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Ask HN: I'm Busted, Out of Work. How to Visit a Friend Who Needs Me?
I have been out of work for quite a long time. Not unemployed in the sense that I have my own coding and web projects, but I haven't had much paying work for five solid years. I am willing to accept that as my own responsibility, as a result of the essays and articles I publish online.

Consider my frequent railing against Google Analytics. I recently interviewed with Google but - politely now - ended the interview process when I pointed out to my recruiter that to work for Google would be a conflict of interest.

In principle I could borrow the money to visit my friend but I have borrowed so much that I have not paid back, that I am reluctant even to ask, even if anyone were willing to lend it.

For reasons of their privacy, I don't want to say a whole lot about what is going on with my friend other than that they are in a bad way right now. She is, just for now, in a safe place but that won't be the case for the long term.

I am in vancouver washington - just north of portland oregon. My friend is on the east coast in a big city; again for reasons of her privacy, I don't want to say which one.

I'm puzzling over a gofundme campaign but not so sure that would work well, or that it would get funding quickly enough.

I'm happy to do any kind of work that I regard as ethical. Not just computer programming - I was once a carpenter for example, I have all manner of carpentry tools.
I've considered it, and probably will do it one day for fun just to see what the platform is like.
Yes. If I'm doing a presentation using a known browser why do I care about your failures.
That's very cool. I never imagined I'd see a bot playing Twenty.
This is pretty great - it scored 16 for me on the first go which is higher than my own first attempt of 14.

This script also highlights my main issue with the game. It feels like the rules are not strict enough for this style of game. The real-time nature of the physics combined with the concurrent actions taken by the user results in quite loose game mechanics.
Nice collection.. (y)
It's entirely possible to make a multiprocess browser engine with a clean embedding API. WebKit does it, for instance. You can use WKWebView to pretty easily make your own process-per-tab browser.
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What is the best way to personally contribute to rhino conservation? A quick search yields many rhino charities. Would be great to know which, if any, are actually making an impact.
Probably not, considering his weird behaviour and statements about being too young to care about money I doubt it will spur investor confidence in the direction of the company.
Why, just why would anyone do that? I understand wanting to give 50%.. 70-80% even, but all of it?
Does that seem crazy only to me or is there a hidden motive to it somewhere?!
Is it "mid-brow dismissal"? I'll submit to your criticism of my tone, but I believe a strong argument lies behind it. Its not that I mean to discredit what Secret has accomplished, only that people shouldn't be wooed into thinking Pusher is the way to accomplish it. Its a waste of money in my opinion, and the DIY alternatives will, I assume, prove to be much better options in the long run.
That's the whole point. Society has constructed mechanisms for dealing with externalities: governments, laws, regulations and taxes.
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The Android version is a ton easier to play, but I feel there is something lost when trying to see the whole field of play on a tiny screen. I'll try it on my Nexus 10 and see if that's any better.

I agree wholeheartedly with the other comments: this is a awesome game and well executed!

Small nit: on Android apps, traditionally pressing the back button when at the "home" or top-most screen of your app will either exit, or prompt to exit.

It was also extremely not obvious how to disable the sound; traditionally I would have expected that to live under the "More ... " item at the home screen.

I hope these are taken merely as suggestions, and not as criticism.
Yeah, that would probably help a lot. It is pretty dumb in its current state. That said, sometimes it can join matching tiles that are next to each other in the bottom of the pile, so that can still be useful.

Maybe I'll work on it some later...
Until JerkSleepers starts, with the goal of disrupting that evil incumbent AirBNB by letting people exercise their freedoms and do what they want. I mean...HomeAway is already what you want AirBNB to do.
What externality about 3D printing did you have in mind?

Sorry about going off-topic.
By calling them "fees" or "voluntary contributions" or similar.

Taxes are only bad if a government extracts them at gunpoint. If a non-governmental force extracts them at... well, the gun is still there, I suppose, but hidden behind a layer of "If you don't pay, we sue, and if you don't pay after the lawsuit, the guns come out"... they're morally A-OK.
> If you are a hotel, you are a corporation who's primary business and income is renting out rooms. If you have what is usually just a sole proprietorship, you should not be subject to the hotel tax. What is it whit this damn country that people want to just start bending definitions and terms to fit their despotic little minds will.

Hotels may be corporations, but they can also be other business forms, including sole proprietorships or partnerships. Sole proprietorship hotels aren't particularly uncommon. You are the one bending definitions.

> What, next we're going to require Sally's lemonade stand comply with Sarbanes Oxley???

