skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These are just my opinions from a (probably naive and uneducated) glace:

1) Those who come from full-time employment jobs usually have obligations, families, bills, etc, and would like to do freelancing if they were reasonably sure they could make just as much or more as their current work. However, I haven't seen many stop-gap solutions which can bridge the time between when you are making above-average salaried income -> making practically nothing with high uncertainty while you build a client-base -> making good freelancing money. It's another way of saying "this is the same mental hurdle which prevents full-time people from starting their own business".

2) Part-time freelancing or moonlighting is an attractive option, but most of the freelancing opportunities I've encountered do not offer flexible timing; i.e. they seem to be a replacement 30+ hour per week commitment with no benefits that you would typically get from full-time employment. So the question here would be - how do people optimally find these sorts of engagements, while, as @beeskneecaps stated, not "competing on those freelance bidding war sites that are full of lowballing spammers".

3) Whether you are already employed or seeking freelancing from the start, how best to market yourself and find your first real clients? When I say real, I don't mean a $5 job where you update someone's resume, but I mean, like, how do you find a legitimate corporate entity or person(s) who will work with you closely to write a contract for a legitimate body of work, avoid legal potholes, and deliver, by yourself?

As it's probably obvious from my posts (my point of view is from someone working in FTE), how can you make the transition into freelancing 'actually make sense' for folks in FTE?
Other browsers vary their behaviour depending on locale, if I'm not mistaken, so that people in countries where IDNs are common don't constantly see meaningless punycode.
Bitcoin's extreme inefficiency (in terms of electricity consumption) is the main reason why I didn't give cryptocurrency a second look when I learned about it several years ago.
It never made sense to me that something should have value just because it's expensive to produce. You'd think capitalism would reward efficiency and not punish it.

That said, I think that Proof-of-Stake cryptocurrencies will revolutionize a lot of things including:

- How tech companies are created and who will end up owning them (it will be developers and early adopters instead of VCs and investors).

- It will transform what it means for a project to be open source; the GPL license will become increasingly important.

- It will transform how people think about ownership.

One of the biggest innovations of blockchain technology is that for the first time in history, it has allowed open source projects to have actual financial value.
The value so far has been restricted to cryptocurrency projects but it will soon spread to other open source projects.

The value of a coin is not about the coin itself, it's about the community and the network of services that exist around it.
I remember reading this back when it was "leaked" onto the internet a number of years back. I remember being blown away by the fact that they were running an organization like this and actually succeeding and doing some amazing innovation.

This was back in 2012, when it actually looked like they innovated. Now it seems like their directionless. They still patch their old games adding one-off features, but I don't know if I've really seen a roadmap from them in a long time.

I could be completely wrong though, they aren't exactly a talkative company.
I once did campaign finance data entry as a child laborer for a newspaper reporter. I entered all the contribution reports for all the the state house and senate races. It was crates upon boxes of public-record paper documents. According to the reporter, I probably only made one mistake in the dollar amounts, due to a single missing contribution report. Not bad for a kid.

But it took forever, and it was relatively expensive for the newspaper. This was way back in the early 1990s. Since then, paper filings tapered off, and electronic filings replaced them. It really is a far better way to do it. Clearly, these records need to be digitized to create public transparency, and that need is apparently being met by bottom-feeding tax-eaters doing a minimum-effort job at a top-shelf price. I am not surprised these records are being botched, but I am surprised this story is coming out only now, rather than back in 2001.
We’re saying the same thing. The Legal Affairs Committee isn’t the Parliament, it’s merely a committee. The EP only had two options here: either vote in favour of the article (“rubber-stamping”) or rejecting it. That’s what they did. The procedure in this case is to revise the proposal, which is exactly what’s happening here. This is working as intended. Of course the fact that the defeat was rather narrow is cause for concern, don’t get me wrong.
Ask HN: Could cryptographically verified testimony replace audio and video?
Technologies like "deep fake" will soon throw audio and video evidence of someone's past actions in doubt. But public key cryptography remains unbroken. If enough people used PKC to sign their statements, could that not be a workable substitute?
Thanks for the reply!

1. Thanks! Let me know if you need additional info or can't repro, the last time this happened to me was a while ago (doesn't happen often since it requires subsequent emails to be far apart in time and categorized with different importance). EDIT: I just repro'd it again. The conversation ordering under the Important section is definitely based on the date of the last Important message rather than the date of the last message, so the conversation will fall out of the screen if the last important message in that conversation was a long time ago.

2. I use archiving for emails that I want records of, but that I don't want cluttering my inbox or appearing on my screen at all, unfortunately (like notifications about some activity on other sites). It's not the same thing as, say, a personal email or something from a mailing list that was unimportant but that should still get a little bit of eyeball time at some point.

