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Location (You, client and designer (City, State)), programming language and frameworks.

Is this simple or advanced work in your opinion?

You will need to add money to cover the following and should have different rates for your designer depending on the level of effort, experience they have and the skill set required.

You need to get paid for: Taxes, food, rent/mortgage, gas, vacation, medical, dental, sick days, vision, savings, rainy day money, retirement, investments, entertainment, software, hardware, an accountant, other businesses expenses and any other things you may want or need for your job. So these should be added to that final rate that you charge the client per individual.

Since they want to take you on full time I recommend forming a business (at least an L.L.C.) and have your designer and anyone else you need as a contractor or employee to you. This would allow you to hire more people and get a higher rate than what you are receiving now along with more flexibility in growing with the client.

I recommend creating a chart with all of your current and possible future expenses for an entire year so you can get a better look at where the money will disappear too. As there might be some things that are now showing up for you now that you might only see when you have everything in front of you.

For your contract I recommend preparing things to take to a business lawyer first by breaking it down into separate projects and pay rates for you vs the designer. This can be the same rate if you want it to be but normally someone doing development/engineering/programming/architecture work is paid a higher amount than someone doing design unless it is high end design(architectural drawings, advanced 3D simulations, etc.).

Work up a summary of work along with official documentation on what is expected for each role, the minimum hours per week, business hours, what you require from the client and milestone deadlines, what the penalty costs are if deadlines are not reached or required information is not given, along with wording on an agreement for changes that occur and what the cost of said changes are after x amount of time. Do you supply your own hardware, or will the client supply it for you. As depending on what is required you may be classified by law as an employee of the company or a contractor, which you will need to check with an attorney about.

Once you have a draft ready have an attorney take a look over what you have so you can make sure you are covered legally with the business your are working with along with any of your contractors. Also take a look at the rates of people along with their benefits on popular salary sites so you can get a better idea of what your rate and your designers rate should be set at.
A person can have multiple identities, and not all identities are associated with specific people.
Most spell checkers are missing a ton of words, especially abbreviations/short forms and technical terms. If you're writing a document where every line has a red underline somewhere under it, and a quick glance shows you that all (or nearly all) of those red underlines are wrong, ignoring them or disabling the spell check can seem like the easier solution.
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But by looking at how the numbers compare using different denominators, we can shed some light on the cause. By looking at deaths/distance we can determine if distance driven is the cause, or if it is another factor. (Obviously, it is a combination of factors, but that is beside the point.)
Similarly, in 2011, it was shown that in-phone motion-sensors could be used to deduce typing in other apps:

Android: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/08/17/android_key_logger/

iPhone: http://www.wired.com/2011/10/iphone-keylogger-spying/
"Education is the art of conveying a sense of truth by telling a series of decreasing lies."

Nice.
90% of All Data Was Created in the Past Two Years. And it's accelerating
Slack is obviously not killing emails as they are advertising through lot of PR. They have 150K active users so far. However one thing that they are correctly going after is fantastic search abilities for our own data that would include all emails, chat, attachments etc. My feeling is that eventually communication client that excels in search would indeed surface to the top. This client would then drive communication standards of the future, including emails. So in essence, problem is not integration of desperate sources of communication, but ability to search them efficiently.
His website [1] is one of the most impressive websites on the internet. Famo.us got nothin' on him!

First time I heard about Steven was when I saw this [2] post last year.. the best part is that he leaves many easter eggs or "achievements" around for you to discover :)

[1] acko.net
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6268610
That is interesting, where I live in Southwest Missouri, the news talks about it quite a bit. That and you see various related random statistics on MoDOT signs all over the place.
You can do metaprogramming in Ruby without using the reflection features of the language:

http://infraruby.com/blog/ruby-metaprogramming-with-s-expres...

http://infraruby.com/blog/the-structure-of-s-expressions

http://infraruby.com/blog/generating-an-html-generator
Software on your smartphone can speed up lithium-ion battery charging (up to 6x)
IIRC IntelliJ does some things like this:

1. It's a polyglot IDE and open-source.

2. Specialized tools for exporting to multiple languages/DSLs.
Wow, this looks like an awesome project. As a pretty fanatic Emacs user who doesn't much like IDEs, I've always wanted a nice editor-agnostic IDE ecosystem that I could just plug into Emacs. I've seen language-specific things, which are great but naturally linked to their language, and Emacs-specific monstrosities like CEDET, but never anything trying to be truly universal.

Very promising.

For some reason though, I can't help but mentally parse "Srclib" as "Scribd" :/.
I have a better idea; municipally subsidized automated agriculture, to be distributed to all citizens.

