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If your best professional opinion is that the business is going to go under irrespective of your great work, then the ethical choices under the value model are:

1. Don't take the work at any price.

2. Do it for free.

Again, if a person has experience and great clients, the choice of pricing model is a problem. If a person lacks experience to judge what the value is in the client's domain and/or the client isn't proven to be good, pricing model doesn't matter as much.

The value model price isn't based on what the work is worth, it's based on what the freelancer believes the client believes the work is worth. Under the value based pricing model, if the client is deluded it's reasonable to fleece them...and deluded clients who pay well are good clients.
Honestly, I see this internet counterculture as a mirror of what is happening in the real world as a more mainstream reactionary shift to the right, due to a number of recent progressive movements heading the opposite direction.
It's a false statement for Canada too. A lot of people migrate south for at least 2 weeks every winter.
Interesting that they couldn't get an environmental approval to land it on land. Typical California :-). It does sound however like it would have falled on land.
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That sounds like a very US view.

It's fairly common in London to not have a garage, and even if you do then there is unlikely to be any power there. Most likely is on-street parking, and that's assuming you're not in a flat.
A note - the Phabricator core team have been reticent in merging changes or features that they don't themselves depend on upstream. If you need anything that isn't offered out of the box or on the roadmap, be prepared to maintain your own fork of Phabricator indefinitely.
I'm reminded of folks who ignore evacuation orders during a hurricane, latching on to any small lull as evidence that the storms will lift before it's too late.

Of course, one tends to hear these stories after it is too late. No doubt plenty of people ignore the warnings and get by just fine, right up until they don't. And then it's someone else's fault.
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Your probably right about OpenBSD being able to introduce a new language if they wanted to seeing as they are a more cohesive and smaller group.

I thought about Ada too, but the one thing that gave me pause is the shortage of Ada programmers relative to more mainstream languages.
There's a part in Bioshock that touches on this, I think it's in one of the audio logs that someone resentfully says: "Even in a utopia someone has to scrub toilets."
> a quota of, say, 10% minorities could, in the worst case, crowd out qualified persons #91-100

You're assuming #91-100 are better candidates than the minority candidates. I think the resasoning behind affirmative action is that #91-100 are worse students who just had access to far better resources and thus produced better quantitive results. I'd rather hire the minority candidates.
I would try what you feel attracted first. You can always change. When you are starting, everything seems to be confusing, but as you progress in one field, the others will become clearer. The idea is to get experience in something, and start experimenting. You don't know if you like it until you have tried it.

Regarding experience in Security, I wouldn't discourage myself on a lack of knowledge of an specific topic. For an engineer is not expected to know everything (it is practically impossible); learning speed is what you should care about.
I bet an average lawn generates more oxygen & sequestures more carbon than 30 trees. It just grows so much faster.
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Is there a market for virtual secretaries? And would people here consider one?
Whether it be business opportunities, employment prospects, or romance, there seems to be a consistent theme: improving your prospects often comes as a result of improving the relevant factors you can presently control. With that being said, all three seem to benefit from enhancing your network.
This person doesn't understand what empathy is.

Empathy is a slow process of analyzing someone's emotional state so you can affect it. E.g. The Nazis were excellent empathizers. Rockets and dive bombers (Stuka) had sirens to intimate. The battle of Britain was a psychological one-and it almost worked. Prisoners were told to "remember your locker number" as they were ushered into gas chambers.

Don't confuse empathy with responsiveness, sympathy or compassion. We already have words for those.

Learn more:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQ6Y3hoKI8U
http://www.selfpsychologypsychoanalysis.org/empathy-mis.shtm...
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I used MobileOrg for a while but never had much luck with the sync process.

My current system is to schedule a batch task to run org export to HTML on all org files and sync the HTML with dropbox. It works great for viewing.
A path of less resistance would be to offer officially sanctioned betting that benefited players. Legalizing and institutionalizing the flow of betting money into players' pockets would price the mafia out of that market, and attract bettors away from illegal bookies. Every legitimate participant gets a better outcome and it drains the money swamp in which the mafia is the apex predator.
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It is a stab and tbh Im glad they took the opportunity. There are few times when a product can be marketed to such effect for as little cost. What they did was show everyone how awesome they are and how stagnent Github is. Github can easily change but most of their decision making is done behind the scenes.

Github grew popular because it was popular. Maybe thats worth something but long term they must adapt just like Gitlab
Depends on how I'm feeling. If I'm not looking for very interesting work or I'm saving for travel, I have a few large clients (5000+ employees) that always have projects going. They are the bread and butter of my contract work and I'm known across pretty much all of the IT senior management at those companies.

