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>wonder if America needs to add basic but explicit free speech protections [...] run by a private entity (twitter, facebook, HN,

This really isn't possible to implement in any practical or consistent way without contradictions in usability. If you made such a law, trolls such as Nazi-proponents would use it as a weapon to infect sites such as HackerNews with their walls of hate speech.

Moderators couldn't flag nor delete the hate speech as "off topic" because the Nazi group would complain of "censorship". Imagine that scenario: it would be against the law to delete hate speech here even though most us on HN would rather talk about programming languages or tech startups.

The way marginal groups have free speech now is at the level of DNS servers by buying a domain name. Instead of trying to get Facebook and HackerNews to host your hate speech by expanding "free speech to private entities", you create a Nazi domain (e.g NaziPartyUSA.com) and put your hate speech at that URL. Same for any ISIS group that wants to infect commercial websites like Facebook/HN with recruitment propoganda to attract followers who are willing to behead infidels.

The reason free speech advocates don't like that option is that they don't get an audience -- such as the millions of eyeballs at Facebook. Well, free speech doesn't guarantee an audience. The quantity of the audience is orthogonal to the free speech and the corporate censorship.
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another is "you get what you pay for"

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/you_get_what_you_pay_for
Why would it be in a university's interests to accumulate such a large amount of cash?
> must be good to live in such a simple world where you can expect to bring a study about gender biases into a discussion about diversity studies and have it prove or explain anything

As I'm sure would be clear to you if you stopped to think about it... you strongly implied that studies are evaluated based on merit alone. This shows that they are not.

Does the study look at precisely this situation? No, that would be an unlikely coincidence.

Does the study demonstrate a gender bias in the evaluation of gender-related research, even amongst those knowledgable in the subjects? Yes.

Does the study suggest that STEM fields could be more susceptible to that? Yes.

> If this is what you have in mind when you speak of research...

As I've been saying from the beginning, this is about the balance of probabilities. By all means create your own study (and get funding, and get it published) that counters the findings. Until you do that, or someone else does that, or someone finds that the studies in question are fraudlent, unreproducible, or so flawed as to have literally zero value, then the balance of probability is against you.

You're welcome to subscribe to the view that any evidence less than a large-scale randomised controlled trial is worthless, but there aren't the funds for that, and may never be.

So your choice is between learning nothing, or learning 'maybe something'.

If you choose to learn nothing, or more accurately to deny 'maybe something' then I'm curious to know why.
There's some discussion at https://lwn.net/Articles/738046/#Comments .

One angle: a few weeks ago SFLC announced that it's starting a programme to support individual free software projects creating their own legal entity, rather than using an umbrella organisation like SFC or SPI, and strongly implying that it believes the time for such umbrella organisations is past:
https://www.softwarefreedom.org/blog/2017/sep/21/new-era-non...

Someone on the LWN thread suggests that this means they're treating SFC as competition, explaining the trademark action.

It occurs to me that it's also possible that SFLC wants SFC to stop existing for some other reason, and this new programme and the trademark action might be independent steps taken towards that end.
How much are you planning to charge.

Also in my past experiences, there needs to be retrospective of what worked and what did not. Provision to include analysis to arrive at data driven decisions will add a lot of value to your service.
Is there anyway to donate to the reviewer?
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I think there is a fundamental problem that isn't addressed in teaching people how to code. The problem is that every single course/book talks about the tools of the trade but not the art. Most books start with:

- Variables
- Loops
- Functions

... etc.

In doing so, it is simply overloading the student with syntax memorization and conceptual overload. It bothers me so much that very few books (Kernighan) talk about WHY. WHY. WHY is a variable needed? WHY is a function needed? WHY do we use OOP? Every single book out there jumps straight into explaining objects, how to create them, constructors, blah blah blah. No one fricking talks about what's the point of all this?

Teaching syntax is like muscle memory for learning Guitar. It is trivial and simply takes time. Syntax - everyone can learn and it is only one part of learning how to code. Concepts are explained on their own without building upon it. The famous book for Python (Learn Python the Hard Way) explains Loops in its own chapter and provides examples. But, they never build up on the idea. There should never be a separate chapter for variables, loops, functions, etc. Chapters should be:

Chapter 1. Setting up the problem (Goals)
Chapter 2. Defining Inputs/Ouputs (API)
Chapter 3. Automating something (Variables, loops)
Chapter 4. Abstraction of something (Functions)
Chapter 5. More automation! (Combing all)
Chapter 6. Splitting code into multiple modules (Growing the project)
Chapter 7. Objects (New type of abstraction, OOP)
Chapter 8. Reusability of Classes (Inheritance)
Chapter 9. Safety/Security (Encapsulation, tie it back to Chapter 2.)
etc...