This has the added benefit of removing fear of starvation from starting a business, or from doing charity work. Housing and other costs are still an issue, but money's gotta come from somewhere. Printing more of it devalues the money, building automated farms will not devalue food.
Where are the European Googles?
This article from May is extremely pertinent to today's news: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-28793055 about how Chinese detention ad isolation has "Destroyed" the most famous Chinese human rights lawyer.
Obviously, with enough resources the information can be extracted. The US or Russia clearly have enough resources to either dig through technically or simply threaten to murder those who don't cooperate.

However, the real issue is that very powerful people are using these techniques. So, governments have to worry that they're going to accidentally trip over somebody who is powerful enough to cause problems. If you are a bureaucrat examining what you think are low-level offenders but accidentally stumble onto something held by Vladimir Putin, you're going to bury that post haste so as not to endanger your life.
> probably do speak JavaScript more fluently than I do English

Ah, a feeling many of us know too well.
Sounds like google's circles. The problem is that most folks treat their Gmail account as their "real" account and don't give it out willy-nilly. Also, that the circles thing is one-way - I can use circles to control how I see others, but can't use them to control how they see me.
His team found that if they heated the fibers for 24 hours at a little over 350 degrees Fahrenheit, and then blasted the resulting material with more intense heat, it would exfoliate into carbon nanosheets.

Sounds like a similar process to the carbon-complex stuff that the ryden battery people are making from cotton. Nano materials might be easier to get in industrial quantities than I had previously thought, if you can strip them out of plants rather than having to build them up chemically. There presumably is an interesting crossover point here with genetic engineering, where you could alter a plant genome to encourage the formation of particular structures.
I've been bitten before by some of the problems regarding Unity and collaboration with source control. Everyone wants to test out their changes on the same scene, but it just blows up when you go to merge... even if you use a dumb merge strategy like ours or theirs (as a Git user) it seems to break things. Unity seems really cool, but I'm never going to use it again for any project with more than one programmer.
Ask HN: Hobbies for RSI sufferers that don't use hands much?
Due to some RSI problems, I need to limit my hand usage for a while. All of my current hobbies heavily involve hands, though: anything on the computer, writing, most musical instruments...

Any suggestions? I'm especially looking for creative hobbies, something where I can create things.
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I recently started getting to know Unity3d and it was extremely easy and quick to learn. One annoying discovery was that their variant of JavaScript is not real JavaScript, it's "UnityScript". It took me quite some time to convert a simple script that I had written for node.js to UnityScript.

I need the pro version of Unity3d to generate iOS, Android or VR games for the Oculus Rift.
For someone who is just doing a bit of indie development, that's too expensive.

So I checked out UE4 also. You can subscribe for a month for $19 and then continue using the version that was the current version during your one month of subscription. If you need updates later on, subscribe for another month.

UE4 is harder to learn but looks a lot better than Unity OOTB.

Anyway, I hope Unity will be competitive again regarding pricing with the imminent announcement of their 5.0 release.
> Biologically, it's still reproductive failure.

No, biological reproductive failure is literally defined as either infertility or sterility.

> A culture that chooses to not have children is a culture that has decided to stop existing.

Cultures don't have children, people do. You can be a culturally midwestern white and phenotypically east asian [1]. I suspect you mean "race" here, which of course is merely a social construct.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_Ge4F4E9JE
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BVS/BVC -- same as the PDP11

Well, the concept of condition type "trap" didn't appear until deep pipelining. However, hardware very much supported condition codes. In fact, the reason why condition codes disappeared was because of deep pipelining--you had to wait for the full result in order to compute carry, overflow, etc.

However, I can tell you from painful personal experience that the 6809 ISA had an overflow condition code.
Google Glass app designing for all
Was watching as it displayed the exact correct time. What kind of black magic is this?! Hahaha. Very cool widget.
It's not as miraculous as some people in the US will go on and on about. I mean, it is definitely a useful plant but it's legal in many countries and hasn't become a major crop.
Yeah, all. Or so close as to be indistinguishable from all.

If I'm really being pedantic, overflow detection was probably more prevalent than two's complement arithmetic at one point.

Directly from the PDP11 ISA:

BVC/BVS -- branch on overflow set/clear

Y'all need to go refresh your memory/study some history before arguing about this more. :)
I see, so you're going to argue against historical company towns instead of my as-yet-undetermined suggestion. Do you honestly think a civilized country or informed internet would allow a company town to exist if it behaved like the historical company towns? They'd be up in arms as soon as they found out.

Though, to be fair. We have "company towns" right now in Dubai and those oil-rich middle-east cities. Guess who's turning a blind eye? The government's where the cities are, and the governments of those immigrants being taken advantage of. They're ignored by both sides.
Fantastic advice. Thank you.

