skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tend to agree with you, but at the same time I find that tutorials and even side projects often don't move past the fairly basic usage of a language or framework. So even when I think I have learned something well, I end up having to work through a lot of unforeseen issues while working on a real project that end up being more time consuming than learning the basics. So in some ways I feel that the only way to really learn a new language or framework is to use it on a real project, because that's the only time the real challenges are going to present themselves.

I could be way off though, maybe I just need way more ambitious side projects.
$ per job? That is meaningless. Are you asking yourself, "do freelance jobs exist where I will make at least $5,000 no matter how long the project takes?" If you're asking that I have a bridge... for you to build for me.
The high and low ends vary greatly. I've done little one hour wham-bam-thank-you-ma'am gigs and then I've done projects that run 4-6 months and bring in 5 figures. On average I'd say about $5000. The most I ever brought in on a single project was $24,000. BTW those projects were all done using the .NET Framework. Take THAT, Expensify!
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> It's all well and good being entrepreneurial, but (in the US at least), health insurance has to be in the picture somewhere.

So does food and housing, but you don't see people scared of that.

I'm over 50 and overweight.

I paid much less for a very good single policy than I paid for rent.
I read it as "That's really cool ... and especially cool at such a young age". I'd say the age makes it a rarer and hence more newsworthy event.
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It doesnt matter much for CS vs soft eng. Most entrepreneur clubs and meet ups are degree agnostic.

Get a strong background in what interests you most.

Most students are looking at a regular career path. You will have to seek out like minded people.
It is annoying, only because it is obvious tabloid-level gossip and has nothing to do with the events involved. We should be talking about the Canadian start up scene, Waterloo in particular, not this guy's age. But something tells me something about his age is the reason this got upvoted so much.

Age is no different then skin color, marital status, or any other attribute you could assign to a person. I always (try to) by default ignore it from headlines and articles.
ThingSpeak: an open source "Internet of Things" API
Obj when constructed contains a reference to the Dog class.
Assignment updates the reference to be the Cat class.

None of this has relevance to the ability to compile to machine code. It does however, have implications for the efficiency of said code. (Object has to dereference the speak function for its class, and then call it, rather than being able to call the class's speak function directly, as you might in Java. It is also harder to eliminate type checks with such a scheme).
Thanks, i will try it out.
I am actually ok with most ads on apps, i dont find them as intrusive, the browser on the other hand is a nightmare.
How do you ping only changes? Don't you have to resubmit the whole sitemap?
Clearly this judge should have recused herself simply to avoid even the appearance of impropriety. Any judge with even a sliver of integrity would have done so.
they think scholars have enough money to do the research AND pay $3000 to have it openly published?

it's the beginning of the end of closed academic publishing models.
Reread all of Brunner, for that matter. Perhaps "The Sheep Look Up?" -- and we all thought that President Prexy was referring to Reagan!
I posted this becuase people at reddit thought I stole my post from YC - and so I posted to show I in fact wrote it!
Does this include delivery trucks?
5 GB of Free Online Storage with Amazon Cloud Drive
Solar panels large enough to be useful would probably affect the aerodynamics too much. Simpler to add a charging station somewhere and have the robot go there when it's "tired."
Just a trickle of cashflow, and it took ~2 years of generating enough traffic from various sources (other projects) to drive the trickle that I have now. For a ballpark, if the current growth is sustained, the trickle should be enough to buy a car in just over a year.

The concepts for the things I am building now were distilled from several other failed ventures. The choices were based on the projected market sizes.
I don't see anywhere on the Amazon site about historic versions of files. I have once-or-twice needed to back into my file history at DropBox to find some things.
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The name is a step in the funnel and causes X% dropout at its stage, just like everything else. If BCC were named Bingo Card Spewer or AR were named Appointment Annoyer, X would be higher for each. If Facebook were named CreepyStalkerHaven... you get the idea.

It may still be true that reducing X to a negligible level is close to trivial and comes in far behind other activities on time and money ROI. Can a product or business name be A/B tested?
One [probably naive] thing that I've done in the past has been to use mod_rewrite to redirect people to a static version of a page.

Something like this would work in .htaccess

RewriteRule ^t/item/4372/$ /static/4372.html

It's saying "Hey, apache, if you see somebody asking you for website.tld/t/item/4372/, send them to website.tld/static/4372.html instead"

A blog post I wrote got about 100k hits in a day a few weeks ago, and using mod_rewrite in this fashion, I was able to keep the site running for the entire day.
Most efforts are at $5-10K for our market segment per project and a yearly of $1500 and up
"What is your anual income from freelance work versus your anual income from your day job?" There, fixed it for you. That is the real question and the only one that means anything. We all know about how much time we have in a year and a year of averages flattens the peaks and valleys pretty well. Anything else is meaningless.
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How do you go about doing estimation? When you are asked for a bid and have loose requirements what are some good practices for estimating?
I rarely do anything below $5k (at $125 per hour with discounts on bigger projects or past clients that treated me well).

