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Beta websites are amazing. when we entered our closed beta for Tack; http://tack.tech (We combine task management and chat in one platform to make it easier to collaborate, think slack + asana + trello.) We submitted our platform to Betalist and Betapage. We were able to get over 100 teams signed up for our platform within a week and had a few users sign up every week after the "beta launch" (which is pretty good considering we're b2b). The best part is, both betalist and beta page are completely free of charge.

Take advantage of every free promotion/producthunt like service you can (although I would not suggest going on product hunt for your beta).

Other than that cold e-mailing, cold calling, and guest blogs also work really well in the beginning.
> Banks, literally 2 days after your unions get their victory, start lending more.

Evidence?
KeyBase
[ my public key: https://keybase.io/clarkhacks; my proof: https://keybase.io/clarkhacks/sigs/DzoUc3iKVvdy_eqy3idWtl_k40y2EVKWCH58wVNQDnM ]
Dutch Government Open Sources Privacy Enchanced Filter (PEF) (Dutch)
Since posting this, I did some research, and it looks like the biggest security problem (currently) is manufacturers hardcoding default passwords into the firmware. Here I am thinking I need to become an expert in security to help my clients secure their devices, but is it really as simple as encouraging clients to set secure, default passwords?
I wonder: has anybody tried building a squat toilet that is out in the open without any walls around it?

That might help with some of the habit changes required. Just give people exactly what they are asking for.
Eliminating net neutrality incentivizes ISPs to build auxiliary services that they can artificially support by throttling the bandwidth of competing products. It incentivizes them to seek profit by favoring some net traffic over other net traffic.

It does not in any way incentivize them to build larger or better networks. It does not incentivize them to invest in their infrastructure. All it does is let them make more profit off what they already have.

I mean seriously, if the whole argument is that they're not making enough money as it is: if a 97%[1] profit margin isn't enough money for them to build out their networks, just how much more do they need?

[1] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bruce-kushnick/time-warner-cab...
Palantir to pay $1.7m over accusation it discriminates against Asian applicants
As a side-note, Internet Archive is starting to ignore robots.txt rules for this exact reason : https://blog.archive.org/2017/04/17/robots-txt-meant-for-sea...
The SEC should be investigated by Congress for allowing companies like RobinHood for wrecking ordinary people's lives with tempting loans for gambling.
"Just pick winning stocks" and "sell them before they go down" are not strategies that any human OR algorithm has been able to perform consistently over long time frames. And no, Warren Buffet didn't make his fortune just trading stocks.

So I assume based on your strategy you put all of your money in AMZN 10 years ago, sold it right before each drop, re-bought right before each rise, and are now filthy rich. Oh you're not? I wonder why.

Also, XIV is an inverse volatility trading vehicle. It's not meant for long term investors and frequently goes through 90% drops. This kind of extreme volatility is corrosive for long term returns. The last 5 years have had abnormally low volatility due to extremely low interest rates, hence why that ETF has done so well over that time period. Of course it's effortless to cherry pick winners when looking backwards instead of forwards.
I think you were a bit too negative but I don't agree with your downvotes.

Back to the topic: I agree with you. I think people underestimate, especially in the current Trumpist/Brexitist/etc. climate, the long term impact that lifting ~4 billion people out of poverty will have. By 4 billion people I mean China, India, Africa.

China's probably 20 years away from having 30% of the world's middle class in their country. India will probably follow the same trajectory, only with a 40 year delay. Africa is lagging but even there things seem to be moving and my money's on things accelerating as soon as they get some strong regional poles. Nigeria, Kenya, Ethiopia seem strong contenders.
The journal article in Nature can be found here[1]. The abstract is publicly accessible with the article behind a paywall. I'm not familiar enough with the dating method to comment on the possible problems of the age determination, but it was calculated by the complicated method of "230Th/U radiometric analysis of multiple bone specimens using diffusion–adsorption–decay dating models indicating a burial date of 130.7 ± 9.4 thousand years ago."

[1]https://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v544/n7651/full/nature...
How about the grim ethics of being rich while our fellow humans starve and toil?
If the stocks (or wacky option/derivative trade) still have value, then yeah, there's no problem.

The problem is when people make a bet that doesn't work out. There are a lot of exotic trades that can clean you out completely in an instant if you bet wrong.
Wikipedia is filled with speculative cryptozoological connections to extinct animals, the notes are more of an acknowledgement that such speculation exists as a cultural artifact connected to that animal, rather than that the speculation is valid or well-supported.
>There's so much food you can buy for less than 1$/lb: Corn, Oatmeal, apples, banannas, etc. With many of these combinations, you can reach 2000 calories for less than 2$/day.

That's a pretty horrific measure.

