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The job of a VC is to look for "another Google", or Apple, Amazon, etc.

I know this "prior" stuff, Bayesian stuff, has a lot of respect here on HN, but it never did make much sense.

So, I should send the VCs some information that indicates I'm serious and credible. For a technology project, I do have credentials, far above those of hardly any VC in the country -- especially now that Chris Sacca retired, and I did complete my Ph.D. and Chris didn't complete his.

E.g., for credibility, SUSA says that they like to see some surprising accomplishments, big things done quickly. Well, I posted a list, (A)-(I) or some such here, and included some of those when I wrote VCs.

Here's my point for HN readers who want it: VCs don't read unsolicited e-mail messages. Since they junk such messages, it doesn't matter what is in them. VCs like warm introductions, but we don't know the same people. By the time my project looks good to VCs, since I'm a solo founder (they don't like that, either) with meager opex, I will have plenty of cash for rapid growth. E.g., if my company really is growing, then $1500 in server parts can generate ballpark $200,000 in revenue a month. Just multiply it out assuming 400,000 bits per Web page, 5 ads per page, $2 per 1000 ads displayed (from the Mary Meeker reports), much more with good ad targeting of good demographics, etc.
You think it's for good reason. Many people think it's for bad reason. Those people invented and developed Bitcoin. Now the people who think state has no business messing with money and private lives of people have an actual tool upon their hands.
Although they did the exact same change for the Bluetooth toggle in the Control Center, and that one has less of a financial benefit.

I don't mind the change, but I do wish that the force touch "pop" menu toggles would completely turn off those radios instead of simply disconnecting.

For those who haven't used iOS 11, you can force touch the Control Center icons to pop in a full menu with additional toggles.
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Bitcoin certainly has an intrinsic value (because it is a globally accessible medium of exchange). However just like gold its value is also most likely way above its intrinsic value. The intrinsic value of gold primarily consists of industrial applications + jewelry. Compare the price of 1kg of gold to the price of 1kg of palladium: It's $42k vs $29.5k, although palladium is much more important for industrial applications and less common in the earth's crust (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abundance_of_elements_in_Earth...). So why does gold have a much higher price? Because people continue to believe in it as a way to store value. The same thing is happening with bitcoin. As long as people believe bitcoin will be useful as an asset the price will stay high. But because of that, bitcoin is a speculative asset just like gold.
> but the Xbox 360 wired models have the breakaway which is just as easy to pull out with a good yank anyway

If that became an issue, you could put duct tape around the breakaway to hold it in place. More difficult with a micro USB connection.
Same thing happened to me. Seems like a really big oversight.
But, it's only one extra motion to force click settings, select wifi and toggle wifi off vs swipe up to control panel and click the wifi.

I like the new wifi toggle because iPhones are AP sticky usually.
iMessage doesn't sync to new devices either. Only new conversations going forward are available since each device has its own encryption key.
Engineers on the advanced levels are concerned about lightning fast and safe refactoring and resilience against spaghettification when passing on their code to other team members or outsiders of unoptimisticly unpredictable skill sets.
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Cash is the original anonymous "crypto"-currency. Still the preferred tool of money launderers, drug dealers, pimps, black marketeers, and other neerdowells everywhere. Also, offers real anonymity with no blockchain records.
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It's sad that you think it is begging. I think if it as patronage, something that is baked right into the name of the service.

begging implies some kind of charity. Patreon is enabling one exchange of value for another. Very different IMO.
>Are most people okay with monthly payments on phones when they were never at that point with computers?

Huh? Do you think people don't use minimum monthly payment financing on laptops and desktop computers?

There are people who use that option for anything that costs in the 3 digits. How is a phone any different?
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This is a really good point. I live Downtown near a BitCoin ATM. The neighborhood was really posh when I moved in.

Since the the BitCoin ATM was installed, home prices are down 25%, crime is WAY UP, and the transient population has exploded. People are talking about moving to Detroit to get away from the general rot and decay of the BitCoin defiled inner city. /s
There are a few altcoins out there focusing on ease of use and trying to bring in users/early adopters who are not just crypto-junkies. The ones I can think off of the top of my head are:

- DASH (Digital Cash)

- Vertcoin

- NAVcoin

Of those, DASH is probably the most likely in my opinion to eventually challenge bitcoin or ETH.
Well, OK, there's more. For example, like the author relies on submitters delivering a properly typeset article (using LaTeX), traditional publishers often discard the original formatting, re-typeset it using an XML-based format that can then produce HTML and PDF outputs again (in the journal's branding). In this process they often introduce errors, and one can question whether it's actually necessary. Then again, the publishers are realising that themselves as well, and are more and more often relying on author-typesetting as well - which in that of course boosts their margins some more.
> We've regressed to the point where 5KiB of text comes with 2MiB of crap, meaning a noise to signal ratio of 26dB which is insane!

