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Launch HN: TrapFi (YC W18) pays freelance developers by the pull request
Hi HN,

My name is Cameron Sadler, and I'm one of the founders of TrapFi (https://www.trapfi.com). Our service makes it easy for freelance developers to get paid per pull request. Instead of waiting months after work is complete to get paid, freelance devs use us to generate payouts as they work.

Nigel, Eric and I have been freelancing on and off for the last five years. It was undoubtedly feast or famine. Late or slow payments from clients made this more difficult. With TrapFi you know precisely when you'll get paid next.

Before TrapFi, I ran a co-work space for freelance developers. Here I connected with people who loved freelancing but eventually went back to corporate because cash flow was unpredictable. This was due to most of their contracts having net 30/60/90 terms or clients just flat out paying late (or not paying at all). We searched for tools to solve this problem, but none triggered payouts from clients automatically at the point of work approval.

Here's how we solve this:

1. Freelancers add clients

2. Clients receive a project link where they can connect their bank and track pull request submissions in real-time

3. Freelancers complete work, submit a pull request and add an hours' tag (or flat rate) to the PR body (i.e. {TF10} for 10 hours)

4. As soon as the client or a repo admin approves your pull requests, we charge the client the amount specified by the tag

You can still bill clients for the non-code work that went into a PR using TrapFi's tagging system. Your clients don't have to do anything special to set up this process; they simply receive a link to pay and track the project. When you complete work and they approve it, you get paid automatically. It's money you've earned, delivered instantly.

We also automatically generate invoices with line items that link to your PRs for you and your clients. You never have to leave git to get paid. Like most payment tools, we earn a % of each transaction (1.5%). We expect additional revenue to come from a marketplace, where we connect developers with solutions to developers who need work done.

We look forward to hearing feedback, ideas and experiences from the HN community. We know there are a lot of freelancers here so our goal is to learn from your experiences and knowledge of the freelance space.
You seem to be on the right track. I am sure you'll find success.
Yes, really, and no, only you and phk have shown this paranoia; most the userbase here agrees by votes. The software I'm discussing is all free open source software and anyone can test for themselves in their own environment to call bullshit. I gain and lose nothing by Varnish being anywhere on the spectrum of good and bad at any aspect of content delivery. I'd hope it would be the best it can be, I don't know what kind of person would wish otherwise. If you got the I/O model I care about right I still couldn't use it (or ATS or any other $newfossproject for reasons stated in response to another person) but I'd be pleased for the professional community. The market is supporting multiple viable open caching applications, those will trivially nibble at commercial CDNs and nothing I say or do is going to change that.. the caching software is not the hardest/most expensive part of operating a global CDN, and many companies will steadfastly solve all those problems for themselves too, and I will again be pleased..
What do you guys think Uber stands to gain from intentionally programming their cars to run red lights?
he literally accused the person of either malice or laziness, not of malice. The either is pretty important.
Par for the course in regards to Uber.
Sweet, thanks to MS joining Apple we can debate philosophical questions like "is an ignored preference better than no option to set a preference." :|

Even third party apps that build in their own chooser in iOS tend to be only Safari and Chrome... :rolleyes:
They will have video for sure if since they are testing, then we will see. Your statement about reaction time is assuming so many things, may as well declare the AI guilty now right?
I had this exact same problem with the way i & my team approached our kubernetes clusters. I come from a network management background and in that space we all know of a tool called RANCID. A simple tool that logged into your switches/routers, made a dump & removed counters/oscillating data and stored it into CVS.

This predates infra-as-code.. it took years before someone wrote a clone that used Git instead of CVS

Made something stupidly similar for kubernetes: https://github.com/pieterlange/kube-backup
Yup - I've personally witnessed one of these almost zoom through a red light at an intersection and was appalled. I'm honestly not surprised...in their effort to race to the bottom Uber's autonomous vehicle program has been extremely aggressive - to the point of total disregard for safety. Their business model may be built on pipe dreams of autonomous travel (without drivers to pay), and hopefully this shutters that. In fact, the whole company should probably be shut down IMO - but I digress.
I don’t know the number of hours their system has been driving but I highly doubt it is enough to draw comparisons to the average Arizona driver who hits 0 pedestrians. I also don’t think this works like this in the court of public opinion anyways.
This system can never make a mistake of this magnitude and be publically accepted.
That's not good! Taking a look.

EDIT: I believe it's because the CSPRNG state ( https://metacpan.org/pod/Bytes::Random::Secure::Tiny ) was created before the process forks, so they shared the initial state and generated the same token. I've reduced it to 1 worker pending an actual fix.

Sorry about that, and thanks for pointing it out.
Probably more than use Edge.
I remember Windows 10 begging me not to un-default Edge the last time I've tinkered with it.

