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Tell HN: Front-end Wingman (or woman) Hacker Wanted for side projects
I am a Rails dev that has a few side-projects ("for funzies") that I would like to build.

I run 5KMVP.com and build projects for clients. But I have a few things I would like to roll out (specifically products that some of the HN crowd may like).

I would rather release a semi-polished, simple MVP than a hacked up looking prototype.

So, if you are interested in being my Robin, please feel free to leave a link to your portfolio and contact info. You must be able to produce designs with similar sensibilities to these: https://sprint.ly/ & https://simple.com/

Ideally, I would like for you to just give me the HTML, CSS & jQuery, then I will take care of the rest.

Familiarity with (or willingness to learn) Git & Github are major pluses.

Honest communication is a must - I don't require a specific time-availability, but if you tell me you can do it by X date, I expect at least the courtesy of a heads-up that you are running behind by X days. But I do expect eventual delivery.

These side-projects won't be paid, they will be attribution only (a nice way to build up your portfolio). If we work well together, and the project takes on legs, then we can figure out a way for us to work on it together (for longer), if you are interested, that makes sense for both of us.

I know it sounds like a lot of strings, for no compensation, but I have had my share of people interested in working on a project and not being realistic about their time management and project delivery capabilities.

I am reasonable and upfront, so I expect you to be the same.

Thanks.
And, very pedantic point, but my current apartment's thermostat doesn't have a timer, either. "The future is unevenly distributed," I guess.
The point seems to be that many people associate such lists with much more success than they actually represent.

Also that the list is not the springboard to further success that some thought it was.

(Right now it only takes about 8k album sales in a week to break the Billboard top 50)
Although just a side project, one of the most important things I've learned with Hacker Newsletter is to just stick with it. It seems like too often we (the HN crowd) lose our passion for something a bit too quickly and move on to our next big idea.

You can see my subscriber growth rate here:
http://imm.io/ZCRJ

For almost a year I could not move the needle it seemed, but then finally it happened and from there it has gotten easier. Now I have 15,000 subscribers and think I can hit 25k to 30k by the end of the year.
Sounds like a cool test app, if you have a lot of time to click through and to double-check the results. You might want to look at https://www.rainforestqa.com , they do something similar but on a much larger scale and automated. Perhaps you'd get inspired for the next step.
My understanding is that banks in Cyprus are heavily invested in Greek bonds (makes sense given the shared language/culture/etc) and that the Greek bailout resulted in the bondholders taking a 50% "haircut" which set off the current banking crisis in Cyprus. And now the "solution" to the problem in Cyprus is likely to set off bank runs in other troubled Eurozone economies. One domino knocks over the next ...

Edit: half of this is in the article which I didn't read before commenting ;-)
Wish they would update the inPulse SDK but somehow I don't think so.
>If the Bitcoin crypto currency were more developed and widespread, this event could the silver bullet that would trigger the beginning of the end of the traditional banking system.

You cannot be serious.
Interesting post. Slightly off topic, but why do people in IT use biological terms like DNA and ecosystem when discussing things that relate to business? Please use appropriate vocabulary, there must be other words that can be used.
I'd guess that the banks won't let you wire money out either.
This is neat. It's a key problem we've spent a lot of time thinking about (that posting the same thing in the exact same way to different networks is not the right thing to do). Good job, and good luck!
What is any tax but confiscation?
That doesn't make sense. In filesystem-land /com/ycombinator/news is not equivalent to com/ycombinator/news. The latter depends on your current location in the filesystem, while the former does not.

The search domains vs. search paths comparison is interesting, but I'd argue not equivalent either. Filesystem search paths only apply to binary executables, for one thing. On unix-like systems, at least, it is recommended that you do not have '.' in your search path. Regardless, there isn't really a "default" search path. If it's empty, you get nothing, and you'll be unable to execute anything without specifying a path. If your search domain list is empty, you still get the default, which is the root.

