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Ask HN: Pros and cons of working as a freelancer?
Let's do some freelancer mithbusting! Which of the following are true in your experience?

1. Exposure to a diverse set of work environments;

2. Exposure to a diverse set of technologies and domains;

3. Finding work when starting out is difficult;

4. Finding work becomes progressively easier;

5. You don't have time to get bored;

6. You have the freedom to work on other projects, including your own;

7. You can increase your hourly pay with every contract;

8. You learn how to negociate;

9. You mostly do menial / grunt work;

10. You will suffer / have suffered a penalty if you decide to stop freelancing and move into management / higher levels;

11. You need to constantly work on personal brand;

12. Companies don't hire contractors unless they have to;

13. Is it easier to find remote work?
Checkout AWS States Language: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/step-functions/latest/dg/concept...
I, uh, want to be able to look at my search history? Local, on my PC, like it is in my browser. If people can see your browsing history, your search history really isn't telling them much more.
except Lyft
This sounds like a good example of everything wrong with the cult of Java programming / design patterns.
No, because if they do that then up to five million developers may leave.
> My understanding is that you can't really compare processing powers between brains and computers.

I agree – I guess I papered over this and basically interpreted GP as saying "computers are getting fast enough to be able to emulate the brain's pattern recognition skills", which seems way too strong – hence my question.
We are so lucky to have someone like Scheier who both understands the problems at a deep level and is able to explain it to non-techy's in a way they can understand.
Now kindly collect your mind and think. Is it possible that men under-report because it's ridiculous for society to accept that a man can be sexually harassed by a woman?

Let's say it happens, hypothetically - maybe it never happens, maybe happens all the time. But let's say it has happened to a certain male. Now, what is this male to do?

If he stays quiet it is the same as females who don't report. That encourages the harasser to keep doing what she is doing and we already know that.

If he reports - nobody believes him, because women don't harass. Moreover, he becomes a point of ridicule because our society expects men to be strong and unharassable by women. They are physically stronger and they can always escape or fight. It's insane to think about that - like how? How can that happen?

Actually, can a man fight with a woman? No - it's also ridiculous - because if he wins, well obviously he won, he is a man, he is stronger. And he will get sued because he will get accused of harassment. If he loses - he loses from a woman. "Got beat by a girl" - have you heard that phrase? Do you have any idea how impossible it would be for a male to live in a world ridiculed in this kind of way?

So how can a study establish that at all - if men won't even admit due to pride even at study time? But just in case - do you happen to have any of this "plethora" of studies? Are you sure? People have been sure about many things that are right and then their minds are blown by scientific discoveries.

So please, think, provide evidence and please, consider men as human beings as well - we are not so different from women after all.
Really, shouldn't the base bagel emoji be a bare bagel, with combining modifiers for different fillings?
I don't think IL does, either. It's why when local TV stations do undercover stories, it's always video only — no audio.
I’m not even a conservative :) Just a fan of honest dialog and intellectual consistency.
Eh, not exactly supersede, but the runtimes are definitely slowly converging. It's a goal of mine to make them easy to switch between -- sometimes you'll want flex because you need a VM, most times you wont. But your code should be easily portable between them. With this release, they are nearly identical already.

So two of the solutions are flex and go1.11 on standard. Is the third solution the older runtime versions (eg 1.9 and earlier)? If so, then there's really just two solutions, since 1.11 replaces 1.9 on standard.
Privatization of US military function isn't what this article is about. (it's mentioned, but it's not the main narrative)
Hi Dan,
I am currently working on something that seems to be very fitting for your use case, and looking for early adopters. Can you please email me at meow@softkitteh.com if you find this interesting?
Thanks!
Hi, all! Ask, and ye shall be enlightened!

Seriously though, there is a hell of a lot to this thing and pretty much zero documentation. You can actually view the code that gets locally cached in /sys. It is possible to edit the system's code, but you need to have root permissions to do that.

The easiest way to get biofeedback from the bare desktop is to add the hotkey_apps parameter to the url like this:

https://yabbos.xyz/desk?hotkey_apps=TextEdit,Arcade,Synth,Fa...

Then you just press Ctrl+Alt+[1-9], where the number depends on the position in the list of apps, so Ctrl+Alt+1 opens the TextEdit app, etc. You can save files in TextEdit with Alt+s. The desktop currently uses the /tmp folder. You can always pop open a terminal with Alt+t.
And how much did it cost to develop and operate? Including traffic acquisition.
The BCS

The BCS is a complete joke, completely irrelevant to anyone working in the field, I have no idea how it still exists or what it actually does for practitioners or for the industry.
It depends on the objective of the hackathon. YC's hackathons (I went to both this year) focus on creating a prototype that could be a startup. So the emphasis isn't so much on the technical programming but more the delivery and business case (kinda like a YC interview I imagine).

