skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have used e-lance and upwork to the tune of about $140,000 and in my last year of hiring on UpWork we plugged $36,000 through them. Generally they've been pretty good and usually fast and fair to act, though in all my time of using them I've only had 3 bad experiences, 2 of them were resolved quickly and well, the third was a shit show.

I think a lot of people get screwed on UpWork because someone posts a shitty outline of a job and then expects the world to be delivered for $5. I don't operate like that, we treat it like hiring normally - we thoroughly interview and the spec is very detailed.

The last contractor we hired was for firmware and an issue we had, we needed someone with Rockchip experience and someone who could work on it full time. We explained the problem and the spec of the job repeatedly to him and he agreed. We agreed a fee - a little higher than what we budgeted but honestly didn't care - we were getting this solved.

Anyway fast forward and he has done about 50% of what we agreed - we ask him when can we get the next 50% he said when we pay him more - we said, that's not what we agreed, it's in the contract (on the job spec) in the UpWork messages (again reemphasized) and we agreed over phone calls and emails and he signed. He said he didn't care he wanted more money before he would complete it. At this point the firmware he has done is essentially useless to us without the last 50% so I go to UpWork and explain everything - hoping they would give him a nudge - we had everything outlined on their system - their response - you need to pay him. I was baffled. So I opened a credit card dispute to get the money back.

UpWork's behaviour became down right embarassing. The disputed amount was in the range of about $1000 and they became so hilariously hostile, then angry, then sorry, then hostile, then derrogatory, and eventually demeaning (offering us $50 credit if we withdraw the dispute) we said no. They said they wouldclose our account - we said fine.

How stupid of a company do you have to be - not only that - we had about $30,000 more lined up for the next 6 months - now we just go through our network and other job boards. We will NEVER use them again.
> Slack has a huge opportunity in front of them (become the messaging platform for every business that exists).

How about: being bought by Microsoft.
Inventing a reason to reject mail does not sound very much like “caring deeply”. More like “let them deal with it”.
> No, since Tether and Bitfinex are the same company.

Right, despite previous protests to the contrary, the court filing noted (and I'm surprised that the article didn't, though it hinted at that) that the "arm's length" loan document was signed by the same two corporate officers, on both sides of the contract.
This thread has some info: https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/hashtable-benchmar....

Edit: Or at least I think that's relevant to this announcement. I don't know enough about it to say for sure.
Talking about Kara Swisher?
Kara Swisher has been a tech reporter for decades and is arguably one of the better connected in the Valley (and also one of the most critical of their bro culture and culture of uncontrolled excess).
Business idea: start a fitness business from home
> (we'd lose our message history).

You can't export your data from Slack?
I would pay quite a lot for google-class services with a binding contract that limits their options for spying on me and is 100% ad free. Instead, I spend an inordinate amount of time configuring my computers to avoid accidentally using their free “services”...
Not really following here, which product was I criticising? Bloomberg? I generally expect a better standard even though it is classed opinion. They've had an entire working day to parse the basic assertions by both parties.

As for Kraken, is it preferable they didn't take their time fixing the issue and instead let people deposit money into a bug-ridden neon-flashing hacker target? Caution should probably be appreciated in these matters, the alternative path isn't pretty.
This is true of banks, too. In fact, if everyone took out all of their money from all of the banks, there isn't enough real money in existence to cover it.

True, but we're not talking about "all banks," we're talking about one "bank." There's more than enough money to handle a bank run on a single bank. More importantly, while banks don't have 1:1 cash to deposits, they do have 1:1 assets to deposits, so economically their depositors can be made whole eventually.

With Tether, the issue is that there is substantial evidence that they lied about the amount of actual currency backing their deposits. If that's the case, then many/all of their depositors are SOL without any possibility of being made whole.
Mostly by lobbying politicians for extra exemptions that make taxes more complicated, but also by directly lobbying against bills that would simplify things.
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I agree.