I guess you can draw some parallels here and there, but it feels a bit forced to me.
It has been a long time since I checked, but it didn't work for the keyboard shortcut ('v' I think in Reader?)
Why don't they sell Reader? Or spin it off as an independent company? Or put it up for auction? I can't think of when they've ever done anything like this with one of their services, and I can only speculate why. But I can imagine there are lots of companies who would love to inherit a hard-core audience that large.
Money in the bank is not your money anymore. By the time of credit cards, banks moved from being a custodian of money, to a service provider that can cut anyone off from their service.

Sure, this time it was not the banks itself but rather the government that did this, but they could only do this because banks and government has stopped seeing money in the bank as belonging to the person who put it there. They would have never gone to a farmer and taken 10% of their grain. They would have never gone and taken physical property in peoples home. That would had been an complete impossibility. I even strongly doubt that any safety deposit boxes will be effect by this.

I understand the idea that this is a blow against companies that are using Cyprus as an tax haven. Its fully understandable. But I really dislike this current system of treating money in the bank as belonging to the bank. This story is just a clear example of this behavior expanding further.
Looks like Apple is breathing down their neck.
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The part where there's no way to get your money out of the bank before the tax is implemented because the banks are closed right now.
Hey Charlie! We've been back and forth on this in the lifetime of the startup, but we're now doing all metrics ourselves, so it is internally built. I built an early version of the cohort analysis (which didn't scale, but that didn't matter) just a few months in and it was massively valuable. It's not too hard to knock something together.
The problem with Plan 9 wasn't that it wasn't great. It was amazing, the problem was that Linux (and other *nix-es at the time) were also kind of good.

Maybe plan 9 was a bit before its time. Had it been developed today when distributed systems and big data is more talked about, it might have had a bigger impact.
This doesn't work if access to that information tempts those in power to do things that they wouldn't have if the the information didn't exist.
Is this really any different than US Monetary policy that leads to continual inflation making your savings worth less over time?
Credo is the latest incarnation of the old Working Assets long-distance firm, if you're old enough to remember them and that helps explain their politics.
I just backed your project. Good Luck !!
This is simply amazing and the timing for this project is just perfect as I am trying to learn Obj-C and will later on focus my complete attention to the iOS development.
Oh, I can outdo you!

Many years ago I did an upstart that was a combination of delicious and facebook, using bayesian filtering to locate links and people you might be interested in from what you posted yourself. Incredibly clever product. Before Google had even thought of pagerank. We got funding, we had great engineers, and I was the CEO.

But you know what? We never launched. We ran out of money before we got that far.

You launched - I didn't.

Congratulations! You've made it further than most.
"... fix it or sell tickets." - I'd pay a little something to play with an obviously real, but undefined effect like that.
Why Is Accessibility So Hard? | November 2012 | Communications of the ACM
Mine works and this is an old T60 Thinkpad. Maybe I just don't notice slight choppiness as much.
I'm still not sure what Google Currents is. From what I can tell it's a smartphone/tablet news thing, but I have no way to try it.
Paying Netflix funds the companies that have made this bullshit DRM a reality.

Just torrent your media and play it in VLC. Works better, without WINE, and without subsidizing these dicks.
Sure, it's like both in some ways but also quite unlike both in other ways.
My favorite part of that talk is where he highlights the value of creating to solve a class of problems vs. a unique instance. Build in a way that others can build off of your work.

Recently, I built an automated Skinner box that has the ability to run most of the protocols of classical behavioral research. It allows the mouse to be head fixed, enabling brain readings while the experiment is running^. We could have built just what we needed, but instead, we are going to open source this general solution in a methods paper soon. I am unsure if this would have happened if I had not read Hamming's talk.

