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I think your copy might be part of the problem. Just taking the hero as an example:

Become a PROFESSIONAL freelancer

Sounds insulting to people who consider themselves professional already but could do with some extra help.

We help freelancers become more professional with automatic streamlined process for managerial tasks like client onboarding, signing NDA and requirement collection right from their personal website.

Weird mix of singular and plurals. If singular then you’d want “with an automated”. Also typically NDA is pluralised to NDAs, and you probably want to refer to “requirements collection”.

I know that sounds picky, but copy is a major part of a sale and correct grammar gives a sense that you sweat the details. Or at least bad grammar gives a sense that you don’t.
Thanks, the whole development was another experiment where we tried building the whole key features in 6 weeks. I strongly believe that we can make this product a lot better over time, that's why I used "decent" as it's not the best we can in the current form.
The "Non-Timely Scotsman" fallacy?
It doesn't have to be implemented 100%. Nothing is. But that doesn't stop us from banning bio & chemical weapons.

War should be approximately 'human-magnitude' in scale and proportion, or it will simply wipe us out. That's why we have built but not yet routinely used, nuclear weapons. The same strategy needs to be followed for any tech that is far more efficient and autonomous than a human would be.
Not true, Facebook is working on removing foreign interference for other countries like Germany: http://fortune.com/2017/09/27/facebook-fake-accounts-german-...
Well, if for example Saudi king donates you tens of millions of dollars to your campaign [1] and you win thats perfectly fine, but you lost and then 500k of funny ads bought by some bogus/fake companies is in your words why you lost. Not even funny. And saying facebook is part of it is even more stupid.

On the other hand I never understood why for US citizens it is perfectly fine for political persons to receive millions in donations from corporations. Where I come from that is considered bribery by default and that politician would be in problem.

[1] https://theintercept.com/2016/08/25/why-did-the-saudi-regime...
One should factor in that Norway's petroleum exports are ~50% natural gas (of which <1% goes to fuels for cars) and ~50% oil (of which ~60% becomes fuel for cars, trucks, tractors, excavators, airplanes, etc.).

So the total "negative exposure" towards EVs if all cars everywhere become electric is <30%.

Furthermore, the retail sales of gasoline and diesel fuel has not yet shown any decline in Norway [1], despite EV-subsidising policies being in effect for a decade. So decreased fuel sales volume has a many-year (perhaps even decade) long lag behind increased EV sales.
(The average Norwegian car is 17 years when it is scrapped.)

[1] https://www.ssb.no/en/energi-og-industri/statistikker/petrol... - petroleum product sales statistics, English description, you can export to csv file.
Sorta looks like a phony HTML template. And it says 10$ which is really weird.

And it seems to be trying to convince people to become freelancers which seems s strange thing to be wanting to convince someone to do.
I agree with the video's title, but not necessarily for the reasons outlined in the conversation.
>If a Less than a million dollars of Facebook ads shown to a few thousand people can determine who becomes president in the US, then there is a much bigger problem.

Do we know that that’s all that happened? Or is this just the tip of the ice berg.

>Anything short of of making these tools available to everyone would position Facebook as an agent/agency of the US Government.

Facebook is an American company. So is Apple and Google. Even if they are not legally bound to serve the interests of the country, their employees are overwhelmingly American and probably patriotic and so we have to expect that when push comes to shove the interests of the US will come first.
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Facebook has become the web for many people, their only source of information. Tragically it also has a filter bubble, and the "hackers" (Russia? Cambridge Analytica?) Have managed to fill some people's bubbles with misinformation. Considering they targeted the "low-information" voters (i.e. idiots) of crucial districts of swing states, I consider it vote hacking, with the hacking being done on people's minds.

And they targeted people's emotions, and it's very easy to influence people through emotions. And the web is now a place filled with emotion-bait ("He asked her to prom, you won't believe ehat happens next!"), which makes people addicts...
Sure, but until those options vest you’re still doubly exposed. I’m in this position right now. A fixed amount from my pay goes into buying options which vest in 3 years time. Fortunately I could afford to lose that money if it came down to it, but it’s a real issue and in a worst case scenario that’s money I might need. It’s certainly a consideration.
Well, yes and no. This is plausibly a move which could be performed even in a world where oil is expected to be the only viable energy source.

But on the other hand, if you wanted to divest from oil with the expectation that oil will become a non-essential resource, you wouldn't go around proclaiming it loudly. I had the same thought when I first heard the announcement; this is going to be interpreted as more than a diversification move, and I'm not certain that it _is_ purely a diversification move.

