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Fwiw, I focused on enterprise consulting.. mobile dev, training and product design. Daily rates (no hourly). Focused on high value, high impact discussions.. converted these engagements into development agreements, licensed revenue, etc.

Specifically, I built mobile components and server systems for mobilizing data (spreadsheet-to-app conversions, etc). I then used these components and services to help speed up their mobile strategies, provided high quality training materials, and positioned my company for long-term revenue from licensed IP.

I'm currently at the stage where I have a strong client list and a marketable product, which is attracting investors, more clients, etc.

It's just myself and one engineer at the moment. I do both design and development for mobile and back-end systems.

Btw, you don't need to move to the Valley or NYC. I traveled the majority of 2011. All client work started as onsite engagements, then moved to remote.

Hopefully sharing this will help you in some way.
Mind-Blowingly Perfect Water Simulation Is Now A Reality
Developer friendly is a matter of taste. As for having some form of generics:

- C++

- Haskell

- Modula-3

- Ada

- Java

- OCaml

- Delphi

- F#

- Virgil (from Google)

- VB.Net

- Eiffel

- Sather

- Zonnon

- Scala

Just a small list.
I think you did read too much into it. He's saying that even when you have a liberal vacation policy at a startup, and even when you encourage people to take advantage of it, they still don't take vacation because the type of people who do startups are workaholics. So if you're going to work there, you should take a couple weeks off before you start, because you probably aren't going to want to afterward.

Telling a workaholic at a startup, "you can take as much vacation as you want" is really telling them, "take as little vacation as you need." A vacation for a workaholic is like a pitstop for a racecar driver.

But if you give people a set number of vacation days per month or year, and refuse to roll them over, aka "use it or lose it" policy, then you will see them start taking vacation. (This part is my observation, not the OP's)
If the USD was deflationary, then maybe it would?
The parent doesn't seem to be arguing for NAT, just asking what sort of protections are in place. Verizon has done the correct thing here. No NAT, global addresses, firewall in place. That said, their firewall rules are very conservative, to the point where they provide NAT-like default deny of all unsolicited incoming traffic.

How ISP level firewalls should be configured is an interesting and open question for consumer level connections. For mobile connections default deny seems like an OK place to start, given that mobile connections tend to be shared and metered. I hope that this doesn't stifle the innovation that could come from true peer to peer mobile connectivity though.
Young Innovators Have Until May 1 to Submit C2-MTL Applications
..."pay" is be a button"...

should probably say

..."pay" should be a button....
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I'm in the US.

By "in the soup", I mean responsible to compute and capture taxes from whatever members of the 9,000 jurisdictions that are applicable.

The point here is that 1M in sales equates to only 100K in profits given very generous margins. Anybody selling physical product is going to be constrained under this law almost as soon as they move from a hobby to a very small ongoing online business concern. If your margins are only around 3-4%, it might not be worth the effort. You could end up with significant additional business expenses before you even get to the break-even point.

There's a reason E-bay is against this and Amazon/WalMart is for it. This is a walled-garden giveaway. All the small fry will now have to find some walled garden to operate in -- or suck up a lot of extraneous regulatory crap that they probably can't deal with. A lot of tight-margin cottage businesses will not be able to hack it [insert long discussion about whether they should have known this going in, etc]
Clicking and dragging doesn't really work...
that does look interesting.
So what? As long as there is no evidence tying you to the hack. You could just claim it was a coincidence, that you were expecting the market to go down for other reason.
Crashes Chrome tab - draws sad face. Slow in Firefox. Windows XP.
Ok, points taken. I understand the optimism .. its usually a great thing, and I could be being overly paranoid. All the same TC is so 00's, just launch yourself on HN.

Regardless of my criticisms, I do hope that every startup working in good faith to change the world does so, so good luck!
Want it? With extreme emphasis: oh hell no!

I'm so annoyed by this project. Imagine the kind of chilling effect this would have on daily interactions if you knew everything you said was being recorded. It has a chilling effect even if it's you that's recording your own interactions! If I found out someone was surreptitiously recording my casual conversations I'd just never talk to them again, except to chew them out for doing such a shitty thing. Also, if someone asked me whether it's ok to hit record in a social setting, I'd look at them sideways and not only decline, but would instantly stop trusting them and cut them out of my life as a consequence.

I rarely want people to fail, but I really, really want this privacy-busting, surveillance project to fail miserably. We're surveilled enough as it is without intelligent people contributing to these garbage projects.

Ted, Will, and George: work on something that benefits humanity rather than chills the frankness of interpersonal interactions. The potential consequences of this project are awful.
I think he was referring to Everyme's launch, they also launched Origami (though perhaps not on purpose, it was an announced pivot)
If anybody is interested, for contrast I had a nice rant on this topic this morning. http://freedom-or-safety.com/blog/why-the-internet-sales-tax...

