It's hard to pin down an absolute number, but in terms of rate I dont consider it unless its at least $200/hr
You haven't met many lawyers, have you? ;)
I do 24 hours 1-3x a week but with a twist. Most people think "24 hours" and think "in the same day." I will eat breakfast and lunch one day and then nothing until dinner time the following evening. It still accomplishes the 24 hours (more like 27-29).

I also generally exercise at the start of the fast to burn off my glycogen stores so my body relies on stored fat for energy the next day.
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hash is the right (and only) way to do this.
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I would be happier if IEEE/ACM would typeset the damn articles. The International Conference of Software Engineering this year has hired a publishing company that have been sending manuscripts back for even the slightest failure to meet (their interpretation of) the ACM style guide.

I've gone through the process 4 or 5 times across multiple papers.

You can't charge $3000 for the benefit of putting a PDF on a website when you do absolutely nothing for the creation of it. If they did the typesetting themselves, I might (might) accept that there are some costs per article, but at this point it's obviously complete nonsense on similar old-world scales as the NYT's $41m pay wall. Putting PDFs up is a fixed cost, which, even amortized over the development of the site, is nowhere near $3000 per article over and above the revenue they are receiving from libraries and memberships.

We keep getting told that there are overheads in running a journal; that open-access can't work without significant investiture. I disagree. When all you are doing is facilitating communication (academics do essentially everything for free: write, typeset, review, accept/reject, organize conferences, and new things like storing source code and data for replicability like PROMISE or SIGMOD), you are just a middleman. All that's being provided at this point is "authority" because ACM/IEEE-stamped articles count towards tenure, and the rest don't (at least in CompSci).

This sort of thing is ripe for disruption: a competently written web app could annihilate the processes that are in place. The only problem is selling the authority. A company like Google or Microsoft Research taking to the right people and bringing them on-board for a rival publication/conference would do that (MSR are actually quite well-versed in doing conferences, the Foundations of Digital Games conference started with them, and that's now ACM for authority). I think most academics are totally fed up with the status quo, so I can't imagine that's all that hard, you just need the money to have a dedicated person to do all the "selling."
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Modern mainstream news-media is info-terrorism.

Repeatedly showing videos of the 9/11 attack or the tsunami as it wipes out homes over and over again every hour is not enlightening nor does it spew anything but fear.
Stack Overflow is almost at 10 questions asked per second, so where does the surprise come from?

Honestly, I'd have guessed a lot higher number.
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Because robots have been the next revolution for at least 50 years.
"If the two main priorities in your life are inherent security and the ability to rely on things planned months ahead, please stop reading this now and do something else."
Freelancers hired by BigCos (so not working from home) usually get paid by the hour/day and can easily take home 10k+ a month. Most of the time theres lots of travelling involved though.
While I agree that leveraging intangible assets can be extremely powerful in creating success for web startups, very few people have such an asset to leverage. Those that do are probably looking to enjoy life a little bit more and may turn into angel investors or are looking to get out of the bipolar startup lifestyle.

How does one build an asset like this? By creating a web startup from scratch.

So yes if you happen to be one of the lucky few that have a nice asset like that, do the obvious thing you would have done anyways and leverage it. Otherwise join the rest of the crowd building one of the assets from the ground up with solid execution and a decent idea.
> The cloud is generic and multi-vendor. It's a utility. This angle makes sense when talking to developers.

I just set my dad up with SFTP on a dreamhost account, and he keeps calling it his "cloud storage" account. I think beyond the developer world it's starting to just mean "I don't have to back it up, and I can reach it from anywhere."
Some people seem to get it backwards. They think they are their own client. WRONG!!

It does not matter one bit what I or others charge. What matters is WHO IS YOUR IDEAL CLIENT?

If you know that, you know what VALUE you bring to them and you can charge whatever you want to solve a real problem.

Otherwise you are trading time for money. AKA - Job.

