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Freelancer.com scammed me What should I do?
Well..
I have been member there since 2009.. and I pay them more than $700 per year in fees..

Suddenly they suspended my account because an employer filed a report against me.
I contacted them and they agreed to restore my account.

Less than 24 hours later, they suspended my account again after they agreed to restore it!

I kept messaging them about the reason.. they sent me a fake reason that the acceptance rate for the work I deliver to employer is very low and that employers dont accept THE COMPLETED WORK I deliver to them!

I replied to them and asked them to prove it, and told them that all the work I COMPLETE AND DELIVER is accepted, except very few cases that I usually solve friendly and without their dispute system!

They replied again back and told me that the reason is not that, and the reason is that I abused their dispute system again!

I replied back and asked them for a proof! I did not really do it and asked them for a proof that I really abused their dispute system!

It has been 3 days and they don't respond!
Employers contacted me and I had to cancel 3 projects, 2 of them were very urgent for my clients and caused frustration to them!

I had to cancel it, because the money associated with these projects exist on freelancer website's milestone system!

Of course I canceled these milesetone (escrow) payments because I have no guarantee that my account will be restored and can't risk having such a loss!

Those projects I already paid 10% fee in advance cut from my money immediately once I win projects!

They caused me to lose $500 projects' value, adding also the $50 I already paid, which is already cut from my funds and they ALREADY received it!

They are clearly unprofessional and dont understand that time is critical in IT projects, specially urgent projects!!

I intend to build a competitive website for them.. that will cover all horrible mistakes they have there! But such a thing would take yrs to grow!

What should I do with freelancer dot com ?

They are clearly scammers! They have no reason to suspend my account, caused me so much of loss and pressure, and my money in the account there!

If they have a legitimate reason and legitimate proof that I abused their terms of use, they would come and tell me and I will admit it... but they really don't!

What would you do if this happens with you?
Amazing. Try a happy face!
You should become familiar with the Open Web Application Security Project https://www.owasp.org/ , who are working on all kinds of best practices for web apps.

OWASP has a draft on password storage https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Password_Storage_Cheat_Sheet and also one on password complexity https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Password_length_%26_complexi... .

They have plenty more, like guides on common security vulnerabilities, etc.
Public transportation is quite good though. For most suburbs it's 15-30 minutes to the city center.

If you don't mind (or prefer) living in the suburbs you can definitely reduce your costs a lot.
SF does have one bad neighborhood, the Bayview/Hunter's Point area.
Not so in Helsinki. In Helsinki, $100k would be in the 40% tax bracket. But the problem in Helsinki is the tax bureaucracy; you have to estimate your income for the year, and the tax office gives you a tax rate. Anything above that level gets taxed at an exorbitant amount (>50% for the 100k$ salary). Plus, yes, there's free healthcare in Finland, but it's only really available for you if you're poor (if you're not a citizen). If you make money, you're expected to use your private insurance, which will be covered by the company. Salaries in Helsinki are about 60% of what they are in SF, but costs are about 80-90%.
Web Components is the storm that will wipe away all these frameworks: Backbone, Ember, Angular, Knockout, etc.

Unfortunately, we’ll have to stick around with them for the following couple of years, probably, as for now, most of the Web Components APIs are available only in Chrome Canary and Firefox dev builds. Monkey-patching (AKA “shimming”) to the rescue…

