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SEEKING FREELANCER - REMOTE - MVP Prototyping - 3 days
Basic Design & Development

I'm looking get an MVP up and running over a weekend/3 days. Normally for personal projects I'd put something together myself however this is beyond my current skill set and my poorly written 'hack' won't cut it. I now need a solid base to demonstrate the initial concept to my potential customers to get feedback.

You'd be free to start from scratch & use your preferred technologies to develop a minimalistic group messaging web application & iOS app. In a nutshell - A user creates a group, invites other users via e-mail & all users within that group can post updates.

I'm super organised and very realistic with requirements.
I have the basic database structure sketched out, wireframes & copy written.

This would be an ideal project for a developer that can fit in some extra weekend work.

I will be working alongside you during the project, removing as many obstacles as I can. I can take on the simpler tasks which will help me learn and leave you free to work on the challenges.

I'm also interested in hearing from any UI/UX designers so that I can get some longer term design ideas & concepts mapped out.

If you are interested please send a link to your portfolio and an estimate for 24 hours of work (3x8hour days).

I'm my username on gmail.com

Thanks!
For those of you that are confused like I was for having never heard the phrase:

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Heres one perspective on how artists might choose channels

http://www.noisemademedoit.com/how-to-earn-money-with-music/...
Yes, but you don't fix it by shutting them all down and making people pay for something they could provide themselves. You make it free, 'cos it's the Olympics and people need to communicate freely.

ps. wasn't my downvote, I think they're useless

edit-- well it seems you removed the part of your comment that called out your down-voter and now i seem pedantic
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We'll remember to fix that.
Lol,

They are a natural segregator of novice and advanced users.

Yeah, they let that guy in the computer lab who "really knows Unix" show his stuff.

I remember encountering these dot-whatever files back in the day, how changing all the idiotic terminal settings depended on them and how remembering their names or interpreting their values was nearly impossible, and how the cool geeks of the lab had about six seconds of their time available to explain the situation.
Some folks do choose their television news source based on their own biases. It may not match your biases, as an educated, Internet-savvy, viewer...but you're not the norm. So, I can see how watching the mainstream television news could be useful as a tool for remaining in touch with what the majority is hearing and believing. I've been overhearing the news lately, as I'm staying with my folks for a few weeks to help out while my dad's sick, and I'm definitely getting a view of the world I hadn't seen in a while. I don't know that it is elevating my mind or spirit in any way, however.
I'd argue the fact YC is an American incubator also has a lot to do with who YC companies target. A lot of internet VC-backed startups don't particularly depend on their users spending money.
Hmmm... this would be great especially for cases where you have documentation that applies to multiple methods or classes.

Ofcourse, the devil is in the details of getting it right.
Microsoft might abandon it, but as a name for a certain visual style, I suspect "Metro" will live on. (Consider Ajax. Also a brand of cleaning products.) It's too distinctive a style to either lack a name or be tied to one product (like Windows 8).
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> Those radio frequencies he lists are all in the FM band, way below wi-fi.

Sorry to be nitpicky, but you probably meant UHF instead of FM. Either way you're right, and a stronger argument is that hundreds of people operating wifi hotspots would cause interference for the millions of cellphones (ever try to make a call at a music festival? get wifi at a networking conference?).
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Class, not the first time a company have publicly announced a product before launch, rolled with it for a year then then just before launch got pointed out there nicking somebody else's name. Metro is also a free newspaper in the UK, name of a subway system....

RIM had the same level of snafu recently as well with the whole BBX branding they went on about and then got told it was somebody elses.

Microsoft could just add another M infront and call it MMetro, but whatever they call it, it's putting a mobile phone interface onto a desktop, so what do they call it on there mobile platform?

ALso why did they pick Metro - what did it stand for Microsoft Enormous Tile Royalty Option(!) Meaningless Enviroment To Ride Obscurity(!) I don't know and I don't think they did either.

Still at least we have more faith in them testing thre software than we do there naming, don't we.
NPR is roughly middle of the pack for the left-leaning organizations.

