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Hi, I'm Alex from Gresham Dollar (Now Greshm Dollar). I am pretty much the opposite of what you would want in a founder. My background is very shaky and I don't have a college degree. I barely graduated high school. I used to hack together CRUD apps until I got bored out of my mind and just stopped.

I was the first Druid on my realm to level 60 when World of Warcraft came out though, so there's that. But I wasn't really a team player and I couldn't get into any of the good guilds. I also never had any gold because I was busy doing fun stuff instead of mining thorium or whatever.

From 2006 to 2008, I worked on a virtual reality headset with my father:

http://www.leepvr.com

My father's health declined and our project never turned into anything. Well, that's not exactly true. Palmer Luckey used my father's lenses in the first prototypes for the Oculus Rift, but I had nothing to do with the development of those lenses.

Before I came up with the idea for Greshm Dollar, I briefly wrote a blog exploring some of the ways in which technology was transforming society:

http://www.suncho.com

I wasn't really trying to come up with an idea or looking for a way to make money. I just always assumed basic income was inevitable. For a while, I had known that a government could pay for a basic income through deficit spending (small leap from Post-Keynesian macroeconomics). But then when I was contemplating the crisis in Greece, I came up with an idea for how to smoothly introduce a new currency and it all clicked for me.

Everything I know about money, banking, economics, and finance, I learned through books and MOOCs.

Anyway, with my credentials, there's no way I'd get into Y Combinator or the YC Fellowship the normal way, so here I am!
If my analogy is is flawed (which it almost certainly is), yours is even more so: the computing equivalent of your analogy is preventing runtime errors by simply not allowing software components to interact - yes, of course, without interaction there are no errors because there is no computation!
There's difficult because "the topic is hard" and difficult because "there are unnecessary social barriers put up" and I've seen a lot more people affected by the latter than the former.

(source: am a math phd)
Do we have any explanation on why Gavin hasn't revoked his post yet? He seems to be tweeting supportive articles as well. Are we still going with the "account was hacked" theory?
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> Seems like a weird design choice

Angular.js in a nutshell.
The only thing greater would be if he actually was both a complete loony and all his claims were true. It would be interesting to have something as important and useful as Bitcoin have an origin such as that.
Since we are talking about me, I might comment as well. Even the smartest and best people can, from time to time, have idiotic ideas, I sure had a few in my time :) To say that someone has an idiotic idea isn't the same as to call them an idiot. The original comment was a well presented, though flawed, argument, clearly NOT a work of an idiot. Further, for me to say "I am glad you are in the minority..." simply indicates that I disagree vehemently with the position the original commenter is taking and I am very happy that his position is not very popular, as that means that maybe things in Brazil will change for the better as the result of this.

I also find it ironic that in a post about censorship someone pulled out the HN censorship guidelines. I totally understand the context is completely different, but it's funny.
I whish they were taking advantage of a RPi instead of going through some new board design. Good Luck anyways!
> Most of them ship on a 6-month or even 2-year release cycle whereas Sandstorm updates every week.

That's fine. Run your own repo where you control the release cycle. Puppet does this. GitLab does this. PostgreSQL does this. Sandstorm does not do this.

> Most of them will not accept a package that wants to self-containerize with its own dependencies, which means Sandstorm would instead have to test against every different distro's dependency packages every week, whereas with self-containerization we only depend on the Linux kernel API -- which is insanely stable.

GitLab ships an omnibus installer with their CE/EE product, and it works great. I don't see why Sandstorm couldn't also publish an omnibus installer which contains all the dependencies, in essence creating your own container in somewhere neutral like /opt

This way, you have atomic releases you can install. How do I select the version to install with 'curl | bash' without user interaction?

> If we publish the packages from our own repo, we're back to square one: how does the user get the signing key, if not from HTTPS download?

Publish your signing key as a distribution package. This is what most organizations do (e.g. EPEL, PostgreSQL, Puppet).

Then the user does 'apt-get install sandstorm-release', 'apt-get update', 'apt-get install sandstorm' and you have an authenticated release.

Your signing infrastructure should be secure enough that you don't have to change the signing key within the major release cycle of a Linux distribution anyway.

> You should probably be installing Sandstorm in its own VM anyway.

This isn't an excuse for 'curl | bash' installs. If they want to recommend that their customers run the product in a VM or container, they should provide appliance/container images, as well as packages.

> We've never had an enterprise customer comment on this

I am in enterprise, although I'm not a sandstorm customer. I will tell you that one of the first considerations when deciding on a product is how well it fits into our existing infrastructure. If I can't push a repo and install a specific version of the software, tested and known working, using puppet, it's not getting deployed in our org.