3. There are a few use cases... sometimes I want to investigate why I got some spam after the 1-month period when it's deleted, meaning I want the message headers etc. to be there. Other times I want a filter that automatically keeps everything matching it because I might not be able to guarantee that I'll look into the spam folder every month, and I cannot risk losing some emails that way. (How do I respond when someone asks if I got their email and I don't have a copy to check?) I honestly think there's no compelling reason why whether or not an email is spam has to be tied to its lifetime.

For undoing, any chance you could address why "View Message" couldn't just send the email right then? It's impossible to undo afterward, so delaying after it's clicked seems entirely counterproductive, right?
People really really like to talk to each other.
> You can call it NIMBYism, but for Kreuzberg it's really more about fighting gentrification and displacement, and preserving a city at the edge of society. There's a fundamental difference between fighting development in the mission and presidio...

SF tried "fighting" gentrification by blocking development, and it just made the problem twice as bad. Look at the results: do they look good to you? Why would you want to copy such an abysmal failure?

NIMBYs are the cause of much displacement, especially of the poor. In some cases this is because of ignorance, in other cases it's greed. Either way, it's not acceptable.
My website has a long article with A2 running and screenshots for all delivered apps.

Also wort mentioning that Active Oberon has the language features that Oberon lacked for manual memory management in unsafe code and co-routines in the form of active objects, hence its name.

Paco (Active Oberon's compiler) is probably one of the first compilers with parallel phases.
> the OpenPGP world has so competently failed at usability

Don't you know? There's a rule that all cryptographic software must be arcane and obscure and virtually impossible to use correctly by anyone other than obsessive nerds.
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It doesn't scream financial problems, it screams difficulty. Tesla is under a microscope, it gets lots of criticism, and it's an inherently volatile place to work because it's doing something new and uncharted. These (often) millionaires in these positions don't want to be associated with a potentially failing business and don't have the stomach to deal with the uncertainty. It says more about them than it does about Tesla.
Maybe? I guess if it affects the stock negatively it's a way to make a quick buck if you think it doesn't matter, since that low should be short lived.

The question is whether it was really that affecting it or something else.
Bought 3 identical Sony cameras recently 1 a month ago and a pair this week, serial numbers are numerical and the most recent pair are two digits apart.

So not everyone randomises.
The Emperor’s Old Clothes
If you don't love Gatsby, you could try out https://github.com/nozzle/react-static
I would hate that as an employee. I’ve been getting jobs that I was barely qualified for with the expectation that I would have to work extra hours to both meet deadlines and learn the tech stack.

So if I spend 12 hours doing 8 hours worth of productive work and the other 4 hours reading, watching tutorial videos in between, should the employer be punished?
I must admit that I had only skimmed the article, and hadn't read the bit about TLS 1.3, until after it was edited. I agree with what it says now :D
Outside the U.S., I'd love to know when people learn calculus and stats. I had both as a H.S. senior, which seems very late compared to other countries.

I had a stats prof from India who always commented on how he learned calculus in 6th grade. Our "intro to stats for business majors" class had us deriving the statistical proofs with calculus... (I'm aware he's probably an outlier)
People aren't hurt by less data-selling.

I love the GDPR. It came out of nowhere (I hadn't heard much about it before the big hubbub), I couldn't believe they were doing something so bold, and it reinvigorated my belief in the European Union.
Also when you click on the link it says "handbook for new employees".
Mozilla's incentives may not align with yours, e.g., https://github.com/mozilla-services/screenshots/issues/3503.
This gets me even more worried about the people that still follow him.

How can you say the words he said to that journalist and still have that big following? We have a huge information, media and education problem all over the globe, because similar things are happening in EU. Twitter just did the right thing, shutting one of the channel he had to insult, humiliate and contaminate brains of people with fake news.
>If you had bothered to read the site you linked (or if you knew what OCR stands for), you'd understand that there is machine learning at play here, and not just for chunking up the documents. You made empty speculations about a company's technology for the sole purpose of denigrating them.

Yea, and again, none of that is relevant here. I didn't make any judgements about their actual process (other than the fact that it did, objectively, fail). My focus is on the marketing speak, and despite what you may think, "machine learning" is as useless and as meaningless of a word as "cloud" is.

>but you implied that their operation is human-powered with only the illusion of machine interaction, which you go onto confirm:

I didn't imply any such thing, but that's a nice straw man you're building over there. You know, these arguments like yours are the type of thing that really lower the bar of intellectual discourse on this forum. Wait a minute...

