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Humanitarian Crowdfunding Thread
Join our Humanitarian Crowdfunding Discussion!

We’re new to Hacker News and want to cultivate a discussion about Humanitarian Crowdfunding and the open-source crowdfunding platform we’re building.

My colleagues and I are former United Nations staff and veteran humanitarian actors, we’re passionate about shortening the turn-around time and effort it takes professional-level humanitarian organizations to develop, launch and sustain operations, and we’re building a unique new crowdfunding platform to serve the humanitarian community. You can see our twitter feed at @BeehiveFund and a rough pitch deck at http://vimeo.com/98176476.

What’s cool is that we’re a totally nonprofit all-volunteer initiative bringing hackers, humanitarian actors and others together to build a platform that continuously adapts to user input and needs arising from the field. If a humanitarian group requires the ability to crowdfund via SMS or wants to channel cash-aid disbursements directly to refugees – we sort it out and do it, and integrate the capability!

This is the way to build the future of crowdfunding for humanitarian campaigns, through kick-ass open source development and real user engagement right?
In my limited experience with Google shopping express, they are pretty light weight too. They will only deliver something from a store nearby, they don't seem to have a warehouse full of stuff.
Most universities have a course specifically geared towards proofs, including first order propositional and predicate logic, set theory, basic proof techniques, etc. I've taught this particular course a few times when I was in academia, and one of the better books that was around at the time (2004--8) was Krantz's _Elements of Advanced Mathematics_.
While useful, if your company has an extensive Windows infrastructure, it's probably easier -- and more useful -- to make use of Microsoft Certificate Services. The AD integration and Web UI alone make it easier to setup a PKI within your organization.
Apps on iOS are encrypted and they say they use some modified script from a jailbreak to decrypt the apps. So for this to work, they need a jailbroken device to decrypt the apps first. So not future proof as well.
That's kind of a matter of semantics, I wasn't sure how to say it properly. "Directing" a social network? I understand they aren't literally paying for the nodes, but defining the protocol gives you quite a lot of power and centralization.
Pretty sure this is the Uber strategy...
There are already plenty of other alternatives out there. I think I've used every IDE under the sun in the past two years. From paid versions (ST2, Dreamweaver, WebStorm) and plenty of opens source options like Aptana and Notepad++.

The best alternative I've seen is Adobe Brackets (http://brackets.io/). This is Adobe's IDE that gets regular builds and is essentially the nightly build of their new Edge Code IDE (https://creative.adobe.com/products/code). The newest plugins come out on Brackets first, then make their way to Edge.

The best thing about Brackets is its built in HTML,JS and CSS so it opens up a huge development community for plugins.

Interesting that WebStorm is only $49.99 for a single license and $29.99 to renew versus ST2 is $70 for a single license and the upgrade cost I believe is $70 as well?
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Right, I have to convert USD to Bitcoin and then Bitcoin to USD. I haven't worked out the cost of what this would be compared to my current options. In my case, it's still cheaper, but that may not be the case for others.

Coinbase charges a fee to convert on their end, but the exchange has a much small fee on their end. Getting the money sent from the exchange to me can be free depending on the option.

Otherwise I have the currency exchange rate and the a mess of options. I simply pull money from my bank via the local ATM's and that costs me around $5 / pop plus the exchange costs. On top of that I'm usually getting paid via Paypal, which is another fee to get paid.

Other people use Western Union or Xoom, which is expensive.

Bank to bank transfers are tricky. The most direct route is a wire transfer, which is spendy. The other option is an e-transfer, but that's not straightforward since the U.S. isn't on the same system that the Philippines is on. There are certain banks here which can pull it off I believe, but you need for these banks to be located close to you. And that's if you can even get a bank account here. It's not a huge barrier, but not everyone can get one.

There are tons of options but most involve fees on top of the conversion costs. Then there is speed, which is also important for me.

Right now, Bitcoin is looking to be the best option available for a lot of people here.

Edit: Whoops, forgot to mention that I wouldn't be holding Bitcoin. I would be using it as a transfer medium.
Here's a comment from this project's creator on the demo video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uaple0Ec1Dg):

I have started a job with Apple, and will not be continuing work on this project. The team at Columbia will probably be doing some follow up work, but I won't be involved from here on out.﻿

So basically Apple has tried to kill or at least slow down the release of this to the public (he's obviously talented, I'm just saying that killing progress on this project likely factored somewhere into the hiring decision).
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If you want string manipulation in C++ you need an external library no matter what encoding you use.