You can technically live off of rice and WonderBread, but not healthily.
18 U.S.C. section 1001 doesn't apply to just the FBI. It applies to all federal agents.

In the context of this thread about visitors to the US, that would include the guy scanning your passport and asking "What's the purpose of this trip?" and the guy telling you to take off your shoes so they can be x-rayed.
I was also here 8 years ago, under my real name. In those days, HN was a literal community of smart entrepreneurs (as opposed to a figurative internet "community"). I'm afraid that ship has long since sailed, more than 5 years ago.

These days, Luddite News is little more than a chat bot that spams you with disingenuous requests for citations, points out that your anecdote isn't data, and asserts that everything is explained by some combination of the placebo effect and confirmation bias.
And the most important point is:

"You are not qualified to determine whether you have committed some crime or not"

I think this is the most important part. It could be that you did something but you thought it is not illegal at all.
This is basically a Nest Dropcam, and people seem to like those.
"I wonder why the tech community has this infatuation with nuclear power."

Because it works.
>The model is very similar to other popular apps, like YouTube or Spotify. Instead of organizing songs or videos into channels, you organize tracks.

Spotify has Playlists and Songs. Both are domain-related concepts (the domain being music).

YouTube has Videos, Playlists, and Channels, again all domain-related concepts, referring to historical domain terminology (Channel as in "your private TV channel", where you create content for others to view).

So both services use terms apt to their use.

Channels and Tracks are not concepts/terms related to note taking. Thus, the analogy to YouTube's and Spotify's use of their own terms is broken.
I quite miss RISC OS sometimes... Macs seemed great when I switched from whatever vague succession of Linux distributions I was using in around 2004, but for quite some years now Macs have annoyed me in a way that I don't recall RISC OS ever did. Probably just rose-tinted glasses!
> I'm guessing that's just a copy/paste from somewhere else.

In then event of a sell off, the new owners won't be asking about the original "intent" of the creator. They will be looking at the contract for ways to make money. The fact that you are paying nothing for this product makes it doubly suspicious.
Yes, I read the text cited by footnote 26. I don't see where it says that.
Not sure if this is what you meant, but Ubuntu mimics this in Unity... in fact I think most Linux DEs now come with something similar...

http://imgur.com/80Pl4tx
My favourite bit of ancient writing is the Kushim Tablet. It's a clay document, written in pre-cuneiform archaic Sumerian. It was written in Uruk, about halfway between Baghdad and Basra in modern-day Iraq, in the 31st century BC - five thousand years ago. On it is are the oldest examples of two things fundamental to human civilisation: a person's name, and an industrial process. It's a receipt for ingredients for a brewery:

http://www.schoyencollection.com/24-smaller-collections/wine...
desdiv's document is a great read. If you're referring to Miranda specifically though, I think a key part there might be "If you are not in custody[...]". The Miranda v. Arizona 1966 SCOTUS ruling had to do with violation of 5th/6th Amendment rights against compelled testimony and right to counsel. If you are arrested and interrogated, obviously you are under the government's direct power by definition, and if law enforcement fails to make clear to those arrested that testimony is not something they can actually coerce then anything they gain might get tossed on constitutional grounds. It's as much for the protection of prosecution as anything actually.

But nothing in the Constitution prevents you from volunteering whatever the heck you want to anyone, including someone from the government, even if it would a completely stupid decision to do so. If an agent/officer just asks you a question that doesn't mean you're in custody. They can legally draw inferences from any of your resulting answers/non-answers, just as they could from 3rd party witnesses, though how well any of those hold up in court is a different question of course. Affirmative assertion of rights is the neutral course there, it doesn't mean anything except that you recognize the situation is serious and want counsel to help you navigate it. It's not an admission of anything, it puts things on hold.
Being here in HN!
I would pay well more than $200 to hire someone knowledgeable about fashion to design and help me buy a wardrobe. I don't think it's narcissistic at all to want to look nice.

You've never once asked one of your friends or spouse their to help you pick between two shirts?
>isn't it best to inform the consumer,

How, like 5% of people that buy electronics actually turn in the warranty cards. No, they will sit on the shelf for years polluting the internet with DDOS attacks and spam.

>es it make sense to use exploitation to destroy as much as possible in order to pressure the developers to ship a secure product?

Yes. That is also why I backup data using multiple methods including off line ones.

Vigilante or blackhat doesn't matter. The next RCE will gladly spit copies of CryptoLocker everywhere if they could get ahold of it.

The internet is a dangerous and well connected place. If lived China, I would think it's funny if I wiped a few large US corporations off the map because they used a DLINK webcam. And there is only a tiny chance in hell they would ever find me.
I took a look at the github project and I hope they do great.

As a side project I've been working on setting up my own mail server using "Mail-in-a-Box" (https://mailinabox.email) for about a month now.