Best coding resource I've found is things like:

NAND to Tetris [1]
Handmade Hero [2]
The Nature of Code [3]
Harvard CS50 [4]
How to Design Programs [5] (thx minikomi)

This is learning how to produce music. Not learning the F chord. Teaching how to code is fundamentally broken and very few books/courses do it well.

References:

[1] http://nand2tetris.org/
[2] https://handmadehero.org/
[3] http://natureofcode.com/
[4] https://cs50.harvard.edu/
[5] http://www.htdp.org/
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It’s obviously a mixed bag (and sometimes dreadful), but IMO it’s a lot more fulfilling to live and travel in the real world among real people than some aseptic Uber-only lifestyle (which many of my friends unfortunately prefer).
If you want to reduce research funding to pay for a tax cut, then do that directly! Don't add 7k to the tax burden of people making 30k a year.
Pity about the point 'n shoot frustrations. I wonder is that the camera hardware or software or a combo of the two. Kind of surprised you went iPhone to Fairphone, I would have thought that most would be Android refugees.

I hope they sell a shedload, Purism also.
Ever since Elance merged with ODesk to make Upwork getting online work has dried up, and so I have to rely on my personal network.

With Elance you'd get leads for jobs, and take them offsite. Its not that I wouldn't want to use the ecosystem provided its just that it suck and took too much.

Upwork takes more, and really locks you in. I refused to scan my license to become authorized. Even if I used the platform, taxes and their fees makes and the chances of them hanging payments makes it a death trap.

I would love to build a platform that actually is useful, though I think with these kinds of websites it's a hard market to penetrate because they're already on X platform.

I just want to remote from a small town and bank money, but I'm forced to live near large cities because companies that pay well want you in office.

The only way not to be poor is to be a two-person income of 100K and my gf never going to make that kind of money.

So my choice is be poor in a small town or be poor in large town.

There are remote jobs for 90k, its just they are far and few and interview processes can be very involved with lots of studying.
I've had a nice rack of discs, though small by today's standards, AFAIK well within any MTBF, wrecked when some junior decided to see what the phased shutdown button in the machine room did during the middle of the bank's trading day, cutting off half the power to my cabinet at one point, which SCSI doesn't protect against.

There's always events dear boy, events!
The more they haggle the more unlikely it is for them to pay
Any thoughts on RxDB?

https://github.com/pubkey/rxdb
I regularly charge clients around $110. so $155 will get you just a bit over an hour of work from someone who knows what they're doing.

If you're not a freelancer, but rather a salaried person... take some times to calculate how much your employer is paying for your benefits, and all the costs associated with employing you. It's typically around 2x your "hourly" wage.
The employers are free to require whatever they'd like for a job. But the teachers and parents are often uneducated on the topic themselves and parrot the prevailing wisdom that a college degree is essential.

Neither of my parents have a college degree, but they were insistent that their children got one - any one. It's the prevailing blue collar logic and it's hard to shake it when you're surrounded by it.
Stay away from Freelancer.com

They reversed two milestone payments i had received, becasue they had to suspend the buyer's account due to some issues with the buyer's payment method. Note that this is after completing the project fully and leaving feedback for each other.

I left the money on my Freelancer account, becasue they are/were having issues with Skrill withdrawals. It was there for about a month and they suddenly reversed both payments at the end of the last month.

They should validate/verify payments before accepting/processing them, not after a month after completing a project.

Basically, i just did a job for free. no one's going to pay for my time. they have 0 seller protection.

BTW, buyer had this[0] green icon next to his profile. Evidently, it doesn't work as you might expect.

[0]https://pasteboard.co/GS6oamJ.png
Refusal to pay is directly related to the lottery "system". Buyer was an idiot.

One reason I never hire from freelancer sites. Every coder has been burned by some idiot and it affects my purchase ability.
"unskilled indian labour" huh? There are tens of Indian entrepreneurs who have set up Billion dollar companies in US. Don't forget that Microsoft and Google CEOs are Indian too!!
You experience life however you choose to experience it. If you go around with a shitty attitude about things, you'll probably have a shitty experience.
I was with you up until your $1 comment. There's a lot effective ways to "market" yourself that aren't free. Conferences, for example, are crazy expensive. Paid advertising, sponsored content etc.
I agree — I’m not in the “Apple software is going to hell camp”

But the fact is, you can ship glitchy software and fix it later, so they do. Hardware is much more expensive to do that with, so they don’t.
Wasn't base SC2 free already?
CR did start its life as an illegal streaming site before they were bought out. But I guess you can almost say the same thing about YT...
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Glad to see this using http://github.com/peterh/liner for interactive line editing.

