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Blockchain nerds – Thoughts on applying token features to web/mobile apps?
As a developer working in the crypto space, I’ve always thought that applying blockchain features (scarcity / authenticity / traceability / security) to my own applications could be very impactful. If my app was wrapped in a blockchain protocol, I suddenly would have access to noteworthy capabilities. I could control the supply of the app’s distribution, which would imply to the consumers of the app that it is now a scarce resource. This would subsequently add value to whomever owns an instance of it.

To help visualize this, imagine a digital concert ticket with blockchain token characteristics. At a basic level, it is now authentic, traceable, and secure. It is on chain. What if you could add app-like features to it, make it do things when someone redeems it at an event? Some tickets could transform into backstage passes with exclusive content and could be considered a collectible. These collectibles are rarer than the tickets themselves and can be sold on an exchange to a “superfan.” You start to see that layering an ordinary ticket with blockchain characteristics greatly enhances its potential.

I would love to open up a discussion to see if anyone had thoughts/ideas on the matter, whether or not they think standard apps could benefit from blockchain?

Full disclosure: I currently work for a company called vAtomic and we have been working with BlockV and their “Virtual Goods” protocol like the one I just described for a few months now.

Take a look at their github if you’re interested: https://github.com/BLOCKvIO/documentation
Why do you eat too much? Obesity is almost always a mental health problem exacerbated by a sugar problem.
It depends on your goals as an organization paired with each team members career goals. Are you attempting to give them a map that is suitable in consulting, enterprise, startups or just a generalized roadmap? You are here (x) role today and would like to be there (z) in a specific amount of time. I think many people get frustrated with consulting work so they have a tendency to go client side (whether start up or enterprise). I think you should be transparent and accept that as reality and map several paths both internally and externally. I think that would benefit your organization culturally and reduce churn. Incorporate existing technical/business skills and map each of those tracks out, showing how they are beneficial to the consultant/developer over the course of their career. Just a few thoughts.
While coal is more expensive, natural gas plants can still be cheaper for many locations. And older nuclear plants presumably have extremely low ongoing costs (as they don't pay for storage of waste in most countries).
That's kind of ironic, considering that solar plants can keep an effectively unlimited number of "days of fuel" on hand.
Neural Compute Stick: Object Detection with Neural Networks
The Social Network Doling Out Millions in Ephemeral Money
No, Snus is something entirely different from Nasal Snuff.
It concerns me that we award managers all the credit for collaborative innovations. History remembers Thomas Edison as a great inventor with 2,332 patents. This is a distortion though. He was mostly a manager, who stamped his name on everything his building of inventors produced. I see the same thing happening with the mythologizing of Steve Jobs as an inventor instead of as a CEO.

This "great man" view of history distorts our perceptions. It tricks us into believing any lone person can rise from nothing. The reality is that it takes collaboration, funding, and often privilege. People might be a little happier with their lives if they knew the "great man" concept is just propaganda, and that simply contributing to something great is a worthwhile aspiration. I know I'm happier for discovering this in my mid-life.
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CLAs are frowned upon by some, but they don't completely kill contribution from 3rd parties. I've signed plenty, and I've encountered plenty of projects that use them that continue to have a good community of outside unaffiliated contributors.
Vimtutor is great. For anyone who is vim shy but wants to learn I'd highly recommend setting a reminder every, oh, month maybe to just fire up vimtutor and go through it until you get bored or whatever. It's amazing how fast you'll pick it up.

The only real shortcoming of vimtutor is that it cuts off before taking really advanced topics like buffers and windows.
Build a simple modal window with React and JSS
I like Pharo. I was able to build a widget that scraped the front page of HN in an afternoon with it just by following the built-in tutorial and googling.

One interesting "killer app" might be the Moose platform [0]. It's basically an interactive environment for the analysis of software. Writing a parser is rather straight-forward and turning the AST into a visualization is also quite easy. This sort of feels like how I imagine a good IDE should be.