In my opinion, the more certain nowadays libs resemble the Web Components specs, the more clear the developers’ choice towards those libs should be.
todo.txt (http://todotxt.com/). It works from the command line, has mobile apps, syncs nicely with ssh / dropbox, and saves into a simple to read / port text file.
Its type system is not particularly complex, but it is robust - it doesn't, for instance, coerce strings-with-numbers-in-it into numbers. Sure, you don't have sum types, etc, but at least it behaves in predictable ways.
Got it: http://i.imgur.com/9APdIbc.png
I've been in Stockholm for 1.5 years now. When I arrived, I didn't know a single word of swedish (I've taken classes since, but not in a very productive way), and things have been just fine. Like another said, I'm not improving so much because I have very few incentives to do so.
Interesting, but I think the author is focusing too much on the desktop experience. Try typing 'Tr0ub4dor&3' vs. 'correct horse battery staple' on a phone. Having to shift between alternate layouts every other character is not only annoying but also makes you prone to forget which character you were trying to type. With a full-size keyboard, on the other hand, you can rely on muscle memory to get it right without even thinking. As for shoulder surfing, I find it rather difficult to shoulder-surf someone who is typing on a glossy 4-inch screen, and you can always choose unusual words/spellings to throw off people who try to guess. Corrupt hearse buttery scalpels!
Fun piece, loved the writing style.

Got another year left of a CS degree, but I may send an email your way in the near future!
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Agreed. I've moved my projects to reserved instances
I'm an American and my son was born in Brussels. We were told that when I registered my son's birth, I should bring some proof that his first name was a _real_ name.

But the registrant either didn't care, or thought "Oh, those crazy Americans."
Here in the UK the FBI are generally seen as a bit of a joke by people in similar lines of work.

Source: relatives and friends who have had to work with them.
Looks like it's the first time they ever had to produce a map of Iceland's location. It seems like the text "Iceland" and the arrow are manually added.
How owls swivel their heads
Learning With Students From Around The World (in Elementary and High School)
>> "I judge people solely by how they react to a pie to the face, and Bill Gates scored quite low on that."

Please tell us how you'd react? Let me guess, you'd disarm the pie-throwers, crack a joke related to pies, smile into the camera as you're carried out on the shoulders of cheering onlookers?
3D microchip created
"Hey, What’s That Big Phone?"
Doesn't seem to include the drawing stroke order or anything, just the ultimate image. I guess if you know the strokes, you know the letter already, hm.
I helped host a delegation of Finnish startups that came to Bloomberg in NYC. The Finnish Consul throws networking events in his apt as well. Everyone appears very driven and there are some great startups coming from the country. A lot of ex-Nokia guys need something new to do... :)
98% of Q4 smartphone shipments in China were powered by Android or iOS
The problem here is that it is handmade. In order to scale to hundreds of pieces per month you will have to scale up the labor. One person can only do that for so long before he/she quits out of exhaustion. You will also need to invest in marketing because jewelry is something that is sold on the vanity of the product and not its quality. I'd say it would be better to concentrate of marketing it first, without looking at scaling to hundreds of sales.
No, I'm suggesting that understanding and modifying the C++ front end is much easier when the output the front-end produces is in well defined and documented output, rather than the ad-hoc and undocumented results of a gcc front-end.
Worked for me, it's called: Latin capital letter a: A (0x41)
Shift Your Mindset And Let The Flow Kick In
Note that this is not arbitrary, it actually makes sense: while in a different country, any police force would be expected to follow that country's own laws, including things like what you are allowed to ask, how you can ask, what evidence you can collect or take out of the country, etc etc. A bit of oversight is required, hence they need to ask for permission, and be assisted on the ground.

This, incidentally, is one of the outrageous elements in the raid of Kim Dotcom's house: US authorities pretty much disregarded all local New Zealand laws on the matter (and somebody in NZ let it happen, they were only slammed in court during subsequent appeals).

So you have a pattern: federal US authorities investigating copyright "crimes" will blatantly ignore traditional jurisdiction rules. The Hollywood Empire does not recognise any equal power, so to speak.
If you are only in debt $15 trillion you'd be better off too… dumb logic.

However - the interesting thing is that his government created the problem in such a short period of time.
I would argue that before JavaScript Perl is the only one that came close, part of why it was so popular.
I think you need something you can charge for immediately, like eduardordm said. I understand that you have a marketplace of sorts where two parties must meet prior to a transaction but it's very unclear what it is you're doing.