It's been a learning process but I do like the idea of having control over this. I've got it set up to send emails from a remote app server using a perl script and an email account configured on my Mac Mail app all working.

Mail-in-a-Box is really pretty sweet. It walks you through the install and has a very nice Control Panel that handles DNS and user account setup and it comes with the Roundcube email web client and ownCloud.

There are hurdles. I got a clean IP from DigitalOcean with no problem, but the domain name I'm using is new and has no reputation so when I tested it last week sending emails from the app server to my personal Gmail account the Gmail server responded saying:

"Our system has detected that this message is 421-4.7.0 suspicious due to the very low reputation of the sending IP address. 421-4.7.0 To protect our users from spam, mail sent from your IP address has 421-4.7.0 been temporarily rate limited."

I only sent about a dozen emails, all to my own Gmail account, so that seems to be a bit harsh.

Then it occurred to me why Gmail exists and it made a lot more sense. So, there are hurdles.
The advice still stands. You have nothing to gain from speaking to the police without an attorney, and everything to lose.
Perfect opportunity to build your own podcast app. Out of interest, what did you dislike about the built in one and the alternatives?
When your users tell you otherwise, maybe it's not prudent to insist on terminology choice?
> Verizon's vision for Fios was to sell a bunch of value-add services like video calling and on-demand movies. When plain-old-internet services started providing those capabilities without having to pay Verizon directly, Fios deployments slowed to a crawl.

Let's say this succeeded and people jumped to Verizon for their internet and their media. What would happen to Amazon Video and Netflix?
That's much more like a copy of the Mac's System Preferences, really.
No, the current limit is not physical, it's that nobody has any idea how general intelligence works.

You do not, in fact, get general intelligence by accident by throwing a lot of connections in one place, just like you do not get a human just by throwing a lot of organic molecules and water in one place.
>But how does the employer even find about this?

If he doesn't find out, I guess he can't fire you for it. I'm not sure I understand what the underlying question is...

>How does the employer determine cooperation?

Completely arbitrarily. You can be fired for just about anything that isn't explicitly prohibited (e.g. being Black).

In the case of "at-will" employment, I can fire someone for literally no reason at all. I can wake up on the wrong side of the bed at 7:00 AM, decide Joe Schmoe is responsible (or not... that guy just gets under my skin), shit shave and shower, then roll into the office at 9:00 and give him the ax.

So, to answer your question, if the I overhear my neighbors gossiping about how you didn't cooperate with police, that's as good a criterion as any for firing you.

>Surely LEO can't blackmail you into cooperation by going to your employer first?

Think again. In principle, police can threaten to tell people you didn't cooperate. I don't know how often this happens but it's perfectly legal to do so.
A utility scale solar farm can go from first concrete pouring to selling electricity in one year. And you can build a lot of farms in one year in parallel. For example, last year the United States installed ~10 GW of utility scale PV, mostly in farms under 200 MW each.

Based on EIA data, in 2016 the capacity factor of US nuclear power was 92.5%. Utility scale PV was 27.2% and wind was 34.7%: https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/epm_table_grapher.cf...

Based on 2016 capacity factors you need to install a total of 17 gigawatts-peak of American utility scale PV or 13.3 GWp of wind to match the annual energy production of 5 gigawatts-peak of nuclear reactors. Last year the US completed about 10 GWp of utility scale PV and 8.2 GWp of wind (5.57 real annualized gigawatts, assuming same 2016 capacity factors going forward).

Storage, though? Nobody's going to install sufficient storage in the next 3 years that you could shut down the nearest reactor without burning more natural gas. Large scale storage is just starting to enter the mainstream.
Brian from Backblaze here.

> Backblaze has repeatedly refused to add something as simple as pagination to their B2 web interface

Not "refused to add", it's on the list! We have a relatively small team of programmers (no VC funding, no deep pockets, we can only hire when we can afford it), and every week we meet and set priorities and the engineers work on the very highest priority stuff in order. The pagination has been delayed in favor of other features and bug fixes. I'm not saying we prioritized correctly, I'm just explaining why it has not been done yet.

> which most people would not dream of going live without

Part of the challenge (fun?) of building a business is the "build order". We don't make any money until we release the product, so as soon as we can justify it we released it in "paid beta" to collect feedback like yours and make some money which in turn allows us to hire one more programmer and build that feature for you.

If B2 doesn't fit your needs yet, my only request is that you come back every six months and check again, because it is always evolving.
>What kind of stupid person would think that we could have a cooperative, functional society where I can just be careless with my bike, right?

The same kind of stupid person that doesn't realize they live in a ghetto called "The Internet".
> Nope, hand out $1000 BI a month and rent will go up by that amount, leaving the very poor even worse off.

If housing were monopolistic in supply, and completely inelastic in demand, that would be remotely plausible.