If I'm looking for more cutting edge, interesting work I'll go out and find either a company, industry or project I'm interested in and try and insert myself into it somehow. Usually through meetups, over coffee or in one case just showing up (probably wouldn't recommend that, depends on the people - in my case it was 4.30PM on a Friday and I brought beer).

Usually I'll either do it gratis (if it's non-profit or public domain) or cut my rates if I'm learning on-the-job.

When I started pretty much all of my job offers and contracts came by word of mouth. I only had to kick down doors a few times before I had developed a reputation as a good worker. This involved cold-emailing, calling and meeting people at various industry events.
GitHub Enterprise was essentially a closed VM that did not allow us to do the sort of customisation we needed - nor, most crucially, mount the git repos from our enterprise SAN.

Gitlab allowed us to do that without any hassle, even running inside an LXC container.
It's a little tongue in cheek. My flippant point was that these sort of "white whale" tech ideas don't seem to get fixed, they get replaced. But, yeah, I'd bet that a lot of travel gets replaced by some sort of immersive tech experience.
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Is it? Then you definitely wouldn't want to make this trip in a traditional gasoline car.

Two drivers leave on this trip you described with the same fuel in the tank (250 miles worth), one in a Tesla and one in a Toyota. Both travel 100 miles before getting stuck. Both have to wait 8 hours in the cold on a closed road. Both have 80 miles to go.

The difference is, the Tesla has 112 miles of range left at that point, and the Toyota only has 86. It consumed 2.56 gallons of gas idling to run the heat, a much larger percentage of its overall fuel than the Tesla.

Assuming neither driver planned to run out of fuel on this trip (since 360 miles is beyond the range of either vehicle), both are within range of either a gas station or a charging station. They're all along the length of I90 and I15 in Montana. The Tesla has a larger margin of error for detours and closed roads on the way.
I think majority of these articles are being written by developers who always assumed that Apple would never move away from Objective C. By introducing Swift Apple has now directly threatened their unique skill set. In my opinion Apple recognized the threat from React Native / Cordova / RoboVM and had long term vision to introduce a new programming language that would allow Python/C++/Java developers to easily develop for iOS.

If you are interested in getting into Swift programming, don't let these article fool you into getting discouraged. This article is simply spreading Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt.
Bullshit, just go around any single place in san Francisco.

Even just thinking of my brother in law and his wife both make $150k+ live in a condo in sf and even with their garage, they would not be able to install power at their parking spots.
I remember people groaning (and I was probably amongst them) about DJB for being unnecessarily paranoid for implementing his own IO functions instead of using stdio (for Qmail for example).
Are we taking USA Today seriously now? Why, please?
We badly need to define growth. In the UK and the US growth is defined as an increase in GDP which itself is linked to increasing the money supply. Most new money is issued via mortgage lending and yet house prices are not accounted for fully in inflation. Therefore the GDP deflator is too small. And voila - house prices up, not a damn thing built or done and you have growth.

Growth should reflect increasing living standards, not growth in economic rent extraction.
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I'm fairly new to consulting (been doing it for almost a year now). I'm on my second gig right now, and both of them are through Toptal. For the first one, a recruiter reached out to me with a gig, the second one I got thanks to an article I wrote in their blog.
Anecdotal evidence here - I drive a 2013 Nissan Leaf, and with its "B-Mode" (a drive mode that engages regenerative braking more strongly when you let off the accelerator pedal), I can do much more "braking"/slowing down in regular driving without engaging the friction brakes.

Frequently, when approaching a stop light I can simply let off the gas and coast/regen down from 45mph to 15-10mph and then engage the friction brakes to stop.
I'm curious, what site are you referring to?
> I don't think an app will ever replace this evolutionary mechanism.

I don't know, we could probably get pretty close with machine learning and enough data.
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There are a couple of goodies in there, but tbh that list is pretty depressing.
I'm not going to defend the Fed, but I disagree that they run the business cycle to give the illusion of recovery. The economy has to walk a narrow path between inflation and deflation, and it does mean cooling things down when they get to hot and warming them up when they get to cool. The honest criticism is that they've been historically pretty bad at it. It often looks a lot like trying to smooth out the waves in the ocean with a flat iron.
> Slack may fix email.

