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Trump to Sign Executive Order Promoting Artificial Intelligence
Second this.

Even if you don't incorporate and are uncomfortable presenting yourself as a brand, never call yourself a "freelancer".

Call yourself a "consultant". I've seen that people take you far more seriously when you call yourself that as opposed to a "freelancer".
Like with real-time electricity pricing based on grid demand and excess load.

I've been on a real-time plan with my utility for the past decade now, overall I've saved about 15% by shifting some loads to off-peak times. Being able to dynamically hold off the air conditioning compressor is a key part of this.

What's odd, though, is that the major net-connected thermostat makers (Nest, Ecobee, Honeywell) have not integrated with the utilities at all. The capability is there, but for some reason this is still a far-off feature.
How's pypy with numpy these days? It's been a while since I had a look and last time it was the big limiting factor for me
Even better , build your own product that will become passive income over time. The goal of a free-lancer should be to be free.
throwing money at a problem :'D
Can you elaborate on point 4? Billing software?
Pro Tools Users Abandoning Apple Mac for Microsoft Windows
I agree about the risk of client-side vulnerabilities. Another state-level actor could easily abuse this to influence an election.

On the counting side though, I don't fully agree. Paper voting sees some enormous mistakes. Whether they are intentional or not, but it has happened before where an entire town's votes for a candidate missed a zero. No election observers or people sent from either party noticed it until a volunteer pointed it out. Electronic voting isn't going to make such mistakes and I believe that if the process is handled well, then the secrecy of the vote shouldn't be an issue from the server side.

But again, there's nothing you can do about the client side attack vector.
I wonder what the media would say of there were as many dual citizenship Russians in Congress as there are dual citizenship Israelis... Yet, not a peep... but you can be sure "ze Russians are coming"!
Yup. Universities, government agencies and giant multinationals will all pay according to their standard vendor policies. This may be 3+ months after you submit the invoice in some cases. But most of these institutions will pay, so you just have to let them do their thing.

Basically, beyond a certain size, it's more trouble for an organization to cheat a vendor than it is for them to pay as agreed. Non-payment may require getting their lawyers involved, pulling in higher management, etc. (This is based on experience in the US. Things may be different elsewhere.)
The Differences Between CSS, LESS, and SASS
No. Still error for me.
Came to say the same thing
Google has mastered the art of using open source to crush competition like they did with Chrome and Android. They ever revealed their main moneymakers ever. For example they opened up their mapreduce technique after they have moved on from it.
> 2. Avoid freelancing marketplaces.

The idea of a freelancing marketplace is nice, but holy cow how terrible they actually are.

I tried to hire someone through one for some graphic work for a generous rate (compared to what I generally saw on the site). I picked one well-reviewed user with hundreds (or maybe thousands?) of 5-stars and... they just Googled for an image.

I looked through some of the "jobs" there and the "employers" seemed just as incompetent as the freelancers themselves. "Need an app for $100"
There are trade-offs, for example if you pass "3" should it also work when passing in "three" !? By limiting possible errors/inputs, you also make it harder to use.
When I think of freelancers, I think of 3 tiers: 1: the bottom of the barrel. They will beg for anything you give them and will do it for $5, or even show you a free demo (by building out part of the project, or designing it) They will bid on every project on Upwork. My guess is 80% of Upwork falls into this category. 2: Freelancer who charges a mid-range or "market rate" or even above market rate. They can't fathom that they are worth double what they are charging. 3: The highly paid freelancer - the person who decided to double their rates and "capped out" at some high rate. This person thinks he can't go any higher, he tried, but it wasn't working. Sometimes they do really well.. like a developer charging top rate and putting in 8 hours a day or whatever realistic amount of time developers work. This freelancer can make above market salary and some are perfectly fine with it.

