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HN Business Idea – Help Needed: Refugee Crisis
As I'm sure many of you are aware, Europe is currently 'gripped' in what is reported to be a Refugee 'crisis'.
Apparently, since the beginning of the Syrian war, there have been some 3 million people who have fled their country to escape war. People are being driven to extraordinarily dangerous actions, just to save their families.
So, I have an idea, it's superbly fledgling, and really I don't have any idea where to begin with it, never mind the skill set currently to implement it - hence why I'm reaching out to the HN community.
Reporters go to great lengths to describe how many of the refugees are connected through their smartphones. So I figured, why not create an app, where individuals in communities refugees are congregating, who have room in their homes, could offer shelter and warmth to refugee families for a few nights could open their doors and be paired with somewhere people could stay. A mixture of coachsurfing and airbnb. The expectation would not be for someone to offer a house and 'adopt a family' - merely to show someone warmth and welcoming vibes.
This is not a solution to the problem of war. Nor is it intended to be a permanent resolution to refugee families problems - it is merely an opportunity to help them feel human once again - to feel safe for a couple of nights and welcome. Often people such as refugees are left to feel sub-human, this would be a chance to integrate them.
I lay no claim to this idea - if someone wishes to take the ball and run with it - fine. This is a problem bigger than any one person. It certainly would not be an idea run for profit however.
If you can help - reply here, or if you would like to be involved, drop an email to jmcclafe@gmail.com (not a real name - just an email set up for the sake of this project)
Help:
- First, thoughts on the business - am I just being completely stupid?
- How to navigate safety concerns about housing strangers?
- How to develop an app?
- Any help advertising/funding?
ESOP with double-trigger acceleration – is it an exception?
We're a early stage startup granting stock options employees and we've received some advice to not do any acceleration (double-trigger) for employee options, as it's red flag for acquisition discussions if all employees have double trigger. Would like to know what is the norm for employee option grants.
Why not simply configure your ssh correctly?
1. Hawking cannot artificially better himself currently but who said super-human AI will not be biological? Hybrids are the most probable in my opinion.
When it comes to 'landing pages' (where describing the purpose of a company or product is the goal), I think the problem is primarily that it's just really hard to do right, content-wise. The visual design is at most a secondary problem.

A more general-purpose home page has it's challenges, of course, but often it's really just about showing something pretty and guiding users to pages such as 'pricing', 'buy/shop', 'contact', 'about us', etc.

A landing page, on the other hand, is basically the same as creating an ad or a commercial. You have a limited time to 'sell' something, and the fact that you need a page for it means that it's not immediately obvious what you're selling. You have to write ad copy, consider the visuals, target audience, selling points, etc. This is much more difficult than just having a few pages that do very specific things, and a home page that points to them.
The incidence of dementia for those aged 30-64 is about 54 per 100000. If you have a test that is 90% accurate and someone tests positive, according to Bayes you have 0.5% chance of actually having it.

Testing like that seems pointless to me.

Working: (0.9 * 0.00054) / (0.9 * 0.00054 + 0.1 * 0.99946)
> c'mmon, this is 2015!

2015 on the beaten track is sometimes quite different from that which you'll experience less locally...
Labor force participation rate lowest since 1977
My biggest concern with this is that it devalues education even further.

Many potential/current/former students are questioning the value of higher education.

If you cannot trust the researchers, then how can anything be trusted? If it's just one big good-old-boy system, what's the point?
His complaint that a readability issue on a single string somehow makes the author unsuited to comment on the clusterfuck that is twitters UI? I don't agree.
Tomb Raider is something that popped up in my mind looking at some of those pictures. Monument Valley that has already been mentioned too if you like a bit of Escher in your puzzle design.
Asia's smartphone addiction
If the MM+ tweeter is half way savvy they'd do what Zuck does and reply to some small % of his followers. I'm sure if they did that, a 13 year old follower would irrationally hope that their tweet was seriously read and would engage in the conversation.
You can choose what to sort by in both.
> It's like an IRC channel where I get to decide who's there.