Let's hope not. It's not the e-mail that needs fixing, it's the whole rest of the Internet. E-mail is one of the few things that have not yet been captured and walled up by private companies. Slack "fixing" (i.e. killing) it would be a very bad thing for humanity.
Slack + facebook, then. Lack of receipts and newsletters may be a feature. :)

(But, sure, as a blanket statement it misses a lot of important details.)
I think looking at the presence of the tech alone isn't enough to predict/correlate with broader economic productivity. The bottleneck really is the access to it in a legal (copyright), cost-effective, and scalable (special vs commodity hardware) sense. And those factors have a variety of paths to success depending on the tech in question and on the big business players and government policies involved at the time.
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> Empathy: the ability to understand and share the feelings of another.

I don't really agree. What you are describing sounds like social engineering, which certainly requires a sensitivity to empathy. Either way, your argument is about a trivial difference, and they still had good things to say on the subject.
A good response to this[1] was posted here on Hacker News, but so far it languishes unread, with too few upvotes to promote it from the new submissions page. Take a look for a specific response to the article kindly submitted to open this active thread.

[1] "What Oxfam won’t tell you about capitalism and poverty"

http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2016/01/what-oxfam-wont-tell-yo...
Would you be willing to share with us the average $/hr rate you pay your Upwork employees? I'd be willing to bet it is quite low.

As an employer I can totally see why you would love it, it's an effective way to pay bottom dollar for simplistic computer tasks.

From the stand point of someone looking to get into software engineer contract work it's lame. The guaranteed payment thing you are talking about is only for projects that are billed hourly. If you bid on a flat rate project there is no such guarantee. The hourly pay rate guarantee also requires you to install a spyware app on your computer to monitor your work.
1. For starters (besides other internal stuff), we were the guys who needed Shibboleth support. You might recall there were a few pull requests from a colleague of mine regarding that :)

2. No, we had to tweak the source, so I don't think the packages were useful.

3. Static pages, hooks and merge approvals would be right at the top of my list. Audits would be nice to have, but we figured out how to do that on our own.

Also, issue handling needs some improvement. We just couldn't map our Trac workflow to it - but that's a fairly longer story, and it would probably be the same if we used GitHub.
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Also Related: Thanks for setting up that curated list. I'll definitely be going through it to get recommendations.
I got tired of seeing such recommendations being asked repeatedly and then disappear on HN so I created this:

http://www.vivalabooks.com

Basically a Hackernews for books.
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Yeah, it's bit of a stab. I'm really curious to see how GitHub responds (if they respond). A lot of good could come out of this even if it takes some competition to force some of that.
How the hell big are these icons? 16x16 pixels uncompressed RGB is 768 bytes (1024 if you're using padding or alpha).

I have just opened the page info for this reply page and am astonished to see a 256x256 image for the favicon. Who's utterly retarded idea was that?

I guess that answers my first question. "Idiotically large" is the answer.
Ask HN: What would you like to know about Ruby on Rails and/or Railscasts?
I had a fascinating Skype conversation with David Heinemeier Hansson (creator of Ruby on Rails) and Ryan Bates (creator of Railscasts) this morning.

https://twitter.com/MilesForrest/status/689148814985281536

Although I can't share the details of the conversation, I would like to know what others would ask these two people if a conversation like it happens again.

Thoughts?
> In the 4th century being able to read silently was notably strange.

I've seen it argued that this is actually a myth, popularized by Nietzsche. See e.g. http://hour25.heroesx.chs.harvard.edu/?topic=reading-silentl...
Almost certainly, but that is at least three disruptions ago (a computer in every home, always on internet and a computer with internet in every pocket) - by definition after a disruption you can't use the old predictions because you no longer have the same rules. Today what you can build without engineers (other than your founders) and the cost you of hosting it are magnitudes less than what they were then, which is a change in quantity that causes a change in quality.

Look you may be right, but I would need to see much deeper evidence for it, based on current trends and predictions and not stuff people said an eon ago. I would also expect them to be able to use their theory to explain why the "the good times are over" memo didn't cause or predict a crash.
There is a satirical paper (look at names of the authors) on doing "Dataset selection".
I've read both and Influence is far more useful if you're trying to, well, influence someone. The art of influencing is complex and involves more than just a few behavioral economics insights. Influence is a total framework for understanding the psychology and emotions of selling.
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Flotation devices attached to the booster = extra payload

Yes, but how much extra fuel does the rocket have to carry to land? That's a ton of extra payload as well.
Agree, that book is a real classic, I got my copy from amazon actually.