It's a pretty pathetic of them, but then again they think their users owe them the second chance, or indeed the first, on the product they never wanted in the first place.

It may be good. It may be bad. Buy some Facebook ads already! You should not get any leverage on users of your OS and didn't antitrust cases teach you that? Why would you expect to get a 5 minutes evaluation from users, for free?
Curious how the numbers work out of number of miles [1] to number of deaths of autonomous vs standard vehicles.

I know the scale is different but since this is the first death I’m curious if the percents fall in line.

[1] is distance the right metric?
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Why am I not surprised that, among all the teams competing in this space, many of which have clocked in far more miles than them, Uber is the first one to kill someone?

This may well just be bad luck. But I cannot shake the feeling that if Uber started an ice cream venture, they would store their molasses on a hill in a Boston. The only way to get “humanity” associated with Uber would involve an Uber zeppelin.

Or it’s a conspiracy, because nothing is as threatening to Uber than autonomous cars. This is certain to invite more regulatory scrutiny. Just kidding... I think..
for myself, the moba-ness was a neutral aspect. my disinterest really lay in feeling that the character design was quite dull and the visuals were generally uninteresting. but those impressions are from limited overall exposure.
He was a STATE senator for ~2.5 terms. He was only elected to the US senate once. It was a landslide mostly because it's Illinois and also because he outspent his opponent $14m to $2.5m. He served half of that term most of which was spent running for president.

Worked across the aisle? Have you ever read how his major legislation was passed? Sure the Republicans were basically obstructionists, but I've never heard him to be known as "working across the aisle."
Gmail does this a lot in the iOS app too - I feel like I'm always telling it to remember my choice of Safari over Chrome. It also links addresses to Google Maps instead of Apple maps without even giving you an option.
I believe they are asking whether that the vehicle struck pedestrian A in the course of avoiding something else like a pedestrian B.
Calling these pre-programmed multi-MJ wheeled computers "self driving" is foolish and deceptive.
> Americans would fill these jobs as wages and working conditions improved.

It's hardly backbreaking manual labor in a slaughterhouse though. These are 5-6 figure jobs with good benefits, in-demand skills, even social cachet these days. What are all these people doing right now that they're fine with passing up cushy jobs in tech?
He was selling shoes. Their house has 4 bedrooms, 3 living rooms, 2 offices, a garden, a court, a garage, a basement, a 2 cellars, an attic, and 2 bathrooms.

And yes, not in a big city. But his job paying the house was not in a big city either.

While housing prices in is little town are indeed way lower than in most parts of the country, so are the wages.

I agree for the food though. If you have somebody to do the shopping to several shops and cook, you can get something similar. But today, both spouses work quite often.

Now I'm just back from the US, and the only decent provider of vegetables that match what I'm used to eat in France and group everything was wholefood. $4 for a salad is very expensive to me. Granted I'm not native to the country and only passing by so you have options that are cheaper I don't know about. Still. I never seen that price on a salad anywhere except Japan. And I travel a lot.
First, dictatorships are anything but "natural". They require a massive amount of effort and savagery to maintain and enforce effectively.

Second, I'm not saying that we should treat economic inequality as something that's static or immutable any more than any other natural force. I'm saying that we have to recognize that natural forces dictate behavior and economics, and that you can't change natural forces by decree alone (e.g., passing a law that says "everyone now must share"). We have to really appreciate and understand the processes and motivations that drive the behaviors if we want to address them in a meaningful way.

We have to be honest about how changeable certain things are. For example, we have not, as yet, found a way to control the weather explicitly, but we have coping mechanisms like air conditioning that mitigate some of the negative effects. This didn't happen by saying "It shall always be 74 degrees indoors at all times" and then laying down stringent ideological enforcement to ensure that everyone accepted and believed that it was always 74 degrees. It happened by experimentation, tinkering, and respect for the constraints of the reality that allowed us to discover a non-ideal but workable solution that mostly handled the problem of uncomfortable heat.

There is not necessarily any reason to believe that the current mix of inequality conditions are particularly cruel or unfavorable. American free-market enterprise may not be perfect, and I'm not saying that there are no systemic issues or that things aren't worsening, but our economic system is historically workable and reasonably well-tuned. It has proven much better than many competing systems. We have to be honest about where we are and what's possible.

We can't simply change "the rules" and expect a good outcome, as the comment I replied to implied. There is no magic wand and no overnight perfection.
no, but it stopped russia from continuing the aggression.

The sanctions didn't hit until after that happened.
1. You're quibbling over semantics. Facebook profits by selling ads. The value of those ads is that they can be precisely targeted. That precision comes from all the private data Facebook collects on you. So Snowden's quote is true.

