skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
elance is good and the only site i use for this - mostly because i'm used to it and i find new sites confusing to get used to, more than that i consider it 'best'.

it's dominated by the weak php developers you speak of, but if you just filter everybody out who charges less than $20 per hour[1], you'll get rid of most of them and be left with some good people.

after you've gotten a few hundred proposals on elance it will be tempting to just ignore everybody from certain countries. i urge you not to do that though. instead filter by hourly rate. an indian or pakistani developer charging $25+/hour is either delusional or really, really good (i.e. $150+/hour if they were in san francisco). a quick skype chat is usually sufficient to figure out which.

[1]do this yourself, don't set the terms to $20/hour, or all of the bad devs will just try to charge you $20/hour. by setting it to 'not sure' it's a race to the bottom and all those guys will be competing with each other for the lowest hourly rate. you then just ignore all of them.
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I used to be wonder if anyone really made any sales on those ads because even as less savvy as i was with internet, I could readily identify 'ads by Google' and not click them. Honestly, sometimes I could just look at the website and type the address in a new tab instead of clicking on the ad( because I wasn't going to make a purchase anyway so why make them pay for my visit?)

But then I observed first-hand how people I thought should know better were clicking on these ads unknowingly thinking it was part of natural search results. So here's what I'm thinking; it could be because there as more and more people get online, there's going to be more and more people clicking on ads unknowingly thinking it's part of their natural search results, which will consequently result in increase in CPC .

But what irks me from the post is:
> not showing your ad at all if you bid too low – even if no other ads appear
If this is true then it's really evil!!
Google Latets Android 4.3
Well the above picture shows that Google is all set to launch the latest Android 4.3 in the market very soon.

A Nexus was recently spotted at the Thailand Mobile Expo running the next-gen Android 4.3. Well is show that jellybean 4.3 is ready for action.
Amen. The thing I found is they changed my working hours. It used to be all day, every day. This led to important stuff getting pushed back because I had so many hours, I figured I'd get it done at some point soon.

3 children later, it's 8.5 hours on weekdays only. It changed my working practises so that the moment I sit down at the computer it's the top priority task right now and everybody be damned until I need my first long break.

I also find myself asking the question when someone is looking for free help/products "do I want to spend time helping this stranger or spend time with my children?" It focuses my attention on the money, but makes you kinda selfish towards your family, in that regard.
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In addition to your hardware/IT costs you have:
-ICANN's fees to get started
-ICANN's annual fees
-ICANN's fee per registration
-ICANN's variable fees (based on their expenses)

Then, you have to pay the "owner" of each TLD to be able to register .com, .me, .io, etc. It costs, for example, over $7.00 to Verisign each time Namecheap registers a .com unless they've arranged some other pricing. The bottom line is the $.98 promotion is quite a loss leader.
@BossMadeMeDoIt would have been the standard annotation for 90% all of methods in a company that I know.
Developer releases template code to allow almost anyone to create a Google Glass
I agree with you. However, the 1960s were the peak. I don't like (ideologically) that guy: Slavoj Zizek. He did however travel to Afghanistan before all the wars started. I believe as a student. He said that at that time, Afganistan was quite often portait by the press as an example of a country in which modernization and social progress that went good. I believe he mentions this in that debate:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhAMgVFKokk
I haven't knowingly bought anything from Sony since their last rootkit debacle. I'm sure there's been media from them that I've consumed - but I've definitely avoided hardware purchases from them.

"Most people don't even know what a rootkit is, so why should they care about it?"

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/110110-sonybmg-rootkit...
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BBB warns consumers and businesses about vulnerability to scams
This talk is somehow a starting point to the discussion about the best way to do OOScss in Rails apps and if it is possible to introduce some convention in this subject.

You would need to know the basic context and the origin of this talk to understand it's purpouse and to have any right to judge it.

There is also a note under the very next slide with example linking it with Ian Storm's post. The link is also in the 'further reading' section at the end of the presentation.
Unless you have an excellent track record with a more compelling UX/workflow that works better than existing non-hosted competitors selling a SaaS subscription to a business and expecting them to feel their data is safe will be a hard sell.

One way to get an established track record to sell as a SaaS is to initially start out as a non-SaaS like Adobe did. Once users have confidence in using your product then transitioning to a SaaS model will be easier.
This sounds like a Hollywood magic trick. Tarantino filmed a gruesome headshot to distract censors to get his desired version of Pulp Fiction into cinemas. This might very well be the same thing.