[0] http://www.moosetechnology.org/

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I'm not a biologist, but can't this type of discovery be made by doing e.g. RNA-Seq analysis of cells in different parts of the body? I can imagine that every type of cell has a unique fingerprint, and lymphatic cells would be easily identified when sampled in the brain this way.
For my money it was the 90s explosion of fighting games or else the rhythm games of the turn of the century. But hey I'm biased by my actual experiences just like everyone else is.
My current main language for my own projects is Racket, but there are performance issues with text% and the support for parallelism is not good enough. So I guess with this respect Pharao will not be a good alternative for me either.

However, I've looked at screenshots and the default widget system seems fairly reasonable. So I'll check it out anyway.

Thanks a lot for the replies, they were helpful!
Osicom 386-SX @ 17Mhz. I used it to work on portuguese medieval texts.
That's amusing, but there is a confounding factor: http://www.asylumineurope.org/reports/country/germany/statis...

How many people born in 2016 will come in, and how many will leave? (Hopefully child mortality is low enough and will stay low enough so as to not be relevant.)
It's true, but since vim is a bit old, copy/pasting can be a bit awkward due to having an internal clipboard with the buffer and not using the system's clipboard.

I wouldn't put that in a beginner tutorial (at least the system clipboard copying/pasting).
What are the best coding bootcamp prep courses?
Making money is not evil, but social class increases likelihood of utilitarianism. Being a tech elite in the valley arguably makes one more likely to be more of a utilitarian. https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/psyched/201304/the-rich.... Large scale usage does not increase likelihood of profit, either. There aren't any hard disk drive billionaires, for example. Also they aren't in the same town; those who are trying to make it or work in the 'supporting cast' take BART from oakland or richmond, or do extreme commuting from the san joaquin valley.
Sure, who said it was never appropriate. Sometimes it's the best and/or only course of action. Sometimes it's not, like right here.
Often designers put their hearts into things that look like junk to people on the outside, or otherwise are not appreciated or have practical downsides. This is particularly well documented in architecture, see

https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/learning-las-vegas

https://www.amazon.com/Death-Life-Great-American-Cities/dp/0...

and also

https://www.amazon.com/Visual-Display-Quantitative-Informati...

I think there is nothing wrong with the "design" of reddit and HN. Those designs do the job; I think in most cases the design is just a container for the content. People come to these sites because they want to enjoy the discussion, not because they want to enjoy art.

If anybody has a complaint about the design of HN, it is that they have a hard time reading it on phones with small screens.
We recently launched a site to help people go from zero to hero with Blockchain technology. Feel free to sign up for the weekly newsletter here:

http://www.theblockchainhq.com/newsletter/

We plan on covering "Getting started with Blockchain development" very soon as there it still an opportunity here to make this much easier.
>It's simply because they don't want to really quit.

It is, which is why ecigs are so great and why patches and gum have largely failed.
Sometimes I wish I had an apprenticeship in a car garage so I could learn all this cool esoterica. Eventually, this type of information will be relegated to the back of the library as combustion-engines in cars get phased out and electric motors take over...
Great example that attention to details is important, and that great discoveries can be just around the corner, so to speak.
With Turbo Pascal's widget system you could describe the UI with a data structure from functions (not just the initial state), and it would bind those UI structures to a database (depending on the application). I'll admit, it's not the default way people generally built applications, built, but it could be done.
I’ve been doing the same. The Smart cover keyboard is better than I expected, totally usable for programming.

I use Shelly as terminal app + a Linux VPS. I can login to my work’s VPN, carry keys using ssh-agent, and even develop html/css/js locally using Coda.

App switching is incredibly fast (even alt-tab works), and I find it much easier to spatially keep track of apps without overlapping windows. Split screen on the 12” is amazing. Battery life is better than what any laptop can offer, 2+ days of normal use.

