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The linked article from Nassim Taleb is fascinating. He's discussing Lebanon vs Syria, but he could just as easily be talking about bitcoin vs the traditional financial system:

"Simply put, fragility is aversion to disorder. Things that are fragile do not like variability, volatility, stress, chaos, and random events, which cause them to either gain little or suffer. A teacup, for example, will not benefit from any form of shock. It wants peace and predictability, something that is not possible in the long run, which is why time is an enemy to the fragile. What’s more, things that are fragile respond to shock in a nonlinear fashion. With humans, for example, the harm from a ten-foot fall in no way equals ten times as much harm as from a one-foot fall. In political and economic terms, a $30 drop in the price of a barrel of oil is much more than twice as harmful to Saudi Arabia as a $15 drop.

"For countries, fragility has five principal sources: a centralized governing system, an undiversified economy, excessive debt and leverage, a lack of political variability, and no history of surviving past shocks. Applying these criteria, the world map looks a lot different. Disorderly regimes come out as safer bets than commonly thought—and seemingly placid states turn out to be ticking time bombs.
>If Google, Facebook et al wanted to make amends for biasing the election.

Since when has Google wanted to make amends for biasing the election? Aren't we quick to forget Eric Schmidt was all in on attempting to bias the election in the direction he wanted. Timshel/THE GROUNDWORK are and were nothing more than tools for the DNC to manipulate the electorate
Insider's Guide to Udacity Android Nanodegree Part5-Make Your App Material
That's not the only form of vote fraud. Non-citizens voting is illegal and happens[1]. Does it happen in massive numbers? No idea, probably not. To what extent, though, does it compare to eligible voters who don't have ID, which is a common complaint about voter ID laws, which are struck down in the courts all the time.

1: https://www.justice.gov/file/3835pdf/download
Interesting to read Slack proselytize the use of Observables (which I'm a huge fan of). I really wish TC39 would move it to stage two. I found the following discussion/ reasoning pretty lacking for the amount of use Observables are getting.

http://tc39.github.io/tc39-notes/2017-05_may-25.html#17iiia-...
No, I'm arguing future crime isn't a thing. You don't get to punish people because they "might".
Web Audio API with Ambisonic Audio for Truly Submersive 360° Video
Launch HN: Wanda, your personal career agent
Docker. ECS, Kubernetes, Mesos, whatever floats your boat. Everything on RIs. Then start playing with spot-instances.
Except that a blockchain is the exact wrong technology to use here.

Look at Bitcoin, for example. That blockchain is entirely controlled by manufacturers in China. How would this blockchain viably guard against manufacturers in China?

Besides, the blockchain or other storage mechanism is irrelevant. All the counterfeiter needs to do is copy the serials or other numbers from the blockchain or wherever they are stored.

These methods all make it easier to pass-off a counterfeit as legitimate.
What is your goal to get rich or to change the world? If your goal is to get rich then just start an algo/AI hedge fund. Might have to add a couple quants, but sounds like you have the perfect initial team for it. However, if you want to change the world than you should focus on everyday life. Change the way we humans, sleep, drive, eat, fly, love, workout, etc. Focus on the simple things in life, and integrate your ideas into it. Simple things are what change lives
That's how I feel about most browser "features" these days. What ever happened to plain old static sites? Why does everything need little floating and collapsing stuff all over? And fade-in imagery and all that nonsense.
Use Windows EC2 instances only as a last resort.
The noise would be noticeable.
Good ideas are hard ... sometimes simple and overcrowded markets yield the best results. Facebook is basically usenet with a better UI/UX (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet). Amazon was a book store.

What you need is something where you provide a specific solution to a real problem, something people are really willing to pay for.

Network, speak to people, ask them about their problems. What do they wish existed. And if it existed, would they pay for a solution (is it a real business).

I've got some ideas for things from recent life experiences that seem to be common. This is where the best ideas come from. When there is a real need, and those addressing it aren't doing it well, or at all. Look for that gap.

