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by bcks 8y ago
The project is more or less abandoned. It was scheduled to shut down last year: https://twitter.com/golan/status/976202325076467712 It's also open source, though the code hasn't been touched in a few yea
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NYC passes minimum pay wage for Uber and Lyft drivers(engadget.com)
4 points by bcks 8y ago|0 comments
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by bcks 8y ago
I've been a volunteer for a couple of years now. It's so rare to get the ping for volunteers (maybe once every few months?) and you really have to be very quick to accept the call before another volunteer does, but when you&#x27
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by bcks 8y ago
It's not offline, but the Microsoft Seeing AI app for iOS uses ML to cover a lot of basic use cases like recognizing text, products, currency, describing scenes, etc: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/seeing-ai
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by bcks 8y ago
Who's "beleaguered" now?
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by bcks 9y ago
Dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16302416
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by bcks 9y ago
This very thing happened with rats in French-occupied Hanoi in 1902: all you had to do to claim a bounty was turn in a rat’s tail. Rats without tails can still have babies and soon people were breeding rats for profit instead of killing the
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by bcks 9y ago
It's a dupe. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15206287
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by bcks 9y ago
Very brief, indeed. It left me wanting more. In particular, I would have mentioned the explosion of independent printing shops in the 60's. There’s a great list of counter-culture and political print shops here: http://www.d
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by bcks 10y ago
Any idea what software stack he is using? I searched around on his site as well as learnsquared and couldn't quite figure it out.
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by bcks 10y ago
I was surprised that the NYT article did not have a map of the route. Luckily, WikiPedia has it covered: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Addis_Ababa–Djibouti_Railway
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by bcks 10y ago
As you can see from the website, it's not just for ex-gang members but also for previously incarcerated men and women looking for job training and a leg up. Perhaps Ray could decide for himself once your GoFundMe funds run out.
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by bcks 10y ago
Since you're in Los Angeles, you might try reaching out to Homeboy Industries: http://www.homeboyindustries.org/ They specialize in helping get folks back on their feet with job training. They have a bakery program, a
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by bcks 11y ago
I've had good success hiring developers for short-term project work through https://gun.io .
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by bcks 11y ago
Ooh, please make it easy to export to a format I can load into a 3D printer.
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by bcks 11y ago
Check out http://www.friendsforeducation.org They are super small, but do some amazing work paying school fees and scholarships for students from Dalit and marginalized communities in India. 100% of donated funds go to the stude
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by bcks 11y ago
The MOD-t from New Matter sells for $400. I've not used it myself, but saw it at the Maker Faire in NYC: https://store.newmatter.com/#!/mod-t-3d-printer
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by bcks 11y ago
Well, critics warned it was a scam and crowdsourcing funding was a way to bypass legit medical processes and review. I want to give them the benefit of the doubt, but a year's silence doesn't look great.
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by bcks 11y ago
Any news from the YC-backed Immunity Project? Seems like nothing new on their blog or Twitter feed since 2014: https://www.immunityproject.org
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by bcks 11y ago
Well, the Brooklyn Community Bail Fund is mentioned in TFA: http://www.brooklynbailfund.org Also in NYC: http://www.thebronxfreedomfund.org
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by bcks 11y ago
When I visited Nicaragua 10+ years ago, I was impressed by Grupo Fenix, a mix of locals and visitors who build solar cookers and photovoltaic systems for rural communities. If you are interested in learning more or getting involved with thi
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by bcks 12y ago
We live in a four unit building and one of the units just went on the market. The former tenants cleared out everything for their open house and just brought in some minimal, modern "staging" furniture. It was astonishing to see e
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by bcks 12y ago
Funny, I just posed a related question: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8652432 You might check out the Lego Wedo set, or Sphero: http://stemkids.io/robots/ Or perhaps Snap Circuits or LittleBits:
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by bcks 12y ago
Good one. I missed that on HN. Thanks!
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Ask HN: Math and science gift ideas for kids?
20 points by bcks 12y ago|20 comments
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by bcks 12y ago
A few more: http://electricembers.coop https://riseup.net http://designaction.org http://radicaldesigns.org http://palantetech.coop I also wrote an article about collectives for de
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by bcks 13y ago
For better or worse, U.S. foreign aid and assistance are instruments of U.S. foreign policy. Just look at the list of countries and how much they receive. It's not exactly correlated to the amount of poverty and hunger among recipient
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by bcks 13y ago
I agree, it would be nice to see something more specific here... but petitions don't only function by applying direct political pressure, they are a time-tested way of building a list of interested supporters. As such, the inflammatory
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by bcks 13y ago
With their bold investigative reporting and willingness to speak truth to power, I just can't understand why weekly news magazines are having such a hard time in the U.S.
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by bcks 13y ago
There are lots of homophonic puns and poetry in Chinese: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homophonic_puns_in_Mandarin_Chi... One of the more extreme examples is a 92-character poem in which every syllable has the sound ch

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