Started with just playing around with spare electronics/Arduino, but now I've gotten sucked into the wonderful world of retrocumputing via this kit from Ben Eater. I've already built the basic kit computer, and now exploring 6502.org and other websites for extending it.
In the comments the author says, "Blockchain is amazing technology - but it is a solution in search of a problem." That's really the tl;dr of this article. Blockchain has a lot of potential value but arbitrarily throwing it at problems won't magically create the value (not counting investors blindly throwing money at buzzwords).
I have yet to come across any problems that are solved better with a blockchain than with any other traditional technology - except for the original one, a distributed electronic currency.
I strongly agree with your comment. It's frustrating that people won't even attempt to address this glaring deficiency. When I ask people for examples they do the verbal equivalent of running away babbling.
Also a non-redactable public record, although it's a bit hard to do that robustly; you need a transaction saying "find md5^[N]([X]) xor [md5^N(X) xor data]" to ensure you data is already securely embedded before anyone can determine that it's classified/copyrighted/otherwise-censor-bait.
It's not just related, it's the entire idea of the blockchain. It only exists to timestamp data; in the case of Bitcoin that data is a commitment to a set of transactions.
Hey HN! I'm an Android engineer on the mobile growth team and we're looking to grow our team with another Android engineer (the second role called out above). Right now there are 4 of us on Android (5 on iOS), working on a variety of projects related to sharing, referrals, push notifications, onboarding, login, signup, internationalization, and more! There's two key things I love about the growth team - First, the ability to experiment on any idea I think might improve our product, and second, the ability to collaborate widely across the company on my projects. Even as a new grad new hire (~9 months on the job and right out of college), I was able to go from proposing an idea, formulating a hypothesis and test plan, to then rolling out the change because I was able to prove out the value with experimentation. And across the different things I've worked on I've gotten to work with our messaging team, trust team, trips team, and search team, to name a few. If you like driving your own projects, and collaborating with incredibly smart people, I want you on my team now!
If you've got any further specific questions about this position or Airbnb generally, feel free to email me (check my profile)!
(I'm an employee) We have a disaster response program through which we solicit hosts to volunteer their homes for emergencies. More information here - https://www.airbnb.com/disaster-response (We're still working on figuring out the logistics of this event so it's not on that page.)
So AirBNB isn't providing any free housing. Seems you'll try to browbeat/hoodwinkle people who volunteered to offer "housing to displaced neighbors and relief workers" into providing free housing to people who are neither neighbors nor relief workers.
Not true - there is no "browbeat/hoodwinkle"ing happening. You choose to volunteer your home for any of the causes. The team has been working overnight and still hammering away to create an easy way for people to volunteer their homes specifically for this issue.
I'm an employee, so for what it's worth, this isn't something out of the blue. Airbnb has a disaster response program that gets activated all the time for natural disasters and other tragedies - https://www.airbnb.com/disaster-response
We're choosing to activate it in response to the executive order because it goes directly against our company mission to let people belong anywhere. I'm sure PR was part of the decision but if it helps people, I'd take it at face value.
Stunt, then, as AirBNB isn't providing any free housing. You're just going to browbeat people who offered "housing to displaced neighbors and relief workers" to underwrite "your" provision of housing to people who are neither neighbors nor relief workers.
Let's be clear: if you are taking a public stand against the president of the United State who is known to be vindictive, you are taking a stand. ALL OF THEM. It is never just a stunt, because a stunt means there's no risk.
Its not a comment on the importance of Twitter. But rather composing a tweet requires no considerable effort. Its the same as when people change their FB profile pic and considerate it action.
An action that involved real effort would have been a twee that contained a link to the AirBnB's program to help alleviate the problems faced by refugees.
The President of the US is an odd example because that runs counter to your point I believe. Trump Tweets are the ultimate symbol of vacuousness, vanity and impulse.
You make biased judgement without knowing how the service actually works. If you had a look at the disaster response page of Airbnb, as just did I, you'd find that the UX flow is different. You select the disaster first and then offer your housing, which means the hosts are informed about their potential guests.
That's good itself because providing the platform is their core competence and they use it for public benefit. But if you think that it's not enough (for what?), they are also using their PR resources to spread the word and reach potential hosts who can participate.
Maybe someone should change the title of this post then, which, as I write this, is "Airbnb is providing free housing to refugees and anyone not allowed in the US."
Looks like it will be something different from what you already have. Housing is necessary for those who are outside USA and cannot return home and for those who's being deported, which means it has worldwide scale, not limited geography as before, right?
Yes, a lot of people have been working overnight and still working hard on putting out a slightly different way to volunteer for this service. As you point out it obviously has different challenges and opportunities than a natural disaster. We're working with organizations on the ground helping folks already to identify where we can help most. There's also work to prevent the inevitable attempts at abusing this system. And finally there's also work being done to try to help folks in areas we might not have any or enough volunteer hosts.
A current undergrad and TA for CS courses at Cal (UC Berkeley) checking in here. The course I TA for, CS 61C Machine Structures (inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs61c/) introduces the concept in our unit on parallelism. This is a required course for all undergraduate CS majors and is the third course in the introductory series.
Started with just playing around with spare electronics/Arduino, but now I've gotten sucked into the wonderful world of retrocumputing via this kit from Ben Eater. I've already built the basic kit computer, and now exploring 6502.org and other websites for extending it.