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Any advice for the getting started part? Currently working on my first Upwork contract, but I got it through a conversation on HN (I requested they pay me through Upwork to start building a reputation). I'm 0/6 for replies to my proposals I sent, each one directly addressing what they were asking for getting (moderately) specific about how I'd solve their problems. In one case what they wanted was so simple and interesting enough I just did the work up front and sent them a screenshot.

Edit: Here's an example of how I'm writing bids. Am I doing it wrong?

Proposal:

> About us:

> I manage social media accounts, specifically on Instagram, and I am a seeking a more efficient solution.

> What we're looking for:

> An experienced web developer to create a simple web application that displays whether or not a particular Instagram account is following you (the account) back without clicking on their profile. (See attachment) [this is an image that shows how they want the UI to display this to look]

They proposed $300, I responded to their posting by bidding only $100 with the following cover letter:

> I currently study Computer Science at Wesleyan University in Connecticut. I have built a variety of applications, including browser extensions that modify web-pages to add functionality, for my personal usage and for my friends.

> I am currently attempting to start working as a freelance web developer. Were you to hire me for this project you would be my first client. I understand that as a result you will naturally be hesitant to work with me, and I am therefore bidding below the market rate to account for the risk you are taking.

> Do you have any questions about the job description?

> My understanding is that you visit instagram.com using Google Chrome, and that you want a Chrome extension you can install on your computer that will add the text “follows you” next to the username of anyone that follows you. Is this correct?

> Unfortunately, Instagram has restricted its publicly-available API so that the list of people following you can no longer be queried. As a result, I will have to write a program that queries the undocumented internal API the Instagram applications use. Because it is only intended for internal usage Instagram developers may make changes to the API unexpectedly. Historically it has been relatively stable, but neither I nor anyone else can guarantee to you how long an application that uses Instagram’s internal API will work without needing updates. Is that acceptable to you?

> I have the experience necessary to solve every aspect of your task, if I have understood it correctly. I have made applications that query private, internal APIs, and I have made browser extensions that add to existing user interfaces.
I’m almost 2 years into my first job after college and sometimes the amount of freedom I have continues to delight and baffle me.

Like if I want to go to the movies on a weeknight - I can do that. If I want to travel out of state on the weekend, it’s no problem. Like, there’s nothing stopping me.
Using C bindings you can plug in any language you want, C ABI is simple. Try that with C++ or anything of the sort, and you'll be in trouble.

If you want to improve quality - anyone can contribute and improve, instead of like Apple trying to sabotage and derail.
You're making a bunch of very weird assumptions about what's going to happen. All of which apply to the formation of literally any new country. You're not making any specific arguments about these structures and why they would lead to this. Your argument is a blanket argument against all forms of experimentation in this regard.

Some people like to try new things, and they're ok taking risks to do so. They should be allowed to do that. If you want to make a rule that says "such and such amount of disclosure is required for people moving there", i'd be fine supporting something like that. But just saying "well theoretically it could be exploited in this way" is not a very strong argument against trying it.
First of all, thank you for sharing your story. As others have mentioned, having a portfolio goes a long way. Contributing to open-source projects is a great place to start; it gives you exposure to software being used in the real world and sometimes inspiration for your own projects too. Also check out AngelList (angel.co); there are lots of positions worldwide that are open to remote employment. Wishing you the best!
In quantum mechanics, yes it is. See Bell's theorem.
SpaceX has been around for over a decade, and they have only designed and operated one rocket.

Even if money falls from the sky tomorrow this kind of stuff takes decades no matter who is doing it, spaceX or NASA.
Shopping at home Depot reminds me of the parks and rec episode where Ron Swanson goes into home Depot and an employee goes up to him to ask him if he needs anything -- "I know more than you".
Metal Shading Language is a C++ dialect. HLSL is as much of a C dialect as GLSL is. And I would argue that C++ provides no benefits over C for shading languages.

I prefer GLSL to Metal Shading Language.
Hey that's a cool idea about a business, I've made it into a packaged Node.JS app as a binary you can see on the releases page:

https://github.com/dosyago/22120/releases

I like multiple release channels and there's plenty of ways to install and use this.

You can download a standalone binary (Win, Mac or Linux), install globally from npm, or just
clone or download the repo and run it.

I'm not sure about docker, but could you maybe give it a try and share me the docker file privately and I can decide if I like it?

If it's good then we can add it to the packages page on the repo. Sound OK? Email me at cris@dosycorp.com if you like this idea. Thank you! :)
Safety is a spectrum really. To give a very binary example we are certain that eating rotten poisonous shark (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A1karl) won't kill you because of historical record in spite of eating rotten fish and eating toxic fish separately both being known lethal things.

