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Do not read a book, or tutorials. Come up with an idea... something you want to build. Pick a framework and build it. (if going the web dev route).

I did this in 2012 (php/laravel) and now earn $50/hour as a freelancer. I could probably earn $70-80 or more but I'm a little desperate for clients right now.

I started out reading/watching tutorials but they bored the shit out of me... So I just decided I was gonna build something. That's the best way of learning, sure learn the basics ifs/thens and other control structures but you don't need to know everything about programming to get started as a developer the rest will come with time.
Has anyone seen the scene from SV where Jared is excited after they hired a woman engineer? And Jared expects her to be pals with Monica because both are female?

I feel some of us men behave that way. :(

link to clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dek5HtNdIHY
Have a look at Google's BBR congestion control algorithm [1]. This is perhaps a solved problem now (although it's still not supported on all platforms, but only the side sending the bulk of the data needs to have it).

1. http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3022184
Interesting idea.. so instead of taxing income, you would tax wealth carried from one year to another...

That would massively discourage saving. I'm not sure that's great in the long run. In the short run I'll probably lead to massive growth as every goes to burn their dollars on something :)

(Arguably it might be a low tax, might even limited to people with a lot of wealth)
The English in this article is oddly broken.
That idea sounds somewhat derivative.
Don't get too excited. It only takes around $140,000 household income to be in the top 15%. When "they" start voting to redistribute wealth they will come after software engineers, doctors, lawyers and a lot of two income earners who don't think of themselves as "the rich".
Sure. But conservatively stylish presentation is arguably the best strategy for career advancement. At least, in academica.
Sure convinced me, I didn't even read this article.
I would find it funny if the ad was about data that related to a large group but when you're poking fun at a single user that's misguided and creepy to me.
I used to work with somebody, who's side-job was to ask question in forums (paid). Entirely possible that most of the questions are from only few users. I mean this user https://authorsama.com/user/34519/comments/ often manages to write one question per minute for 10 minutes in a row. No way.
I don't have a complete answer, but a first step would be to think of the coordinate-free concept behind transposes, which is the adjoint: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transpose#Adjoint
It doesn't occur to you that spouses might have access to each other's phone passcodes?
Yes, you can store wealth in place by burying money. What you can't always do so easily is move it. But you can transfer bitcoins anywhere in the world without anyone blocking the transfer, and you can carry them in your car in a hardware wallet without fear that a cop will confiscate them.

Countries like Russia are looking for a way to move beyond the world dollar standard because the U.S. is able to shut down international dollar transfers for particular countries and banks, and uses that capability somewhat liberally. The U.S. probably can't do that to cryptocurrency, so I'd say it does in fact solve a problem for Russia.

A lot of us vote to change things. I've also gone to protests, gotten involved in party politics, all that stuff. It's not that effective anymore. 80% of the country wants net neutrality and a couple million people took the trouble to file comments with FCC; it made no difference at all. At some point you have to stop begging and start inventing things. As Buckminster Fuller said, "To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete."
On the one hand, I agree. And on the other hand, I wonder how helpful it is to be writing this and posting it to HN instead of writing about some engineering subject and posting that instead.

I think we need more women in tech talking about tech and less women in tech talking about the problems with being women in tech and only getting attention of the wrong kind -- for being women in tech.

I mean, it's kind of recursive.
I'm a newbie to the world of crypto currencies. What concerned me more is the bit about "wash trades". I can accept the spread, but there is truth in the article when it comes to trading practices that probably would be largely mitigated in the presence of a regulator.
I know many women/engineers from/in India who have braved worse situations to become engineers, because that often is the only hope for anyone irrespective of their gender, to gain a good career and escape from poverty or move up the wealth ladder.

Not sure of the author's family background, but either way, its not trivial for women in India to escape the social pressure (of getting married earlier than men) even if parents are supportive.

From my Indian POV, it feels a little frustrating to see that there's so much focus on getting women into tech after they are out of college or mid career, than focusing on it when they are in middle/high school.

As you said, "helping hand and encouragement provided by those groups" is needed, but it needs to focus disproportionately more on kids about to start middle school / high school than girls at any other age. It is too late to think of helping for a transition once a girl / woman is out of college.
> internet infrastructure that is locally owned and operated and is dedicated to serving the people who connect to it

In theory our public transit is “locally owned and operated and is dedicated to serving the people” rather than shareholders. Yet public transit is almost uniformly awful in the US. If you live in San Francisco, do you really want your internet run by the same people who run the Muni?
You still don't get it.

To bust sanctions is to go against the Washington consensus. But why did bitcoin become popular with American's in the first place?