However, many people, both low and high income, know absolutely nothing about taxes and tax forms or how complicated or not complicated their tax situation may be or how much effort they'd spend on tax filing. People are taught the tax code is really complicated and they are really worried about screwing up. Furthermore, TurboTax has become so big that many new filers just kinda think "Do Taxes = TurboTax" without really considering that they can do it without tax software.
Chamath personally owns more of Slack than the founder/CEO....
So this is basically a component framework ala https://element.eleme.io/#/en-US/component with some theming standards?

Edit: The drag and drop component is nice and looks well-built. I had to use vue-draggable [1] for an app recently which was just a hacky Vue layer on top of Sortable.js [2]. It's one thing I wished ElementUI supported natively.

[1] https://github.com/SortableJS/Vue.Draggable

[2] https://github.com/SortableJS/Sortable
To people who understand what static typing does and the problems it solves, this statement is the equivalent of "Hitler did nothing wrong."
I know our consulting firm has a "director of market development" in part because there is no place we could just hang our sign and get business.

It's mostly networking and word of mouth.
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There's also a new 'snooze' feature, where you can 'snooze' a person for 30 days.

Interesting that managing friendships and relationships with these tools feels an awful lot like....work does. Everything compartmentalized, specific functions to deal with people down stream..
Kraken do if you are "pro verified" (proof of residence, id,kyc) https://support.kraken.com/hc/en-us/articles/360001461846-In...
Nothing's really free. That's true. By "free service", I mean a service where you or other part (or both) don't pay some sort of subscription fee and/or have a contract with the service provider. But I thought I keep it brief for brevity's sake.
So, who isn't? Look throughout the blockchain ecosystem and all you will see are scams, illegal activity and get rich quick fools.

A tiny fraction of companies in the blockchain ecosystem:

Pfizer,
Fidelity,
Microsoft,
Rutgers University,
T-Mobile,
National Bank of Canada,
John Hancock Life Insurance,
J.P. Morgan Chase Bank,
Ernst and Young.

If all you are able to see when you look at blockchain engineers are scammers, lawbreakers, and "get rich quick" fools, I'll humbly suggest that you haven't really been looking.
Plus/minus 5% is really just a marginal difference from the general population. It’s almost impressive in a way, and with just a bit of the motivated reasoning you so daftly employ in #2 and #3, I would argue it must be the result of some sort of intervention in the opposite direction of what you’re implying.
>Rather, I say this book doesn’t need to exist for the following reasons:

All of the reasons that follow boil down to, essentially, "this book is so obviously true that there's no need to read it." That's hardly a damning review, it's a bit closer to the most vehement agreement possible.
Small amounts of inflation are a good thing. Deflation in a currency is almost always bad, and this is why limited-issue crypo like bitcoin will never replace real currencies.
It's not for mobile but a while ago I made a little prototype for a news-stream that scrolls all by itself and it has a tech section. Do you like the concept? Its http://www.uptopnews.com/
Focus on functional movements. Body weight full body routines and short bits of cardio daily.
> Or do they want all of us to start doing the same?

An increase in public shamings probably means that public shamings become less news- or interest-worthy. So an increase in shamings might not have as much effect as you might expect.
Did they? As far as I can recall 538 has always been clear that they deal in probabilities, not binary predictions. They gave him a small chance of winning for a reason, and it turned out chaos favored one of the low odds scenarios.
How much DHEA did you take and was it with pregnenolone? 5 mg + 5 mg topically is said to be the preferred way to supplement.

The pain may be related to blood pressure.

Is there any reason you didn't also add a multivitamin? How much D and K? Magnesium? Ever had any lab work done?
I really hate dismissive comments like this.

They laid out pretty well what problems this is trying to solve, why they want it that way, the benefits it has, and some of the tradeoffs it makes.

