skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't cover "pricing" in my post since it all varies based on your situation, your location, your skills, and the project itself. (crappy project/crappy client = ++rates).

I know a few YC founders that pay $70/hr - $80/hr for really great Rails devs, iOS devs, and front-end engineers that are not local to SF/PA (mid-west devs or southeast devs). I think the price for an experienced Rails freelancer in a big metro is around $100/hr - $125/hr.

On the design side, I have friends in DC, SF, and Chicago that are top notch visual designers and have worked on big "brand" sites, and depending on how busy they are, they'll charge anywhere from $75/hr - $80/hr. An art director I know will not go below $150/hr bc it's not worth his time to do more work outside of his day job.

But there are price inefficiencies everywhere, and if someone fresh out of college doesn't really understand how good of a designer they are or the going rates for freelancers, then you can find someone who's good for your MVP for $25/hr.

All of the above assumes you are pricing projects on a straight hourly rate (legalese = "Time & Material Rates").

Be warned that most small business owners will want firm-fixed pricing (ie - "I want a fully redesigned site for $a,000"). In that case, you'll need to figure how long it will take for you to complete the project, add a 10% - 15% buffer for client changes/indecision, and then settle on a firm-price of $x,000.
What kind of help are you looking for? What type of job is it?
This is interesting.

I'm afraid that this might turn into an outlet for people to bribe and be ok with it because they posted the experience here. By posting it, they may inadvertently be satisfied that they have 'done something about it' which is not true...

On the other hand, if some local organization can use this to come up to actually do something about it, then we're talking.

Suppose time will tell...do the people behind the site have a vision in mind?
First, I was inserting, so it would be ESC-up-V-something, and ESC requires my hand to leave the wrist rest. Problem is, I occasionally don't notice I'm inserting (or not), and as you pointed out above, that means that half my buffer is now screwed up and I have to shift mental gears to fix the damage. That alone is unforgivable.

Second, I hit Shift-Up-Ctrl-Left-(Release Shift)-C. I wasn't selecting the LINE, I was selecting the sentence, which ended in the middle of the line. And the keys are all grouped usefully AND ergonomically. Between the arrows, shift, control, home, and end, I can select characters, words, lines, here to the start of line (or buffer), here to the end of line (or buffer), and throw in insert and delete and I can copy, cut, and paste, as well. All using keys that are standard to almost every app on Windows (and Linux, for that matter). When it's that easy, why would I also feel the need to train for a completely different set of key strokes?

I was giving as an example how MOST of my finger key memory works even when in Chrome, and the same is true of almost any Windows application I'm in. I don't need two vastly different sets of keyboard skills depending on whether I'm programming or writing on HN.

When I AM in SlickEdit, I can hit 'up' 'ctrl-c' to copy the previous line (copy is set up to copy the current line when no text is selected). If I want to select lines like you did in vi, I can hit ctrl-l. A square block, ctrl-b. The current code block, shift-ctrl-]. Everything nice and mnemonic, and automatically "visual". But most importantly, no modes to remember, manage, or otherwise distract me from coding.

You can argue all day that one key press plus or minus doesn't make much difference. But some key combinations are well designed from a user interface perspective, and some less so -- and regardless of the merits of the design, using the one that works everywhere that ISN'T vi means you're that productive everywhere.

Where vim/gvim really falls short for me (beyond anti-ergonomic key bindings) is that I really want it to be an IDE, not just an editor. I can ask SlickEdit to open a file by typing a few characters of its name and then selecting it from a list of all files in the project that match. I can tell it to build and end up with a list of errors that I can jump to. I can ask for symbol cross-references throughout a project and it will find them. Even if it's a symbol like "init" that's defined in a C++ template; it might find a few it's not sure about, but mostly it can figure out what classes derived from that template and show me just that list, ignoring other functions called "init".

vi can do SOME of these things, but in general only if you jump through a lot of hoops to get it all set up. The last time I tried to configure "tagging" so I could get references, though, it completely failed with respect to templated classes. Maybe it's better now, but back then it worked in SlickEdit and not in vi.
Simon has been doing a ton of work behind the scenes getting a decent curriculum in place for computing in the UK, playing a major role in a group of educators tackling the issue. I would not be surprised if Michael's words were lifted directly from one of his reports :-)
As someone who loves vim I'm both surprised and curious that he mentions using vim to write .NET code