ADD: "Since integrating 50 different software packages into every online store, filing 50 different sales tax returns, cutting 50 checks, and getting audited by 50 states is not an appealing idea to most small businesses, they’re almost guaranteed to pay a certified software provider to handle it."

I'm a little confused. As I understand it, there are over 9,000 various jurisdictions -- down to the zip code+4 level that implement various forms of sales taxes. You can be on one end of a street and pay a completely different tax than you would on the other.
Hmmm...maybe the fault is in my writing. I think vacations are incredibly important. And I've now learned to take them (just spent 8 days in the BVIs...it was awesome). And I want everyone in our company to take more of them. I thought that was clear in the post.
Zimbabwe was very different: the amount of money people had was devalued by new notes being printed that had extra zeroes before the decimal point.

Adding extra zeroes after the decimal point for money already in circulation leaves the total supply the 'same' but could also be viewed as increasing supply 10-fold, without disadvantaging anyone currently holding the currency.

Its never happened before, so I'm not sure many economists have thought about it
Doesn't mean there's no value to be gleaned from this quote.
you could easily send BTC out of paypal to any bitcoin address, they could nto sue it and disable those coins from accessing the blockchain. However they could say that if you do a BTC transfer from paypal account to paypal account they could offer protection then by freezing the funds or having a 5 day period before the user could withdraw them. Once they are withdrawn there is nothing paypal could do, of course this removes the immediacy of payment aspect of bitcoin so merchants may not want it.

Really because bitcoinoffers low fees this sort of service would be of benefit to the buyer only.

Alternatively PayPal could use bitcoin as their backend for transferring money internationally. If i want to pay someone in USD but only have EUR then they could exchange EUR for BTC then BTC for USD and pay the USD to whoever I was paying.
Well, it may be late to talk about this point now, but you should build protections against this sort of thing into the contract, so you have defined adjustments to the terms if certain assumptions prove false (or change). In this case, I'm guessing you don't have that, so you have a couple of choices.

1. Sit down with the customer, explain the situation to them, and tell them that you need to ask for more money in order to complete the project. If they agree, use the extra money to subcontract the project out.

2. Find somebody else who would be interested in taking over the contract (preferably somebody you know, trust and have a relationship with) and then sit down with the customer, explain the situation and say that you'd like to negotiate a hand-off to the new supplier, who is better equipped to handle the project.

3. Go buy 10 cases of Red Bull, get some tooth-picks to prop your eyelids open, and work straight through and get 'er done.

4. Sit down with the customer, explain the situation and offer to deliver what you have, for a pro-rated portion of the original price.

5. Sue the customer.

6. Cancel the project outright, eat the loss and chalk it up as a learning experience. Next project, make sure you have a contract that features a change management process, opt-out clauses, incremental delivery (and payment), etc., to protect you from getting burned (that is, assuming you don't have those things now).

Note that option (5) above is totally a joke, and (3) is probably not recommended. I like (2) best, if you can pull all the pieces together. That way you preserve a positive relationship with the customer, and potentially enhance relationship with whoever you hand the work off to.
My failure in previous salary negotiation was assuming my employer would be honest about my delivered value.

Even documented and presented as a counter point in negotiation they simply denied the truth and quickly tried to pan the evidence.

Maybe I was naive, but it was so shockingly dishonest to me, I was mentally broadsided, mouth agape in disbelief. I mentally quit right then and there, and left as soon as possible.
No! A 120K salary in NYC is equal to 40-60K in other parts of the country! I felt like a pauper living in Manhattan. Yes ... people will say, you can live in Brooklyn/Queens/Bronx and take the subway. But the quality of life is very very different. I don't want to get into a debate of how much one can save. It is true that if you are single, live with 3 roommates and can survive on the free food that you get in meetups, living and working in NYC will let you earn and save a lot. If you are a bit older, want to live in Manhattan, don't want room mates, etc. they money isn't enough. For me, I calculated a salary of 250K would be the minimum I'd need to make in order for Manhattan to be a feasible tradeoff. This is for my expense profile and extremely personal. That said, I don't think I am a diva by any means. A 30+ year old shouldn't need room mates to survive. And doormen and elevators are kinda necessary when you have a busy life.
The question is whether that would actually make more money. If they fund it this way, they would kind of be chumps to have given the product away to all those backers.
Except that the answer(s) would quickly get spread around over social media and the quiz would lose all meaning.
Implying that the Job's quote can promise future innovation is a bit of a stretch. It is a good story, I agree. Without the occasional frictions and collisions, it is almost impossible to make a group of highly talented people produce great results.