Then there is the consultant. The person who realized that time does not equal money, that businesses pay for value, or more importantly, they want to know how much money this is going to save/make them. The consultant charges for value, at a markup. The top of the ladder make over a mil a year, the ones still learning can make very good sums of money, but its all limited by them. If they don't do the work, the money stops. This is a great place to be, but you quickly learn that you don't want to be stuck here, unless you are the top tier consultant and you love your work and don't mind the day in day out. I have not heard of too many of these, but they usually turn into product businesses well before reaching that.

If there is one thing any aspiring freelancer needs to know is that their mind is their worst enemy. Overcome your mind and you can go a lot further. I was and still am a victim of my own mind and work on overcoming it.
I got a 'nice' error page temporarily now back to the error loading the error page.
I wouldn’t buy their $1000 phones ever. I bought my first phone outright for $500. Then all the way to $700.

I’ve kept that phone for 3 years now.

$1000 mark just seems too steep for something that easily breaks or gets stolen.

Esp when it’s not that different from my iPhone8
Exposing Microservices Running in AWS EKS with a Microservices/API Gateway
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The story of Swift on Linux is now quite good.

Windows is less far along, but recently a contributor got nightly builds started on Azure, and it appears there is serious work on this front.

In any case, it's already possible to run Swift for Tesorflow on Windows using WSL and Docker.
While I seriously doubt that overselling is really widely known, it is also quite an assumption that repeating a widely known fact has no effect on customer behavior.

As something between data and anecdata to support that statement, I've seen measured conversion rates indicate that customers cancel an online shopping deal after they have already agreed to it, after being redirected to PayPal. Those numbers were way too high to indicate just users who couldn't remember their passwords, so we assumed (here's the non-data part) that they jumped off when they realized that they have to log into PayPal and pay real money now. And those things are widely known, certainly so to a customer who has paid with PayPal in the past.
Yeah, but lots of foreign retailers team up with more competent partners who operate their brand stores. Gucci, Armani, and Versace can't operate directly in India either, but you wouldn't know it looking at their stores.

Apple's Indian partners don't seem to care, nor does Apple that their partners are offering a sub-par experience.
They are actually $5 at microcenter in the US.
Amazon invented the SWE 4/5 roles late because they were losing people who were surpassing 3 as individual engineers but couldn't meet the people-leadership requirements of Principal.
Turn the screen brightness down.
If you're running alone in a sandbox as root, you can just insert a kernel module which breaks you out of the sandbox.
>In 2019, you can do this: html{ scroll-behavior:smooth; }

In 2019, caniuse.com says scroll-behavior is not available in Apple Safari or MS IE/Edge:

https://caniuse.com/#search=scroll-behavior

None of my friends with iPhones install Firefox or Chrome on iOS. They all just use the default Safari browser.
Apple and Google accused of helping 'enforce gender apartheid'
Hating Jira? It's never too early to reconsider
If you're already on create-react-app or any other framework or stack and don't want to port to a new framework, but want to add easy "just works" SSR, you can use react-frontload.

https://github.com/davnicwil/react-frontload

It's a small library that lets you load data into Components - using the same code on both client and server render. You can use it to add server rendering to any existing React app. It's designed to just plug in and work. I'm the author :-)
Provider agnostic authentication and authorization in Kubernetes
John Perkins right again!
I totally agree. I see billboards frequently or messaging on the side of businesses “now you can binge better.”

When did binge ever become appropriate to use as something to be encouraged?Feels insane. I mean even binge eating vegetables probably shows a problem, it should just be part of a balanced diet.
Thanks for the heads-up; updated!
Amazon Is Lending $1B a Year to Sellers
My friend wrote one https://leanpub.com/freelancedeveloperbook.

I used it a lot when I started freelancing.
Last I heard the goal for "initial adoption" is set for Spring 2019.
It's Windows vs Mac all over again, people just wouldn't believe it :)

1 company vs 100. All the 100 companies would have to be knuckleheads forever (which is super unlikely, it's basically: "you can fool some people all the time or all the people sometimes, but you can't really fool all the people all the time").

