skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The costs of operation and infrastructure will not be trivial, especially as the project grows beyond the bootstrapping phase.

Hmm. These costs would be trivial compared to the total amount of USD we have in our reserves and the total amount of GD in circulation. I'd like the infrastructure to be as distributed as possible. As the central authority, we'd only be paying to operate the small part of the infrastructure at the top of the heirarchy.

Have you considered the option of a dedicated trust fund to maintain the project's infrastructure that is supported by a not-for-profit organization?

Interesting idea. I hadn't considered that, no. What would it look like?

As I understand it, the principle behind this currency is that it decays, and thus people will prefer to spend it first, otherwise it will expire and convert into USD at the account's reserve rate.

That's not quite right. The currency does not decay. In normal times, 100% of GD converts to USD. The reserve rate only comes into play when our total USD reserves fall to our required reserve level. When that happens, we have Disruption (see other comments), during which GD does convert only at the reserve rate. But the portion that doesn't convert to USD gets rolled over (its lifetime is reset) and remains in your account.

We never destroy GD without converting it into the exact same amount of USD.

When given the choice, people spend GD first, not because it decays (it doesn't), but because Gresham Dollar is the inferior currency:

1. USD is more widely accepted and therefore versatile.

2. USD is backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government.

3. Gresham Dollar is this new thing that people don't exactly trust.

I guess what it boils down to is this: Would you rather spend your real USD, or something that will only turn into USD after 30 days? If a merchant happens to be accepting the thing that isn't even USD yet, you'd spend that.

But, I may also have a basic income of GD trickling into my account and I can buy GD with USD at the pegged 1 to 1 ratio, or buy FGD at the speculative market rate.

Yes.
That seems insanely high...
How does it stack up to Car2Go?
Just as an example of a superstition, take the "Virgin Cleansing Myth". It's a myth existing all over the world, by especially prevalent in Africa, that having sex with a virgin will cleanse you of diseases, especially nowadays HIV. [1]

This is believed by some to be one of the reasons why HIV, and rape, is so prevalent in South Africa - people with HIV will often rape virgins to cure themselves, thus also spreading the disease.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_cleansing_myth
The Wordpress blog editors would need to reset their own password occasionally.
Are you referring to our beloved Michael O. Church?
Mainly because I code microservices in at least five languages, and want to be able to touch all the same third-parties from any given one of them.
Read 'deschooling society' by Ivan Illich. Will help you understand a thing or two about what is school all about.
So like a small version of erlang? Once you've started programming in erlang you start to look at concurrency and reliability in a certain way. Especially after you've done some server which took too many hours to stop hanging and crashing on interthread issues.
Yes, we are. Kefir is made acidic by the lactic acid, not acetic acid. Lactic acid is indeed produced in wine.

Fermentation produces so much CO2 that it quickly fills up the vessel and pushes any remaining oxygen out. People didn't know where yeast comes from until recently. You're making it far more complicated than it is.
Ah, I assumed the colon was needed (and then added [meta] to make it clear that I wasn't applying to YC with this). Thanks for adjusting.

... and you mean /applyhn, not /apply (again!). :-)
That looks very similar to DriveNow[1] that is used here in Berlin Germany quite a lot. I am surprised, that BMW is making its own now as DriveNow is a Cooperation of BMW and Sixt (A rental company).

Their service works really, really well I have to say. Almost every time there is a car parked close by, you rent them by the minute and park them anywhere. It is also much cheaper than Uber a cab or god forbid your own car.

[1]: http://drive-now.com
Because it is different to help a cousin and a stranger.

If the refugees were culturally similar - the attitude in Europe would be different.
"because capitalism at it's core is a system built on exploitation and power imbalances and races to the bottom."

That's a very strong claim, which I don't agree with at all. Why do you think this is true?

Btw, that's an interesting story about the cashiers in Israel, haven't heard of it before. Do you have a citation?
I feel you had to endure abuse, but in hindsight are telling yourself that something good came out of it.
> C11 has memset_s

Annex K, so unfortunately that isn't widely available and unlikely to ever be. Also, there is a performance hit for where it is available [0].

[0] http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1967.htm
> I like cats as much as the next guy, but seriously.

Sure about that? I wouldn't want 50 harmless cats exterminated just because they bother the uptight guests of the hotel occasionally. I live in a country were stray cats are everywhere, and they routinely come in my apartment too. No problem, I enjoy it and have had they chance to raise many kittens as well.
Giving an amount of time on the offer (30 days? 90 days?) seems pretty reasonable. That's probably not what he means by "exploding".
External bluetooth keyboard makes it bearable.