Except no one is discussing anything and topics change every other tweet.

I follow ~20 people and even that I cannot keep up with. But then again maybe I simply don't use Twitter enough to know how to use it well.
Have you tried meditation?

As someone who has travelled and worked for a long time, if you don't work on yourself, you'll never be happy/satisfied no matter where you go.

Sometimes that involves moving, but after exploring the inner dimensions of the humanAPI.
Except for the US, no country is subject to a DMCA takedown enforcement from a purely legal point of view. Of course, local law (which might have similar implication as what the DMCA aims at) is still applicable.

As to the location, CloudFlare basically works as a proxy. The further the server is away the higher latency can/will be. However given that CloudFlare does cache certain resources, it will decrease the importance of location a tad. Only for static/cachable resources though, everything dynamically generated will still have the same latency.
and hence they had strict rules of hygiene then... many passed on as superstition but served a purpose...

The Indian form of greeting of Namaste as opposed to Hand shake is one such practice...
Survata (YC S12) Is Hiring a Marketing Lead
Who is clearbit?
Yes, I'm sure twitter could highlight the followers with the most followed and then Kanye could reply to them. He could also get a highlight of those most engaged in twitter (though they might not have a lot of followers) and tweet to them as well.

And, while it's at it, twitter could provide some kind of AI analysis of his followers to find the ones who are the most positive and have said the most positive things about Kanye.

Hell, they could even advertise they're doing that. Imagine being a rabid fan and learning that if you say lots of nice things about Kanye all over twitter that it'll bring you to his attention and he'll start personally replying to your tweets! Oh the algorithmic cult of personality...
I'm the author of the project.

The project is meant to ensure that you can allow multiple users access through a jump-host style mechanism, while not permitting any other "abuse" of the jump host. You can lock down SSH a lot, but not as much as sshmux does. Security wise, the code is very, very simple and easy to follow, and even if it went rogue, that's no different than the trust you put in your usual SSH server. If this is a concern, do not use the agent forwarding mode, which would render a rogue server a pointless and unfruitful prank.

If you use the ProxyCommand mode, the only thing an "evil" sshmux would be able to do would be to break the connection. It won't be able to fake the endpoint if it is already in your known_hosts, as it does not have the real endpoints private host key. It is, therefore, secure in this mode.
Could you elaborate? I know it's controversial and dispute-ridden, but it seems to still be progressing, looking on from afar as someone who has nothing to do with these things.
Let's make website like architects make buildings. It's more important to be original than beautiful or functional. Let's put the navigation menus at the bottom of the page and the disclaimer at the top. Let's randomize the order of the links and elements so that every user has a unique and original experience on every visit. In fact why use english? That's so boring. Let's use hieroglyph!
Exactly. Same reason why email spam still exists.
In principle, it is just as applicable. And indeed, the headlines in my newspaper's digital subscription aren't clickbait-y either.

It's just that the structure of digital media tends towards article-at-a-time rather than issue-at-a-time or even subscription consumption. For this reason, the structure is naturally geared toward clickbait-y titles everywhere, while in traditional print media the temptation for "clickbait" is mostly restricted to the title page.
Agreed, I think the author is saying quantity has a quality of its own
I have had two grandparents die after having Alzheimer's for long periods of time. It's odd because it's like watching someone die in slow motion and when the body does eventually die people often look on it as a relief because the "person" you knew inside had actually faded away a long time ago. It's like a song fading to static versus just stopping.
Ask HN: What is the SICP for aerospace and/or ships?
As stated here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10179806 .. what would be the equivalent?
I suppose CAAS[1] doesn't make much sense outside of the .Net community :). The idea is that you very aggressively break down the compiler into the core constituent parts.

A less Microsoft-centric project would be Clang. Clang is quite accessible and despite that it's not as loosely coupled as Roslyn (e.g. I don't think you can refactor using it), you can still solve some real problems with it (such as autocomplete and static analysis).

