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Apply HN: Townsourced – A locally moderated community bulletin board
https://www.townsourced.com

Townsourced is a locally moderated community bulletin board, built to help your communities discover events, share, shop and sell locally.

Problem: Craigslist is broad and doesn’t cover smaller communities, and when you want to buy or sell something, you need to share your personal contact information, and make the trade in cash. This can be an unsafe and scary proposition. Individual Facebook pages are being created to fill in the gaps that Craigslist has left, but they are impossible to search through and frustrating for buyers and sellers both.

In Townsourced users create and moderate “Towns” which can be used for buying and selling goods, posting events, jobs, housing, volunteer opportunities, or anything else that is going on around their local communities.

“Towns” are communities of any size, from your entire city, to a single dorm, club or school. Users can post to all of their communities once, simultaneously. And moderators can manage which posts they want visible in their towns.

Buying and selling can be coordinated through built-in messaging, and users have the option of completing these transactions electronically so they don’t have to worry about carrying cash to a meetup with a stranger.

We currently have a working demo, and are seeking our first investors to help us launch.

Check out https://www.townsourced.com/pitch for more information.

Your comments, questions and feedback are appreciated.

Thanks
reminds me of a radiolab episode: http://www.radiolab.org/story/eye-sky/

here's the summary,

> In 2004, when casualties in Iraq were rising due to roadside bombs, Ross McNutt and his team came up with an idea. With a small plane and a 44 mega-pixel camera, they figured out how to watch an entire city all at once, all day long. Whenever a bomb detonated, they could zoom onto that spot and then, because this eye in the sky had been there all along, they could scroll back in time and see - literally see - who planted it. After the war, Ross McNutt retired from the airforce, and brought this technology back home with him. Manoush Zomorodi and Alex Goldmark from the podcast “Note to Self” give us the low-down on Ross’s unique brand of persistent surveillance, from Juarez, Mexico to Dayton, Ohio. Then, once we realize what we can do, we wonder whether we should.
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This isn't specific to Apple Watch, it's about all smart-watch thingies: the way we interact it them is just too limited. The screen is tiny, so you cannot use it to read / watch content, and there's no way of interacting it except for clicking a very limited number of buttons.

Though the voice recognition interface on some of them is kind of ok, it's not private or exact enough to make it actually useful.

We have the technology - we can built it - but why? There's still not a "killer app" nor a "killer UI" for a smart watch.
I remember that paper. I believe P=/=NP, but man it would be amazing what you could accomplish if it was! (For example, you could answer in polynomial time whether a proof for a sentence S existed with N symbols or fewer. For sufficiently large N, it is essentially a universal truth tester for a given model T! Incredible!)
Consumers don't buy 2% more chicken at the grocery store just because "inflation is 2%". That's total nonsense with no basis in reality. And investors will still make traditional investments in a deflationary environment, BTC denominated loan markets and "IPOs" are the case in point to that end.

Granted, in a deflationary environment, investments will be less profitable if the projects being invested in are dependent on consumers spending money frivolously.

> Investment is key to growth/innovation but there has to be some demand there. Demand creation is always overlooked, when wages aren't raised, when companies move out of the US etc. These things directly impact demand and purchasing power of consumers at all levels eventually.

Society gains purchasing power at large in a deflationary environment.

And note that, if the American economy grows 10% in a year, the Fed will still strive for inflation. If economic growth is 10% and inflation is 1%, the upper echelons of society will have skimmed 10% off the top, robbing society of that growth. Conversely, in a Bitcoin world, the 10% economic growth is returned to the savers in the form of more purchasing power.
I found that on flying East to Asia, I didn't have a choice but to go to sleep around 5-6-7 and wake up at 2AM. Mind and body simply shut down, especially after a ~13h flight.
They just gave it to me. I've had this happen before when I lived in lower demand areas (also it was during the recession), so I don't think it's that unusual.
I thought these weren't "watching" as much as they were using stingrays to slurp up cellular location and metadata.
Why would they need warrants for watching a person in a public place? You don't have an expectation of privacy in that situation.
It seemed convenient. Do you have a better way?

