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In short, part time remote freelance web development. Do it for 10-20 hours a week depending on how much money you need/want. Do whatever you want with the rest of your time.

I've been doing this for 8 years (the entirety of my professional career).

I've had times when I worked about 10 hours a week and nomaded around Europe.

I've had times when I wanted to build a thing, so I spent 30 hours a week working on the project and 10 hours a week on freelance. The thing didn't work out but it didn't matter because I had "safer" money coming in from freelancing.

I've had times when I wanted more money, so I worked about 30 hours a week on freelance to build up some savings.

I absolutely love this lifestyle and have basically complete control of my time now other than the time I put into freelance. I currently work about 3-4 hours in the morning in my home office and then do whatever in the afternoons. Currently my afternoon project is a website for helping other developers switch from full time employment to this part time lifestyle (www.lessboring.com).

If you can succeed at full time development employment, you can succeed in freelance, you just have to learn some social skills and some business skills depending on how much you know about those areas. The people I see who are struggling as freelancers seem to basically think they can operate exactly as an employee and succeed independently.

OP, I'd be happy to talk with you specifically over email or the phone about your situation. My email's in my profile. I've basically determined that my life goal is to help people get better jobs they actually enjoy, and as a developer you have way more options than most people since development is such a valuable skill right now.
It is indeed helpful. Thanks! I get often confused by the other semantic tags like article, section etc
What other Hacker News readers use for authentication is largely irrelevant since we don't usually work on HIPAA-compliant applications.

I think this is a rather sweeping, and wrong, generalization.

Though the chattering masses on HN may not be HIPAA devs, that doesn't mean there aren't HIPAA devs here. I'm one of them.

Every time someone brings up an obscure topic on HN, there always seems to be a group of people who specialize in that topic that come out of the woodwork and have fascinating insights.

The largest number of commenters on HN seem to be Googlers, Facebookers, and one man bands. But there are plenty of, for example, Apple devs on HN. They just choose to keep the S/N ratio high.
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Agreed. Maxed out cores doesn’t mean progress is being made, literally or figuratively.

A breakdown of how that budget is spent would be a productive addition to this discussion.
Serious question: Do you live a perfect life? Do you exercise daily? Do you never eat processed meat (linked to cancer)? Do you never drink soda (linked to metabolic syndrome)? Do you not smoke? Do you not drink any alcohol (linked to cancer)? Do you live close to your work so as to minimize the time spent in a car (car accidents are a major cause of preventable death)? Are you not overweight, even a little? And so on.

Do you think that someone who follows all but one of those rules still deserves healthcare? All but two? What's the moral difference between someone who smokes and someone who hasn't taken heed of diet/exercise advice after getting heart surgery? Where do you draw the line?

It's easy to say, "I don't want to pay for the healthcare of some hypothetical 'slob'". But make it real, consider what this actually means, and I think it's not something most of us want.

None of us is perfect. I'm sure that even olympic athletes occasionally eat bacon. Let he who is without sin cast the first stone, right?
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What happens to males in eggs and milk? Is that (to take one example) humane?
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> it’s so similar to programming on a higher level.

Indeed it is. The logic of the `results` has to stand out relative to the result itself. A programmer can hide the logic without too much pushback; an accountant must not only unhide what is hidden, but explain every "trace route" behind what is hidden. In highly complex systems, this has to be done in a methodical way to ensure audit trails. A non-methodical audit trail is the sign of a bad accountant, or of fraud. One of the most insidious things in the accounting world today is the widening discrepancy between what companies are reporting to shareholders and what GAAP requires they report. Both GAAP and non-GAAP earnings must be reported together (for publicly-traded companies), but in a lot of tech companies, they are getting away with "selling" the non-FASB numbers to shareholders to deceive them that they are doing better than they are.

Another interesting comparison of the two: https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmaCQ5rcvfwhVNmLWdWydKBFDwnVZzexKePMxiy...

There was once a programmer who was attached to the court of the warlord of Wu. The warlord asked the programmer: "Which is easier to design: an accounting package or an operating system?"

"An operating system," replied the programmer.

The warlord uttered an exclamation of disbelief. "Surely an accounting package is trivial next to the complexity of an operating system," he said.

"Not so," said the programmer, "When designing an accounting package, the programmer operates as a mediator between people having different ideas: how it must operate, how its reports must appear, and how it must conform to the tax laws. By contrast, an operating system is not limited by outside appearances. When designing an operating system, the programmer seeks the simplest harmony between machine and ideas. This is why an operating system is easier to design."