Also, std::toupper inherits the system locale (or whatever you set it to), so if it is utf8 it would do proper utf uppercase conversions. You need to parse per character though, and that depends on the locale again.
hey, that was state-of-the-art in 1998!
Can we resurrect Kozmo.com? I miss that on-demand convenience store.
You can download the beta from http://www.mailboxapp.com/ now, but you'll need a betacoin to actually use it. Apparently existing users of Mailbox can expect "betacoins" granting access today.
I started a separate thread on that subject earlier. It didn't get a whole lot of attention, but FWIW: search for "thebear" on this page to find it. Specifically, you may like the employee vs. nuclear missile example that someone posted in that thread. That nicely illustrates our point.
Also, the initial dialog in _Proofs and Refutations_ by Imre Lakatos is a nice discussion not only of proofs, but on thought processes that one often goes through during mathematical research.
FYI the author is a she, not a he.
What's the margin on groceries? 1-2%?
Leica definitely was at a disadvantage in the marketing arena vs. SLRs. But the arguments that M rangefinder still had photographic advantages to SLR's in a number of situations still held weight. Sadly, I think even that selling point has been erased in this day and age.
Oh! This might be the best spot to ask. I'm trying to build a web app (ipad kiosk) that has drag and drop and scrolling. The code works perfectly on desktop w/ trackpad because scroll and click are two different actions. Mobile it looks like I have to re-write the scrolling logic because there are only touch events exposed? Is there another way?

I'm currently trying JQUI with touchpunch and have considered hammer.js. Anyone have experience with scrolling and dnd on mobile?
that is how it begins.. early signs of FB was killing MySpace was back when it was a thing that kids in a handful of colleges used. These early signs are important to recognize and highlight for incumbents as well as participants.
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Keep telling yourself that. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socio-economic_mobility_in_the_...
If you download the XCode developer tools, you can extract the libaries from the .dmg using 7zip on windows
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Good point. A google search also shows that since "fun" has only recently migrated from a noun to an adjective, the -er/est forms are not yet accepted, but will likely become standard over time.
How do you think Amazon works? Or for that matter most new ventures by a big company?
It's a multi-stakeholder model. In the end a "social networking protocols working group" would primarily consist of delegates from all social network operators that implement the standards.
They can probably try, but I doubt they would succeed.
I remember studying French. In French, most adjectives come after the noun they modify (ciel bleu, blue sky), but some come before (grande maison, big house). We were taught the acronym: BAGS: beauty, age, goodness, size, to determine what came before the noun. So a big blue house would be grande maison bleue. A pretty girl is a jolie fille. An old man is a vieil homme. A bad idea is a mauvaise idée. I doubt native french speakers learn this explicitly, but when your learning it as a second language you need shortcuts to understand what sounds intuitively correct and incorrect to natives.
>>> But this is still a risk, as the link to the app that does the syncing could be blocked to maintain a vulnerability

>>If you can mitm the dns or ip you can still do this even with https.

>Strictly speaking you'd need a compromised DNS and a compromised CA (possibly with a wildcard certificate). Certificates provide assurance of identity as well as encryption (that's why public key encryption works). No matter where the connection comes from. (EDIT: If I compromise DNS for an SSL secured site I only get half an attack.)

My comment here was for the "the link to the app that does the syncing could be blocked to maintain a vulnerability" argument. That you don't need a CA for. Just throw a NXDOMAIN from the dns.

edit: please note that I very much agree that update checks should be over https. It's just that I think that it's not a panacea and should be accompanied by e.g. code signing, enforcing updating version, etc.
My favorite nextdoor story is when it helped neighbors find chicken poop https://twitter.com/kabragovind/status/483721368710963200
Wiki on a USB stick :D
https://www.dokuwiki.org/install:dokuwiki_on_a_stick

Get synkron, configure it to mirror your wiki to a harddisk as backup and you're set.
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Or maybe, just maybe, someone who has spent this much time developing a VM for Apple's software architecture has a great skillset and would be a welcome addition to one of Apple's teams.

The same exact thing happened to the guy behind ReactOS (an Open Source Windows NT replacement). The guy became /so/ familiar with Windows that he eventually got a job on the actual Windows Kernel team.
I always read it as "Hacker" in the traditional sense of the term, not the alarmist media "OMG!!H4qq0r" sense of the word. Hacking used to simply mean programming.
"Because job" I don't think specifically refers to wage labor; entrepreneurship is often people apply existing expertise, not developing new expertise from scratch, because that's generally where their competitive advantage lies, and competitive edge is at least as important in entrepreneurial efforts as in wage labor. The constraint seems to be that needing to spend significant time applying your current-best skills reduces available time to develop expertise in new skill areas.
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I see your point of the not liking "sublime-but-free". But isn't that what basically everyone does with "it's like uber meets airb&b for x"?
> "red big toe" because "big toe" is already a strong association.