While I love vim, I can't imagine using it to write anything significant in .NET - the lack of auto completion and an integrated debugger is a deal killer for me. I'd love to hear the author, or anyone else, elaborate on what kind of setup they use for writing .NET code in vim (note that I already use the vim plugin for VS, I assume this isn't what the author is referring to though)
Apple Acquires Israel-Based Flash-Memory Part Maker Anobit
Apple's HDTV and the challenge of subscription programming
Teredo should give you IPv6 almost anywhere.
+1 to this, a lot has changed since this was written.
In case you haven't been paying attention for the past decade or so, "uploaders" are now the general population. Everyone uploads things.
Criminals will be criminals. They are responsible for their own actions. But if you're contributing to their coffers, you're only encouraging them. You don't even have to frame this in terms of morality. They're doing something you don't like. Do you want to help them or hinder them? Sometimes hindering them involves denying yourself. This is how boycotts work.
Do you have any ballpark numbers for wordpress hits day -> expected revenue from appifier?
Tumblr placed a banner at the top and it generated huge amounts of calls to local reps (I think over 12k?). I could see this happening on a much larger scale should Facebook and Google do the same and all without interrupting service.
Yes, but I'd bet that lots of real world cryptosystems have bugs in them that reduce their effective entropy to 84 bits or less.
Granted it's a press release and at this point it's all described as the greatest thing since sliced-bread and I have no idea whether any of that is true, but what is interesting is that they felt that there was enough of a Linux market to release for all three major OS players at the same time.
I don't have strong opinions either way on personalization. I have strong opinions on people trying to create an issue where there is none. There are a lot of news outlets and snooty bloggers who like to go around speaking for users. I haven't seem users complain about personalization. I've only seen "news" outlets and trying-real-hard-to-seem-important bloggers complaining and attributing their criticisms to all users. Maybe personalization is something to be concerned about or maybe not. Either way, if you make a good case then you can simply state your reasons without implying that all users agree with you and your point will still stand. When you attribute an opinion to an entire group when only a subset of that group or a minority of that group shares your opinion it only hurts your case even if it's a damn good case.
Sounds an awful lot like "too big to fail" rhetoric.
It depends on the government. In the end, the fundamental proposition is that you pay into an institution that offers physical protection.

I find it fascinating that:

1) That model of government traces its roots straight to Ancient Rome.

2) Organized crime has a long history of stepping in to fill the vacuum of legitimate government - sometimes to profoundly negative effect, sometimes in a benevolent way.
> Isn't their "higher efficiency" of waste disposal due to the fact they just dump it into the ocean rather than doing it properly?

That is the "lower prices" part. The higher efficiency is due to the fact that the other legally-run companies are often hindered in their daily tasks by these organisations. In the last few years Italy has seen: fake strikes organised by bribed union leaders, waste treatment plants accidentally burned, key managers being forced to resign over "personal matters"…

You do not need to be that more efficient if you can make the others much less efficient.
Google would have a lot more to lose than Facebook. Most of the posts on Facebook are not necessarily links etc... and even if the links were banned it wouldn't have that much of an effect on Facebook itself, other than people getting PO'd that the link they click on are decommissioned. Most people tend to be smart enough to realize this is not Facebook's fault.

Google on the other hand is almost exclusively driven by other content so having a sudden lack thereof would be far more detrimental.

Therefor I would be surely surprised if Facebook did something like this while I could every well see something happening on Google's side - although offsetting the money being poured in support of SOPA to counteract it would also go a long way to help.
I suggest asking for advice from the Software Freedom Law Center: http://www.softwarefreedom.org/ They specialize in this kind of thing.

As a point of ... trivia? ... Eben Moglen, the attorney that created the GPL along with Richard Stallman, directs and is a founder of SFLC.
I think a more important question to me is how much does the prefabricated parts already contain, as in does it make the construction complete.

Usually the walls, roof, windows and doors are fairly quick and easy to get in, the other half of the cost goes into the rest of the detail. This includes carpets, light fittings, plugs, plumbing, tiles, carpets, cupboards, curtain rails, kitchen bits, skirting boards, toilets, towel rails, etc. and all the labour involved in setting that all up.

I can see great potential gains in doing this off site in an assembly line type fashion instead of inside of a building.
I don't think it needs to completely dark, they would probably lose too much revenue to justify this... but why don't they black out the site with an overlay and a message "this is what would happen if SOPA becomes law, click here to find out more and contact your local member of congress" and then the user can close the message and continue as normal with the site. (This is screaming out for a jquery plugin!)