The warlord of Wu nodded and smiled. "That is all good and well, but which is easier to debug?"

The programmer made no reply.
Also, while talking up google photos, I must note the home hub is worth the price of admission even if all you use it for is as a photo frame for google photos. I’m mostly an all apple house (HomeKit, etc). But, google photos plus the home hub has been a huge hit with the family.
> Law enforcement agencies can (and do) purchase ad targeting profile data

Ad targeting profile data isn't typically sold in a way that's particularly useful to LE. It's the most valuable thing the ad networks own. I can't call up Facebook [1], and ask to buy your demographic profile. I can call up Facebook, and ask to buy the ability to show ads to people fitting your demographic profile.

Data from big providers, that ends up in the hands of law enforcement, is gathered through one of two ways:

1. Legitimate requests for access, with a judge signing off on it, an associated paper trail, and some pushback from the companies.

2. NSLs, with a secret judge signing off on it, and nearly no paper trail, and some pushback from the companies.

As far as I'm aware, #1 dwarfs #2 in frequency of access, and is also a completely legal, above-board way for LE to operate.

Stingrays, on the other hand, are much more like #2.

I mean, if you're not going to go through the trouble of protecting yourself from a Stingray, I understand. I occasionally jaywalk, and don't always cook my meat to 'well-done', wear mixed fabrics, and may have played hokey during my last dentist appointment. It's a risk/hazard sort of thing.

But if type #2 LE access is what you're concerned about, then you should probably look into dealing with Stingrays.

[1] Actually, I guess I can, as we discover with the train wreck of a platform partners program. And I am shocked that it is that much of a train wreck. Still, I can't buy your profile from Apple, or Google, or Microsoft.
Of course it is problematic that land owners are actually rewarded for their wealth. But at least it's difficult to create new would-be farmland.

However if the would-be fisherman owns a fishing boat that could be used but isn't, then perhaps a lot of would-be fishing boats would suddenly be constructed so would-be fishers would be paid for their would-be fish catching.
The thing about illness is, when you feel crappy you don't want to do anything. Which of course leads to less activity, to exacerbation of associated health problems and then back to not wanting to do zilch.

You can only break that circle by getting your body and brain busy with anything at all.

And with any creative activity, you figure out as you go whether you're any good at it or you prefer to switch to something else. Only you need motivation to do that.
All amino acids originate from non-animals (plants, microbes). Where do you think other animals get their essential amino acids? They eat plants or eat an animal that ate plants. All plant proteins have all of the essential amino acids. The only truly “incomplete” protein is gelatin, which is missing the amino acid tryptophan, so the only protein source you couldn’t live on is Jello.
Cloudwatch events.

I know it's not what you want but that's all i use.
just make robot politicians, duh
It’s not really much of a statement. Anyone with any sense knows that the browser is the attack vector of most threats and security is probably the single most important feature of a browser today.
The conversation in the thread demonstrates why devs shouldn’t talk publicly. He clearly didn’t convince the people he was addressing, and by engaging he opened himself up to the risk of Misspeaking and causing a shitstorm. We’ll see far fewer of these interactions as more repurcussions happen.
If you get a brazillian wax - does the lady there own the rights to your ass?
It's litterally black and white in intellectual property laws.
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While I may comprehend that any of those contributors must know and well understand a thing: that's a PROPRIETARY service, you pay but you do not really own ANYTHING after.

So consider OpenStreetMaps (they also have a kind of streetview project) or any other kind of FREE project in witch you invest money and after co-own the data.
I was mainly thinking about the specific task of validating through ads and landing pages. Tracking interest/conersions that way. In order to do that you want to be able to test lots of ideas without re-writing lots of code.

I know there are lots of solutions out there like: instapage, unbounce, etc.

I tried instapage but I had a huge amount of trouble getting it pointed at a custom domain. I eventually gave up and decided it would be easier for me to just develop a re-usable landing page framework in rails and deploy it to different custom domains using heroku.
> would they get to keep all the test results

Huh, is that a thing in the US? I understand the old hospital might not automatically giving them to you or the new one rerunning them anyway for practical reasons. But if you've payed for the tests, I'd expect you to own the results...
That actually is a good point. Thank you for the perspective.
Thanks, I may follow this to a 't'. One question: you mention 'your local home server' but it sounds like any Mac will do as long as the account is always logged in, no?
Regular refrigerators use the same principle, albeit with a mechanism much simpler than a heat pump. They have holes between the freezer and refrigerator compartments and use a fan to push cold air from the freezer to the refrigerator. A heat pump would make that exchange much more efficient.
While I think both of those points are very debatable (just search YouTube for factory farming videos if you really think livestock conditions are better), they still miss the point. After all, both of your points could just as easily apply to dogs, cats, horses, whales, chimpanzees and heck, even humans. My main argument is that there is really no morally consistent way to think that eating dogs, cats, horses or whales is abhorrent but eating pigs or cows is OK.
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Offering to "explain the current state of the law" to someone in a giant email seems like a really poor way to resolve conflict. The pseudo-lawyer language seems almost designed to infuriate.
> Servers can of course implement whatever custom behaviour they desire, but the protocol itself (and common implementing libraries) does not have any direct support for revocation.