>You might think this is splitting hairs, but these sardonic swipes lower the bar of intellectual discourse on this forum. It's OK to speculate about the technology in play, but not when you're insinuating that it's essentially fraudulent with absolutely zero evidence.

Ohhh okay, so when I make a comment about the technology, it's "lowering the bar of intellectual discourse", but when you speculate about the technology, it's okay? Nice hypocrisy, bud. Talk about lowering the bar of intellectual discourse.
A very good bit of marketing from Valve, I remember reading this when it was originally leaked (or 'leaked', depending on how cynical you want to be) and being quite impressed with what seemed like a developer paradise. Because in the writing it _does_ sound like a wonderful company, but the fairly recent reporting on internal politics and power struggles at Valve (https://www.pcgamer.com/ex-valve-employee-describes-ruthless...) raise questions about how much the handbook truly represents what goes on, since the time period that Rich Geldreich talks about is from before this version of the handbook. (Previous HN discussion on that article is also very worth reading: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17584563)
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Valid point; I've added contact details to my HN profile. I think that nothing has worked because although some people reply, the answers are always negative. I've had only a single interview.

Writing custom cover letters and tailoring my résumé for each separate application is very time consuming and involves exaggeration to the point of stretching the truth. What I'm considering in this project is to build a bot that could take over that process. Blatant lying, just not in my name. I think that fraud is wrong for a human, but for a bot, passing the Turing Test is a feature.
That is strange. I could see that being currency value changes, except the 2br price has been relatively stable.
'Mindful people' feel less pain
The "property industry" is doing just fine seeing as how they are the ones selling top-shelf commercial leases in bulk to WeWork.

"Success" for these types of companies is similar to their tedious "we can change the world" mantra in that neither have any basis in reality. They have racked up a $723 million loss and are on the hook for $4b in new spending, and yet they are a 'decacorn'.

They are propped up through investment capital alone. No wonder they have to roll out these absurd claims of expanding into education, daycare and town-building.
To make this useful I guess you'd probably want more filters in the "language", to allow conditionals, looping, etc.

Those are things I deliberately left out, but I could be open to persuasion if the expression was natural.
Plugin fingerprint protection was removed 3 years ago by a poorly-reasoned patch, favoring the large bug of unimpeded surveillance over the very tiny bug of sites looping through non-existent lists if and only if they need to interact with a plugin. Seeing the conversation, I'm looking for a different browser.

"remove_plugins-enumerable_names.patch

Bug 757726 hid most plugins from navigator.plugins enumeration to reduce fingerprinting. Plugin detection scripts could ask for a plugin or MIME type by name, but they couldn't get a list of all installed plugins. Unfortunately, the feature had to be disabled because it broke pretty much all plugin detection scripts because they naively search for the desired plugin using an O(n) loop instead of a O(1) query.

This patch removes the disabled code because it is unlikely we could ever re-enable it. In addition to removing the obsolete navigator.plugin tests for detecting hidden plugins, it adds tests for detecting click-to-play and disabled plugins."
use shift when pasting and you'll get whatever is on your clipboard pasted without any styling, e.g: cmd (or ctrl) + shift + v
At least in some browsers (such as those built by search engine/advertising companies), I would worry about pasting anything into the URL bar because it will be immediately sent to third-parties to assess what search terms to recommend in the suggestion box. It's probably safe to do so in some browsers. But I would recommend using a network sniffer to see what happens when you paste into the URL bar.
Also, it directly benefits the senators for the company hired to process the data to fail in doing so. Any issues raised from the dataset can immediately be refuted.
Been chewing on this, responding in general, not specifically to you. Thanks for listening.

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A crucial distinction missing from these hate speech slap fights is punching up vs punching down.

These conflicts are not symmetrical.

Those pretending otherwise stretches incredulity. And credibility.

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I could be persuaded that O'Reilly didn't intend for actual harm be visited upon Dr Tiller. So use whatever labels work best. Like the difference between involuntary manslaughter and premeditated murder. Libel, slander, just being an asshole, whatever.

But he's still responsible.
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Yes, someone who literally cannot do their job, I've been there as well. This should happen in the first couple of months however.
Hi,
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Could you please let me know that am I qualified enough for this position? If so, I can be reached at (313) 775-9172 and adi.pandeycs@gmail.com. Thank you for your time and I await a positive response.

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I think this is an appropriate counterpoint from a former employee:

https://www.reddit.com/r/valve/comments/8zmp07/former_valve_...
There are dozens of sites that advertise remote jobs (google). Weworkremotely is one example.. most of the recruiters will reply within a week atleast. You definitely need to narrow down your skills and/or presentation of it(cv). Just go through any public cv and just copy it.. learning web development might give higher chance of securing a job but is not necessary.. wish you good luck!
Strange how Anmericans always think it's bad that parts of Europe ban outright Nazi symbols and speech, when it was America that forced us to do so.