That's because "big toe" is a compound noun that refers to one of your innermost toes only. "big red toe" and "red big toe" mean different things. The set of things they could refer to is different. In your barn example the same thing is true.
Seems way more commercially focused than is reasonable given that it is NSF funded, especially given the fact that there is nothing technically insurmountable that locks users into one eco-system vs the other.
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What about Hootsuite or Buffer?
Good synopsis.
Ask HN: Anyone hiring in Montreal?
Hey HN,

I am 25, a backend and API dev and I am considering a move to Montreal from Germany where I currently work (though I am not a German). I am open to full stack positions and would like to make Montreal my next home. Are there any startups hiring there? The latest whoishiring thread had none.
Pretty much it seems:

> "The average profit margin for grocery stores is 1.3 percent" says Jeff Cohen, a grocery industry analyst with IBIS World.

-- http://www.marketplace.org/topics/business/groceries-low-mar...
What browser are you using? As far as I can tell, all modern browsers know how to get the name of a function defined like `var foo = function(){}` for stack traces.
>My understanding: Living together like a married couple long enough conveys actual marriage in some places in the US, various rights some other places in the US

Intent and agreement is a big one, not length of cohabitation. The two both must consent and intend on being married and basically tell everyone they are married. Just cohabitation for a long time isn't enough. Nobody can suddenly "find" themselves in a common law marriage they didn't intend or want to enter into, they both must intentionally agree to enter into one.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common-law_marriage_in_the_Unit...
If you're the kind of person who substitutes reading a review for watching a movie:

It's a poignant story about the devolution of social media into shallowness. With both orbital and quantum mechanics thrown in.
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This isn't Science magazine; an interesting or thought-provoking idea is just as valuable as a repeatable experiment.
> The rise of inequality over the last four decades has created two very different Americas, and life is a lot harder in one of them.

This would be a fascinating appendix for Charles Murray's book Coming Apart. If you liked this article, you might enjoy his quiz about which of these two Americas you are likely to live in: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/white-educated-and-wealt... (Edit: I scored 46 and the description is completely accurate: "A first-generation upper-middle-class person with middle-class parents")
Thanks. In the Named imports example, the `import { later } from 'asap'` line means 'load the contents of 'asap.js', and make its 'later' export available to this module as 'later'. In 2014 terms, that means 'assume that asap.js exports an object with a 'later' property, and map that to the 'later' variable' - so '__imports_0' just refers to the object that asap.js exports.

I plan to make this a bit friendlier in a future version of Esperanto: https://github.com/Rich-Harris/esperanto/issues/3
I don't think Atom is ready to replace Sublime yet for me. The way it renders text just bugs me for one. The other thing is that it's lacking a good way to do syntax specific settings like in Sublime. Aside from that it's a matter of the plugin ecosystem not being as mature.
Ha. I understand the urge to jump there.

This is nothing but a research project that does not mean much in the real world. It got that person a job at Apple. So that's a win for that individual. I don't think one can expect more out of the project really.
These are some really interesting results. As someone who has almost completely converted to digital books, I would be really interested to see these results used to inspire better UI design on the part of people like Kindle. I mostly use the Kindle Android app, and it's getting better and better, but there's still a lot of room for improvement.
Not even 4 weeks worth of semi-productive self-learning? That sounds quite pathetic.

There must be something else, like fear of the unknown, risk aversion, "nobody got fired for choosing IBM"…
What on Earth are you talking about? iFixit, Wikia, and many others make money based on people generating high-quality content for free.

This is hardly some daring new business model.
At the end of the article the guy says: “What really defines the price is its reputation and expectations for the future.”

But isn't that true of any currency? Isn't that why a green piece of paper with Benjamin Franklin's face on it is worth anything at all, just because we believe in the US government's stability?
Pretty sure this is the Groupon strategy...
:) I thought I recognised the name, and as a microbial genomics guy myself, I'm pretty familiar with TIGR. I suspect we agree more than disagree on OA, but these are some good points for debate. Genomics has largely been very pro-OA thanks to the efforts of the Wellcome Trust.

1. So I found this quite interesting. I think in the UK it's rare for an institution of that size to not be affiliated with a university and so able to get access. I was at the Sanger which was Cambridge Uni affiliated. However, this is also an issue of journal bundling and secret negotiations. Unless you're suggesting the complete dismantlement of the publishing scene, then this needs a complex solution. And re startups, I'm not sure why giving commercial entities subsidised access to the literature is a priority?

2) Full text analysis is not really an OA issue either (I've also not been very impressed with the results from it so far, but that's a different story). Yes it can be done more easily via OA, but most major publishers are increasingly supporting it. They can be obliged to support it without forcing OA as a publishing model. Many other issues fall under local copyright laws which makes it more complex. However, educational purposes and informal sharing is normally covered by fair use. And even with online textbooks, I'm not sure even if I publish as OA that I necessarily want someone else using it for commercial purposes for free. And licensing commercial use is a valid method for OA publishers to make money, surely (something they are struggling to do)? Of course, there are many different OA models with very varied licensing.

