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It's an unfortunate reality that we're going to exceed +1.5C, and we need to begin preparing for the consequences now. "Solving" climate change requires humanity to both prevent fu…

We leverage partnerships with in-kind donors and shipping companies to get a lot of stuff for free. And of course there are tons of community groups gathering second-hand donations…

I'm building supply chain & logistics tech at Distribute Aid. We help grassroots aid groups meet more needs, more consistently, and work together to gain efficiency at scale. We de…

Did you read the article? Sounds like she didn't do anything wrong, but was sent falsified data by a more senior scientist that she trusted. After discovering that, she took steps …

They are big in the grassroots aid movement running important projects in multiple countries, but they aren't the Red Cross or Doctors Without Borders big. Hoping to get this resol…

Hey HN! I'm in contact with a fairly major refugee aid group in Europe. Someone maliciously reported a bunch of their posts as spam, and their page was unpublished. They appealed t…

I was about to say, I've had no problems with PayPal after I moved to Serbia. Venmo on the other hand...

Have to agree. been really enjoying Elixir / Ecto / Phoenix. I find Ecto lets me be as expressive as I need to with Queries, and handles the mapping into models very well for the 9…

I have a "summer of code" project. I'm a founder of Distribute Aid [1], a Swedish ngo that builds tech tools for refugee aid groups. We're an open source project [2] and are lookin…

Don't have links on hand, but it changes from country to country. We started ours in Sweden, where my cofounder is from. It was pretty easy compared to the 503(C) process in the US…

As someone who cares more about adventure than $$$ and just founded my own NGO, mad respect. 2014: -$10k - Founded a startup. 2015: $35k - Moved to SV, raised a small seed. 2016: $…

How is that Capital As Power site radical at all when it merely purports to explore the dominant mode of capitalism / politics in the USA today? Now if you linked to something like…

Can you link a news article or study about the similarities between programmers at the end of the day and adults with ADHD? Just curious... for a friend... ;)

Shoot me a message. Email is in my profile.

Can US entrepreneurs go live in Gaza for a year to help mentor people in the local scene? Is that possible, and helpful?

I just sleep in my car in walmart parking lots. Saves money, and there's almost always a walmart within a reasonable distance.

I plan on spending the full day with the new hire or intern, and my goal is to go from 0 to a running build to a commit in day 1. Sure, it is kinda a hassle for me to block out the…

Also, maybe they don't want to dive right in. Can you take the lead on the open source project for a small component and run that the way you want to for 3 months to show them how …

One argument that may appeal to management is that your open source codebase becomes a powerful recruiting tool. Many companies open source non-core code, like UI components design…

https://ding.io/ was super nice when I was logging my time as a contractor. Worked great for personal stuff too, like going to the gym. Easy to separate that out from the work stuf…

Early stage startup founder here. I usually do a 30 day trial as a contractor for a candidate that I am confident about. This allows me to forgo the terrible interview practices a …

readme.io - works well for non-api documentation too