Unfortunately that's what the average layman wants. They want the SPA experience. That's what they want to pay for. What kind of professional am I if I don't give people what they want to pay for?

> I've even had enough of building things on the web. It is a horrible horrible thing to have to do. I envy system programmers who never see the pain of trying to keep a very large web application secure at even a basic level.

I build and maintain full stack web applications for my day job. Man, is it a pain. Between the database setup, server setup, back end application, front end application, security concerns, and browser compatibility issues, I rarely get to spend any time at all working on the business logic. Seriously, modern web development is 90% chasing down bugs, security enforcement, and fixing compatibility issues. Writing the business logic is the easy part.
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I'm new to this forum, learning the ropes here. I'm a book publisher that is always looking for innovative ways to teach my authors how to sell more of their books, and I have a specific interest in different forms of t-shaped marketing right now ... I think this is the way to go. But I'm looking for advice and guidance from bonafide growth hackers. Is this the right forum for that? Can you help me to help my authors better utilize the internet to sell more of their books?
But the ICO mania is exactly this global Kickstarter you mention. ;)

The main problem with ICOs is that there are not many independent auditing organisations. I know only of ICOrating, but even this seems inadequate.
Though there is a lot of bureaucracy, you'd be surprised at how much work it is.

Consider how much a massive 'clean room' costs to operate.

Consider how much gear it takes to simulate the operation of massive robot arm in a 0G environment, when we live in a 1G environment.

Consider what happens when a 1 ton arm, attached to a 20 ton structure, applies toque to a 1/2 ton satellite... when the satellite is moving ...

Consider how much it costs to send 4 Engineers, a PM and a Bus Dev to Japan for three weeks for talks with Japanese Space Agency? Several times?

Consider the lawyers bill - Japanese, Canadian and American ones. Translators. Insurance estimates. Liabilities.

FYI - did you know that every single thing that goes into space is tracked? Every single screw had an ID number. It's original manufacturer, shipping, the date it was put on the station, by whom, when it was removed - etc etc. Every goddam screw :).

Now think of how much software and admin is needed to track all that.

And now consider that if one single manager, at one single subcontractor opens an 'issue report' anywhere in the world - that the 'countdown' for a shuttle launch was postponed? (Happened to my boss, opened a tiny change request on Admin Software in Toronto - went for lunch - Shuttle countdown froze, panic and hilarity ensue). And the overhead costs associated with that.

Space is expensive, especially 'manned space'.

Vert complex, one-of-a-kind system - where nothing is allowed to go wrong.
Volume pretty steady

https://data.bitcoinity.org/markets/volume/3d?c=e&t=b
> No one talks about USD being used in the same way!

They do, literally all the time, to talk about money laundering and justifying absurdity like seizing cash from motorists.

The only money that isn't Supporting Terrorism!(tm) is Fed Fun Bucks(tm), which are stored as a number you may request be told to you from a participating national bank.
"We're working to enhance the integration between HashiCorp Vault and GCP, including Vault authentication backends for IAM and signed VM metadata."

There's not much detail in that. But, you could certainly read it in a way that using Hashicorp products might be lower friction than using other products on GCP.
The typical lifetime of an iPhone is so short, I can imagine that Apple will one day save themselves a lot of pain and cost and just limit each iOS release to a single phone / ipad release.
Agreed, and the perception here matters. The cult of the five minute demo is real and people pick tools outside of their areas of expertise based on "well, it looked okay and there are blogs about it". The likelihood of bad stuff (whether bad through ignorance, malice, or lack of maintenance) is much, much higher when using these artifacts that are opaque not (just) in terms of source--because, yeah, most people won't audit it--but in terms of functionality (because the adoptee doesn't know the topic well enough to know what's going on).

You solve infrastructure problems with code, but infrastructure is not code and infrastructure requires a depth of understanding nobody's going to make disappear based on "magic." As you go downstack, the damage you can do increases. Depending on J. Random Dockerfile is problematic, as you're exposing your compute surface to the predations of a malicious update. Depending on J. Random Terraform Module opens you up to way deeper issues. These issues can only be solved by really understanding your stack, and five-minute-demo culture does not value understanding.
> Why do people insist on restricting their static code analysis

Because it's trivially easy to show cases where a static type system rejects useful and correct code.

Yes, static type systems do "eliminate whole classes of errors", but they also eliminate whole classes of correct code! Is the freedom from (some, not all!) runtime type errors really worth the loss of expressive power?

