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STAY AWAY FROM FREELANCER, STAY AWAY!!!!!!
THIS IS A WARNING TO ANYONE WHO USES FREELANCER, STAY AWAY, STAY AWAY, STAY AWAY!!!

This company has screwed me over so many times and screwed so many developers and clients that it’s a mystery how they haven't been shut down yet.

It all started with a simple contract i received, and once i received an initial payment of $1300, my account got limited and frozen, i contacted them asking about the reason behind this, and they just simply told me it was because of outside communication, to which i responded that it's very normal call to go over everything, that is a business standard, and the contract went through the platform and so did the payment, so there was no reason behind these extreme majors they took.

The money was frozen and they told me that it would stay that way, up until they closed my account for good one week after with a simple email, saying that they closed my account.

I have worked on this platform for over 7 years, finished countless projects with full perfect five star reviews, never hurt anyone or hurt the platform in any way, and the only thing i did occasionally that was frowned upon was a call here or there to explain something to a client or to share my screen with them, and its not my fault that they did not provide these features on their platform and i had to use something else to make up for their short comings.

In conclusion, i gave them 7 years of my life; they closed my account for nothing, stole from me, and took away my main source of living.

I have not been able to even leave my house for the past week, and had to force myself to write this review, even as just a warning for people, and I’ll make sure that everyone hears about what happened to me.
So does this also reference sensitive information private companies are using? The article says your boss can look at your stuff, but if you're using it I assume that would be the case anyway. What about IP etc?
Indeed, it is enough to trust the cert just for IPSec, and we have updated the article to reflect that. We also have native applications on macOS so the manual IKEv2 setup is not the recommend method of usage of ProtonVPN.
React is the framework and their design system uses a specific set of rules within the React framework to build consistent end UI/UX.
That's just a bad name. This is essentially a nonrandomized unblinded controlled trial using representative sampling. Only two steps below a full RCT unless you suspect foul play.

I'm not sure how you'd blind lack of sleep and that's not the point, so the only issue is lack of randomization.

Much better than an observational study.
Obviously, but do you see that anywhere in their S-1? Or in all of the comments on here referencing that they are unprofitable?
Can you tell us a little more about your setup? I have a home email server, incoming only because of ISP restrictions, and I would love to make it into a real email server for my family and business.
As a drop-in replacement for Slack (or our dearly departed friend Hipchat), Teams is a poor choice. It makes more sense when used organization-wide -- for meetings, sharing/accessing documents, and so on. The chat portion works usually but it's probably its weakest point.

The bugs do need mentioned though. It constantly crashes for me, constantly loses sync, will just straight-up freeze for no discernible reason, will decide it doesn't really feel like actually sending my messages, and so on. It does not at all feel like a mature product.

Our team dropped HipChat and has moved to Teams along with the rest of the org. Our dev team (of 7) had used HipChat as a simple persistent chat app, sandboxed away from the rest of the company. Now we are on Teams with not only Ops guys, but also HR, marketing, and so on. It's fine at being sort of an organizational tool, but we dearly miss having our own private chat-only app that we can make use of as we want/need. Partly this is contextual to our organization, but the way we use Teams now feels far more formalized, and not in a good way.
'.' and ',' generally can be rubbed off or overlooked if the font is too small or if printed on paper/plastic, etc, hence the more reliable notation you mentioned.
> This is bad advice. No one has time to look at your open source patches and evaluate them.

The last time I was asked to screen and interview candidates I took the time to check out all portfolios, including github/gitlab/sourceforge profiles and projects.

In a few cases the candidate's portfolio work was decisive to greenlight and reject job apllicants.
Ok folks, I get it. :-) This was a caricature of the process, and as such there are some inaccuracies. But the core of it that "makes you think", has some ounce of truth to it.

I'll agree, my interactions with the IRS have gone extremely smoothly when there have been problems.
That's also a great line for pointing out how funny the bird's future might be. Maybe it won't be cawing about drug busts, but I imagine some police officer down the line might be in for a shock when they walk into the zoo and a parrot starts yelling warnings.
1) Federal government, yes, state governments, most of 'em, local governments, mostly not.

City and county-level governments are hugely varied in size, but it doesn't take much for a private company to be larger than vast swaths of them.

Of course, you're right that no private business is as big as the US federal government.

2) A lot of companies do have elaborate internal processes for getting anything done; the shareholders don't really do much for the day-to-day operation of a company, seldom where it comes to purchasing decisions.

