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Ask HN: Freelancing
Do you know of good places to find work that aren't flooded with people from india willing to work for $5 a day?

I'm in need of a healthy quantity of work-from-home.
Frankly, I didn't get the joke
If you don't want to leave firefox for a second you could try the stealther addon until 3.1 comes out.
A 1-on-1 clone of GMail, but installable on any webserver. I love the GMail interface but I hate to have my mail on their servers for obvious reasons. Same goes for Reader, Calendar and Docs.
I'll be there at Proto.in

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don't rely on the internet for finding clients. the good jobs are either never advertised through the regular channels or don't stay up for long if they are.
Three weeks is about 13 days longer than it took for version 1.0 of my side project, for what it is worth. (Counting program, website, accounts, etc.)

I think that was probably my most productive workweek in my entire life, and it was only about 50 hours, too. (50 hours on top of the day job, which left me pretty freaking wrecked. Then again compared to some of the startups I read about I feel like I'm either a pitiful excuse for a founder or, in the alternative, merely sane.)

[I tried to roughly the same thing this summer, and get a new project out the door in 30 days. Now that was a serving of humble pie.]
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True, convoluted text is much better than the outright hostility present on Reddit.

I thought people used "tl;dr" mostly because dismissing things is so much fun, not because they'd be willing to read a shortened version.
so you essentially comment on the URL? That is, any URL can have comments?
do you have "show dead" enabled in your profile?
I feel for the employees. It's a "company" - a collection of people - and other than pointing out that she hasnt met payroll at the beginning, I don't see any evidence of consideration for her staff.
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A good point by point comparison.

Other sources indicate that this phone could be very attractive to developers. At the right price it should go down very well with consumers.

Now what is Google going to do with Android to respond to this?
great apps = great revenue, whodathunk it :)

they started off wobbly but they're going from strength to strength now.
Well you have japanese or french companies where they make your work a nightmare until you quit (supposing you're a seishain or have a cdi). The possibilities are endless, you can give them very uninterresting and boring work to do or give them an extremely cramped space that is too small to work...

Or you can do what my old company did (but to be fair they didn't have much of a choice it seems) and just ask all employees to cut their salary in half or quit (glad I quit a few month before that....)

Or, you can just decide that after all living in a country were firing is not too difficult provides more benefits than problems and that being fired is not much more damaging psychologically than being pressured to quit because they can't fire you.
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something that takes my last.fm played feed and outputs a feed of new album releases I would like.

really last.fm should do this.
I'd be interested to see the results if they compared hosted email to a full feature (message previews, column views, etc) mail service.

Users who have these features aren't about to give them back.
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A SLIME* for Python, Perl or Ruby (http://common-lisp.net/project/slime/).

All of these languages have a powerful reflection/meta programming facility (yes, Perl included). So technically, something like could be implemented:

1) The server (using Twisted in Python or POE in Perl) listens for requests. Requests are for objects.

2) The server looks at the request, serializes it into a s-exp describing the state of the object sent to it.

3) Emacs then looks at the s-exp and decides what to do with the object initially looked at (suggest a method to complete/use on? highlights it red if it's wrong? bring up HTML formated documentation, etc...)
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An eco-friendly version of Seinfeld Calendar done in Google Spreadsheets.
Some kind of GPS-based app for a mobile device that works out how you get to and from work and tries and puts you in touch with others who work closeby and the hours that you do for the sake of carpooling.

Using your phone to reduce carbon emissions.
Yes, although they are a minority.
I'd agree. My first job out of college was for a retail technology start up and within 18 months we turning over 60M Euro (though margin for us was <3%). I started as the first tech person in the company and I was working pretty much every waking moment and within that 18 month period I was managing a couple of developers, a couple of sys. admin and an analyst. After four years I left, without having established a solid dev. background and still too inexperienced to get another senior position.
I really like the look of this, great comparison...only thing I would like to see is what they are going to make of the battery.

In the past I have always had palms, but now I'm sticking with Apple (its just where I would prefer to settle really). This is bringing some much needed competition into the fold. The UI looks amazing too.
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Short answer is no.

What's odd is that Palm is essentially leaving quite a few good customers behind (that is, companies that develop software for the T|X and use it for a specific taks--yes the PDA is mostly dead as personal device). Say what you will about the T|X, but for many applications, it is perfect: it is mobile, software can "take over" the device, turning it into a single purpose machine, and it's unlikely to find its way into a user's pocket at the end of us (who wants a T|X?).