My main disappointments are with external hardware: the Smart Cover actually causes smudges in the screen and leaves a very clear straight line where the keyboard folds. It also appears to double the total weight. The keyboard randomly disconnects if moved, and the Pencil charging position is just ridiculous.
War Over the Monuments
> my approach for my lab classes is to write what I call "guided tutorials"

I think I'm familiar with the approach. One of my favorites is The Elements Of Computing Systems (nand2tetris.org) which gives you the foundational knowledge you need for each chapter, and a spec on what you need to build, and gives you freedom to create it as you see fit.

Presumably, though, since you work in lab classes, you also have the "luxury" of being able to talk to your students, and detect if they're stuck... just by watching them. With docs, I don't have that.

When it comes to my docs, my current stance is that it's worse to create something that's too open-ended than too closed / dry. If it's too open-ended, readers may get stuck and leave and learn nothing, whereas if it's too closed / dry, my readers may be bored, but at least they'll learn something, or at least have something that they can use when they really need it.

Ultimately it really just boils down to a broken feedback loop. I think open-ended approaches are the best way to learn, but I need to know when and where my readers fail, and I need a channel of communication to be able to get them unstuck. So maybe I just need to build a MOOC community around the open-ended docs.
I migrated over to Gnome and Tilix as a tiling terminal emulator. I find its a little easier to deal with than a tiling WM.

https://github.com/gnunn1/tilix
That answer begs the question though -- "So what?"

It presupposes that we need weapons of every variety in an ever-increasing arms race, which is the very action under examination.
Yes, that is a necessary condition but it is not sufficient. Accessibility is another issue.

* Do replacements cost money?

* Do I have to go somewhere in person to get the card? Is it within walking distance?

* What are the days and the hours that this place is open?

* ... (there are so many more questions but most importantly)

* How do we pay for it?
Hey, thanks for the reply. I'm already doing something like that. The problem is that I also have to do the beta-reductions (i.e. reduction of function applications), and I'm not sure what order is best.
Definitely. Beyond vimtutor, I've found Practical Vim to be a fantastic book. I strongly recommend that book once someone has the basics of vim down.
If it was that important I wouldn't want to wait for it!
Effective Candidate Evaluation Over Online Interview Tool
Yeah super cool! It's apparently just done by using a font called "Flow-Circular" that comes out looking like that.
Awful time to be a satirist. How can you even parody this stuff?
Time and Relative Distance in Source (Code)
400,000 is a 40% error on a population of 80 million with a life expectancy of 80 years. Unless 45% of recent asylum seekers were 6 years old, or unless 40% of 6 year olds emigrated (I don’t know which way the error went), that is too large a surprise to be so easily forgiven.
Unselfish People Are More Likely to Wind Up with Depression
Tiny robots will inspect and fix jet engines from the inside
I see a picture of a book in that link, but no way to open it.

Do you have a couple pictures of the piston handy?
Bring a Dell. Nobody will want to steal it. Pickpockets might even stuff one into your bag when you are not looking.
This looks like a one-off thing you need to do semi-manually and methodically.

Every step of the way you need to balance the effort of doing something with a script vs doing it manually.

How long would it take to manually make the change in all 100+ repos... vs. how long would it take to write a script to do it. Would the script be robust enough to properly make the change in like 90% of them... etc.

These are things you need to ask yourself in your endeavor.

You'd want to do all this work on a new similarly named branch (or branches depending on your workflow) for every repo.

Perhaps write a script to validate changes to all 100+ repos on that branch. Then when all the work is done... do a massive merge.
Show HN: Unpepefy (and Naziscore): Making Twitter Great Again
> We all know that isn't true. There is something very rotten with this.

This is par for the course with procurement, isn't it?
Yes, this stuff is crucial. In the US, many people say "what's wrong with requiring a specific ID for voting?" and in theory there isn't, except when you have to trek for half a day on public transit to get to a place where you can actually apply for ID. And you need ID in order to verify you are eligible for the ID! Not everyone has a driving license.