Never hesitate to connect with others either. A good conversation can spur thoughts, and this is where ideas germinate.

Remember, the idea doesn't have to be a killer. Lowering friction in a process to make it faster/easier/cheaper/better goes a long way to turning into something good (think Uber/Lyft/AirBNB), even if the business is old and commoditized.
Glad you enjoyed it. I had similar thoughts while reading it
Next it'd be interesting to see Python 2k vs. Python 3+. My own experience tells me that the majority of top Kagglers still use Python 2k, despite Kaggle Kernels being Python 3+ exclusively.

I also am quite amazed with the predominant use of Logistic Regression. I wonder if that is less about interpretability / ease of engineering, and more about the barriers that data scientists face when using more complex methods: lack of data science talent, lack of management support, results not used by decision makers, limitations of tools.

If Kaggle results are anything to go by, all businesses that care about best performance on structured data, should be using a form of gradient boosting.
I mined and threw away ~400 btc around 2010-2011 :(( ... twice
You can't run a country where people don't perceive themselves as being tied together and don't agree with each other about anything. You're seeing this right now with Trump--he is such a divisive figure, that the government can't do anything anybody wants.
Yes, I have. Well, I guess it depends what you mean by large scale. But I wrote and shipped a Windows/Mac/Linux cross platform app using JavaFX with native packaging for each platform. I didn't try and match native widgets. I styled it to look like a desktop app.

It was quite productive and straightforward. That said, Java likes to use as much RAM as it can get even if it could release a lot back to the OS. It looks at it, sees it's free and thinks "I might as well take that".
All of it. Proof that it happens on such a scale as to actually be a problem, and proof that those measures you speak of are not just thinly veiled attempts to disenfranchise voters. If you're going to mess with the people's right to vote, you had better have a damn good reason.
why would you even found a company without a idea? that makes no sense to me.

just live your life as usual, and when you encounter a problem that you can foresee solving, ask yourself: 0. would i pay someone else to solve this problem? 1. do other people have this problem as well? 2. can i make a profit by solving this problem on scale?

an obvious point but always worth mentioning: a good business proposal should be short, obvious after the fact, and uses no big words (like AI, fintech, Blockchain Technology) (at least internally)
Would you mind sharing your tips for setting this up? I've been considering doing something similar for a little while now but am unsure how to get started.
I am wishing that the devs on the HipChat desktop apps are paying close attention to this. The Slack desktop app has been a resource hog, but nothing compared to the HipChat desktop app. (All anecdotal evidence)
I have acted as a Technical Advisor for teams like yours in the past (one of them got acquired by Google). Contact me if you need some help.
Does Fox News bias the election? Should it be required to make amends?

Do you think it has more, or less influence then a 100K spend Facebook ad campaign by Russia?
Is anyone else getting chat service fatigue?

Looking at my dock I have Discord, Slack, Textual (IRC), WhatsApp Web open.

I wish there was a service that just amalgamated all these together into one thing, with a rough set of common features (e.g. ability to post images/gifs/videos, text etc)
Sony Xperia R1 Release Date, Full Specifications, Features, Review, and Price
Sony Xperia R1 is the latest smartphone of Sony Brand. The phone has 1.5 GHz processor and 2 GB RAM. But it has many exciting and new features. You should buy this phone.
My team pays for GKE. The keys you are talking about are done with K8S + GKE so I don't see how that is much of an advantage other than cost. I want to add a new node, I go to the UI and increment a number.

As far as secrets go, there are a couple approaches the K8S community is trying for with encrypted secrets. The one I am rooting for is the integration with Hashicorp Vault. Chances are, that area will be fairly extensible.

I agree, 9k contributors and 9k pull requests are not to be scoff at. I wasn't scoffing at them. I'm simply saying that (1) center of gravity and where the influence is now has already shifted off of Docker, and (2) Just like Github.com phase-shifted open-source development (in way that Sourceforge never did), there are three technology in K8S that will likely phase-shift K8S development. This isn't about development power, but about a phase-shift.

