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Ask HN: How to use your hacker skills for good?
TLDR: Where to find organizations/companies that recruit hackers (as volunteers or payed employees), to develop products (hardware/software) to help others around the world or the local community where it is based?

I became a nomad last Christmas, in order to be able to explore more. Such that there is a better balance between my time where I discover new, while working and studying. This turned out to be great, and after 6 months I'm very happy how it all turned out and has evolved so far.

So enough about that. My educational background is a cross between electrical engineering, artistic education, game development and general computer science. Most of it is learned on my own, and I continue to learn alone or within an (online) community.

I always wanted to help other people, but never really have done so, beyond some local stuff. In the last months I did start doing volunteering, but I never could use my hacker skills (Hardware + (mostly) Software) while doing so.

This website/community often gives me great ideas because of articles shared or questions asked by other people. Therefore I would like to ask a question of my own:

Are there any specific websites/communities where I can find more information about organizations and companies that recruit "hackers" to help them, help others. Could be both on a volunteering, freelance or permanent basis. I'm also location independent, so it could be pretty much anywhere on this planet.
If the only way publishers can make money is by screwing people over then maybe the whole business model is the problem and life would be better without all those blogs.

Here's an alternative. Specialist sites sometimes sell ads directly to the advertisers without using a network. They can choose what they show, and often won't accept ads that don't relate to their users. Not really an option for a dilute gossip news blog though.
Donald Trump Parody Music Video “The Apprentice Über Alles”
Personally, I want a smarter editor with more precision and less typing, even if it's difficult to learn. Many developers spend a couple thousand hours a year in an editor.

The editor should be a precise tool.

For example, AceJump for smart navigation can be found in several editors.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZkpmegySnc

Ideally, we would augment the keyboard with eye-tracking for navigation, Leap Motion hand tracking, and voice programming:

http://ergoemacs.org/emacs/using_voice_to_code.html
Maybe advertising is moving towards being a dead revenue model, and something else needs to take its place.
- The App Store has been operational for four years. I can still install anything I want.

- This is opening a previously private API for third parties. I fail to see how this is, if anything, going to make them more competitive with Apple-provided apps.

- If golden jail is getting a new door – doesn't that actually mean more freedom?
Sure votes are bought offline too. But it's much more difficult.

The people who sell votes don't care to "change their mind". They get their reward and they're happy with that. People who would bother to change their mind, don't sell their votes in the first place.
Tallinn is small, but seems exciting.

Estonians are on the forefront of trying digital services and e-government.
When I remember to use multiple cursors (in emacs), they work really well, but also seem kind of gimmicky. Anything you can do with multiple cursors (at least as they exist in Sublime Text and emacs multiple-cursors-mode) you can also do in emacs with a keyboard macro, and I got into the habit of using keyboard macros a long, long time ago.

In emacs, there's also iedit-mode, which is another way of doing the same sort of things you would do with multiple cursors.
>I know that using antibiotics to grow meat is irresponsible because it fosters antimicrobial resistance

Would you be okay with antibiotic use if they used antibiotics that aren't used in humans?
Using the CEO's first name repeatedly like he actually cares about what this guy has to say makes him sound like a huge asshole. It pretty much reads like angry hatemail.
this is pretty sad coming from stanford. With blockchain tech online voting is now more safe than ever if we just push for it. Wouldn't want to fix those rigged elections now would we?
How dare apple decide to make products that appeal to a mass market. I remember how they used to fill my niche and now they fill everyone else's except mine and it's not fair.

they don't even target creative professionals anymore; why don't they bring out a pro version of their tablet that is more accurate, powerful and fun to use than a wacom.
Has anyone tweeted this to Matt Cutts (Head of Web Spam at Google) ?
I can definitely see such scenarios -- one is of course the case where the defending side is winning.

And you may be right about the gamble, hopefully you are -- but this is only true as long as we ourselves stand ready to escalate as well, and the opponents know that. It seems that part of the establishment is beginning to forget this.
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That's why it was just for monitoring - you could hear, but the communication itself was not done via sound.
What are the reasons you'd be considering this?

Any particular cities you'd consider?
For people who would like to test and report back, there is this http://input.fontbureau.com/info which apparently is a proportional coding font.
I have never used it. I like my monospace fonts, even for reading.
Pertaining to the same quote, obscure isn't part of the equation here. Almost all ad networks are guilty, including the biggest (i.e. the least obscure by definition) ones, like AdSense/AdX.
blockchain tech solves your problems.
If no one pays for them, then they should die as hosting is not going to pay itself. However, launching a small forum and running it costs pennies.

The people launching it normally does it because they are passionate enough and paying 2-5$/month/admin is totally feasible.

The problem with adding a profit to niche sites is that then people start launching them JUST to get money and people land on frankenpages with malware.
> The press understands "apps" and "tabs". The press doesn't understand "filesystem snapshots".

