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SEEKING FREELANCER / Potential Co-Founder.

Amazon recently shut off shipments to Australia because of a new Australian law that requires them to collect GST. So I'm releasing an app that lets Aussies shop at Amazon.

Required Skills:

- Must be located in the US, and have a PRIME account.
- You must be willing to re-ship product and do physical work like lifting boxes.

Desired Skills:

- Analytics
- React
- Devops
- Or tell me how else you can add value.

PS Yes I'm aware others are doing this. Not a concern.

email to: eric -at- gregarious dot com dot au
What exactly do you propose? That we round up all the homeless and put them in jail? If we're going to house and feed them anyway, why not do it in a facility where they can leave at some point when they get on their feet?
Skype is terrible. The call quality sucks, it's overpriced, video calling sucks, screen sharing sucks, and recently text messaging stop working almost completely. So what did they do? They moved the ability to text to some arcane sub-menu, it's still there, albeit non-functional.

That was the last straw for me before my account got the axe.
Cool, will take a look. Thanks!
That's a bit harsh, don't you think? Just because something is easy to copy doesn't mean it doesn't have value. Creators should be paid for their work no matter how simple is to copy. If they are the first one who created it and someone else benefits, then they deserve to be compensated.

My best solution would be something along these lines https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17913535
So a few things jumped out at me:

1) It’s going to be a grind and the fact that you increased from 200 actives to 500 actives is a good sign!

2) 10-20% trial signups conversion isn’t terrible until you’ve found the right type of customer you’re targeting. Bigger companies might be getting close to 40% but that is for a product that already has market fit.

3) second other suggestion...email and get in front of your users. Or when users file support tickets (make it super easy for them), use that as opp to get educated.

4) don’t spend money on ads to increase traffic until you are getting more of the type of customer you want and consistently converting them

5) don’t spend more time insrutmenting analytics. You already know what’s up. Just talk to users more and iterate based on their feedback
If you are threatened by someone sleeping on the streets you should seek help.
How do the doctors get US school trained yet can afford a lower income? Medical school is quite expensive in the US. Do they get funding from their government to learn abroad?
I meant Samsung's $700+ phones, and maybe LG's $700+ phones, the only mainstream competitors to the iPhone. Normal people still don't buy Pixels.
It may be impossible for you to get what you're looking for out of a "portable assembler." There's a fundamental tension between low-level control, optimization, and portability. Either you will have code that will run dog-slow on certain architectures, as the compiler has to jump through hoops to do things like unaligned reads and writes that you ask it to do, or it will simply fail to compile certain architectures, or you will encounter undefined behavior on other architectures.

Whichever way it happens, you'd have to rewrite the code for different architectures. If you're rewriting the code on different systems, why aren't you just using an assembler instead of a portable assembler?

However, Rust may be the answer you're looking for.

Right now, in safe code, all operations are well defined; there are a few compiler and standard library bugs which allow undefined behavior, but that's not intentional and many of them are just waiting on some compiler refactoring to land before they will be fixed.

In safe code in Rust, you can pass around references (bare pointers with no GC), work with byte arrays, allocate things on the stack or on the heap, etc. It does provide some restrictions in what you can do to make it possible to check statically that all of your code is safe.

There is also an unsafe subset; this allows the "I know what I'm doing" kind of manipulations you can do in C. Of course, this means that you could encounter undefined behavior; if you do something incorrectly, it could cause arbitrary behavior. The compiler has to be able to rely on certain guarantees that you uphold, because otherwise it could perform not even the most basic of optimizations, nor in many cases even know how to correctly compile the code.

There is an active effort to specify the exact guarantees applied to unsafe code. Right now it's "whatever the current compiler and LLVM happen to do", which is not particularly good in terms of guarantees.

The idea is to try to make something which will be amenable to validating the code. If undefined behavior is sufficiently well specified, then you can compile the code in an instrumented mode which will detect undefined behavior (at significant cost in speed), and you can run your test suite in that mode to get reasonably good guarantees that you don't have UB in your program (as long as your test suite has sufficient coverage).

Clang and GCC have similar modes, undefined behavior sanitizers, that compile code with instrumentation that can detect certain classes of UB. Since C's memory model wasn't designed with this in mind, and C has a fairly weak type system, they can't cover everything.

The hope with the current work on Rust is that a memory model can be formally defined such that all UB could be detected by such a sanitizer, so as long as you have sufficient test coverage, you can be confident of avoiding UB.