There are other hackathons I've been to that emphasize deeply diving into a technology or tool. They both have their place. Given that YC is in the business of identifying startups, I don't think it's a surprise that it leans towards an "idea-athon" like you said.
Hmm. SDE at Facebook for $250K, or life-risking merc in Yemen for $160K albeit tax free. Tough call.
I'll be sure to remember this noble policesplaining explanation the next time a bond issue or tax bill comes up. Paying for the private administration of justice is not how things are supposed to work in this country.
The "Simplicity: Not Just For Beginners" talk does a great work of touching the problem from the opposite angle : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0Ak6xtVXno
Simplification of systems should be a an actual college course, mandatory for all computer science grads.

Too many people these days manage complexity through ever more complex sets of tools instead of simply getting rid of it. They use complexity as an excuse to introduce more complexity and it just keeps growing.

One important thing I discovered for myself is the practice of starting with minimum viable representation of the problem. If I work on a system, I try to write down what it needs to keep track of. If I work on a component, I start with the minimal configuration it requires to instantiate. This helps to avoid anchoring myself with available tools and "common" solutions.
The "bus factor" is a way of saying "how many devs could we lose on this project and still have a working knowledge of it?"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor
If you read the article, it's about UAE assassinations in the middle east, performed by a US company. This isn't a smokescreen intended to divert from or whatabout the Kashoggi story, or if it were it would be an inept one.
Thanks for linking to “I am a strange loop”, I’m a big fan of Doug H

I’ve been waiting for it to be released on Audible for years. They just added it
Better dating prospects for the merc though.
Indeed. We got so used to cars that it feels "normal". However car kills tons of people (especially pedestrians within cities), take tons of space and are much more loud. But somehow, we are worried about those scooters.
Privatization of military functions was a key reason for the downfall of the Roman Republic. Troops became loyal to generals, not to the Republic herself, as the general became the paymaster/generator of funds. The echos are getting louder.
I'm concerned that they don't work well at all: a number of highly important properties are missing and a number of the criteria have been challenged; see rest of thread.
You remember right - I think you might be referring to this issue:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/google-api-go-announ...

> the cloud datastore package will default to writing your nested structs as entity values, while the appengine datastore packages will only write your nested structs as flattened sets of attributes.

Other than that, there are no differences.

(GCP Gopher)
> What the hell?! Isn't this what we pay the CIA for?

No, we don't pay the CIA to fight UAEs wars. I mean, sometimes that happens, but it's not their central function.

> I mean seriously, what are my black-ops tax dollars funding these days?

Presumably, unless you are a UAE taxpayer, not this, except perhaps very indirectly.
My point is not that this isn't of interest or important (especially to people who routinely handle sensitive information) but that your methodology is poor and it's poor in ways that have been reasonably comprehensively examined. As I said, it's still a worthwhile exercise and there's no law of physics that says you have to agree with existing consensus-y thought but your effort would be more serious if you're familiar with the arguments. You, on the other hand, just reinvented a threat model that has its very own funny paper.
Came here to say Julia Evans and Cloudflare blogs.

Julia is high throughput blogger (both, quality and quantity). Usually, I come across a topic and want to understand "just" a bit deeper and there's a post on her site explaining what I'm looking for. Great blog.

Cloudflare's posts cover depth and breadth of the field. They have, obviously, a team of people writing posts in great technical detail. In fact, right before one of the job interviews, I used their posts to understand how packet travels up the linux kernel stack and was surprised to get quizzed on that topic :). Highly recommend it.

Another favorite of mine, Dan Luu: https://danluu.com/
They want the US to stop playing fast and loose and illegally on their behalf?
What i would like to see from Lyft:

Round-trip-single-click: "Pick me up from X take me to Y, then take me back to X when I click again"

Commute Subscription: Similar to this 30-day for $300 deal - but specific to my commute path; "Pick me up from hom and take me to BART/Work & Back at the end of the day" -- but if I take other rides in the middle of the day, dont deduct from that commute-path ride-set.

Easylist of common places I go for single-click rides from "pick me up and take me home"

"Emergency I am stuck pick me up" ride stored. Say I have lost my phone/wallet/stranded-some-how allow me to have an emergency ride stored for a pickup and drop-off to my house/parents/police if needed. Allow me to make the request outside of the app.

Round up my purchases of things to the nearest dollar, placing that money into a Lyft Ride Account. Allow me to donate these rides/assign them to child accounts as desired.

Let me run analytics on my ride data - or get analytic reports of my choosin about my rides.

Work vs Personal address list of places.