3) So I absolutely agree with improving public engagement, but increasingly methods sections are small print, very small word limit and stuck at the end of the paper. This utterly and fundamentally breaks the most important part of the scientific literature - reproducibility. And that is at crisis level now (ok hyperbole, but have you ever replicated something and not discovered that half the essential information is missing?). Similarly poor but simple/comprehensible papers will be higher rated than superior but complex papers.

We are asking the core literature to server two masters with very different needs, and my instinct is that this is ultimately not tenable. Review papers are far more useful to the public in general, since unless you're getting your hands dirty with the data, and learning it's foibles, then it's difficult to evaluate focussed research. This is especially true when dealing with sequence databases (assumptions of sequence accuracy, over/under representation etc), as I'm sure you appreciate.
I seriously doubt Bitcoin is your best option if you are dealing with any significant amount of money.

What are you trying to do, how much money are you trying to move and how often?
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Ask HN: Structured data extractor API/Library
Does any HNer know of a library or a service with an API that lets you extract structured data given a URL? For instance, if a URL to an amazon's product page was given, it would return product name, price, weight, etc.
Does it support Code completion akin to SublimeClang?
That plugin is pretty much the reason I'm sticking to Sublime Text 2 (can't get it to work with 3).
I know it's from the same author as lime, but according to the github description he lost interest in C/C++, so I'm wondering if this feature is to be implemented still?
Or is lime compatible with the old ST2 plugin?
Is there any other camp? And does it matter?

The question asked was to this

"In a month or two, 475 dollars will look nice."
From his perspective, you're absolutely right. But if this had actually seen the light of day, it would have been really, really cool.
I've been using the repo below with ember which has been really powerful. There are grunt, gulp and broccoli plugins, too. It'd built into ember-cli where we are spoiled by the best js MVC tooling system I've ever used. Use ESNext syntax with Sublime Text and you are good to go!

https://github.com/esnext/es6-module-transpiler
As far as i know, both Instacart and Postmates make money with every delivery. They used the last two years to figure out what to charge and when. Both get kickbacks from select merchants, both are in a heavy growth phase and both have tweaked their algorithms to either allow for multiple deliveries per hour or use in-store shoppers for faster access to gods. What they are doing is working and it looks impressive to me. The really interesting differentiator is that one of them can become a giant supermarket without owning any warehouse space and the other has a shot at powering local deliveries everywhere. But then again, maybe they both still figure all this out.
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In my case I just used the Atari trackball to point & click
(& drag) for my own purposes when programming my regular
Atari in early 1982.

About 5years later when mouses started to become popular because popular PC software began mouse support, it really didn't seem that novel by then.
I think of Spacex being more like the rail roads in the 1800's. Elon is building the infrastructure so that when launch costs do come down, there will be an explosion of off Earth economic activity. And Spacex will be there with the tickets.

Colonizing Mars may be a driver and talking point now, but will be minor in the long run. Asteroid mining, orbital habitats, Moon resorts (with flying domes ala Heinlein), Comet water chasing, it's all open. Mars' role may be huge, it's sooo much easier to get to orbit from Mars than it is from Earth.
Of course he'd have a great skillset, but still, he won't be working on the project. May be, just may be, Apple had different intentions behind taking this man in.
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As a person who visits tons of farmer's markets (some food vendors are my clients across the nation), I'm not exactly sure if vendors at farmer's markets who sell produce would specifically be your niche.

Generally speaking a farmer hits X # of markets per week to sell their produce. Selling small scale to individual consumers wouldn't work well for their time.

However I have heard of some restaurants in LA where they accept extra produce from neighborhoods for their restaurant (not sure if they buy it necessarily).
Interesting! Did you use the Nathan Barry Authority model?
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Sir, 'Google' was once "nothing but a research project".
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They have no relation to each other.
This is trivial in a native iOS app: you just look for two touches and call that scrolling. Does the framework you are working with expose all of the touch events?
The Soviets were also very close to that dream for some time, without ever getting it economical. The US was kind of doing it with solid boosters for decades, but again the economics were dubious; it would practically have been cheaper to build new ones (and I believe that's the plan for the SLS; the solid boosters won't be recovered).

Don't get me wrong, it'll be great if they manage it, but I don't think it's as easy as people seem to assume.
A disadvantage of perovskite solar cells is that they degrade quickly upon contact with moisture. So they need to be encapsulated very well.
Devil's Advocate: You have the right to make that choice. I have the right to want to continue to live despite the irresponsible act of another.
How is advertising zero sum?

It is true that ad spends generally result in diminishing returns, however diminishing returns are far from zero sum.

In industries subject to economies of scale advertising is actually really good for economic efficiency and does not at all waste resources rather causing them to be used more effectively.