It doesn't tell us if it is optimal health wise to do such a thing.
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The surface needs to be hydrophobic, too. Otherwise, when the outside gets soaked, holes will be blocked. Presumably it also needs to be thin so the holes aren’t too deep.

At this point, you more or less have a textile. A piece of aluminum foil isn’t going to make a great jacket.
If you're storing the information yourself, and you trust your database, you don't need a blockchain.
I was in a home improvement store and noticed that a sparrow had found its way to the aisle with the bird seed.
See this thread for pointers: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21871026
Always treat life that way!
Hey mikece sorry that this is offtopic but I saw your idea for a business on my other post and I wanted to ask you if you had any further insight into this. Sounds interesting. If you're not uninterested to discuss, please mail me at cris@dosycorp.com
Editorialized title. Surely if YouTube were banning ALL cryptocurrency videos, https://www.youtube.com/user/bitcoin would have been an obvious place to start?
Presently, one week in five. Average shift has one overnight page and one other out of hours page (with high variance).

I am compensated for the oncall, but not a meaningful amount.
> Are they harvesting all this data to sell to third parties without my knowledge?

Yes. It's a secondary revenue stream. Even if they don't sell it now, if it turns out they have a reasonable good dataset they can sell it later on, especially as the revenue starts dropping.
I think climate change denialism has accomplished a lot. We still haven’t put a price on carbon emissions, even when it would have been prudent to do so 40 years ago.
I don't grok the insidious creep of social credit policy or the gross invasion of student privacy.

You're attending a lecture at a college. You're not in a private location. Traditionally, what the beacons were doing would be done by TAs taking attendance, class participation grading, or simply by having trivial pop quizzes during class. Adding bluetooth beacons just makes the process more efficient (and makes it easier for students to fool the system), but it doesn't change its essential nature.

Making lecture attendance a part of your grade may seem like bad policy or infantalizing to you, but that doesn't make it an invasion of privacy or social-credit policy.

Your tangential advocacy about "social understanding" missing the negative consequences of that approach. In particular that inconsistency of rule application creates a hole you can drive a truck through for all kinds of unfair and biased consequences (literally exactly what is brought to the table by a "feeling" application of the rules), and with little gained. While thoughtful empathic responses can be very helpful in a lot of situations, I don't think you've made a good case for this one.
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Rust has no exceptions. Still, stack bubbling shows back up, implemented semi-manually by setting up each error type to be automatically cast to a more generic error type and then returned. To me that's an indication that exceptions are "real," as a legitimate pattern in real world programs, and not just an invention of overeager programming language designers.
Based on all the positivity in these comments, it does seem like the UK has at least a more laid back, sort of entry-level culture making hiring decisions than the US does at the moment... awesome ;)
What does Jumbo get out of all this? I couldn't find much info on 2121 Atelier Inc. (marked as the company I'm agreeing terms with in the ToS). It doesn't seem like a paid app either... can't trust without this being transparent.
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One thing I’d give guidance on is there’s no real “finish line” to learning something like Java. You’re on a journey from an apprentice to a master.

I somewhat routinely hire people to work on Java codebases that have 10+ years working in Python or C, or other alternative languages, and only a very small amount of professional experience in Java. Decent developers tend to be fairly adaptable and can ramp into a new language or new technologies. I’m looking for people who are passionate and skilled at their craft.

Some questions which might come up in entry-level interview:

What kind of things do you like to build? What are one or two things you’ve built and are proud about, how did you build them, why did those get you excited, what were the key challenges you had to solve? Given your educational background isn’t CS, what got you into writing software, why do you want to make a career of it? What do you see yourself doing in 5 years time, are you excited about backend / distributed systems, mobile, frontend development?

You likely want a LinkedIn profile and a GitHub account. Contributions to open source projects would be viewed incredibly positively.

Interviewing at some companies may involve writing code to solve a problem on a whiteboard or a provided laptop under time constraints, you can practice for that on sites like Leetcode.

I don’t have any U.K. roles which would suit you but I’m happy to spend an hour talking to you, doing a mock interview, whatever would help you. Email address is in my profile.
You could also simply use an FM tuner and tune it in between stations for atmospheric noise. Like random.org did for a long time. [0]

Cosmic quantum noise for all your random number needs (after some filtering). Disclaimer: if you are under NSA attack you might have issues with this $5 setup.