The fact that you have an MVP, you're already talking to prospects and there are barriers to entry that you're having difficulty with makes me ask, why the secrecy? People would have trouble catching up to you at this point, and even if they did, they would face the same problems you're currently having.

This conversation would probably be much better and more helpful if people knew what you're doing. Then their answers wouldn't be, "find something to charge for", they would probably be, "You could probably do X for the side of the marketplace you have currently until the other side shows up. Charge them for that to keep you going for now."
When’s the Raspberry Pi of quadcopters coming? Would love a £40 quadcopter with a basic video camera.
Because it's easy to pass a law regulating baby names than it is regulating who can be parents -- no politician is going to get a law saying "stupid people shouldn't breed" passed. They're people and not property. Kids are not "accessories," but that seems to be how many parents see them. Names from movies? Food?

The stupidest names I've personally come across were the parents who named their twin boys "Zig" and "Zag." They thought it was "cute." I don't know what they think, now, but both boys go by their middle names.
Responsive design isn't an "innovation". It's a presentation shortcut. 1 data source, multiple views. Considering how little of my career the idea of responsive design has even been around let along appropriate (say the 6 months to a year out of 15) I can't actually believe that the comments here so far seem to assume that responsive is the defacto approach when it's solving a problem that doesn't really exist by using a solution more complex than is needed.
Branch And Bound: Why Does It Work?
Hah, yeah, I know the Swede’s proclivity for English :) Just wasn’t sure that it’d be acceptable to speak it in a business context. That’s interesting for sure.
with kids or with kids stuff? Protip: don't click on imgur links.
Security changes that will be required if P=NP is proven: http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/12802/how-will-s...
Because if you're not a single 20-something, you might be thinking about saving for your children's education.

Being sited in a country with free university education means that when you're paying your staff, you don't have to assume that they need to be putting away several thousand a year for a college fund.
It appears that the company behind this study is running a business selling data - that's why.
Very well. In fact, one of very first implementations I've ever heard of was done in Lisp and it was described exactly in this way. I think the library is even called "Cells".
> No, RMS's stance of plugins does make adding C++11 features to gcc much harder

> clang, which is helped by the fact that there is a very clear, simple and DOCUMENTED boundary into LLVM

(1) People adding C++11 features to clang are not going to be dealing with LLVM, they're going to be modifying and extending clang's existing C++ parser. So however nice the clang-LLVM front-end-middle-end interface is, that's not going to have much impact on this job. Rather, what's important is the quality of clang's internal algorithms and data-structures (and those in gcc's c++ front-end). If clang does better there (dunno), that's great for them, but it has nothing to do with RMS's plugin position.

(2) RMS is not against clean code, nice interfaces, good data structures, and good documentation. His concerns (whether you agree with them or not) are the degree to which interfaces are expressed in a way that circumvents the GPL. Good interfaces don't circumvent the GPL;

So it's perfectly fine to clean up and document gcc's data structures and interfaces (and indeed, this is already happening, and has been for a long time). RMS isn't going to stop you.
A market analyst is comparable to a covert FBI operation on foreigh spoil? Really?

Does the US allow foreign agents to arrive quietly unannounced by private plane to disappear in to the US for unknown reasons? I do hope not.

This really is the sort of thing that destroys good will to the US, and feeds the international bully,arrogance and hypocrisy monster. If any one dared to try to pull this on US soil, all hell would break loose. Why then does the US think its allowed to do it? Why even try?

Although, as I type this, in the back of my mind is how the US authorities bully their own citizens in to suicide. So.... <shrug>
I pay an overall tax rate around 35-40% in Denmark. A flat 8% of that is for healthcare coverage, which is comparable to the percentage of my salary I paid for healthcare in the U.S., so the "non-healthcare" part is more like ~30%. Which is about what California taxes are like, after you add federal income tax, payroll taxes, and state income tax, so I'm not seeing much of a difference. My disposable income after "necessities" (taxes, healthcare, groceries, transportation, and rent) is a considerably higher percentage of my nominal income, all told— although that part really varies depending on where in the U.S. you live (e.g. Pittsburgh is much cheaper than the Bay Area).
http://vimeo.com/32143919
It's a good way to design software too.
Regarding Helsinki, ignoring deductions an income of $100,000 (€73,000) would be taxed at 36% with everything included (pension contributions and so forth). You can check yourself at http://prosentti.vero.fi/VPL2013/Sivut/Aloitus.aspx?kieli=en...

