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Ask HN: How To Market a Crypto Company?
https://BitBank.nz is a crypto live forecasting tool, we have a few customers (all from HN) and good conversion rate but just aren't getting the traffic.

Does anyone know any good ways of reaching out/marketing to people in the crypto community?

What I have tried: facebook/google ads: seems too expensive right now, no conversions from these sources yet.

Blogging/commenting, Quora, Reddit, producthunt style sites. Still our tiny traffic is 80% HN 20% everything else

We have a referral program where users can earn .003btc (~10% of a purchase) so there's money to be made if anyone knows how but it has been surprisingly not been used.

If there any large engaged crypto community somewhere someone knows how to reach out to?

Thanks! - Lee
Don't forget Noggin the Nog.
But you don't know which blocks you'll need at planning time, so you can't really check that.

Really? Postgres doesn't know which blocks are part of which tables / indexes? That seems ... suboptimal if so.
Clojure is fantastic for its simplicity, and I worked on a Clojure code base full time for 5 years, coming up with ways of translating Java patterns into Clojure. But I've noticed it has not been gaining traction in the job market, and now I feel like that 5 years has been a waste of valuable career building time, which I wish I had spent gaining more experience in (sigh) C# and .NET, so that I could get the more local jobs which all seem to use the Windows ecosystem, so we don't have to uproot our family and move to the city. Not that I don't know C# and .NET, but I definitely don't have 3+ years experience in it and I definitely don't have any experience MS SQL. So being able to do really cool things in Clojure, and especially having excellent rapid development skills with REPL-driven development, has done me no good. The one remote job that I found that uses Clojure turned me down because they used zippers in the code test, and that's literally the one Clojure construct I just can't wrap my head around, which is ironic because idiomatic Clojure really doesn't use recursion in the first place, favoring streams and transducers instead. My career future doesn't really seem to have a lot of Clojure in it unfortunately. Plus most of modern JavaScript has most of the same benefits as Clojure anyway, especially in terms of FP.
Good point. I don't have a strong refutation of it. The main advantage of bitcoin over gold is that you can transfer it anywhere in the world to a potential anonymous recipient, which is why its main success stories so far have been in shady businesses. The current main advantage(s) of gold over bitcoin is it's still a lot easier for the average person worldwide to acquire and sell it, cultural tradition, there's been a few recessions where gold has at least held firm so it's trusted as a store of value.

So if bitcoin's competition is Gold (and not your local currency) it would need to get a lot easier for laymen to acquire and sell (I'm not just talking bay area engs, I mean like the Venezuelan farmers, which is why bitcoin enthusiasts trump up any and all reports of the like). The segwit x2 fork was at least an attempt at that, and coinbase has done good work reducing frictions. The 2nd and 3rd will take years but could happen.

I just feel like at this point all of bitcoins gains in the past year have been driven by wild speculators looking to make a quick buck, which tells me that when the recession hits they will dump their holding and btc will tank. This will make people less confident in btc as a store of value, and will consider it instead to be a wildly risky investment vehicle, which it is. At that point, it will default to its only proven use case thus far: anonymous worldwide financial transactions.

disclaimer: I have a smallish % of my portfolio in both gold and btc.
Yes, there is no mention because it's not very different from other technologies.

Molten salt batteries are mostly not practical (who wants to carry around some explosives at boiling water temperature), but the single use cells get some usage because of this feature. Rechargeable ones don't.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14858250
I’d still think it was weird. Dermatology issues don’t seem embarrassing to me. I could see it making more sense in the context of sexual issues.
> We want to see success!

We do, but this success is presented as if coming from an average Chinese experience. But it's very much not so. A lot of success to him came not just from pure hard work but because his family could afford to have "plan B" of sending him abroad.

Like someone here on HN said it, it is not that the elites don't fail, they do, but after each failure they can just keep trying until they succeed.

> Will you read about a blue collar worker's view on Chinese society?

I would love to actually. What would an American welder think about China or, maybe what they would think about how Chinese welders work and vice-versa.

> As societies, we don't really want to read about some Cantonese kid working after school at his parents restaurant for 6 hours a day.

No, but they would love to read about the Cantonese kid working after school and then based on his hard work end up at GS.

The bottom line is growing in up in a family like it doesn't matter what country or culture you come from you already won the lottery. You can live in Venezuela or Africa and still take weekend flight to shop in New York. Your perspective is already very different.
You're kidding, right?