Most SOX provisions apply -- by their text -- to public companies; except things like rules prohibiting willful destruction of evidence related to a federal investigation. Obviously, by the text of the law, the former wouldn't apply to a typical lemonade stand, and, the latter wouldn't apply to anything a typical lemonade stand would do even to the extent that the rule would in principal apply to them.
Rahul Yadav is good man and good thinking beacuse he should not give money to people who are money minded but give to charity or open something poor people.
What kind of information would we lose, besides information about the extinct species themselves? For example, are there unsolved questions in science that could be solved if we still had a specimen of a missing species? I don't see that it's interesting to study an extinct species for its own sake, since we would be lost in regret at not still having dinosaurs, etc. too.
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That will not affect the behavior of bad tenants.

I'll give a simple example. my aunt owns a house here in AZ, and one out in NY. Lives in each for 6 months out of the year (ish). When she's not there, she rents them out.

About a year ago, Verizon sent her DMCA takedown notices, and started their "warning" system (i.e. the step program or whatever it's called). I told her about the safe harbor protections, and she spoke to the tenant several times.

Literally, the only thing that stopped the tenant from torrenting was installing OpenWRT on the router and setting up the nftables/iptables to block udp traffic (only after talking to the tenant 8 times).

The only thing that can prevent some people from behaving badly is the absence of a chance to do so.

Zoning is already a solution to this problem, why do we need to solve it again? Only places zoned for business/tenancy should be acceptable places to rent.
I realize that it might upset you to live in a civil society, but the act of doing so does behoove you to adhere at least cursorily to the social contracts that have existed since long before you were born. Part of that social contract is "don't be a shithead neighbor." We tell you you can't have loud parties at 3AM when it affects other people, too. If the people engaging in short-term rentals are enough of a problem--and, when I've encountered them, they certainly have been, so I'm sympathetic--then, yes, we as a society, that thing you live in, will act to curtail the cause of the symptom that hurts us.

You can move to the backwoods of Idaho and rent anything you want. If you want to live amongst people, then act like it.

(I have a theory that a large part of why the Valley wants to put so much of civil society to the torch is because there isn't much of one there, now that very large corporate interests have a stranglehold, but I cannot prove it.)
> Rahul Yadav has decided to allot all his personal shares[...]

So I'm not very well versed in options but does this literally mean all of his shares or is there a difference between personal shares and some sort of other shares? Did he really give away every share he owned / is entitled to?

Edit: erm, thought questions were okay. Why the downvotes? I just wanted to know if there is some sort of legal distinction with "personal" shares or if it simply means all of his shares.
Perhaps a tiny animation. Sparkles, the larger the number the more sparkles?
> Social repercussions with neighbors

...and? If this amounts to dirty looks in the shared hallway or similar, it's pointless.

In fact, it's worse than pointless: The caring, socially-responsible people who don't want to have assholes will be hurt worst, and will be motivated to leave the business after a few bad apples, whereas the people who honestly don't give two shits until the police show up will carry on regardless, and take on more assholes as long as their checks don't bounce.

Social approbation only works well in tight-knit societies where someone not liking you can have ripple effects through everything you do. "The Scarlet Letter" is an example, both of how it works and how it is honestly a bad way to run a society.

You need laws to put teeth in the "don't do that" parts of the social contract, and you need to enforce those laws. Lawsuits can work, but they're messy and expensive and generally so draining for both sides that winning one is something of an academic point. That's one reason we as a society attempt to use lawsuits as a method of last resort, and create regulations and regulatory bodies which can enforce punishments without sending an injured party through the massive financial and personal ruin of bringing suit against someone.
See also Ronald Coase: The Problem of Social Cost.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/09/03/r...
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Many species have unique biochemical/mechanical features, which are interesting and possibly usable in other technologies.
> Yadav had reportedly written a resignation letter on April 30 to the board and investors and questioning their "intellectual capability" and giving them a one-week deadline to "help in the transition". However, on May 5, he withdrew the resignation and apologised for his outbursts.

I call unstable. This CEO isn't maverick, world-changing bastard. He is simply unstable.

Moreover, there are huge questions about quality of hiring at Housing. Their website, app have had same bugs for 6 months, and they still remain. Over 2000 people can't make a decent bug-free website to see property listings?

The whole point of Housing was Airbnb style property listings - real verification, owners -only, professional photos and VR. And somehow their UX is one of their weakest points.
Exactly. This is the same thing as rubber-hose cryptanalysis--if somebody can get hold of that meat carrier for your brilliant brain, they can figure out what you're doing. And so AirBNB will lose. (They've knuckled under wherever confronted.) So will the next one.
I only call it a "tax" as a shorthand, libertarians would not call it that. Rather they devise a system where, for example in the case of air pollution, there is no such thing as a public good, and instead of regulation and fines, potential air polluters would need to enter into a contract with the owners of the air in order to secure the right to pollute the air. And it pretty much goes downhill from there.

