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Screw friend-work. No offense to friends - but if you need to build a business, and you need to build a new lifestyle for yourself, the last thing you need to do is charity work for someone else's profit. I've personally spurned friend-work, and it happened right around the time I was being dragged into 'friendly' conference calls at 11 am Saturday mornings and I was too 'friendly' to bill for that.

I think you did it wrong and became jaded. If you're suffering weekends and nights and sacrificing your life, it should be:

a) temporary - temp project, crunch time

or

b) an investment - this client/person will really appreciate it, and be a great networking point / reference / future source of work

and

c) it should be worth your time money-wise. The whole point of freelancing is 'time is money.' At the end of it, you should have nice savings, and during it, the sound of gold coins clinging together rings in your mind's ear.

More on point C. When you're an FTE, you're owned (at least in the U.S. [and the UK!]) by the employer. Weekends, nights, releases, problems, those things will impact you outside the 9 to 5 in any serious job. No overtime pay. There's some stuff about mission and dedication and other platitudes, and in some industries bonuses, but other than that - no overtime paid out for your suffering. If you complain, that makes you a naughty person, etc. and so forth, so you have to suppress complaining about such things.

However, as a freelancer time is money, and you sell that time, you exchange your labor time for cash in the bank. And you tax deduct some of the conveniences, like transportation/taxis and (depending on 2018 tax changes and interpretation) meals too. You might also tax deduct that standing desk you wanted, a new laptop, etc. - things that make you work better.

If you 'lost' nights and weekends then I'm afraid something went wrong. What if your rate was double? What if it didn't take up 40% of your normal job?

I disagree about opportunity cost, which is of course subjective. For me, opportunity cost was slaving away in corporate cubicle farms and getting dragged into meetings (30-50% of my time) rather than jumping around companies and learning cool new tech.
The dollar number is a completely meaningless unit, it still boggles my mind that financial journalists report this like it matters. They should tell you what percentage of the company is being offered at what the total valuation would be at the expected price, the price itself is completely meaningless.
> I have never been able to understand why so many other scientists and "rationalist" look back on humans early "superstitious" ideas with contempt. To my mind these superstitious ideas are the beginning of the rationalist mindset.

First of all, pstuart nailed it: "I would suggest that any contempt of early superstitious ideas has to do with the fact that many live on today.". Also, one could argue that not all modes of thinking eventually lead to rationalist mindset, at least not directly - one problem with superstitions is that people don't have or need proofs for them and that they as memes fight the same space truth does.

True concept of, for example, evolution still is fighting with creationism because they solve the same problem, but one of them was made completely made up and people still believe in it because it was here earlier. I think it would be better if we had no answers rather than ones that are utterly wrong. Especially since people who make them up and believe based on "faith" alone are so convinced that their concept is true that they actually harm the actual, proven truth.
Not explicitly related, but funny enough— it comes on the same day this news came out. It seems like they're already done with the guy, anyway:

U.S. miners' union to endorse two more Democrats in coal country

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-coal-endorse...
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I have seen this one lately, http://gettingstartedwithchef.com/ but are there any better resources you know of ?
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The word "speeding" refers to breaking the speed limit[1]. I agree with you completely, but you can't blame me for using words like they were supposed to. You might argue that this includes your point, but I've never seen it used like that.

[1] - https://www.thefreedictionary.com/speeding - "The act or instance of operating a motor vehicle or motorboat faster than allowed by law."
Bird populations across the French countryside have fallen by a third over the last decade and a half, researchers have said.

Dozens of species have seen their numbers decline, in some cases by two-thirds, the scientists said in a pair of studies – one national in scope and the other covering a large agricultural region in central France.

“The situation is catastrophic,” said Benoit Fontaine, a conservation biologist at France’s National Museum of Natural History and co-author of one of the studies.

Does anyone have a link to the actual studies that are referenced? The article mentions Benoît Fontaine as one of the co-authors, but I don't see anything that matches in his recent publications:

http://cesco.mnhn.fr/search-publications?field_auteurs_autho...

https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=f0kyLmwAAAAJ...
Yes and no. "Knowing" encompasses "willful blindness," where you have warning signs but deliberately avoid investigating.

If I'm suing Google under the new 18 USC 2421A or the new 18 USC 1595(d), created by this bill, I'm arguing that "Google has tons of warning signs that its services are used by sex traffickers; even if it didn't know about the specific instance of sex trafficking I'm suing over, it was being willfully blind by not having a system in place to identify sex trafficking."
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Another likely theory is that it's from "tempora", a Latin reference to Lent (Tempo da Quaresma) because that was a time when Catholics ate more vegetables and fish.
Edit: HN Mods quickly fixed the article, which makes this comment out of date. I really appreciate how quickly mods fix things on this site.