The answer is that the Washington consensus has evolved to be just as opposed to the interest of every day American's as it is to the interests of states like Russia and Iran. Civil liberties have been eroded in the name of terrorism and pedophiles for a long time now. No amount of voting seems to fix these problems.

The founding fathers put gun rights in the constitution under the belief that the final protection of personal freedoms is the ability to defend it for yourself. Cryptography is the guns of the 21st century.

If bitcoin is being used to bust sanctions, its a problem that could have been avoided if the plutocrats in Washington hadn't prosecuted the endless drug war, engaged in civil forfeiture, used taxes to pursue unpopular bailouts, and just generally gave people a reason to want to exit their financial system.
My nemesis was one of those round stick-on LCD clocks that used to be popular.

The designer apparently thought that emitting a single beep every five minutes or so would be an awesome low battery indicator.

I didn't know what kind of thing was making the beep, naturally, which was unhelpful.

It took about a month of me slowly going mad before I finally found the thing at the back of a desk drawer.
not really related, but i wrote this a while back: https://gciruelos.com/what-is-the-roundest-country.html
fortunately there are disable autoplay extensions -- a must have, along with an adblocker ;)
I make this point every time with my friends whenever discussing these "Girls who code" kind of initiatives. I grew up with two sisters who took interest in science naturally. In my class in computer science, girls outnumbered boys and scored well. It is natural for girls in India (middle class educated Indian, which is the majority of the country for the past 50 years) to pursue science related degrees. I think, in US this is not the case and US girls were encouraged to impress boys for dating and activism is targeted at US girls.
The pessimist in me says https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murphy%27s_law
I have a pet-hypothesis that people really don't care about their privacy, but rather they care about being reminded that their privacy is being violated. That is to say they really don't care enough to do anything about it, but that being reminded makes them uncomfortable enough to not want to be reminded.
Since you appear to have read that book, maybe you could summarize the part that you have in mind?
Linux isn’t the only is with ‘route’
If it just mutes videos without stopping them, you still eat bandwidth.
Identity politics has won over these ideals. Instead of gender becoming less and less relevant, it came to define the person's identity, and in the process begot more and more genders in a quest to categorise everyone. As victimhood and groupthink are the pillars of current politics, instead of trying to obtain more and more freedom and detach from stereotypes, people try to belong more strongly to the categories in which they can protect themselves from interacting with the other and confronting criticism. Maybe this is a natural and temporary defence mechanism, employed very widely today as the transition from a world of unquestionable hierarchies based on classes and categories to a more fluid global society has just started, and due to this infancy of such a world where the old comfort zones and innate prejudices are (slowly) being erased, people feel fragile alone, given also self-realisation in a non-traditional way may still require fighting conservatism and the fear of the different, as no society is evolving homogenously.
> I guess mom made the right decision coming here

Where's here?

Oh, from your Hacker News profile -> Twitter profile (https://twitter.com/doreen_michele) which says "Southwest Coastal Washington".
Amazon has the power to fix this. They don't seem to care. Simple logic and heuristics would be enough.

Amazon allows anyone to post a review. You don't even have to buy the product. That is fundamentally wrong.

That's the first easy step: If you did not buy the product on Amazon you cannot post a review.

Amazon allows people who receive deep discounts to post reviews. That is ripe for manipulation.

And so, the second filter is simple: If someone doesn't pay at least N%, say 50%, for a product they don't get to post a review.

Amazon allows people to post a review at any time, even before the product ships. You can post a review for toothpaste before you actually use it.

The third filter would include a variable purchase-to-review period. The length of this period is different depending on the type of product. Maybe someone who buys a USB cable can post a review a couple of weeks after actually receiving it --but not sooner. Someone buying weight loss pills might need to wait 60 days.

In other words, introduce some common sense into a process that would only allow actual retail buyers of a product to experience the product for a reasonable amount of time before allowing them to post a review, positive or negative.

It goes beyond that. Negative reviews need to be routed to the vendor before they appear publicly on Amazon. Why? Amazon needs to give vendors a first shot at solving the problem. The current system is moronic. People can give a USB cable a bad review because they don't like the color. The thing might work just fine but the person wanted a different shade of green and can give the product a 1 star review. This is nonsense.

In general terms, Amazon reviews, due to Amazon's own incompetence, are pretty much worthless these days.
Apache Brooklyn models the DevOps flow with blueprints
Was it explained to you why there's a 50-50 target goal, or is the value of such a goal automatically assumed to be known and shared?
I'm not sure. You could contact the organizers. In my case my university supported me.
She really seems to think that South India is particular in parents wanting their children to excel in math and engineering. That's...really a strange assumption. That extreme of cultural ignorance is all anyone would notice about this article were it pointed the other direction.

