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Thanks for the update. Good to know that truecrypt doesn't run on OpenVZ, I didn't realise that was a short fall of OpenVZ.
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Good advice on the "counter offer". The trust is broken, and the working environment can never be the same again. It is like living with your ex after you have broken up.
HTML5 is more analogous to NeWS because it executes on the client http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeWS

NeWS was architecturally similar to what is now called AJAX, except that NeWS:
- used PostScript code instead of JavaScript for programming.
- used PostScript graphics instead of DHTML/CSS for rendering.
- used PostScript data instead of XML/JSON for data representation.
Ask HN: How long should a beta signup last?
I watch this new trend to launch a beta signup page before the actual launch of the product and I wonder if they follow any rule regarding how long is this period.

Is simple until the product isn't ready or is some marketing behind? Do they wait until they have a number of signups? Is there an optimal fixed duration?
I understand their reasons for doing this, and I appreciate their transparency... but the way raspberry pi has gone about selling their product is frustrating. I just want to hand over my money and get one as soon as I can possible have one. I don't want to keep having to check back and sign up for mailing lists and register my interest etc. etc. etc.

The sooner I can place an order and have my credit card charged, the sooner I can stop thinking about it and be pleasantly surprised when it arrives on my doorstep.
That's kind of the point. You really have to ask Mr. C what he thinks. It might not be that hard(1) to carry a wifi in your pocket and a nice deal to get an extra $20 for doing it.

Even still, lots of people choose freely to work for less than the minimum wage. They work on startups.

(1) Not as hard as one of these job things anyway.
The last few permanent contracts I've had have had a clause that said the company I was joining would own any work that I do inside or outside of office hours. It's never specific as to what this work is, or who it's for.

I've always made sure it's been changed to only work done in the office, unless it's a specific project for them that I'm doing at home. Moreso, I've always had it noted that some stuff I've written in my own time will be used for them at work.

IANAL, I have no idea where my legal rights stand, but it made me feel a bit better, just in case. It's never been an issue, though.
People who are supposed to make decisions on choosing technology are not going to think that way.

There are better things to worry than to maintain two parallel versions of the same code supposed to run on two different versions of Python.

Its either going to be one of them or some other language.
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If Paypal was taking, say, 0.2% commissions, I could understand this attitude. At close to 4%, they need to man up and pay for experienced CS reps with discretion to put things right when their systems slam down on someone who isn't actually running a Nigerian ponzi scheme.
Programming challenge should be programming chanllenge rather than the math one?
How do you think about this questions?
Same here. But it is not for many people (e.g. my dad, who's now reconnecting to his old friends over Facebook).

More importantly, however, there is the increasing importance of social networking w/r/t revolutions.
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To be precise, print is now a function instead of a statement. It has not been taken away. Just add parenthesis.

The string formatting syntax did indeed change, but the new syntax is just as "quick" as the old one, just different (see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/517355/string-formatting-...).
I'm so glad you point this out since I think this is the only validly useful feature of Bitcoin. BC has its own problems but it's pretty awesome that transaction costs are nil.
If you know that you are very likely going to launch and have a way to communicate the pitch - open up for a beta signup.

Launch as soon as user can experience the pitch message.

The time between these two is unknown and I guess would make sense not to set a concrete launch date. The sooner the user gets hands on it the better.
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Just curious, wouldn't a place that needs parking meters already be on the grid? Assuming we use parking meters to earn back the costs of building the parking lot or to stimulate the use of other forms of transportation than a car in that area.

On the other hand, having autonomous off-the-grid parking meters might be easier to install and maintain by a third party. Plus it allows you to start growing parking meters everywhere, even in the middle of nowhere. Let them pay!
Well, that makes sense, doesn't it? Not in relation to prehistoric programming languages, but in relation to humans. I'd imagine it's hard to think about programming language without comparing it to others... but try it. Why would 5/2 be 2 and not 2.5? That being said, you can (still) use //.
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I think it very much depends on the product. A common way to use a beta-signup (as we've been doing at Pwinty) is to find some inital users who you can get using your service before you have completed all the sign-up, billing pages etc, and while things may still be a little flaky.