Perhaps the reason none of Sandstorm's enterprise customers are asking for packaged installers is because every enterprise customer who expects a packaged installer sees Sandstorm's installation method and decides not to use it.
Paywalls would probably be a more stable revenue model than advertising. Everyone else would have make money some other way, but alternatives (like Patreon) already exist.
It's not awful advice but it's definitely risky. Probably okay when you are a small one-person shop with nothing to lose and no significant assets but maybe not acceptable for anything larger, unless everyone is on board with the extreme risk-taking.

That said, agreeing to onerous terms and having the company actually enforce them later are two different things. This is a good explanation from an earlier HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6366912 (yes, it's the pud 'Fucking Sue Me' thread which is evergreen).
I discovered this historical trivia myself by chance not long ago. While stopping in Kettleman City off of I-5, there's a retail complex called Bravo Farms. Inside, near the restrooms there's a map on the wall showing a massive "Tulare Lake". I could hardly believe such a large lake existed in this area not too long ago and it's mostly forgotten.

Google image search, and I found someone else posted a pic of the map:
http://ink361.com/app/users/ig-2115609400/eccentricculinary/...
If any company has a chance to make deep linking/in-app search work, it's Google, maybe Apple. They already have the mobile ecosystem and control it. The recent troubles of URX, Quixey etc. illustrate the uphill battles startups will face in this space.
Not to be cynical. But totally fair I am sure.

Especially for people that do great work but maybe are a little less extraverted.

If you can't perfectly negotiate and influence multiple people you are practically f..ed.

Glad not to have such types of so called managers trying to tell me what's good for me.
Hi, Greg! Library author here. I'd be happy to add a configurable UserAgent. Perhaps the default would be a generic "waybackpack" but could be configurable to add contact info for the user. Does that sound about right? Prefer a different approach?

And, yep, the library is intentionally designed only to request one snapshot at a time.
> Which is easier to achieve when languages are strong typed and require explicit escape hatches for doing unsafe things.

No disagreement here. What I'm saying is that, in today's environment, requiring escape hatches for dynamic resource management is effectively requiring escape hatches for everything. The worst part is that, in most languages, you don't even need to enable escape hatches to preform nonsensical operations like mutating the same object in two threads, without explicit concurrency control. Literally everything is unsafe!

To the best of my knowledge, the only practical language today that attempts to mitigate these issues is Rust. Even if we somehow revived those old "safer than C even if this doesn't mean much" languages, they would probably not help much.

> Expensive is relative. I rather have the computer do stuff for me, and focus being productive.

With runtime checks, your computer isn't really doing anything for you. Your user's computer is alleviating a problem created by you.
> Seven other foreign citizens, including a British engineer, also worked on the project, although it was the Chinese engineer who raised red flags for officials.

Apparently it's OK if it's a Swedish company or there are British people working on it, but not them Chinese!
I agree that Unity3D is overkill for many use cases, although its not many steps to get something that looks roughly like a fixed function OpenGL 1.x and GLUT application working for quick, code only prototypes, so I'm curious what you think is a lot of bullshit. I find that Processing has less boilerplate and more functionality than oldschool OpenGL + GLUT but it gets dismissed by a lot of people because its seen as more of a learning or non-coder environment, even if it's usually sufficient for many quick graphics prototypes.

This is why I asked if its more of a marketing\perception problem, or maybe a workflow problem, than a real problem.

Maybe the answer is to build a portable environment that completely emulates fixed function OpenGL from the 90s and can build all the NeHe tutorials, although that sounds really regressive to me.
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Great! Thanks for the update.
Similar to how the British colonial tyrants killed millions of Indians by exporting crops during a famine:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_of_1876%E2%80%937...
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Mind explaining how intentionally reducing the explicit tangible rewards of personal merit strengthens a meritocracy?

Is critical thinking no longer a thing?
This thing stinks exactly like when those two guys claimed to have shot and killed a bigfoot, and "within a few days" they were going to "prove it" once and for all. They ended up of course having a rubber costume in a freezer. This post has totally hammered it home for me. I have everything I need to know that this guy is a scamming compulsive liar.
> What about playing light linux games like Civ 5 or Crusader Kings?

It appears to use the HD Graphics 515 processor, which seems to have performance in the same ballpark as Intel's HD4000/HD4400 graphics processors. I've played Civilization V on both those (HD4000 OSX & HD4400 Windows), and it runs fine on the lower end settings. I don't see why the HD515 would be significantly different.
Quixey is still around, though.
Solar remains a long-term choice, though.

I love the idea, but I'll have sold my current house before a suite of solar panels pays for itself, and from my limited knowledge, the price of solar-equipped houses doesn't reflect the investment before it's paid for itself.