Having said that, just having a highly talented team without good leadership is disastrous. The role of the leader is more important than the sum of talents of the team. He inspires the team to a common vision and ignites passion. The term 'passionate team' becomes meaningless without a shared vision.
Why not make the download or BluRay available when they get released anyways? I wouldn't care. And I would have paid $30 to get this plus the playlists/script.
"in a country where wages are stagnating"

In a country where desserts are a part of nearly every meal, it's a "cheap" thrill. Ben & Jerry's haven't gone out of business.
The 10 Commandments of Fundraising Etiquette
Patrick Collison: What makes Silicon Valley Special (starts 1:13)
Fine. gimmick or not. Give the guy credit for creating a good launch narrative in a sea of "Check out my start-up" posts. This is clever marketing, the conversation doesn't have to go much further.
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> Color. Visited links color is different than unvisited.

I thought most browsers disabled that feature some years ago to prevent the exploit where you could see all the websites a user has visited by sampling colors of pixels at strategic locations.

Speaking of usability, what does the "reload" button in the bottom right do? For me it resets the form, not reloads it, whatever reloading a form means.

Otherwise very nice list. Can probably be made infinitely long though
Interesting idea, but really, crime is opportunistic. If all of a sudden geeks toting iphones start walking a block or two away from what the data (of unknown quality) says is a "hot spot", the crime will follow where the targets are.

Moreover, how does one actually determine a hotspot? By Robbery stats? carjacking? larceny from auto? arrest count? sex offender registry data? Drug activity? Poverty-level? forclosures? Truancy?

The best way to avoid being a victim is to go about your business, pay attention, and use common sense.

Crime can happen _anywhere_ it doesn't cling to particular corners or blocks. Trying to avoid particular areas because of the crime or the preception of it, won't necessarily work. You might as well use a divining stick.
States strapped for revenue often take a 'guilty until proven innocent' attitude towards taxes - first you file your taxes, then they claim you screwed it up and owe them money, then you waste your time proving you did it right in the first place. They aren't particularly competent, either - often they make mistakes.

Now you roll the dice each year and see if your state government happens to be rapacious or incompetent - sometimes you're lucky, sometimes you're not. After this bill passes, you'll get to roll the same dice fifty consecutive times.
The opposite was intended. See this paragraph:

But that doesn’t mean startup people don’t need vacations – we clearly do. If for no other reason than our best ideas come when we’ve been able to disengage from the problem in front of us. Vacations are a change of scenery. They’re a chance for perspective. They’re quality time with our friends, family and significant others. They’re a chance to see the world, to waste away the day reading books, playing chess, trying new things. Vacations are 100% essential.
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Thanks for the edit, zalzane.
Yeah, it's a great service they're offering, and I didn't mean to imply it's not.

But the author seems to be putting it right up there with fighting for civil rights or vaccinating children or helping the poor. And that's taking it too far.

It's good to be motivated and passionate about work, but it's also good to have perspective.
You might like http://projectmeadow.com
I've assumed you couldn't [compile c++] on a chromebook directly

You can, actually - just not out of the box. I describe switching to dev mode and using crouton for this in my post.

does most of your chromebook development come down to using it as a smart terminal

That said, yes; I normally remote into beefy servers on campus. I may find myself doing more local work once I graduate, however.
Judging by the fact there's hardly half a dozen comments relating to the actual product, I think you have your answer.
The webplayer is more miserable than flash's, by virtue that it's less mature. It crashes a lot, especially on macs.
Pull Request Roulette
In answer to the general query for advice:

Short version: program things which make your employers lots of money, and get in the habit of mentioning that repeatedly when you negotiate aggressively for more compensation. Long version: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/10/28/dont-call-yourself-a-pro...

A personal anecdote: In 2006 I wrote CRUD apps, talked to people, and read a lot of documents. In 2013 I will write CRUD apps, talk to people, and read a lot of documents. I'll also get paid probably in excess of 10X what I made in 2006. To the extent that the difference involves programming, it's largely not because I've suddenly graduated to Guru Rockstar Ninja and more because I figured out how to apply programming to a few of capitalism's pressure points. (Mostly involving selling more software.) This turns out to be fantastically more valuable than writing CRUD apps to e.g. manage student lists for university back offices. This difference is a lot more important than other competing explanations like where I live, what industry I work in, or the fact that I changed from J2EE to (mostly) Ruby on Rails in the interim.

There are many HNers whose programming skill is a key asset to their line of work and yet would not be classified as programmers, by the way. I encourage you to not see their jobs as out-of-scope if your goals are making a lot of money while continuing to program. That's quite a bit of the solution set. (Then again, AmaGooBookSoft have many, many uncomplicated "We give you instructions, you producing working code implementing them" jobs which would meet your requirements.)
The buyer does experience the fee in the form of increased price. They just don't notice it because it's baked in. Anyone who buys stuff at the grocery store in cash is financing other people's rewards points.