3) It's really more regulations, which have to be changed in concert with laws, than laws themselves. Especially at the local level, governments have pretty wide leeway so long as they do things under a general framework of fairness and competitiveness (again, varies based on corruption at work....but private companies are corrupt, too; we just don't get to peek under the covers nearly as often.)
With nine of the pages (one third of the total 27) appearing to be mainly the result of running a vectorise tool:

$333333/9 gives $37037 per page

$37037/30 (assuming a generous 30 clicks to assemble the page) gives $1234.56 per mouse click

Nice work if you can get it - I suspect their facial expressions on submitting the invoice resembled one of the smiley faces on page 23.
4/26/2019: Peak HN was reached at a record 9:58 AM PDT
I live in Argentina. Few years back, an ex government official from the previous government was caught in the act of hiding 8 million dollars in a church.

My partner's auncle was also an ex government official from the previous government.

He was in charge of the country's office for regulation work in rural areas.

Up to that point, he was a complete believer that the government he was part of, was there to really change things and put the country in the right track.

When the news about that other guy's 8 mill broke out, he was completelly and uterly devastated.

I think the same can be applied to a lot of the people that works in Google regarding the way they perceive the company.

I just recently read in the news that there has been some retaliation exherted on googlers because of organizing some walkouts.

To think that your company just does good because you try to do good, and not take a look at what is really going around in the world related to what the company you work for is "a little" naive.

Also, I think that right now companies like Google and FB should be treated and reasoned about like states. To think that they will not abuse their power in one way or the other - just like countries do - is also "a little" naive.
Encounters with God, Even Under the Influence, Provide Lasting Mental Benefits
i don't have a subscription to laundry detergent, nothing stops me from buying a different brand in 6 months, whereas slack has contracts with my company, and has switching costs (we'd lose our message history).
Business Can Gain More from PPC Ads Than Blogging and Social Media Promotions
> These are all unnecessary, to various degrees.

Even limiting your search to HN there is a plethora of examples of situations that OP describes where phones and devices have been invaded
Every year, property taxes, vehicle registration fees, business taxes, professional licensing fees, and myriad other government fees keep going up. It's all taxes as far as an individual is concerned.
>IMHO it's not cool to nudge low income people to not save for retirement.

It's not cool to NOT nudge low income people to save.
That may have been what caused it as well. It was a while back and my memory is fuzzy.

I've since optimized my investment strategy (small amount in checking, rest in investments)

The IRS doesn't require institutions to generate 1099s for <10 dollars in interest.
You don't need to. But it will allow you to press more weight with less risk of injury. It only feels unnatural because you're used to just lying flat on the bench with a relaxed back - doing that now feels "unnatural" to me.

Try this: walk over to a nearby wall and "try" to push it over. That is, put yourself into the position that feels like you have the best brace and power to transfer force into the wall, and actually do it. Notice where your hands, elbows and shoulder blades end up. That's basically the same position as a good powerlifting bench.
Can I pay Credit Karma to do lobbying AGAINST HR Block and Intuit? :-D
Forgot to mention: they are all 5-star reviews.
Gmail stopped being a good email provider years ago:

https://github.com/dominictarr/your-web-app-is-bloated

Gmail used to be a small, light, fast and simple email service. Frankly, you should be ashamed of what Gmail has become.
The owners of the building are sitting in the most enviable position in the economy — just by owning the asset, they will get money in the form of appreciation, from work done by other people.

The rent is the cherry on top and they’d rather just go for a contract with a safe mega corporation than deal with any actual work in interacting with a business.
What is this hidden truth you're alluding to?
Seems to be true, yet I can unlock with my sunglasses on. So my kids will hold the phone up in front of my face, poke me to wake me up, and then run.
I agree with you, @asark
But I would change "..strangled by responsibility avoidance..'
Into US business business are forced into culture of 'plausible deniability'.

If you do not follow that culture, your business, if successful, will be virtually and very quickly devoured by lawyers or partisan politicians seeking their racketeering tax.

Both of those professions essentially became licensed racketeers in the Western world.

I would also build up on your premise, and say that it is not that China is advancing at incredible pace, it is that our own West Europe and US have been slowed down by the above internal nemeses.
Yes, they stopped murdering people and then there was peace.
Presumably, Google's smart enough to identify individual IPs in the range that don't send spam. I have a real shitty neigborhood IP wise, having my mail server on a $1 VPS. Public Outlook.com drops all my mail regardless of content for example, citing spammy IP range. Yet gmail somehow learned after a while to pass most of my messages through.