This can be really useful for working out if you are missing key features, or for getting ideas for future direction of the product.

Maybe the best use of a beta/coming-soon page though is to try and get an idea of the market size. Pretty much the first thing I do when I have a new product idea is to slap up a basic signup page, and spend a bit of money on Adwords to get an idea of whether this is something people want or not.

This also lets you get a feel for how much customers will cost you to acquire (through Adwords at least) which can feed into your business/cash-flow planning.

It also allows you to get your page indexed and ranked by Google, meaning you'll have an easier time of it when you start trying to drive organic traffic to your site when you launch.
"It's a totalitarian hit-them-with-a-hammer approach that truly needs to end."

In my mind, this behaviour can be explained as the one of a monopoly. PayPal is probably a great service in the vast majority of cases, but the behave unacceptably in a number of exceptions. And it would not even be very hard to solve, because it seems to be mostly about process, transparency and communication.

This is quite similar to the treatment you get from many government services, which happen to be organized monopolistically as well.

Once there is a true choice for these basic services like text ads, auctions and online payment, this would likely end quite quickly.

There is probably something in the structure of these businesses that makes them come pretty close to natural monopolies. Maybe internet users should actively start to pick always the second biggest provider for everything in this space. But I would not be able to tell you a name for payment service and auctions site that was to fit that description.
There is a definition of copyright and the question is whether that definition can be said to apply to digital.
I too have had issues with Paypal, albeit it was just an account used for eBay purchases. Someone sent me some money, that person was somehow related to some fraudulent transaction so my account got blocked. They then wanted lots of ID and proof of my purchases for my sales... well I had only sold one old mobile phone on ebay... they repeatedly asked for this until someone with 2 brain cells had the bright idea to look up my sales history, and then they blocked my account anyway!

I try not to buy of ebay or use paypal now (it wasn't difficult to open a another account - different card/address), I would rather pay a little more and buy off Amazon who in my experience have the best customer service I have ever experienced.
If some unusual activity triggers a warning, I don't mind PayPal putting an account up for review in order to keep the system safe. But they should do it quickly and provide some way for the account owner to see what's going on instead of just freezing the funds and going radio silent.

I'm sure one reason they move so slowly is to give everybody involved enough time to notice if money is missing and fraud has occurred. In which case PayPal will still have the money to issue a refund. I do appreciate that as a buyer. But as a seller, the way they're handing it can be disastrous for a business that is relying on their service.
Absolutely agree. I was playing with a BBC Micro last night, 2Mhz processor and 52k RAM (shadow RAM card fitted, and 16k sideways RAM - this is a beast of a machine!). Then I did some stuff on my 2x2.4Ghz, 4G RAM Mac, and I almost punched the damn thing in frustration, 2000x "faster" and it can't even keep up with my typing!

We need to take it back to the old skool.
Covered just a few paragraphs later:

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Fun fact: Texas spends the least money on mental health funding of all 50 states.

I live in Austin. We see these people every day on the streets, and some have actually become local celebrities--Leslie, for instance, who just passed away http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Cochran . SXSW visitors should face these people, too, in my opinion, because these homeless folks are as much a part of the city as anyone/anything else is. I would venture to say these homeless folks are much more a part of the city than many of the privileged people who work here and choose to commute from the 'burbs, then whine about the homeless population and traffic in the city.

Yes, the wording is bad, these people are not literally hotspots. However, in a state that believes so strongly in "pulling yourself up by your bootstraps" which, taken in the literal sense, is physically impossible and thus a terrible metaphor, these people could use any help they can get.
Wallet encryption only goes so far.
For a start it's probably in main memory when the program is running, secondly you need to put the key in every time you start the bitcoind, how many lazy admins put the key in the startup script?
Because int/float conversions are not free! It is hidden, hard-to-reason-about computation that now, you have to explicitly look for.
> the increasing importance of social networking w/r/t revolutions

And I thought the revolution in Egypt only happened when they turned the Internet off so everybody had to actually go outside to see what was going on...