Article is wrong, Trump is not announcing $60B in tariffs, he's announcing tariffs on $60B of goods. Huge difference.

I've seen multiple outlets make the same mistake. NYtimes got it right here

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/22/us/politics/trump-will-hi...
https://psyarxiv.com/387h9
I guess a lot of it ends up back in the atmosphere once humans have used it. Perhaps some is piped in sewerage all the way to the nearest ocean?
I do realize that ageism is not simple, or easy to fix. I'm currently helping my father, who is over 60, update his resume. He's extremely talented and knowledgeable in a field that currently lacks skilled workers. I'm helping him feature his experience as a selling point, and not as a disadvantage. I so realize ageism is widespread, and I understand if older workers feel like they have to take small steps to put employer's concerns to rest.

But when we're at the point when dying your hair is considered necessary to get a job, we should be upset. And I for one (as someone who went gray young) will not give in to this trend.
Yes that is the idea.
This theory goes against the grain of the "fast casual" movement where people are willing to pay more than bottom dollar for food... if they're convinced they're getting something a little better than Taco Bell. Chipotle, Qdoba, etc.
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Hi, this is informal message to transmit my desire to move from London to CA because I want to be there. C++/debian linux CENTRIC developer. Physics background, +1 yr experience working with satoshi, deep into cryptostuff, included bitcoin-cash. Any ideas? thanks
But as noted by another user, batteries come with long warranties. (100k miles, sometimes)
We don't fully understand life. We don't even understand all the proteins. We sure don't understand a single neuron.

We understand many small and big things about life, yes.
Hours After FOSTA Passes, Reddit Bans 'Escorts' and 'SugarDaddy' Communities
We should of balance the incoming flood of this crap long time ago.
Good. The Chinese government subsidizes and protects many industries within their economy. Additionally, workers in the United State have been forced to race to the bottom with China. I, for one, am happy to see some protectionism.
I think you are asking about removing the apps you have authorized through facebook and not the actual facebook apps themselves?

If so it should be in settings on mobile (is on iPhone at least and it's just a webview). It takes a lot of steps, but definitely there.
And Tibetans have been making it for centuries [1], which is where Asprey says he got the idea from.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butter_tea
I get the sense that electronics have already doubled in price from a few years ago. There are almost no dirt cheap parts any more.
"It was good to have a gun when the Clansmen came." -Antonin Scalia

You really should take a moment to listen to Heller(2008).
> Germany's most renowned economist, Professor Hans-Werner Sinn

Horseshit. He's certainly renowned, and certainly one of the best known ones, but he is just one among seven or eight of his stature, and quite controversial.

> While U.S. customs duties on foreign cars (except for some niche categories) amount to only 2.5%, the EU charges 10% on any vehicle imported from outside the bloc

True. And with other goods it's precisely the other way around.

This text is misleading at best.
It's interesting that this just dropped to the second page.
What is the advantage of using evolutionary algos in this case over using something like Thompson Sampling or Contextual Multi-Armed Bandit? (http://www.kdd.org/kdd2017/papers/view/an-efficient-bandit-a...)
I don’t understand this, I’ve seen a few people comment in the same vein.

People can safely drive in total darkness with the aid of their amazing human eyes and high-beams.

If for some other reason visibility is low you slow down - not rely on glancing at a backlit display ruining your own night vision and taking your eyes off the road for seconds at a time.
Services that decide to implement their own, private, content based restrictions on speech have already ceded their primary and strongest argument to be considered "infrastructure".
Agreed, that's usually why I start a gig - they've hit a wall on technical scaling and need someone to help them dig out of it, so I can take over the firefights and provide the guidance on how to go about it, mentorship on whether a particular path is worth trying, that kind of thing.
good pint about team size.

I'd think it may not apply so much with huge teams, as if you probably need to have a very extensive definition of the problem to justify a large team at the outset, so doing the long-term architecture & design up-front (vs. a throw-away version) would likely be best.

I'd hope for a situation where the initial small team built the throw-away, ran it hard, then use that knowledge to build the big version and the big team.
Read the appeals cases. They curtailed spaces like Costco parking lots and strip malls without plazas or atriums, which are different than "common areas". Free speech in common areas was reaffirmed in 2012.

YouTube is clearly a common area.
> All it takes is one phone call and your cover is blown.