That's patently false. The protocol does support revocation. In fact, its basic usage specifically states that servers are free to force the client to refresh its tokens by simply rejecting it. If a JWT is expected to be ephemeral and servers are free to trigger token reissues, what lead you to believe that JWT didn't supported one of its basic use cases?

> Furthermore, any revocation implementation will inherently have to compromise the statelessness that is JWT's most prominent selling point.

That's false as well for a number of reasons, including the fact that JWT use nonces to avoid replay attacks. And additionally JWT's main selling point is that's a bearer token that's actually standardised, extendable, provided as a third party service, and is usable by both web and mobile apps.

> JWT does indeed support expiry and nonces. But these are not the same thing as revocation.

Expiration timestamps and nonces automatically invalidate tokens, which are supposed to be ephemeral, and nonces are a specific strategy to revoke single-use tokens. As it's easy to understand a bearer token implementation that supports revoking single-use tokens is also an implementation that supports revoking tokens, don't you agree?

> Insults and "obviously"s are not a good way to convince people of your point of view.

Perhaps educating yourself on the issues you're discussing is a more fruitful approach, particularly if you don't feel confortable with some basic aspects of the technology and some obvious properties.
If by "need", you mean "need to survive", you could survive your entire life just by drinking human milk. By not eating plants, you'd be improving animal welfare even more, since agriculture kills many more animals than grazing-based animal husbandry (think all the pests that are eliminated: the rodents, insects, etc.)
No, it's not. The effect size that purportedly occurs according to this research (double-digit percentages of cases caused by toxo) would have been detectable on a population level. There would be marked differences in schizophrenia rates, but there aren't. You'd be right if small effect sizes were claimed, but that's not what's being claimed.

Suppose a large portion of schizophrenia cases are caused by toxo. We know the toxo infection rate differs massively between countries, but the schizophrenia rate is consistent. Therefore, there must be another cause of schizophrenia such that its prevalence as a cause of schizophrenia is almost perfectly anti-correlated with toxo infections. More toxo infections, less of this other cause. Or there could be a correlated factor that prevents schizophrenia. Maybe having a cat, in and of itself, prevents schizophrenia.

That seems extremely improbable, considering that a priori we should think that a particular amoeba causes schizophrenia is not probable.
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I don't think you're right. All the exciting new papers/conference proceedings are coming from Google/Facebook/etc, what's an exciting work that IBM did recently? What IBM is good at is marketing, I don't know of actual advances in modern ML that are coming from there.
Somewhat OT, but standing in line at the grocery store checkout last night I couldn't help but wonder why so many billions are being spent on complex visual problems like self-driving cars, then at the same time the checkout clerk has to look in a laminated binder and then manually punch in a code number to get a price for bananas. (Happens at both big chains around here — Safeway and Kroger alliances.)

Surely with all this image AI and ML coming out of SV, there must be a way to augment cash registers to detect the difference between a dragonfruit and a kumquat.
This is actually super-clever, let me try to explain. Electrum is unique in that it's not a "real" bitcoin wallet. To save time and computer resources, it doesn't download the entire blockchain but rather connects to an Electrum Server which will do the blockchain stuff on your behalf.

The Electrum Servers (anyone can run one) can check your balance and send bitcoin on your behalf. Thanks to the magic of cryptography, this is all perfectly safe. If you send bitcoin through them, they couldn't redirect it to themselves. The worst they could do is refuse to send it.

Turns out Electrum Servers are allowed to return custom error messages to the client, though. So this guy set up a bunch of these servers and had them always return a message saying "Please update your electrum here: http://github.com/my-hostile-electrum/steal-yo-coins.git". What's worse, because Electrum is using the QT QMessageBox, these errors are displayed with full HTML rendering, making them look even more convincing.