To answer your questions:

My Location: Toronto, ON.
Client: Orange County, CA.
Designer: San Fran, CA/Bangaldesh India (he's back and forth).

Combined Programming Language/Framework exp: Rails 4.0, Ruby 2.0, JavaScript, JQuery, CSS3, HTML5, AJAX, Vast understanding of web architecture (http, TCP/IP etc...)

The work itself is quite advanced compared to other projects I've worked on. I feel a bit strange boosting the hourly rate up double but the reality is, taking a project like this on fulltime I need to make sure that my needs are met/covered.
"Attacks always get better; they never get worse." – The NSA[1]

[1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4270#section-6
This post seems half-hearted to me. It reads something like "Myth: Square is more expensive. Truth: No, we're not". If you want to be convincing, show me some numbers or at least give me some details. Even then, I am not sure I would ever post something like this. I was not aware that Square is fighting all these myths until now. I think I would have chosen "response" blog posts linking to specific, false, articles.
Pattern matching in C# would be a rather big departure and change. And then to match F#'s level of deconstruction, that'd be neat. C# can become F# if it wants, they just have to add in features. They've been hesitant to do so based on limitations of the compiler codebase, as well as fears that C# might get too difficult for mediocre programmers.

I'm not sure how new List<string> { "a", "b" } is more readable than new List<_> {"a", "b"), but hey, sure, if you want to argue type inference is bad, go for it. F# also lacks loop constructs like break/continue.

I don't feel I've misrepresented C# at all to make it look bad. I've written a lot of C# code and a fair amount of F# code. Line by line, char-by-char, expression-by-expression, F# is simply much less code. Those examples are just things off the top of my head, from real codebases.

C#'s alright, because the competition (like Java) is laughable. So in that sense, it's "great". In absolute terms, it doesn't measure up (and this isn't a secret, bit-by-bit C# adopts features F# proved out.)

Units-of-measurements are implemented via erasure, yes. How would you represent float<m> externally to make it available to common types, but without losing performance? The compiler consuming them would need to be aware of it. And at runtime, you certainly don't want extra overhead, and I don't think the CLR has any efficient way of exposing primitives with additional type info. It's an unfortunate tradeoff.
DDS as an alternative to ZeroMQ into Actor Based Systems like akka using scala
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I've been unclear. The chunks were randomized within the manuscript, but the words within the chunks were left in order.

I randomized the chunk-ordering so I got dropped into a different part of the story every few hundred words. This was sufficient to keep me from getting too involved in the narrative, while allowing me to read complete sentences, thereby being able to do the human-level stuff which you correctly point out is so important.
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Metalua is a good example of a macros with an Algol-like syntax. It's built on top of Lua - as you might guess from the name.

http://metalua.luaforge.net/quicktour.html
These responses are obviously biased, and the language they use tends to make the responses even seem 'fixed'. An analogy is the Philip Morris CEO in 1994 famously saying he did not believe that cigarettes are addictive and killing people.

For example: "...the reports that we tried to sell the company, or of a delayed IPO? False. We're here for the long-term."

Is that really true though? Isn't it well established and known that Square postponed their IPO?
Can you recommend any good resources that you found during your research?
libruby, if that is the core of the interpreter, weighs 2MB. That's not gonna fly, even with heavy size optimization it would be unbearably slow, even on just a subset.
You are right, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email quotes 1982, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web 1989

Either way, my point still stands that besides the rapid development of the "internet", we have yet to see another standard emerge (besides OAuth and Bitcoin)
> As you might imagine, this operation is HIGHLY DANGEROUS.There’s nothing to stop you from transmuting 0 into a borrow, &T and then trying to dereference it. Voila, null pointer dereferencing in Rust!

Is this right? Why doesn't this function need to be marked unsafe?
It's not technically legal in any country because of a UN treaty. I think part of the reason it hasn't 'taken off' in countries where laws aren't enforced/it's decriminalized/etc is because you can't transport it over the border, you can't sell to big clients in America (or anywhere else), the laws regarding distribution on such a large scale aren't clear enough even in places where it is "legal" so no one wants to put all their eggs in the marijuana basket at this point.
For a constant like size_of, can you not eliminate the function call and make it a value? Just mem::size_of<T> ?
I'm descended from a Seychellois family on my mother's side (hence my French name). It's a rotten paradise, sadly.
> Do you honestly think a civilized country or informed internet would allow a company town to exist if it behaved like the historical company towns?

If you want to propose something that is distinct from the historical phenomenon labelled "company towns", I suggest you use a different name (though your description seems to fit exactly into the historical mold, so I'm not going to be convinced that there is a meaningful difference unless you have a concrete explanation as to how your model would avoid recurrence of those problems once the laws put in place that would prevent anything on that model in most US jurisdictions that were motivated by the experience of company towns, such as state and federal laws imposing minimum wages and requiring that such be paid in cash or equivalents, were repealed to allow your new-model company towns.)

