skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That was the real effect of 9/11 attacks, and this is the goal of actual terrorism. The Two Towers were only a tool, the death toll was so small it doesn't really matter. The US gets several WTC worth of deaths anually in traffic accidents alone.

What the 9/11 attack did is damage the core of Western principles and send the entire population of US into state of paranoia. The massive overreaction of US killed orders of magnitude more people than died in the attack and it is us, not terrorists, who are danger to our own freedoms.
Kexi Project – an open-source visual database applications creator
Photo bought for $2 could be worth $5M
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Hey Hackers,

The Bolt team will be giving demo rides today at DODOcase in San Francisco.

noon to 4pm.

Hope to see you there.
Pivot tables can help there. If you pivot on color, you will more easily see that lone "grey" between the "gray"'s.

You can also copy-paste-as-values a known-good one, and compare what you have know against what you had last week.

And of course, you can enforce an enumeration in Excel. See https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Apply-data-validati...
Not sure if that's sarcasm or not and I know that usually appears only in the news about CEO's who get millions that way anyway, but the CEO's of (usually smaller) companies that have the same compensation plan often just get nothing ($1) when they didn't perform because there simply was no profit (so no dividends) and no-one would buy (parts of) shares because they are down (if the company is publicly trading that is quite a bit more complex). So that seems a far more fair way of compensating and paying out millions for the risk.
The trick is to avoid looking for work on platforms like oDesk (now Upwork) where the world is underbidding you. It’s a positioning and deal flow issue. Ideally you want clients to refer you on to other clients. And maybe you should call yourself a contractor, agency, solo developer—something like that—instead of a “freelancer.”

So it’s possible to do well if you quit your job and work as a freelancer, but you need to spend time handling the business side of things: marketing (e.g. social media presence, open source contributions, writing articles, attending events) and sales (getting referrals, closing leads, etc.)
Is there much of a difference between freelancing and software contracting? I've met a handful people who are part of a company (read: agency) of 1-5 and making really good money ($60/hr+). But they're also in the Bay Area.
You're missing the whole point of 23andme.

It's not a consumer product to analyze your own DNA, that's just a disguise. With machine learning and a large enough population size they will eventually be able to determine the genetic markers that promote every disease. Personalized medicine will be the next breakthrough in medicine and human longevity.

This requires them to have everyone's DNA, trait, and medical history on file.
I get the feeling that some people want others to focus on the thought instead of the action, because their own actions are deplorable and they're just trying to convince everyone that their thoughts are pure.
RE value of polls, there's this quote I love:

"[A]s of 2010, only 34% of people polled strongly supported letting homosexuals serve in the military, but half again as many — a full 51% — expressed that level of support for letting ‘gays and lesbians’ serve in the military. Ever since reading that I’ve worried about how many important decisions are being made by the 17% of people who support gays and lesbians but not homosexuals."

http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/04/15/trouble-walking-down-th...
The way to create "equality" is via the libertarian movement. Get rid of the rules and social safety nets. Hell, let all the immigrants in! If we have a truly libertarian society, than it won't be a problem. Giving government the power to chose who is rich and who is poor is not going to create 'equality' (whatever that means), it's just going to give the government the ability to handicap the able and enable the disabled.

That being said, I don't believe 'equality' is what we need. What we need it is a society that rewards those who teach, learn and work for the good of the community with security and dignity.
So people should not become freelancers, based on your single bad experience, make sense. I was expecting some data backing up your statement or at least proper story.

tl;dr - This guy is freelancer and few days ago he was contacted by stupid client who thought he will work almost for free.
> This is why common sense laws that have majority support from the voters (gun control, marijuana legalization etc...) never get the traction they should. The funders don't want them, and they have the final say, not the voters.

The idea that most politicians are just empty shells that do whatever their funders tell them is just wrong. The truth is that it's cheaper and much more effective for funders to give money to politicians that already support their positions.

Lessig believes that if big money is taken out of politics that politicians will suddenly vote for fixing climate change, pass gun control, etc. But they wont because the ones that are against these things aren't against them because they are told to be, they are against them because they genuinely believe that they are bad policies. It's ideology, not money, that drives them.
In certain circumstances it means an inelegant but effective and cheap workaround, so basically one of the sub-meanings of "hack"
No one mentionned Rundeck: http://rundeck.org/

I've been using it for two years now. This has replaced cron on about 200 nodes.

Not only it does cron, but also helps deploying artefacts (integrated with Jenkins) through simple forms. We now have ops with 0 experience in Linux deploying code.
$60/hr is not particularly good money in the Bay Area.
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I was just telling about my experience working on odesk (read biggest freelance website). This is not first case of stupid client and I'm not first day there.

What kind of backup? Link to my profile? Ok will update post now.
This is all wrong.