Obviously you could then just target markets and leave the rest of us free thinking robots to carry on as normal :)
OSGi: An Introduction
You can actually buy it right now, or download the trial. I haven't had a chance to see how well it works yet but I'm going to give it a look tonight after work.

http://www.corel.com/corel/product/index.jsp?pid=prod4670071
Interesting, does anyone know of something similar for Python? I have PyLint (I think?) and it points out errors as I type, it's great.
The word "native" jumped out at me. I wonder, for the target users you are aiming, if it's enough to say "...an iPhone app...". To me, it's the same feeling as "to kill a running app". It's common for tech people to say but doesn't have personal touch.
Enabling JMX in Hibernate, EhCache, Quartz, DBCP and Spring
Using Groovy - A soft introduction
Interesting idea, but can't get it to work. I created a test account and added 2 WordPress blogs to it: TechCrunch and the official Wordpress blog (http://wordpress.org/news/). Went through the steps, downloaded the sandbox app on my iPhone 4S and tried to preview them. App instantly crashes when loading both sites. Is it just that these blogs don't have the required JSON plugins (possible)? Or is it that they have too much content for Appifier to handle? Either way, an abrupt crash doesn't inspire confidence. Do you have any sample blogs we can try to test this with?
Have you run this past Apple with regards to their App Store approval policy? I'd be worried about clause 2.12:

"2.12 Apps that are not very useful, are simply web sites bundled as apps, or do not provide any lasting entertainment value may be rejected"
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Over the last year or two here on Hacker News I've seen several credulous, gee-whiz stories about China submitted from Singularity Hub.

http://singularityhub.com/tag/china/

I don't think that Singularity Hub, insofar as it curates stories at all, does a good job of curating stories about China. A lot of stories about China today, written by correspondents who don't know the Chinese language (as I do) and have contact with everyday people in China (as I do to a limited extent), read like stories about the United States housing market before the housing bubble collapsed in 2008. A minority of journalists knew from the beginning that the United States housing bubble was a bubble (I recall a Business Week story saying that way back in 2005), but lots of people kept saying that NOT investing in real estate was a chump move right up until the day before the market collapse in the United States.

Similarly, China's "progress" in building high-speed rail lines looked like an example to the world until a deadly crash

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2011/07/23/china-train-co...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43865656/ns/world_news-asia_paci...

http://www.economist.com/node/21525419

that has now prompted doubts about the program among Chinese government officials.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-12-28/china-punishes-54-o...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-16345592

Much of China's new construction in recent years is not affordable to most Chinese citizens, and the government there is wary of a housing market collapse.

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-01-10/china-may-ease-p...

The P.R.C. government is also wary of popular discontent with regard to other issues,

http://www.npr.org/2012/01/11/144994861/china-targets-entert...

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/story/2011-12-28/china-me...

and censors all mass media

http://www.cfr.org/china/media-censorship-china/p11515

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-15615952

to such a degree that I wouldn't bet on current press reports based on Chinese media sources giving the full story of conditions there.
CES: T-Mobile intros 42 Mbps Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G
In short, if Motorola didn’t think that Medfield was competitive, it wouldn’t have agreed to make a bunch of Medfield-powered phones and tablets.

Either that, or Intel paid it a bunch of money to make it worth their while.
Out with ICT and in with the British computing renaissance
Eh. If it's not Facebook, it'll be some dork from Anonymous releasing a bunch of data, including yours, that they hacked from ThinkGeek, because they're offended by the plush bonsai kitten.
Stop Looking for a Co-founder
Has anyone who's been hackernews'd done an analysis on the load numbers?

Back in the day there was http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot_effect#Notes_and_refer...
"they'll be pretty good at C unlike you"

Thanks for the code review of my last 23 years of work on C projects. Nice ego that your book must be the only way to learn this.

I mostly disagree with your statement about "most good C code" not using stdlib strings/apis.

To be fair, from your comments here, it looks like you aren't really saying that -- you are saying we have to be careful when using them. This I know, and carefully guard against, and I do try to break my code regularly. But to assert that "most good C code" doesn't use them fails to meet with my experience.

That said, _all_ bad C code (ab)uses them, probably due to carelessness and/or misunderstanding of how things work in C.
> publicly available a database of hashes for copyrighted content

What about "derived work"? It's relatively easy to make a "copy" that displays/plays the same but has a completely different hash. In fact, it's very difficult to get the same hash on a excerpt.

And then there's fair-use.
"Of course you got robbed, you left your doors unlocked!"

Yes! Exactly that! Except in the case of Facebook your negligence hurts your neighbors.
For what it's worth "sign-up and see" is an awful response to a potential user being confused about what your service does.