[0] https://www.hostingadvice.com/blog/random-dot-org-true-rando...
Doh! That's a better link :)

It's certainly rewarding and interesting to design the hardware and then write the software in Assembly, and helps understand how simple operating systems work.
You might wanna look at using something like zap instead, as it enables you to do runtime loglevel changes...
> This is downside of tech, false positive and negatives

As opposed to non-tech solutions, which don't have false positive & negatives? Please.
Ah, interesting. I have not read much about Tibetan Buddhism. Is the loop you are referring to specifically one of 'subjectivity' (i.e., the self perceiving the self) or the broader loop of reincarnation? Any recommended introductory books on the topic for a philosophically-inclined spiritually-inexperienced Westerner?
Emergency tokens were a lifesaver for many of my college classes.

They gave me the freedom I needed to make micro-adjustments to my college/life balance and greatly lowered stress.
It's just the front panel, not an entire IMSAI 8080 replica.

Dimensions: 17 1/8" x 7" x 2 11/16"

No heavy power supply, chassis, or S-100 slots.
I agree with most of what you're saying, but I can't swallow that "iOS is the Privacy OS" UNTIL they make it way easier to control "Background App Refresh" and also turn it off by default. I've always been concerned about apps that have this turned on and also access to my Media on iPhones.
What situations are there where owning two separate jackets, one for emitting sweat and another for keeping rain off, couldn't work?
The word literally means "something that causes chills" so it's not that different from slavic "mraz". It just had been used exclusively in a figurative meaning to describe something that is so disgusting that it makes one shake.
Wow, I had no idea that "While Using" meant also that they can access while running in the background!
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Agreed. I've done it multiple times. The last time I had a very bad time.
All the other times were fun, enjoyable and eye opening.
Click-bait title. It's a pity to see this journalistic approach to math and sciences which dramatizes them.
In fairness though, thinking by enforcing attendance you improve outcomes is a misreading of the data. Sure, when students attend classes, they tend to do better... when the choice to attend is without consequences. Once you make it mandatory, there's a good chance it will cease to be an effective predictor of outcomes, and it may even negatively harm outcomes (classrooms behave differently when attendance is mandated).
I’m with you here.

I think a decay-based system or an “emergency-token” system doesn’t discriminate between students, but still manages to provide humane leeway to get things done.
Did you try BOOTP? It is a subset of DHCP and you might still be able to get an address lease.
Realistically, what kind of money are we talking about? There is some amount of money I would sell my attention for, but it’s somewhere in the multiple hundreds of dollars per hour. Less than that, and my effort is more efficiently spent on other things. More than that, and I’m extremely suspicious of the motives of who would pay that and why.

Get real. Ads are disgusting.
Build scale models. It's fun and addicting to do.
Ads are the decline of the free web.
What would you be looking for in a CV by someone looking for their first job without a relevant degree?

Are you looking for OS contributions? Work in other domains?
We had an American Statistical Association workshop for the local Southern California chapter recently. The speaker for the workshop mentioned he had to often change Logistic regression wikipedia page back to statistic technique from Machine Learning because people keep on changing it to ML.

At the same time ASA have release their 2019 report about data science and the cross road statistic is at. It's an interesting intersection ML/data science & Statistic is having at this point.

https://www.amstat.org/ASA/News/Statistics-at-a-Crossroads-R...

The report also give statistic version of their definition of statistic vs machine learning and what each field emphasize on. I think often people are just really unclear on statistic and ML field because they never sat down to think about the what define each field. It also end up getting political and people being defensive. But I think at least this report give a statistic view point.
Ask HN: Best non-tech books of 2019
Wanted to know what are the best non-tech books you have read in 2019
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This is basically a rant against industry standardization.
Where is that citation from? Are you quoting from somewhere? I can't find it in the article.
You wanna make it 3 programmers?
Yep, just do a clean install. I needed to do the same for my partner on one of her 32gb systems. It's since been running and updating fine for the past year or two.
While a very enjoyable article, also a good example how much one has to go for recreating in the browser what native graphics engines have provided since the last couple of decades.
Lots of Ali Express experience here, some of the Chinese stuff can be great, it's just hard to know which is which amongst tge sea of good knows what
Exploring IR curves: Fitness outlasts fatigue
It's not so easy to contribute to Khronos.
Want to call our your password policies. I was on mobile and wanted to see what it was like without opening up my password manager and anything short or stupid (qwerty, ...) was blocked. Was slightly irritating and yet delightful and suggested to me you have a great attention to detail. Will give it a shot!