Since this all side stuff, after my 9-5 job, I'm very picky on what I take in, since I like to work on products that I have 'real' input in.
I noticed it too with Firefox 4//Win7.
I was searching around for some SVG radial background gradient something or other that I wasn't sure even existed a few days ago and the top hit to come up was a SO question that had been asked 7 hours before. Answered my question, too. I was impressed.
malicious code as revenge is petty and immature.

life's short. don't be a jerk.
Soft engs are generally better. Velocity is full of them. The one problem with Soft Engs is that their work load is generally higher than CS students, so less time to work on startups.

Full disclosure: I'm in Soft Eng :)
Sadly this can be a very skewed number as it will differ per project type, length of project and locality. I would be more interested in hearing what people charge on an hourly basis - but alas this same issue would occur there. Without a literal "How much would you charge to do X (and where do you live)?" type question it is hard to come up with a number that could be used for comparison.
Two simple iPhone apps at £500 and £900.
One freebie one which brings in £15/month.

Need to charge more!
Best way I've found is to start out on hourly gigs, until you have a sense of how long certain tasks take you. With experience, you get better at estimating your time.

EDIT: Oh and when you start out, if you're estimating time, double it.
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I have been on my own for over a decade and tend not to take a job that is less than 6 weeks work. All .NET work for customers at all different market segments and the rate varies from 110-195/hr.
Miguel plugs "Why Programs Fail." Does anyone here second that recommendation or have an alternative? I'm about to buy it, I think.
It looks decent: modern and playful. I'm not typeface expert, but it seems like there are more implied vertical lines than I would expect.
Working in the chemical engineering area. Hard science + all the cool technologies you can read on HN => Fun + money. Usually a contract starts at $15k (2 weeks) and goes up to 2 months of work on average.

I always advice people to go the hard science way if they like computer science, because there is a really big big lack of people being good at both. I should write about it.
Someone should compare and contrast Startup Britain against Startup America. I think you'll find that both the United States and individual states are taking entrepreneurship much more seriously. That's especially true with the latest immigration changes.
This is very topical for me. I have been drafting a paper that I was hoping to submit to the IEEE. This "might" change my mind. I'm not sure yet. There are stipulations that you can publish your work on personal sites if you get permission from the organization and you include a copyright notice at the top.

Incidentally, they also have an optional but suggested charge for papers containing color diagrams and over-length papers. They say that an organization should include publication costs in their budget for the research and thus the fees are reasonable.

The author guidelines, are dozens of pages long and I only had a week to absorb them so correct me if I missed something.
I am so incredibly horrible at estimation that I bid more with emotion.

If I find the project very interesting and I can fall in love with building it, the client is going to get a good deal. Boring or otherwise tedious projects engender some stone-cold, take-it-or-leave-it negotiation. I mean, this is my free time.

Edit: Nevermind that extra bit, however true. :)
I mostly work on a day rate, not a per-project rate. Can you create a poll for average day rates?
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If you ever get a chance, please do, I'd be interested in hearing about it.

I've thought about going into a hard science industry but never did anything about it because 1) I'm not really qualified in the science side, my skills/experience/qualifications are in computer science and 2) I don't really know how to get started.
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I should write about it.

Please do.
Twitter Founder Wants to Make Service More Mainstream
Four Reasons Any Action Is Better than None
If your products are actually good and/or desirable...

What, so, e.g. Apple don't have large marketing budgets... or that they're wrong to invest in marketing?
Yes. Who upvotes crap like this?
Key quote:

The best part about Twitter is that it allows you to do things like following “what’s happening in Egypt right now. That’s the value, not the brand ‘Twitter.’ So we need to refocus on that value,” [Jack Dorsey] said. “That’s my goal in the next few months.”
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It would be even more interesting if we could factor in location as well. I live in Utah and $125 hourly is decent, but in SV it is probably rock bottom.
If they stop charging, where will the money come from? Taxes. You're still going to pay. At least with a usage-based system you can have some say in how much and how often you pay (by riding less).
All is fair in love and internet
Anyone else just not trust 100% the paypal folks?

Just from a subjective perspective based on the history PayPal has had with withholding funds etc...

How does WePay compare to Stripe?
Time is More Valuable Than Money
I fail to understand why this isn't a free product designed to feed data into Google Base and Product Search.
>It’s going to do something better: release an API and become a platform.