Android is moving up in the world, and except for the US, which was always a bit weird in regards to Apple, Android will make Windows' dominance look like a walk in the park. Look at what Google's doing with relatively weaker dominance of Chrome in the web browser world.
None of my projects want to be SPAs
Apparently Dreamhost's yearly server update is occurring at the same time that this is the top post on Hacker News.

Here's a screencap of the post's HTML source with no markup, for the time being:

https://i.imgur.com/2CGG48Q.png

Edit: Or use the archive.org link spzb posted.
Damn I wish that class was open access.
www.highscalability.com has some great real world examples.
It was great when I had a good, trustworthy agency to go through. When that fell apart, it was a true pain. Network and on-time payments are the two biggest problems I saw.
Yes, but how much of that incident is just propaganda? I mean, Huawei is rigging all their electronics with spy technology. The only reason the US is mad is because our NSA wants to do that to us and they're worried about Huawei equipment finding its way into the DoD. But let's be honest--we're all being spied on 24/7 now. It's time to start pushing back against this technological terror. I demand honest government, not this slipshod, coercive, East German nonsense. It sucks and we don't even know how we got here so fast--it was like one minute everything was fine and the next, we've got "Big Brother" in everything! And worse, people seem to be clamoring for more Big Brother.

This will end in mass murder. People you love will be murdered by the government you love. Make. It. Stop.
Same here. Funny to see how the /. effect - or, in this case, the hug of hn - still kills websites when cache plugins, static sites, varnish (sw), nginx fastcgi cache are all available and fairly simple to set up.
I blame wordpress for not shipping with built-in microcaching.
> you may get one at the gate.

There’s a world of difference between “your seat will be assigned at the gate” and “your seat may be....” The former, which is what I think most airlines actually say, strongly implies that you do have a seat, though they are still determining which one it is. The latter is often what they really mean.

If you are reasonably savvy, the fact that this is unusual ought to clue you in. However, that signal now is a bit diluted with all of the games airlines play to get you to pay extra to choose a seat so....
> Sure you have to type more characters when working with a strictly typed language

You might be interested to hear about type inference.
You can make dropdowns with CSS.
This rings true. I’d like to add what was for me the difficultiest part - you have to become comfortable hiring other contractors. Because you’re usually expected to take a project end to end. Also - strive to be a great communicator. Customers love that
I wish I could use Firefox for iOS because of sync, but Safari is the only browser that supports content blockers.
None of these deals ever come with enforcement imposed on the economic projections used to justify them, whether for corporate headquarters or sports stadiums. If these things are so profitable for the taxpayers, why doesn't https://godlike.me/ Amazon guarantee the projected numbers, paying any eventual shortfall directly to the state and city? (Yes, there would need to be a way to measure whatever metrics are used.)
"Economics is war by other means."
More than their neutering during formation or the end of Bretton Woods?
You cant get a job with pure css and html
Is smooth scrolling really a feature you need in every browser you support?
Agree that sounds like the leading factor.

There is a line of thinking that the trade war comes at a convenient time PR-wise for the Chinese got. It gives them a scapegoat for domestic economic issues, which they are only too happy to talk up. (But I don't really know anything, and welcome expert correction.)
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At the moment not much. Swift for TensorFlow is a fork of the language, with language-level support for some features which are useful for data science, for instance automatic differentiation and dynamically-callable objects.