As a side note, the failure of both of us to actually mention the book's full title (or include its amazon link) presumably means that neither of the services being discussed would have registered this as a vote for the book. We're part of the problem! ;)
Not sure what this is in reference to, but as you can see at http://opa.berkeley.edu/uc-berkeley-fall-enrollment-data, UC Berkeley's freshman enrollment in fall 2015 was about 43% Asian (and, for comparison, 24% white), which does not indicate strong enforcement of racial caps in the manner suggested by tacon.

The analogous numbers for CalTech are 45% Asian and 27% white; see https://www.registrar.caltech.edu/academics/enrollment.

[I take no position in this post on whether the high representation of Asians, low representation of other American racial minorities, and decisions resulting in these outcomes are good or bad things (or deserve the label "meritocratic", or so on). I am simply noting that UC Berkeley seems similar to CalTech in all these regards.]
If I do that, I'm brought to a Google search where TFA is result #1 and this HN post is #2. If I click on #1, I hit the paywall. Is this not what is supposed to happen?
Performance. That thing is _fast_ when compared to a Ruby-based stack.
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0.05%. Good grief, if you can't run your project on a 25bps increase then sorry your idea might have to go under.

As others noted it wouldn't double your payments as tech doesn't have access to overnight rates with zero spread.
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They're all put under "information age" because all of them depend on the microprocessor.

According to Perez, the peak investment phase in financial markets paying attention to tech was during the dotcom boom. This definitely happened. The amount of money invested in tech companies was gigantic compared to what we see today. The dot com crash caused a loss of $5T. If we sum up the valuations of all the unicorns that exist today, we're not even close.
I have this itch that the true productivity maximization by smartphones will be in the future if/when more companies start operating in a more decentralized manner.

-Most tools we still have for enabling productivity are such crap - trying to emulate paper document based workflow, instead of offering a task oriented one.

- AI:s can probably observe employee patterns and raise red flags if someone seems to be goofing off. Less need to spend time in reporting, more time for value creation.
The Space Shuttle was a space craft, not a rocket. The SpaceX equivalent to the Space Shuttle is the Dragon spacecraft. Dragon V2 does land exclusively on the ground.
I don't know if the distinction between which behaviors are "sane" and "insane" is a good one here. Evidently the only insane choice is to rebuff the standard in your implementation of the core C memory management functions.
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My wife and I use Asana. Asana is not so good for note taking but my wife seems to love it (I have grown to hate it as it is a reminder how she is far more effective at GSD than me).
With the NYT, I can just hit CTRL-SHIFT-N and get around the paywall. With the WSJ, not so much- the directions given in this thread don't even seem to work.
> You may have noticed that getting midis to play in your e-mails has been very frustrating lately!

Ah, the 90s, when auto-playing midis in emails seemed like a great idea.
You can't be serious. The leaf surface of a lawn is much less than that of a tree. And there is zero sequestration of CO2, because all that cut grass is either burnt or turned into compost the next year. With a tree, there's at least a chance the wood is used for some decades.
And when AirBnB close their Api that is your business sunk. Basing your business off of one other person's Api is a hugely risky gamble.
Ask HN: Are any startups working on text-to-speech?
It seems like TTS technology hasn't evolved much over the years and I was wondering if any startups are working on making it sound more realistic?
I read the comment as one or two major vacations that require all sorts of complicated planning that isn't well-served by current sites. Depending on values of "average," I suppose that might be true. If you're driving to a beach cottage you rented for a couple weeks every summer, you don't really need a fancy app for that. I travel a lot and even I have maybe one or two trips a year tops that aren't pretty straightforward.
Is this some sort of a promo trap? When clicking on book links I get taken to pages like this one http://www.freebie.guru/au/starwars/starwars625.html
I'm pretty sure they take outside contributions for CE, so if that was AGPL3 they wouldn't be able to use it in Gitlab EE, which sounds like shooting themselves in the foot.
Those tests were not everything you say they are. 'Objective' tests have historically been used to exclude minorities from many things, even from voting. Those lionized tests didn't select for quality of applicant, from what I know.

> The result is the worst of all possible worlds

I think it's probably a much better world, where the second-rate candidates, who only got the job because their competition was excluded, have been replaced by the best candidates.

As a simple example, think of professional sports, which for a long time wouldn't hire black or latino athletes. To imagine the impact on quality, just imagine the reverse, if today Major League Baseball announced, 'we're firing all the black and latino players and replacing them with white people - but don't worry the quality will be the same'. It would be absurd.

It's also very sad to say it's the 'worst of all possible worlds'. The worst was when all these people were excluded from jobs and every other part of our society. That was criminal and tragic.
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