My employer is one who is being left behind, and we've had to move to Windows to find a replacement. Smart phones are tempting, but we know that many won't make it back at the end of their use.
I love that idea. I'd use it.
Very interesting. It just might be my next smartphone.

I also like the idea of a new AppStore to compete with Apple.

How does app development work for PalmOS? Anybody have experience? Is there a windows-based emulator and SDK? Anybody have a link(s)?
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I firmly disagree.

If you hate bad/incorrect, then you will have to hate yourself most of the time, because you are a fallible human just like everyone else. And hate is not a very good motivator. If you hate yourself when you are wrong, it is much easier to just not seek the truth in the first place.

Accepting that mistakes are a huge part of life, and striving to get better every time, is a much better approach.
A first-aid application for e.g. iPhone which shouts at me what to do when finding an unconscious person. With clear voice and pictures that I can even understand if my head's in "omg omg he's dying what to do what to do" mode.

(Perhaps such an app exists; I'm too far away from an iTunes-capable computer right now to check.)
Ad exploder. An add-in for FF and IE that lets you "explode" ads by clicking on them, complete with sound effects and animation (or not). After you explode the ad, you'll never see any more material in that spot again.

I don't just want to not see ads, I want something with some visceral action, something to make the ads not want to come back! -- ie, something fun.
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Day 11: Think about how you're going to get paid.

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Please Suggest a weekend electronics project
I am tired of spending my weekends watching serials, movies and playing games and I want a break from work.

I was thinking that a two-day electronics project would be an ideal way to spend the weekend. I have built some robots before (http://www.beamindia.net) and have some fundamental electronics knowledge, soldering skills etc. A robotics project more complicated than the last robot I built (was a long time ago) would be time consuming and I don't want to do a smaller robot either.

So I need something simple enough to be done in 2 days and not a robot. I don't to buy any DIY kits either. Any suggestions? Thanks.
A database of MAC addresses of stolen equipment. Participants install a client which listens for the MAC addresses of all computers in the local network, alerting the participant that the new possessor of a stolen MacBook Pro 15", 2006 edition, two deep scratches on the lid, seems to be nearby.

Of course, you'd have to find a way of guarding against malicious entries.
I love the logo

I got an SSL error when I signed up, looks extra scary in Firefox.

It wasn't obvious how to make a coupon in the admin area, maybe it should be a tab as well as a link?

The themes are awesome, but make the preview open in a new window

If you simply made the currency logo user selectable you'd instantly increase your possible audience from USA to everywhere. I'm UK based.

Clicking "edit" on themes does nada. When creating a new theme add some advice for the user - not too distracting, remember there is text overlay, what size? what image type?

Maybe allow me to change the colour/font of the text?

overall - this is awesome. I'd use it (if above tweaks were made and GBP currency) # my mother runs an online/in store retail biz.
Looking at the sound formats it plays, why does it not include OGG? I mean, aside from "not knowing about it" I can see no reason to not put it in your feature set.
Here's one I spent a month researching last year and couldn't find a partner -- a virtual commodities exchange. An online commodities market for WoW gold, HotOrNot flowers, anything else that only exists in virtual reality.

This would be complete with futures trading and derivatives.

(Lots of other details required to make it work. Email me if you'd like to hear more)
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Isn't this basically what Myspace is doing?
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Just a thought, have you tried www.dabbleboard.com? It might be what you're looking for to do your diagraming.

Otherwise, Viso has a steeper learning curve, but probably has more tools for what you're doing. I know it's expensive to buy, but with a Bizspark membership (get sponsored and only pay $100 after 3 years) it's free for the downloading along with your MSDN membership.
In the current and former version of PalmOS, they've always had Windows based hardware (em|sim)ulators and a decent SDK (I used to develop software for old PalmOS 3.5 and 4.0). Natively, the languages they were written in were C and C++, though, there've been some scripting platforms written for PalmOS in the past.

With the new Palm WebOS, supposedly it's supposed to be Javascript, CSS, and HTML (though not sure how that translates into certain things like opening sockets and whatnot).

I've always been pretty impressed with Palm's Developer Network.
That's a pretty cool idea, but aren't you better off calling 911 or your local equivalent? What about liability issues? What about responsiveness? This thing needs to be fast and non-intrusive !

I was in a (non-life-threatening) accident last week and I can think of a couple of useful first-aid pointers lots of people overlook, like:

* so what is the local emergency number? (based on GPS position)
* "let's give him something to drink to comfort him ..." (Don't !)