I think you should consider changing your landing page to make it explicit how you can help local businesses. That may mean removing some of the myriad of use cases you describe.

My $0.02, obviously feel free to ignore.
I have a similar story which I blogged about afterwards: http://hackerthings.com/blog/launch-week-from-48-hour-projec...

There should be a public Google doc that lists all of these "what HN did for me" articles.
It's true, people may think it's creepy. But there are other values provided by a search engine. A great majority of less IT-savy people types yahoo.com (or yahoo) into google. Or more IT-savy people use search engines to search for pages they have seen before.

We need to see beyond how a search engine is predominantly used by us more-technical folks and look at how real people use it.
Did you read the entire article? It says that the numbers were made with the actual number of man-months worked, but not everyone was on the project the entire time.
I'd seriously consider dusting off a RISC PC or late model Archimedes instead; ARM26 is a joy to work with compared to 6502 (at least for me) and the RISC OS system is quite beautiful to work with. Plus, I (perhaps naively) figure that there'll be plenty of ARM chips continuing to be shipped in devices where I can somehow get the thing to do what I want, whereas I'm not so sure the 6502 architecture would be so widely useful.
There is something about the progress bars (in the 'languages/syntax expertise levels' section) that just doesn't work visually. Actually it does work, but I just had to find one area for your improving it - as to offer some feedback.

Very clean and good job.
Ways that startups are trying to attack Facebook.
If you enjoyed this, you'll also probably like Hacker's Delight: http://www.hackersdelight.org/
This feels rather overblown to me.

Intel is entering a market. Agreed.

This will mean that ARM has to compete with them. Agreed.

This will be good for the consumer. Agreed.

And Intel will completely wipe the floor with the current market monopolist. Nope, sorry, you lost me there.

Sure, they _might_ be able to outflank ARM, but they haven't managed to do that so far, and ARM are the experts in this space. Intel have tried to outflank experts before, and their graphics processors don't seem to be the market leaders.
Exactly. If I take a photo with my lens cap on, that photo is not worth $2000, or whatever the price of my camera + computer works out to. It'll be damn near completely black.

Conversely, if a famous photographer took a beautiful photo with a disposable camera, you can bet it would be worth more than $15.

The entire premise is near-offensively wrong.
Ask HN: You have an awesome product/business idea. Now what?
I am sure many of us get awesome ideas for a new product or service that we think can change the world and make us millions. Whether its a new web app, mobile app, or new design on existing tangible product.<p>I come from a programming background so when i come up with a new concept for an app, i am fully capable of making it. I am fortunate to be able to take an idea and turn it into a usable app.
I wanted to get some feedback from those that had awesome ideas for a product, but lacked the technical skills or financial means to hire someone to make it.

were you able to take your idea and turn it into a real product?

assuming you found someone to help you make it, whether with a technical co-founder or you paid someone to make it for you, how long did it take you to finally find that person? any personal hardships you care to share that you experienced along the way?

what resources/local groups/meetups did you use to try to find people to work on the idea with you?

if you havent been able to make your idea into a reality, what is your road block? funding? not able to find a technical cofounder? have you tried to raise money to fund your idea? did you start to learn a new skill to build your product on your own?
Wikipedia redirects to "USB Flash Drive", the article has a section about naming, too (with names I've never heard).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usb_stick#Naming
My money is on the side that says they're too far in bed with politics to chance it.
Even without the $3k quoted elsewhere, the existing prices of SSD harddrives in a much larger form factor should be a good indicator that $3K could easily be on the low-end of pricing.
Enabling mobile payments
Why I think app success will be to support platforms, hardware and stores
This post breaks line-wrapping for the whole page.

I suspect that long string of italicized text is to blame.
Please remove the italics (which also make the words hard to read).
Google:

"If SOPA passes, the search you're about to enter wouldn't be possible."
btw, meetup already does this automatically on a topic basis. Your group only has one topic, hacking, so it will show up on the map at http://hacking.meetup.com. Likewise, you can see groups tagged with "hacker news" at http://hacker-news.meetup.com.

(disclosure: i work for meetup)
Those disclaimers are very standard. Assume any call you make to a company that isn't answered immediately by a human is being recorded.
These are cool, but how much is automatically done for you by the compiler? For example, if I changed all of my calls to min(x,y) with

r = y + ((x - y) & ((x - y) >> (sizeof(int) * CHAR_BIT - 1))); // min(x, y)

my code would quickly become unreadable. I could define a macro, but those are supposedly evil[1].

[1] http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq-lite/inline-functions.html#...
> just pop out of nowhere

That's how quantum computing works.
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