I don't think I am being harsh on Swarm (and since when was this about being harsh? At the core of this is about whether the technology is fit-for-purpose and helps enable people achieve their mission and Docker is a commercial enterprise) The tipping point has come and gone. I saw Docker squander a lot of developer good-will over the past two years. I remember when CoreOS announced they were creating rkt, there were a lot of backlash to CoreOS. I liked CoreOS but I thought at the time it was a weird move. If that had happened this year, there would not be as much of a backlash.
Neural network with decaying recurrent attention span
When evaluating a VPN service for trustworthiness, I always look at what their webpage loads in terms of tracking scripts.

Basically, if you offer me the service to protect my IP address and don't even have the decency to let me inform myself about your offering without handing over my IP address to Google et al., then I'm not using your service.

Unfortunately, VPN providers collectively don't seem to be aware of this presentation layer, so it's neigh impossible to find one which doesn't violate privacy here.

So far, I've found exactly two: azirevpn.com and airvpn.org

They load in Piwik, which I'm okay with.

These two providers also check a lot of other boxes for me, but yeah, it's still just two providers after hours of research, so if anyone knows any other VPN providers with privacy-respecting webpages, please do tell.
Popehat has a separate "Lawsplainer" post on that:

https://www.popehat.com/2017/10/30/lawsplainer-the-george-pa...
Personally think that the best ideas come out of solving problems for yourself or that you feel no one else can solve better. I also wouldn't be too worried about crowded and/or small markets, especially if there is an opportunity for the space to grow.

It seems a bit forced to look hard for an idea, its usually a process, not something you just come up with overnight. Not to be a downer but it might be better to look for some work until you find something you truly care about.
Had the same problem, they showed up later. I guess HN effect is to blame.
You would just limit noise to the spectrum of existing differences between in the wild renderings.
> The few product ideas we came up with following the above process we dropped, often because we discovered that that space is ultra crowded or commooditized.

Pick one and execute a MVP. You'll learn about your ability to make it happen as a team. Part way through, you'll probably come up with a better idea.

I find walking our dogs in the woods or driving leads to thinking, which usually leads to ideas. Feel free to shoot me an e-mail.
You're right, technically, but incorrect legally, because if you don't VPN and instead hop a plane to France, they just streamed US content to France. No-go.
Boo, your moderation has utterly ruined HN. People can't even disagree anymore without you interfering. I'd be willing to bet there's more interesting content in all the detached threads than the content that survives your censorship. HN was a better site before you became a mod.
I've got at least one genuinely new idea that has not been done before that could change the study and popular understanding of human history. Feel free to get in touch.
As I understand it, 25% of his portfolio would approximate one of those... by being one of them, or a similar all-market fund.

The other 75% has no relationship to them at all.
You're allowed to downvote on HN even if it's just because you disagree. It's something Paul Graham said years ago. And it's a stupid policy and should be changed.
Oh what a lovely cycle. Every dev knows 16gb is the new 8gb so sure, why not have every desktop app consist of 20 independent webview/node processes. Can't wait until 32gb is the new 16gb.

Eventually, when every single desktop app is like this, and we can no longer keep shoving more RAM into computers, we'll realise that the only way to manage such hogs is to pickle background apps to disk Android-style and to just have one foreground app in memory. And that's when we'll all realise we might as well switch to Chrome OS. Well played, web devs, Google says thanks.

Or maybe Electron is a conspiracy by someone heavily invested in RAM production?
Except for the people who talk about taking away the ability to spy completely - they're not just trying to hide what's worth hiding today.

In the 1960s if you advocated for racial equality and interracial marriage, you were a social radical, a destabilizer, an insurgent in the popular culture. You were an offensive deviant, actively promoting the destruction of the race, opposed to the church, to the law, to the government, everything. Would social acceptance of racial equality even have been possible to develop without the government and status quo NOT being able to know their undoing was festering right under their noses?