Basically, CAAS is the front-end equivalent of LLVM. You turn the whole compiler into a very tidy API: following from that it should be significantly simpler to create something such as the interpreter that you are aiming for.

[1]: http://www.infoworld.com/article/2621132/microsoft-net/micro...
All the people in the video who say they check in with work while they're on vacation 'in order to help out their colleagues' - if you really want to help out your colleagues, pick up their work when they're on vacation so they don't need to do work when they're on holiday.
Europe’s Distorted View of US High Tech
There's a handy map on Wikipedia. You can visit most of Eastern Europe with a visa when you arrive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa_requirements_for_United_S...
When I started on twitter, it had no hashtags, replies were public (because they weren't initially part of the protocol), no t.co, no embedded photo sharing, no geotagging. All of these features were added, and made popular, in third party clients before being added to Twitter. It was like a giant lab where the features could be tried by smaller groups who shared certain clients or norms and the popular ones wrapped into the "official" API eventually.
I'm a UK employee of a US bank and manage 3 employees based in NY. To be perfectly honest I've not noticed any significant pressure on my US colleagues and team to not take vacation days. If anything my own US based manager is frequently reminding everyone to plan their vacations and not leave too much of their allowance until the end of the year. So clearly this culture of not taking full vacation days isn't ubiquitous, and of course the culture may be different in other parts of the bank - I work on the tech side. Maybe it's partly because as a global organization the US side has absorbed some of the vacation culture from other regions. Don't know.

Having said that, contract employees are only paid for the days they attend, and they tend to take much fewer days off in the US than UK based contractors, typically maybe 2-5 or so per year. But that's their decision.
Bankers in many countries are even required to take off two weeks in a block each year; and no communication with the office. That's to make the books harder to cook, but I am sure it helps many of them stay sane.
I would take the opposite perspective - I would think that artisanal/organic gardening, in particular would benefit from automation. Automation will give us the ability to spend significant periods of time on each specific piece of produce, in a way that no human being ever could. In particular, with organic gardening, you can completely eliminate the need for insecticides and pesticides AND not rely on inherently insect/pest resistant produce (which can be innately toxic) by growing in clean rooms.

The key reasons to automate, is it allows us to make this type of food available to masses for fractions of the cost of what it would take for a human to grow it.
102. Launch a polished (and more finger-friendly) version of existing touchscreen phones, get the marketing right, and claim you just invented the smartphone.
Agent forwarding can be dangerous, yes, in the sense that you are giving the remote host you are connecting to (or jumphost in this case) permission to sign things with your private key.

In the normal case, this is done through a socket, which means that root on the machine can access it, and sign arbitrary things. A compromised machine is therefore dangerous. This is no different than getting root access on the local machine, as you can access your local ssh agent there as well.

However, with sshmux, the agent channel is not forwarded as a socket, but instead internally handled as the ssh channel it really is. This means that compromising the agent at sshmux requires arbitrary memory access, which is a considerably more difficult feat, and means that the machine is 100% compromised regardless.
sshmux gives fine-grained user controls. In the normal jumphost example, you can use ssh -W to connect to arbitrary ports and hosts on the network, poking around where you weren't intended (ssh -W is just netcat where the ssh server initiates the connection for you). With sshmux, ssh -W will only work to hosts permitted for that user, and any other request will just fail.
Why Gov. Brown Should Veto California’s Unreasonable and Unsafe Anti-Drone Law
The world of startups is ruthless. In my opinion, YC has positioned itself near its center of gravity by being a bit more ruthlessly efficient and a somewhat paradoxically a bit more humane. The humanity comes from being a more open about its process, more open about its thinking and providing a low barrier online application process. Sure, it's a lottery. But at least an introduction isn't necessary to buy a ticket.