I used that package in an interpreter of my own and it works wonderfully to provide `readline` style keyboard interaction in a pure Go program.
Tensorflow logo wrong?
It seems to me that the shadow of the T should be longer on the left side? Or shorter on the right side?
Strange that OGG/Opus has been omitted from yet another release. I don't mind using ffmpeg but it would be nice to export from the same interface.
My guess is those aren't the ones outbidding you on freelancer websites...
Hi, one of the biggest issues we have consistently had with TF is the serialization. How do you export from training and take that and deploy it on hardware.

Could you share your training scripts - would love to look at the piece which does quantization/SavedModel/FreezeGraph
Nobody eats bagels like that through, they slice em in half and either butter, jelly, or cream cheese each half. I've never seen anyone walking around just munching on a full bagel like that.
I really wanted to buy into Meteor. It felt like the second coming of Rails.

I just couldn't get onboard with something I couldn't plug SQL into. A psql adapter never came.
Why no ambient light sensors for automatic dimming and only report lamps with weird voltages (shorted or burned out LEDs)?
They are US companies whose CEOs happen to Indians at the moment
Geographic location is a rather arbitrary criteria for wage discrimination especially doing remote work [1]. I would not call the opportunity to be exploited a benefit exactly, even though I admit the alternatives can be worse.

[1]https://elsajohansson.wordpress.com/2017/09/13/what-does-a-w...
Where are documents stored? Browser cache on each client?
I'm a frustrated grad student in STEM. I posted here a few days ago crowdsourcing for career advice on what to do next:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15610675

Thanks.
I always thought of freelancing websites like freelancer.com as being platforms to meet clients with the goal of removing them from the platform and establishing long term relationships. Basically, meeting clients and then quickly getting them to use a service where you and them work and manage payments directly.

There's no way I could consider freelancer.com to be a worthwhile long term investment, the fees they take are preposterous to say the least.
More than reason to, if they are holding money with no reason they would already received my Letter Before Action. It depends on what jurisdiction you are in of course
Well, first let me say that my experience as someone who has hired on freelancer has been very good. I have found some excellent developers there. But I'll also point out that (1) I spec my projects pretty carefully, almost to the point of 'hell I might as well build it myself'; and (2) I pay. And when the project is harder than I originally thought, I don't say "tough shit you signed a contract dumbass" but rather I pay more. I treat the contractors more or less as contract employees, and myself as a project manager.

Second, as others here have pointed out, there is a whole lotta "I'll just skip the details here" in this story.

But what strikes me most is that here is a guy who is raising a voice in the hacker internet community about a company with the intent of either warning us of a dangerous situation or hoping to get some community pressure on the site to get his money out of them, or perhaps both. I have no problem with either of those things, and actually appreciate the first.

What I do have a problem with is how little effort (apparently) went into the piece. It's like a stream-of-consciousness ramble about the bad things happening to him, including the piece about the issue leading him into depression. It's just not....professional. It makes my spidey sense tingle. I wish him the best but I'm a bit skeptical that we've got a balanced view here, and half of me is thinking that if this is how he approaches things then the complainants may have a point.
It really is an excellent package. Does exactly what it says on the box.

I fear I may hit a wall with it eventually. For example, several interesting approaches to https://github.com/neugram/ng/issues/49 would step outside what liner can do. But I'm going to use it as long as I can.
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Were those successful entrepreneurs and CEO's taking $3/hr jobs on freelancer sites? I don't think the statement was coming from a place of racism. But rather an unfortunate fact that the people willing to try to do this work for these low wages are often overseas.

I've personally worked with many very talented people from India. None of them were taking work on freelancer sites.
There are ways these issues can be mitigated

Require that the bid contains a snippet on how they intend to solve the problem. Or if it's something obvious/non-explainable, require that the bidder put their favourite fruit on the bid. Something simple that lets you know they didn't just copy and paste the thing

Also pick the middle of the road proposal price-wise.
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That's what happens when you entirely rely on one platform as your source of income, be it Freelancer, YouTube, Amazon, or anything else. You become de facto employed by the platform and can be let go in a similar way you can be fired from a regular job.

If OP had a normal salaried job and was let go for whatever reason, would it matter if he used to be a good employee before, or had a car accident, or was short on cash? No, I wouldn't matter; his employer would not keep paying him on the basis of "being fair" or "helping in a difficult life situation".

