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Location: NYC

Remote: ok

Willing to relocate: no

Technologies: HTML, CSS, Adobe, Pencil/Paper

Résumé/CV: http://mattcassity.com

Email: mattcassity@gmail.com

Expert Designer interested in migrating over to digital. After two years at an agency, I am eager to join a smart team and build a beautiful product. You'll work with a Senior Designer with a high taste level who can "figure it out" as needed :)
Let's say you attain this goal and the protest votes are in, signalling to YC that a (no longer) silent majority feel this way. Now they get the message that the community is "uneasy about the values of its founders and more broadly, Silicon Valley". What's next? I imagine reading posts by the community here does not play a huge role in day-to-day operations at the company, they still have day jobs and financial pressures to deal with whether we like them or not. Is there a plan or end game or is this pure trolling (or maybe I put it more kindly and call it 'performance art' or something like that)?

I'm pretty sure Silicon Valley are quite well aware that privacy is an issue and a growing number of users are uncomfortable with the surveillance-as-a-service business model, but it pays the bills so why would they change? How can you create this demand so that the pro-privacy business model works?

I'm curious to see what you can make of the opportunity, if one even exists here.
It never gets calm and cloudy all at once over an entire grid balancing area, so no, not every MW of wind and solar needs to be backed by an equivalent amount of operating reserve. Furthermore, conventional generation requires contingency reserve as well, because it can be tripped offline for any number of non-weather related reasons.
For Lyft I believe they recommend sitting up front if you want to talk, and in back if you don't.
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Hi alex_g, thanks for the question!

Our app is hoping to bridge the time between an incident happening and people who are in the vicinity of the event hearing about it. We see our app as a peer-to-peer tool and what makes our emergency notification system better is that it is a two-way form of communication. Not only can people view incidents, but they can also report them based on what they see, comment, add pictures, and view live updates in a social way.

So to use our app, users have to log-in with facebook, after which their profile picture, first name, and mutual friends will be attached to anything they post. With Facebook authentication, we’ve noticed that trolling isn’t as prevalent in our current locations.
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I live in South America and classes here are, similar to Europe, not really tied to your money.

It's really funny: I grew up in a slum, but software now gives me as much money as politicians and senior executives of public companies.

In my first paying contract overseas, I went to the most expensive restaurant in my town.

Although I wore the same clothes and belonged to the same race, everybody was staring at me. The waitress would always reiterate the price of meals.

I actually felt pretty good.
Have you considered using this idea as a way to change the way suicide hotline works?

it is true that as humans we all have experienced stressful and difficult times in our lives,and knowing that there's an easy to reach-shoulder that is willing to hear your problem and advice you is something that I'm willing to try. Great concept and idea! Wish guys the best of luck!
> This is the problem with intelligentsia, they want to sound intelligent, using "heavy hitter" words.

Some people insert heavy hitter words into their speech in order to sound more intelligent. It comes across as unnatural and awkward, though.

But people who have acquired large vocabularies organically, by being around people who talk that way or by reading a lot, use it naturally and unthinkingly. And then there are authors and such who use language like a painter uses color. English is a very rich language, and if you want to paint a rich scene with words, there is quite a palette to choose from. Would you tell a painter he can only use primary colors?
Thank you so much for your kind words! We'll work on improving that. :)
I am reminded of this talk:
https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/steele.pdf
You need to pass the ssl certification to `connect` for the driver to successfully connect to an encrypted port. Check out the docs here: http://rethinkdb.com/api/python/connect/

EDIT: also, we'll modify the docs to make that more clear (see https://github.com/rethinkdb/docs/issues/1076)
You'll need to pass the a certificate to `connect` through the `ssl` option, see http://www.rethinkdb.com/api/python/connect/
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I meant a 5 year old on the left side of the bell curve of all all 5 year olds.
Sorry, I think I'm just being imprecise.

I understand the nature of his argument: he'd like to challenge the warrant to get the CP evidence excluded. He can't, because the warrant is secret; his CP criminal trial judge validated it, but in a normal case, he'd have the chance to evaluate himself.

What I perceived you to have been claiming was that the defendant additionally doesn't know the actual provenance of the evidence. Which computer did it come from? How does he know the FBI didn't simply make it up?

It's that latter claim that I'm pushing back on.
Also forgot to mention that being locked into a long-term solar contract can impact possible resale of a home if prospective buyers don't want to be locked into it.
I don't see why people think this will be a winner-take-all market. The marginal cost for Uber or Lyft is nearly zero, so competition should drive the cost to zero. Lyft and Uber are both past the network-effect barriers to entry, so there's no way for one to boot out the other without slashing rates to try to drive the other out of business. Neither appears to be trying to do so yet.