It's one of those things that might sometimes work okay on paper, but the trouble is that you can't actually try it out in practice due to the difficulty of assembling into a coherent community, a critical mass of people with the correct sort of deranged insanity to want to try it in the first place.
Well, when you hear enough people saying "The government is always the problem" like it's a religious dogma, and claiming that a free market can solve every problem, for ever and ever amen, it gets a bit tiresome.
You consent by continuing to live here.

You're right that initial decision of consent was made for you by someone else--it was made for you by your parents, when you were a child and they had custody of you.

As an adult, you are free to revoke your consent by leaving the country and ceasing to enjoy the benefits its government provides.

(And as for "nobody consented to taxation," I consented, and continue to do so, because I like contributing to the country where I live and where I'm a citizen.)
Exactly. I play a game like this to relax. This game is stressful due to the timer aspect, while I love 2048 I will never play this game again.

I loved it until the timer was introduced. I got to 15.
I'm critical of Uber because Uber is exploitative and kinda shitty, but I see a difference in kind here. AirBNB causes negative externalities to people around the participants in the transaction. Uber, to the best of my knowledge, doesn't.
Loved the game, installed for my phone immediately.
That said, this script is way more fun though, loved it more, did 17 for me too.
Looks to be more than just Haswell. I was wondering this too, and just noticed this comment on the (fix) patch: "the problem (user space deadlocks) can be seen with
Android bionic's mutex implementation on an arm64 multi-cluster system."
Again, your parents made the decision for your citizenship when you were a child and they had custody of you.

As an adult, you can revoke your consent and leave.

You keep telling me how:

1) Other countries don't offer what you want,
2) It's expensive to move to another country,
3) Many countries won't grant you citizenship,

And so on.

None of those mean that you can't leave and go somewhere else. They just mean that wherever you go, you'll have to make a compromise.

Being forced to make a compromise elsewhere does not mean that taxation here is theft.

None of your claims support the false assertion that "taxation is theft".

I really don't understand what part of this you're missing. I really don't get what part of this plain language is in dispute.
They used to be called "zip guns" or "Saturday night specials": Cheap, sometimes home-made firearms with mostly coincidental accuracy (You hit what you were aiming at? Pure coincidence!) and a penchant for exploding in the user's hand.

They're to mass-produced firearms what cheap bathtub hooch is to Jim Beam.

Wikipedia mentions them along with much more sophisticated designs:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Improvised_firearm
It looks like all sw development processes try to guarantee budget by taming "unanticipated change". Unfortunately this can't be planned or taken into account early enough, by the definition of "unanticipated". Some processes are better in avoiding collateral damages when trying to restore the budget than others, but at the end of the day, we have a change in our hands.
Probably should prefer to the codename in this case, because debian stable is jessie as of a couple weeks ago.
I can't speak to VRBO, but I know that HomeAway is very particular about chucking out bad renters and works very closely with local governments to build fair legislation around short-term rentals.

(Disclaimer, such as it is: former TripAdvisor employee, incidentally touched their Vacation Rentals stuff a few years ago, don't really care about it and I use HomeAway.)
The Agile Manifesto has a lot of good ideas and was motivated by real world problems and how they were solved. The problem is like many other good ideas is that they evaporate in a cultural vacuum. Agile methods like Scrum and XP are based on the thought that introducing some rules can overcome culture.

What happens in practice is that culture subverts those rules in order to reinforce itself.

Resistance to change is a stronger force than any buzzword methodology or profound observations. This is further confounded by the very nature of software development as something that can't be distilled into a set of rules. Different situations require different approaches.

Is all lost? I don't think so. Agile has contributed to the way people think about software development and gives the right team in the right culture more tools they can use in the right situations. It's not going to "fix" software development in general though.
Presumably he is still an employee, so will have some ownership. Why shouldn't the people who are the company have real ownership as well? Why should the CEO retain the most ownership?
From a company that doesn't even appear to be in business anymore:

http://www.ozmodevices.com/
And HackerNews calls the man unstable, deranged, insane. Nothing is valued here but greed to some folks.

Edit: The downvotes don't really prove me wrong, guys.
Really great news. I guess io.js fulfilled its purpose of shifting control of Node.js away from Joyent and giving it the vitality it needs to remain a leading backend technology.
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I am curious if environmental/wildlife groups and/or the government in the countries where their horns are in demand done anything to educate the public re: their unfounded beliefs/superstitions?

If individuals don't realize the impact of their actions on the world at large, shouldn't the government or public groups (e.g., in Vietnam or China) step in and take a stand on it, no matter how unpopular that stand is?