Before we blow-up this topic we probably should collect all the nasty parts hidden in the document and fight-off all of them at once.
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This contradict partially what I read somewhere else, I'll check. But if you will, we can say the normal balance of the world is three third, China, India and Europe.
Same manager is probably leasing their $50k car and will just get another when the lease is up.

People have a hard time putting value on what they cannot touch.
It's mostly there to send messages to your fellow programmers, it seems. The instrumentation jar will enforce the behaviors of the annotations under the Enforceable category.
IMHO - not w/o sacrificing some of the most critical time you'll spend with your children, or without a world-class support system -- but even then, I question whether it is worth it. I tried and gave up. I'm much happier that I did. I'll revisit it at another time.
http://gun.io/ shows a lot of promise.
Ugh, talk about bad timing...
I just spent the last week moving all of my domains from Godaddy to Name cheap. I even looked for a coupon before I did it.
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While not relevant to the top article, I found this link a valuable discussion of the topic at hand. Not clear why you were down voted.
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Exactly, it could actually show an increasing profitability of Adwords overall but skewed towards products that are best suited to this kind of ad thus pricing others out of the system.
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Sounds like you're going down a terrible path, but I'll help you fan the flames:

http://www.regular-expressions.info/lookaround.html

(?<!si)ze

And by saying this is a terrible path, I mean, spelling and grammar are highly irregular with all sorts of exceptions. Unless you can distill down rules that will always exist, like 'z' will never be turned to an 's' if 'si' precedes it, then I think you're better just building a dictionary of substitutions. If you have to for some reason express this in regex only, then build a simple wordlist of substitutions and run a script on it to convert it to regex, e.g., \b(analyze|theorize|rationalize)\b
Never listen to your Adwords reps - they're usually extremely uninformed about anything except the Google party line.
Newry City Marathon 2013 a runaway success
Or to register names they don't care about that much :-)
Not sure I understand this sentiment. This same manager would likely be buying a 15k used car outright if he's worried about paying for software over time.

The problem that I have with SaaS is that most companies pursuing it's business model fail at the value option. Take Freshbooks for instance - I started using their service 3 years ago for 9$ per month. This got bumped to 14$ per month. I now have to pay 20$ per month for the same service I got 3 years ago (very little has been added of value to me). I could have bought a stand alone invoicing solution for $100 once and been far better off (I'm now trying to find a good one).

SaaS is often a really crummy deal for the customer and we all know it.
Why not do both? All depends on how large the market is for each of those options. We offer our product (online appointment scheduling) both as Software to be downloaded and as SaaS. Two in three people prefer to download and install the Software but there are enough who have no problems paying a monthly fee that saves them the hassle of installing and maintaining the Software.
If you are interested, I am a freelancer and I develop MVP in two weeks. http://munda.me for more information
10,000 Hours May Not Make a Master After All
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200Kb for a background image? I could say a few things, none of them complimentary.
They are not the only bullshit-free service but are actually costlier than, at least by $ 4-5, all other bullshit-free competitors.

my current registrar doesn't spam me, doesn't pester me to buy their XYZSD and never adds anything else in the cart and their interface is fairly clean and costs almost 1/2 for the .com.
This guy is funded by Sequoia and gets to take his daughter along with him on business trips, and hire sitters that the hotel finds (who must be expensive).

There are founders and then there are Founders. There are people who've been recognized by VCs as social equals, and who are real executives within VC-istan but still found companies; then there are the long-shot "let's see if this kid makes a miracle happen" founders on audition.

He's in the first set. He's already made it. His investors are OK with him taking his daughter on business trips, which they wouldn't be if he were some unestablished schmuck like most of us. They'd never be okay with paying for the airfare. So for him the answer is "Yes". But if you're trying to break into VC-istan, I'd say "No". It's not only the hours and travel, but also the income volatility and low wages. Of course, there are lots of businesses outside of VC-istan for which different rules apply.
Some people also think using animal products isn't ethical and inconvenience themselves to avoid it. But you probably don't want to build a mass market business on that.

For the record, I don't pirate music anymore. Spotify has made pirating too inconvenient.
http://www.hokstad.com/compiler - it's about two years since I published any of it, but I have 3 new complete parts now written in the last month and a half. Just "buffering" a couple more before I start posting them again.
In the example situation the choice wasn't quite so clear, as IP was on the line too.

Regardless:

A customer wants to pay an exorbitant fee up front, and you're fretting? Why? Take their money.
DRM in HTML5 makes the comment not just warranted, but a statement of the obvious. If that is provocative, then I say provoke.
Tell me paranoid, but I'd never use something like this! you are sending the messages to a random dude on the internet who created this API.
The old photostream layout is there. Append ?details=1 to the URL.
Did Namecheap graduate from Y Combinator? If not, how are they getting away with spamming the front page.