I guess the ideal situation from both YC's perspective and a founder's is when the application is mostly exhaust fumes from impassioned existing execution: when the effort to produce the content of the application is something that the founder(s) are committed to independently of the YC process. Their goal is to add momentum not overcoming inertia.

YC is a popular game of chance. It's not the only one. It's targeted at a particular type of player, not everyone. Building something provides several other options.

Good luck.
Crossness Pumping Station
That's true. Some people complained that this isn't documented enough, so there is a wiki page for sshmuxd explaining what it does.

Agent forwarding with sshmux should be safer than the general case, though, as the agent is handled in memory, rather than as a socket. The agent is also not forwarded to the destination.
Looks funny, but I recommend you to remove all proprietary Blizzard graphics from GitHub and possible just recreate repository without it. If you want to host assets there better to keep them in different repository.

Otherwise you'll clearly get DMCA because Blizzard has long history of banning any project even remotely copying their products no matter if it's done for fun or whatever.

PS: It's also affect repository name, etc.
You seem very angry at people who offer you free code to use. Please don't post inflammatory comments in HN in that state.
Exactly. Often, "loyalty" in this context boils down to "not leaving when you want to or are able to". If this is not reciprocated by the company in some way, then it's just a voluntary reduction of your own bargaining power, and as a consequence, your income.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10151905
Which claim is she overselling?

It reads like a fairly conservative and well argued call for the continued involvement of theoretical physicists and mathematicians in the already very successful field of complex networks- and this is from one of the best researchers in the field.

She is not claiming network science will take over and be at the heart of everything, but rather that network science has already had great success in widely different areas of science and as domain specialists become increasingly involved, it is important not to lose the focus on the theoretical underpinnings which can be shared across domains.
#3 in particular would be a huge win, not just for tests, but for exploring bits of your program in a repl as you develop it.
this is awesome! please continue and get multiplayer but also don't get busted by blizzard...
Not even just the cost factor. You can do damage to your health from getting treatments for false positives.
Thanks OP! I was at the Adalaj step well in Gujarat couple of months back, Its amazing to see these structure's usefulness to the common people and beautiful carvings. Inside the step well the temperature is very cool like an AC despite the burning ~43 deg Celsius outside.
You can use the rawgit to view the current version (1.0) - https://rawgit.com/gloomyson/StarCraft/master/index.html
Banks are a slightly different entity... It wasn't long ago when bank employees were actually required to take at least 2 weeks straight off once a year. Of course, this wasn't for the employee's health, rather it gave the bank time to catch any sort of embezzlement or other such activities the employee may have been up to. These days there are more controls and technology has ended some of common ways to try and hide bad transactions (such as sending checks to the wrong processing center or structuring transactions such that they'll take longer than they normally would).

A lot of banks have removed this requirement now, but the culture of planning vacations remains in that industry.
The worker loves the company. power is control
Now you have me worried.
ah, didn't know about CAAS.
of course LLVM/CLang was also on our radar.
we are still pondering on whether we should target LLVM bitcode so we could easily build upon LLVM toolchain (and cross-pollinate with other LLVM-based interpreters. e.g. seamlessly interoperate with IJulia and CLing interpreters, sharing code and values at runtime thru LLVM.)
to me, the main issue with LLVM is that it's a real pain to develop against, I know this for a fact having worked a little bit with CLing, the CLang-based C++ interpreter (the edit-compile-test cycle is that of a set of large C++ libraries, gophers tend to be spoiled in that department)

tangential: actually, you can refactor with the CLang libraries:
http://llvm.org/releases/3.7.0/tools/clang/docs/LibTooling.h...
(well, to some extent)
Checking in with work like this is a sign you aren't well organised or the structure of the company isn't correct.

Why aren't you keeping colleagues informed enough to cope without you for even a week.

Why are you the only person contactable for certain issues. etc.