You'll never win the fight against the poachers. The only way is to cut the demand at source. Too late for that unfortunately. This really made me sad.
Musk trollin' hard tonight, damn...
Because you might end up sharing the URL with people who don't have your "known browser", like the very situation that is prompting this complaint.

I get it, whining about graceful degradation and being anti-Javascript can be annoying, but your response is even more so.
If it's an internal tool that works great but doesn't look beautiful, then what incentive is there to fix it? All you would end up doing is changing the design without adding new features. Maybe some internal company tools are scraping the DOM of that site, so they might actually break existing tools by redesigning. In any case, I don't see much technical debt here, and there isn't much to gain by redesigning.
SocketCluster's API is similar to that of Pusher so it can be a good self-hosted alternative: http://socketcluster.io/ - It's also designed with scalability in mind. You do have to manage presence yourself though but that shouldn't be too difficult (You can keep track of user presence in your own database - That could actually be an advantage since you can go ahead and use that presence data easily on your back-end to do other stuff - Easy to integrate).

We're currently working with a couple of fast growing startups so it's getting traction (still early adopter stage though). We'll be announcing our native iOS client near the end of this week. (disclosure: I'm the main author)
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Why would you rather share the road with an uber/lyft driver vs taxi as a pedestrian?
Can you teach someone to be good at what they do? Of course you can study people who are good at what they do. Perhaps other people who want to become good at what they do can learn from that. However, no one will become good at what they do purely by emulating someone else, since what they do won't be the same thing.

Besides. Things like Agile aren't "observing what people who are good at what they do, do". It's a formalized process based on the ideas that some people who are good at what they do have about WHY they are good at what they do. But do people who are good at what they do really know why they are so? They probably don't! Besides, they are going to mix in all kinds of things that they think they do, or they think they should do, or they think that good people they learned from did, in that formalized process. In the end, the process they describe may sound good to them, but have very little to do with what good people actually do or should do in any particular circumstance.
Even worse, the public outcry against the non-belief, causes people to believe in it!

unintended consequences, streisand effect -- no, "Streisand Singularity", creating an issue where there was one.

Actually, it's "ironic".
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If I recall correctly, web 2.0 was about user-generated content. The image on the right is likely the one.
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Eccentric. To draw a parallel, Rahul reminds me of Evan S of SnapChat, but only that Evan managed to correct his act and that's down to the mentors he had.

Either way, there much to learn from Yadav and his amazing team at Housing. They managed to create a great business in a short amount of time, sustained growth and managed to iterate rapidly. Now, I don't know for sure if all that growth happened inspite of Yadav, or because of him; but its hard to find fault with him, and he's achieved a lot in his short career already, and has to be credited for a lot of wealthy individuals he's now created in the process.

So much money has been poured into Housing at absolutely sky-high evaluations ($900m in a round led by Japan's SoftBank a few months back), Housing.com's competitor CommonFloor.com has its founding team intact (and one that's much mature in terms of experience). So there is some cause of worry.

Indian start-up scene is going through an unprecedented amount of growth propelled by all the talent that isn't leaving the country any more (most unicorns are founded by IITians that otherwise would have left the country for Silicon Valley) as VCs and Angles continue to pour a lot of money into the ecosystem.

IMO, Housing is a success story (as much as Ola Cabs, Zomato, Snapdeal are).

Orig comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9491156
I have a prototype that does exactly that. It's fun to an extent but it needs an extra something.

EDIT: What the heck, you might as well have a look at it. This prototype is older and maybe buggy but you get the idea:

http://twenty.frenchguys.net/play2
Ask HN: E-company in estonia, any experienced so far?
Hi HN,

the promise from the e-citizen program in estonia are very actractive.

I would really like to found a limited company there, but I cannot figure out the real total cost of the venture.

Does any of you have any experience ?

How did it worked out ? What are the total cost ?

How much cost to maintain the company ?

What if I need to employee someone ?

Thanks :)
But isn't this just like forcing these businesses to be a free-of-charge private cloud storage for the government? Oh, silly me, of course there's gonna be payola bigtime for providing a service like this.

If the government can query the whole trove whenever she deems there is a need, what difference does it make where the hard drives live?

Just more lacklustre theatre where nothing really changes and the partners/cronies get some extra loot.
It's basically what GMail used to look like:

http://www.tapeze.com/imagedir/GmailLogin.png

They just didn't spend money on updating the design of something that probably works perfectly fine.
I'm sure that it's because Mozilla is comfortable with it. In reality, they don't owe us anything in particular. They chose a licence that works for them, is OSI Open Source(tm) approved and is compatible with a number of other licences (Apache, GPL, et al). Good enough.
If you think that's bad, you should see their public facing page.