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ccarpentergon Built for Bitcoin. Next Run: Early 2014

The definition of ATM From Wikipedia:

is an electronic telecommunications device that enables the clients of a financial institution to perform financial transactions without the need for a cashier, human clerk or bank teller.

ccarpentergon There's a .00006% Chance of Building a Billion Dollar Company

I agree and I think a bayesian approach is more suitable. For instance, the probability of getting into YC:

P(getting into YC | sold a startup, graduated from Stanford/MIT, worked on/built something awesome, etc)

Or the chance of building a $1B company:

P($1B company | you're in SV, $100MM in funding, etc)

ccarpentergon There's a .00006% Chance of Building a Billion Dollar Company

I think a bayesian approach is more suitable:

P($1B company | you're in SV, $100MM in funding, etc)

Think about a bayesian network and its joint probability.

ccarpentergon Money on the Mind [video]

Something could be perceived as unethical by a poor person but as ethical by a rich one.

ccarpentergon Money on the Mind [video]

Well when it comes to business you can replace words like unfair and unethical with a term like 'competitive advantage'.

ccarpentergon Show HN: Get Paid on Time - Simplified Payments for Freelance Developers

Is the fiduciary model a common thing for freelancers? I'm not sure of that.

I was wondering how hard is for a non US contractors/freelancers to open a US bank account and then use something like stripe to collect payments. Or maybe collect the money through the bank. That's a real need: a way to easily get paid without using Western Union or the like.

ccarpentergon Show HN: Radiotron – Turn a radio personality into your marketer

Got it! Thanks.

ccarpentergon Show HN: Radiotron – Turn a radio personality into your marketer

How do you consider that spam? I posted it on my Google+ account, that was the purpose of the HN circle.

Suddenly I come from another planet. I don't get it. I don't consider my twitter timeline to be spam, for example.

I receive a lot emails from HN related stuff. I think that's fair. If I think it isn't useful for me I just delete it, I don't flag anybody we are here to share things.

ccarpentergon Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (September 2013)

Your site is down.

ccarpentergon Show HN: Radiotron – Turn a radio personality into your marketer

Your comment is totally unfair. I've never sent you an email. I didn't spam anybody.

ccarpentergon Sails.js – Real-time MVC Framework for Node.js

As a best practice you could use a package.json file [1], IMHO.

[1] https://npmjs.org/doc/json.html

ccarpentergon Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (July 2013)

SEEKING WORK - Remote and occasionally on site.

I've worked for two San Francisco startups and one from Chicago.

Tools: Yeoman, Grunt.js, Bower, vim, Chrome dev tools, git, virtualenv, foreman, Ipython

Frontend: Backbone.js, jQuery, AngularJS, PureCss, Bootstrap.css

Python stacks/frameworks: Django, Tornado/SQLAlchemy, Google Appengine, Heroku, Linode

node.js stack/frameworks: express.js, ejs, Sequelize, Bookshelf

Databases: Postgresql, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis

My github repos: https://github.com/ccarpenterg

Some work I've done:

http://todolist-app.appspot.com/

http://presidenciables2013.appspot.com/

Data Processing: R, Octave, GDAL, PostGIS

Data Visualization (D3.js):

http://ccarpenterg.github.io/blog/calendar-layout-visualisin...

http://ccarpenterg.github.io/blog/us-census-visualization-wi...

Feel free to email me: ccarpenterg@gmail.com

ccarpentergon [dead]

You realize it's a joke, right?

ccarpentergon Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2013)

SEEKING WORK - Remote and occasionally on site.

Some stacks/frameworks: Django, Tornado/SQLAlchemy, Google Appengine, Heroku, Linode.

Frontend: Backbone.js, D3.js, jQuery, AngularJS

Data Processing: R, Octave, GDAL, PostGIS

Data Visualization (D3.js):

http://ccarpenterg.github.io/blog/us-census-visualization-wi...

http://ccarpenterg.github.io/blog/calendar-layout-visualisin...

My github repos: https://github.com/ccarpenterg

Some work I've done:

http://todolist-app.appspot.com/

http://presidenciables2013.appspot.com/

ccarpenterg@gmail.com

ccarpentergon Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (April 2013)

SEEKING WORK - Remote and occasionally on site.

Experience: I worked for a startup from San Francisco doing Django development and for a small company from Chicago doing Tornado/async programming.

Some stacks/frameworks: Django, Tornado/SQLAlchemy, Google Appengine, Backbone.js, jQuery, Twitter Bootstrap, Postgresql, MySQL, MongoDB, Git, Nginx, Linux. Meteor, D3.js.

Data Processing: R, Octave, GDAL, PostGIS

I'm adding Data Visualization to my skills (D3.js, Data Processing):

http://ccarpenterg.github.com/blog/calendar-layout-visualisi...

http://ccarpenterg.github.com/blog/us-census-visualization-w...

My github repos: https://github.com/ccarpenterg

Some work I've done:

http://todolist-app.appspot.com/

http://presidenciables2013.appspot.com/

ccarpenterg@gmail.com

ccarpentergon Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (March 2013)

SEEKING WORK - Remote and occasionally on site.