> Why take from the rich to give to the poor when the way they get their money is flawed (in the main).

Doesn't the "when" part of that answer the "why" part?
The federal estate tax on a $6 million farm would be roughly $200,000.

You don't need to be making enormous profits to plan for that. You'd certainly need to be making a decent return, but it doesn't take such a huge amount of annual profit to set aside enough to cover it.

What you seem to be missing is that I am really skeptical that people are gathering $6 million of paper wealth without plowing hundreds of thousands of dollars of profits into growing their operations. Maybe some unlucky lucky guy inherited a lot of land that then appreciated a great deal. The horror.
I think that's actually the only solution to the IoT security problem: more people regularly scanning for and bricking these devices, until the return rates make it unprofitable to sell broken devices in the first place
A solution would be then to story copy of the key encrypted on their servers and send you the key when you initiate recovery the KEK for that key will be derived from your pass phrase im the client only.

Blackblaze would be able to bruteforce the passpharse but if a sufficiently expensive derivation algorithm is used then it would not be really feasible for anything but the simplest of passwords.
Just because the tax rate is lowered doesn't mean companies will repatriate their money here. I think we need a law that penalizes companies for offshoring their money. If you want to be an American company, headquartered in America, then it should cost companies like Apple to offshore that money. Carrots and sticks should be used to bring that money back, but a lower corporate tax rate is a start, but not the solution.
When it comes to extreme (life-threatening) levels of stress, actually it is -- for any job, with any employer. Almost by definition.
Ask HN: How to estimate operating costs of Google Patents?
Let's say I wanted to clone the Google Patents website verbatim, how would I go about estimating the monthly cost of running such a service?

Presumably this would include servers, databases, indexes, geographic distribution, bandwidth input/output, etc.

Any good books on this?

For reference: https://patents.google.com/
Thesixtyone is also closing in a few days and didn't give much notice. No way to export anything either. I've tried to scrape the site but considering how many days are left I can't possibly finish.
Wait, so are those the magic words that force an undercover cop to reveal themselves during a sting?

Because, if not (I'm guessing not), then I'm guessing this ain't gonna work. :)
We already have the equivalent of Superhuman AI in the form of corporations, governments, and society in general. I don't buy the claim that sometime in the future a singular artificial mind will come into existence whose continual improvement will make it smarter with access to more resources than that of Google, the US government, or all of human civilization, with its billions of organic human intelligences being empowered by machines already.

We've already achieved super intelligence. It's us empowered by our organizations and technology.
> just like you do not get a human just by throwing a lot of organic molecules and water in one place.

Well, not unless you have a couple billion years to sit around.
JPMorgan CEO Dimon says that there's 'something wrong' with the US
I said the article gives no indication of how Uber is at fault,

Well, we disagree then.
I recall a supreme court case where a suspect during an interview where in general he was talking, remained silent uppon being asked a (rather pertinent) question. This silence was brought as evidence.

The case before the court was that his silence was protected under the 5th, and thus could not be brought as evidence. It was ruled that, since he was already talking to police, and did not positively assert his 5th amendment right the 5th did not apply.

All of this is based solely on my recollection.
They could be. But that question of could it be is clearly different from the person outright stealing money directly from victims, for whom it is much more likely they are a scam artist trying to rationalize their bad behavior.

By saying clearly different, I don't mean to minimize the actions of the vigilante. One of the chief characteristics of civil disobedience, for example, is to resolve that could it be question. By receiving the unjust punishment the dissident displays good faith with proponents and opponents. I don't yet see how pseudonymous hacktivism keeps that good faith with the public. And that seems to relegate it either be small scale, symbolic acts like this or large-scale grey hat stuff that brings lots of unwanted risks/cooptation/etc.
Overall I am sympathetic to the authors argument that fear of super ai is overblown. But I do take issue with some of his arguments.

> Even if the smartest physicists were 1,000 times smarter than they are now, without a Collider, they will know nothing new.

I'm not a historian but I have read that some scientific discoveries are made through pure logic. Einstein and relativity come to mind as he was not an empiricist. So perhaps there is some hope that ai can lead to scientific discoveries without experimentation

>So the question is, where is the limit of intelligence? We tend to believe that the limit is way beyond us, way “above” us, as we are “above” an ant. Setting aside the recurring problem of a single dimension, what evidence do we have that the limit is not us? Why can’t we be at the maximum? Or maybe the limits are only a short distance away from us? Why do we believe that intelligence is something that can continue to expand forever?

The idea that humans could, just by chance, be pushing the limits of intelligence strikes me as silly
Oh damn, then it's just opening short/long term trading to a new segment of people that wouldn't otherwise do it. That's like 100% casino/poker bonuses during the poker boom.
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