Well, the answer is of course "it depends" on specific circumstances: sometimes it's worth it, sometimes it's not and most of the time the very choice (ie. should I write in statically or dynamically typed language in this case?) is not important at all because tons of other choices have much more of an impact on whether the project succeeds or not.
That's how Gratipay does it:

https://gratipay.com/Gratipay/

But they're only getting enough to pay for like, 1/10th of a developer...
I have no idea why you are being downvoted. This thread makes me think eternal September has arrived on HN. People are running their mouths without any basic knowledge of electricity and national electric codes.
> The saver can then exchange bitcoin for dollars at any of the global bitcoin exchanges without anyone ever knowing his identity.

This is where the "Chinese people use Bitcoin to exfil capital" story falls apart. It's near impossible to open a foreign bank account and pass KYC from within China as a Chinese citizen.

You have to travel to Macau or Hong Kong - and if you're doing that you may as well use the cheaper and more efficient underground laundering and exchange networks.

The most well known ways of exfiltrating capital out of China - foreign real estate[0], casino junkets[1] and foreign acquisitions[2] - have been cracked down on in the past 12 months.

I think Bitcoin pales in comparison to these sources and is a minor irritant, and it was more likely Bitcoin is now being more heavily regulated because of the ICO boom and associated scams in China.

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/ellensheng/2017/07/31/chinese-o...

[1] http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-13/crown-employees-detain...

[2] http://www.afr.com/news/world/chinas-strict-capital-controls...
I think "most" is too strong a statement.
I haven't paid much attention to how they run as a business but I am a happy consumer, I get 2 excellent podcasts from Patreon at a price I am happy to pay. Hope they stay in business.
The state by definition has monopoly on violence, not power in general.

You don't want a state with total centralized power over the economy because you end up with places like North Korea or the USSR with uncompetitive industry and shortages.
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Meh, garbage. I always see these things that are significantly off, by like $60,000 or more. You're not asking the important questions that relate to earnings:

- Were you born in America or has your employer held your pay down because you have a green card?

- How many times have you changed jobs (each time probably leads to a $15k bump or more!)

What garbage. If you're going to do an analysis like this try to teach us something interesting by looking at numerous factors (race, sex, age, major, do you have a github, public speaking skill, number of raises asked for, etc)
"On Wednesday 19th July, 2017 a bug found in the multi-signature wallet ("multi-sig") code used as part of Parity Wallet software was exploited by parties unknown. As of the time of writing, three wallet accounts holding large balances of ETH have been compromised and the balances moved into accounts held by the attacker."

https://blog.ethcore.io/the-multi-sig-hack-a-postmortem/
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Several other exchanges allow you to short without being an institutional investor.
Interesting. Do you know of any articles about this? I would like to learn more about the potential of a Chinese state-owned crypto currency.
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A better search was inevitable. Google achieved it first and snowballed into a monopoly. Same with Facebook – many social networks went extinct just because it was spreading faster.

These companies appropriated the natural course of evolution of information exchange between humans.
> And not postscript. Something you can author by hand.

How about TeX? Many sites already use js libraries that integrate latex.
We’ve always allowed engineers to interview using their own preferred environment (which can be fun or challenging for us interviewers!), but now we do enough interviews every week to see which tools tend to be more successful.

Also, there are some rising stars we couldn't include in this analysis, like Go: candidates writing Go during their interview with us did extraordinarily well on average, but we don't yet see enough of them to break them out of the "Other" language category.
What are the obstacles to replacing Fiat? I think people underestimate the combination of payment method and value, but I also just haven't heard a good argument against.
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If you want to know why people associate bitcoin with crime, look no further than the people celebrating that it will be easier to commit tax fraud now in this very thread.

That kind of petty criminality and fraud seems to run through the heart of the bitcoin community, and is part of why I think people are reasonable to associate it with questionable activity -- that's what it's advocated as supporting even here on HN!
we're currently leaning towards out/inout parameters, with copy semantics, not byref (and in most cases, we'll probably be able to optimize away the copy); not certain yet though.
Upon using the calculator, the Location won't fill in properly. Looking at the console:

> You have exceeded your daily request quota for this API. For more information on usage limits and the Google Maps Javascript API services please see…

Wow, either the calculator is incredibly popular, or someone didn't change their api key from their dev one…
Thats basically two cards in one package linked to same account.
"Wait, but if telephony is regulated then so is our DNS system."

What do you mean by "our"?

There is nothing that "forces" anyone to use ICANN DNS.

(There is certainly coercion and peer pressure to follow along, but as a technical matter anyone can break free at anytime. It is just a matter of changing some defaults and running some software yourself.)