Americans even shut down newspapers after WW2 and only gave out licenses to start a newspaper after background checks and ideological checks.

Strange how things you made us do somehow morphed into something that you cannot accept at all.
Google have tried almost 10 years to provide housing for their workers in Mountain View. AFAIK, the city has consistently rejected its plan until a new pro-development mayor gets elected, presumably due to the current significant presence of Googlers. Now they have an approval for 9,100 units of housing in North Bayshore, but I guess it will take another 10 years for the actual planning and development.
It isn't a matter of using a bot. It's what the end result looks like. You can use a bot to determine which of your real skills would likely get your resume looked at. You CANNOT use a bot to build a fake resume.
How do you know the CEO was not working the other times they were out of the office?
"Word By Word" by Kory Stamper, an editor of the Mirriam-Webster Dictionary, includes a section and conveys a culture around coordinating a team of definition writers from paper citations using intra-office mail/notes and a physical archive.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30781490-word-by-word
An incredible amount of small businesses have female owners to due tax benefits. So husband-wife pairs are not uncommon.
Interesting theory, but that mistake should have become evident by the late 1940s and led to a lot of debate, and I am not aware that there was one.

I've just woke up and replying is probably a mistake simply because I just woke up. But I have seen no evidence that people routinely rethink such things when it becomes obvious that the original logic was flawed and I've seen tons of evidence that the original logic gets wholly forgotten and, now that the thing exists, it frequently just grows larger thanks to some variation of entropy.

People can't even remember why Liberal Arts got called that to begin with and I get told that's just my weird ass and utterly unfounded opinion and then I have to go looking for a source to cite to show that what I'm saying is historical fact and the actual origin story.

I read a well documented book on the history of minimum wage law in the US. It is unfortunate that I can't recall the name and can't find it again in spite of looking because it asserted that it was passed to eliminate the racist practice of paying blacks half as much as whites in the deep south because these days everyone seems to think minimum wage is some sort of racist policy that keeps people of color oppressed somehow. I can't find my source to try to show otherwise.

In the 5+ years I had a corporate job, some practice changed but the term used remained the same such that new people found it baffling. Older employees had trouble explaining it.

Everything I have ever experienced in my life indicates people are truly terrible at remembering why decisions got made that way to begin with, even in their own life. They date someone for X reason, X reason stops being relevant but now they are married and leaving isn't easy. Unless they are so utterly miserable that dismantling their life sounds better than continuing to live with this person, they stay.

And the beat goes on.
And just like that, I found a usecase - hopefully a great one for programmers:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17924841
Yeah right, because me being forbidden to right click on the site is really in my best interest. I might, you know, inspect DOM and block annoying permanent menus or ads that ublock origin doesn't filter out. And being able to do copy&paste of the content should send me straight to prison.
> France has literally made it illegal to collect data on police brutality and incarceration rates of minorities in France

You’ll need to provide a good reference for that because this is completely wrong as far as I know (AI doesn’t mention it, for instance [1]).

Again, don’t get me wrong: I deeply disagree with the way police acts and is organised in France.

[1] https://www.amnesty.org/en/press-releases/2009/04/france-pol...
Embrace remote work and try harder to attract talent in secondary cities. They've got the money and the influence to make that happen, see Amazon's HQ2 bid.
It would be very specific to the project. For instance, if it's an iOS/Mac project, Xcode has nice profiling tools to catch memory leaks. And of course clang's static analyzer as well. What I'm working on now is embedded Linux, so valgrind and some test suite to exercise the code.

But in general, no matter the project, you need a few key pieces:

1. A test suite that thoroughly exercises the code. You'll need this for...

2. A tool such as valgrind to watch memory as your tests in #1 run. Build time, ad hoc, stick in the pipeline anywhere you like.

3. A static analyzer to take a first pass at the code and say, "hmm, this might leak/crash/kill puppies." So, yeah, the order is off as this should be the first thing you do. It can run on your dev machine or on the build machine. Expect lots of false positives.

(optional) 4. A code coverage tool to make sure you're not missing key pieces of code that need exercise.
> Meanwhile, Mandel paid himself ... $1.7m, and ... $14m. After overhead fees ($5.5m for the tickets, and $500k in expenses), he was left with a princely sum.

> Records show that he funneled this cash into the Pacific Basin Fund, a Hong Kong-based account managed by his brother-in-law. “What we calculated to be the reality has changed,” he wrote in a 1994 letter to investors. “It may not seem such a hot investment now.” After that, his investor updates went cold.

Proof that it was a scam all along.
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