Also "pink elephant" is a kind of symbol for delirium tremens, though I don't know how common that is anymore.
I completely agree about applying even if you don't match all of their criteria. A lot of these job postings are a wishlist for candidates and you have no idea what the pool of actual applications look like.
I see no question here. What point are you trying to make? Are you defending Comcast's attack on NN veiled as support for it (through pushing a law that redefines NN as something that does nothing to actually protect NN), or you are trying to explain that we should have expected it? If the later, it's the same thing I'm saying.
Here's my odd story. Years ago, my wife and I were sleeping over at my parents house and we were awoken by garbled conversation from the clock radio. I sleepily checked it out and saw that the radio was turned off. Thinking that the on/off switch was broken, I just unplugged it. The garbled conversation continued. At this point I wondered if my parents house was built on top of an ancient burial ground...

Talking to my father in the morning, he indicated that his neighbor had taken up Ham radio and he was having to put filters on various devices to reduce interference. To this day, I wonder if his spotty wifi in the house is related to his neighbor turning his system...
Is it reasonable to expect a software vendor, open source or not, to not install adware on your users' computers without consent? Yes or no?

If yes, then why would it be necessary for me to audit anything?

If no, then PLEASE elaborate on why?
I wish there were an English word for when you're happy something exists but annoyed that someone else did it before you.
Sounds like a great question for Car Talk!
We as humans are pretty bad at responding to threats proactively. It takes some damage before we'll take action. In this case, IoT devices are going to have to take down some major infrastructure before we start regulating them.
While I know the parent comment is a positive one, it's really underselling the breadth of games ScummVM supports these days.

There are many games (or versions of games) supported by ScummVM that you can't run in DosBox for the simple reason that they're not DOS games (or even x86).

The number of "obscure game engine" games actually outnumbers the LucasArts and Sierra games combined, and include some of the most popular and famous games of the era, like Myst and Riven (as well as the mentioned Zork games).
> Don’t all of the complaints about exchange rate and market cap apply to virtually any other item that is traded?

> Market cap is extremely commonly cited for stock markets.

Yes.

Spreads usually depend on volume--high-volume securities tend to have a lower spread because there's a lot of market participants.

More established markets often have market makers (entities with simultaneous bids and asks) and arbitrageurs who make money off spreads between different exchanges. I usually look at this spread and arbitrage (which I'll get hit with when I buy or sell) as the price of having a liquid asset. For stocks, it tends to cost relatively little.

Market cap for Bitcoin is complicated because it's not known how many Bitcoins have been lost.

Ever since people stopped storing stock certificates in safe deposit boxes, this hasn't been an issue for equities. Even then, companies kept a ledger with ownership.
>I expect that at some point over the next couple of years, governments (like the US) will black-list bitcoin addresses

Monero
Germany lost the war.

Although it's not true that the victors always write the history. There are cases where the defeated write books detailing all the injustices committed against them and it gets picked up centuries later after the tides of power have changed again, or so much time has passed that everyone involved is safe or dead -- I guess one can say that's how you know about the Native American version of American history and can talk about it safely.

Want an interesting thought? What in the horrors of hell is being done to Middle-Easterners?
I just don't know. I think some are paid and some are just IOTA holders with a great financial incentive to squash any valid criticism of IOTA. There really isn't much difference between the two groups when you think about it.
One thing I've wondered, if the big regional monopoly ISPs actually violate our net neutrality on a large enough scale, can enough new ISPs pop-up who have net neutrality in their company charter (or otherwise are non-profits) to keep the old internet alive? Can municipalities drop existing exclusive contacts citing "loss of net neutrality" as a material change? How will regressive districts take it when other states are keeping NN and prospering? If net neutrality can be restored from the bottom up, has anyone explored strategies and methods to protect ourselves from regional monopoly ISPs and how it will actually roll out over time and regionally? How will the top resist a bottom up change?
Well this does not simply boil down to economics, too. In Turkey for example (where I'm from), we have a very complex gradient of secular and religious cultures, where the economical situation of the individuals or of the families are only a small determinant in what part of such a gradient they are. Especially in this day and age where local cultures are becoming but a simple debile component of a more global archi-culture.
Purely cultural? Do you deny the existence of biology entirely?
Indeed.

I'd love to go "plain", but I use MathJax on my personal blog for math formatting. MathML isn't an option because AFAIK Firefox is the only major browser supporting it.

Are there reasonable non-JS math typesetting solutions out there? Ideally I'd love my site to be 1) super fast to load and super light on resources, and 2) compatible with text-mode browsers and screen readers.
> At some point it is never going to be profitable to compete; and in some places it will never be profitable to even build the infrastructure in the first place.

