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Ok, so it seems i was too optimistic: „ Upon registering a company in Estonia, you can apply for opening a bank account in Estonia, if you have partners in Estonia/employees living in Estonia/carry out activities in Estonia. If the intended activity of the company is not related to Estonia, you will not be able to open a bank account in Estonia. If you want to open an account with an Estonian bank, the company has to start its activities, in full or in part, on the territory of Estonia“ (source: https://www.estonia-company.ee/management-of-bank-accounts-v...)
From a google search: „ Yes, Estonia has a system that enables you to open a bank account without residency and as an e-resident, and you can start the process online. Generally speaking, it is often possible to open an account with only your passport - depending on the country of your origin and the bank you chose.“ (Source: https://www.b2bpay.co/how-open-bank-account-estonia)
A bit intricate, but you should be able to open a bank account in Estonia. They offer digital citizenship, so-called e-residency (https://www.e-resident.gov.ee/) and for 350€ you can open a company there. I reckon it should also be possible to open a bank account there over the internet once you got your citizenship e-card?

Ask HN: Elastic Storage Space

Hello,my name is Chris and I am a german developer looking for feedback on an idea of mine that I would like to develop further.The idea is to blend cloud-based storage space with the local file system in order to transparently expand storage space.This would probably best be done as a file system driver which monitors pre-defined folders on the harddisk for given quotas, eventually...

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Install it in a sandbox.
Tried to install it on an RPI4, but failed due to different packages only available for x86.

Any chance to get it to run on ARM64? I got an RPI4 sitting around which I would like to use for papertrading.

Where can I learn more about the concepts you mentioned? I find it quite hard to acquire knowledge in that area as I don‘t even get to formulate the right questions.
SOmething that is quite vital but not mentioned anywhere in the readme is the strategy being used. Or how to develop one, for that same matter.

It is a trading engine - in itself quite interesting, but limited in its usefulness by the lack of strategies.

UPDATE: it has one sample strategy implemented, an EMA crosser (9/21) at https://github.com/rodrigo-brito/ninjabot/blob/main/example/...

This said, I would be very much interested in an introduction to different (simple) trading strategies with examples - does anyone know some introductory text to those?

Re:Trading System on Thursday May 20, 2021 @07:50AM (#27219941)
... Properly, that is.

Probably self-signed?

Yeah. I am practicing old skool trend following, yet would be interested in the same topic.

Sadly, I believe there is no silver bullet for that, the blow-ups seem to be rather chaotic, at least on the short to midterm basis.

Whereas for mid- to longterm trends, this usually correlates somehow with the technical „backup“ or substance that is provided for a given project: - does the project have a clear vision? - does the project have its own technical platform (its own blockchain for instance)? - how innovative is the project?

Projects like Ethereum, Cardano and Polkadot for instance do have a higher probability (!) to grow in my opinion, as they have significant technical knowledge and expertise under their belt.

Well, there is a lot to unpack here. I am in the same boat (german dev, more than 25 years of coding experience).

First of all, feeling down because you „never ever get it“ to run a business is quite revealing in itself: why do you define your value as a human being by your success to build up and run a business? This thinking in itself, that you are only „valuable“ if you achieve a self-defined goal is questionable.

But since websites like HN project the illusion that everyone who can code can turn this into a successfull business, it is understandable that you may get the impression to miss something or not to be adequate or as clever as everyone else. Yet this is an illusion in my opinion.

Also, you call yourself a hacker and seem to be passionate about technology - this is a totally different skillset than the one needed to run a business, where other priorities are to be set: when you run a business, you‘ll need to focus on your customers and their needs, provide support and sustain or even grow your business.

This is something completely different than being technically proficient. You have to ask yourself if you really want to do that (to take care of nagging customers, to have to deal with stupid shit like business taxes and hires, take on additional responsabilities, or to work on a single technological topic exclusively for years to come and thus have less time to code or learn about new technologies).

It dawned on me quite early that if you like an acitivity (like coding), the encouraged way of society is to build a business around it which turns you effectively into a manager, thus alienating you from the original activity you signed up for.

It seems as if someone is good at something, the „natural way“ is not to accomodate your life to do more of it, but to build a business around it in order to get rich. The goal of the operation however has slipped here, from enjoying an activity to creating money.

But don‘t do more of what you like, but usually become a facilitator to create more money, having to deal with topics you would have never considered in the first place.

This is not what I signed up for (to do more of what I like, namely to code).

„L‘art pour l‘art“ would be my motto. I am not in it for the money (although I need to be able to sustain myself), but for the ride it provides:

„It‘s more fun to compute!“ (https://youtu.be/3odl-KoNZwk)

48 year old dev here, i am in the same spot. I used to have tons of ideas, yet now i am happy when i do not
I am always wondering how these data nomads are actually sustaining themselves. As a freelancer, I had quite some hard time to find paying gigs, not to mention that most of the time I was asked to work on premise.

This said, I do not claim to be the smartest guy when it comes to business, nor to development…

Super-stupid suggestion, but… why not enhance building indices for given topics? Some sort of semi-automatic creation?

Say I believe in genome editing, CRISPR and personal medicine, and I would like to have XX stocks in my index. Your system could support me by picking the appropriate stocks.

Biggest issue is to map trending topics to XX according companies for me.

I find the costs to be prohibitevly high though…
Only thing I am aware of that is remotely comparable is Wikifolio (https://www.wikifolio.com/), then again, i am not very knowledgeable in that area, so if anyone has interesting european-based investing startup-links, I am all for it, please post and/or DM me. Thanks.
Hi,

all fine and dandy, yet there is no european version of your website (I guess?) nor any way for a european person to invest using your site, right?