Ride-billing or Ride-providing to employees

Several others come to mind, but this is a simple list...
I'm really not sure how to engage you. Your framing is alien to the way I think about such things. Additionally, your framing suggests you are "rebutting" my statement, which makes me feel like perhaps you missed the detail that I included a proviso. The word generally makes it explicit that, of course, there are going to be exceptions.
Though HyperCard itself is long gone, the HyperText language did inspire AppleScript.
> The Cantillon Effect refers to the change in relative prices resulting from a change in money supply. The change in relative prices occurs because the change in money supply has a specific injection point and therefore a specific flow path through the economy. The first recipient of the new supply of money is in the convenient position of being able to spend extra dollars before prices have increased. But whoever is last in line receives his share of new dollars after prices have increased.

This theory is fundamentally flawed, because it assumes that whoever receives the “new money” buys consumer goods. If this is indeed what happens, then prices should increase. But what if he buys bonds?

If newly produced money is used, not to buy consumer goods (or commodities), but bonds, then the injection of new money into the economy has the opposite effect on the price level, because the new money is used to improve the efficiency of production. E.g. if a producer of chickens sells a $250m bond (bought with “new money”) and invests the proceeds in a chicken plant[1], the price of chickens will decrease, due to increased productivity of producing chickens.

In the above scenario, the only price that will increase is the price of bonds, which is the same as a falling rate of interest (the rate of interest is inversely proportional to the price of the bond). And this is exactly what has been happening for the past 35 years or so[2].

[1] https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/costco-plans...

[2] https://awealthofcommonsense.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/...
This story involves the UAE, who are Saudi allies, so don't think so.
I use PasswordGorilla (https://github.com/zdia/gorilla/wiki)
I understood it as meaning "my organization cannot yet certify it as open source" with yet being the operative word.
There is no doubt that humans are shitty. Was that ever in question? The #metoo movement has brought forward, and into public discourse, a problem. Had this not been brought forward even Argento's indiscretions wouldn't be known. The things highlighted by the #metoo movement are impactful and important to the advancement of our society and civilization. These actions should not be considered "OKAY" and most people who say the #metoo movement is filled with witch hunting and should be stopped are effectively discounting any of its gains. Nothing is perfect, but we can all strive to be better—and maybe with #metoo visible in the world we can avoid the problems of the past in our future.
Since the linked explanation assumes you know what it is and what it stands for: Fastest Fourier Transform in the West, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FFTW
Not everyone has the experience or requisite knowledge to take a developer job.
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It's unfair to dismiss that as sloppy slang; that's exactly what Big O notation exists for: to concisely express such concepts as "the number of classes increases linearly with the number of business requirements", as differentiated from "the number of classes is independent of business requirements" or "the number of classes increases with the square of business requirements".

The Orwell quote is valid at the heuristic level, but when

a) there's an installed base of people who know the jargon, and

b) the everyday English equivalent takes a lot more words to say the same thing, and

c) something coherent is meant by the jargon that could be so translated if necessary,

then that's exactly when you should use the jargon.

Give me "a^2 + b^2 = c^2" over "the sum of the squares of the lengths of a and b is equal to the square of the length of c".
The creation of a tag can presumably trigger actions.
> Maybe the field just needs another 50 years to mature.

This thought is pretty obvious from my humble POV. Do we know of any field this extensive that matured (by any reasonable definition of "mature") in less than 100 years?

Civil engineering took thousands of years to get to a point where it's not taken for granted anymore that the construction of a large building will cost the life of some construction workers.
Alesis Ion, Micron and Fusion

http://worrydream.com/Home2007/electronics.html
Correct, Go's runtime is compiled into the program's binary.

However, there's still an environment needed to run that binary. For Go on App Engine, this includes the sandbox (backed by gVisor) and the operating system (Ubuntu).

We also tend to call everything in the toolchain the "runtime" - this includes the CLI for uploading and staging your app, and the builder used to compile your program. Not the strictest definition :)

(GCP Gopher)
No, they just need to be used for the right things.

'Enhanced security guards' are fine.

Not mercenaries. And there need to be clear regulations.
CosmosDB is Microsoft's proprietary solution. According to [1] started already in 2010 to support their own online services.

[1] https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-cosmos-db-micro...
Limiting Tracking on iOS Devices
that's making a lot of assumptions
Nope. I just dislike it when someone tries to claim control over a simple English words. They don't have a trademark on open source so they don't get the right to go around saying what is / isn't open source.
Despite the submitted title containing "to help developers master", the actual Github page title contains "every JavaScript developer should know."

I think that casts this post in a different light. If the repo's intent is that "every JS developer should know" everything on this list, the context of this discussion changes.
How many ex-military folks can pass the FB phone screen, let alone whiteboard? (How many software engineers, for that matter?)

For the military, where officers are making even less than a SDE 1 at Microsoft, this is insane amounts of money. Equivalent to 3 years of salary for NCO or enlisted.