Isn't that what Amazon S3 already is?
I don't know if I like the idea of a "Dropbox V2" that directly uses your separately-purchased Cloud Drive storage. I use Dropbox for portable backups of a few small but important files (my resume, todo lists, school assignments, etc.). How would this proposed Dropbox work? Would it just put a separate Dropbox folder in your Cloud Drive, separate from your music or whatever else you put directly into Cloud Drive? Or would you purchase Dropbox and then use all of your Cloud Drive for Dropbox? I think it would be weird to use Dropbox for all your music/photos/videos.
Yeah, but you can be a person that gives 19 year olds the tools that they need to invent things, which in my opinion is even cooler.
Yeah, I think about it constantly. I think everything was explained as clearly as possible - I hope so anyway - but there's still a nagging feeling that I missed something. And then there's the competition, i.e. all you other guys. I'm sure everyone has really good ideas, and I'm really hoping to have the opportunity to see them all take form in SF. This public fretting should probably reassure us all thet we're at least dedicated to our ideas.
I have a counter-suggestion: pay $3000 to support one of the open access
journals (see The Directory of Open Access Journals
"http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=home&uiLanguage=en for suggestions)
and they'll let you post as many articles as you want. (Of course, I believe
most of them will let you post for free, but by contributing articles and
money to open access journals, you get to stick it to IEEE twice).
I certainly do not. It is usually enough of a challenge to cover "overpage" charges that publishers charge when an accepted article runs over the "standard" length (usually 8 pages for a standard or regular article). Often times, the "extra" pages are introduced by additional text required to satisfy reviewers. One time I was requested to convert an 8 page article submitted as a regular paper into a short paper format (4 page limit), while adding a significant amount of new content. The result? A 7 page article that ended up costing $575 to publish. We won't even talk about charges for colour figures, which can run into the thousands.

Of course the money spent on overpage charges could be better spent on graduate student stipends, equipment purchases and maintenance, software licensing, attending conferences, and other expenses incurred by an active research program.

Other open journals, while still expensive, charge significantly less than what the IEEE is proposing. The challenge for academics is that, at least for now, IEEE journals are well regarded, well cited and considered to be a prestigious venue for publication.
Ask HN: What do you think the ratio of good/bad apps on android are?
I'm basically asking what apps are mostly used and of actual quality

My opinion Good = 5% of all apps

Bad = 95% of all apps
I wouldn’t be surprised if a version of Dropbox that plays nicely with the Cloud Drive is one of the first Cloud Drive apps on the scene. It makes a great deal of sense. Instead of paying Dropbox for storage and syncing, we could just pay them for syncing.

It seems rather unlikely to me that people would pay dropbox for their syncing service to store things on someone else's paid storage. I would think that the dropbox software exists to drive people to their relatively high margin de-duplicated cloud storage subscriptions.

In a similar fashion it seems likely to me that Cloud Drive exists to drive adoption & volume to Amazon digital music, a market that dwarfs the size of the online storage game.
How I crowd sourced my video startup pitch
To be clear, when I said "Regardless of Mark's ideals and lofty goals - politics is politics." -- I was in no way implying that he had lofty goals and ideals that were good... quite to the contrary.

I do not and shall not ever have an account on the book for many reasons - my distrust of the founder and company ethos are but just two...
Isn't this against the spirit of PageRank's neutrality?
This is awesome news..just trying it out. Minor quibble why is the installer a Huge 14 Mb in Size? On a desktop FF4 is a 12Mb download so what gives?
This is the advice I offer to all of my freelancing friends and repeat to myself every morning: "Whatever I'm charging, I should double it."

There's a limit on that school of thought, but if have the option of 2 freelancing contacts at X, or 1 at 2x, I prefer to focus on one client at a higher price point.

I figured out my starting freelance rate by taking my per-hour salary from my day job and doubling it. Then, whenever I had too many clients at that price level (generally 2+ back-to-back) I increased my rate by 50% to 100%.

This has worked great for me through multiple iterations. As my portfolio, contacts, and experience grows, so does my rate. I'm left earning a good amount for my freelance work, and have the luxury of turning down work that isn't paying enough or is too much of a hassle to coordinate.
Yeah, if you look like you sell yourself, you'll just appear desperate. You can still put an effort into making a good impression, though. But I agree that it's better when it comes naturally.
Simplifying Core Data - Part One
This article is kind of backwards to me. Dropbox has an API, and Amazon didn't release one with their Cloud Drive.

It's also kind of silly to say that Amazon has mastered storage, but give Dropbox no credit. They obviously have data storage as a core technology.

Syncing isn't that valuable to me as a technology. Dropbox didn't invent it. They borrowed it from elsewhere and Amazon could do the same if they wanted to.
I don’t think that libertarianism is a suicide pact. Sure, if the costs of climate change are minimal many libertarians won’t accept legislation limiting their freedom but I’m pretty sure that position changes as soon as a somewhat large amount of loss of life is predicted.