If anyone knows about european alternatives to enombic, passiv or m1finance - please let me know.

Heise.de published a description for an open source holographic microscope which can generate 3d views.

This said, mine doesn‘t work, and the guys behind it aren‘t really helpful or friendly. Physicists, what can I say?

Sunk 300€ into it, misses some crucial information on calibration and useage according to me. However, others seem to have gotten it to work, so maybe I am not the brightest candle on the cake…

https://github.com/holmos-ipm/

https://www.heise.de/ratgeber/Holographie-Mikroskop-mit-Rasp... (paywalled)

Re:Show HN: Convier.me – A Calendar Service for Developers on Saturday January 09, 2021 @07:55AM (#25699981)
Although I am looking for something like this,convier.me's example script didn't work for me:

curl https://convier.me/api/event \ -H 'Authorization: Bearer YEAH_SURE...' \ -d 'event[start][date]=05/26/2019 08:00 PM' \ -d 'event[end][date]=05/26/2019 11:00 PM' \ -d 'event[organizer][name]=Tony Stark' \ -d 'event[organizer][email][email protected]' \ -d 'event[summary][text]=Endgame premiere' \ -d 'event[description][text]=Bring the popcorn.' \ -d 'event[attendees][0][email]=MY_EMAIL'

(with API Token and email filled in of course) gives me

HTTP/1.0 402 Payment Required Cache-Control: no-cache, private Content-Type: application/json Date: Sat, 09 Jan 2021 12:52:48 GMT

{"error":true,"message":"SQLSTATE[42803]: Grouping error: 7 ERROR: column \"activities.created_at\" must appear in the GROUP BY clause or be used in an aggregate function\nLINE 1: ...NTH FROM created_at) as month, EXTRACT (YEAR FROM created_at...\n

Re:Helsinki Relocation Package: City as a Service on Friday November 06, 2020 @02:03AM (#25005614)
Happiest country in the world? According to my book, the Finns are rather known for their depressive outlook and 'reserved' mode of communication. Anything besides a hello is considered superficial chit-chat. This said, I'd rather prefer a sincere yet reserved Finn to an outgoing but superficial American.
When you died, you had a 10 second phase in which you could enter coins to CONTINUE at the current level of the game, or you would have to start from the beginning again.
I would like to interject here that many companies are specifically looking or requiring software devs to work or to have worked on „open source“ projects.

What strikes me as odd is that it is usually been brought up as some sort of additional qualification (as in „open source projects promote good code“), but in reality what this boils down for you is just more potential work (your normal work + open source work), and also implies lowered expectations for salary please („you are doing coding in your free time anyways!“).

Seriously, I admire and respect open source developers, but fuck companies that make it mandatory to have worked on an open source project for hiring you.

That is seriously fucked up - companies that rake in tons of money, build on top of free software products, make it mandatory for their developers to provide proof that they can be further eploited (as that is what it comes down to - forget that „better code quality“ or „we are part of the community“ thing they usually use as the rationale).

Sorry, had to vent that.

And to OP: I was asking myself the same question (how to sustain oneself in a first world country by doing unpaid coding). I came to the conclusion that this is not possible for me, as I strive for a higher standard of living as well as some spare time.

To put it more bluntly: open source developers seem to be the monks or junkies of coding to me in that they are just fueling their desire to code but do not insist on getting renumerated for it. I am not saying you shouldn‘t be doing any pro bono work, but a high quality product like VLC for instance should be able to sustain properly paid developers.

Hi, I would love to see this being localized and configurable.

Would love to talk if you are interested. Europe here.

Re:Playing with a Raspberry Pi 4 64-bit on Sunday July 14, 2019 @09:04AM (#20433153)
Ok, so I am deeply confused. DOwnloaded the image, the SHA1sum is correct. Unpacked the image, wrote it on an 32GB SD card from Samsung. I am booting from an RPI4 with 4GB of RAM. Are the 4GBs the issue? I can ssh to it, it will send me its public key, and I can give the login and the password, but providing "root" as login and hitting enter upon the password gives me this:

C:\Windows\System32>ssh -l root 192.168.178.184 [email protected]'s password: Permission denied, please try again. [email protected]'s password: Permission denied, please try again. [email protected]'s password: [email protected]: Permission denied (publickey,password).

Re:Playing with a Raspberry Pi 4 64-bit on Sunday July 14, 2019 @08:56AM (#20433123)
root w/o password won't work for me. How is anyone else connecting? I am using SSH.
Re:Playing with a Raspberry Pi 4 64-bit on Sunday July 14, 2019 @08:47AM (#20433091)
I just tried root with no password, didn't work for me. I am getting bounced. Rewriting the SD card one more time...
Re:Playing with a Raspberry Pi 4 64-bit on Sunday July 14, 2019 @03:55AM (#20432292)
Ok, so I must be a bit thicker than the rest, but what's the login? I tried ubuntu with no password, as well as root with no password, as well as root/root, and root/admin, and the default pi/raspberry, but to no avail.

What am I missing here?

Re:Ask HN: What is the best way for kids to build a mobile app? on Wednesday December 05, 2018 @12:51AM (#18605970)
Same for free C#-based Xamarin, but this is based on Visual Studio.

LiveCode comes to my mind as well which is close to HyperCard/Flash, but needs programming for any interactivity...

How about an iBook if this is for Apple? IBook Author is free and allows for interactive elements like quizzes and embedded HTML pages. Pretty nifty, free, but only for iOS again.

Re:Ask HN: What is the best way for kids to build a mobile app? on Wednesday December 05, 2018 @12:48AM (#18605957)
Creo from Creolabs seems quite accessible, but isn‘t that simple either.

It comes with a player though - you can create the app and play it back on your device without having to register it through the app store or Google Play.

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