Healthcare is basically free (trivial costs for a visit) and that's for everyone with a work permit, no exceptions.

VAT is 24% and food is expensive. Salaries are lower than other big cities but not much and it depends a lot on the exchange rate if making a comparison. When the dollar was getting you €0.63 our salaries looked fine; at €0.73 they look a bit light.
I'd say the main problem is that the FBI do not have jurisdiction in Iceland
I've been toying with the idea of writing a Yesod equivalent for the excellent Rails Tutorial by Michael Hartl. I need to get a bit more comfortable with Yesod first however, so it may take a while. I do think that is what the Yesod world is in most need of right now, a "get stuck in" tutorial that takes the reader from zero to a substantial web app.
Well, because some people have no sense. Especially people with a reduced educational background. Sometimes it's for 'evil purposes' as well.

Oh, and in Iceland they use patronyms, it means her son/daughter will be called ("last name") Blaersson/Blaerdóttir (something like that)

Edit: see comment below, son/daughters have their father's name, not mother's.
Personally I'd be in favour of some restrictions for naming children (no obscenities, no outright nonsense) but not for name changes once someone is an adult.

Deciding you want to be called something once you're old enough to make that decision yourself is one thing, imposing something on someone else when you're not having to live with the consequences is something else entirely.

The "it's our child" argument I don't buy at all. No, the child is it's own person, you're just responsible for it and you have some responsibility to think through the consequences of your actions.
This is completely wrong. You need to specify power of the test. You are trying to detect if the new population mean Conv rate is higher (given a, say, 10% increase is economically meaningful to you). Otherwise this tells me nothing
Even though you're the founder, minimize the distractions and divide the different types of bullshit over different people. Having group discussions over support questions at random moments will crush collective productivity.
> I think making code superficially ugly is a huge barrier to adoption that has held back otherwise good ideas throughout the history of programming.

Haskell tries to make elegant code look nice and inelegant code look ugly. When you see something ugly like the example above this is a sign that there would be some more elegant way of writing it. That certainly holds in this case as you don't need an mutation to do the fib sequence.
Boy, huge loss there... ><
>this article speaks quite positively about the benefits of doing a PhD.

That's not at all what I got out of it. I read that phds provide no material advantage and that they're really tough (in every way, including from a psychological standpoint).

>you're not confined to becoming a professor at a state school. This is a legitimate fear, and one of the things that has always made me frightened of pursuing a PhD.

Confined? Most people don't have this choice. Fear? This a dream of a large % of phd graduates. I'd add one thing that the article doesn't mention: graduate school is far less of a meritocracy than people outside realize. There are so many levels of luck involved, including finding a good advisor, department politics, finding a good project, not having your research 'scooped', funding, etc. These things are correlated with intelligence/ability, but a large number of smart people fail grad school for reasons beyond their control, and a significant % of the people who succeed were blessed with amazing luck. It's the smart and accomplished undergrads (which I take it you are) who have the most to lose.

>I'll likely bear little to no fiscal loss.

Consider the opportunity cost. Here are some reasonable numbers: a masters costs 25K, a phd pays out 150K over six years, and in the five years of working the masters makes 500K. By the time the phd is out of school the masters student is 325K ahead of the phd student, and his work experience/career is probably further (meaning his salary will probably be at least as high). Also, the masters student lived more comfortably in those five years.

> The work will most probably be more interesting than the work I'd be doing had I not done a PhD.