Keyboards vary to the extent that they are emacs friendly (how many Super-Meta-Alt keys do they have?) but I find this Logitech one just about usable for programming:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Logitech-Device-Bluetooth-Keyboard-S...

(In case it's not clear, the keyboard is huge, as large as a laptop keyboard, so once you start down this road you lose portability).
What was the payload that was so expensive?
Earth will remain inhabitable for about 500 million years. Making any kind of a plan for such a time frame is just dumb.
Advice for community participation to lower tension
Hi, is this the same technology used by DriveNow?
Best surveillance film ever http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0071360/
I missed minimise-to-taskbar; made a temporary workaround: [link redacted]
Why did your friend say working there was horrible?
Voltage does nothing. It is the current that kills you.

2000 Volts / 1000 ohm (resistance of human skin) is 2 amps if you close the circuit. That is deadly with a healthy margin.

But put on a insulator shoes and you can hold (the same) wire with 2 dry hands and nothing will happen - the same way birds can rest on wire and live. Of course holding 2 different wires will be bad idea.

Btw - a basic safety precaution in engineering school - always plug and unplug stuff with one hand.

http://engineering.mit.edu/ask/how-do-birds-sit-high-voltage...
Hi Arm, that's a great combination. You might also want to check Linux Deploy to mount a full linux distro (and ssh or vnc into) running with the Android kernel.
The rate limits have been changed to 20 certificates per domain per week recently.

The registrations/IP rate limits aren't really a problem - WordPress could, in theory, run their entire Let's Encrypt infrastructure using one registration (account).

Pending authorizations shouldn't be much of an issue given that all custom domains are CNAMEs pointing to their servers, so they should be able to solve all challenges.

(By the way: If you're building a large integration, Let's Encrypt can change the rate limits for you.)
Yeah, it's very important to have the right culture fit...
In the Termux google group somebody reported an issue with it. I run spacemacs on android with Linux Deploy, Debian and a good ssh client.
> The amount of athletes I trained with who took illegal performance enhancing drugs was surprisingly high.

> I always advise to single women who want to meet rich dudes to join a tri club.

I have no words. Well, no I have four. Jesus. Titty. Fucking. Christ.
Apply HN: Vaultedge – a private Google for your private data
Vaultedge demo : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufnMZjg5344

Problem : Consumers have data in many different places like cloud storage, emails, laptops and offline devices. Trying to find a document which we created or downloaded few months or even days ago will require answering questions like was I at home or office while downloading it, did I receive it over an email or did I store in dropbox? You quickly make an assumption and search for the filename or keywords there and if you don't find it you search in other places until you find it or you give up.

Vaultedge : is an attempt to help find your document quickly just in few clicks. I personally faced this problem in my previous job as Software Architect and asked people around on what tools they use. Leaving aside few who were well organized, rest of the folks faced the same issue. They would love to have a tool which will allow search across their online and offline content contextually like to search for "last three months of cell phone bills" or "the document on networking send by x". They were also interested in a grouping capability which groups documents into similar categories so that they can see
- all their bills in one place
- to highlight the difference between the fluctuating cable or cell phone bills month over month
- to download bills for a month in bulk
- easily find all tax records for a year etc

With those two functionalities (Search & Grouping) in mind we are building Vaultedge. Contextual search is something we are still building.

About us:
I have spent all my life (~16 years) building enterprise products for Storage, Data and Analytics, my last job being Architect for Backup products at NetApp. I'm a sole founder and backend developer now, but in talks with another tech guy to join as co-founder. I also have a awesome frontend engineer in my team as employee.

Love to answer your questions, comments and to take feedback.
HIV is relatively benign. People love for years without showing symptoms, hence its success.

To beat that we'd have to find something which could deny it resources without killing the host (us). But that's pretty much just 'a cure'
Capitalism in fact all economics is based on exploitation.

definition of exploitation: make full use of and derive benefit from (a resource).

> power imbalances

Some people have capital, most people don't. Those who don't have it are exploited as in above.

> races to the bottom

This is a bit more difficult to prove. But from Wikipedia:

"The race to the bottom is a socio-economic phrase which is used to describe government deregulation of the business environment or taxes in order to attract or retain economic activity in their jurisdictions. An outcome of globalization and free trade, the phenomenon may occur when competition increases between geographic areas over a particular sector of trade and production."

We call this Economic Liberalism and it is the prevailing economic theory.

There is a logic that justifies all of this as a good and positive thing from a societal or even a global development prespective. But the cost for all of these is definitely paid by the individual.
Sustaining the Internet with hyperbolic mapping (2010) [pdf]
I don't think the current tax system can allow anyone to become rich enough to afford living on mars, and I doubt settling on mars can exempt from taxation.
How about just a personal incentive to be kind to others?

http://eprints.keele.ac.uk/1422/3/hamilton_mccabe_org_2016.p...
Depending on whether they're using an external recruiter, this is often a tactic of the agency.