Experience: I worked for a startup from San Francisco doing Django development and for a small company from Chicago doing Tornado/async programming. My python skills are very solid (I love python!).

Some stacks/frameworks: Django, Tornado/SQLAlchemy, Google Appengine, Backbone.js, jQuery, Twitter Bootstrap, Postgresql, MySQL, MongoDB, Git, Nginx, Linux.

I'm adding Data Visualization to my skills (D3.js, Data Processing): http://ccarpenterg.github.com/blog/us-census-visualization-w...

My github repos: https://github.com/ccarpenterg

Some work I've done:

http://todolist-app.appspot.com/

http://presidenciables2013.appspot.com/

ccarpenterg@gmail.com

ccarpentergon Nginx Load Balancing Basics

It would be nice to have a library for adding server/s to an upstream on the fly. Something like:

nginx addserver upstream-name 127.0.0.1:8025

EDIT: Added upstream name

ccarpentergon Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (December 2012)

SEEKING WORK – Remote

* Web dev: Django/Tornado, Postgresql, nginx, jQuery, Bootstrap, Linux, Linode, git.

* Asynchronous/Non-blocking dev: Tornado (Chats, Twitter-like web apps, Live feeds)

* Computer Vision: pygame, opencv, NumPy, SciPy, PIL

My Github repos: https://github.com/ccarpenterg

Some work in Python:

https://github.com/ccarpenterg/todolist/wiki

http://concejales2012.cl

Blog: http://ccarpenterg.posterous.com

Contact: ccarpenterg@gmail.com

ccarpentergon Meet the Obama campaign's $250 million fundraising platform

In the first UI the users are overwhelmed with all the information they have to fill out in order to make the donation. In the final UI the process has 4 steps.

ccarpentergon Meet the Obama campaign's $250 million fundraising platform

This is a very good example of UI optimization: http://cdn.kylerush.org/kr/images/contribute-before-after-sc...

ccarpentergon We're doing for payments what MP3s did for CDs

Recently I've been playing with Stripe to put a payment form (url) into a QR code. So the cashier prints the receipt, the user scans the QR code and pays using the form on her iPhone/Android.

But why would merchants or users prefer this solution? why not just use the credit card? Perhaps these kinds of ideas are what pg calls made-up startup ideas.

ccarpentergon How to Stay Relevant as a Web Developer

It looks like the article was written in 2008. PHP or ASP/C#, SOAP? seriously? I think we're in the low part of the quality curve for Hacker News.

ccarpentergon Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (November 2012)

SEEKING WORK – Remote, I'm in Chile

Right now I'm using Tornado, Postgresql, nginx, jQuery, Bootstrap, Linux, Linode and git. Recently I've shipped this web app: http://concejales2012.cl/ with basic SEO and it did well (20k visits in october; 60% from Google) It uses Twitter OAuth and Filepicker.io.

I'm working on two projects. Video chat app for a client and a side project.

My Github repos: https://github.com/ccarpenterg

Some work in Python:

http://todolist-app.appspot.com

http://concejales2012.cl/

Contact: ccarpenterg@gmail.com

ccarpentergon Writing web applications in Python and Pyramid Web Framework

Framework vs Github followers

Tornado 4,551

Flask 4,019

Bottle 1,381

Pyramid 876

EDIT: Just adding some figures to the debate.

ccarpentergon Red Bull Stratos Skydive Rescheduled for today

Freefall live on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/redbull?v=MrIxH6DToXQ

ccarpentergon Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (October 2012)

SEEKING WORK

I'm developing web apps with Python, Tornado, Django, Google App Engine, Javascript (jQuery, Backbone.js), PostgreSQL, Linux, VPS (Linode), MongoDB, Redis. I've studied Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence (Statement of accomplishment from Andrew Ng - ML Stanford, and Sebastian Thrun/Peter Norvig - AI Stanford).

I'm working on a scalable and easy-to-integrate web chat implementation (similar to Facebook chat) using Tornado non-blocking capabilities and the long polling technique.

My Github repos: https://github.com/ccarpenterg

Some work in Python:

http://todolist-app.appspot.com

http://concejales2012.cl/

Contact: ccarpenterg@gmail.com

ccarpentergon Bootstrap 2.1 released

The docs for previous versions: https://github.com/twitter/bootstrap/tags

ccarpentergon NASA TV feed of 10:31 pm PDT Curiosity landing

Curiosity just landed: https://twitter.com/NASA/status/232348523050450945

ccarpentergon Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (August 2012)

SEEKING WORK

I'm working on a scalable and easy-to-integrate web chat implementation (similar to Facebook chat) using Tornado non-blocking capabilities and the long polling technique.

My Github repos: https://github.com/ccarpenterg

Some work in Python:

http://todolist-app.appspot.com

Blog: http://ccarpenterg.posterous.com

Contact: ccarpenterg@gmail.com (My name is Cristian)

ccarpentergon How the Rich Got Rich

Interest rates are the price of capital

I think that's inaccurate. The price of the capital is its cost of opportunity. Interest rates are the price of debt.