The real problem is lack of provided reasons for blocking, so people waste a lot of time trying to figure it out by guessing and trying random shit.
What I make of that is 5 + 2 = 7, which of course surprises no one.
I cannot get a brand new iPhone, contract free for the same price as a Nokia 7+, similar hardware features and size.
Once after I had a bad experience with adding a "FAB" button to an app I got the chance to ask a Google Material Design designer if they had AB tested or user tested the design and they said no, obviously, because users don't know what they want. So. Much. Bullshit. in design.
https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/free-books/dog-book/...
Ask HN: How do you become a good mentor?
I have recently become a team lead and have a decent amount of experience being an engineer myself, but have found that the hardest part about my new responsibility is figuring out how to be a good mentor and to help the more inexperienced engineers on my team grow. I am not sure exactly what makes a good mentor or how to get there.
> Members of the top 10% of tweeters also have distinct attitudes, behaviors and personal characteristics compared with those who use the platform less often. These prolific tweeters are more likely to be women: 65% are, compared with 48% of the bottom 90% of tweeters.

I find this fascinating. If the data are correct, Twitter's most valuable users (the ones who write all the Tweets) are overwhelmingly (65%) women, and even among the less active "lurkers" women make up just a little less than half. And yet, ask any woman who's active on Twitter to tell you about her experience with it, and you'll get a hair-raising catalog of stories of threats, abuse, and general unpleasantness -- all of which Twitter has shown next to zero interest in curbing.

It requires some seriously blinkered management to decide it's not important for your service to provide at least a minimally welcoming experience for its core audience.
Does anyone have the content of the review? Seems like it was removed.
Why is this random Trustpilot review suddenly on the frontpage? Is there anything I'm missing? People that had an issue with Freelancer.com just upvoting the headline?
The app itself is non-trivial, too. The scale is astounding.
the pit bull is put down because it is dangerous to humans, not because it violates a human law. Relatedly, literal mules that carry drugs surely wouldn't be punished
> As a designer I've always felt that the larger and more important chunk of design work is purely intuitive.

It's a highly trained intuition. From watching artists work, they have a tremendous amount of experience with color, form, different materials and composing those visual elements, and then with understanding the emotional impact they have on an audience.
Uber Improves GPS Mapping Accuracy
I wonder if we're all blinding heading into another "taxation without representation" debacle (aka revolution)?

I mean, yeah - we technically have "representation" - but you'd have to be blind and willfully ignorant to believe that's really the truth.

Unless "we" is a corporation or business interest, of course. Somehow, these fictional things have got more voice than actual people with voices. At some point in the future, if GAI actually occurs, they will have real voices - and then what?

Right now, the claim is "but they are composed of people" - but in reality, even that is a fiction; the majority of the people in most businesses - even small businesses - have no real say in anything about the business or how it operates, or it's politics (or political leanings). People can threaten or actually "walk out" or whatnot, but if the business is large enough, they'll just find themselves out of work and replaced (probably not entirely legal, but the actual litigation of it after the fact can be dragged out for years). So again - just another fiction we tell ourselves for some reason.

I'm not sure why we lie to ourselves so much about these things; probably because most people have no stomach for what real change would entail; the sacrifice, the blood, the pain - real pain. Terrible pain.

But...if something isn't done...it's going to happen anyway. It always does, as anyone familiar with history knows.
Apologies. Will be more thoughtful.
It also should be noted that Trustpilot itself is horribly gamed and its ratings should never be taken as a signal for trust. It can be useful if you think other ratings have been manipulated (i.e., Yelp) and you find it has a peerless Trustpilot rating -- yep, they're fakin' it
Rebuilding Notre Dame: a phoenix rising from the ashes
The other downside of measuring is that it can be SLOW. Especially if the distances are close and you're having to precisely measure. Even worse if you allow premeasuring and people start checking all of the angles before deciding on a course of action.

But if you don't allow premeasuring the game becomes more about who can accurately eyeball distances than who has the best strategic mind. Hexes replace all of that nonsense with a simple counting step that can be done in less than a second.
There are already abundant NES and SNES emulators for just about every reasonably-modern desktop and mobile platform. The popular games like Super Mario Brothers are almost always the first to be used in compatibility tests.

Needless to say, virtually any desktop system of any recent vintage can already run pretty much the entirety of the NES and SNES library; that ship has not only already sailed, but has circumnavigated the globe.

A C64 port of a Mario game is absolutely at most a blip in the increase in portability. If one's goal is "I want to play Super Mario Brothers on my PC", then that player's probably gonna reach for RetroArch and one of the various NES-emulating libretro cores instead of reaching specifically for a C64 emulator to play a presumably-buggier-and-uglier port of it to an entirely different system.

And there are numerous SMB roms floating around on the Internet. That ship has sailed, circumnavigated, and sailed and circumnavigated again while crewed by the descendants of the original crew - that is, a C64 port does not make that situation any "worse" for Nintendo.
As a side note, people like to talk about how capitalism has slashed inequality and lifted people out of poverty. However this is misleading. China alone lifted 700 millions people out of poverty.