That's a limited view of the press.
Still scraping. If you use their API, you need to submit your app for evaluation and there are a bunch of restrictions and other things you need to comply with. I'd need to do a whole lot of work and remove some of the features. The level of effort has never felt worth it. It means there are occasional breakages every 6 months or so but it's usually the work of half an hour to fix it and push out an update. My users very quickly tell me if it's broken. ;)
>hire a few interns to put eyes on any and all ads before they go out.

They do, all creatives are audited on submission. You can't provide literally ANY creative at bid time, it has to be one that's been audited. It's people that then switch the creative once the audit has been completed that are screwing everyone. It should result in you being banned from the network, but it's hard (apparently) to ban people that are paying the bills for you the ad network.
Why would it be much more difficult?

The difference is "upload a photo of your ballot" versus "upload a screenshot of your vote".
I wish USA the best with its mentally 5 year old president...
what could possibly go wrong.
Because they want to be able to switch ads very quickly, and they don't want to rely on you to supply the number of ad-displays.

It's not a problem getting the correct data from your server logs, but it's not difficult to imagine someone fiddling with the number and indicating that they displayed far more ads than they really did.
Recounts and Audits are only as good as those running the recount and audit.. See Chicago, Arizona, NYC, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc....
"End users on metered bandwidth (mobile for instance) will suffer but that's not the advertisers problem"

Well, it is their problem or else we wouldn't have this "crisis" of Internet ads now and cries of advertisers/publishers. After all, you can only push a limited amount of bullshit down the users throat before they start throwing up.. It took many years of abuse by countless browser bars, pop-up ads, auto play videos, inflated network bills for a casual user to start using ad-blockers.
Related: how do people normally access edX on an iPad? Am I correct that there is no dedicated app?
This is laughable. If site owners could go to jail every time a 3rd-party code they're not fully responsible for does something bad, they'd all be in jail now.

https://blog.malwarebytes.org/threat-analysis/2015/08/large-...

http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/03/big-name-sites-hit-b...

Etc.
If it's printed paper ballots, you have merely created a very expensive pencil. There isn't any benefit of using a computer+printer.
How do physical newspapers prove ad serving to their buyers? I'm certain they don't point to every single newspaper thrown in a driveway.
Good idea. https://twitter.com/ArtemR/status/742687018514157568
Spirit of the game
Only "almost all"? Why not use the few that don't? Is it because your revenue from them will be lower? Maybe it's lower because they aren't forcing these profitable ads at your users. That really does sound like the publisher's fault for choosing the most profitable ad network and neglecting the user's experience. Any "good quality" ad network is bound to pay less, otherwise they'd all be doing it.
It's not the same, an XSS is not comparable to a shell for the exact reason I outlined above. And a session is not a password.

I'm probably coming over as too offensive, but you really really don't seem to know what you are even talking about. You are wrong wrong wrong.
Wider range of usable keybindings. Potentially more expressive syntax highlighting. Multiple font/size usage, which some themes make good use of in some modes. Inline images in org-mode (and eww?). Reading PDFs.
Yeah the ironic thing is that I've chosen to not purchase apple products more than the author, and still have less animosity towards them. You have to really want to like something to be that upset not to like it.
It's not difficult at all to verify - just insist that the person being coerced take a selfie with the ballot. I'm told this has already been implemented by communist terrorists in India, though I can't find any English language sources.

I think a big chunk of the opposition to electronic voting by techies is simply a failure to recognize that physical systems can also be hacked. Which is of course silly - the only time I voted, I did so fraudulently.

(The lack of voter ID laws in NJ made it very easy. To prove a point to a friend that voter ID laws allowed fraud, I voted as my friend. Then he voted as me. I won the bet.)
>1- The chilling effect of people being scared to click on a link that may do searches their government cares about

https://cs.nyu.edu/trackmenot/
neither can paper ballots.. so what's your point?
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"one important feature of a voting booth is that you cannot proof your own vote"

Why so? You can take a photo of your ballot after filling it.
I posted on the issue tracker and a few other places about this and was shut down. Apparently it's a support issue, not a technical one. From my (limited and potentially erroneous) understanding, Signal hashes each of your local contacts and uses that hash to query whether the number is registered with OWS. If so, you receive a notification to that effect. Essentially, you can identify Signal users without actually communicating with them. Though the same is true with PGP if you use a public keyserver.

That said, it gave some friends quite a fright. It's really unfortunate this wasn't opt-in or publicized before-hand.
you bought the magazine
> but doesn't Apple assume that you're all-in?

Who cares? Isn't that a bad thing ? As an iPhone-only apple user, i had no problems making it work. OTOH, I find their "special" charging cable ridiculously unnecessary.
I don't think it's so much about GMO as it is about all the dairy-free, gluten-free, whatever else-free diets, where people are eschewing whole food classes because it's trendy, rather than because there's a well-documented health advantage to it.