Ever wonder why Arco is the cheapest gas?
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Food trucks are here to stay, but they're no longer the cool new thing so most of the buzz has died down. The trucks that are still around now will probably still be here around for the next few years.
I'd like to add one more thing that surprised me. Tax rates. Making 120K in NYC means you are not rich but your tax rate is pretty high. When one makes 60K in an area that is dirt cheap, you don't get dinged by higher tax rates.
Works ok here in firefox nightly. But to actually tear it and not just push it around I do need to jerk the mouse pretty quickly.
You can pledge whatever you want and then select No Reward ("No thanks, I just want to help the project.").
got 94 in chrome 26, 168 in firefox 20.
Drag does not work, it only causes ripples.
So the "wisdom of the crowd" turns out to work best when it's not allowed to be a crowd. Taking independent votes from non-communicating individuals is in line with Surowiecki's original example (estimating the weight of an ox), but far from the common understanding of a "crowd" [1] or from Reddit's core mechanisms. These latter are more about emotional involvement and early consensus (both of which seem to be harmful for the accuracy of conclusions).

Infrastructure operating close to Surowiecki's specifications does exist: Mechanical Turk. I'm surprised he's not mentioning it. After some initial hype, its actual uses have turned out to be far less glamorous and revolutionary than originally hoped for.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowd#Terminology
> Yeah, what you're referring to is the fact that surface tension is not scale invariant. In other words: dew can only be made of smallish droplets, not large ones.

You completely blew my mind there!
I'd never noticed that before.

Does the size of a dew drop relate to the size of the particles? i.e. can we estimate the size of water molecules just by looking at the maximum dew drop size?
There's a lot of truth to this. I take a vacation every quarter now. And I do so unapologetically. It does help convey that vacations are socially acceptable.
Right, but where are these elusive low CoL places one can make $120K+ as a programmer? A $120K salary in NYC is equal to $40-60K in other parts of the country, sure. But in most other parts of the country, you will indeed be making $40-60K as a programmer.
WiFi censorship to protect the children in Britain
I think this is a cool project to undertake but yes, I would group myself among those who think Summly was trivial. Not in a technical sense, but in a do-people-need-it-sense? That is, the best news sites are already going to have relevant headlines and good meta-descriptions. What else could even the best extraction algorithm pull out -- from the text -- that would aid in my decision to read the article? In this problem space, more is not better, because the point is to keep things as concise as possible. I argue that this is largely already done by the content editors. And for sites that do it poorly, I would suspect that their articles will have equally poor extractions.

This is not to say that there aren't valuable things that can be added to an article's overview...but I think direct quote/passages or summaries thereof are the least interesting things. I'd rather see something like, how many popular users on Twitter (i.e. not spambots) have tweeted this post, and what are the best comments that are not merely tweets of the title? Or, maybe just pull out the best comments from the stories if Disqus has been enabled. These are the kind of things that would be useful auxiliary information before actually reading the article.
Who are the people who scoop up the 10K "be a cast member" thing immediately? Same thing happened on the Veronica Mars one. It was announced, and bam someone drops a ton of change to get to be in it.
I suggest a new name. userium is giving me a headache trying to figure out how to pronounce it.
Is there an api in place to provide tax rates for every jurisdiction? If not, is it the responsibility of the shop owner to keep this updated?
One thing I can't wait to see (maybe when the Go ecosystem is more mature) is Gojure, a Clojure that runs on top of the Go environment. That would be badass.

ETA: I realize that it just looks like I'm spouting opinions if I don't get into why it would be badass. Essentially, Go is a language designed for production systems in one of the most demanding large-scale software environments on earth. Compilation is rapid, and the language does a lot of things that force code quality. The problem is that it still feels a bit verbose. Putting a Lisp on top of that (and Clojure is my favorite Lisp) would be really interesting.
It'll never happen. Flash is a lightweight rich media format designed for rich media. Unity is a full blown 3d environment and is not lightweight and not 2d friendly. That said, the only thing unity is really useful for is 3d applications, which are very limited. It's not going to replace Flash for 2d games.
Ask HN: Want to buy my domain names?
I have some you may want to buy "Angel.io, genivs.com, distribution.io, hackerbus.com", etc.

Email me if you're interested nick @startupli.st
That's not the case for us. The administrative burden is not heavy. Most payroll solutions include this out of the box. The much bigger issue for us is that we don't like rules and policies. We try to take 'do what you think is right' to the nth degree.
We created this at the LAUNCH hackathon in March and have spent some time polishing it on the weekends. Curious whether the HN crowd has suggestions or finds this useful.
Is it a new method of market gambling? DDoS on bitcoin exchanges, fake twitter attacks on stock market and etc.?