Some of those features are making their way into the main branch, but at the moment you could not import the TensorFlow library into an iOS project and use it. Swift for TensorFlow needs to be built using a separate toolchain.
https://www.yunojuno.com is a good marketplace. I believe each freelancer is vetted.
The article jumps into Venezuela, but that is after the fact. Maduro invited Russia and China into the Americas and has received a prompt and harsh lesson on the Monroe Doctrine.
Wouldn't that be from an Austrian developer?
a great book on strategy that helped me personally transition from employee->freelancer->director was Gerald M. Weinberg's "The Secrets of Consulting". It is a blueprint for how to get the best out of consultants, also shows how to market and price your skills. Consulting might not be the only way one can progress from freelancing towards more independence. But because it has a high overlap of skills needed also in freelancing (assess contracts, client interviews, marketing my brand, ...) it seems a logical (maybe easy?) path to take.
> Leaks Reveal Random Musings From Some Guy In Army-SOF Who Doesn't Even Know What The IMF And World Bank Are About, But Somehow Thinks They Might Be Used As "Unconventional Weapons".

FTFY.
Or was the program of forced updates effective enough that it forced hackers to rely on zero days?
Besides the fact that your first point is not necessarily true and the second one is not a major selling point for regular users...

If you put an iPhone 8 next to an OnePlus 6T, the iPhone will look like an Ford Model T next to the latest Ford model from 2019.

Tech is also fashion, when we carry it around everywhere.

And this is besides the fact that Android comes with quite a few of its own benefits, things which you can't find on iPhones.
Thanks for sharing. Where do you take projects?

Why did you create the website?

I mostly use this job aggregator service (https://periodix.net/). Because it shows me projects with my chances to be hired. I like this feature the most.
_DON'T DOWN VOTE JUST BECAUSE YOU CAN'T DO MATH_

The proof Fermat hinted to was about the difference between squares. All whole numbers taken to a power greater than two (n^3) can be represented as the difference between two whole squares (x^2 - y^2). These differences can then be shown as the sum of consecutive odd numbers:

2^3 = 3^2 - 1^2 = (1+3+5) - (1) = 8,
3^3 = 6^2 - 3^2 = (1+3+5+7+9+11) - (1+3+5) = 27,
4^3 = 10^2 - 6^2 = (1+3+5+7+9+11+13+15+17+19) - (1+3+5+7+9+11) = 64

5^3 = 15^2 - 10^2 = (21+23+25+27+29) = 125

When you examine the odd number series that results from each base, you'll discover that there will always be a gap if you try and combine two odd number series together, which explains Fermat's little joke about margins. The same trick works for higher powers.

It's not that hard people. Stop believing everything you're told about how "hard" something is.

HINT:
The number of odd numbers in the series exactly matches the starting square base number
>People might use it for killer drones after all.

For some reason drones are perceived to be completely different from all weapons that have existed before them. Those killer drones have existed for half a century. They are called missiles. Also the reason why UAV based fighter jets are not viable is because a cruise missile can be launched from 1000 miles away and for the cost of a global hawk you can send out more than a hundred of them.

If terrorists have access to explosives then it doesn't matter how they deliver them because most lucrative targets (= lots of people in a small area) are stationary or predictable. A simple bagpack filled with explosives was more than enough to injure hundreds of people during the Boston Marathon.
It's kinda hard to tell, not sure Firefox supports any decode acceleration on Linux. If they do, it's not obvious when it's active, and Firefox uses quite a bit of CPU while playing video regardless.
Why would you want to force smooth scrolling in the first place? It's a browser setting (at least in Firefox) and it should stay that way.
The gap gets worse when you consider endorsements. The gap between the men's #1 and anyone else is enormous, so much so that the rest don't really factor in at all.
E-M radiation is NOT the same as ionizing radiation.
AirBnB is a copy of ages-old vrbo with modifications. It wasn't a breakneck race to see who could launch code first. Coders overestimate the criticality of code to the success of a non tech business that operates on the web/apps. Airbnb isn't high tech, it's a business with modern business process of automation software.
What's offensive is that the OP (or generally people like him - not clear of his exact point) thinks he knows Jewish identity well enough that he can divorce it by whatever line he thinks it is (artificially) separate from Israel. Only a tiny minority of very unrepresentative Jews object to the modern state, and they do so only under an even more extreme ideology of what that country should be and who should live in it.
Postgres has offered F_FULLFSYNC on OSX since 2005?
Using built-in html primitives seems like such a good idea in theory, but when you have requirements that dictate a certain layout, or behavior on those elements you discover that some things you can't do, others you can only do in certain way, maybe in some browsers. Latest example of this is native input type=date: I want to use it every time I am tasked with making something that has date input, not once did it offer flexibility to meet the requirements (you can't format date, I don't think there is a way to hide clear button on ff, no duration input, etc...). Next time I'm just not gonna bother and reimplement all of it myself.
Grouping similar languages together like that would mean the Sami and the Finns speak the same language anyway. Problem solved, right?
Make something useful that someone can trial and feel like they've had enough value from it to pay for it?
It's been in development for about a year, and I have seen several posts about it here. It's still not quite feature-complete or ready for real use.
The nutrient:calorie ratio is more important than those other metrics you listed. Whey protein shakes are "easy to gulp" but show fairly high satiety ratings, for example. Liver has a very high nutrient:volume ratio and is considered healthy, brocalli has a low nutrient:volume ratio and is considered healthy.
Air Canada did that for me once for free.