Saudi Arabia is doing the same thing by listing Saudi Aramco on the stock exchange. If oil will eventually become a (relatively) niche resource, the market value derived from non-extracted resources will tank, and divesting needs to happen now, before everyone realizes what's going on. To do this without triggering the very thing you are hedging against, you need to have plausible deniability, which Norway does.
How Bayes kinda works, or how I see it.

Conditional probability (with some caveats that someone in the comments can fill in on):

P(a,b) = P(b,a)
P(a|b) * P(b) = P(b|a) * P(a)
P(a|b) = P(b|a) * P(a) / P(b)

a can be model and b can be data so it becomes

P(model | data) =
P(data | model) * P(model) / P(data)

We have or can estimate the things on the right side. We want to ultimately get the thing on the left side.
It's such a big decision that it has to be debated and decided upon by Parliament, so it can't stay secret.
But where do you live? In many cities $50k is more than enough to live in a decent appartment.
As someone who has been young (and unfortunately oldish now), I was much more innovative when younger. The one thing the old(er) version of me has over the younger version is I am now able to see better what is a good idea and what is a good idea that can be implemented.
It is a well known, meaningful concept. If you spot someone using it the wrong way, just correct this specific person.

If we trash every concept someone does not understand, we are cavemen by afternoon.
For those bothered by silence but also - at times - annoyed by music: https://coffitivity.com/

Some kind of optimized noise is a weird concept, but I've found that it really works, from time to time. Especially if I'm doing something that requires a great deal of concentration rather than just "production".
Clickbaiting is new default in media. Where I come from I stop reading all news because clickbaiting is soooo overused and in EVERY article that it is painful to read something that seems as written by an adult who researched the topic.
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When I sign up, I like to have an overview of what is asked. It is very difficult here, and scrolling over the whole form gives me a headache, with those fields withering when not at the center of the page. Simplify the signup form, that could already help.
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> ... Coupled with dense and hard to find documentation that seems to be spread out over 14 different msdn domains and GitHub projects.

docs.microsoft.com is steadily improving this.

> I've tried no less than 10 times over the last few months to get "intellisense" working in emacs via roslyn and it has never worked.

https://github.com/OmniSharp/omnisharp-emacs

Are you not using this? Works great for me.

If you want getting started to be less of a chore use VS Code, VS, Rider, VS for Mac, Xamarin Studio, or Monodevelop.
Why would it happen elsewhere, unless other countries adopt the same tax policies? The main stimuli behind it was ridiculous tax on new vehicles that was absent on electric cars - if a new Tesla S costs the same as a basic VW Passat, it's a no brainer that Tesla sells better. But even in very wealthy countries(UK) electric cars are still much more expensive than normal cars and when I was buying 2 new cars last year it just didn't make any sense to purchase electric - the saving on a petrol car vs. Electric would pay for more years of fuel than I plan to keep the car for. Now, if those other cars were taxed at 100% or if the fuel was even more expensive than it is - then sure, it would make perfect sense. But as it stands now, no one is breaking into the cheap car market.
Excellent observation, this just irked me as well.

> So why is it written this way? Spin, ignorance, or just bad editing?

I don't know. Good question, though. A symptom of the journalism crisis in general? I can't remember where, but I think I read something about it a couple of days ago, something along the lines of a bubble of digital journalism, about to burst pretty soon, etc.
> I haven't understood why this issue is about Russians to start with

The democrats needed someone to be a scapegoat for their loss, and it was more convenient to look outward rather than inward.
I think I never thought about it that way, I thought it like we help freelancers appear more professional like a company. Many freelancers don't have a clear process in place like a company do, to onboard clients, collect requirements etc.

I'll work on the copy real soon.
How did you change fields, what was your transition like? Was it hard to interview, being self-studied and without a degree relevant to the field?
Perhaps it was that they are a national fund accountable to their parliament and the people of Norway, who have a legitimate say in their investment strategy, and the only way that can reasonably be expressed and debated is in public. In any case this strategy change wouldn’t be agreed in much less than a year, and would be executed over at least 2 to 3 years, so any short term impact on share prices isn’t really material.
There is not a single sign a product actually exist. Only a "pay here" button.

Give people a free trail or something. I would never pay for software without getting to try it first.
Emperor Akbar, on a whim, once asked his minister Birbal to find him ten fools. You can get the gist here (Source: http://folklore.usc.edu/?p=24202).

Birbal stumbled across the third fool while the latter was looking for something at night. The guy was looking under a streetlamp and couldn't seem to find whatever he was looking for. Birbal asked him what he was looking for so frantically. He explained that he lost his wedding ring in a dark alley a short ways away.

Birbal is confused and asks him why he wasn’t looking in the alley, and in the street instead. Get this. The guy replies that he’s looking under the streetlamp because there’s more light there.

Moral of the story: dont ask on HN, go ask the folks who dropped off.