Some people _do_ have good medical reasons to engage in such diets. Lactose intolerance and celiac disease are a thing. They're just not nearly as widespread as some health food fans would have you believe, and I'm yet to see clinical evidence for the hazier "intolerances" some people use to justify those choices.
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I might be a bad millenial, but I just use my phone for talking, text chat, and chrome. The apps are pretty much the same so every few years I can just pick the best looking phone at the time with no lockin.

Google lockin is a lot more significant because they offer actually useful services that I do want to centralize.
Sorry I probably explained it wrong (not native English speaker). The important part of the quote is not "obscure", you could remove it and keep my original meaning.

What I mean is that if it's not a sustainable business then you'd need to add advertising to make it so. So maybe it shouldn't be called a business at all. But don't force advertising on your users just because you made an unsound business decision.
I'm on a war path with these video ads, but advertising networks don't give us enough (or any) tools to disable serving them. Most of the time, it's either all or nothing. Some let you disable certain types of ads, including AdSense (it has a VPAID checkbox now that I think about it), but when I reached out to AdX people about it, they were not helpful so far (their recommendation was to turn off anything that says "video" in the OptIn tab, except that does not get rid of these VPAID ads).

sovrn was a network I dropped for this very reason - they kept serving VPAID ads and didn't give me a way to turn them off.

The list goes on.
> refactoring (select a variable name, select all instances of that name, change),

regex works great for me in vim

> 1 time pre-processing data

I use regex for this most of the time, and macros if it's more complicated. I think macros are actually quite a bit more powerful than multiple cursors because you can apply the same set of transformations between files (and without needing to match against a particular word or pattern).
I pay for access to NYT, Economist and Guardian. And I still block their ads. I expect them to eventually kick me out or charge more, because I'm sure my subscription fee isn't covering their profit goals.

Even if I was paying full fee for these things to be dropped on my physical door step every day, there would still be ads, only they'd be static and safe.
I'm actually not aware of any except for maybe http://decknetwork.net, which is very selective in accepting publishers and only serves certain verticals.

And yeah, if the revenue from some other obscure network is 10% of AdSense, and a good business becomes not viable, it's not good for anyone.
What ever happened to just offering a product that is in high demand and charging for it, and ignoring advertisers?

There are a lot more cancers of the advertising industry than just those listed too. In particular I would say the news industry which is a shadow of its former self, is a great example. It doesnt matter what major news site I go to, theres a big half, full, middle page popup that requires an x yo be hit, or wait for this ad, or some wierd hyperlink hijacking bullshit, or any number of other douchebaggery which tells me the site considers the ad network a bigger customer than the reader.

I'm mostly talking about on the phone, on desktop, with a combination of ublock origin and others this is greatly reduced, but only a small subset of the population uses those.

Our country is in what amounts to a constitutional democratic crisis of epic proportions but ads are interfering with citizens informing themselves due to recursive feedback loops between publishers and advertisers.

Dont even get me started on how the standard SV business model I see is: create something semi novel, get a bunch of users, sell company, new owners exploit users for advertising, ride the wave until the crash.

Or how people pay money for cable but still sit through 18 minutes of brainwashing, mindnumbing commercials for the priviledge of paying!

Its a big ol racket basket of bullshit. Cancer barely even begins to describe it. How about stage 4 metasticised cancer of the everything.
This. At least the mindfulness I practice (rooted in Buddhist teachings, not tied to them however) is definitely not driven by an expected outcome of "positivity." Oddly enough, this has led me to a more positive outlook, generally speaking.
I mean publishers
Except the part where it's not.
Even on Chrome desktop, if you turn on Mobile emulation and switch it to appear to be any Android device w/ phone display size, it fails in the same way - yet switch it to 'iPhone 5' or 'iPhone 6' and the same compact layout works fine. They're pointlessly sniffing and special-casing 'Android' user-agents and botching it completely.
It's just that the advertiser, the agency, the ad network, another ad network, and another agency are tracking the time that you are watching the video. Plus, sometimes, they track every second or the code is really dirty and does this kind of crazy number of http (tracking) requests. 5000 requests is above the average though :) But I saw recently an ad like that, and it was like 100% of my surf on a website.
I am glad to see more things having moved to the web, and less app-preaching being pushed nowadays. I barely use any apps (except maybe for shazam?), mainly for battery-preservation. Maybe i 'm too spartan, but the slight inconvenience is worth it.
If you use Neovim (or even stock Vim), you can do everything you want. Proportional fonts are a bit harder because you'd need to change your terminal font, but presumably you could do it within gvim. Not that I understand the logic behind wanting proportional fonts for _programming_.
Do you mean hacker or cracker? :-)
Wikipedia is in different position than other sites.