Seriously though, the "importance w/r/t revolutions" is not something independently quantified, is it?
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Privacy and free data / data portability are in tension. If we're friends on Facebook, you decide to switch to Google+, you import all your friendships/etc from Facebook onto Google+, isn't that an invasion of my privacy (disclosing information about me to Google+)?

The free software movement doesn't have this inbuilt tension.
Do we need to mark all CSS related articles as such in the title or link domain? No. For bitcoin, I do not use them, but the social and legal implications of a money or a way to transfer money between two parties without the ability for a centralized organisation to control this transfer are enormous. Just because of this, I like to read about bitcoins on a regular basis.

At the moment, I guess, we have maybe 1 or 2 articles a week making the front-page, fairly acceptable.
I am pleasantly surprised that this didn't turn out to be an unexpected price increase.
They do but the larger governments tend to do worse. I suggest ypu take a look at the economic freedom index.
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I wonder if US Congressional action would solve this? There are other options in the USA instead of PayPal, but outside the USA PayPal is sometimes the only option (if it's available at all, I wonder what Africans will tell you about PayPal). So in the USA, there is starting to be a force to make online payments better. But not outside USA. So if the USA brings in some law, will PayPal, the Luxembrugish bank, have to abide by it? Probably not.

But then, how do we fix this?
Create scarcity by limiting the amount of beta invites available apposed to a setting a fixed time period.
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> the way raspberry pi has gone about selling their product is frustrating

Would you rather they not let anyone buy them until they had more than enough to sell to absolutely everyone who might want one?

Or is there a third option that they should have taken?
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Begging on the street certainly isn't.

The dichotomy here isn't between "Be a Wi-Fi antenna" or "Be a respectable middle-class office worker"; it's "Be a Wi-Fi antenna" or "Be a homeless person without the Wi-Fi antenna income".
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Ask HN: Software/Resources for Freelancers
Hi HN,

tl;dr - Starting a new freelance business, need help on how to run it. This is a long post, but I hope it helps people in the future. It might also spur a few startup ideas; if so, have at them!

I'm starting a new software freelance shop. I don't know much about running a small business, and I've run into lots problems that I hope have software solutions. I'll list my problems, and I hope I can use the collective wisdom of HN to discover which software products I should be using. I made this one post instead of a few because I'm hoping some solutions will solve several of the problems at once.

The problems

============

Background:
We are a team of 3. At any given time, we'll be doing a few things:
* Checking new leads for projects.

* Working on existing projects. Sometimes hourly, sometimes bulk pricing.

* Giving pricing estimates for new projects, negotiating new deals.

Problem 1 - I'd love a tool that helps me understand/visualize which projects the team is working on, how many projects we have coming in, how much time is being taken on each project, who is working on what, what's our capacity for more projects, etc.

Problem 2 - Time-tracking and bookkeeping. I use a bookkeeper, who gets receipts and invoices at the end of each month, and prepares reports and does taxes (is this standard?). What I need is a way to track what charges I have per customer. (As far as I understand, I don't need something like Quickbooks, because the bookkeeper handles that for me.)

I actually have a few ways of working - either hourly, or bulk per project. Some clients also prefer that we use their pet time-tracking tool. And for all clients, I might have to charge the one-off fees for expenses (purchasing a theme, for example).

So, I need a tool that lets me track what to charge each customer. Preferably, it will also be the same as my time-tracking tool, just to make things easier. But that's not a necessity.

Problem 3 - CRM? I have a lot of communication with a lot of potential customers. Right now, I have a Trello board for the various people I'm talking to, but this is probably less than optimal. What do people use to manage these projects? Preferably, I should be able to tell at a glance what's going on with each potential customer that we're in negotiations with (since no team member does every negotiation). This is related to problem 1.

Problem 4 - What am I missing? If anyone has any recommendations for resources to learn about running a freelance company (good blogs, books, etc), I'd appreciate that too. I'm sure I'm missing a lot.