Not necessarily. When I was interviewing for the job I have now, they were trying really hard to weed out people like OP who claimed to have been at one place for a longer time than they had. They demanded HR contacts for my last _three_ jobs (which in my case stretches all the way back to 2002) so they could make sure that the start & end dates I put on my application matched up with what HR stated. Well, we ran in to an immediate problem with the second job ago - the company had gone out of business since I left, and there was nobody to contact. They shrugged their shoulders and moved on to the most recent job. Well, that was a startup, too - when I started working there, it was a contract-to-hire position, so I was actually an employee of "warm body providers corp" for the first six months. Then, when I was converted to perm at that job, it was bought by "megaglobalcorp" a year later. Then, about six months before I was let go, megaglobalcorp sold our entire office to "evilcorp, inc." who decided to shut down the office (which is why I was out of work in the first place). So when HR at the job I have now started making calls, I had had _four_ different employers in a three year period, even though I had been in the same office, sitting at the exact same desk, reporting to the exact same boss throughout the entire period. I think I may have explained this to the "currentjob" HR eight times before they finally gave up and decided to trust me when I said I had only had three different jobs in the past 16 years.
Does this affect the doom and gloom comments made here? I know nothing of economics, hence the question.
Do you view any tariff as protectionist, even if China is illegally subsidizing certain industries and stealing intellectual property? Or do you just not buy that China is actually operating against trade agreements they signed?
Same way waves emerge in water.

The rules that govern a system can create patterns, which themselves behave according to rules, but with a set of rules that was "hard to predict" from the underlying system.
Hi,
we are happy to officially announce the new release 6.7 of Kurento, the WebRTC Media Server!

It has been available for some days in our repos, but now that version 6.7.1 has been fully published (including not only Kurento Media Server packages for Ubuntu, but also Java API artifacts and a full documentation overhaul), it's time to make it official!

Here is an archived copy of the blog post, in case it goes down due to a traffic spike: http://archive.is/qpRSJ

Regards,
the Kurento team.
There are reports and indications that the Chinese leadership is 'okay', possibly even inviting of this move and may respond only lightly to save face.

- Xi knows the Chinese economy must rebalance for domestic reasons and that excess capacity must be shed. The US move provides Xi political cover and fallguy as the inevitable unfolds.

- Chinese investors are eager to invest more in US assets and companies. Through the trade negotiations to come the US is likely to open its doors to greater Chinese investment as Chinese doors open to less or unrestricted investment from the US. This may take the form of sole US-owned investment, an end to technology transfers, or both.

- Xi's power consolidation was widely reported as the product of ambition. The alternative explanation, and the one I favor, is the inevitable rebalancing of China's economy will necessarily cause some social and political instability - at all levels of the Chinese body politic. Whereas social and political pressure has forced policy retreats the past decade in China, Xi's new power suggests he'll enjoy the authority and longevity necessary to complete China's adjustment. Suggests only, a lot can go wrong.

- China has much to do in supporting provincial governments, SOE, and other systemically important institutions. I don't think China has sufficient reserves in-place for a trade war, even if it were so inclined.
> This KU115 chip has a project price of ~$2000.

That seems odd - just the XCKU115-2FLVB2104E FPGA goes for $9000 on DigiKey.
> startups should NOT hire and give large 'management' roles to. Namely middle managers who come from large bureaucratic, declining public companies.

Couldn't agree more, and the worst part is that they're unable to adapt and drink the "big company" kool aid.
Dropbox Raises $756M in IPO, Now Valued at $8B+
You're unfortunately correct. More people should be outraged at the expectations employers place on women to look "professional." It's enough that some employers mandate high heels and make up in their dress codes. Dying one's hair should be a personal choice, and no woman or man should feel required to do this for their employer. I hope this changes some day.
Leave it to Silicon Valley to reinvent rain.
Electric cars retain the value of their battery packs, however. Look up the price of a used Model S, for instance.
Not sure that's relevant right now, since we're not in a recession?
> Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it

But time goes by and things change. Sometimes things that have not worked in the past might work today because of the changed environment. Don’t you agree? Remembering the past is one thing, being stuck in it is another.
That is how mobile messengers like Telegram work - when you install them, they upload your contact list to their servers to "improve your experience".
Why not? I can buy FOSS products, so I don't see how that wouldn't apply. Would this work for you then?

https://www.pfsense.org/

I also don't see why it matters whether or not nobody else sells a smartphone like that. Just because everyone else is doing shady shit with their products doesn't mean Apple gets a free pass.
>Remember that many prominent progressives and socialists are also blacklisted by the bulk of NPR/reddit types.

No they aren't.
Interstellar asteroid 'Oumuamua was likely ejected from a binary star system
-> 16 vs 20: I said in the beginning (talking about Europe) "rapid destruction of a cultural heritage that has co-evolved together with the European peoples and even their secular institutions for at least 16 centuries."

co-evolved. I understand that Christianity became big in Europe only centuries after Christ. And that it has changed and fluctuated a lot in its history. But I think there was never a discontinuity of the sort we see since ~2 generations.