Click-bait title. Some thoughts by a discouraged person in a globalised world and a general conclusion that doesn't make any sense if you read the article.

Maybe the OP shouldn't look for projects in oDesk-type websites. I don't do that and I'm really happy working as a freelancer.

For anyone wondering how to find freelance projects. You should go and look for local clients, networking, contact companies that look for developers and try to persuade them that they can count on you too, etc.

It's a really, really, really big sea of possibilities nowadays for developers.
Rundeck can trigger jobs based on Jenkins events, for example.
What was that "Indian/Fillipino guy/girl" part about. Do you thing we don't code? Or is incompetence a function of race in your mind? :(
Having done a paper on cyber war for school, I was surprised to find that the two books that were quoted most often by war theorists were Carl von Clausewitz's "Vom Kriege" and Sun-Tzu's "The Art of War" - one is 200 years old, the other 2000...
>Maybe the OP shouldn't look for projects in oDesk-type websites.

Yeah, definitely not. Bottom feeders all the way.
Lessig is just as electable as anyone out there, but I am not sure he is much of a strategic thinker. He just gave up the one thing that made his #hackthepresidency style campaign interesting.

At this point & with the right campaign you could run a rump roast for the presidency and it'd have a decent shot at grabbing a signficant share of the vote.

I could name way more but Lessig top problems imo are:

He lacks conviction. That rump roast is more red blooded than he is. If you are running for president, you can't just expect to win based on having a few good ideas. You need forcefulness. Someone says you can't attend a debate? You don't kick back and watch it on tv. You show up anyway and have your supporters provoke a riot when they don't let you in. Hopefully the media makes a field day out of it. Arrested? Even better. It fits in with your narrative.

Lessig's next big problem is - He needs an angle. Lessig seems to be too principled to participate in the usual games that gets people to the oval. That puts him at a big disadvantage. If he doesn't like how the sausage is made, he needs a strategy or SOMETHING to compensate for the power the machine gives you. Trump is a natural showman. Rubio is handsome, Ben Carson is a religious nut. Each of these guys is in the race, but Lessig isn't. Until Lessig finds something that gives him some oomph, he might as well just curl up into a fetal.
> America gave birth to the idea of representative democracy

And here was me thinking that was the Greeks. Thousands of years before America existed.
Freelancing in IT is kind of a fantastic global phenomenon really. It allows foreigners like this guy to work "in" another country without being blocked by the artificial market distortion of immigration restrictions. Perhaps there are plenty of freelancers willing to make a web scraper for $15. In that case, this guy's got to find what advantages he has over them so he can compete. Just because American employees get paid more doesn't mean everybody else doing the same type of work also deserves to be paid more if the market decides not to. American employees have a special value of being on site in person which is a service Russians and Filipinos can't provide.
It wasn't always centralized, as I recall. At least, I remember a lot of discussion when the architecture was quietly changed.
Yeah I presume he means 'bitcoin exchanges', since bitcoin itself is obviously still here.
How Far Have Radio Signals Traveled from Earth?
He’s been a lawyer arguing cases and filing amicus briefs w/r/t copyright law and net neutrality, and he’s been an issue-specific activist/lobbyist on those two issues plus, more recently, campaign finance reform. He’s also given a TED talk and written a book outlining zany, politically impossible proposals for tackling the latter issue, and he ran a failed single-issue PAC in 2014.

But that’s a very limited kind of engagement with the overall political system.

If you want to become president, you need to build a broad base of support, which means spending many years organizing, becoming versed in salient political issues, directly working on a wide range of issues with a wide range of other people, leaving a public record and earning credibility. You won’t be able to build a large grass-roots organization, earn endorsements from major institutional political players, build a donor base, etc. on pure message alone. The easiest way to meaningfully engage in a public way is by being elected to political office, but there are probably other possible ways for someone willing to put the years of work in (e.g. as a high-level executive department official, as a career judge, as a military general, ...).

Right now Lessig’s only reputation is as “that guy who doesn’t like copyright, and keeps grandstanding about campaign finance”, but he has no broader credibility as a presidential candidate. Lessig is not “smarter” or “more competent” than the leading candidates; rather, it’s clear that he’s politically naïve in the extreme, has no idea how to run a serious campaign, and would have no idea what to do were he by some miracle elected to high office.
His political ideas have little traction because they're fallacious? I'm pretty sure that already counts as a rare achievement.
> This age is of Knowledge and skills that can create things, solve problems. Sell things on internet. Write book and tell the world. Develop softwares for yourself and others. Earn a living.

As the OP pointed out, most African villagers can barely read, let alone write books or even software.
I understand your frustration, but you dug that hole for your self. If you want $15/h, tell the client that. Or give a quote. When you just leave it to them, of course they will low ball you.
That person was doing manual copy and paste. So yes, they didn't code.
"interestingly this is only ever apparent when a topic comes up that I am an expert in."