Edit: Convenient = it's right there all the time, you don't have to reach for anything or hold anything.
If you already really did SICP picking up python should be done in a matters days, what you need is a python reference.
"It took billions of dollars and years of work to clean up the mess of Saddam Hussein’s failed scorched earth policy."

i'm not sure how this makes sense. the whole point of scorched earth is to create exactly this kind of cost and requirement for work.

i'm also pretty sure it would be more heroic if it wasn't that this whole operation was paid for. its not people doing something nice off their own backs... its people doing their jobs - however heroic or awesome it is to behold from the outside, they are doing what they need to do and what they were trained to do in order to collect their paycheques.

you might think its amazing that they didn't quit, but I'd hazard a guess that these guys knew at least a bit what they were getting themselves in for and were being suitably compensated for the extra difficulties of the job.

... still the photos are very thought provoking.
My favorite technique they used to extinguish the fires was to hoist a piece of well casing vertically over the flame, effectively raising it a few dozen feet into the air. Then they'd maneuver the bottom of the casing so the oil spraying from ground level wasn't near the flame, and the fire would be out.
Would be cool if we could write our own life events.
Well the most productive programmers aren't paid as much as they are worth now. Do you think unionizing will further reduce their pay? I have a feeling not...
Point of Origin (POO) analysis believe is the tech term.
Would things have been different if Apple hadn't branded it as a watch?
Exactly. When my friends/strangers ask me about my watch they always ask if I NEED to have one. I always tell them the same thing-the Apple Watch makes my day better/easier and I like the look and feel. Do I NEED it? No, but if I'm not wearing it I feel it's absence. I've also gotten way more random people asking me about it then any other device I've ever owned. Strangers will walk up and start conversations with me when they see it on my wrist.
Hannu Rajaniemi's The Quantum Thief trilogy features computing in singularities with output via Hawking radiation. That, and much other amazing technofantasy.

edit: spelling
For somehing equally depressing, check out this comic by Abstruse Goose: http://abstrusegoose.com/51
The authors even included their PGP fingerprints at the bottom of the article and invited readers to contact them securely.
Fair points, especially the car part. It just feels exploitative to me though, making money off people who are already desperate for any they can get. Looking more closely at the article, it looks like they wanted to profit off things like referral fees or something like: "pay $300 a month in rent or work 15 hours a week on crowdfunded community service project". This does seem pretty ethical, though I don't know profitable.
Where did you get immutable data structures from in Python, and what do you do when every third party library you interact with uses mutable ones?
I think the website needs a better job explaining what it actually is. What's the point? I just drew a smiley face by clicking random squares.
My phone is my watch no. 1
Yes, many choose wageslavery & their species' destruction, instead of freedom & direct action.

I've known climate-change deniers. They hold on to their political-economic religion as it literally destroys their world. And they're not the worst. The worst are the enablers, who often call themselves "moderates".
Post author here. A bunch of stuff was glossed over as the post was more focused on the stack's history and evolution than specific technical details.

Ideally we hope to provide some followup posts that go deeper into technical detail about key pieces of the stack (DNS, initramfs framework, job broker, GCP usage, etc).
Of course it's a luxury. What I find really enjoyable about it, I can reply to a text by tapping it and speaking. It is a lot more satisfying of an experience than it sounds like when described in words or even the videos used by Apple. It combines the best of the immediate talkback feature of Nextel with the benefits of asynchronous communication.

Where it really shined, I had my car in the dealer getting repaired. There was a lot of back and forth, and they used text messaging. So I could read the issue in about a second and dictate my answer and hit send. Each exchange happened in seconds compared to minutes that it would take via voice.
Curious, anyone know why the FBI takes the weekends off?
Picking up the language, vs picking up what is idiomatic code, what is where in the standard library, which third party tools/libraries are common to use, etc are widely different things though.
> Before you buy into ‘smart’ devices, consider this: nobody really knows the answer because they don’t want to tell you. It’s better if you don’t know.

For anyone listening, don't allow others to tell you what to think. The statement above, for example, is in dire cognitive dissonance and directly in conflict with itself. "nobody really knows" vs. "they don't want to tell you".

The fact is, if we keep on keeping on with this stupid VC model thing with startups, it's likely to end badly.
Could we send a mission to Planet Nine?
WAMI is another. Wide Area Motion Imagery.
I've felt the same only I was the one 5-10 years younger than my manager. I think your age bias in my case would be he "is too young to understand his manager's genius."
>On the brink of a trick, McCoy explains, “there’s a sense of calm and shit sort of quiets down and it’s time to focus.”

I used to do bike trails[1] and also rode every stunt on every double black trail on the North Shore in Vancouver. [2]

I know the feeling being described here, and I'd venture it is the _real_ reason people engage in these sports.