It's very simply a tactic to decrease the chances of you going elsewhere. Like many agency tactics, it's all about the commission.
Film Dialouge Broken Down by Gender and Age
Either way, 16 was a long, long time ago
On the US and Japan, Japan did industrialize first, prior to WWII, and adopted some aspects of western culture afterwards. Similar the US did become independent first and then largely developed what is nowadays called western culture. Both actually used force instead of submitting.

My understanding of China is more limited, but it seems they will become a developed nation first before adopting things like representative democracy, human rights etc.

> He links to a citation in the sentence after your quote.[1]

Indeed I overlooked that link, so I should have chosen a different claim that needs a good argument. ( The claim that education became more rigid as a general trend in history seems dubious for example.) However, looking very quickly through the paper, it does not seem to claim that culture as most important factor is well understood, instead he seems to build an argument that local factors are very important and suggests that culture may be the most important local factor.
More about it here: http://giovanni.bajo.it/post/53352366280/appnap-for-linux-pr...
Nice simple tool
Genuinely funny song on the issue :
The Government Knows
- Knower : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zH9Zca1vRM&app=desktop
That might be interesting, or it might not be. No way to tell because this is a sign-up link for an email list, not a product.

If you absolutely have to post things we can't play with, please at least include a detailed blog post.
Simcity Buildit Hack Tool 2016 (Android iOS) – Easy Hack Tools
If they don't share basic cultural values our society is built upon, I think that matters a ton. People who 'mistreat' or even just disapprove of how women in our society live their lives, how we treat gays, non-believers, have nothing to add to our society or this world.
I don't really think you could do that in Spanish, at least until we started copying English terms.

Yes, now we also use "orientar a" to translate other English buzzwords like "orientado a resultados" (result-oriented), "orientado a la productividad" (productivity-oriented), etc. But outside of linguistic calques of modern English expressions and buzzwords, I've never heard or read anyone using "orientar a" for anything else than facing a direction.

I might be wrong, of course, as language is very complex and has a lot of regional variations (in particular Spanish, which changes a lot between Spain and the various Latin American countries); but my perception as a Spanish speaker from Spain is that the term originated from a bad translation of English, and something like "programación centrada en objetos", "basada en objetos", etc. would have been better.
I thought about Japan before WWII, the causality is backwards for the claim in the post.
Why Nations Fail is actually somewhere on my to read stack, hopefully I find some time to actually read it.
Rechargeable-battery build with microorganisms
Yup, this. I tried to find the episode but I can't remember what show it was on. :-/
It took a team to make that iOS application? You might be taken for a ride there. I saw the app on iTunes.
Of course, worldwide people are susceptible to superstition, and if you want to talk about harmful superstitions that affect HIV transmission then look no further than policy pushed throughout Africa by US Christian right-wingers. The excellent documentary "God Loves Uganda" discusses how the most recent Bush administration threatened to withhold foreign aid from Uganda and other countries if they distributed birth control or didn't adhere to abstinence-only education.

Here in Cambodia expats constantly gripe about lazy native people, considering them stupid for not wanting to embrace every facet of Western culture. A common example that I've seen repeated in books and internet forums alike is that Cambodians won't adopt Western farming practices (like showering plants in pesticides) and so they must be just backwards and ignorant. Never is it considered that the native people, who have lived here for generations, might have different priorites or know something that a rich asshole from the West, who's been here 6 months, does not.
>but a lot of society is predicated on 99% of people not being jerks

Maybe thats why the 1% are so successful then.
This strikes me in a similar manner as those computer-generated CS papers. Like when I saw this page, I started thinking it's just some random technobabble attached to an email "signup" harvester. I dunno, for fun or something. The words there, anyways, mean nothing as far as anyone can tell.
Pretty lame. If you live close to the border, Flemings and Dutch are intermarried, they speak the same dialect and all. Refugees were close to home and actually went home after the Germans left.

Refugees of Syria (and Iraq and Afghanistan and also all of Africa etc) have been flooding Belgium for 20-30 years now. Somehow they never depart in any of the other 360 degrees surrounding their countries. Or choose to stay in one of the many countries they pass through on their way. Only North West Europe will do: Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Sweden.

On the plus side, last year Saudi Arabia did offer to help Belgium, not by taking up refugees until the war is over but by funding construction of more mosques.
Thanks :)

On the robot we're using RTP and usually stream the individual cameras separately at about 4Mb each (1440x1080). That is a bitrate where we see little improvement in image quality from going higher. We can go lower, 1-2Mb/stream, but probably if you want to save bandwidth you'll want to process the video into equirect or cubemap or something locally and then stream that at 4K at whatever bandwith your network can handle.