Does Rolls Royce consult Honda as to what to charge for their products? No. Two different markets with two different clients and two very different ways of solving a clients/customer's problems.
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You've got what's called a nice problem to have. At that rate you must be charging many millions per year, so sure, it's all about minimizing your fees. But for those of us with much smaller-to-nonexistent revenues, wondering whether our app will even make money at all, Stripe makes all kinds of sense and is a prefect place to start.
I think the hype has raced ahead of the technology here. "Streaming everything" on today's smartphones seems to give you about 2 hrs of battery life, a problem for which there does not appear to be a near-term solution. Moreover, no wireless network in America could support that mode of usage on a large scale, and that will also be true for the foreseeable future. Or so it seems to me -- anyone in the know care to comment?
The exact time line is that after Java became the surprise success that it was, the Tcl team responded with 'well yeah, we could do that too.' In Oct 1996 Jacob Levy announced 1.0 of the Tcl plugin [1]. Oracle has eradicated all of the www.sunlabs.com content in the internet archive AFAICT so it is not possible to see when Sun Labs went public with it, but it happened several months after the Java 1.0 release which came out in Navigator in September of 1995.

As I recall the sentiment was 'So you can run it inside a browser, what is the big deal with that?' I don't know if Jacob lurks here but he would be the definitive source.

[1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-talk/1996SepOct/0090...
Telling people to take shortcuts and write spaghetti code is a terrible idea. I'd venture to say the people nodding their heads have never had to deal with a million line code base with spaghetti code, duplication (50%), terrible architecture and no unit tests. How do you think it got that way? "We got a new client! We need X functionality right now! You want to re-architect? We don't have the time!" etc... etc... If your product is never successful its a moot point either way. If it is, you better damn well hope you have free time to both expand your product and re-architect it.

I'd much rather see a sentiment of "never sacrifice architecture for functionality but never let architecture drive your features."
Not many no, but the company name of who I'm stealing from would be the first thing I Ctrl+F!
I agree with you. I live in Europe and I'm sick with news like this. I would consider myself a fan of electric cars. I'm sure I'll be getting one within the next 10 years. I don't need no one forcing me. They are simply better cars.

If Government want's to force me, please ask me (through vote) and give it at least some amount of legitimacy.

I haven't even seen the legislation for this, but as we europeans get more accostomed to the EU, we figure out we just have to deal with what Brussels say. It just pops off somewhere deep in the news.

And by making it a 40 year projection, they take out the urgency for people to react, knowing that in 20 years it has gained ligitimacy because no one had spoken out against it for so long. It's smooth dictatorship, but still dictatorship.

I think I'm getting why Americans always complain about Washington. But I think Brussels is even worse. Picture an American Union where legislation gets passed by some Bureau in Panama and other locations that were chosen by this Bureau on behalf of which regions need to be subsidized through Armies of public officials.
I work 100% remotely, from not a first world country, and my hourly rate has been escalating with each project. Currently at around 40$/hour. But instead of cashing in, I am rather investing time into improving more, and preparing some interesting personal projects that define myself.
I love great challenges, and want to eventually get into something really interesting. Or maybe I will go by myself, and launch a startup that I has been thinking about for some time.
Can somebody find a direct download link for the .apk file? I tried using the Mozilla website but ended up in eternal redirection and flashy pages. I really do not want to waste 14MB (!) of my precious bandwidth on a browser installation. That would be 5% of my monthly bandwidth.
big deal, there's gonna be no petrol left by 2050 anyway...
ODesk is a good resource to find freelance jobs, most are virtual though and I've heard it gets mixed reviews (mostly good though :)).
Thank you for the answer. Please implement this quickly, I want to recommend FF to pretty much everybody and a huge honkin download is not a good sign on a mobile phone.
how much money do you have to spend? How many users are you trying to get? What is the right demographic (age range, interest etc)?

If it is fun, you might want to try to get hooked into universities. Pick one and just try to get some penetration. University students are single, have time and are more willing to experiment.

Your best bet is going through referrals. But if you can make a funny video on youtube you might be able to get traffic. My sisters friend created a music video for the nohate campaign and they got 30,000 views in a day because they had all the dancers, production people etc to tweet, facebook and share it.
You can download the APK directly from here: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mobile/releases/4.0/a...

You can also search for "Firefox" in the Android Market on your phone (connect to WiFi if possible, if you want avoid cellular data charges).

(By the way, if you literally ended up in a redirect loop, please let me know so we can fix it.)
Use the quadroptors in depth: first is furthest out to force a missile course change, next several sit behind and flanking first on the likeliest course changes. Integrate these with the CIWS to define "holes" where the gun can expect to find the missile.

Or, make a big one, station it up and miles off, and have it launch heat + radar homing counter missiles, timed to intercept incoming with "matching" intercepts rather than "crossing" intercepts.