Saying it "replaces composition with configs for no good reason" is not only wrong (they still heavily use composition here, it even makes it more powerful in some ways from what I can tell so far), but also doesn't really mean anything on it's own (at least to me it doesn't).
Correct, they're on under 60k for the year.
Illinois does too on the state Department of Revenue's website! Hooray for state government!
> Bitfinex doesn't serve US customers

A large part of the contention is that Bitfinex, unlicensed to operate at all in NY, has NY-based employees, and customers, even after its "No US customers". That was the initial driver for the NY OAG to go after them.
Beginner’s Guide to Powerlifting by Chad Wesley Smith: https://www.jtsstrength.com/product/beginners-guide-to-power...

I have not read the book, but Chad is a respected competitor and coach in the community. I have watched the Juggernaut Training YouTube channel for a few years now, and they always have sound advice for both beginner and expert lifters.
Keep in mind that this may not change when driverless cars become widely available. Maintaining a fleet thousands of driverless cars may prove to be more expensive than crowdsourcing a vehicle fleet.
On the contrary, Rippetoe is the only author who has a rigorous, physics-based framework that explains why he recommends doing the lifts the way he does. Speaking frankly, the rest of the industry is mostly jackasses selling lifting-bro bullshit and crackpot theories.
I can do that with the website of my bank. Why do you want an app ? For security purposes ? ( true question as I don't understand the need for an app )
I use Night Shift on all of my devices, and let me tell you, it doesn't help me get to bed any earlier.
> willfully and purposely try to defraud the government.

whats the standard for willfully vs a mistake?
Huh?

SassC is just a cli tool that uses the C-language SASS library. It's an alternative to using whatever ridiculous NodeJS solution was/is being used.
I'm in this situation. I spend about 30 hours on real development and 10 hours on self improvement (trying new stuff/learning new techniques) . I easily get as much done as my co-workers who go to every meeting and work overtime. Difference is I'm not burned out like the ones who try to look like "company men" by putting in 50 hours a week and attending every little corporate meeting and event that happens.
You can get a parking ticket practically every day and continue living your life as usual (ask me how I know).

It does not seem at all clear to me that any tech company could sustain routine fines of this scale and remain a going concern. By Swisher's numbers in this post, 3 more fines of this size would deplete Facebook's cash reserves. A $5B fine represents most of the valuation of Slack, and an integer multiple of Discord, or any of a number of other "unicorn" companies Facebook could have bought, rather than shoveling that cash, in effect, into a furnace.

It's also not clear what the underlying violations of the consent decree are. What this analysis loses sight of is that the deterrence question isn't simply about what it would take to stagger Facebook as a company, but rather what it would take to deter them from the particular violations they're charged with. If this is about lax controls over data exposed in Facebook's API (generalizing from the Cambridge Analytica scandal), what's our guess as to how much money Facebook made by allowing partners to do that, or how much money they saved by not building and managing better controls? It seems unlikely to be an amount denominated in billions.

A company can be a goliath with hundreds of billions in reserve, but if a group inside that company that generates just tens or hundreds of millions of dollars reliably generates 5 billion dollar fines, that group is getting "reorganized".
One more independent variable you might want to test: when you go to bed. I've found that the earlier I go to bed, the higher quality sleep (I'm sure there is a point at which I would begin getting worse sleep, but I haven't reached it). I've tried anywhere from 9PM to 3AM. 9PM is a little too early to do if you aren't trying to "catch up" on sleep but I've been getting great results going to sleep at 10PM every night. I usually fall asleep around 10:30 or 11PM and wake up naturally to the sun around 7-8AM.

Never feel tired at work anymore, but I do actually start getting tired around 8-9PM when the caffeine from work starts wearing off. The energy and focus is great
If you believe corruption is only binary, then yes. If you believe corruption is a degree, then they are pretty far off in scale.

The Chinese government doesn’t believe in rule of law or checks and balances, leaving lots of room for unchecked abuses.
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Blackmagic eGPU Pro mini-review: Quiet, fast, and extremely expensive–like a Mac
That's why I love Flow and Typescript so much. They are as opt-in as you want them to be.