Here's a suggestion on how you could do it. Take a look at Tumblr or Intercom and see how they collect an email first and then ask for a password and eventually more information. Collect an email address just before anyone clicks get started. So that you have a way to reach them in case they dropped off and helps you figure out at what point folks are dropping of

(My thesis: Your shady credit card collection process is the culprit. Typeform doesn't seem to fit your story of helping folks be more professional. If you are a professional trying to help freelancers be more professional, you should be using something more professional)

Sorry, if you felt, I called you a fool. Perhaps reading the story and learning who the 10th fool is would make you feel better. :-)
Quoting directly from the buzzfeed aerticle:

> In a series of interviews, six men with direct knowledge of Draper, now 74, described him as habitually meeting young, often teenage men at conferences between 1999 and 2007, touting “energy” exercises or stretches. These included him massaging men in public and urging them to come to his or their hotel room for private sessions. In multiple cases in which the men agreed, Draper would leap on their backs in ways the men described as unwanted sexual contact.
> and the boss is the one deciding how much both sides get

Employee signed the contract out of his own free will? Then no, the boss is not the only one who's deciding that.
> These submarines are weapons of war, for defence and offence. It is interesting how rival countries are willing to help out in these situations.

Rival countries? What an odd way to look at the world.
Imho this being a military submarine is of little consequence considering Argentina isn't at war with any country right now, at least to my knowledge.

I think what rather applies here is sailor tradition of offering help when fellow sailors are in distress, which is (as I understand it) a rather old and respected tradition.

Btw: It's also not that unthinkable that British military intelligence might want to use this opportunity to collect some information on the sub.

> If the North Koreans lost a submarine would other countries such as the UK/USA offer them help to find it, particularly if it could one day point missiles at the USA?

Lucky us that it wasn't a North Korean submarine... I guess? I'm not even sure what that comparison is supposed to illustrate.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I always understood that if you write basic, un-styled HTML, you get flexible widths and small screen support for free. You have to deliberately decide to make it worse by hardwiring widths and element sizes. Is this not true?
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Noted, we'll be reworking the home page completely and about the signup flow. We are already working on the video as we speak. Here is raw demo if you are intrigued https://drive.google.com/open?id=11uAP1oNm7HzLo3q9fHiAXheFg6...
That could become a terrible disadvantage for Facebook and could be weaponized by competitors - unless it is mandatory for all companies publishing ads online (and maybe offline?).
This isn't the whole explanation, unfortunately (I really want to understand this relationship). A beer costs more in Norway, a good loaf of bread would be $6 (although you could probably get a cheap one for $2-3), a studio apartment in Oslo would be $300k-ish.

So the biggest price difference is in the rents, or the housing prices. I would probably increase my savings by a factor of five or more if I had a salary like the ones cited in this thread :)

Obviously it's supply and demand, I just wonder which side of the equation is skewed and why.
> we have to expect that

How is that a moral justification?

Even if we might expect it, it does not make the fact any better.
I think I'm equally innovative as when I was young. But when I was young I was working for young small companies that didn't have any rules and you could do anything.

Every company I work for now is absolutely groaning under the weight of bureaucracy and rules that prevent everything. You know - innovations generally don't fit in there well.

I've got a mortgage. I care about getting fired over a technicality. So if you've got rules that stifle innovation then you won't see innovation.

Amazingly, I do see young people in the company doing stuff, and being applauded by management. Those things ALSO break ALL of the rules. Management doesn't care.

Ethically though I have a problem with breaking the rules just because I think I will get away from it. I'd rather they get rid of the damned rules. I guess I'm bitter that way and that bitterness has grown with age. When I was young I laughed at rules.
I would talk to a startup lawyer about this before you destroy your captable forever.
No. Get enthousiast users first. Get money later. Give a free trail (without entry of credit card), and lock it after 30 days with a "pay now" thingy
Survival of the fittest? The birds that do it could fare better that those that don't, leading to a healthier offspring, etc...
It would have been more interesting to add placebo butts and also a nicotine carrying material that looks differently than the butts.
You can't stick an initrd on the end of an efistub kernel?
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>"Facebook is an American company. So is Apple and Google. Even if they are not legally bound to serve the interests of the country, their employees are overwhelmingly American and probably patriotic and so we have to expect that when push comes to shove the interests of the US will come first."

85% of Facebook users are outside the United States. Taking the position of "when push comes to shove, we work for the US government" is probably not the best way to be seen.

There is nothing stopping them to be equally transparent for everyone while keeping the laws of every jurisdiction in which they operate.
Homepage, why do they have a fictional character as part of a profile piece? Do they have no one to actually to show, or is it suppose to be a joke? Doesn't seem that professional to me. I get the pic probably represents what my profile might look like but it is blocked by another window which I have no idea what it is about. Would be better just to get rid of the 2 windows that mean nothing to me and highlight what my profile would look like.