Here is a well done statistical study on the subject (jump to the end for nifty charts):

http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/polisci/faculty/groseclose/Media....
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(The target article 404s, so I have no idea whether it discusses this)
I love the philosophy behind the annotated source for backbone. But, there seems to be something more going on with commenting - especially given that the content of the backbonejs.org homepage is different from that of the annotated source.

I guess the comments are meeting the needs of two different audiences (those looking at just the api and those looking ay the code).
Doesn't everyone create a fake account to not leak their real information?
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In that case, there's no reason to sign the comment. Signing adds very little here. It's entirely optional. It's a simple, objective description of what has been changed in the software, more like a footnote. However, if you are going to offer thoughts about what code, perhaps offer suggestions as to where things need to go, then signing is very important.

I really dislike seeing a comment that says "We OUGHT to X here" with no idea of who wrote it.

Also anything can be abused. Cautions about what sort of abuse to watch out for are very helpful.
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I think the best bit is that the international organisation for sporting achievement that is meant to encourage fitness and a drive for excellence has an official chip vendor.
http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/t3x0p/randroid_lets...

> I do find it odd that so many apps have this problem. It's trivially easy to get the proper location. Just call getExternalFilesDir() . Deletion at uninstall happens automatically. In fact, it's the ONLY way to make sure those files are deleted when you uninstall, because you can't run code at uninstallation.
A) Use something off the shelf. Simple and cheap is best when starting out so that you can focus on finding business.

B) Explain exactly why the customer should fill in the email. I don't like bribing the customer with some other unrelated thing, like a white paper because people who want the whitepaper just want the white paper. They might not be your actual customers. Instead I would honestly say (example) "Do you want awesome deals on physics and astronomy instruments? Well we're going to find deals for you and send an email every month."

C - Niche products need niche sales strategy. Find out where your customers spend time and figure out how you can get in to meet people. Explain what you can do for them and ask for an email on the spot.
Isn't that the best way to die? Not sure that mutual fund is worth that much in the afterlife.
Ask HN: What are the most successful "X for Y" companies?
I've been thinking about elevator pitches lately, which made me think about the classic "X for Y" pitch model, e.g. "It's AirBnB for Backpackers", or "It's the Facebook for Foodies."

Then I thought about the most successful tech companies from the last decade (e.g. Google, Facebook, Zynga, Groupon) and how I would would pitch them using the "X for Y" model. Maybe I'm not creative enough, but I don't think I can; none of the companies that come to mind were really a twist on an already popular company. Maybe "Facebook is the MySpace for college students," but that feels like an under-sell and it's almost certainly not the way they thought of it at the time.

So rather than trying to scrape Crunchbase, I'll just ask here. What's the empirical evidence for the quote at the beginning of this TC article (http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/05/will-airbnb-ever-be-the-airbnb-for-x/)?

"""
“If your company is ever used as the subject of the “X for Y” analogy, that’s success. AirBnB used to be the eBay for vacation rental. Now other companies are the Airbnb of things.”

– far33d, Hacker News
"""

So...what very successful companies (which I'll arbitrarily define as IPO or acquisition above $100mln) could have been effectively pitched (at the time) as "X for Y"?

(Also let's exclude foreign copycats, since I'm in the USA and don't feel like moving to Chile!)
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Any chance of allowing this to be used internationally?
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"15 people use this app"

This is basically chat between hn people. I don't think this is the place to create this kind of user base.
I'm a huge fan, but there is one big thing Musk might be wrong about: there's a substantial risk that his party-line views on CO2 will eventually look naive instead of visionary. I sincerely believe he's one of the good guys, though, so I hope history won't judge him too harshly for it. (Given HN's mostly party-line views on CO2, I hope I won't be judged too harshly for this comment.)
Everything I've seen points to iOS users being a) more likely to use apps/"smart phone capabilities" b) being willing to pay money for things c) interested in new technologies as they emerge. When you ae building a business that involves getting people to install your new app and somehow get money to you in the process, that makes for a much more attractive platform. Sheer number of handsets out there is just the tip of the iceberg (and is always a dubious number since many Android vendors report units shipped rather than units sold to end users, which is what Apple does)
So the example on your landing page where the user's school is disclosed is inaccurate?
Seems bogus to me. Most of the important radios are in low the UHF band (<600MHz).

