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Ask HN: How to give cryptocurrency to people in need?
My name is Joe Waltman and I a recently started working with GiveCrypto.org (https://www.givecrypto.org/), a non-profit that was started by Brian Armstrong. I somewhat stumbled into this job after my previous company (VetPronto) went out of business. I am far from an expert on cryptocurrency and have zero experience working with non-profits.

GiveCrypto.org aims to help by making direct transfers of cryptocurrency. There is a growing body of evidence suggesting that the best way to help poor people is to give them cash, rather than traditional support like food, medicine or training.

One of the big challenges for GiveCrypto.org is finding people that are both in need and can use cryptocurrency. I've done some experimentation (https://medium.com/givecrypto/givecrypto-work-trial-a-new-fi...) and it is a quite a brain teaser. There is a sad irony wrapped around this problem; the poorer you are, the more 'expensive' it is for you to make use of cryptocurrency. I'd love to tap into the HN network to help brainstorm clever ways to get cryptocurrency into the hands of people that need it.

Thanks in advance.
I'm pretty sure it's extremely import to inspect what people are bringing into the country. Besides the financial... tools that people can bring into a country there's a whole host of other items that can negatively impact the country, and not just from a social aspect:

* Invasive species. This includes plants, not just animals.

* Drugs

* In times of known or potential epidemics, screening people for obvious sickness.

* Weapons or tools that could be used for the purposes of terrorism.

Why would you say that there's no reason to inspect what people are bringing into your country?
Serious question- has there been a string of incidents in NZ that prompted this legislation? I certainly try to stay current with world news, but I definitely could have missed something. I think my follow up question is what exactly are the authorities thinking they will find here? Ive yet to see any sort of organized crime/terror organization leave detailed roadmap of their nefarious plans in the notes app of their phone. I mean, maybe in the next Austin Powers movie that will be the case...
Ask HN: How to take advantage of living in the Bay?
Before moving to the Bay, I had hoped that the Bay to America would be like America to the rest of the world.

I grew up in a developing country with an authoritarian government. Moving from there to an American liberal arts college, I learned a lot more about how the world works: politics, economy, technology, history, arts--the whole gamut. But a lot of that learning didn't happen just because I was in America. It happened also because I reached out the right people and was open the right opportunities.

Now I'm in the Bay area working in data science for one of FAANG. My daily life so far has been 9-5 at the company, 3 meals at the company, conversions with people at the company. The work is interesting, but certainly not mind-blowing (given that I'm quite similar to my teammates--we're all hired by the same standards after all.)

How to take advantage of being in the Bay to grow intellectually? Like when I moved to the States, I want to make a conscious effort to grow. Should I reach out more to people doing great work at my big corp? Do I need to go out (then where?) Where are the ideas that challenge my beliefs and work that forces me to learn?
The Minnesota Transracial Adoption [1] study is something that, for better or for worse, changed my outlook. It was a major and longterm study designed to try to prove once and for all that environmental factors were the dominant factor in the correlation between race and IQ. The study followed the results of well to do white parents adopting children of black, half black, indigenous/asian, and white ancestry. In it they controlled for location, income, family stability, age of the adopted children, etc -- as many environmental variables as they could.

The problem is that the study ended up showing the exact opposite of the desired outcome. By age 17 the difference in IQ between an adopted black child and an adopted white child was 18 points. Interestingly even adopted white children and the biological white children born to well to do parents showed a substantial 4 point difference in IQ which could be explained by genetic differences in those who end up of the means to adopt children, and those who end up in situations where they're left to give away their children for adoption.

There was even a phenomenal accidental control. A number of the adopted children originally identified as having two black parents actually had one white and one black parent. And these children fit the IQ outcomes of the other half-black half-white children, which was about 10 points above the children from two black parents. This means even though the parents thought the children came from two black parents, and the children themselves also thought they came from two black parents - their performance mapped to their genetic background and not their environmental assumption.

The authors have tried to undermine the results of their own study in two main ways. The first is by suggesting that differences could be attributable to prenatal environmental differences. This not only defies belief given the differences and extreme consistency, but if the authors actually believed this, it would have made the entire study, which went on for nearly 2 decade, completely pointless. The other is suggesting that skin color can create environmental differences. This is a much stronger argument against the results. However it also suffers from the same post-facto rationalization, but even more importantly -- this hypothesis is also strongly undermined by the accidental control group of half black children. Given their misidentification it's safe to say that these children did not have strongly indicative transracial features. And in any case they would have identified as 100% black given that's what they thought they were.