There is a calm when pulling off a really risky stunt, like gapping handrails or riding along a skinny elevated log, and it can be addictive.

>“I’m more comfortable on my bike, jumping, than I am walking down the street,” says Ryan Nyquist, 37, who still competes.

After doing trials for years, I would often say to people that I'd feel more comfortable riding my bike off a big dropoff rather than jumping down to land on my feet.

I can personally attest, that that feeling is hard to give up. I had to stop riding trials at around 37 because of damage to my spine, which thankfully remained limited.

Many of my cycling friends report missing it as well.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkfYm-rnfFI
[2] http://www.pinkbike.com/video/222711/

(I am not either of the riders depicted the linked videos, just included them for context. Also I never came close to riding at Ryan Leech's level, who is also a very nice guy.)
My sister lives in a politically unstable region and swears by them as a tool to protect her children: one press of a button and help is on the way. Not having to dig in their pockets avoids raising suspicion with assailants.

As for myself? All tech conveys two qualities: cost and utility. Having emails buzzing on my wrist would likely cost me much more stress than any utility than the device could possibly hope to provide. No thanks. Smart watches are incredibly niche.
It has nothing to do with fairness. The Android permission model prior to 6.0 was terrible. If you care about this stuff, then you'll want to use 6.0 or newer (or a non-Android phone with similar capabilities). It may not be fair that the phone you bought recently can't upgrade to 6.0 because Android OEMs are terrible, but the facts remain.
FWIW a team of largely men using womens' names for servers always felt a bit icky to me personally for reasons I couldn't quite enunciate. We now use ungendered serial numbers.
I got a HiFi as a gift. It's a pretty kickin' system for what it is. Worst thing about it is that it's pre Bluetooth and has the old style iPod connector.
The idea is nice (depressing, but nice). But what's the use, you can only turn tiles to red. Can't even drag the mouse to select many, state is also not saved :(. My 2c
By the way, for your situation - I am not very familiar with good routes out of Portugal/Spain - but Norwegian's normal paid premium fares out of Oslo/Stockholm/London to Oakland have been a decent fallback for me for when I can't find a decent "hacked trip". It may work for you via a connection to/from e.g. London.

Pro:

- Decent almost business class for $1400 USD roundtrip

- You can buy single trips for 50% of the roundtrip cost

Con:

- Their irregular ops handling is disastrous. They use a small fleet of 787s for transatlantic flights, with zero spare capacity, so when a plane breaks somehow you basically have to wait for them to repair it. For that reason I avoid them on trips into the US (for planned meetings there) but sometimes use them on the way back.
Zynga? Groupon? Twitter (potentially)?
If I could swim with the apple watch and have it track my laps, I would totally buy one. The non-waterproofing was why I didn't buy it.
Just because my stove tells me the time that doesn't make it my watch.
I would advise against incorporating a company until the first sale is made. You want to delay this as much as possible.
When you do incorporate, setup reverse vesting for him so you can easily get his equity back in the case you have to fire him.

Vest his equity over 4 years with a one-year cliff.
This way you have a full year to evaluate if you want him as co-founder/salesperson.
If he is not happy to be under this performance-based scheme then that's a huge red flag.
After all, you have already proved you can hold your side of the bargain but he has not.

If you are already incorporated then you will have to setup a stock option pool with similar terms.

In terms of fairness of compensation, this depends on the competitive landscape. You should probably try to source a few more potential salespeople to get a feeling of what that landscape looks like.
There are door locks that can be opened with a bluetooth-enabled app on an iPhone. They work by proximity. So... If you have your phone close enough to function with your Apple Watch, you already have a way to lock and unlock your door without taking the phone out of your pocket.

However, those same locks would be awesome if the manufacturers released a Watch app so you could manually lock and unlock the door rather than relying on proximity.
What I want is a a dumb external screen+keys for my smartphone that already has gps, Internet,...

I don't need another smartphone strapped to my wrist!

I'm not going to ever want to charge two devices when I go to bed so battery life of a watch needs to be in the order of many months.
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Funny story about that:

There are lots of reports of people swimming with their Apple watches. I shower with mine on all the time. But Apple is simply not quite ready to guarantee that you can swim with your watch.
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Yup. Almost there!
what else would you brand it as?

it is a watch.
There needs to be further refinement as to what actually constitutes "watching", e.g. with respect to duration, frequency, information monitored, etc. US v. Jones held that installing a GPS device on a car constituted a trespass against one's "personal effects".