(I happen to know this, since I was involved in the frequency assignments for the stage management system of the main stadium, and the company I work for delivered all the base stations pre-programmed.)
As a pixel artist, here’s my take on it:

You ought to choose a palette that is as small as possible while remaining versatile. Each entry should serve a distinct purpose, and should look different (and look good) next to various other entries.

For example: a mid-saturation, mid-lightness violet, say around #793D58, can be used as (1) a dark background for light elements, (2) a text or link colour on a light background, or (3) a shadow for bluish or reddish elements. Knowing how colours are perceived, and how to use them well, drastically reduces the size of a palette—the vast majority of pixel art uses fewer than 20 colours, and fewer than 10 is common.

In particular, there is usually no need to create ad-hoc colours for different contexts, such as with LESS colour transformations. These can be useful tools, but they can also create inconsistency because they take control out of your hands. And when it comes to design, I for one prefer not to leave things to chance.
Its in the works!
This is definitely something we're going to do, but we decided to perfect our launch in the US first before we start accommodating international phones.
Stay tuned!
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The telco providers will love you ;).
You need a different name; don't fear the vowels.
So many problems. If this is for geeks, why would I pay telegram to do what basically any static page cms does? If this is for normals why call it a cms? In either case, why the complex description of what it does? Why does it not tell me why I should want it? And the pricing scheme is clear as mud.
I think that the parent post was suggesting that the ISPs might increase overage charges, and reduce the bandwidth caps (as in smaller amount before overage charges) as a way of offsetting customers dropping their cable tv subscription (i.e. lost revenue) and streaming more video over their internet connection (i.e. more strain on the ISP's network + maintenance costs).
Integrate with common chat clients like google and I might've more interested.
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Also that Germany didn't exist as a unified country until 1871.
So just don't use it. You're clearly not in the market audience.

This audience loves facebook, uses it every single day and authorize all kind of applications without a single thought about security. Why would they when their password is usually password or 123456.

I understand it may comes as a rant but it's not. If Github would force all developers to use Facebook login, then I would agree with your comment. But for a social app like this?
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What's so clunky? It scales nicely. Simplest thing just works, when you need more, you can learn just enough to get what you want.

import logging as log
log.warning("groupthink says it sucks")
log.error("omg wtf, so hard!!!")

log.basicConfig(filename='ignorance.log',level=log.DEBUG)
log.debug("rtfm", exc_info=True)

And so on; formatting, handlers, multiple loggers, config files, proper lib logging, etc. All very pluggable and extendable, but only if you need it.

There's a basic tutorial, advanced tutorial and a cookbook. http://docs.python.org/library/logging.html
You might not be disagreeing. tytso appears to be using populist in the European sense of "demagogue" or "pandering to the uninformed masses," not the neutral or positive sense of "for the people" that it has in American English.

See: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4133970
I wish they'd get these guys at some of the tech conferences I've been to.
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I type ls in my home directory quite frequently. Somehow stuff accumulates there and I need to find a better place for it. I never type ls -a, precisely because there are a million files I just don't care about. Some means of saying "this file is here if you want it, but it won't show up in a listing because it's unlikely to be the file you're looking for" is convenient.
If you totally agree with him you wouldn't have written your own library.
Actually we have hundreds of users chatting, and we're growing fast! Facebook only refreshes its numbers once every 24 hours, so if you check back again later you'll see more updated results.

We've been focusing on several different distribution strategies, and we have a strong user base of college students as well.
There's no reference to "rockstar" in that ad. They seem to have set a somewhat high bar, but I can't see how that equates to looking for "rockstars".
Basically, it is saying use the twitter model, not the email model. Let people choose what to receive and encourage them to publish everything globally (yes, with private messages if you really need it).
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Cool idea. Signed up and talking with someone via texts. Couple of features that you should add -