Every time someone posts a link to paywall, everyone discusses how to bypass it. And the people reading HN are wealthy Silicon Valley people. Well, not me but you get the idea.

Everyone talking about charging people instead ads - have you ever tried it? Tell me your success stories.
Is it though? Just because you aren't interested in these other recommendations and connected ads doesn't mean the wide majority who purchases sewing kits aren't as well.

If this "blantantly sexist" ads were wrong no one would purchase such ads. Sure they may be stereotypical, but that's what targeted ads are all about, creating data driven stereotypes that later can be used for increasing sales and relativity.
good for you. you obviously have a different use case for your assets than others. as is your right and theirs.
This logic doesn't make sense. If an advertiser willingly pings itself to a ridiculous degree does not mean it's a conspiracy to bring a server (its own?) down.
You've 'thought about' going and getting a high ranking government job (seniority equivalent to an armed forces general)?

You must have some very impressive credentials...
A few comments:

I'm still happy with my iPhone 5. I still easily get more than a day's charge. (Full disclosure: I did actually have a battery issue a long time ago. They replaced the whole phone.)

I'm very happy with my Pebble Time. FWIW you can long-press the left button to enable "quiet mode" (without looking at the watch, I'll add. You get different vibrations to indicate enabling or disabling of quiet mode).

Why does he keep buying immature Apple products in every market?

The "Apple junk" folder will be going away soon, yet he's complaining about it now after Apple announces its demise (finally).

Personally, my biggest complaint with Apple right now is that they don't make any reasonable desktop hardware. I want to replace my old MBP that hasn't moved from my desk in a long time, and if I want to continue using a Mac my best option seems to be to make a hackintosh.
I mark everything I buy on Amazon as a gift. This seems to stop the silly recommendation behaviour, and also stops Amazon emailing you asking for reviews or to provide answers to other customers' questions.
I'm not optimistic here. At scale, cost always wins. Look what Hershey did in the US to its brand also Cadbury when they licensed it: that pasty brown wax is just not appealing compared to the real thing.

http://sweets.seriouseats.com/2008/09/chocolate-cocoa-butter...
I was under the impression that large carrier fleet was championed by the Navy ages ago because they didn't want to take second place to the Air Force's Strategic Air Command. This was especially true after WW2 as the Navy was so very large and influential.

They don't have a place in a war with another super power but the greater point here is missed. No one and nothing has a place should another war break out among the super powers. that is a no win game.

So where do they fit it. In projecting power when lower tier countries act up, when threats to shipping lanes are caused.

Do they need 11? Certainly not but this is all a dick wagging contest among the branches of the US military which compete more than they cooperate exaggerating the true cost of the military. My view, totally off the cuff, six is all they need.
Baby steps.

The phrase "couldn't be bothered" is assuming a lot of bad faith on Microsoft's part. While I would agree that in times past MS didn't deserve the benefit of the doubt, these days they're a different company.

With no special insight into their reasoning, I think the more likely answer to the question, "Why didn't they contribute this upstream?" is probably "Give it time."
I suppose deleting the phone app, App Store and settings doesn't make much sense.
"In order to retrieve your votelocker key, you must publish your completed ballot and voting receipt to candidate.onion"
Sketchy Evidence of Google's Autofill Supporting Hillary
HTML is a client-side language for browsers to interpret. I'm not sure what you mean exactly - can you please clarify?
Me too! Which markets?
I don't oppose GMOs because I think they'll hurt me, at least not immediately. I think that the Conagras and Monsantos of the world will use the power that genetic engineering gives them to increase the sugar content of their foods.

It's not an unreasonable fear, they've been doing that using traditional breeding techniques forever, at the expense of world health. Genetic engineering only gives them more power to abuse. And I'd like to be able to avoid those foods.
> It's so blatantly sexist and wrong it's almost funny again.

Have you considered that it's blatantly sexist and right? I.e., that perhaps no-one programmed the ad network to associate sewing kits with handbags, makeup & high-heeled shoes, that perhaps the ad serving AIs learnt that on their own?

I wonder what we'll do when our AIs come to socially-unacceptable-but-true conclusions. Humans can be brow-beaten or persuaded into ignoring the truth systematically, but computers have to either have each bit of truth-denying programmed into them, or have much better intelligence and spend much more CPU calculating at a higher level in order to avoid socially-unacceptable truths.
I run my blog with a custom domain name on Azure for $10 a month. I run some ads and Amazon affiliate links, but I've honestly made more from random people clicking my Paypal donation link.

Not that I really care about making money on it - as with most things, measuring my hosting costs in terms of Starbucks coffees puts it nicely in perspective. I should probably go pull my adsense ads.
Adblock whitelist only serves the interest of big publishers with money. It's basically racket.