2. In the past, Facebook has sold info to advertisers and tracking companies:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702304772804575558...

That article is a little old, and Facebook may have changed their policy. But the recent story about Cambridge Analytics shows that, at least in some cases, Facebook still shares your information with third parties.
They are not entering retail, are they? Targets and Walmarts of the world are still doing retail. It sounds like they are providing an interface and charging specifically for that interface.
Citizens don't have work hour limits. I've put in 100+ hours a week in jobs before.
The link to the actual paper is now working
Even those wrappers can be useful, e.g. to isolate identity management. But even those wrappers are not selectable at the OS level, only within apps that allow you to choose the default browser/wrapper for opening links.
It would explain the "outside a crosswalk" remark better if the person were riding the bike. This is one of those cases where video evidence should be subpoenaed, though. It's far too common for the police to accept the statement from the only party still alive, and come up with incorrect conclusions about what happened on the street.
Yeah, it will be interesting to see if this was an intentional (algorithmic) response or a failure of sensors somewhere.

I go back and forth with thinking the algorithms in things like self-driving cars should be public. Anything which must make a choice such as smash into bus or smash into bicycle — the public should be aware of the choices the company chooses to implement. Obviously this example is simplistic but it illustrates my point.

Today I’m definitely leaning towards it should be public and scrutinized. Next month I may be worried this would hamper progress.
Bah, it looks like most platforms won't let you delete stuff through the API (of course). I'm going to look for some alternative method.
I vouched for your comment and made it visible, even though I disagree with parts of it.

I agree that there are two "tiers" of H1B workers. But statistically, the vast majority belong to the body shop tier. And many if not most of those workers end up in cities where the salary for tech workers are definitely not making $200,000/year, and where it's much harder to find a decent programming job.

I agree that there should be a visa program for companies who cannot actually find workers with certain skills. Actually, there is such a program (forgetting the visa name, it's for immigrants with outstanding contributions to a field). Perhaps it should be widened. But such a program can never cover companies looking for cheap programmers for CRUD apps, like the current H1B often does.

Actually, I think I agree with all but your very first sentence, which the rest of your comment doesn't seem to support. A more accurate statement would be "The H1B doesn't always directly allow worker exploitation".
https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Node doesn't have "web workers", so I'm not sure what you mean. Node doesn't come with threading support as far as I know; it's single-threaded by design, but there may be libraries that try to implement it.
Traffic lights would also no longer be necessary

How will pedestrians know when to cross the road? Will bicycles also become illegal?
This is huge news for this secretive company so it's unfortunate that this submission got flagged. I don't think they were ever upfront about what their device can really achieve before.

A lot of the stuff you highlighted are especially interesting since other popular HMD don't have them yet (for example eye tracking and of course their lightfield stuff). Even a 6DOF tracked controller was a surprising feature to me since they don't seem to use any extra external sensors like oculus/vive.
how does this differ from https://canarytokens.org/generate ?
Indeed, this summary seems fair.
I've been keeping a profile up to date mainly because I thought that potential employers might look me up and probably think me too weird if they couldn't find me on either Facebook or LinkedIn. I definitely don't want a Facebook account.
Fine/sue the entity that made the algorithm, just like every other situation like that. Or, if you can prove negligence on the part of someone inside that company, prosecute them.
With how many nodes? Does it scale linearly with nodes? (1Gb/s by itself doesn't help me estimate the scale of the project), Thanks!
Not to be the guy who says "I TOLD YOU SO" but it had to happen at some point, sadly & unfortunately - if this is the first (known) case of A.I. controlled cars killing humans, the number of casualties can only grow from now onwards
> "It is clear Microsoft needs to do something to stimulate use of Edge, but the change is likely to be extremely unpopular with both testers and regular users"

I think if it has the side-effect of pushing users still using IE8-11 onto Chrome or Firefox (or even Edge), the testers will probably be happy.
Right, and even then, Apple isn't going to help you at all: links from other apps won't open in Firefox, so you jump through hoops to try to get your Firefox bookmark/history syncing support...

Unfortunately people are better at copying Apple on the annoying shit like this than at the stuff they're actually really good at.
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IIRC, Uber initially launched its self driving cars by flouting California law: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnet.com/google-amp/news/ub...
The US may still well be the protector of the free world, but we've otherwise abdicated our global leadership role. And, with Trump's coyness on US commitment to Article 5 of NATO, whether or not we'll continue to even be the protector in the future is anyone's guess.
I don't think anyone thinks it's intentional, just that they're a poorly run company and have been less diligent in fixing bugs and ensuring safety.
I like how 18x P/E is low nowadays!
They stand to gain by being quicker to market by failing to instantiate adequate safeguards.