Clicking home hides the top toolbar which annoys me. Clicking "THE ELITIE 100" does nothing but reload the page for me which is a sign the websites isn't complete. If the website isn't complete then the service is probably not ready either. Features list lacks any real information. Can't find any information giving me details how, who, what, when, or where about the things you have in feature list.

Do I have any input on the design of the personal website? Do you have any examples or templates for the personal website? How long does it take you to get my personal website up? Do I have to buy a domain or do you handle that?
Do you include ssl?

Client on boarding isn't even fully listed, just has etc at the end. What is your process for client on boarding? What is the full list? How do we have details for future agreements when we current don't even have contract laid out or requirements filled in?

How do you handle a NDA? Do I have to sign away my rights so you can process NDA in my name? Do you have a legal team to review them? Whats a fully secure digital signature?

Is the personal assistant a bot? Are you saying I get a free bot with my signup? I am assuming I be just getting a freshchat bot.

"COMPLETE CLIENT PROCESS" do you have some one qualify to even do requirement collecting? Do you have a experience arch for all linux, windows, mac, and bsd? What languages and database can you cover in this process?

The link to the sign up is the final flag. I get no details and no real information but you expect me to sign up for your service through another service. Having me pay money not knowing what I am getting at all. Not going to happen ever. Only reason I click the link to sign up was to see if I could get more information. Instead I get asked for my cred info.

Finally $10 a month even if it is a starting price to get traffic is way to low for any one of your services. A "personal website" will run you $500 upfront plus $20 a month in maintenance (This begin a dirty little wordpress site a high schooler could build). The doamin name alone will cost you $10. Having a lawyer read over a NDA is probably $250 or something in that ball park. Plus everything else just doesn't seem like the right price. No body is going to pay so little for a "professional" service.
He does not know. He just makes it a ritual, for if you dont follow the things your parents did, your going itchy.
there is a fundamental/conceptual/trust issue with every tool a freelancer uses: his business depends on it, others can look into it. period.

why should I trust the core of my business to you guys?
If you start Emacs server as a daemon, you can use it pretty much like you'd use nano/vi/vim in the terminal, without disturbing anything. With an Emacs server running, for me, it loads faster than vim. I have a bash function along the lines of

et() {
emacsclient -tty --alternate-editor '' "$@"
}

.. for using Emacs in the terminal a-la vim/nano. When you close the file you opened, you'll be right back where you left-off in the shell. I still tend to use a long-running GUI instance as you describe, but for jumping into config files from a terminal to edit a line or two, it's great.
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(Not sure what the point of linking to producthunt is - that almost counts as a negative in my experience, due to the biased way that sites get promoted, or more often, not.)
Do we need more polymaths or specialists in tech?
Facebook has over 2 billion users. If they want to stay relevant in the global scheme would be taking a risk by giving preferential treatment to American authorities. Especially given Germany's power in the EU and the rising European hostility towards digital platforms.

There's a lot of folks to advertise to on this side of the pond, and we're having elections to ;)

Source: https://www.statista.com/statistics/264810/number-of-monthly...
On HN, would you please not post like this on inflammatory topics? We're hoping for better here, so comments like this are destructive. I notice we've had to ask you something similar before.
I really don't like the sign up form. Is there a demo site or profile available?
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Thanks for the story, in fact, looking back, I feel quite foolish to ask too much information in one go :D The gist of the story is very interesting, but in our current scenario I don' really have a way to reach the folks who dropped off, that's why I came to HN. I'll be exploring the other points you noted, and work on them.
They probably clicked sign up hoping for more information. Found nothing and said that's enough thanks. That is the only reason I click signup. I was hoping it would explain things better. Feature list told me nothing.
it's either impossible or near impossible for normal people to change the operating system on an iPhone

so iOS essentially is the phone, since there are no iPhones without it. It's not like you can just pop in an SD card with Linux on it...
>I am reworking on the typeform real soon. Thanks :)

I have to ask. What on earth could possibly motivate you to go with that hideous, broken, typeform garbage instead of quickly implementing your own form?
As for the failed satellite calls, my guess would be that communication was initiated, but that all of the handshakes required to actually place a call were not completed successfully.

Typical cause: you are equipped with a gain antenna which requires stabilisation to point at the relevant patch of sky - and the stabilisation isn't working. You can aim for the general area and sometimes, you get close enough to start the connection process. (Or any other number of reasons - the above I have experienced myself. Luckily, we had the option to switch to a lower-gain antenna and connect anyway (at a higher rate.)
Noted, will completely rework on the copy.