If it were done benevolently and with the best of intentions, it could work. But it isn't.
That seems most likely only after a term of incarceration in a facility focused on rehabilitation--which simply never happens in the US, not for commonplace criminals, and certainly not for cops and judges.

When the existing system for due process fails in this manner, should there be a reasonable expectation for due process in whatever ad-hoc process that arises because justice is not being served? I don't think so. If your job is to provide due process, and you undermine that, then you deserve all the vigilantism that comes your way because of it.

When you abuse the legal guardianship system to rob people of their family, and rob their family of their money, you should count yourself lucky if all that happens to you is that you get convicted in the regular legal system and go to prison. Those judges that granted this woman highly abusable levels of power after two minutes or less in an ex-parte hearing have filth on their hands, too.

If you want to save people from vigilantism, you have to be willing to send them to prison through the regular legal system. If you give them de facto impunity, people will find other ways, less fair and impartial, to punish them.
They can't though -- the next day could always be cloudy and there's a very strong chance that one day in 90 will be.

So solar panels can't stock a reliable X day supply, even if over any (moderate) period of time, they have a very guaranteed supply.
Exactly, often changes happen so quickly that you cannot really tell what happened. You need to try it a few times to get used to the concept.
you can only delete within two hours.
> This is HN, you have to think through your snark or it will snark you back.

Mind if I borrow this? "to snark" would be a nice addition to the English vocabulary, in my opinion :)
Clearly only Equifax has the level of incompetence needed by government sponsored work.
17 person board. Are there other examples of startups that have been taken over like this with a successful outcome?
You should ask the people doing healthcare with blockchain, or whatever it is you're confused about. I agree, oftentimes they just have no idea what they're talking about. Sometimes they do though. It's worth noting that I think a few of them expect to depend on not-yet-completely-implemented "infrastructure" projects (off-chain computation, off-chain storage, prediction markets, private transactions, cheaper transactions). However since these infrastructure projects are still in a research stage I don't think it's reasonable for you to be able to cleanly split the "conceptual user perspective" from the "bitcoin-dev perspective".
Double Dragon -> Final Fight -> Street Fighter 2.
I think we're heading for a massive bubble, if Uber collapses investors everywhere will be spooked, "too big to fail" comes to mind.

Every ride Uber loses money. If they raise prices, then people jump ship, to Lyft, to a local service, to taxis. If self-driving cars don't start being used they can't cut down the cost... Of course, they also have lawsuits hitting them, and the Waymo lawsuit pretty much halted their self-driving car program.

Combine all this with the ridiculous number of lawsuits, investigations and criminal proceedings outside of IP that they are facing ("Grey ball" for instance) and I just don't see how they can maintain their status. Even with another $1 Billion or $10 billion.

How can they come out of this?

Couple that with having a large number of "chefs in the kitchen" so to speak and well... you get the idea.
Vim has system clipboard support with the `+` and `*` registers.
This looks more like a personal favorite list and less of a retrospective on 1980s arcades.
I don't understand. Aren't those supposed to shoot down invaders only? What's the problem?
Same, but by that time malls - and therefore arcades - began to decline rapidly in popularity. Great games with nobody to play them.

That plus consoles and PCs began to have the same graphics capabilities as arcade games at a reasonable price. No sense in pumping endless quarters into a machine you have to beg your parents to take you to when they can just as easily buy the console version to play at home.
You are a third party recruiter. Why couldn't you read and follow the guidelines at the top of the post like everyone else? The guidelines clearly state:

>"Submitters: please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no recruiting firms or job boards. One post per company please."

All of the jobs on the site associated with your email address state "our client" and your site describes the company as "An Executive Search Firm Located In London, New York And Chicago"
I'm still desperately trying to find something I can throw on top of an RoR application which is a crud app that is used by less than 20 users that handles the view easily. Or even if I could scrap that and hand over my decently large postgres database. (Not sure how it would be able to carry over the schema.rb or the model to retain relationships).