Of course, there are other tools you can use as well to avoid UB, like formal proofs of correctness, but it can be quite difficult to fully specify the language in a formal system, and writing proofs of correctness in such systems is not a trivial task.
> is to use your political power as a homeowner to push your municipality to provide sufficient services to the homeless population to provide them with shelter and to help them find more permanent places to live.

And what if it turns out that homelessness, on a local scale, is like traffic - and providing more services (building more/bigger roads) just creates more homeless in the area (induces more people to drive)? Now you've spent what's likely to be a significant amount of money, and made no progress on his problem.
I used Ulysses but I ended up moving to Bear[1]. It's still. a subscription fee, but much cheaper ($1.49/mo). It's lightweight and perfect for what I use it for - taking notes.

If I was going to suggest something for longer-form writings (e.g., journaling, blog posts) and you find that inadequate, I've heard good things about iA Writer[2].

1. http://www.bear-writer.com

2. https://ia.net/writer
Soft Skills Demystified
Do you even know what going out of business means?

Hint: It's not cut and dry. The Amiga company is still in business. Radio Shack still exists. MySpace isn't dead. GeoCities got killed, it didn't go out of business.

Smart contracts won't help you here. Blockchains won't help you here. This is a complex legal problem and you're suggesting it's easy, that the Magic of Blockchains will solve it.

Whatever man.
But even so, having something in the constitution is of relatively little protection if the judiciary and government are in favour of an idea.

For example, the bill of rights talks about "right of the people to be secure ... against unreasonable searches and seizures" and yet asset forfeiture is still a legal option. Actual practices surrounding plea bargains also look to run counter to the spirit of the BoR, but I mean what do I know.

I don't see how having a bill of rights helps. The only matter of import, and the only protection, is an engaged and motivated voting public. Constitutional amendment might provide a thin layer of protection against short-term rogue actors, but the creeping surveillance state is not rogue by any means, it seems to be a point of international consensus over many decades.
Yes: https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/compute/16007
I'm willing to bet these judges live in a nice gated community where the prospect of them and/or their children stepping in excrement or needles is zero. While in a utopia I'd agree, nobody should be arrested for just existing in the wrong place, "criminalizing" this behavior is the only way to force these people into a fully-functioning shelter where they cannot spread disease and filth to the rest of the population. For someone who's best option for sleep is a sidewalk, how is jail some sort of cruel and inhumane treatment?
Has anybody tried Joplin?
https://github.com/laurent22/joplin

On paper, their feature set looks great, with various synchronisation options (Dropbox, WebDAV, OneDrive) and apps on Windows, Linux, macOS, Android and iOS.
So cynical! I don't blame you, but being a cynical and pessimistic spectator is easy. Instead of slinging shit you might indulge us with just how you know better. Is it from watching many failures from the sidelines?
Few weeks after installing really loud air horn, it became apparent that:

- it's impossible to effectively use horn and brakes in emergencies;

- one starts to rely on the horn clearing the way instead of slowing down, which is suicidally dumb;

- horn is used after-the-fact, which needlessly raises the temperature.

The only sensible use is to alert far-away pedestrians that are obviously going to do something stupid.
The ICO closed in 1985. Did you miss out?
The Mister Fusion company made a Mister Blockchain companion product and it solves all those problems.
This is just a "slippery slope" argument. If you do not give people a place to use the restroom, do not be surprised when they use the restroom. If people do not have a place to sleep, do not be surprised that they still need to sleep. No, you do not need to let them shit in your mouth or sleep with your wife. No one is arguing to abolish private property and give it to homeless. People are saying that until there is an alternative, homeless people need a place to sleep and use the restroom, and that place is likely going to be public property such as parks.

Let's say your friend is shot and you are driving them to the hospital. There is no parking at the hospital. You need to park. Will you just say "oh well" and head home. Sorry buddy, no parking. Nope, you need to park. You will do it illegally. It is like that. Not that we don't get parking tickets because we parked on the sidewalk to go to the mall.
The Ninth Circuit has a fairly obvious agenda. They are activist judges - using the bench to push policy. Whether you agree with them or not, there is nothing impartial about the way they conduct their work.
I'm not arguing that it's fine to imprison people just because they'd be better off-you're the one saying that.

I'm saying that it's not cruel or unusual to send someone to jail as a punishment for committing a crime if they were living on the streets. It is by definition not cruel because they're living situation would be better locked up than free. It is by definition not unusual because incarceration is the standard punishment for most crimes.
I am so on the fence about Evernote. I have used their product for years, but found that they didn't lean into the whole "organizing a zillion things" well enough. I really wanted a replacement for my Franklin Planner that went out in the early 2000's with a fizzle.