Or does this count as news?
Mercurial has "hg clone --uncompressed", which really cuts down clone time at the expense of bandwidth.
If you liked this article, you might like "Knowledge Representation in Sanskrit and Artificial Intelligence" http://www.aaai.org/ojs/index.php/aimagazine/article/view/46... (free)
There is a serious disconnect here. Listen to the howls if someone suggests you should rent your media but have no problem telling you to rent your software.
At first, as the movie started and one of the US troops was trying to teach those Afghan troops not to shit, eat, and clean themselves in the same spot, gauging by the response of the Afghan in-charge, I figured it was a pointless and insulting thing to do...

Than as I watched more of the movie, I realized that more than likely that Afghan group was doing exactly that - and there was probably some type of hazard going among them.

I'm about 30 minutes into the movie, and I really can't make sense of the buffoonery and self-destructive behavior displayed by the Afghan side. Is a product of nature, culture, situation ... what is it?

Though what I can make sense of, is why historically the only successful means of controlling and stabilizing that region of the world was -> strong-rule <- (like the Taliban's). Because it must of cut right through all that bullshit.

I'm not sure how the US troops must put up with all the crap.
I think it's like this:

They are purchasing a social media campaign by paying each twitter re-tweeter $(DOMAIN_PRICE_FOR_DOT_COM - 0.98), out of which of them will not claim their payment.

And I am simply recommending a good service, the one I use and like, to my followers. Without being strong-armed.
That seems to be a long discussion about polyamory and how it applies to religion (???)
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Hi there, I'm the CEO of Freelancer.com. I'd be interested to know what problem you ran into?
A supplier who wants to switch from pay-once to pay-monthly is either going to be charging me less or charging me more.

If they claim they'll be charging me less, that leaves me confused as to why they think the change is in their interests, unless they actually anticipate charging me more.
Scrolls - New timesink or is it something better?
Would this be another quasi-programming addiction as Minecraft?
German railways to test anti-graffiti drones
I would second that.

Why not just source from within the community?
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Same thing happens to me at a lot of sites. It's infuriating. Especially when I contact the owner and offer a detailed explanation of why this is bad, and they respond explaining how it's not. I might support legislation that outlaws this. Maybe just a small fine to start. I also think if companies do this they should face increased punitive damages in the case of identity theft.
Any word on the guy trying to go from newbie to master of golf in 10,000 hours?
Obviously, not all SaaS is created equally and a recurring fee isn't always the best idea. Especially for SaaS or PaaS offerings that people aren't used to paying for in the first place or are trying to disrupt services that are free.

Recurring monthly charges by no means need to be the default and customers should be wary. What if they don't like it? Is there a cancellation fee? How is the time billed - is it hourly or monthly? How much does it cost to upgrade to a better tier of service (if one exists)? If they work in a company, will they need to get monthly approval to continue the service, or (speaking from experience here) will they be bugged by their forgetful accountant every month for the charge on the company account? Probably most of all, what happens when I don't pay (mentioned in the article) - does my service suspend, is it limited, am I forwarded to a collections agency?

"Buy-to-own" or "Buy-to-access" is a much simpler model - far fewer questions need to occur on the path to payment. There's less value that needs to be determined to justify the expense, even if the initial expense is higher. Some of the same questions above still apply, like, "what if they don't like it?" - but the answers tend to be simpler ("You get a full refund" vs. "You're S.O.L. and still owe us for 72 hours of processing time", etc.).
Show HN: Streamline marketing projects easily
Hi HN,

I've just built a little web app that helps marketing team streamline project progress and collaborate more effectively. It's not as powerful as Basecamp or Jira because I want to make it simple and lightweight enough to help marketers better manage their projects without hassel. Would definitely enjoy any feedback.

Link: http://gratifyapp.me

Thanks,
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This seems especially difficult for a web-based model, and I've personally questioned why anyone would want SaaS when:

1. The company already pays for and supports infrastructure.

2. The company already has a development/IT department that can support an installed product.

3. Viable Open Source alternatives (often using open standards) exist and can be tailored specifically to the company's business needs, either by the in-house team or by eager contractors.

It seems to me that the majority of SaaS providers don't have a way to make their data interoperable with their competitors' products and don't have a way to tailor their product to the specific needs of the business. Worse, there is an impression that SaaS services will offer support better than having someone internal to the company learn an installed or custom tool, when the reality is that many SaaS companies throw up a Get Satisfaction page and call it a day.