^The hope is that this will reduce the amount of this type of research done with monkeys, enable reductions of costs/time, and enhancing the ability to learn more due to the huge genetic catalogs for mice.
If you're like me, you'll probably spend ten minutes Googling trying to see if the account is from a bot or a spammer of some sort before you convince yourself that it is real.
Simple but fun. Allow voting like in 'hot or not' or something, perhaps show a random pic on the front page. Can we post pics or just you?
What sort of inbound traffic numbers are you getting? I have to be honest - I was completely turned off the landing page. Further more, the content structure reads like a blog to me - I had no idea it was service at first glance. I'd be happy to give you some action items / critique over Skype or Hangouts if you're interested.

Drop me a line - @twanlass.
I still can't get the Netflix app to work on Windows 8 ... :P
Are there more US black men in prison or college?
Why don't you contact companies directly and offer to work for free to improve their broken code?
Is producing a commodity at huge scale supposed to be some kind of bad thing?

Isn't that what most of the Fortune 500 does?
Who uses torrents these days? Come on the obvious application for torrents is filesharing, but thats too damn risky these days.
I've just noticed how my post could be misinterpreted.

Shit.
Funny that it's targeting only bank accounts and completely ignoring all other liquid assets.

By which I mean: Holy shit, if this isn't targeted directly at middle class and lower households and small businesses, I don't know what would be.

Also, these guys have all got to be huffing paint if they think a run on the banks won't be a direct result EVEN AFTER THE MONEY IS GONE.
Wow, that's quite a fingerprint.
I don't subscribe to feeds that don't syndicate full posts. The last few years, many feeds have switched to paid membership or putting separate ad posts in the stream, "This week RSS is brought to you by X". I'm fine with either of those solutions.
"England" isn't in the euro, it has a central bank that can and will print money if required. If anything chances are the UK will be on the receiving end of any money transferred out of Greece, Portugal, Spain e.t.c. because it's within the EU (and therefore other EU citizens can easily open bank accounts) but not inside the eurozone (the UK has not funded any of the EU bailouts except via contributions to the IMF)
Money's already been taken out of the 9,9% accounts dude. And electronic transfers are frozen.
Usually, it's not retroactive.
Thanks for putting this together. The timing couldn't be better. Broke my ankle and this gives me something else to do while I'm laid up.
I am young and without any flexible. So moving is not really a problem.
I wonder how can I make my case stronger or ask him to put down more on the table besides just "maybe".
It's all about who you sleep with. Good luck to you and remember that we all share this experience.
Well.. there are 30 insignificant lines in the source, so it's really 26 lines of Python.
Well maybe your honesty follows a stricter standard than mine. :-)

It's a gray area, but if my task touches module A and I spend some extra time cleaning up module A, or writing tests for it, my conscience is clear. Or if I finish a deployment script but think reading a Chef tutorial might teach me a better way of doing it next time, sure. The work may not be finished just because "it runs." I wouldn't fill up 4 hours with that kind of thing, but 1, sure (depending on the urgency of other tasks, etc.).

I guess it also depends on your company culture and your boss's/client's expectations. I have clients who would get upset if I billed an extra half hour, and other clients who want me to spend that hour on tests/refactoring.
> Do you always have to operate expecting sudden spikes and that prevents you from moving to a cheaper hardware?

In short, yes. This is inherent to the nature of Formspring – or to some extent social networks.

Since most of your actions on the site are being `broadcasted` to all your followers, and since the distribution of followers follows a pareto distribution, it is very difficult to predict load at any given time, as one single action by a very popular user could trigger hundreds of millions of events (publishing to everybody's stream, sending emails, push notifications, updating counters, spam filtering, etc.)

We benefit greatly from the elasticity of AWS, and `scale up` accordingly to deliver this event in a timely manner.