Chris if you're reading this email me (contact in the profile) would be happy to share my thoughts on next steps.
You're being downvoted but you're making a valid point. The rich and poor alike are both restrained from robbing others for money, yet the rich are unlikely to attack you on the street because they have no need to. It sucks to be poor, but it sucks even worse to be poor in a lawless society.
>> The historical temperature data sets were not generated by a well designed sampling scheme.

> I'm curious where this opinion comes from? ... my understanding is the sampling takes a lot into account

There is no sampling. We have an incomplete census of measured temperatures. Where humans decided to measure and record temperatures and which records survived were not determined by a sampling scheme.

Even if the record were complete, it would be subject to selection biases.

Just looking at the locations of temperature measurements in the definitive historical data set should drive this point home. Two, three, four hundred years ago, humans did not say "let's figure out a representative sampling scheme for accurately measuring global climate change." The current record is a function of where humans chose to live, work, produce, and travel.
Nobody has to own a car. Everybody has to sleep somewhere. If it’s illegal to sleep in a public place then it’s effectively illegal for the sufficiently poor to exist.
We've had this sort of discussion at work a few times (two people here were on the Tesla 3 wait list).

There's lots of ways you could encourage people to bring their car in for service for upgrades or customizations.

For one thing, most tires lose performance long before they become unsafe (there are a few models advertised as only losing ~10% of their performance at 50% wear). In a world where your car needs less maintenance in general, pushing people to do the maintenance sooner isn't as hard of a pill to swallow.

But the limiting factor on most cars is that the things a consumer might wish to change, the cars aren't designed to make those changes simple. Put more engineering effort into maintenance accessibility and you can give the dealer a reason to exist.
Forgive me if it's a stupid idea - but why not shutdown these plane computers every night when they aren't in service and boot them again in the morning before the first flight? Let all the counters reset, all memory creep and leaks go away, start fresh....
Joplin is a good open source alternative. You can sync it to a self hosted backend like Nextcloud though.
I propose that shelters are fare cheaper than jails.
Windows isn't great for coding - I tried and ended up using Vagrant for almost everything (I still have no idea how to get Rails working on Windows, and only set up Python to run a desktop app I wrote for myself on Linux), but sandboxing programming into a VM that takes time to start up, having to configure port forwarding, etc. gets annoying quickly. And Linux can be a little cranky sometimes.
> What is the logic behind this?

I guess my disdain for this kind of approach was not obvious.
NIMBY attacks those ideas pretty quick. I have seen tiny home homeless projects get killed because no one wants that around them.
Do they think that is this law is introduced that criminals will be using Facebook and Australian hosted communications providers to communicate with one another?
I agree. Quality is a subjective word, hence the parenthesis around it. I'm sure we can think up of a better goal.

My point was that ensuring people get paid is not what our end goal is. We should identify what our end goal should be and try to see if a different tactic might accomplish that goal better (with less collateral damage).

For example, people who create memes (the actual memes, not the images that later become memes) are motivated by social acknowledgement. Same goes for many Facebook posts.

Mandating payment systems is unlikely to motivate those types of content creation, and may in fact suppress many other types.

However, creating content based on social rewards (like most social media sites currently do) does help the creation of popular content.
Also tracking codes in URLs are kind of crummy because they impose a cost to the user that typically only benefits the publisher. Could be cool to write a tool that automatically strips tracking codes when you copy a URL to clipboard that contains one.

Or randomizes tracking codes!
A keyword is a more core part of the language than the standard library. I could re-implement my own vector. I cannot add my own keyword.
Congratulations, you just described San Francisco.

I strongly disagree with this ruling and I hope it's overturned. Sleeping on the street is never just sleeping on the street, it's almost always accompanied by drug use, needles left on the ground, and feces on the sidewalk, major health hazards and quality of life issues for city dwellers. We should provide more solutions to these homeless but jail needs to exist as a method of last resort.

EDIT: careful, looks like a partisan brigade is trying manipulate the comment section regardless of comment quality. (violating HN rules)
On the iPhone, it's literally a USB peripheral, unless it changed recently; it's connected to the AP via HSIC.
Dear Terry,

I didn’t know you...but I respected you. You had mad coding chops and a sense of humor one can appreciate when they view your YouTube videos.
Reviewing the code of TempleOS made me a better programmer.

Long live Holy C and 640x480...

RIP and thank you.