I think that this study's results are precisely why there have been no further studies, of the same scale, performed on the topic. The results are not what we want to believe.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnesota_Transracial_Adoption...
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you should maybe delete your comment here, and redo it as your throwaway account though?
Outside of that MacOS in a VM is a bit performance hamstrung as hardware acceleration for graphics doesn't work in most straightforward setups.
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I'm primarily focused on larger companies at the moment, and not really looking at companies smaller than 75 people at all. The main thing here is product/market fit.
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It's not only illegal to lie, it's illegal to fail to answer truthfully. Customs and Excise Act 1996 s 185.
1Password saved me from getting phished by “colnbase.com” because the completion hotkey didn’t work.
I still wince thinking about how close I got.

You used to just have to be moderately tech savvy to avoid scams but I find myself tricked more and more often these days. Recently it was a “click to start download” ad. I sent the page to my friends and they got fooled too.
Oh, I was not upset about it. Yes, I am not that experienced immigrating, so thanks for your insight. My impression of immigration to the US was that the process is really slow and inefficient but isn't as meticulous as other countries, but perhaps I'm mistaken.

I actually don't think there's anything wrong with NZ or any country doing those things. My point is that rooting through my computer, requiring me to hand over my credentials, is where I say no. Maybe they'll end up paying the price if enough educated people decide not to bother. I don't really know.
This is it.

And you're completly right - self proclaimed marketers reduce marketing to tools of one of the areas of marketing like you said : Promotion/Communication .

SEO, PPC, Content Marketing, Influencer Marketing, Social Media Marketing... the list goes on... are just tools. They serve part of 1/4 of what marketing is broadly speaking.

Now I'm not saying those shouldn't be areas of expertise - they should! But a marketing manager should build/maintain a strategy taking into account everything - not just a specific part.
caste based reservations are a real thing. Every government institute or any institute which takes govt funding has to allocate seats to OBC,SC,ST,NT tribes and castes.

https://www.google.com/search?q=obc+sc+st+education+reservat...
THE PHYSICS OF LaunchING a LUNAR LANDER FROM THE MOON'S SURFACE
I’ve been studying Real-time operating systems (RTOS) and it’s fascinating. While they’re incredibly basic, they offer a stepping stone into larger more complex systems with file system, multi core, etc. RTOSes emphasize on “real-time” or predictability while general operating systems, they focus on throughput.

I recommend looking at FreeRTOS source code or building one from scratch.
This is a computer guy. Nobody would be surprised if he had spare hardware lying around from as far back as the 90s. If he just quick-formatted a bunch of spare drives and tossed them on a shelf years ago any forensics software would find what was on them before he formatted them. Considering that he's been collecting pictures since he was 14 I think it would be hard not to get him for possession if he's a hardware pack-rat.

Without details all we can do is speculate.
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I actually found my current job on the monthly HN job post a few years ago, and still here :) This is a very unique position given it's a mix of pure engineering, and a significant customer facing role. Some testimonials of the software: https://www.pmd.com/reviews

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There is a good book on the creation of the ZX Spectrum version of R-Type, which was considered a minor miracle of graphics programming back in 1989[0].

It's Behind You by Bob Pape - available as a free ebook in various formats at from [1].

It doesn't go into extreme technical detail but is an interesting view of how the industry worked back then.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=18&v=jiQxq98OYfA

[1] http://www.bizzley.com
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>There is a growing body of evidence suggesting that the best way to help poor people is to give them cash

Then why not just do that, then?
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Is that what you have to fall back on?
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Has anyone taken a steganographic approach to this? Just have a bunch of pictures of cats (or something more believable, like porn) in a partition, then you overlay sensitive data (encrypted). So you don't have a mysterious partition that is easily found. Obviously you can't store a ton of data that way though. You could even take the same approach with the program itself, hide it inside something else. (I imagine it would still be detectable by someone sophisticated enough, but might make it more difficult)
Cannabis use is considered a “crime of moral turpitude”. So it’s legality elsewhere is irrelevant to the US.

However your scenario is inaccurate. Just as having a google search about murder weapons won’t bar you for life neither will search history about cannabis. They may ask why your interested in it... But learning about a crime is not equivalent to commiting the crime.
Interesting.. Do you often fiddle with registers when writing Python and Javascript apps? :-)
I might be wrong on this but according to this updated video[0] by James Duane, things have changed considerably due to Obama and a recent Supreme Court decision and even using the 5th improperly can be used against you.

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FENubmZGj8
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> but if you understand how it works at a fundamental level

This circles back to another key reason I think a lot of people choose to build their own engine, many people don't want to spend time learning the ins and outs of somebody elses creation. When you build your own engine, you know the entire api in and out from the start and as it evolves, you know what it can and can't do, and you know where to go if it's missing a feature or has a bug.
> Why Don't Everybody Agree with the Left

As someone on the left, I find it bothersome that when people say "the left" they either mean neoliberals or SJW, neither of which actually stand for leftist ideas. Neoliberals believe in a right-wing economic agenda, while playing identity politics and SJWs want to feel good about themselves from their couch, so they play identity politics.

