SeckinJohn

Hey, I am interested. Have worked at Udemy(a PHP e-commerce shop at the time) where I built a lot of cool products like the course feed, notifications, wishlist and note-taking. Also built multiple e-commerce platforms on my own from scratch, one was being used on onedio.com one never saw the day light.

Also built an investment platform for cryptocurrencies. I think we might be a great fit. Can send screenshots of what I have built before. Can also send a CV. To get in touch: seckincansahin@gmail.com

how do you prove to the bank the non-existence of a clause that would void the trust if this is done(and noticed)?

the main point I tried to make above was this: in normal life there is the "human factor"; like, if you look at a situation, you can reasonably comment on whether it's a positive situation from an actor's perspective; whether the actors were engaging in fraudulent activity etc. In digital-only world, there is no such thing as "probable cause", "reasonable doubt" etc.

which makes the application of smart contracts to real life intractable(IMHO borderline impossible for complex situations for the near future[~10 years?]).

1- 50% of what? Revenue into the company or dividens/salary etc out of the company? if it's the latter, then, how do we make sure that you don't spend $500.000 for trash bins for the office? Do we have to make sure every decision goes through the network? (i.e. who is the authority to decide what is reasonable and what is blatant fraud if things go sour AND is it even possible to make sure that nothing possibly can go sour[I don't think so.]. So, fraud is possible, and in the case of fraud, -say; the network retroactively decides that something really constitutes a fraud, hence is a crime- who is the enforcer of the punishment[which is most likely to be physical: like prison sentence]?)

2- How do you make sure that your child doesn't sell it in 2025 and buys a Lambo? (which is a problem you don't have with regular Trusts AFAIK)

It's a sales tax, not a 'buying' tax. Say, a company sells you a $100 item for $100, forgetting to include the tax in the final price. And say no one ended up paying tax for that transaction for in that tax year. Who is the government going to go after once they realize this to collect the $8.75 sales tax - you or the company?

Edit: I think you are confusing it with income tax. What you are saying happens for salaried income in USA.

Then the government taking a criminal's drug money would also be theft? Also, he took it from a government wallet, not directly from a criminal.

Edit: Just to clarify, I was just pointing out that the comment I replied to is tangential(1- he didn't steal from a criminal. 2- 'someone' can 'seize' a criminal's money without it being theft.).

He obviously stole -this isn't even a case of trying to steal; he stole, and got caught- and I don't get how he can get away with such a small punishment for stealing $10M+.

Can you please send me an invite? We are building something that's going to be heavy on the server side and this looks like a really good deal. My email is visible on my profile. Thanks!

you'd be better off if you mapped those 10 numbers to a number in [0:(10!-1)] interval since there are only 10! different potential answers. So you make the job of the algorithm easier (figuring out the "structure" of the function it's trying to solve for is easier when the result space is compressed without any 'signal' loss)

another improvement could be "enhancing" of the inputs: when you figure out how you will permute the numbers to sort them, create specific and randomized variations of that specific list of numbers and feed the learning algorithm with the correct results of those permutations too. for instance if you have 5 70 2 13 as a training input, the trainer algorithm could generate the following extra inputs based on this so that the algorithm will get a better chance of figuring out the sorting for a test input like 2 15 5 65:

2 5 23 70 2 5 33 70 ... 2 5 63 70 2 5 73 70 also: 2 5 14 70 2 5 13 69 etc. also modify more than 1 number at the same time(both systematically and also randomly) to generate even more "gray"-input

No one cares if he will make $100M from this or not. $100M is less than %10 of the total value of all the bitcoins currently in the market and we can just think of that %10 as the one-time tax "humanity" paid to get the bitcoin system developed.

Thanks, this looks great. Apparently they also have colocation space -- asked them how much it'd cost us. Will post here once I hear back(if I hear back soon :) ).

Actually he is right - gpu instances are pretty cheap if you use the spot ones. http://ec2price.com/?product=Linux/UNIX&type=g2.2xlarge&regi...

But the thing is I am not sure if amazon keeps a spot-instance reserve (i.e. what happens if all the spot instances get turned into on-demand ones over, say, a month and suddenly your service is shut down and you keep waiting indefinitely[you'd probably wait for around 24 hours and then try to get an on-demand one - which is 11x more expensive, costing around $600/mo for a shared gpu. and if you can't find an on-demand one, you will be offline for around a week until you figure out a way of provisioning a gpu instance from another service provider, which will probably cost you a lot more, but at that point you will have to do it not to disrupt the service for so long])

Hi everyone, I shared the old version of this website before and got a lot of valuable feedback from you all(thanks!): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7012059

You made me realize that there is a communication problem between the different sides of the table. I realized that as individuals we all have a different view of the same issue, and that this is mostly because we don't know what the others know and vice versa. Hence, with this new version, I shifted the focus of the website a little bit. Now the project is focusing more on initiating a conversation between the different sides of the table(government/social workers/homeless people) and the residents, with the goal of informing the interested residents about the issue.