I've seen a team use typescript, but have zero types in most of their files, they just used it from libraries to get some IDE autocomplete and some very small typing on core areas.
Bohemian Rhapsody on Floppotron
Google seems to have entered terminal senility. In my circle of friends googles search engine is pretty much useless, they have killed all the useful applications we used and now this.

I can't help but think that we are seeing the google transition to late 90s microsoft now.
If uber drivers make enough to make their cars a worthwile investment, then I'd assume a fleet of driverless cars are profitable.
That icon video was nothing.

They, literally, went full-on action movie for Office 2010.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUawhjxLS2I
I was excited for the concept of DOWN banking: Deposit Often, Withdraw Never.
Also, unless you are the sole IP owner of pivotal self-driving tech, it will just be a commodity that all ride-hailing services pay to use, meaning that price competition still implies the same poor margins as for traditional regional taxi operations.
You don't need Wine to run majority of MSFT apps on macOS these days. The whole Office suite has native apps, as well as VS Code.
Yeah, I'm not sure that "far left" is the appropriate term, but I wanted to communicate "people to the left of moderate liberals". I'm thinking people whose "egalitarian" vision demands segregation and treatment according to a strict hierarchy of immutable characteristics. People who use terms like "nazi" and "white supremacist" to refer to liberals and anyone right thereof. Not sure what the proper term is for this group.
I’m pretty sure people are getting more and more used to uber, ditching their car or not looking to get a driver license. It is becoming an essential part of our lives and I use it way more today compared to years ago when rides used to cost close to 0$ Due to their promotions or agressive pricing.
FWIW, in my opinion there are better videos for form and technique on Starting Strength’s YouTube channel at this point.
Yes, but if $chain does decide to open a location in the neighborhood in month 10 of that 2-year lease, it moves in to your competitor's building across the street, then you're stuck with the empty storefront again in a year while they have a nice indefinite recurring revenue stream.
Actually, I interpreted it as exactly "I have a positive reason to believe there is no malicious intent." and I presume the positive reasons are, e.g. most people not being malicious. "I don't presume there is malicious intent" is significantly weaker than the original.
> but they get to figure out which one it is!

Ah! They can't force you to tell them something you know. Next we will have the equivalent of port knocking using a sequence of fingers.
At >340MB it does indeed have a complete base system. You just have to install it somewhere first :)

I don't know of any up-to-date prebuilt live CD/USB images, but I do know of guides to create them from another OpenBSD install (e.g. one in a VM): https://www.alti.at/knowhow/obsdlivecd/
You can use ant design without any css and roll up your own styles.
Uber prints money on non-pool rides in mature markets. The losses are all going to fund expansion and single-rider pools.
Surely it would be meaningless to levy this dismissal against all members of traditional media, so do you have something more specific in this case?
> Is mouse support required for something to be considered a computer?

The ipad pro's marketing copy describes it as "..packed with our most advanced technology, it will make you rethink what iPad is capable of. And what a computer is capable of."

Computers are capable of using mice. Even a WinCE box sitting inside a touchscreen ATM will support a mouse if you can hook one up to it.

> The iPad also supports an implement that mimics something professionals have been using to draft blueprints and create art for millennia.

I don't recall ever needing to buy a pencil that was specific to the make and model of the paper I wrote on.

My original comment was in response to "Samsung should look at what Apple is doing". And what they're doing, and doing very well, appears to be writing persuasive marketing copy that turns glaring feature deficiencies into upsell opportunities like "just buy the pen for another $100".
Let’s say conforming to usual behaviors? That is simply what the article is asking for.
If growth rate continues as they project, buyers get a larger future bump/multiplier.