I hate the "why doesn't X just become a software engineer" attitude.
Also, it's a big ball of plasma, which means that it's so hot inside that the heat literally tears atoms apart.
Note that the $160k is for people with a very different skill set, who might be ex-army rangers or marines, who could be making $30k managing a Waffle House somewhere in middle america otherwise.

In the case of US contractors (PAE, Fluor, Bechtel etc operating in Iraq, Afghanistan) there is also the tax factor, known to all overseas contractors. I am not precise on the dates and figures here, but something like the first $85k of gross income is completely untaxed, if they remain outside of the USA more than 325 days per year. And no state income taxes because they're not a resident of any state.

Something tells me that these guys have 100% of their payroll for whatever they were doing handled domestically within the UAE, and aren't declaring it to the IRS, however.
Does it matter? The point is that they didn't do it. Yes, it could've happened, nobody is disputing that, and nobody is disputing that it would've been a shitty thing to do. But at the end of the day, it didn't happen. You're arguing a hypothetical and adding even more hypotheticals on top. Nobody will know why it didn't happen, what the motivating factors might have been, but we all know that the conversation took place and then it was dropped. That's what's important.
Most are against due process? As in most supporters of #metoo or as in the most visible and loudest supporters that you have focused on? Do you have any kind of real statistics about the supporters of #metoo or are you making an inference from what makes the headlines from your chosen media?
Why were you unable to come up with an appropriate name for you browser based operating system?

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=yabbos
So you admit freely that you actively tried to bias your survey. I admire that you are honest about it, but I'm extremely confused as to why you are honest about that it seems like you're shooting yourself in the foot twice. Firstly by fudging the survey and secondly by admitting it.

Was the intention to manipulate the rates in order to get better PR for Callisto? It seems such an odd move to damage any scientific credibility you could have wished for right out the gates if you intend to honestly change things. I understand the mentality of "Well we are fudging the numbers but its for a good cause so we'll do it anyway", but you do realize that down the road it gives a carte-blanche option of those you wish to pressure into changing to just say "Well we don't give two cents what Callisto says, they've historically fudged their surveys and as such we disregard them completely"?
I guess next one that will do that - if this works- will be elasticsearch and they will then have to fight amazon on this.

The risk being that if someone does a better job than MongoDB at creating features for mongoDB they might loose their product as well playing that card.
This discussion got bigger than I expected. I just want to take a moment to thank you not just for your hard work but the trust you have brought in uBlock Origin. From the bottom of my heart, thank you.
Roubini's crypto critiques are nothing new, and they're worth taking seriously
Why? Because they clearly spent a lot of time and effort on making a supposedly FOSS OS dependent on it, while actively encouraging vendors to use said OS by claiming it was FOSS.

They already didn't play fair.
Many of the guys getting that 160 would never be the type to be able to make 250 in SV. Being good at killing doesn't exactly translate well to the civilian world job market... though it is a specialized skillet that not just anybody can do. I'm lucky I had computers as a backup. Many combat vets aren't so lucky and it can make the transition to civilian life very hard.
> American private military companies like this one and Blackwater need to be abolished.

It's Academi now (used to be Xe; hasn't been Blackwater for almost a decade.)
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Pretty much everyone can be a merc but to be SDE in Facebook you need quite a bit of privilege to be well-educated or insane amount of self-discipline, motivation and focus to educate yourself. Apples&Oranges.
This is great. I've been to ~10 or so hackathons including both of the YC ones this year and this approach makes total sense. For the most part, the judges and audience don't care how you built something. They're more interested in the story behind the product including what sparked the idea, how you're equipped to tackle it, the market size, how you're going to get your first customers, etc.

I saw groups spin up AWS instances, throw up backends, and put on a frontend framework. It depends on the idea but for the most part, that's usually overkill. For web apps, I always static hardcode everything (yep, with jQuery) and then if time permits, productionize everything if it helps the demo be more slick.
We've had extortion and murder as well, your argument doesn't really help.

Modern nation states can 100% regulate themselves on the use of irregular forces - there are situations for them, and many not.

They could be doing some enhanced security, some types of armed guards ... but not anything tactical, certainly not anything mission oriented or directed kinds of violence.
The only problem with allowing competitors to constrain their business rivals is, well, exactly that. They are unable to compete in the marketplace, thus they rely on regulation.

I always had a hard time with that notion. It feels too ripe for abuse to me.
Notable, though, that this new runtime better supports connecting to Postgres instances through the unix socket (/cloudsql/).

(GCP Gopher)
It sounds like it could help.

One alternative idea is rather than making it one person's job to hold you accountable, spread that out to multiple people.

Have routine online meetings with people you work with. They can hold you accountable for the work.

Get a personal trainer for fitness.

Find someone who might be a user or otherwise care about your side projects and share progress updates or get feedback from them.
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