Basically a decision tree to help people with basic first aid. These protocols exist in the first aid world.
Twitter is more like XMPP than IRC.
At Soup we use Jabber in a similar way: A group chatroom that everyone hangs out in, and a bot (based on Whistle: http://whistle.rubyforge.org ) that notifies us of GetSatisfaction requests, emails, commits & deploys and user signups (in batches, to not be too spammy).
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Are you serious? Talk about having a fun idea and then totally dropping the ball.
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If you don't see what's interesting about a single guy, on his own, terrorizing an entire industry, I guess no amount of explaining will change your mind.

I personally find PoF to be very interesting. It shows what kind of success can be had without reaching for super intelligent, insanely great, SUPER INNOVATIVE, whatever blah blah blah products.

Determine what people want. Give it to them. Is this not an excellent case study?

I think a lot more people on HN would have the financial success they want if they'd focus less on "pushing the envelope" and more on "shipping something people will actually give a shit about."

Which, to wit, does not involve social bookmarking, or yet another online calendar.
A big problem with OpenID: phishing
I would like to have something that monitors my plants and alerts me if they need water (in step 2, maybe even water them by itself).

I don't know enough about what plants need and how to measure their situation, though. But there is a "twittering plants" project already.

Apparently it uses this: http://www.botanicalls.com/
We use jabber for much of the same, find it quite strange that xmpp is not more widely used than it is, but can see that changing soon
Boyer-Moore is far from non-obvious. I remember having the same basic idea when I was a kid, when I was programming on the C64 and before I had access to the internet or decent programming books. The details - e.g. jump distances based on whether and where the characters occur in the search string etc. - come up in trying to create a working implementation.
Does anyone know who is responsible for this idea & campaign? I'd like to work with them.
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> If you hate bad/incorrect, then you will have to hate yourself most of the time

Look at it this way (Depending on your background, you may need to read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utility to understand the nature of my argument):

There is a utilty to you of person P doing behavior B. Let's call this utility function U(P, B)

You strive to maximize U, i.e. low U - hate; high U - love. And when U is flat you are indifferent.

If you are making hiring/firing decisions, you get to maximize U in the first argument, so your hate/love of good/bad behaviors can translates into preferences of persons (i.e. hires)

However, when looking at your own actions, you don't get to maximize U in the first argument, and so your hate/love of bad/good does not translate into self-loathing. "Self" is just not part of the equation there.

See how it's much clearer when you think of it mathematically?

> Accepting that mistakes are a huge part of life,
> and striving to get better every time,
> is a much better approach.

If you are indifferent about failures (your utility function is flat), where would the striving come from?
Or when you are doing this use Safari's Private Browsing so that whatever cookies are added get removed automatically.
How about a proxy server I can use to block or partially block sites for myself? (Procrastination preventer) Since I'm not administering a corporate WAN, this should be lightweight and simple to use. It should let me set everything with a GUI. It should present the top 10 sites I visit as a list and let me block each with a click. The parital block feature can limit my use to 15 minute blocks or something like that.
sole proprietorship?
That would make it more compatible to the American metabolism.
Sorry but 99% of the user don't even know what OGG is.
The same people who do the I'm a PC campaign. You know, the one that has a bunch of paid actors all saying "I'm a PC" but doesn't show any machines doing anything.
One of the main reasons IMHO is that it's a ridiculously over complicated horrible badly designed hideous protocol, which was designed by committee rather than organically grown.

Writing a bot for XMPP isn't a simple matter of sending a few plain text commands. It's an absolute nightmare. It's so verbose and overcomplicated it's just not funny any more.

(I'm currently working on XMPP support in Mibbit, and writing the protocol lib myself so the pain is still raw).
the protocol is certainly verbose, but it isnt very complicated. the verboseness comes with a lot of extra functionality
as a consumer, this looks good. As a mobile developer: f@ck, yet another platform to support!!!

I hope supports the android platform (Dalvik and all, on top of their OS), in the future for native apps, in addition to the current web app framework it has. It would be very competitive to iPhone.
I've always wanted to see this in a Sphere-like way - I want to read HN's comments on random articles on BBC, for example, while I'm on BBC News. Or Read Reddit and Digg's comments in tabs beneath the original source article. I'd also like to be able to 'subscribe' to which communities' comments I'd be able to read.
I'd be inclined to agree except that anyone with your Amazon email/pass already has access to your public/secret keys. So, it's not much of a security hole since a person with your account details could simply log in and grab your keys.