A virtual friend.
I would think anyone who observes society carefully could see that homelessness does not yield good things from people in that circumstance.
I e-mailed the support email about it. I got a response back - I think I convinced them to do it: "Thank you. You are correct, I will go to godaddy and get one :) it is fashion. Regards Chin"

Or he is telling me to get lost.
I strongly disagree with your portrayal of Turkey’s problems as not being in large part stemming from Erdoğan and his rule.

He has hollowed out the government and banking institutions of capable and educated, in favour of political functionaries, conspiracy peddlers, and other unqualified individuals.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/08/22/how-turkey-dumbed-itsel...
I am fine with saying that this Librem phone will be as secure as the best Samsung and LG can do.
They are wildly undercapitalized for what they are trying to do. They asked me to invest, I said no.

It will be tough for them to find investors, the phone industry is a ruthlessly competitive market.

The CEO is very headstrong. That's great when you are an expert in hardware projects, but he's not. In my opinion, they are trying to do too many things, and aren't learning from their mistakes or listening to the advice of others.

The best thing they could do right now to maximize their chances would be to lay off their software team and focus entirely on the hardware. Let the community supply that part of it.
It'll certainly be the first time a black bar is shown for a user that's been repeatedly banned.
IIRC you're allowed to use any crypto you like and fix flaws that are found but you're also required to add flaws if asked to. Well they call it a "technical capability notice" but it includes such things as "Installing, maintaining, testing or using software or equipment given to a provider by an agency." and "Removing a form of electronic protection applied by the provider, if the provider has an existing
capability to remove this protection". You don't have to compromise your crypto you just need to install this black box library that does … something.
I am not saying they where as important as Carolingian minuscule, but I recall a few things being mentioned in a history of math class 20 years ago.

Really though any progress over 500 years is all it takes to avoid complete stagnation. https://plus.maths.org/content/lost-mathematicians-numbers-n...

PS: Now they where not building the kind of great feats of engineering that gets you geometry progress, but their accounting systems got really complex.
> Handbag is just a natural design for this function.

As someone who has spent many thousands of hours foraging, I've got to disagree on there. You wouldn't be able to fit even one meal for a single person into a bag like that. Consider that a kilogram of mushrooms is only around 25 calories, and this bag probably wouldn't even fit that much. Clearly they would have gotten most of their calories from meat, but even still a bag like that wouldn't hold enough produce for even a modestly sized side of vegetables.
They’re linked. Punishment which doesn’t fit the crime can be cruel and unusual even if it’s not for a crime where it does fit. For example, executing someone for petty theft would likely be held unconstitutional, even though it’s an allowable punishment for first degree murder.
Not if you have a flux capacitor.
Deeply troubled. Very combative. Extremely racist.
Or we could make society work better instead.

But that would require us to genuinely respect and care about all of our people and it comes with no opportunity to play hero and expect people with pathetic lives to grovel before you in gratitude.
There are a couple of problems with this (and it's a good question!). One is that many campaigns are just small and don't have any in-house IT expertise, even the kind needed to run GSuite.

Another is that GSuite doesn't protect people's personal accounts, which is the big risk here.

APP is nice in theory, but I don't believe it's workable in practice for Congressional campaigns. The keys break too easily, and there is no fallback if they are lost or broken. We have one candidate trying out APP and I'll be eager to hear her feedback. But for the time being, just getting them onto 2FA with yubikeys maxes out people's mental budget for "security stuff".
I don't think putting homeless people in jail is intended to help them.
> So here we have Microsoft trying to leverage an existing brand (Skype) into new territory

Did someone mention Skype for Business? (... Live 360 ME)
In WA State, most Federal Parks charge a $5 fee just to enter the park. Camping overnight is usually $11-15, with a 2-week limit, specifically to prevent people from living there.

Even without that limit, that's still $330-450 a month in rent. That can rent a room in a college house (with 6 other people) in Seattle, and maybe a whole apartment in the rural areas where Federal Parks are located.

(Reminder to self: Bureau of Land Management isn't Black Lives Matter)
I sure wish I got to sleep on that bench, but that homeless man took it before me, so guess I'll just have to slip onto my memory foam mattress for one more night.
I wrote the article. In what way do you think the email server is germane?
Thanks Jim for highlighting this and teaching about a common misconception. My intent was to help the author avoid the “dead website” feel of a 2-3 year old (c) label. Updating the year to current year could be one solution but I was not proposing anything.

I hear your point on the legality angle and have done a ton of reading to update my own stance on this.
Can you point out some examples of the ninth circuit bypassing proper procedure and jurisprudence to push their own policy?
Sorry. I certainly should have been clearer, especially with this crowd. That test was rate-limited by my cable modem. I was on a 100-down package at the time. I did not do a intra-house speed test.