More fundamentally, there's nothing stopping drivers from driving both Lyft and Uber, so there's no reason one should go out of business just because the other is more successful.
I have all the data, never published it because I didn't have time... I'll get around to it soon though

The data isn't super solid because I was stopped before I got to 50 (which was my goal).
Imagine you constantly socialise in a tight group and have romantic feelings for someone in that group, all that teenage school/college stuff — it makes much more sense this way
The app coordinates meetings with users by first getting the facilities they belong to.

So whenever they create an activity, the location is automatically pulled for the other users.

We DO have the chat functionality already there, but we didn't want them coordinating the meetup location on there because we think that's too complicated.
"Bloated" is a just a pejorative term that means nothing more interesting than "Contains feature(s) that I don't personally use."
Mitt Romney, comparing Tesla to Solyndra, in 2012:

> But don’t forget, you put $90 billion, like 50 years’ worth of breaks, into—into solar and wind, to Solyndra and Fisker and Tesla and Ener1. I mean, I had a friend who said you don’t just pick the winners and losers, you pick the losers, all right? So this—this is not—this is not the kind of policy you want to have if you want to get America energy secure.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2012/10/04/mitt_romn...

One failed investment does not make a bad strategy.
or maybe it's a failure of tech in general that maintaining a website isn't worth the cost and/or the effort ;)

That was a glib remark, but in all seriousness ... for the average non-technical user, who's friends are all on Facebook, their event and group system is a godsend. Non-FB solutions should realize that and figure out ways to make more accessible (and cheap ... aka free) systems
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Ah, I see. I was wondering for a long time why the "poppers" in the examples are static.

Maybe coding the animation requires more JavaScript and increase the code base? Seems to me that some basic animation as popover/tooltip would be nice to have.
Now tell us how this would affect your plans for the next round of Co-Prosperity Cloud awardees.

$41? $43? Sky's really the limit here.

"Co-Prosperity Cloud 2: the Trickle-Down"
"look, you make as much as we'll pay just-a-programmer, even an architect, here."

Sorry but this line is almost always complete BS. Anyone that I know who has heard this line, gone out and gotten a (much better) offer somewhere else, and the original company instantly matched. Like, without even having to consult anyone, their manager said they'd match. You can't trust this line.
"This sounds like a gigantic untapped opportunity -- it's such a waste that so many beds and couches lie unused for large chunks of the year, and there are lots of travelers that couldn't care less about concierge desks and bellhops, and would much prefer to save money or stay in more interesting lodging, but hotels don't seem interested in serving that market. However, I'm not sure I can upvote this proposal in good conscience; it sounds like you're planning to deliberately ignore laws, grow big, and then seek to have those laws overturned. Am I misunderstanding something, or is that really the plan?"
A pretty fundamental question: why the Gresham Dollar and not regular dollars?

I mean, there's no practical limitation on the monetary authority creating more real dollars to pump into the economy. The reason it doesn't (and the reason why it's fashionable to separate monetary authority from fiscal authority) is because of beliefs about pervasive inflation caused by large increases the supply of money, particularly if that comes in the form of handouts to those with a high marginal propensity to spend it.

But as far as I can see based on your outline, Gresham dollars are at best functionally equivalent to regular dollars in their effects on demand in the economy. Demand increases when they're handed out, supply lags, ergo prices go up.
But you can add in a [very] slight increase in cost of sale for merchants accepting GD, especially if they need to convert to regular dollars to pay their suppliers.

So why Gresham dollars? Why not just hand out newly minted regular dollars? Or food stamps, if the aim is to socially engineer how they're spent?

As far as I can see, all the differences are disadvantages (confusion, costly new infrastructure, discouraging saving behaviour amongst low income beneficiaries)
I think you are quite wrong about the "Nobody's privacy is violated by saying that person X exists and looks like Y."

For one thing, you are leaving out the part that says "and doing Z". There have been lots of cases of people having tagged photos be used against them. While you might be fine with the cases of someone being tagged at a baseball game when they said they were sick from work, but what about when someone is tagged at a gay pride parade and they live in a homophobic area? Or being tagged in a picture of a protest when they live in an oppressive country?
I assume most times people submit a "Show HN" (or now "Apply HN") that, if not explicitly stated, there's an implicit "and please give me feedback" tacked on to the end. Sometimes feedback can be blunt and, to someone emotionally invested in the site / product, it may appear brutal. While feedback on someone's work should certainly not be mean-spirited, I don't think one should need to go out of their way to dress up their comment in order to emotionally shelter the reader.

A favorite expression of mine: "Sufficiently advanced political correctness is indistinguishable from sarcasm."
Here's a Jeroboam of Veuve Clicquot retailing for under $300: http://www.woodswholesalewine.com/products/nv-veuve-clicquot...