To me, a better SaaS sales pitch would include a few key points:

1. Describe the way that the company's data can be taken elsewhere and how well it will work. ("If you decide to cancel, you can push this button and drop the downloaded data directly into X-competitor's product, but we hope to impress you enough with our offering that you never need to do that.")

2. Describe the concrete benefits of a recurring payment over a one-time or per-upgrade fee. ("We are constantly making improvements and refinements to the product based on real client use. Here is a list of the last two iterations of updates, which happened on our regularly scheduled update cycle of X weeks/months.")

3. Describe the specific support and technical infrastructure that the SaaS provides that the company would have trouble or lag time implementing themselves. ("We constantly adjust our infrastructure to your needs, implementing load balancing, reporting, localization, etc. Our techs are on-call via phone/VoIP for your support issues during our regular business hours if there are any issues.")

I'm not suggesting that SaaS isn't a viable business model. I merely posit that the real and valid objections purchasers may have to locking themselves into a perpetual SaaS contract have not been addressed within this post, and are quite common with SaaS products in general. Rephrasing how you present the contract may sell better, but it doesn't change what you're offering.
> Suddenly your $20 per month product looks very expensive once it has been multiplied by 10, 50 or 100 years

Doesn't look expensive at all to me. These are values I imagine spending on toilet paper.

$2k / 10 years
$10k / 50 years
$20k / 100 years
Would you rather pay a percentage of the payment you receive or a monthly fee like Freshbooks charges?
There are many considerations. For example, buyer may capitalize the expense and amortize it sooner: on their schedule, not yours schedule of payments, and get it off tax base sooner. The budgets for R&D (your contracting rate) may be different than budget for software purchases. Depending ob legislation, they may get tax credits for R&D work (even though done by a contractor). They may have budget now, but are not sure about later, but still want software to work, no matter what
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A customer wants to pay an exorbitant fee up front, and you're fretting? Why? Take their money.

I agree. If you're bummed about the result, then I suspect that you priced at least one of the options incorrectly.

First pricing rule: price so that no matter what your customer selects, even if it's to not do business with you, you're indifferent.
This resonates with me pretty well, even though I don't have such long experience. However, my wife has a small website selling vintage items to Japanese customers, so we have some experience with online advertising over the last couple of years.

Apparently, Google isn't as strong in Japan as Yahoo. At least for the demography that reaches my wife's website over the last couple of years. We see this quite clearly on (organic) site visits.

Given this, I would assume that advertising on Google would be cheaper than Yahoo Ads in Japan. However, it's not the case. Google adwords are far more expensive and deliver far worse results for the same campaigns. Maybe competition in this niche is not well informed/stupid and uses Adwords more than Yahoo, which drives the price up, but to me it doesn't make sense. If Yahoo gives better bang for the buck (and it does!), then advertisers would naturally shift there, which would raise the Yahoo price, and reduce Google's. However, that does not seem to be the case. It feels like Google is somehow inflating the prices not completely in line with supply/demand.
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A comment he made on the article:

> In fact, twice we actually had negative cash (ie, far more debt owed to the bank than cash) and struggled to even make payroll or cover rent. At one point we had to layoff over half of our employees and make payroll by taking an advance out on a credit card – that was just before my wife gave birth.

I guess being a wealthy founder with a family is a sound idea, but being employed by one, not so much.
For us:

- Yahoo homepage (for publishers more than for startups) (brief spike)

- Tweeted by people with tons of followers (brief spike)

- Google news (yes, still) (brief spike)

- Viral on Facebook (tends to be more sustained)
Those are hunting rifles. Forget the 'assault' part or whatever, an AK47 is not something a civilian should have at home.
Wrote a post on this a week ago: „The Ultimate-Guide to Hiring a Freelancer“ (http://franzisk.us/2013/05/08/the-ultimate-guide-to-hiring-a...). I usually go for oDesk but you better apply some filters to your search or select candidates by hand to apply to your job. I think your main problem is what Trevor McKendrick called “(you) Pay them to Code, not Think“ (http://www.trevormckendrick.com/contracting-developers/). Other great option is Reddit's „for hire“ subreddit. Good luck!
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So, notes?

- Lots of people doing effectively nothing.

- Low morale.

- Ad-hoc training of Afghan army/police.

- Lack of national identity.

- Poor mobility.

- Lack of intelligence.

- Communication problems.

- No clear strategic objectives or clear plans to achieve desired processes
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"new deals"?
if the camera catches a naked 8 year old, who will go to prison for taking a pedophile picture that the administrator will see?
This is what winning looks like:

From this...
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/20/world/taliban-s-ban-on-pop...

to this...
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/16/world/asia/afghanistan-opi...