Thanks to anyone that made it through this post, and definitely thanks to anyone who gives me ideas!
I think it depends on the product - you need to be careful not to just annoy people so they go and find some other solution to their problem!
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I see.. associating with a referrals program that would reward those who bring more users to signing up.
Even as a fledgling Python coder, I found this distinctly unenlightening. But, as a biologist, the part that really bugged me were the functions that regard yeast as invertebrate animals.
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It's an extremely poor redesign, there's dozens of examples that could be picked apart, like the way that when you're reading an email in your Inbox, the "spam" and "delete" icons are icons, but when you read an email in your Spam folder, they're replaced with text descriptions of "Not Spam" and "Delete Forever".

The change between the 2 concepts should surely have told someone that the icons simply didn't work on their own - nobody knows what the "spam" icon means without a text popup when you hover over it.
The other option would be directly selling them themselves, instead of being at the mercy of a few existing retailers.

I'm not sure that would go smoother, but at least you wouldn't have to go to each retailer and sign up for their lists or having to check their sites which one will get a new batch first.

(EDIT: I'm not saying I would think that's a good idea, but I think that's what the GP meant)
Thanks for your insight. The idea of using an initial batch of users to do some kind of acceptance testing is a really nice idea.
<i>Of course, this is no different than if a studio makes bad films that people simply don't want to see, but that doesn't mean that we should have laws saying that movie-goers must pay to support all those people working on the bad films.</i><br>
No-one is proposing such law. Bad studios making bad movies with bad coworkers go out of business. However, I fail to see how this is "no different" from good studios making good movies with good coworkers going out of business because they cannot reap the rewards of their investment.
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<i>I think the financial reward you deserve is equal to the amount of money your customers are willing to pay you.</i>
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This is the law of supply and demand reformulated. Question is if people that copy or download movies without paying for it can be considered customers.
It looks like the trade-off is peripherals: the M0+ (as far as I can tell) doesn't have the goodies a generic PIC at the same price-point does.
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When did you ever win an argument once you've offended the other party?

I've offended plenty of people, and I can't recall ever winning an argument against them afterwards - at that point, things like facts and customer benefits are irrelevant, and it simply becomes about not letting the other person "win".
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What surprises me is that they consider low fertility rate a problem. There are plenty of people from other countries that would be willing to work in Western countries with low fertility rate.

If fertility rates are below replacement level, then let them be and let immigrants from a third world country work in their place. There are plenty of people in this world already.
Yeah. A bit disappointing. Its been weeks since the launch, and the only thing I can do is register my interest in a product that, even when available here in the USA is coming very close to being double the magic $25 I was hoping for(1).

I somewhat infamously predicted last December that if the RasPi had trouble shipping and didn't deliver on the crazy low price that made it nearly disposable that the magic could be lost.

It seems to me that they are one "Beaglebone" clone (shaving an Andy Jackson off the price) away from irrelevance. In many ways, the 'bone is already way ahead with "cape" addons and a vibrant community.

Now is the time for the foundation to fight relentlessly for their core principles. Cheap, open, available. I want to believe.

(1) I am aware that only B is for sale and the $25 is for A which should become available at some point.
Funny, in my head the meaning of those was always inverted:

- via, means which way you passed "through" before getting the information. It's the site/blog/curator that sent you to the original…

- source, is the source of the information on the internet. Sometimes information comes from non-public press statements, real world interviews, or other media. But the website that publishes the information, is IMHO the one deserving the "source" link (and the only one to which we can effectively link).
Replying to myself: judging by the Freescale chips out there, the peripherals will probably get added by IP integrators. Should be interesting.
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Wow. Let's have government bureaucrats control not only how we use the Net, but also when we can use our appliances!

Why not just use nuclear to produce abundant energy?
I don't care about privacy, but I hate to register and give out my email address if I don't feel it's absolutely necessary to use the product (and if it is, then only if I need the product will I register).

I'm not sure why I hate registering so much (yet another password to remember (or the risk of using the same password on all websites)? or is it completely irrational?) -- but I do, and I guess I'm not the only one.
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Well, the way it's done now, once evertyhing gets rolling there'll be enough Pi's for everyone. I can appreciate using experienced distributors instead of potentially facing much larger problems and delays. I agree it's not the smoothest of launches but from what I hear it's not much easier to get your hands on a new Apple device..
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