We should never be so sure we're right that we destroy the mere possibility of change.
I'd be shocked if the number of "legitimate" Kodi users is even close to the number of those using it to obtain whatever TV/movie content they are interested in not having to pay for.

Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT) in the UK commissioned a report claiming as much as a million of them have been sold in the UK alone - while I'd take that number with a large pinch of salt given the source, It's pretty clear these things are being sold preconfigured for piracy in substantial numbers in the UK. Several cases concerning individuals have found the individual sellers to have had revenues well in excess of £100,000.

To be clear, I'm in no way advocating banning Kodi just because it has the potential for questionable use, but I think it's also silly to feel frustrated that people only talk about what is probably its most common use case: watching content you haven’t paid for.
You may end up taking your valuable ideas to the grave.
>> apart from the screen resolution

Remember when HTML first came about? The whole idea was that the browser would re-flow everything to fit on whatever resolution you had. Lots of sites hired writers, editors, and design people from the print world and tags were abused and added so those people could control the layout like they were used to doing instead of adapting to a better way. SVG scales and doesn't require the site to know your resolution.

We've really screwed up by allowing the browser developers to pander to site developers and give them access to the kingdom. Now that we can all see the folly in that, it's time to reverse the trend for the next 20 years.
Lawrence Lessig is trying to challenge not the Electoral College directly but the winner-takes-all way of selecting electors in court, arguing that the Bush v Gore precedent of equal protection taking precedent over the states right to run elections as they see fit should apply also to the winne-takes-all selection of electors.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-time-has-come-reform-the-e...

I have no idea what the chances of success are, but it's an interesting argument.
Paul Manafort and Rick Gates indicted, analysis of legal and political aspects
This. If anything you can save time on market validation if you think you can execute or offer something unique that the existing players in the space lack.
I disliked the part where the author plugged their own app lol. Eveything these days is an ad.
Show HN: YaMeter – Cloud Load Testing for Everybody
Holy heck is there really no more simple architecture for this app?

Even the TLDR at the bottom didn't succinctly explain the advantage of browserview over the old way.
If we were, it already would be, obviously.
I genuinely wonder if you're not being paid to write this comment
If we're going down this rabbit hole:

Glancing at the phone screen (that you can bring in front of you) will take a second and is very similar to glancing at the navigation screen. Now try to pass a phone to a kid behind you in a child seat or using a seatbelt. For starters, just try 'passing' a phone behind your chair without dropping it why looking into your computer screen.
IKE is a nightmare to admin, only for Cisco level bureaucracies.
AMD positions the $1000 Vega FE against the $1200 Titan Xp.

The $700 1080 Ti has almost the same performance as the Titan Xp, so why not compare those?

It changes conclusions considerably...
To me, what made the iPhone great for so long was more than its look physically. It was the integration between the software and the hardware. Everyone saying that the notch is a new trademark is explaining away the fact that isn't the case anymore.
Big instances w/ lots of containers and putting everything in cloudformation/terraform so that you can nuke non-prod environments at certain times.
Wanted: Amazon Custody Chain - assurance that the product in question was in fact purchased by Amazon directly from the manufacturer, or otherwise Amazon vouches for the authenticity of the product.

Ditto eBay.
If my $300 Moto G5+ (temporary replacement for my bootlooped Nexus 5X) were to, well, f-ing receive timely updates, I'd stick with it for a while. 4 GB / 64 GB (and the option to add a MicroSD card), Snapdragon... 625, IIRC. And a decent IPS display. It's just fine.

I'd love to have a better camera, but not at 3x the price.

Yeah, this isn't an "Apple" comment. But it is a "US$800 - $1200" comment. And an "it's not really your device" comment. Not when we are at the "mercy" of vendors to provide necessary updates -- or, more often, not to.