"20 centuries" came into play when I deplored a modern fashion in which we're supposed to take the vastness of 2 millennia of highly complex history involving millions or billions of people, strip it from all context, compress it to a few soundbite sized low points and say: "this is Christianity".

-> About continuity and pre-Christian paganism: one of the things that fascinates me endlessly about the christian traditions of my community, is how many aspects of it are obviously echoes of pagan times. Many saints that used to be popular here, are not historical figures but thinly disguised pagan deities. A nearby community has (= used to have) a big tradition of Marian worship, which is almost certainly a continuation of an older cult devoted to a pagan fertility goddess. A nearby Christian chapel built next to a well, located beautifully in a forest in the middle of nowhere, was a place of worship in pagan times. Lots of Roman coins were found around the chapel. People used to walk there and tie strips of clothing from sick relatives to the chapel door. I can go on like this for quite a while. I would argue that the transition to christianity, despite its implicit intolerance at the time, does not seem abrupt but rather "organic".

Same for theology. (Btw, with some exceptions, this topic doesn't interest me much personally. Just like I don't care much for all the pseudoscience in secular academia.) But anyways, a lot of christian theology is obviously classical philosophy in a Christian jacket, with influences from Platonism to stoicism. In fact, christianity did something antiquity failed to do: in antiquity, becoming literate and trained in classical philosophy was very much a "1 percenter" thing. Early christianity brought a "pop version" of this literacy to a much broader public.

To conclude, I'd predict the exact opposite of what you said. To me, the current secular world actually seems more likely to destroy traces of what came before. Turning a church into a hipster lounge is so much more drastic than turning a pagan shrine into a church, or a church into a mosque. The French revolution or the various socialist regimes didn't seek to adapt, echo, continue, soften, change, transform, absorb or even abuse Christianity. They aimed to root it out.

The sudden and rapid abandoning of all things Christian suggests the secular revolution is finally succeeding in Europe. It's Brumaire of Year I. Or rather, Germinal of Year L.

Obviously, in all our secular glory and freed from the irrational, time consuming habits of our grandparents, Europe may never know wars or bigotry or superstition or pseudoscience or corruption again. And this time I will leave the sarcastic quip in :-)
The reason why Middle America has so little spending power is because regulations and taxes have decimated their manufacturing and resource extraction industries and effectively moved them overseas. This of course led to a loss of specialized workers who can pass down their skills and loss of technical knowledge.

Flossing your teeth may be unpleasant in the short-term, but it has long-term benefits.
In my experience it really just comes down to doing work in them. I started programming with Java and initially found it difficult to break the OO style when moving into functional languages. What I ended up doing is just finding a personal project and committing to doing it in a new language. Years later, I find that my thoughts are tailored to the problem rather than the language. You can't really learn a language from a book or the docs, you have to actually do it.
You're correct, and I should have made that clear. Unfortunately it's too late to edit my comment.
Thanks, we've updated the link from https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/22/trump-announces-tariff/ to this.
Having grown up in Costa Rica, and having worked as a tour guide in Mexico - this is extremely true. People love the idea of authentic Costa Rican food, but for me growing up that meant beans and rice 5 dinners a week. It sounds fun and authentic - for meal one...
tcpdump shows on-the-wire packet details only, and works by instrumenting all send/receive events. These tracepoints can expose a lot more information: kernel state (including congestion control metrics), process IDs, application stacks, etc, and do so with much lower overhead by instrumenting lower-frequency events only. This makes it much more suitable for production use. We'll be able to collect TCP session information 24x7 with negligible overhead, whereas tcpdump/libpcap would be too expensive in our environment (Netflix).
Almost nobody, whether technical or not, is looking for something as generic as a "programmer" when they want a freelancer. Some people want expertise in a particular technology. Other people don't care as much about the technology but do want someone who builds a particular kind of product.

I think the point being made earlier is that you want to have some niche where you can claim expertise. It doesn't have to be a specific language, but "programmer" loses to almost any other job description in almost any scenario (and the scenarios where it wins are mostly nightmares).
As a general rule, I never do business with friends and family. If a friend asks for technical help, and I am able, I'd do it for free without commitment, but no way I'm sacrificing relationships for a job.
The linked article does say milliliter. Maybe they corrected it later?
It doesn't surprise me.
It surprises me that people on HN try to defend their business model.
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It's worth noting that "appreciates" isn't equivalent to "benefits from". Voting against one's self-interest is not unprecedented.

I'm not savvy enough to know whether this is sound economic policy, but to someone wary about China's economic growth this could sound like a good idea.