Both of these, I have a massive issue with, but due to this caricature of the left coming from the right, I cannot honestly debate with the other side.
It would have been nice if the author liated a single city in the whole article, given the title.

Tldr; Ice is heavy and its melting may allow some artic costal regions to rise as it melts to counter sea level rise. Thats the whole article.
Colocating both roots on the same partition spells disaster, you will absolutely clobber data when the outer system boots. I have detailed in another post that the correct way is to put the sensitive root inside a largely empty decoy data partition, and no longer write there (but you can update timestamps in place).

Needless to say, using these schemes for SSD drives requires special consideration in regard to trimming.
> but I’m increasingly unclear if you hold your position that asyncio is bad solely because it makes SA ORM less competitive - and less of a ecosystem standard.

It's not that the ORM is less "competitive" because I am certainly able to make an async version of SQLAlchemy, it's just I don't have the time / interest / resources to do so, and as I've gone through the effort to write about in detail, it is a bad idea. If you want to pay me a salary to make an async SQLAlchemy I can totally do that. It would be a worthwhile effort in that it would make people happy. But also it would be a wasteful effort in terms of advancing the field of Python database programming. That's the decision I'm facing and it would be a lot easier if folks would just realize asyncio isn't getting them much overall.

It's like, suppose I make bikes. But everyone wants to get to work on pogo sticks instead. Everyone who uses pogo sticks is terminally late to work, they're getting injured all the time, they are miserable, but someone told them "hey pogo sticks are FASTER than bikes!", people were just bored with bikes so much that they didn't even bother testing this assertion, and now everyone just has discussions like "oh well I have this shiny new pogo stick, so I only broke three ribs this week! hooray!" and people have just forgotten that there is nothing wrong with bikes at all and they are in fact a lot better than pogo sticks for the task of getting to work every day (you might find pogo sticks to be more interesting and fun in the moment, but as a real solution to the problem, they are not any better than bikes and probably worse). Someone who makes bikes tries to point all of this out. That puts you in the position of saying, "all your arguments about bikes being better than pogo sticks for getting to work, who cares. you are just concerned pogo sticks are a threat to your bike sales". Well, yes, they are. But the bigger issue is that it is ridiculous everyone is killing themselves trying to get to work on pogo sticks. Somehow I feel that should not be lost.

> I just don’t understand why you’ve written off an entire style of programming.

I've written and tweeted about this a lot so feel free to point out the reasons that might not be clear. To recap http://techspot.zzzeek.org/2015/02/15/asynchronous-python-an...:

asyncio is essentailly intended to provide an interface around the concept of non-blocking IO. The relational database use case, for the vast majority of uses (e.g. CRUD), gains nothing from using non-blocking IO (most databases don't even offer a non-blocking API anyway) and only complicates the application, introduces subtle bugs, and does not improve performance. The other argument made about asyncio is that replacing the OS'es task scheduler with a cooperative one defined by when IO happens to occur is "safer", because context switches are no longer implicit. The second section of the post above makes many arguments why this is not the case and especially not for modern server-side application design which is inherently multi-process.
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Eh, 'choose-your-own-adventure' is a pretty tried and true genre. The Mass Effect Series and Dragon-Age Series are both critically acclaimed, not to mention in Japan there is literally a genre of games/stories that follow this format.

Though maybe not has innovative as you would like, probably logically the next step as for a majority of viewers this would still be "fresh".
If you are aiming for a game that people play for more than 1000 hours, sure. Commercially, this would be a terrible segment of the market to aim for. The people who play the same title for that long are unlikely to buy your game, because they don't have time to play it. Unless you happen to find a niche first, you will end up with a few players, but supporting them for a long, long time.

Shorter games are fine, and sell to people who want novelty over repetition. Don't make the game longer than its content, and price accordingly.
Basically I don’t think that this logically extends from suitcases to full phone access in the same way I don’t think that the right to bear arms allows you to train and arm a private army with tanks and fighter jets. At some point, it stops being a logical extension of a rule and starts being of a different kind due to changes in magnitude.

Here, a country may be concerned about objects being physically brought into their country, but to be concerned about a persons digital life is a concern of a different kind, because of the scope of that search. It’s not a logical extension in the minds of most people who understand that magnitude of difference. I really hope I can convince you too!

I don’t think that border patrol was (in any meaningful numbers) catching financial crimes because people brought their bank accounts or private letters across borders. I really do not buy that this is a necessary step to fight crime at all (if it were, where are the unsolved crimes? What tragedies would have been prevented?) I think this was catching people moving cash/drugs/weapons off the grid and it can still function in that capacity without forcing digital searches.

Instead, this just grossly invades the privacy of tourists who don’t think to bring a burner phone.
Having deployed and maintained both Confluence and MediaWiki, users like Confluence better.

Going from that to MediaWiki would feel cheap to them, or they just wouldn't use it because it would feel "hard".