So, crap. Bitcoin is, as they say, a bug bounty on the entire world.
There's a network of shell providers called the Tildeverse: https://tildeverse.org/members
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I do like LaTeX very much, but I do not think it is fair to expect the average person to learn LaTeX.
It's often a matter of convenience. Dealing with overseas people is hard especially if there is a time difference. They probably don't explicitly decide to exclude someone but instead it's too much work to include the person.
> would not enjoy eating whale meat.

Why not?
A few weeks ago the Facebook app momentarily switched for me to a mode where posts that had multiple photos felt more like Instagram: instead of showing the photos in a grid layout they were shown in a left/right swiping carousel. I really really hated it and was glad when they stopped that experiment.
Tell that to the 14 year olds with IMSI catchers outside my window
The book states that procrastination is caused by anxiety, and I agree. Perfectionism is just one way to create anxiety. Frustration, boredom, frustration are others.

We put off the task to avoid these negative emotions IN THE FUTURE. The definition of anxiety is anticipating something bad in the future, so we can avoid it.

Techniques like the Unschedule work extremely well for me and other people. Other things that work well is splitting the task into sub-task, writing everything down, recording the intensity of what you do.
So a retarded person would likely not be able to articulate that. Is it ok to murder them, then?
No, that myth was debunked decades ago. You can get all essential amino acids from a normal variety of plant foods, and the body combines them naturally. Or in case of some all essential amino acids are in the same plant.
I think the tide is turning on this one. The overall feeling definitely seems to be shifting away from positivity about cryptocurrencies. It's a slow change (naturally) but noticeable.
Well for training attention-cnn model I think it.would speed it up, but as they note in the paper, running the pipeline they experienced worker saturation on their dataset (see figure 12). Looks like saturation occurs after 7 parallel workers with their hardware.
They are not classic phones, only modern crap with ancient design unfortunately...

How are they different with regards to the stuff we were talking about - specifically, the centralized spying and such?

I've used a Wiko Lubi for a year. It seems to have the architecture as a 3310: it has a basic burned-in OS, without any apps or updates, and has a few basic tools like a calculator and calendar, besides the phone calls and SMSs. In what way does it not fit with a classic model?

If your complaint is the exact same models don't keep getting produced, then sure, but that wasn't the discussion I thought we were having.

Regarding cars I won't comment any further, since I don't know the market well.
You're absolutely right, many developers seem only to want to pigeon-hole a particular use case into the newest framework or technology they want to learn. I guess it depends on the developer.
> But the idea of “prescribing” an activity that is meant to be intrinsically motivated seems misguided.

But what if the evidence shows than it works? Because this stuff is evidence-based.
Got a citation for all that waste? A disaster for sure, but I feel the radiation talk is overblown. I am open to being set straight on the matter, but skeptical. I am particularly suspicious of anyone spouting baseless, and frankly antiscience 'nuculear power is bad' memes.
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and the solution to this problem is still

> to suspend the program and hope they could blind-type out a "reset".

I find myself doing it a few times in a month, sometimes because of accidentally catting binary garbage, other time it was became a ncurses program crashed without resetting the terminal back to the normal mode.

Next time I'll remember to call it "getting flashed".

Unfortuately, ESR hasn't curated the Jargon File since 2002, and this word was not included. AFAIK, Bob Mottram maintains his own fork of Jargon File, https://code.freedombone.net/bashrc/TheJargonFile. I should request him to add the definition into the file.
> We need to international agreement to stop hunting wild animal outside of the country territory.

This isn’t enough. Whales pass through many countries waters, so killing them in Japan’s waters doesn’t only affect Japan.
Probably because Electrum is not decentralized
Yes, and we would all pay for this persons mistakes through increased insurance premiums. What if I don't want to have to pay for someone elses mistakes? What if there was a world in which one had to take responsibility for their money? No do overs. This is cryptocurrency.
Oddly enough, my daughter did. No idea why at all.
Usually, you can get a lot of accessibility “for free” if you try not to stray too far from how things are supposed to be used. The more you start getting clever and abusing components, the more likely your layout is impossible to navigate by screen readers and similar assistive software. My website makes heavy use of semantic tags, and doesn’t have an overly complex layout, so I think it does pretty well in a screen reader (though, I have not actually asked anyone to test this).
It is unlikely anyone lost 200 BTC, we can't say for sure because Bitcoin wallets are pseudonymous. But what happened is that someone received a lot of BTC from a lot of different wallets.

I would hope that someone who owns 200 BTC would put a little thought into how to secure it and would not be affected by this hack.
By businesses who want a tour of their business or of the road leading up to it. Mostly likely just the business premises. But there are a lot of clients in that part of the world that would want to include roads like game reserves.

* I'm South African.