If there are no regulations here's how it goes: first ISPs compete in urban areas, this is very profitable with traditional active fiber to the building and ethernet to each apartment. It takes like $50 CAPEX per customer. But at some point as competition increases margins get lower and certain ISPs start looking into rural areas where they can have no real competition, i.e. DSL or radio is not a competition to fiber. New ISPs emerge too as people see an opportunity to profit from temporary geographical monopoly. So they start building in rural areas, enjoying huge margins. Today they'd use something like GPON, which is very cheap compared to the old days. It goes on until at some point the hard part becomes finding areas from where they can profit the most and where there is no real competition. This is when some start competing with other ISPs in rural areas. But as margins start to shrink in some areas due to competition they prioritize investment into areas competition unlikely to reach. There will be far away neglected areas still, but here's a twist, since there is a lot of competition people who are willing to pay will be able to find a whole bunch of ISPs willing to build fiber or at least radio links with them. In other words - it's always profitable, regulations really is the only problem.

Forcing to share infrastructure is also not necessary. It helps only if monopolies share it with everyone, not small players. With no regulations market solves this pretty well.
Says who? Most of the popular exchanges don't trade in USD, they trade in Tethers, which only have a promise, not a basic audit, that they are backed by actual USD.
I can't find the source again.

Instead, here some numbers showing that 76% of ALL Google employees have a degree. https://www.cnbc.com/2017/07/28/this-tech-company-has-the-mo...

The saying that one doesn't need a degree to get a tech job is nonsense. Do the test: Ask one guy working in one of the major tech company how many of his direct neighbors have a degree, most likely it's all of them.
This is an extreme edge case (and a commonly used, I would say flawed, argument). The great majority of BTC users/miners are not Venezuelans, Zimbabweans, etc.

Also, implying that BTC is somehow "stable" is extremely misleading.
The initial capital investment. I wasn't just handed it by my parents; I have to save it up from my earned income.
This reminds me of a “bug” I found when working for a company that sells package lockers to apartment buildings. We used iPads for the user interface and had monitoring in place to alert us if an iPad went offline.

At only one location with two iPads one would go offline almost every day (but not every day) between 12pm and 1pm, for 10-20 minutes. Never the same time of day, and never the same length of time. It was always the same iPad, the other one on that network stayed online the entire time.

We replaced the iPad and the problem persisted. Finally I got fed up, put my phone on silent, ignored everything, and watched the Dropcam feed for the 2 hours near the usual time. Slowly I saw the sun light up the lockers, eventually shining on the iPad. Ten minutes later, after sitting in direct sunlight, it went offline. As the sun moved, the iPad went back in to shadow and came online on its own.

It was overheating and shutting itself off until it cooled down. The time changed because day lengths change, and the days it didn’t go offline were cloudy.
You're right - 800,000 seems like a bit of stretch - but that's the number of registered players, excluding the guest players. At any given time, there are about a thousand players logged in and ready for play.

The hope is that not only will Free Chess Club serve as a modern alternative to Jin for existing FICS users but also draw in more new users to FICS. Do check it out!
You are asking the wrong questions.

Is morality powerful enough to stop actions?

Government thugs can survive with a guilty conscience.
Either your utilities are run by big businesses who don't care about you, or they're run by local governments, which in turn are beholden to special interest groups who don't care about you, some of which are big businesses.

Seems like you can't win.
You're asserting something without offering any evidence for it - I would like you to explain why people should believe you.
I did something similar, porting first V6 then V7 to the Vax some time starting in '79 ... The process started with writing a tar clone in fortran to get the C source off of the tape, luckily I had a C compiler for VMS ...

The result was a Unix that ran VAX native in a VM, each copy ran in a single VMS process ... Then I did V7, much easier the second time around
Presumably a state-level actor could not only figure out how to disable these devices, but actually create patches for the vulnerabilities and force-distribute those patches. They would have access to test hardware and could even demand confidential documentation from the manufacturers to facilitate this.
Indeed! However, asking modern police to do infrastructure work of that sort might be too much. However, what police officer would turn down an opportunity to get trained as a programmer, and then put to work in forensics, workflow, or national cyber defense?
Saving money is already discouraged by inflation. A wealth tax would be functionally equivalent to a fixed inflation rate, just the numerical values would be different.

Since the numbers would be going down instead of the increasing money supply devaluing savings, I guess people wouldn't like it, because losing wealth would actually feel like losing wealth.
You can show them Chattanooga as a case study where the results were optimal.

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ezpk77/chattanoog...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2013/09/17...

https://www.thedailybeast.com/chattanooga-has-its-own-broadb...
No. Because people love cheap and free stuff. Non NN ISPs will be cheaper and consumers couldn’t care less as long as they get their Netflix, which the will.
Why would someone microwave blueberries?