1. Give questions to participants to talk about based on their FB likes or whatever data mining you could do.

2. Multiple people chats - SMS is not real-time medium. So not sure whether other person has read my SMS or not. And I have no idea whether to wait or not. It would be cool to text multiple people at once
iPhone was just an abandoned product line of Cisco so Apple could license it easily. Metro is fifth largest retailer in the world that incidentally sells consumer electronics. It will be like Apple naming one of their products Walmart and asking the lawyers to get the rights because the marketing team wouldn't budge.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro_AG
A legal challenge has never stopped them before. Also you'd imagine they could always come to some compensation agreement.
How are you addressing ... fraudulent information on the FB profile? Automated bots? Trolling pedophiles?
I don't particularly like dumping everything in home, but XDG is worse. Now, if I want to start over with a clean profile, there's a whole list of locations I have to zap. Spraying shit in three directories is worse than one.
GPUs still have a ton of performance-critical fixed function units, and actually recently gained a new category of fixed-function unit (tesselation). OpenCL cannot replace OpenGL or D3D.

And the CAD/DCC market gets a say because they pay 10-100x more per seat than consumers.
Actually, it is in considerably wide use for desktop linux applications.

It definitely has tangible benefits as well -- it promotes the clear separation of app data and user configuration, and unclutters the home folder.

And as pointed out by other replies, ~/.local is not the only XDG data dir.

I'm curious, how do you find it not easy to implement?
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There are so many things to love about WebOS; in some aspects it offers such a wonderful user experience(cards, gestures - like others have mentioned, notifications are so simple and non invasive.). Too bad it was not as widely adopted as other mobile OSes out there. It's frustrating to build something nice then get disappointed later when no one uses it.
Yes exactly! We are implementing this feature - almost exactly as described - within the next week.
We agree! We're working on those features and hopefully will be rolling them out soon.
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They aren't hidden, completely or otherwise. Dotfiles are locked, '-a' is the key.
We've gotten this request multiple times actually, so expect an integration soon!
I've tested it and it's really cool. 1000x better than airtime :)
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Speaking off the record as an employee of a (seriously) gigantic US/Canadian distributor of things, I can tell you a couple facts.

One, if you're in the US or Canada, you've seen our trucks and our stores and probably have no idea what we actually do for our money. And two, that's the way we like it. The company actually has customers sign a contract saying they won't advertise their supplier, and on one occasion refused shipment to a charity for breech of contract when they put our name on their list of sponsors. We made $60,000 off the lawsuit.

There are mega corporations who like to be known. And there are mega corporations who would prefer that only their customers know they exist (and even then, only reluctantly). I would guess that there are more of the second kind than of the first.
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My point was (fairly obviously) an analogy. However, almost all startups have one of two business models: either they sell things to their customers, or they sell advertising space to people who want to sell things to their customers. Both require customers who spend money.
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Sounds like we need a standardized definition of what "Platform" means.
Uh, this posted to my Facebook timeline without my permission.
Do make that clear. I'm not in the US and that's far from obvious.
London has been all too willing to toss out the freedoms of its people in exchange for profits to the IOC.
To generalize: people who get Android smartphones don't use them as smartphones. iOS is where the money is, not to mention where the mindshare is.
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"Winning" would only make sense if the number of Olympics participants was proportional to the population.
Well, except for the fact that they're heavily bankrolled by über-wealthy conservatives (Koch brothers, etc).
Plus, I have never had an FB account. Never will. (And while I have a gmail/G+ account - I would refuse to use those either)
I thought that was deliberate! To humanise it.
Bizarre, never seen that before. Its illegal in the UK and Australia, not sure about the US.
Jesus, I just got like 2 dozen texts all at once before #pause worked. Thanks, I love paying for my texts.

It should NOT start until you text #play, as it seemed like it would.
When giving permissions to apps, change the settings of who can see updates from this app to "Only Me".
People have done far worse things with the government's money.
If you don't think we should be discussing bitcoin -- which is very different from any other currency out there -- simply because it hasn't reached the trading volume of Visa... I don't know what to tell you. Demonstrates pretty clearly the narrow window of information you're willing to consider.

(This on a website for hackers and startups. Pfft.)
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interestingly, with spotify and last.fm, artists get a higher proportion of the total money (15.3% and 15.8%, respectively) than they do with amazon/itunes (14.5%). it's surprising to me that it's so low for the artist in these cases.