18:[[6457443,{"by":"vincentellis","descendants":18,"id":6457443,"kids":[6457747,6458014,6457816,6468363,6457982,6466608,6466982,6457972,6457572,6467690,6461657,6457622],"score":13,"text":"$19","time":1380295409,"title":"Supporting a talented wife in our misogynistic industry","type":"story","url":""}],[5923495,{"by":"noobplusplus","descendants":21,"id":5923495,"kids":[5923527,5923896,5924195,5923519,5930823,5925326,5923510,5924593],"score":9,"text":"I want to earn some money for living.

Big Data is booming, and I want to strike the rod while it is hot. Just want to make some money, doing low end consultancy.

I have 2 years of professional python development experience, and freelancing with django/flask.

Big Data will fetch more $s per hour. So I want to shift to big data. Could someone please throw in pointers, as to where should I start, so that at the end of say 2 months, I start doing some low end freelancing on big data plucking some low hanging fruits.

I am not looking for shortcuts, but then I do not want to be researcher. My goals are simple, learn which shall be able to fetch me revenue.

Let me know what and how much, and I shall put in efforts.

It will be good of people to tell me the areas I should focus on, maybe start off with a problem itself, and learn whatever it takes to solve the problem, thus acquiring the skillsets, and using those to charge clients.

Also where would I find clients?

Please let me know, thanks.","time":1371907200,"title":"Ask HN :How to become a low-end big data consultant?","type":"story","url":""}],[5623691,{"by":"nahcub","descendants":3,"id":5623691,"kids":[5623813,5660988,5628612],"score":3,"text":"","time":1367200599,"title":"Ask HN: How can one gauge interest for an idea?","type":"story","url":""}],[5644776,{"by":"DanI-S","descendants":3,"id":5644776,"kids":[5644961,5660974],"score":7,"text":"","time":1367505998,"title":"Remind HN: Design does not always mean Graphic Design","type":"story","url":""}],[5592706,{"by":"pbj","descendants":12,"id":5592706,"kids":[5593845,5592803,5592954,5592793,5593025,5599193,5592732,5592891,5593165],"score":5,"text":"Anyone have any suggestions on good small cities in the US? I currently live in a medium sized city in the southeast but would love a change of venue. I'm looking for a town with low crime, progressive politics, reasonably affordable cost of living, and decent nightlife and tech scenes. Some of the places I've been considering are Madison, Boulder, etc, but I'd love to hear of some more suggestions.","time":1366679192,"title":"Ask HN: What are some good small cities in the US?","type":"story","url":""}],[5004491,{"by":"mikkel","descendants":12,"id":5004491,"kids":[5005450,5005126,5006314,5004588,5018547],"score":11,"text":"Hi HN, how do you choose the passion projects you are working on?

I just wrote an entry about how I find my ideas - http://first10.255bits.com/wordpress/2013/01/01/how-to-find-your-product-in-a-sea-of-prospects/

TLDR: I write down one idea a day as an exercise and then choose which idea to productize when I have enough time to implement it.","time":1357245229,"title":"Ask HN: How do you find product ideas?","type":"story","url":""}],[5000926,{"by":"creativebeing","descendants":34,"id":5000926,"kids":[5000947,5003291,5002318,5001129,5001111,5001092,5002329,5000973,5000939],"score":15,"text":"I want to be financially independent by age 35, as in im no longer forced to work. Would a college degree be worth it for the knowledge and salary increase in achieving this goal, or would it be better to learn on my own and be self employed.","time":1357184602,"title":"Ask HN: college degree","type":"story","url":""}],[4822252,{"by":"Giszmo","descendants":4,"id":4822252,"kids":[4822700,4825158],"score":5,"text":"A friend has a situation. A co-worker repeatedly said stuff in front of clients that are complete no-goes insulting the clients and disqualifying other colleagues the clients depend on. My friend works closely with this colleague and they normally act as a team of two so there are no other witnesses. How can he act to protect the company from damage done by this colleague without taking damage himself?","time":1353680107,"title":"How to denounce a colleague?","type":"story","url":""}],[4813151,{"by":"rheotron","descendants":7,"id":4813151,"kids":[4813189,4814736,4819551,4819544,4813433,4813365,4814133],"score":7,"text":"My start up just recently received a small amount of seed funding from an incubator ($5000). My team is made of three of us, none of us have ever really done anything like this before (we're all technical). So my question is, what do we do from here? At this point, we have a prototype that works really well, but we're running it off a server that one of us is hosting and I think we need something bigger. What things should we be looking at to do now that we have some funds? Do we need to start talking to lawyers, register as a company, etc?","time":1353480488,"title":"Ask HN: Just received a small amount in funding. What do we do now?","type":"story","url":""}],[4812354,{"by":"smartial_arts","descendants":5,"id":4812354,"kids":[4814636,4817581,4812397],"score":5,"text":"$1a","time":1353462301,"title":"Ask HN: Customer Development? Really?","type":"story","url":""}],[4572919,{"by":"rkjbnz","descendants":1,"id":4572919,"kids":[4572986],"score":1,"text":"Hi, Im am working with a UI designer and a UX designer on our latest project and finding that both want our app to be completely perfect before we start showing anyone. I have read a lot about the lean startup methods and getting a product out there to learn and receive feedback, which will help guide the polish process but both designers believe first impressions matter and regardless of how many people see it, it has to be perfect. My idea is to show people early to validate the idea and see what people think, but I also understand design influences. Showing a product that might functionally work but has a crappy UI and confusing flow might not be good but creating a slick UI can take a lot of time.<p>I'm interested to hear others thoughts on this. I understand both points of view and wonder if anyone here has strictly followed lean startup methods and has any negative first impressions from an unpolished product?","time":1348610482,"title":"Ask HN: Do all designers want perfection from the start?","type":"story","url":""}]]

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