People use ICANN DNS for one of the following reasons

1. because they do understand the technical details such as changing defaults and running a local authoritative server serving a root.zone file,

2. because their business relies on ICANN DNS somehow or

3. "because that is what everyone else is using" or some similar belief where any variance from status quo is per se failure.

The encryption that Signal uses is not likely to be broken. Because Marlinspike did not write it.

The protocol is a different matter. Uncertainties abound.

The author of the encryption is not the author of the protocol and if I recall the author of the encryption questioned why the distribution of the software has to be controlled by one company. (Answer: It doesn't.)

Signal is a classic example of some software (in this case written in Java) whose adoption on its own merits the author has deemed "inadequate" and so the author attaches it to some very widely adopted platform or other widely adopted software. This results in instant mass adoption.FN1 It is like entering into a distribution agreement.

Challenging this decision with respect to Signal results in mundane philosophical arguments about "user experience".

The beautiful thing about the encryption that Signal uses is that it is not attached to any particular software or platform. It gains adoption on it own merits, not by making a deal with a company like WhatsApp/Facebook.

Anyone can write software with the same encryption that Signal uses, and it does not have to be entwined with a protocol controlled by Facebook.

FN1. Another recent thread mentioned how web browser authors partner with popular software such as "CCleaner" to silently install their browser along with "CCleaner". As a result, every user who installs "CCleaner" also installs Chrome (and maybe some other malware). Parasitic software distribution.
When it comes time to boast about browser "market share", the method of distribution, the presence or absence of conscious choice by the user, is not reported.
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It's not just the people in power, it's the people themselves. Most of the citizenry have been brainwashed that "drugs are bad, m'kay?".

A majority now think that cannabis should be legal, but harder drugs should still be illegal to "protect us". This is somewhat understandable in that there are serious problems with drug use (it killed my brother), but we need education to show that the cure is worse than the disease.
Part of me believes that an economic crisis on china regarding capital flight could be the next global crisis. If chinese cpaital alone stopped buying property, and caused some plummet in property demand, it alone could cause plenty of waves.
What do you mean? An ETF tracking the S&P 500, for example, is not going to sell a stock no matter how much does it drop (until it gets excluded from the index, of course).
Fair point. I always thought that was mainly due to Steve Jobs, but so far it looks like they're able to stay one without him.
Anytime "scientific consensus" comes up, I think of the "Aliens Cause Global Warming" essay by Michael Crichton: http://stephenschneider.stanford.edu/Publications/PDF_Papers...
If we look at all of history up until recent times (let's say until 1971), currencies were simply commodities with certain properties. The properties that made a commodity a good currency were portability, uniformity, divisibility and durability.

Commodities have value because they are useful. A pear is useful because I can eat it. A shirt is useful because I can wear it. Gold is useful because I can use it to conduct electricity or have my tooth filled.

Since gold is portable, uniform, divisible and durable, it makes a good currency too. Up until 1971, people carried around little pieces of paper (even more portable than gold) redeemable for gold as a kind of currency.

Cryptocoins are worthless. They have no value. The proponents of cryptocoins cast about the world looking for commodities with value to compare cryptocoins to and found none.

But then they came across the post-1971 dollar/euro. It is not immediately clear why these pieces of paper are being used post-1971. Seizing on this confusion, the cryptocoin advocates point to the one thing in the world they could find without obvious value and say "we're just like this - but better".

Another gulf of confusion they exploit - they tell us technical people that this has value for financial reasons we wouldn't understand as technical people. Then they go to the financial people and tell them this blockchain technology is too complex for them to understand, but it's valuable. As few people have a foot in both worlds, it's a gulf for this scam to walk into.

The market cap for Bitcoins, Ethereum, Ripple etc. is $137 billion which is absurd. Dogecoin is supposed to be worth $100 million despite its creator coming out and saying it was a joke and this valuation is absurd. Charlie Munger, Warren Buffett, Jamie Dimon all have noted how Bitcoin is, as Munger puts it, "rat poison".

I witnessed the subprime mortgage bubble in 2008, the dot-com bubble in 2000, and now we have another one. Whereas Pets.com or a suburban development had some value, albeit overinflated, the $130 billion crypto"currency" market cap is absurd. It is going to crash to near the $0 mark at some point. As Keynes noted though, markets can remain irrational longer than you and I can remain solvent.
If you’ve been in bitcoin long enough you’ve seen several boom/bust cycles, so it would hardly be surprising. And it’s auite unpredictable. Suppose the US enacted laws similar to what China just did, it could cause a crash. But I still thing they will always have some value.
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but:

https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/18/apples-imessage-based-mobi...
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yeah but your company paid the corp tax, not you. That's isn't fair because your company can offset its losses and individuals cannot. Its not a fair comparison.
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