Which topic?
The most populous Islamic nation on earth is a massive archipelago, land lubber.
Yep. Exactly!
you missed part "without any programming skills". I know there are good coders from those countries, I was talking about those who underbidding and work for $1 per hour doing manual/low quality work
There's a similar gulf between people who support "more government assistance for people on low incomes" (popular) and people who support "more welfare" (unpopular).

I think certain words are given negative/positive associations by the media and those overtones have a lot more impact if you're only spending 4 seconds per question than if you're really thinking about it.
The secrets of presenting to the boss
People are going to try their luck in negotiations. That's what they do.

"Would $15 be fair to you for this category?"

Counter-offer with something that you think reflects the value you're going to provide. Will she take it? Maybe yes, maybe no - you get idiots in every line of work. If she doesn't take it, and you're dealing honestly, it's her loss.

At the end of the day though, you did let her open. That's kinda on you.
Room in London offered to developers in exchange for help making web app
I rather you paste the entire phrase. On a first glance, it captures right away my attention. But yeah dude he said "for some" so I just skip that and continue reading.
I wonder why they picked L-Theanine for their first experiment - the effects are commonly known (caffeinated tea vs caffeinated coffee). Maybe this knowledge was used deliberately so people "feel" a drug the first time around, and want to keep going.
How many pages on the Internet are written in kiLuba? Lunda? Mambwe? Bemba? Nyanja?
Did you try requests_futures lib? It's all about async and network speed with crawling. Not so much cpu.
I agree: I recently moved my scripts from crontab to systemd timers and there is no going back.
Finally I have a proper way to debug and log. Also on NixOS I can have the unit file and timer generated in very few lines.
Look at this one for example:

"xkcd" = {
description = "send latest xkcd comic";
wants = [ "network.target" ];
startAt = "Mon,Wed,Fri *:0/30";

path = with pkgs; [ telegram-cli ];
serviceConfig = {
User = "rnhmjoj";
Type = "oneshot";
ExecStart = "${cabal}/bin/xkcd";
};
} // basicEnv;
Arbitrage definitely adds value to society. Without arbitrage, traded assets could exist with arbitrary values.

The process of arbitrage involves observing a mis-priced asset and then making a profit from that observation. By doing so, you push the asset towards its correct value. This kind of activity maintains the integrity of a market.
this is a post about Upwork, change the title back...
He's outlined a set of reforms in the 'Citizens Equality Act' and I believe he's started posting his policy papers on broader issues on his site.
My take on the points mentioned:

1. Goroutine memory use - Post happens to be about 1.2 and 1.4 and I started with 1.5.

2. Debugging - yes handling errors are a bit tedious. I have not written much boilerplate to handle errors. I just copy error handlers a lot. Maybe that’s why error strings are a lot common.

3. Goroutine leaks - This is scary, I have used goroutines with channels but properly so far. Yes you can write code that leaks. This is something you will have to check yourself.

4.Testing - not done much.

Overall - I feel author learned of some negative aspects about Go and turned away. Some of them like Goroutine memory footrpint will improve with time (e.g. 1.5 earned a lot of praise for GC improvement). A lot places author mentions possible improvements for e.g godebug or latest Go with SSL but did not try it as much. So it may not be as relevant to new Go adopters.
Source? What is ideal for Bay Area? Most startups I see have salaries around ~$80k (~$32/hr for 48hr week or ~$40/hr for 40hr week)
The hell, the title of the blog does not even relates to the story he had. And that story, is just part of many stories of freelancing as ups and downs.

Why would you ask your Client about the rate if your not ready to hear low ballers deal. Its a competition of doing the job, but that doesn't mean you have to low your price to get the deal. You may do the task for about an hour only but they have to know that you spend hundred of hours to get that done right away.
Are there bots that downloads from rubygems.org?
are there certains bots that download new released gem from RubyGems.org so there is no gem with 0 downloads?
Urgh that's not a source, that's just literally those words. I thought you meant the link was going to substantiate that claim.