If we were not concerned by `delivery time`, we would be able to smooth it out, but at the expense of engagement… and as you can imagine, engagement in a social network is quite important :)
Could you describe any plausible scenario in which one pull request could compromise the entire .gov IT infrastructure?
If I had a feed reading service, I'd consider making a blog post just like this, hoping to make it self-fulfilling.
What's your expected ship date?
Can we hear more?
Actually the Russian mafia supposedly has a lot of money in the tax haven that is Cyprus. (Source (in Danish): http://www.dr.dk/Nyheder/Udland/2013/03/16/100422.htm)
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inspiration produces better everything (software) than lucre but if you wanna talk $ rewards its obvious theres a mass market for privacy developing.
According to wikipedia, Cyprus' public debt is less than Greece's, Italy's, USA's, Canada's, Germany's, and many others.
A professor once told me that a PhD is someone who learns more and more about less and less until they know everything about nothing. I later found out this was a quote from Gandhi about experts.
Why would the EU dissolve if the Euro collapsed? Only 17/27 countries in the EU are in the Eurozone. It would be significantly more complicated to dissolve the whole European Union and dealing with a political and legal mess that would ensue. Dissolving the Eurozone would be comparatively easy.

Also the concept that somehow "poorly run smaller economies" were draining the resources of the "larger economies" has no basis in reality. It doesn't take a lot of research to find out who benefited the most from the Euro. Hint: not any the "poorly run smaller economies".
There's no such thing as an intrinsic value for "money", even in gold. If you keep your money in the form of dollars (or Euros) shoved into a mattress the value can go away through inflation. If you keep your money in the form of gold bars the value can also go away through inflation, but perhaps less so.
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I consider photocopying control idiotic. Other use cases that you mentioned seem to deal with poisons, weapons and etc. You surely see a difference with that, or you don't? The whole issue with DRM is the level of control. Preventing crime is good. Making a totalitarian police state is not. DRM leans towards the second (invasive control which is way beyond what is ethical).
Not exactly.

Me asking 1Q to 5 users results in 5Q being delivered to the respective users. Out of 5, and depending on the quality of the question, the level of activity of these users, generally results in 1 to 2 responses.

Obviously the engagement is specific to the user asking the question. Some popular users easily reach a 75% engagement rate.
This is somewhat ridiculous.

Netflix is using a lot of open source software: Linux, Cassandra, Zookeeper, Java, etc.

And then they sign a sleazy backroom deal with Microsoft and only support silverlight, which is a technology dead on arrival. I don't get it.
Like I mentioned earlier, it probably does not need to be high on your agenda. However, to answer your question why would someone cancel... because the button is there and we users are stupid.

Open up a private browsing instance and go through the workflow. You'll probably end up here[1]. Did you change something in the last hour? I thought I was getting a message from dailycred not from you when I checked before I went for my walk.

Seems like you're logging these errors somewhere. Sorry if I am muddying the error tables for you.

[1] http://www.brombone.com/account?error=access_denied&erro...
It seems to me that the money to be made on an O'Reilly book would be in speaking/consulting/job hunting as someone who "wrote the book on X".
I'd love to have someone dedicated to to marketing/community outreach and evangelism. If someone with those skills wants to join me on the journey, send me an email (in profile).
We have:

- Stocks

- Derivatives of stocks

- Natural resources (oil/gold)

- Derivatives of natural resources

- Bonds

- State bonds

- Real estate

- Land (without a building)

- Undervalued company that owns all your stuff and you own the company (put that one in there, since it's a usual and practical way of owning real estate and more)

No, let me think. Let's just stick with people pensions. So much better.
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Jennifer Lawrence won Best Actress for her role in Silver Linings Playbook. So why does this post (and its image) only refer to the movie as "Silver Linings"?
Thanks. Good ideas. I was planning on having user submitted pics here pretty soon.
A little exaggeration, but that's a good point. A better bookmark UI then!
Even after the tax is taken out there will be a huge run on all banks in Cyprus.

If I was in Cyprus, I would be buying gold and burying it somewhere safe :)
I'll be in touch.
I suspect the project he's referring to is our monitoring agent: https://github.com/racker/virgo

We're working on splitting this out into a reusable platform for writing lightweight host-based agents. Luvit works out fairly well for this - our monitoring agent runs in around 5mb resident memory, works on Windows (although we haven't released that yet) and is relatively easy to code on.