But, ideally I would say here is this database. Let users be able to easily add and update it and search/sort quickly.

I feel react is built to do things like this quite fast. Seen some great examples of autofill and sorted/filtered massive tables within a brilliant UI. Having the ability to work on independently on components also seems like a huge benefit but all solutions seem rather frankenstein-ish.

Maybe I suck. I wish I could find someone to pay that could take the database (or a grouping of csvs) and set up what I'm looking for. Sadly I've tried and the best solution has been hacking together on my own something that "works" but it's not great.

This is why I keep being attracted to these scaffolds hoping one will "click."
vim golf needs to be multiplayer
Does anyone else who does even basic half-and-half tiling feel like the majority of websites, even otherwise well-developed and popular ones, treat tilers as second-class citizens? I'm looking at you, GitHub, especially the ZenHub plugin. For a great counterexample of great design, YouTube.
Please, when making comparison, don't use PPP - it's misleading for most people.
Android has had face unlock for ages
To expand on the answers, C-h t opens the built in tutorial, which is good. It only covers the basics of navigation, but that's what you need to know to start. The tutorial is interactive.

Since emacs changes its behavior depending on the mode, it would be impractical to do a more in depth tutorial, in my opinion, but I liked the Mastering Emacs ebook.
The Downside of Baseball’s Data Revolution–Long Games, Less Action
Very interesting, any information about a target price range?
8-hour workday may be 5 hours too long, research suggests
Active Admin is fine for CRUD things.
Haha this is all so dumb. Greater fool theory at work.

...not that I don't own some Ethereum, tho...
I was very excited when the first black & white video games came out in the arcades. I felt they were more "fair" than pinball and other mechanical games.

Then the first color game I saw was Cosmic Alien. I dropped a lot of quarters down that hole.
In most of the articles, I saw Google only promoting Web Components via Polymer.

Even Google is promoting why it is not used high traffic web application like GMail, Search and Other large scale web application like Facebook, Twitter, not showing any interest in it.
The regulation does regulate those seeking money.

Non-accredited investors are still perfectly entitled to invest their money in their friends and family's startups and/or more heavily-regulated IPOs, but startups aren't allowed to solicit the investments from the public, and have limitations on how much they can take from how many non-accredited investors.
Doesn't look like it but I would sign up on the bottom to get more info. (aside it should be on the top of the page)
I'm sorry but the 3d image of the light house is horrible. It reminds me of POV-Ray renders from the 90s. Is Medium so poor that they can't afford a competent artist?
Using Machine Learning to Teach an iPhone to Play Pinball
Fair point adaml_623.

And yes, these are the right thing.
> I find a completely mistake to be independent, because being part of something bigger where people help each other is better

That premise does not necessarily lead to that conclusion. Ask the USSR.
Yeah, text selection alone would probably be enough for me not to do this. It's insanely bad on iOS, and you need to do it all the time if you write code. Constantly.
I use a 10.5" iPad Pro in place of a laptop, but I rarely do any development on it (that's what my desktop or my company laptop is for). Personally I find programming "on the go" to be really annoying and distracting anyways.

The portability, battery life, and LTE are huge advantages for the iPad.
I don't think electric vehicles lack promotion.
Contracts page on Bitcoin Wiki [0] is classic, unfortunately to understand most of it one has to know how script and various extensions (lock time etc.) work. Generally I'd advise reverse engineering how Bitcoin works, something like this [1] in JavaScript. There is also high level description of some contract types [2] but it's basically the same content as on Bitcoin Wiki.

[0]: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Contract

[1]: https://curiosity-driven.org/low-level-bitcoin

[2]: https://curiosity-driven.org/bitcoin-contracts
Thanks for being charitable, I did not mean to imply that what I claim many comp sci people do is any better or less arrogant, just different.