If you join a Series A company your stock may well 10x on paper. But what're your chances of actually getting to cash that out? If you join a "unicorn" they can quite probably match the salary and perks you'd get at a large public company, and are likely to give you more stock, which probably still has better odds of getting a decent bump than the large public company stock does. Heck, apart from anything else, the "IPO bump" is a thing.
I was just going through the list of possible interview questions (http://www.frontendhandbook.com/practice/interview-q.html)... Am I the only (mediocre) Front-end dev that has problems answering these questions? I always start doubting myself when I don't know the answer to basic questions like "Are there any problems with serving pages as application/xhtml+xml?". All these questions ring a bell somewhere, but I have no idea how to turn that into a good answer at an interview... Whenever I run into problems I just try to fix them... I'd like to think that's more important than this factual knowledge.
Is it possible that it's just a typo, though?
Uber and Airbnb are very much about financial engineering. Most of their edge comes from tax avoidance and regulatory avoidance.
I have solidarity with your point of view. However, I'm French and I once lived in Australia for 3 years. And I can tell you that their programmers know what they're doing, better, on a massive scale, than the French IT sector. They know when to align behind the boss (which is surprising for a French guy) but still know how to stir internal debate, they have understandings of marketing and economics, they master several languages each, they output software faster with better quality. We get paid twice more in Australia than France, and the job requirement was twice higher. It's not even personal skills, it's sometimes how we act in teams.

We need to be humble, fellow Indian/Fillipino guy/girl. Yet they hired me, because as Agile as they are, they don't know anything about CMMi-based corporations ;)
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> This bullshit stops only when laws are on the books

Absolutely. Handling personal data[1] absolutely must carry liability. If you move customer data as a black box, common carrier style, then your liability can be limited to a refund. If, on the other hand, you inspect the data in any way, then you're liable for that happens to and everything derived from that

This idea that companies can gather all the data they want without any consequences for mishandling that data is patently unethical.

[1] all personal data, not just "personally identifying information". 2nd and 3rd parties do not get to make the decision about what data is important.
Sergey, one advice - please do NOT work for $15/hr. All it takes to charge $XXX/hr (or $8X-$9X/hr ) is just to ask for it. Seriously. And keep away from odesk/upwork/etc.. race to the bottom sites. Search and contact prospective clients yourself - as if you'd looking for standard job. No middle-man is needed here.
I used to get contracts through oDesk/UpWork as well ( https://www.upwork.com/freelancers/~015eaccf9967b4f9f4 )
However the quality of the jobs I can apply for are a continuously going backwards, even if the quality I am able to deliver is really high compared to many other freelancer on the platform. This is why I almost do not use UpWork to do my freelancing anymore.
We use ayncio and async/await coroutines of Python 3.5 on each of our packages.

I hope that PyPy will have a Py3.5 compatible interpreter someday, but CPython is good enough for now.
but if Obama man is friends with this kind of business he is probably not a friend of the small guy, isn't he?
Thanks for the advice. Actually I already started to search full time job. Enough odesk freelancing for me. :)
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> the ecosystem is still running 2.7. I cant wait to switch to Py3.

Which one? Pyramid and SQLAlchemy work like a charm in Py3. Until you really name what your need is, that's just fud.
BK0010-01 is there. ES series was a line of IBM clones (from System/360 to XTs) and were really meant for enterprise use.

Some original developments, like Vector-06c are missing though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector-06C
So, if you're referring to Indonesia, how many burials at sea are they known for? (discounting the scattering of cremated ashes)

We're talking only whole bodies, dunked in the drink.

I'm going to ball park it at less than 10%, probably dialing in at perhaps 1%, or at most 2%.
Difference between Google and Facebook explained by one who has worked at both
The page's actual title is "...become Upwork freelancer", which is fairly specific and not click-baity IMO. (It looks like the HN title is the same now, changed from just "become a freelancer.")
You realize that the $80,000 includes completely free health care (otherwise $300 a month minimum, if not more if they offer a good plan) with no employee contribution, free dental ($20 a month?), $300 towards vision a year, minimal life insurance maybe, free meals at the office, etc.

Not to mention that you get sick pay, holiday pay, retirement account contributions, etc.

Including the benefits it easily adds up to $100,000 a year of benefits or more depending on how good the benefits are

Besides, if it's not a start-up you're easily making $130,000+ if you have a lot of experience
i think one rule of thumb to follow is to keep each diff focused.

making a functional change? e.g. adding a new feature / fixing a bug? don't try to clean up neighbouring patches of code, just make the change in a way that is easy to review

refactoring / cleaning up code / changing namespaces in 1000 files? don't make functional changes!

trying to review a diff that has superficial changes to 1000s of files and also a few hidden surprise functional changes is a complete nightmare.

note: just because the revision history should be cleanly separated like this, doesn't mean you have to work like this. you can make interleaved functional changes and refactors when you are working locally - you just need to use your version control's history editing capability to tease apart / re-order your changes and commit them separately.
Well, like one of my friends is saying "friendly speaking" I think he took the right decision :)
yes, just updated title, because my post about upwork experience, not freelance in general, as many people pointed in comments.
They will be pissed off. Not at VW, but at "stupid government" that piles "unnecessary" regulations that make them part with more and more of their hard-earned money.

I'm pretty sure VW won't get hurt even a little by all of this. "Voting with wallet" doesn't work. If you don't make a corporation pay up front to the public (i.e. to the government), nothing will change.