Your second paragraph challenges assumption three: “The costs of climate change are lower than the costs of preventing or slowing down climate change.” It’s consequently no wonder that you disagree with the policy – pretty much anyone who disagrees with assumption three can be expected to be against this legislation, independent of her or his other political views.

You are basically saying that the costs of slowing or stopping climate change will be infinite (it will be impossible) or at least extremely high, at any rate higher than the costs of climate change itself.
It's great to have another credible browser for Android and Firefox 4 kinda works OK on my Xoom but there are two issues that make me hesitant to use it - Fonts - there is some "non-nativeness" there - they look blurry and - Heaviness - the native browser on the Xoom is just insanely light and fast (couple crashes everyday aside) but Firefox feels heavier to use. Part of that might be drawing, part may be slow startup and some just general UI element sizes.
One lesson I learned this year as a newbie consultant: there is a heck of a lot of dynamic range in that top bucket. It's like software: even if everyone you know pays $5 or $10 or $30 for software, don't necessarily let that set your expectations, because software can get arbitrarily expensive.
If Dropbox has picture viewer, why can't it have audio player?
I agree, up to the point where market imperfections come into play like externalities, "public liabilities" (i.e. opposite of public goods), etc.

The question is, is there an externality (negative) to entrepreneurship? Does it help relieve some public liabilities?
It keeps me awake every night. We submitted on Feb 15th... It's amazing how much changes over the course of a month.
I found that I had been undercharging for the past few years when quoting projects. While my hourly rate had been fine (around $75 for design, $100 for programming), my estimation of how many hours a project would take was always way off. I guess the assumption I made was "no one would pay a lot of money for a website," and so I typically got tedious lower-end clients that were much more work than they were worth.

The last few projects I've gotten average to about $7k each and are about 1-2 months in duration. The highest I've gotten is $10k for a 2 month design and development gig, working very casually over that time (enough time to work on other projects freely). I'm now learning that people are willing to pay for high quality work and consistent/reliable communication.
The open access publishers like PLoS also have publication charges. The fact is that properly reviewed and edited journals do add value, producing journals costs money, and at some point, somebody has to pay.
Damn, you're right. I'd played around with Cloud Player a bit last night in Safari/Mac, but I guess I never let it play two songs in a row. I just tried to play an album and it stopped after the first song.
We really need to dimensionalize this information. For example, what is the hours invested to any one project, and what is the skill level of work involved?
I usually charge $75-$100 an hour for .NET development (in the midwest).
Or if you have employees...
Hi, I'm a member of the mobile Firefox team at Mozilla.

Building for ARMv7-only lets us use the Thumb-2 instruction set, which results in code that is smaller, faster, and uses less memory.

We used to have ARMv6 builds available, but at this point the browser is not really optimized enough to run well on older (or low-end) devices. And since we were not actively testing or supporting those builds, the code now has some crashing bugs (probably related to the JavaScript JIT) that show up only on ARMv6 builds. Without fixing those bugs, you can't actually run Firefox on ARMv6.

We continue to reduce memory and CPU usage, and if it it gets good enough to support these devices then we might start working on it for a future version.
It might be more cost effective to have the robots install mosquito netting.
How do you know your skills are good enough to take on a $XXXX project? I've never done freelance work, but I would love to start doing some work after school and earn a few bucks along the way.
The challenge with a group for startup founders is that it's a very heterogeneous group, and there is little to "qualify" members (I don't think invites will cut it)

On the other hand, something like Forrst for developers and designers is for a group that is more likely to have some more commonality which is useful in creating a community.

One thought is to do this vertically. So for me as an example, I'd love to connect with founders of B2B information services. Yes, that maybe too niche, but I have a lot more in common with those founders than a mobile gaming company founder.

Look forward to seeing how this evolves. Good luck.
Thanks very much for the straight dope!
What's misleading about them?

Please feel free to reproduce on your own. The source is on github. See the blog post for github links.
Somebody has to pay, but does everyone have to pay?
I've also thought about this a few times. It's a pity that the SCID (Source Code in Database) paradigm never really caught on. It would make things such as representing the same code with different syntax (depending on user preference) possible. It also makes refactoring/renaming easy as names are only stored in one place, the rest refers to the same 'entity'.
And you're right, best practices for data formats are applied everywhere except for code. After all, we're now in 2011 and still using old-fashioned text files.
The source is now on github. See the blog post for github links.
The source is now on github. See the links at the top of the blog post.
Thanks for the information. I had not realised that. There are still plenty of other measure that Ryanair could use, of course, in the case where there was no Referer: header, such putting some unique (and constantly changing) id into a cookie such that links from another site wouldn't have the correct id. As other have suggested, perhaps they are perfectly happy with most deep links into their site, just not from certain sites such as price comparison sites. Far be it from me to speculate about such things, of course.