It might depend on how (over)sold the flights are. If your original flight is oversold and the other one is not, it seems like a win-win situation.
In most industries, selling the same product twice is considered unacceptable.

Not necessarily.

There are a lot of businesses which sell you a service assuming some "average" load. Web hostings, insurance companies for example.

That's even before I start whinging about my monthly train ticket.

But in pretty much any profession there's a chance of a promise not been met. If that happened I would expect an apology, and some kind of a remediation. For extra credit a small token of appreciation would also be nice.
Except when it comes to comparing verbosity.
Yeah, I would tend to agree. If Google successfully appeals Oracle's suit against them for implementing Java, I might consider using it in a product, but Oracle makes it legally risky to use any of their products.
I am still blown away by how powerful CSS grid is.

https://youtu.be/7kVeCqQCxlk

It's sad it doesn't get more use. Potwntially this is because CSS frameworks hide all this away and nobody is really learning CSS anymore but I wouldn't really know. I'm not really that exposed to the web front end side of things.
Even Xhosa has some consonants that aren't clicks, afaik. Also, your comment leads to this interesting wiki article : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whistled_language
Same here, the comment summarized all the stages we've been through.

On top of the weekly invoices, I also created "subscription" invoices, which I charge automatically instead of waiting for invoices. It really was killing me last few years. I don't even want to check last year's lost invoices...
and knowing about everything on web
Nvidia’s Wild Ride on the Crypto Rollercoaster
How big data transforms fintech in the Nordics
How such uninteresting article can make it to the newsletter?
Well sure, but what are the corrective steps? 38% of bugs could have been caught sooner/prevented with types.
The question to ask: What percentage of the 38% would have been avoided?

Similar problems have been solved in the past: what percentage of index out of bounds errors were caught because the concept was adopted by the language?
I am noticing an effect of "my searches don't get better as i add and change keywords". Becoming more specific has become difficult. thankfully there are alternatives
The content that is accessible through the navigation seams to be only a teaser for the content that is hidden behind the login.
I see that particular un-feature as a consequence of undue focus on ML that automatically generates image tags. While it's impressive for a system to be able to auto-tag billions of images at high accuracy, these generic tags are almost always useless as search terms.
Awesome hack! Thank you for arranging the stupid hackathon edition in Sweden (participated the first time).
It's conversion, not coercion. Coercion is what C does to crash programs.
What you will use to create the invoices that you will send to clients.
I have misgivings about "consultant." In the Metro Atlanta area that almost universally means a solo person with the possible unstated thought that he/she is living off his/her spouses income. It's harder to get placed than it is as a professional services firm. It's a bit different if you are actually doing high end management consulting. For developers I find clients are looking for "doers" not "talkers about doing" (which is what consultant implies).

So it really depends on what business and the market that the business is going for if the "consultant" label is any better than the sub-optimal "freelancer" label.