I have seen very few industry jobs that require a phd, and I work in a field dominated by phds. The exception is industry research, which is great but isn't open to most phds. Most phds don't be doing anything resembling their research two years out of grad school.

I don't mean to make a phd sound totally crappy. There's a lot you can get out of it, it teaches you how to think and organize projects in a way that's hard to find outside grad school. You'll meet smart, motivated people. You'll be able to interact with professors as almost-peers. But consider a research-oriented masters, it's what I did and I consider it a happy medium.
God, that was fun
For what it's worth, OCaml will somewhat soon have a "Real World" book by the guys who've been using it for very real world work for quite some time.

http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920024743.do
My own take on this subject:

http://www.smashcompany.com/business/how-much-do-websites-co...

That was written in 2008, but there is nothing that I would change (although, some of the anecdotes are clearly shaped by the strange gold-rush mentality that infected a lot of first-time entrepreneurs, circa 2004-2008). Back then I was part of a team that helped inexperienced entrepreneurs shape their first software product (almost always a website). We were getting too many solicitations from entrepreneurs who had no idea how much things would cost. They would explain their idea to us and we would say "We can build that for $50,000" and they would be like, "What?!? Hey, the guy down the street said he could build it for $500. I'll go with him." So I wrote this essay to help set expectations for clients. Back then, I was living in Charlottesville, Virginia, in the USA, and some of the anecdotes are specific to that time and place.
Show HN: Zipline - algorithmic trading in open source Python
This comes off as very dogmatic. There are good use cases for single-page or few-pages webapps. I'm likewise more comfortable server-side, but I can understand why you would want this sort of thing.
While I have no sympathies for those at Wikileaks, and I do not support them at all, we as Americans need to stop having this grand delusion that our Government and its agents can do whatever they want whenever they want, as if all other countries' laws/governments can just be disregarded.
C++ is notoriously bad at scaling. I'm told that Ada is both very safe and painfully slow to code.

JS certainly has its problems. I don't think its type system features all that high. Newcomers trying to make it behave like their favourite language is a much bigger problem.
Wait, you want to remove deltas?!

Animated GIFs are still humongous and slow to load, even with today's fast network links... Surely one of the bet reasons to replace them is to actually do a bit better.
I'm actually taking a Perl class at the moment, and enjoying the heck out of it. CPAN is awesome.
I don't know if it really matters to the average user to have root on their system; for technical people it certainly implies "true ownership" of the whole stack on the device. What I find bizarre and a bit unsettling is the appification of general purpose computing devices. When it was mobile phones, locking the user out (almost) made sense - the device was being financed by the carrier via subsidy, so they should have a bit of control. Then tablets came along and provided an identical interface in terms of restricting user access, but the user pays the entire cost up front[1]. Now Windows 8 (moreso RT, but even the x64 version) and Mountain Lion are moving to the walled-garden, segregated, impotent app approach. The best reason I can explain why this is terrible is XCode:

I don't really develop for Mac, but there was a Linux tool which also shipped a 32-bit Darwin binary. I thought "I'd like to use that on my 64-bit Mac, surely I can just compile it with XCode". Downloaded XCode from the App Store (after giving my mother's maiden name, my blood type, etc.), and it doesn't appear on the PATH, because it can only write to /Applications/XCode. Jesus [2].

My point is, somehow subsidized phones turned into locked-down tablets, turned into a compiler that can't install itself to /usr/local/bin. That seems daft to me.

1. ASUS let me root my tablet for free, no strings. So it's opt in, but not terribly evil.

2. If anyone has a good Mac homebrew tutorial, I was wondering if I could compile with a different toolchain than Xcode? I'm really not up on this stuff, I need to learn.
>> Perl never had a monopoly on a runtime environment with an install base of pretty much everyone who owns a computer, tablet, or smartphone. Sometimes it's not about engineering principles.

This.
Because the government and the bureaucratic class know better than you do what you should name your child. How can you possibly question the benevolence of our leaders?

Sleep well, citizens. Consume. All is well.