Edit: originally s/stupid/dumb, but HN changes that to "db". Ha!
In my opinion, the problem is in poor logical thinking in the design of the supply switchover systems. The article indicates there are multiple power feeds and power supplies (presumably to provide low voltage equipment power).

For a single power feed all of the following results in the loss of the output, (1) no input voltage, (2) input over voltage (under voltage also???). However, in the article it implies that switching to one of the other redundant power feeds or power supplies only happens for (1).

If the redundancy system had considered either (1) or (2) as a fault and to "find another supply, then shutdown this supply" then complete shutoff would have been avoided.

Also, since the active power supply shut down and switchover also didn't happen, there must not be any monitoring of the output of the individual supplies to trigger a switchover. To me, this suggests there is also another single point of failure in the current design.

I guess there is a market for smarter power failover systems.
It’s fascinating that “breathability” appears to increase as mean humidity increases.

In the end, the numbers are great until you accidentally wash your coat with detergent!
If you live in the states, Look into SBA funding. Its slow funding, but if you can find a fit there is a lot there. Also, because its slow, most founders don't take it seriously (there is less competition)
maybe a bit unrelated, but Why would you use a selector like

[src*="figure"] {

? It's as if you're trying to set up a time bomb to blow up in a few months. "hey, can you change that image from /figure.png to /image.png", boom, half your styling broken. I'd use a class instead, not only would it be more readable and intuitive and performant, it would also be less likely to break when doing unrelated changes.
IBM i (previously called OS/400, the operating system of the IBM AS/400) has a similar feature. At the command prompt, you type a command name then press a function key and it brings up a (text-mode) fill-form UI you can use to specify command arguments.

Part of how it works – on Unix, command arguments are just a list of strings, and any option parsing (etc.) has to be done by the code of each command. By contrast, on IBM i, there is a declarative language used to define the syntax of the command (allowed options/arguments, what values are allowed for each, etc.) The declarative command definition is compiled into binary form and installed into the system. When you run a command, the operating system uses the installed command definition to parse and validate the parameters and marshal them into a memory block. If the parameters are invalid, then the OS produces the error and the command executable never even starts. If the parameters are valid, the memory block gets passed to the command's code. These same declarative command declarations are what gets used to generate the fill-in form UI.
This strikes me as very idealistic.

They are selling more than double the amount of stuff they were 5 years ago, and are over half of US ecommerece. You might care about getting a fake charger, but 90% of people don't give a crap if it's 30% cheaper than the real thing and magically appears at their house the next day.

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/AMZN/amazon/revenu...

I think AWS and retail/AFT are basically two different companies. I don't think what happens in one reflects on or affects the other, at all.
It's just reminding you to pause every other submit and reflect.
Chinese-American restaurants are declining as Americans get more adventurous with their eating. There are more choices beyond a burger, pizza, and Egg Foo Young these days.

From just personal experience over the last two decades, the number of "authentic" Chinese restaurants has increased a lot in most of the places I've lived. So has the number of Thai/Korean/Japanese restaurants run by Chinese owners, as more savvy Chinese restauranteurs seek out higher margins.
Well, do you see McDonalds, KFC, Taco Bell, Popeye's, Olive Garden, and millions of chain and local pizza shops going out of business?
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He's in France and france doesn't extradide french citizens. They will extradite other nationalities though.
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Wouldn't this stuff still be considered flat design? There weren't any gradients apart from the image of the car.
IMHO, as a new Chinese immigrant, I don't like those old Chinese restaurants, as they are not authentic but more Americanized. And now as more and more new Chinese immigrants, which are not living in Chinatown any more, they are prefer more authentic Chinese dishes, which demands new restaurants operated by new owners from China.
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That's clearly not a sustainable answer for the world - professions ranging from doctors to priests to soldier to sailor to CEO (can't ignore a crisis if it happens on Saturday morning) to lawmaker all require working the occasional unscheduled hour. And that's not even counting jobs like pilot or convenience store clerk or paramedic that require at least some people to work on what the world considers holidays (even if it's scheduled as part of their 40 hours a week).

Is there a meaning of "work-life separation" that encompasses these professions too, or shall we say the world relies on some people not having it?
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I think you misunderstand. The argument is simply that if it were as important as some suggest it is, there'd be an effort to use memory much more efficiently. Java does run on incredibly small memory footprints, but the runtime that most people use deliberately trades memory for other advantages, and even then people choose to operate with far more memory than it requires.

That seems like empiricle evidence that other factors are far more important.
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Is Mensa testing standard in large organizations? I've never heard of it being used like that in this decade before.