Disclosure: UK, we have no sunshine.
1. while that is likely the case, since we grant citizenship to those born here (who i believe can then sponsor their family), the obvious choice would be to move here illegally and have children.

2. many current programs today limit what can be bought (SNAPS) or provide the service directly (low income housing), that's not to say there are not ways around this or that dollars are not fungible, but I do think there is difference
"VISION: Our vision is to create a forum about bitcoin, which dispels myths and helps to unleash its potential."

Well that explains everything.
My point is I would expect to find a heck of a lot more "journalists" working for a traditional media outlet than in the tech press
"One can suspect that Masdar had access to long-term financing through the wealthy emirate of Abu Dhabi that no commercial banks, the primary source of capital for the other bidders, could match in cost."

I was excited by this headline until I read the article. This price drop is the result of advances in financial - not technical - engineering. It means nothing for the cost of solar outside of this specific deal, as below-market interest rates are just more subsidies. This is yet another eco-clickbait headline.
Similar to how the English colonial tyrants killed millions of Indians by exporting crops during a famine:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_of_1876%E2%80%937...
That's good news as I still use Firefox. Btw, are there any good docs or blog articles on how it integrates into C or C++ code so well? I don't often see that in new languages. Leads me to wonder if there's lessons to learn there for another project.
we obviously have both, which would seem to be exacerbated by such a plan.
I have the impression that basic goalposts are widely accepted.

If Wright can provide signatures or transactions for the original block, he will be accepted as someone special, if not necessarily Satoshi. If he can't, he certainly won't be accepted.

If he can do that, then it comes down to deciding how he came by those private keys. It's certainly good to pre-register standards, but it's also a really hard question; Wright gave no indication of what evidence types he'll be using, so it's hard to pre-judge every sort of evidence he might offer.

My one other expectation would be that he would explain why the "signature" that got him onto BBC wasn't what he claimed it was. If he is Satoshi, it's a damned odd thing to use a faked signature for his basic proof.
Some of them have SD card slots too.
We rarely catch things breaking in code reviews, I agree they are really bad at finding bugs. Automated tests and linters are better at finding stuff like that. The things we usually address in code reviews are architecture and code design issues, and occasionally edge and interaction issues that are outside the scope of what might have been considered when implementing.

We also have frequent production deployments that everyone on the team can do, I view that as something that is independent of code review.
That would bring far too much rationality and accountability to this subject and the people driving the discussion.
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Employment is in fact often about fear or force.

I work a day job because the state will literally show up with police and guns if I went out into the mountains and lived off the land. Therefore unless I want to starve I must work. Even when it's on shit I hate.

I am lucky enough to have a skill that is sufficiently valuable that I can survive despite disabilities making it difficult to work.

If you imagine that the labor market is free because it happens to mostly be positive sum, you haven't lived at the bottom of the labor market for any length of time.
I clicked through the technical manuals section and was redirected to a page with a statement about unauthorized access. I would assume that there are some access controls on the material in question, but I didn't proceed past the initial statement.
I found this very curious - by their own admission, this also means that most code _does not get reviewed_ before it lands in production. To me, this is quite scary, and I would be very hesitant to adopt this for any large-scale project or company.

IMO, code review is a cornerstone of code quality and production stability - the number of dumb (and smart!) mistakes in my code that have been caught in CR are numerous, and it's a big portion of my workflow. There are times when I feel it's redundant (one-line changes, spelling mistakes, etc), but I wouldn't trade those slowdowns for a system where I only got review when I explicitly wanted it.

Of course, for pre-production project and/or times when speed is of the utmost concern, dropping back to committing to master might make sense, but for an established and (I'm assuming) fairly large/complex codebase, I would think that it would be best for maintainability and stability to review code before it's deployed.
90% is a pretty good deal. I started down the path of doing something like flattr not too long before they came on the scene and I figured 5-15% would be a pretty fair amount to take because you have to pay a content provider and a potential group of middle men. You also have to cover transaction fees aside from just your own internal costs.
Hi Brendan,

(Full disclosure: I'm Mathieu Desnoyers, part of the LTTng maintainer team.)

I would like to introduce a slightly less extreme point of view when considering "on-the-fly" aggregation of traces vs tracing to buffer followed by post-processing. I see from the current discussion thread that it's very much either one or the other, but I think that combining the two approach helps creating much more powerful tools. On-the-fly aggregation based on trace instrumentation helps pinpointing latency outliers. Tracing to buffers, on the other hand, provides very detailed information about the system behavior that leads to those outliers. By using on-the-fly aggregation as "triggers" to collect tracer in-memory ring-buffers, one can achieve investigation of latency outliers with very small I/O overhead.
waybackpack would be a great default; encouraging the actual user to add contact info would be better for you because we could complain to them instead of you :-)
It might be nice to just have sliders to add a 'weight' to different components, maybe hidden behind an 'advanced' option .
Does Angular 2.0 make this one weird trick unnecessary?
I have an original generation Kindle Fire, with the 512mb of RAM.