It calls it a "Double Magnum", but others online call it a Jeroboam, which I think is technically correct for a 3L bottle of sparkling wine.
For me it was things like "function_returning_array()[0]" working in JS but not PHP and other unexpected parsing weirdness like that. (Though I don't really mind PHP, just much of the code written in it :-) )
First of all, it does feel like this solves a genuine problem. Despite standards it still feels like every external API is unique.

With that said, I'm not sure I 100% grasp what Brightwork does from your description and website. Maybe you could describe a specific use case of how it would help me as a developer?

It seems that one of the use cases is easily switching between APIs that serve the same purpose (eg Google Maps to Mapbox). How big a use case do you think this will be? Ie if I use the Facebook API there's is no replacement. I have to use their API if I want to use their platform.
> Later on, we will gradually leverage into a fractional reserve, but we will always be completely transparent about our USD reserve levels and how close we are to running out.

So again, you'll be co-opting merchants into a credit issuing agency.

you haven't explained any benefit to the merchant, other than a brief marginal increase in sales, for which they're taking on risk.

What happens if you fly afoul of banking regulations (since you seem to be acting as a bank in this situation), and get shut down by the government?
Tested it in browserstack, works in IE10+. IE9 is close but doesn't work when the browser is small. IE8 doesn't work at all (go figure)
I dare you to find someone willing to, without a computer, parse such a description. JPEG is a surprisingly non-intuitive, complex format.

You're right, you can be more precise that way, but precise text means nothing if nobody is reading it.
The article would be the same if the author was an engineer, or an accountant, a scientist, lawyer, etc.
The short answer is yes.

Simulations via the finite difference method or finite volume method (depending on the problem type) are used to evaluate the fitness of each candidate solution on the server.

Using the plugin, the user can select from a number of objective functions, e.g. minimize mechanical stress in this area, maximize heat conduction in that area, via the native selection features of their CAD program. The plugin then performs meshing of the geometry, applies boundary conditions (e.g. forces, thermal loads), bundles it all together with information about the objective functions, and then ships it off to the server for evaluation and optimization. The user can also select from number of solution validity constraints to ensure compatibility with the manufacturing process that they have in mind.
<pedant> Rainbows End </pedant>

But yes, I really like it too. I wish he'd write a sequel. There's plenty more mileage to Mr. Rabbit.

Also, could someone hurry up and invent UP/Ex? Pneumatic mortars firing disposable cardboard gliders are so obviously better than any sensible approach to last-mile package delivery...
Well, only if you're using any of the things which tax money paid for, like public roads or courts or public libraries or etc. etc. If you're a hermit living in the forest not using any of that, I think it's totally legit to not pay your taxes.
So, someone who lives in a state with green electricity, and buys products from "green companies", will get the same as someone from a coal state, like West Virginia?

The question is why are you giving rebates to people who are mostly using green energy?
> Telegram backer, Pavel Durov, will give $200,000 in BTC to the first person to break Telegram' encrypted protocol. Starting today, each day Paul (+79112317383) will be sending a message containing a secret email address to Nick (+79218944725). In order to prove that Telegram crypto was indeed deciphered and claim your prize, send an email to the secret email address from Paul’s message.

That is a fairly ridiculous challenge. Your average crypto professional is not going to have access to the communications channels between the two phones. The NSA or CIA or other government group might, but not really anyone else. Putting this up as a challenge is just silly.
The psychology behind a currency run causes people to want to get rid of the untrusted currency as quickly as possible. In the case of Gresham Dollar, because we don't offer on-demand exchange, that means spending it. The less people trust Greshem Dollar, the more they will spend it and the less we will dip into our reserves. This is a key feature of Gresham Dollar.

It's technically possible for us to fail because everyone holds onto their GD, but we won't. In any case, we'll always be very transparent about our USD reserve levels and how close we are to running out. I've devised a whole system for what happens in the event that our reserves get low.

Thanks for the question!
Rethink is amazing and sadly underrated. This release looks awesome! Great work.

PS: Can you start selling plush dolls of the mascot? So cute.
We are two childhood friends who started company with focus and we built it without any fancy and bootstrapped it from zero to a million dollar company.

We never had time to even spend with family we just slept four to six hours and focused on what we wanted to built.

We never had any social accounts and never socialised in Internet not went to do networking.

We thought let's built a great product and enjoy doing it.

A Story of How Two Childhood Friends from Village has built their startup up from Zero to a million dollars

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11442047

Only time we spent time is registering and applying for YC.

Coming from a small town with no business background, learning all things ourselves and with self motivation and dream if we were able to do this much.

Joining hands with YC we can do a lot more faster and quicker to change the world.

This is the reason we applied for YC. Even our employees are from rural they can't even communicate good in English but they code like hell.

If you ask a guy how to built an ap. A may tell a good story but not actually do it. B may do an excellent app but not tell it in an effective way. A May have more friends but B may not.