> Do you honestly think a civilized country or informed internet would allow a company town to exist if it behaved like the historical company towns?

Well, no, absent compelling arguments otherwise, I'm rather convinced that a country that allowed "company towns" as you have described them, given the historical experience that demonstrates the problems with that model, would, in that respect at least, be, ipso facto, uncivilized.
According to Google, Texarkana has 32k residents, so I'm betting not much.

But examples of moving within a metro area that has a larger population (NYC->NJ/CT, DC->MD/VA) might actually be statistically meaningful.
Does anyone have some really good examples of metaprogramming? I bought a book on Ruby Metaprogramming and the examples seemed to be all about disguising a string parameter as a member name. So for instance:

foo.somefield

Versus:

foo["somefield"]

And variations on that theme. While it's cute, I guess (you're not type checking anyways so nothing lost, I suppose), I don't really get it.
C is just an advanced macro-assembler anyway.

Would seem painful enough as soon as speed or size became limited. C then was not as optimized as today. Old games used to be written in assembler, now the eeproms are bigger, the compilers are faster and portable.
I don't think I would, currently don't pay for any news subscriptions. As someone, mentioned it's free. Which is interesting because even though I can get my TV shows and movies for free online I do pay for it with a subscription to Netflix and Hulu.

Maybe the difference is that I see news as temporary. Once I read it I want newer information, not really to go back to old news. Certain long form articles I bookmark but I find I rarely even go back to those. With TV Shows and Movies I can always go back and get some enjoyment from re-watching. Maybe the news doesn't have that lasting value that I feel justifies spending that I do for other forms of medium of information such as books.

I think for me to pay for news it has to not be easily reproduced by someone else. You just can't easily make a similar hit sitcom or breaking bad as can others retell what is happening in the world. Though I do want my news to be written and told by professional objective individuals I haven't been able to find a model that gets me to pay yet.

EDITs for grammar.
> The other big obstacle was that the UDK tools which were Windows only. MartianCraft is a shop of (mostly) dyed-in-the-wool Mac folk who’d rather not spend their days using Windows.

That really doesn't seem like a great way to run a railroad.
You sir are absolutely correct. I first read about the uses of hemp a long while ago in Uncle Johns Bathroom reader (I shit you not). And that got me curious and looked into it more and its uses are quite vast and the cost to produce is relatively cheap! But again, existing industries have completely suffocated its growth through political influence and so virtually no one knows about its practicality. Real shame...
Yeah. I agree with you. Just saying each side has a valid point. As employee 10+ with 0.5% equity, there's no chance I'm going to work as much as a founder.

But as a founder or a very early employee, I'm going to try to hire people that work as hard/efficiently as I do.
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Ugh, I forgot I was posting in a pot thread.
I see this and I'm clueless what to do.

http://test.co.s3.amazonaws.com/Screen%20Shot%202014-08-15%2...
Actually, wars of aggression are almost never profitable. Accumulating riches via conquest is almost always a myth, because armies a) destroy much that is of value and b) are unbelievably expensive.

"Wealth through superior firepower" has hardly ever been achieved. Even Rome mostly got rich through trade after its armies conquered Europe and North Africa, and a lawful peace was imposed. Had everyone been economically rational pretty much the same end could have been achieved through trade (spoiler: not everyone is economically rational.)

Simple looting of the kind the Spanish engaged in in the New World was never a very good path to wealth, partly because its first effect was to create massive inflation (if you use gold as money and inject vase amounts of gold into your economy without increased productive capacity, you get inflation, not wealth.)

So the conditions of gaining wealth by war are very, very narrowly defined. It's not impossible, but it's amazingly difficult.

There are defensible moral reasons for engaging in mass organized violence--I support the current American efforts to kill people in Northern Iraq, for example--but economic rationality (profitability) is never one of them, because the first step to creating wealth is never to engage in the wholesale destruction of everything the creation of wealth depends on.
> It strikes me as a bit of a tone-deaf marketing slogan.

They're just telling people what they want to hear, you said so yourself. Asides from techies and designers, most people don't really care about building a highly customized web site. Hell, it seems most WordPress users stick with whatever default theme is included.
Unlike having a nation full of Ferraris, having a nation where at least a replacement-rate of kids are born is necessary to keep it from aging and eventually dying out. Human reproduction is not a random consumer product, but an integral part of the continuation of human societies. Therefore, society puts in place a social system to ensure that kids can be raised, educated, etc., but does not put in place a system to ensure widespread Ferrari ownership.