Would love to hear what you all think about this version. Your feedback really helps this attempt converge faster on a solution. Thanks, Seckin

I would love to talk with more social workers/activists/organizations working on this and similar issues. Please feel free to send an email to me at seckincansahin@gmail.com

I have been iterating on this campaign for at least a month now according to feedback I have received from 50+ people in all walks of life, but I agree that there is still a huge room for improvement. And I would love to hear more about the campaigns that you think we could work on after this one.

I agree that the goal shouldn't be making the life too easy for the homeless - instead I believe that we should focus on helping them re-integrate back to the society, at least for the ones that would like to.

Homelessness is the main concern for resident of San Francisco according to recent polls, and it would be a shame if this stayed like this for another 10 years.

With this campaign, we can start creating campaigns that are funded and lead by the citizens who are most passionate about solving this. Then, the idea that something like this could work would ideally propagate to other people that are more skeptic.

We need to also note that we are already paying around $20 per month each on fixing homelessness in San Francisco through the government. The main difference is that with a crowdfunding platform, we would be the ones that are choosing which campaigns make sense and which activists we would like to support.

I agree that there are multiple complex causes of homelessness and that we need to address those issues. I have been thinking about this for a while and I have talked with a lot of social workers and activists to learn the details of the issue, yet, I am not the best person to work on actively solving those main causes. So, with this first campaign, I am trying to reach the people who are passionate about fixing this problem by directly designing/executing campaigns or by donating. I believe that the people who have been working on this for years will be the ones that will come up with the most sustainable solutions. I will try my best to help them reach potential donators through this website.

Why is he your hero?

I am curious about this too. Please elaborate if you know anything about this.

It is not legal to underpay H1Bs. They literally should not be able to fill those positions with Americans if they are complaining about this.

does not work properly on iphone if you zoom in and then click show

yeah I experimented with NUM_BUFFER_PAGES and SCROLL_THROTTLE and I am sold :) thanks for building and releasing this!

As far as I can see, it also removes invisible "pages" of content(i.e. stuff you saw and you are about to see) from DOM to decrease the load on renderer

If you try to move really fast with Infinity on, the screen turns completely white for a split second: http://airbnb.github.com/infinity/demo-on.html

what about social adsense?

also, don't forget that 90% of the ads budget is spent on creating intent not satisfying it.

Drawium.com - Website Tour Builder. Made a lot of improvements on our interactive tour builder and the tour viewers after we hit the front page on HN and got lots of constructive feedback. Build a tour for your website at http://drawium.com

I just made the "See It in Action!" button bigger and red.

I think this version is better than what it used to be. Thank you for the suggestion :)

We should really have this. Thank you for the suggestion.

PS: "Tesekkurler" :-)

hmm, apparently he already fixed that and marked it as "Good customer experience" but I am not sure why WOT still says "Warning! This site has a poor reputation.". Maybe it gets updated at a fixed time of the day or something.

I do :)

One of our founders was supposed to create a thread on the AmberJack.org forum to show drawium to others(amberjack is like an outdated version of drawium). He apparently sent private messages to ~10 users there which was redirected as emails. One of them went ahead and gave us a bad WOT score and also let us know. We apologized and resolved the issue with him since then but the WOT score remains there.

I will see if he can fix that. (I am not sure if that's even possible)

You mean the "Quick Website Tour" button, right?

While creating a tour, after clicking the save button, you can customize it to remove that button and launch it by calling a JS function(Drawer.start_tutorial()).

Or you can also customize it to automatically launch on page load.

Could you please give some more details about your system and what exactly happens when you try to launch the tour?

We just checked again and it seems to be working on our IE9.

This is interesting, thank you for sharing.

One of the core values we are providing is the hassle-free analytics we provide that lets you see core metrics like close-rates of individual explanation boxes, successful completion rate of the tour and the amount of time your users spend on each explanation box.

Also, being able to interactively build a tour for your website is really valuable especially if you are a marketer or a non-technical manager who wants to do this.

We also don't require IDs for elements which makes it very easy to try and iterate.