What makes you say that? Proof? It was historically used to raise more funding to fuel growth, a function VCs can now fill (ie, then it would be likely to have a VC provide the larger sums required). Though VCs can fill such a gap, IPOs give insiders an exit.
A new iPhone 7 is $449.
Here in Boulder, there's a number of retail spaces that essientially can't turn a profit on it's own. Just The North Face, Prana, or Freepeople want a Boulder location so bad for marketing purposes, they're willing to keep the store running at a loss.
Finding a good React UX library is tough. None is ideal. Too heavy, too small, too slow, too dirty.

Settled on ant.design for a while, not perfect but good enough.
I think they print money on pooled rides in certain cases too. Especially going to/from the airport.
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The Scottish measures definitely sound sensible, but this sent me off investigating the usual issue with these stories: crime is a wicked problem, and its hard to discern "this intervention reduced crime" from "we kept trying different interventions until crime rates happened to fall".

From that article's evidence: In 2004/05 there were 137 homicides in Scotland... By 2016/17 the number had more than halved to 62. Last year this had reduced by a further three to 59... This homicide figure was the joint lowest number of recorded homicide cases for a single 12-month period since 1976.

So homicides fell from ~2.5/100k to ~1/100k, which is pretty impressive. But 2004/05 is cited because it was a spike 20% above the 2000-2008 average. London homicides also fell by about 50% over that same period before the recent spiek, without equivalent programs, which raises some questions about whether this was simply demographic. And the population pyramid for Glasgow (where 1/3 of the murders were happening) sort of supports that theory; there's a large population boom-and-hollow, for which the boom was 16-20 during the murder spike and is now into the lower-crime late 20s. London has similar demography, slightly older, with a slightly earlier crime drop. So there's some reason to believe the recent murder spike with no population change is qualitatively different from the mid-2000s peak that Scotland and London both saw.

On the other hand, that "further three" claim in the article is a statistically meaningless bounce in a number that's been basically flat for since 2013/14. Almost all of the real-looking change is a murder rate that plummeted from 2008 to 2012. That's actually sort of promising: it means the falloff was faster than the decline in the 16-26 population. And the gang-alternative program mentioned launched in 2009, based on a Boston system which was also followed by a sharp decline in murder rate. Both systems work on redirecting a small population with an extremely high murder rate, so a fast response and then a plateau is actually a very plausible outcome.

That technique of proactively engaging gang members has been repeated in many cities at different times, and the statistical evidence for it looks surprisingly strong. I initially suspected that the problem was engaging large networks, since Glasgow and Boston had much lower raw murder rates and at-risk populations than London, but Chicago also showed promising results.

Tentatively, it looks like this really was an intervention that caused a major improvement. But I can't find any sign of a comparable program being tried in London - does anyone happen to know one?

edit: Chicago had 200% London's raw homicide count, but only 25% of its population. Operation Ceasefire theoretically targets a percentage of the population, independent of lethality, so it may still have been a much lower number than London. As far as I can see, none of this ever caught on in NYC.
I was once one of those "so poor I didn't owe any income taxes" people you are talking about. Know how I didn't pay income tax? I filed my tax return at the end of the year and got a refund for 100% of the taxes taken out of my check.

People who receive any sort of taxable income file taxes, not just people who pay taxes on that income.
Running your own e-mail server for receiving SMTP makes a lot of sense in many ways. I've been doing it for close to a decade myself.

Sending SMTP yourself (directly, without an SMTP relay service) sets you up for trouble.
We asked ourselves the same question :). We'd definitely consider it. If you're interested, I'll keep you posted.
Turn your family into a corporation and make everyone executive directors?
You're ignoring the fact that many already went through that phase and ultimately decided that complexity is the only enemy worth fighting in software.

It always pays off to take a closer look at the things you can't think or say, to ask why.
The basic laws of economics are premised based on an optimal market, with rational actors. None of these matter in a natural oligopoly. When there are few enough actors you can functionally cooperate without ever communicating directly which acts as a defacto cartel.
That varies by company. I have worked in Europe and those individuals goofed off just as much as my American compatriots AND had fewer hours.