Shameless plug: if this sort of stuff interests you, hit me up, my email is in my profile.
My expected ship date seems to be "shipping address complete", I wish I had a shipping date, this all the info I have. http://i.minus.com/ibrC8T8Nc6rI5v.PNG
I don't think mp3 is a fair comparison, because "font" is not a specific format.
The creator of Bingo Card creator I believe said on here before (or maybe on his blog) that he had a similar growth. Now it's his day job. So I'd just keep thinking about it the way you are. Good luck! :)
But the point is they're becoming less of a commodity. They're moving up the value food chain to both manufacture and sell their servers under their own brand. Presumably their margins are better now then before.
Hong Kong is much more dense than Tokyo, and they have imported an army of Philippine and Indonesian house keepers.
You wanna buy a bridge? I got a nice one I can sell you.
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A good reason to keep your cash in bitcoin ;)
Is it for Windows only?
The Cyprus bail-out: Unfair, short-sighted and self-defeating
Greece has cut its budget on an order of ~20%. It hasn't helped them at all.

http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/data/GRCGFCEQDSMEI_Max_...
To quote the article: "This is why The IMF and the ECB has stepped in and bailed out the banks. Rumor has it that without the bailout Cyprus two largest banks would be bankrupt in a matter of days. A situation no economy can survive, especially not one with a disproportionally large banking sector."

I don't see the problem to be honest. We (I live in the Netherlands) are paying a lot of money to help them out, which is okay. But yeah we're asking the inhabitants of Cyprus for a sacrifice too. The 10% tax is a very crude way to implement this, but dire times need dire actions.
I suspect the number of active GR users is closer to 50 million, seeing as 24 million people are subscribed to the CNN feed alone.

(I'm subscribed to hundreds of feeds, but CNN isn't one of them. I also think most users outside of the US won't be subscribed to the CNN feed.)

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2013/03/google-reader-data-...
If you're ever in Copenhagen and buy me a beer I'll talk all night :-)
sure because bitcoin value never went down overnight. Not even 10% like the cypriot savings. Oh wait, never mind. It went down 30% in a single day: http://www.dailytech.com/Digital+Black+Friday+First+Bitcoin+...
I thought gold went up with inflation.
I say let them default. Can't manage your assets - go out of business. Employ shady schemes - go to jail. Now this would be fair.
Jeez, this was -forced- from europe, the Greeks didn't vote it in. My point is, no politician that's paycheck depends on votes will ever force this in. It has to come from the outside - EU.
It's significantly different.

If I told you that every year your money would be worth 3% less, that's different than me saying that 10% of your savings are gone now.

It's more complex as well because inflation influences salaries and prices, plus the whole long-term vs immediate aspect.
I got many requests for a screencast after posting https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5377651.
This sure seems like it would be a violation of a person's right to be secure from seizure of property in the USA.

Does anyone with a legal background have any insight they want to share? I am having trouble wrapping my brain around the idea that money I have in the bank could be seized to pay for someone else's fuckup. I know inflation can sort of do that on a society-wide scale, but seizure of post-tax income from a private bank account? That's mind-boggling.
Netflix deserves to be boycotted for pushing DRM into HTML standard.
When people say RSS is dead they're not saying its use case has been 100% effectively covered by another product/protocol. What they're saying is that people are using Facebook/Twitter/G+ etc as a replacement in the most basic sense: a feed of content that they can read. Whether you or I think that this is an adequate replacement for RSS is irrelevant because the assertion being made is that enough people think it is a good-enough replacement.
It isn't stupid to click the cancel button.

That cancel button is actually what cause a few brief periods of unavailability a couple hours ago. When a user clicked the cancel button it was taking them to the account page even though they didn't have an account, and that was crashing the server.

I have fixed the crash, but I still need to add the proper redirects after cancel is click. Thanks for reporting this. It made tracking down the problem easier.