I think the similar argument here would be that a near constant observation of someone, even while in public, would amount to the same sort of search, even though one has a very low expectation of privacy while in public.
That assumes that the universe is both deterministic and reversible. SHA2 is deterministic, but good luck reversing it. Essentially, to work backwards, time, when going forwards from state A would need to move to some unique state B.

Consider two hills with a valley between them. In one universe, I roll a ball down one hill. In the other, I roll it down the opposite hill. In both, the ball ends up in the valley, and the information about which hill the ball rolled down is lost.

You could perhaps argue that other effects (me disturbing the air on the hill I walked up) might still imply which hill the ball rolled down, but the question really is if such a scenario could exist, probably in a more simple form.
I don't, I am simply curious as the appeal of a smart watch has never been clear to me.
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I'm firmly in the camp that mourns the victims of the loudness war, but it's important to keep in mind that "quality" is not something that can objectively measured, and every generation has its own perception of it. In MP3: The Meaning of a Format by Jonathan Sterne, he cites research done on "The MP3 generation" -- people who came of age when Napster was on the rise -- that found those listeners preferred the sound of 128kbps MP3 over any other format or bit rate. The technology of encoding created an aesthetic.

And then of course you have Brian Eno:

"Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided. It’s the sound of failure: so much modern art is the sound of things going out of control, of a medium pushing to its limits and breaking apart. The distorted guitar sound is the sound of something too loud for the medium supposed to carry it. The blues singer with the cracked voice is the sound of an emotional cry too powerful for the throat that releases it. The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.”
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Way too optimistic. Here, all rectangles look similar, but actually, quality of life in bottom rectangles deteriorates rapidly, medical expenses are skyrocketing, and basically everything sucks.
> In your world, measurement is "bad" for an individual's autonomy.

It isn't actually the measurement itself. It's when the metrics end up tied to rewards and penalties that people start to game them. [1]

What you could do is measure things and then, when unit 15 is above average and unit 9 is below average, figure out why and let everybody know what works and what doesn't.

Which also has the side benefit of improving your metrics. Because if you see that unit 15 has the best numbers and you treat this as an undifferentiated "unit 15 is better and we don't know why but let's reward them" metric, you can miss things like, unit 15's district has a higher population density and they're actually below average after you take that into account.

Investigating the sources of success and failure without assigning personal consequences to them allows people to be honest about why they succeeded or failed. And then if anybody has actually found the secret to success you can share it with everyone else.

[1] Although you do have to be careful not to make "collecting metrics" a thing that eats half of each employee's work time.
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> as far as I understood you can use the grader with "--local" flag to check the correctness of your program, is that the case?

Yes. The autograder is provided with each assignment.
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Well, they are... the question is: when will they use it against them?
Depending on the indexes and other magic,
more efficient might be:

select *
from users
where name = 'Captain Nemo'
and id = (select min(id) from users where name='Captain Nemo')

trying to forget bad memories of forcing the Oracle query planner into submission with more hints than actual sql
when did division become expensive again?

i'm also not sure how this adds anything to being able to stick timers in code. it affords me the same kind of analysis without relying on architectural details... maybe i am just missing some key insight here that the article failed to get across to me.
Does its heart-rate monitoring work while swimming with it? (I'm in the market looking to buy a new HRM)

You'd figure it would have some level of waterproofing, as any sport device is expected to handle a lot of sweaty athletes.
Fascinating.. we should try this in Pakistan.
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I think your first point is the most relevant: endless hours stuck trying to finish a project while struggling with a tight deadline/budget. It all boils down to a common problem amongst developers: guesstimates.

I believe it is a shared fault between clients and consultants. The former does not want to spend money/time preparing complete in-depth requirements/functional descriptions, they want to start yesterday and deliver tomorrow. On the other side, the programmer that bids on the safe side (b/c requirements are a blurry incomplete list of wanna-haves and it's better to over-estimate) runs the risk of not getting the contract, so he commits to a dead-end project: underpaid and overworked.

After many weeks of coding stuff that was not on a list, naturally one burns out. One subtlety: the burnout may not be due to the actual number of hours worked but to the fact that one does not see an end to it, one can never call it done (pressumably waiting to collect a payment due on delivery).
This is a general programming intro course that happens to just use Python, I don't know from where do you get idea that it will make emphasis about the python ecosystem. Will it make you a better Python programmer? probably, but you won't gain much if you already really did SICP. And since you are "seasoned" programmer you will have to deal with all the what is a variable, what is function etc.. all over again.
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