Yes, even back then, I forcibly reflashed it with a community build of CyanogenMod (started with 4.0 when Amazon's was based on 2.3, now running 6.0) because of how bad Amazon's default ROM murdered performance, even before I ran anything.
because pointing out the non-state chain of force is so much more out of fashion than the "taxes=theft" of the ur-capitalist rand worshipers?
I was always wondering if there is some way of database deployment which does not suck. And all I see - every professional team ends with bunch of 074-add-column-to-table.sql files. I mean, code deployment can be organized much better. You can make graceful restarts, transactional updates, etc. Actually, almost nobody backups old code version because deployment of new one may fail, but database upgrades are so fragile and making backups is a must not only because you afraid of upgrade process may be interrupted and leave database in inconsistent state, but because properly done upgrade may result in corrupted state.
I'd hate to go back to the eye-strain inducing fuzzy low-res CRTs we had to tolerate back in the day. I can look at my rMBP screen all day without getting a headache.
URX was YC S13. From their launch thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6514604):

> Our target customers are mobile commerce companies like LivingSocial whose inventory 1) has a higher cost of sale, and 2) isn't subject to the 30% App Store rake. This means that they are willing to be more aggressive with their paid marketing, similar to how things work on the web.

If the target demographic was LivingSocial, this was kinda inevitable.
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So what you're suggesting is to take the installer course and then hire one of your classmates.
> Anyway, the way she says this leads me to believe she thinks she is more important than other people.

She's a manager of course she thinks that.
You don't even need the SD card, I got a 300$ Chromebook that I run Ubuntu on, even got High Level Assembly to run
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I'd like to see some data indicating there is actually an appreciable performance difference. Indeed, with only one line of code to add, the setup cost is low, but this article asserts a performance gain without any evidence.
The American Chestnut.
It was pretty much wiped out by a disease that infects its cousin, the Chinese Chestnut, which has defenses against it.

"The American chestnut tree reigned over 200 million acres of eastern woodlands from Maine to Florida, and from the Piedmont plateau in the Carolinas west to the Ohio Valley, until succumbing to a lethal fungus infestation, known as the chestnut blight, during the first half of the 20th century. An estimated 4 billion American chestnuts, up to 1/4 of the hardwood tree population, grew within this range."

http://www.acf.org/range_close.php

They're trying to reintroduce blight resistant strains by cross breading with Chinese trees.

http://www.acf.org/r_r.php
Ah jeez lighten up. I was joking. Hacker culture did dominate in the early days. Phone phreaking, etc.
There is also kiss3d for some higher-level rendering:

https://github.com/sebcrozet/kiss3d/blob/master/examples/cub...
With regards specifically to Berlin: those people unwilling to learn and speak German should leave.
you really don't understand what a free market is then. i would suggest any econ 101 book
> which isn't nice but this certainly isn't death!

It took me literally five seconds of searching to find a study [1] that notes that homeless people in the UK have a death rate that starts at twice that of people with homes and increases up to six times that of people with homes with age.

[1]: http://www.crisis.org.uk/data/files/publications/Homelessnes...
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Panels islands.
> Maybe, just maybe, he's enjoying dragging it out and watching all these doubters post their reasons why it's not him.

I have to admit, it would be awesome to see this as an elaborate way to get send a "fuck you" to all the people that accused him of fraud initially, when he claims we was trying to just lay low and let it pass. It would be the most elaborate trolling ever carried out.
In his BBC interview he seemed to avoid directly saying that he was Satoshi or agreeing with the reporter that he was claiming to be him. When asked if he was Satoshi he skirted the issue by saying that he was one of the original people. So I'm not at all sure there is a single individual called Satoshi. We certainly know from his writing that Craig Wright is not the one who came up with the significant ideas behind bitcoin. He's not smart enough.
I'm not sure that the net metering argument applies to places like central Texas. People consume the most power when the sun is shining so solar, even without net metering, makes sense. Of course other regions are different.

> Utility scale solar seems to be the best solution

I don't think it makes sense to talk about a best solution. Large scale solar will contribute along with nuclear, coal, natural gas, wind, etc...
> How am I going to get someone to pump out my septic tank, except to pay him some amount that is sufficient to compensate for the displeasure of the job?

Fortunately, given your basic income in this scenario, you have more money to do so!