Operating the robot over 4G should work, but I haven't tested it yet :)
> The article does not mention the cost of these houses which would seem to be the major point of information.

I don't know if it's possible to provide an accurate number. Although it's possible to specify material costs, the cost of construction work is mainly driven by labor cost and the organizational capabilities of each contractor. Mexico's government could provide the info on their own contracts, but that wouldn't be very representative of what they could cost in, say, the US, where wages are far higher.

> I think these developments can market themselves a lot better if they drop the terms "low income"/ "low cost"/"social housing" and adopted something like "young people homes" or "starter homes".

These projects are mainly driven by the need to cut costs right down to the bone, even if this means that the housing projects are, say, far from luxurious.

The main reason is that this sort of project is targeted at local and central governments who feel the need to spend a part of their budget in social housing projects, whose main goal is a mix of improving people's housing, eliminate shanty towns, serve as the first stage of an urban renewal project, and even plain old populist propaganda to get them reelected.

Therefore, the target market is a set of organizations with deep pockets whose decision is mainly political and is driven by cost-benefit analyses, but ultimately aren't the ones who will actually use the end-result.

Therefore, as cost is king, these social housing projects tend to be located in regions whose real estate value is very low, mainly due their sub-par location. As the people who will end up living in these housing projects, due to their low income, essentially don't have any better alternatives than living in a substandard house in a sub-par location (because, given an alternative, they would live elsewhere) then that's exactly the sort of people who will end up living in these homes.
The thing being defended against isn't the sun blowing up. It's a species-ending impact or some other localized global catastrophe that would cause the loss of 100,000 years of culture, art, and history.

Everything we've worked for during the entire history of the human existence can be erased in an instant. All other benefits of being interplanetary aside, redundancy is important.
3D on the forward view - not really needed elsewhere!
The Macs Apple was selling in 1996
Mathematics is also a popular topic on HN but there isn't an impressive portfolio of projects written in that either. Pretty daming for mathematics.
If you think the examples in this article are bad, try getting a job as a teacher in the UK - they will offer you the job on interview day, and if you don't take it there and then, go to the next candidate. No time to consider your options, certainly no weighing between 2 options you have.
I think the parent was oversimplifying a bit, and it looks like you took his answer a bit too literally. What is important really here is to establish a contact with the person before asking for service. Anything goes - bonjour, hello, a smile, a nod (works for me very well). Just try to put a bit of your emotions into this (presumably: you are a stranger in a foreign g country not speaking language and needing assistance), and the rest will go accordingly.
Paris attacks: Key suspect Abrini arrested in Brussels
I wonder if they bundle multiple domains in one certificate?
This is a web page (2013)
Yes but good how is he at whiteboarding? Oh, and does his psychological profile meet our requirements?
Beyong offline web apps – offline your VIEWs
Does somebody know why they changed from mp4 to mkv?
> The thing being defended against isn't the sun blowing up.

It was in the post I was replying to.

> It's a species-ending impact or some other localized global catastrophe that would cause the loss of 100,000 years of culture, art, and history.

Do you plan on building museums on mars or something? Whatever you plan on doing on mars in order to preserve "culture, art and history", you can do it for much, much less money on Earth.

> Everything we've worked for during the entire history of the human existence can be erased in an instant.

That's a gross exaggeration.
If We Were iPhones
Citation:http://www.haaretz.com/news/new-law-requires-employers-to-su...

>> "because capitalism at it's core is a system built on exploitation and power imbalances and races to the bottom."

- races to the bottom - companies will do a lot to save cents per product, even sabotage quality. that's what i see in the appliance market - where everything is a piece of shit reliability wise. Same in the clothing market(shitty chemicals), ikea furniture, low quality of many software products, many electronic components(micro controllers), etc.

Exploitation and power imbalances - Besides state protection - that's relatively hard to get, for many jobs, employers have most of the power and they behave accordingly. suicides in Apple factories(again it would matter to Apple almost at all if employees had reasonable conditions) or the story from Israel is one among many.

Are you Israeli BTW?
This is a perfect scenario to test the demand will kickstarter
> the main barrier to housing affordability here is zoning laws that prevent density and enough housing units from being built

Exactly. For many desirable cities, the land is the lion's share of the property cost, not the house.
No not with the logo.
The best solution would be to acquire it, but that would lead to companies in china copying other companies websites and products in turn starting an entire chain of copycat blackmails. The situation is definitely hard. But a temporary solution is definitely acquiring the firm.
Argh correct. It was supposed to be /apply but that one redirects to https://www.ycombinator.com/apply/, so we changed it to /applyhn.