On that front, Apple is clearly winning. But a grand is a lot to pay for it.

P.S. My G5+ has a headphone jack. Useful that now Bluetooth is borked until it receives the update/fix -- IF it ever receives it.

Yeah, I'm a broken record... But it's a song these vendors ripely deserve.
‘I forgot my PIN’: An epic tale of losing $30,000 in bitcoin
apply actually, which is the eval form for functions. Calls a function with a list of arguments
For RDS, it is much cheaper to pay for more storage than more IOPS, at least if you are under 3k IOPS.

IE, you will save a bundle if you are currently buying 3k provisioned IOPS vs just paying for 1 TB of storage.

More here:
http://blog.textit.in/why-buying-provisioned-iops-on-rds-may...
First rule of HN: do not talk about downvoting.

Second rule of HN: you get the idea....
Singapore teaches its seniors to code
Way less obviously there are laws to help prevent foreign actors from injecting money and influence in to our elections. Which is why there are bipartisan congressional hearings on an unprecedented attack.
The HFT Guy has a good blog and did some posts on this. Basically Google Cloud is much cheaper than AWS so you should look at that. There are also other alternatives including IBM SoftLayer which I've never looked at before.

"Run an entire tech company in the cloud, or run only a single [big] project requiring more than 10 servers? Google Compute Engine

Run less than 10 servers, for as little cost as possible? Digital Ocean

Run only beefy servers ( > 100GB RAM) or have special hardware requirements? IBM SoftLayer or OVH"

https://thehftguy.com/2016/06/08/choosing-a-cloud-provider-a...

https://thehftguy.com/2016/11/18/google-cloud-is-50-cheaper-...
Its a momma duck problem. Once they've accepted something as fact, they have a hard time parting ways with it.

But if you could interject at this moment of initial assimilation and provide some legitimacy or point out the lack thereof, you could provide a very useful service.

It would also help people change their minds, although as you mentioned, that is harder to do. But at least now you have better tools to do it.

Finally, not EVERYONE is completely disinterested in having their misconceptions corrected.
That's not exactly how that's paid for, but this article explains it a little more clearly https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/storyline/wp/2014/09/12/...
The really amazing thing was the speed of the response, as reflected in the chronology section. Nothing like this had ever happened before, the entire net was getting shutdown by the attacking worm, and within 48 hours the community had come together on its own, reverse-engineered the payload, and shut it down, problem solved. A truly amazing thing to have experienced and played a small part in.
I don't think he needs to acknowledge how contrived his solution might be or provide a real-world use case. The article very well could be taken as inspiration to approach problems from different angles.
At what point will Google decide that Chrome only needs to access their own assets?
That's probably the best "feature comparison" page I've ever seen. (At least, the best written by a creator of one of the products being compared.)
Butterfly iQ – A cheap handheld ultrasound tool with AI smarts inside
Late reply, but that isn't true. If you a heavy object hits concrete it will go through the concrete, just like it would go through water. In the case of a human, it will potentially crush every bone in the process, but you will still go through it if the kinetic energy vs binding energy is in the right balance.
I'm pretty confident you'll hit up upon potentially viable ideas based on pain points described by the community in past "Ask HN" threads like the ones below (newest first):

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13576236

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13139638

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9799007

Also, there was a Show HN nearly a year ago for http://patentsexpiringtoday.com/ which is a service for exploring ideas whose patent protection have expired.

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13309025
Redfin and Zillow might have beat you to it but real estate has a lot of old-fashion practices. I think there is a lot of space in that industry to improve.

One anecdote I have a friend (~30) who works in real estate appraisal. He says the industry is run on excel. While it might not make you a unicorn, you could definitely make money having a better solution.
Most people would happily plug a random USB stick off the street into their computer.

Personally, I would avoid plugging in random dongles- unless my curiosity got the better of me.

This unemployed London man clearly knows his shit- he plugged the stick into a random library computer!