While I understand OP's frustration, his story is really nothing out of ordinary. I know many people who were, fairly or not, let go and subsequently got into financial trouble. Life's tough.
I've never heard of Raymond Hettinger before but I'm currently watching one of his videos [1] and it's amazing. Thanks for sharing your list, I'll definitely look up some more of these people.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSGv2VnC0go
Thank you. Don't blow up in public. Go ahead and post a negative review, but keep it rational. That you ended up homeless is too much information.

Post details about the experience, not just your interpretation of the emotional state of customer service.
Skilled Indian labour is also outbid by the unskilled Indian labour.
Toptal and Crossover might be an option. But I have no first hand experience with them to recommend.
Mark Rober explains that in the video. Though I think there are a couple big prizes where the value exceeds the price to play.
There are two similar sayings that spring to mind:

一分钱，一分货 which means you get the equivalent in goods of what you pay in price, and

好货不便宜，便宜无好货 which means good products aren't cheap and cheap products aren't good.
Some people, freelancers as well as clients and those middlemen that are unfortunately very common in this market, seem to fundamentally misunderstand what a freelancer or contractor is.

Freelancing is not some alternative form of employment that allows you to conveniently dispense with social security costs.

A freelancer is a self-employed service provider. Like with any other kind of self-employment you’re responsible for your marketing, sales and for reasonably insuring yourself against calamities that might happen in life.

If you try to outsource those core responsibilities to another entity you only have yourself to blame. The same applies if you act irresponsibly in terms of finance, e.g. by spending all your income before costs and taxes are taken care of (if you have a problem with that Profit First is a great framework to help you).

That said it’s well-known that the software industry is overly dependent on mostly useless middlemen like Freelancer.com . So, perhaps it’s quite understandable if you turn to them when you start out.

You should always be aware however that they’re neither your insurance nor your employer. They don’t protect you. They just take a cut from your hard-earned money. They want you to commoditise yourself by solely defining yourself in terms of a bunch of TLAs because those ‘profiles’ are easier to sell.

The sooner you extricate yourself from that dependency the better. Putting all your eggs in one basket like the review suggests the author did is recklessly negligent.
>That says to me they are not interested, putting it as such a ludicrously high goal.

It says to me that they expect it to be super expensive in comparison to other stretch-goals, and that it's not a core goal of the project (and the latter should be true for literally every stretch-goal, in any kickstarter ever).
How can a thread titled "iPhone X is a sham" not take off?
" train a few people who may or may not directly help the nation's economy."

The words "who may or may not directly help the nation's economy" makes me think they mean this: IITs are considered the top institutions in India. I have heard that the people who come out of these IITs don't really help India. Most of them end up working in developed countries and contribute to those economies. Nothing much for India. So, it doesn't make sense to spend money on them. If I have to choose between funding for one IIT or 5-10 low grade engineering colleges, I would choose the latter because in some way, it is still benefiting India. IITs, I don't know.

Just my thoughts based on those quoted words.
Even that's likely worse than simply taking a MS at night for ~3 years while making ~100k. Painful yes, but having a MS slightly sooner is not going to make such a huge salary difference over 3 years. And you can get a feel for what the job is like.

The third option of a MS to simplify a mid career pivot point is also worth considering. Really, picking something you want to stick with for the next ~45 years at 20 is risky.
That logic would justify quite a few invasions.
But maybe if the other guy who's really an expert can give you a better code in a shorter time, even if it's more expensive per hour, it'll be cheaper in the long run
I have personally used Freelancer.com (I am a web dev) for about 10 projects and everything went great, never had issues with the clients or payment. I also managed to find several good business partners/long term clients through Freelancer. I understand that this is not always the case, but I guess saying that the platform is completely bad because one in 100k users has a issue is just an overstatement, we might not even know if he actually did something wrong that imposed that limitation (maybe because of his accident he couldn't complete the projects for which he was paid).

I am not trying to defend Freelancer.com in an way, just saying that for me personally it was a great platform and a good stepping stone in my developer career.
What were some of the things they taught on Sat. school?
Because they are basically becoming hedge funds with an university attached.

'I was going to donate money to Yale. But maybe it makes more sense to mail a check directly to the hedge fund of my choice' - Malcolm Gladwell tweet

https://www.thenation.com/article/universities-are-becoming-...
Damn. Thank you for posting this. I can't believe what a clueless dipshit I've been all these years. The only times I recall thanking someone is when I've sent a donation and they wrote back thanking me.
If Microsoft plans on using it to get users on to their services then they'll need way more users than they are getting. Otherwise why invest the money in building one?