Criminal negligence, not direct malicious criminality.
> An insurance - as said - may increase safety requirements, and each added safety requirement may (or may not) contribute to less crashes, but it's not like it will directly prevent incidents, that is what sounded "odd" to me.

Did the article say insurance would directly prevent crashes? That's not the way I read it. I read it as one approach to reducing the likelihood of crashes is to require hefty insurance coverage, which shouldn't sound "odd" to you at all unless you misread it.
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That doesn't fully obscure the original URL though, it's very easy to issue a HEAD request and examine the headers first.
Ppl said that argument a year ago, 3 years ago, 5 years etc. AMZN has never been cheap by traditional valuation metrics. What one has to look at instead are operating margins and growth, both pf which are very strong.
To ensure that all automotive software incorporates lessons learned from such fatalities, it would be beneficial to develop a common data set of (mostly synthetic) data replicating accident and 'near miss' scenarios.

As we understand more about the risks associated with autonomous driving, we should expand and enrich this data-set, and to ensure public safety, testing against such a dataset should be part of NHTSA / Euro NCAP testing.

I.e. NHTSA and Euro NCAP should start getting into the business of software testing.
Lightning coming to Stellar
In developing countries like India and Eastern Europe, there are many posts with hundreds and thousands of likes and comments. There IS an ecosystem of users who engage with linkedin deeply. HR recruiters and entrepreneurs publish long insightful/motivational pieces which give them leads and publicity. Then there are also those '+1 if you're interested in this job' posts, which garner plenty of comments.
Situations no self-driving car can avoid:

- philosophical dilemma
- physics-constrained reaction times
- actions that violate the rules of the system

Solutions:

- protected car lanes
- protected bike lanes
- protected pedestrian lanes

Reasons why these solutions are not put in place:

- cost

Until humans determine that the cost of human life is higher than the cost of upgrading infrastructure, we should accept human death as a regular part of autonomous driving, just the same as we do for non-autonomous driving. 37k dead people every year in the US due to human drivers.

Top reasons for auto accidents today include inclement weather, reckless driving, speeding, driving under the influence, and distracted driving. In theory, most of those could be solved by autonomous driving. But then the list of reasons for accidents would change to whatever new reasons cause autonomous car accidents, such as damaged sensors, programming errors, equipment failure, road hazards, etc.

Even with autonomous cars, we will still need protected lanes, and we will still never implement them, because we don't really care when people we don't know die.
In NYC the urbanists have a trend of saying "crash" instead of "accident" when referring to traffic collisions. They feel that "accident" gives the driver too much credit in situations where they were completely at fault for not looking, going too fast, running a light, etc.
It's not "intelligent", it's a dumb computer that is programmed by humans. The people responsible for putting it on the road must be liable.
This comment breaks two of the site guidelines: the one that asks people not to go on about voting (let alone downvote-bait), and this one: "Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

Saying that someone's work is obvious except to idiots doesn't teach anybody anything; it's just striking a pose. Please don't do that here; instead, explain. If you don't have time to explain, you can save yourself even more time by not posting.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
For some reason nothing on my FB feed it's from my friends anymore. Just news articles.
Nobody is suggesting they're doing that. They're saying Uber cuts corners to save a dime among other unethical practices (like stealing research from competitors).
Yes, the Google Inbox iOS app never remembers your browser setting, even when you tell it to.
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No one said that this was their intention.
Not intentionally programming them to run red lights, just intentionally or unintentionally not taking necessary precautions to prevent it from happening. They can get it right, or have it right now, and it's pretty clear which side they've chosen.
Can't speak for the nation, but in Colorado Sanders won the primary by a landslide yet received exactly 0 super deligate votes. Anyone who lived in a state where this happened could feel the elitism the previous comment was talking about
I'm referring specifically to the Mail app on iOS. Other apps, e.g. Wire for replacing iMessage and Mail, will let you choose which browser will open links.
I think it's more what Uber stands to gain from not ensuring that their cars are programmed to not run red lights. Which is first-to-market advantage.
10 years, to be precise:

- IL Senator 1997–2004

- US Senator 2005-2008

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama
https://www.wired.com/2011/01/ff-lottery/
>The reality though is how many pedestrians are hit by manual driver's vs automous drivers? On a percentage basis I gotta believe autonomous cars are orders of magnitude safer.

That might be a fair question, except that one death at this early stage of limited realistic trials makes me doubt the correctness of your belief. On the statistics that we have right now, I'm not seeing how autonomous cars are safer.

>Self driving cars aren't going to be perfect.

Shouldn't self-driving cars be held to a better standard rather than compared generously to objectively terrible existing standards? That we think of pedestrians regularly killed in "accidents" as acceptable collateral is already pretty horrific.
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