Still, it would be nice if Amazon offered a "high security" option that didn't trust password authentication and couldn't re-give you your secret key. I probably wouldn't use it, but it's still a good thing to offer.
Interesting question. See "Why Wages Don't Fall During a Recession" by Truman F. Bewley. (Review at http://cowles.econ.yale.edu/books/bewley/tfb_wages.htm)

Short answer: Cutting compensation is feared as even worse for morale than firing.
I feel like the other german auction sites really missed a great marketing opportunity there.
IoL4 (http://www.iol4.com/) is an L4-based microkernel that boots into Io (http://www.iolanguage.com/), which is another language that looks rather interesting. I've never got the Io VM to build on OpenBSD/amd64, which rules it out for me, though.

I'd like to do that with a Forth or a Lisp one of these days, time permitting.
OMG a fake bone where you can insert a Wii-mote. Imagine the possibilities ;-)
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> SLIME* for Python, Perl or Ruby

I'm not entirely sure, but I think you might just have to implement a Swank server, and SLIME* would work without problems. It could be that you're forced to use s-expressions, but I doubt it.
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Not all ideas are easy to come by. For example, the idea of the Cathedral and the Bazaar and discovery of Linus's law is far from easy to come by. Only great thinkers are capable of generating such ideas.
This article, unfortunately, falls in the top right quadrant.

The insights are fairly dull and overly simplistic. The conclusions are not all that useful.
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"since the buckling spring"

I am the proud owner of an IBM Model M keyboard. Way superior to modern alternatives.
Global Tabbing - I have a lot of windows open (as do you all i'm sure) and i'd really to be able to bundle them into one tabbed window in a Firefox stylee.

Look at something like Coda (www.panic.com) and think instead of having all the apps built in to the app you just have a tabbed window container that you add app windows to that allows you to quickly switch from one to the other (eg. tabs for text editor,terminal,version control gui,ftp client, pdf viewer)
Best place to find clients is through friends, referrals and people you meet in the real world. Time to get networking.
I'm pretty sure there are 10 people on Facebook I only added because we had the benefit of going to the same high school without actually being friends in the first place, so sure why not. Less fluff on my Facebook account, and I get a free burger out of it.

Genius.
You could conceivably port Cappuccino to this.
What she does with her personal finances is largely irrelevant to her company's ability to make payroll.
You can live in NY on 15$ an hour. You need some roommates and you toss the car for public transport, but after that your cost of living is not that bad. Back in collage I shared my room with some random stranger and it was one of the best times of my life so sharing a room with someone is not the end times.
Mobile user experience done right
A writeup of an event we attended where some of the pitfalls of mobile design were outlined.
Of course, the phone should also dial 911 (or 112 if you're in most parts of Europe).

I like the idea of a decision tree. Big readable decision screens: "Does the person answer when spoken to? [YES NO]" etc.
> We’re a community of top Gen Y thought leaders

Wow! Me too! That's just so spooky. I also drive a bat mobile.
Yeah, Android is where it's at for me. Apple might be able to get away with a mostly closed platform, but I am not sure a smaller player like Palm can (even Nokia is opening Symbian). In any case, I'd prefer something open myself, and am not sure about the long term viability of niche closed platforms unless they really conquer some particular area.
Nappies (diapers) for babies that have a little pocket with a couple of wipes in it. Basically I want to be able to stuff a couple of nappies in by jacket pocket or bag and then when the baby needs changing I've got a fresh nappy and a couple of wipes.
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I have a hand scanner for barcodes that works fine with Amazon.com. It looks like a keyboard to my PC and so when I scan a barcode it simply 'types' the ISBN into the appropriate box on Amazon.
I think MS missed the mark on that campaign. I wanted them to go for the throat and poke fun at the perceived smugness/hipster attitude of Mac owners. Instead they took the high road ... disappointing.
This is the perfect time for a whole foods seller to piggyback on this great PR machine and get some publicity for themselves by doing exactly what you suggested.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_the_lucky_stiff He's right there, dork. :P
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Will probably take more than a few days, but it's what I've been desiring to build recently.
I can't wait. I sometimes switch to xp on virtualbox to use it as it's so much faster than firefox. It's not the raw speed, its the process per tab. It makes a huge difference when you have multiple heavy ajax apps open all day long.
Ever tried Zimbra?

http://www.zimbra.com/products/collaboration.html
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