Between 1960 and 2010, global Gini coefficient for the world goes down if you remove China from the numbers (i.e. everything the IMF and World Bank did only made things worse across the "developing countries").
Pillaging Passwords from Service Accounts
Does anyone remember the TI Explorer? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TI_Explorer). They were sold in the 1980s, I first saw one in person in 1993. It was astonishing back then that it had an optical mouse and an optical cable connecting the keyboard to the rest of the unit. My understanding is that it was a full stack LISP machine, down to CAR/CDR support in hardware.
Investors are warming up to the SaaS/cloud model.

They see the losses as an acceptable customer acquisition cost for recurring revenue.

Speaking from personal experience, CLV for a Slack customer is 3+ years.
n > 5 && n > 7, (where n = years on platform). though clumsy is technically not a contradiction
We the Nodes: Can Constitutions Unite Blockchain Communities?
Email is not an appropriate method of communication for highly urgent, impactful, and time-sensitive messages. So the party should sue themselves for negligence.
I think that your comment turned into a "topic" of "opinions on azure". Perhaps it's that topic, rather than the content of your single starting comment, that is being upvoted.

I thought that the subcomments listing out experiences was valuable to me. I would be conflicted on downvoting your comment though, because it would hide the subcomments that I do feel are valuable to have visible.

To clarify, I don't think you wrote anything off topic or bad for discussion (which is why I would downvote something). Even though we have different perspectives, I feel both are valuable to have a comprehensive view.
Thank you for your insight. I consider your comment somewhat cloak and dagger. You know the founder well?, Have him respond here. Please don't imply a poster is lying by selecting a single contradictory statement.
That one specific set of circumstances is that when the plane starts stalling during take-off, it wants to stall more.

Pilots need to be trained on that difference, because even with the software patches, MCAS will not correctly operate all the time.
Interviewing for a Technical Position Doesn’t Have to Be Scary
Thanks for the insight.

Why build a cheaper internal capability over 6 months when I can have a slightly more expensive service NOW that I don’t have to worry about?

If it really is just slightly more expensive, that seems like it would be a good investment for many businesses. I was just curious because this isn't a field I've been working in directly for a while.

Last time I looked, but that was several years ago, there was a sweet spot for a lot of the cloud infrastructure services but at both the lower and the higher end the pricing didn't seem to make much sense in most cases. On that higher end, you could have bought the equipment outright, hired a substantial team of good people to manage it, and established your own presence in serious data centres with good connectivity, and still been considerably better off.

I wonder what has driven the change in cost/benefit since that time. Maybe it's just that cloud hosting is better understood and has better tooling, and those in turn make the market more competitive now?
There are women who post to HN but who hide the fact that they're women, because of the attitudes displayed in this thread.

There are a bunch of women who don't post to HN at all.

I'll dial it back a bit, but you need to regain control from the misogynists who are making this place hostile to others. Parent post is literally telling women not to identify as women, yet you didn't say anything to them. Respectfully, you need better aim.
United and Sunbelt rent out basically everything you need for a construction business. Think of it as spinning up more instances in the cloud. It's actually often cheaper after taxes to rent than to own, especially if you need 10mi of traffic barrels but only for the duration of the project. Since construction is highly seasonal it makes sense that a lot of the stuff you need on a per-job basis is owned by a few central rental companies. I bet if you tracked individual items you'd see them migrate north in the summer and south in the winter.
They use the batch size as 1. That is surprising to me as all the online course i see the batch size b/w 32 and 256.
> other times that's exploitable, so you just burn the money instead

I definitely see reasons to not pay a counterparty; a swear jar is a one-sided incentive to not swear, where paying the other people present would reward them for tricking you into swearing.

The usual solution to this sort of issue is just donating the money, though. (For instance, productivity apps that hold money in escrow and donate it if you fail to complete tasks.) Is "donating to charity with Ethereum bonds" just too obscure to bother with at the moment, or is there a structural reason the bonds need to specifically be burned?
Who hit the ball out? An egocentric temporal order bias
This is a great reason to have a local-level tax on vacant space. Both commercial and residential.
Yeah, I totally agree - you don't need to progress that slowly at the beginning, so why would you? 5 lbs a workout is totally doable, not 5/10 lbs a month. I'm a big fan of slow and steady, but there's a difference between that and a flagrant waste of time.
Yes they do, you can fill out all the forms digitally online for free. Search "freefile fillable forms". They have already closed for the year. I've been doing it for a few years now. The nicest thing about it is it does most of the math for you and you get your refund really fast (usually 1 day for me).
Meanwhile, California makes it pretty easy to file your state taxes for free, with no intermediary https://www.ftb.ca.gov/online/calfile/index.asp
Does a water-pipe analogy for electrical current encode the assumption that electricity is made of water?