Drives me mad when schools shut for summer and the only person who can purchase things has sodded off.
The rewrite was from Ruby to Scala, though far more importantly, it was a re-architecting. And there are zero regrets. Without it, Twitter wouldn't exist anymore.
$70.000 Minimum Wage, Anyone?
The 2014 list is here: https://www.henleyglobal.com/files/download/hvri/HP%20Visa%2...
So telling you that I have 30 days of paid vacation here in Germany wouldn't actually make a difference because you wouldn't take your 30 days if you had them?
Btw, when I'm on sick leave that is also paid.
Thank you. Using days as your time unit for measuring requests over time is not useful. I'd be more interested in the req/sec numbers during peak.
Much thanks for you recommend, I make this game just because I love this old StarCraft game so much and want to realize it in web browser, no plan for make money, and it's much weaker than the original Blizzard game
26 Android Phone Models Shipped with Pre-Installed Spyware
Wow, can't believe how bad some of those issues are. It was like reading a DailyWTF article without the forced humor.
I hope you don't just want to argue...

"Article 10
1. Where it is established, on the basis of proof or circumstantial evidence as described in the two lists mentioned in Article 18(3), including the data referred to in Chapter III of Regulation (EC) No 2725/2000, that an asylum seeker has irregularly crossed the border into a Member State by land, sea or air having come from a third country, the Member State thus entered shall be responsible for examining the application for asylum. This responsibility shall cease 12 months after the date on which the irregular border crossing took place."

Therefore the first state entered is responsible for the registration and then for the application for asylum.

And no, the Dublin regulation doesn't state denial of freedom of movement. But they never had such. The Schengen law is only valid for members of the European Union. Everyone else has to get a visum.
They were legally not allowed to enter Hungary in the first place, why would they be allowed then to enter another state without getting asylum first?
Wikipedia Chemical Structure Explorer
Does this support SFTP? What about for windows users that use FileZilla and don't have an .ssh/config?
Both your comments here are pure gold. Thanks for taking the time to be so helpful.
I've always been one to take full advantage of my vacation, since I don't define myself by my work. Everyone looks forward to the weekend, right? Then why not take a few vacation days to make your weekend longer, or 2 weeks off to totally refresh?

Downside is that one time I was "let go" while out of the country and told I didn't need to come back to the office. I guess sometimes the vacation days in your contract are more of a threat than a perk.
2M req/day = 2000000/24/60/60 = 23 req/s average. With a assumed peak of 10x of avg. this is around 230 req/s.

Hmm. Not something I'd use the word 'scaling' for, even if there is a 1:1 write to DB ratio. With 1000 writes/sec to a DB it gets interesting.
From Delta Air Lines policy for pet travel:[0]

What methods of transport does Delta Air Lines provide for my pet?

* Travel in the passenger cabin.
* Checked as baggage in pressurized and temperature controlled area of your aircraft.
* Shipped as cargo in pressurized and temperature controlled area.
...
Does my pet qualify for travel in the passenger cabin?

Pets that meet the following qualifications can travel in the passenger cabin:
...
* Only domesticated dogs, cats, and birds are allowed.

Chicken = domesticated bird. But maybe they mean budgies etc ;)

[0] http://www.seatguru.com/airlines/Delta_Airlines/pets.php
Really? I found it surprisingly easy to get the visa with a US passport here in London. Took maybe 2.5 weeks and zero hassles except just showing up.
The Teracotta Warriors of the PrivaTe Market Ghetto: Funding and Quasi-IPOs
The First Exascale Computer
Looked at the code, it is nice and short.

However I'm not that familiar with go so might be overlooking something. Is there any logging included on who connected at what time from what IP?
What If Nazi Germany Won World War II? Fictional and Historical Scenarios
But that's the exact problem for many average users. They were shunted into a default track of follwing 10s of "garbage" posters. My mom's Gmail inbox is exactly this problem - she has dozens of daily useless newsletters she was default opted into and can't be bothered to unsubscribe (or doesn't find it easy), so they just pile up and make email pretty useless.
So yes, it's their fault, but the product needs to correct for this behavior.