So founders we play as a team. George does the coding and he has no social accounts. I do the design idea and also communicate and be active to know what's happening in the world.

This is a good initiative let's see how it goes.
Sorry, maybe I didn't explain myself well. What I wanted to say is that for the end-of-month ranking ("we'll rank the startups and YC will fund two. The ranking will depend both on upvotes and on the quality of discussion"), I think upvotes and discussion by current YC members should hold more weight (maybe the algorithms already take that into account :) ).

I agree that people that didn't have HN accounts previously should definitely be allowed to participate both as submissions and in the comments :) , only that the upvotes part could be gamed.
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To be fair the standard of coffee in New Zealand and Australia is substantially better than North America and much of Europe. I could only find on-par coffee in specialty cafes in Portland, Vancouver and San Fran on the west coast. You were paying upwards of $5 USD for an espresso, flat white or long black. Max you'll pay for an espresso or long black in Auckland is $3USD (usually around $2.7USD).
One could reasonably propose that things ought to work that way, but that is not, in fact, the way things have ever worked, at least not in the USA. People routinely make very substantial alterations to their cars and continue driving them on the street with no legal process involved. "Street legal" is not an exacting standard and no inspections are required for an altered vehicle (so far as I know, anyway) beyond whatever routine process your state requires as part of the registration process. (Here in Washington state, that's just an emissions test.)

I used to be part of a 4x4 club; we routinely rebuilt our trucks' suspensions, changed out the gearing, replaced wheels and tires with bigger ones, installed power steering systems adapted from some other type of vehicle, swapped our engines or axles out for bigger, tougher ones, swapped out entire drivetrains - you name the component, somebody in the club probably modified or replaced it.

We weren't even doing anything unusual by recreational offroading standards, much less hot-rodding standards. We weren't building tube frames, and most of us didn't modify our frames at all. Nobody had ripped off all the sheet metal on their truck and replaced it all with a molded fiberglass replica; none of us installed superchargers or nitrous injection or anything like that. I'd guess no more than half of us even knew how to weld.

Modified cars are on the road all the time; you've seen thousands of them whether you realize it or not. If this were a big safety problem, there would have been a moral panic about it decades ago. Tweaking the software in a Tesla is completely insignificant by comparison. No, it doesn't need to be checked out and approved.
In the sense that it's a kind of consumption tax, and consumption taxes are (considered[1]) regressive, then yes.

So? Consumption (of fossil fuels) is the problem. Any policy measure that cuts fossil fuel consumption will thus necessarily be regressive to the extent that it precisely targets the problem. It's not like cap-and-trade or efficiency mandates somehow avoid that.

But whatever anti-fossil-fuel measure you impose can be mitigated with orthogonal welfare policies.

Also, it's not policy options can ever lack downsides.

[1] I saw "considered" because the traditional result only gets that by a confused accounting basis. Yes, a consumption tax hits less of a rich person's income, but it hits the same amount of their later consumption. Don't compare income apples to consumption oranges.
It has been done, several times.

A popular version is http://yueliang.luaforge.net/, although it only supports old Luas (5.0 and 5.1).
It seems pretty clear that it's not a winner-take-all market. There's, what, 3+ competitors out now that are competing on price and service, and furthermore the drivers can switch between them more easily than any other prior form of employment. This means that they're facing strict price competition for both drivers and riders. The infrastructure required is all relatively basic software, so costs are relatively low. As you said, all the customer cares about is "as quickly and cheaply as possible" - all you need is new competitor that drops the cut for riders and drivers (+ advertising) and people will switch. This is exactly Fasten's strategy.

Without fundamental change to the landscape everyone's just going get their margins eaten in this environment. Uber knows this, so they're trying to own self-driving vehicle technology to give them an edge over their competitors. Then they're in competition with the other self-driving technology providers who might partner with Lyft etc., so that doesn't even put them fully in the clear even if they can pull it off.

Self-driving technology and how it plays out determines if these companies actually reach the high valuations, IMO.
California uses more pumped storage than is generally realized. Some of the reservoirs of the California Water Project are uphill from their water source, and thus have large pumps. These can also be run as generators. They pump water uphill at night when power is cheap, and generate power during the daytime peak. This generates some profit for the CWP. The reservoirs and pumps are needed anyway, so there's very little capital cost associated with doing this. Because big Water Project storage reservoirs are involved, the water levels don't change rapidly.

Purpose-built pumped storage plants, such as Helms near Fresno, tend to have much smaller reservoirs, about enough for a daily cycle, and they go from full to empty and back each day. This annoys some people. They're not recreational lakes. Efficiency is 60% - 80% round trip from electricity in to electricity out.
You should ask Dan to let you continue :)
Yes. Our own private central bank.