IBM actively shuts down whatever emulation efforts it can...

e.g.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/02/ibm_buys_psi/
for some people "Fokk off" is a subliminal message
A Japanese politician took her baby to work. The patriarchy was not impressed
It is not as fast as advertised. It is not even 'fast', composing emails in Google Inbox web app is laggy AF...
How do we know that the infinity is countable from the context?
It can, but Quantum was basically just the very start of that journey. They'll need to try and keep one step ahead of Chrome with every release. If they can do that, they'll rebuild the following.
There's always people applying for jobs and there's always people who want to improve their standard of living. That doesn't make it the best alternative.

Also, a most people outside of the US have an idealized vision of how it is. They rarely get to hear about the exorbitant costs of education and housing, the nonexistant public transportation and absence of a social safety net, or the limited vacation time. For a lot of younger people those things don't matter either, and guess who are the people most likely to immigrate.

It's also true that for a lot of highly specialized niche markets, the coastal cities have a disproportionately high level of compensation that can make up for those things.

However, in my experience, a significant number of people with H1Bs have stayed in the US for a couple years, found the living conditions on the Bay to be completely not worth it, then went back home with a pile of cash.
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I had one when I was a kid. Hilariously it did the satanic voice after I threw it against a wall. Didn't do that again.
Yes, :( My friends' salary is even much lower :(
It's well known that tomatoes you buy in the store in the US are pure garbage, even among Americans.

I live in the Northeast. Around here practically every single person plants tomatoes if they have a backyard, even if they never plant any other vegetables ever. Chatting about how your tomatoes are doing and what type of tomatoes you are growing is a classic pasttime around these parts.

Of course the reason is there's nothing you can buy in the store that tastes like what you plant in your yard. I know quite a few people who don't like store tomatoes but like home-grown tomatoes.
What does “viable” mean, though? For us, it might not be viable, but for organisms that live on a different (or even variable) time scale it might be just fine.
LEGOs shuffling are surprisingly loud in a box, let alone through chutes at 4K/hr! Glad it’s a fun side project to maintain.
I'm not referring to Windows as poor for telemetry, but it's tremendously easier to get malware that takes over your whole system on Windows than any other platform - consider the fact that downloading and running unsigned executables is an extremely common practice - even as a fairly security conscious person I do it regularly on Windows. Add to that the fact that Windows completely lacks sandboxing and you pretty much get a pile of malware on your machine unless you really know what you're doing - and even then I've seen fairly technical people click next past a "bonus ask.com toolbar" in an installer.

Even with a regular bank account in most of the world at least, it's tightly regulated and you're only liable for a small portion of the loss - on a credit card, generally nothing at all.

Even without OS security updates, generally browsers and other internet connected software gets security updates regularly, I'd trust a new user on Android far more than Windows because clicking an ad would not have a risk of getting them infected system wide without jumping through some serious hoops and involving a few exploits. On Windows that's one Run button press away.
And yet all the Quantum code is not yet on Firefox Android 57, so it will get actually better quickly.
I look at it glass half full. I found one of the few Twitter accounts worth following.
As a Frenchman, I have to say it: I was in England two years ago, got those sandwiches around the cities I visited (London, Margate, Brighton) in bookshops, train stations, street vendors and to be honest, they're very good.

Usually heavy on the sauce and easy ingredients like bacon, eggs, mayonnaise, but still, props to the UK for producing quality sandwiches like that on a such a HUGE scale.
A lot of colleges use cogeneration plants. Almost nobody else does. From what I understand, it nearly doubles the total efficiency of burning coal, though the output is not more electricity but heat. The physics is pretty simple as explained by the Carnot cycle [1]:

Efficiency <= 1 - Tc / Th, where Tc is the cold exhaust temperature and Th is the hot temperature. This is of course a theoretical ideal engine.

The issue is that for something like a coal or oil or gas plant, Tc is still damn hot. Something like 900 degrees F is common. It's too low to use for a second cycle of electricity usage, but it's still plenty hot to heat your living room.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_efficiency#Carnot_effi...
I'm not sure I can get behind his premise here. England suggests that life is a result of molecules forming combinations that burn greater amounts of energy (paraphrasing), but it seems to me that life burns less energy over a sustained period of time. This is why we live for 80 years instead of spontaneously combusting.
Wouldn't tumbling a spaceship give you some basic gravity? Isn't that a desired outcome?
It could also be the case human's use of fire and now fossil fuels are the universe's way of achieving a maximum energy releasing mechanism
> a 80 acre micro farm

Not sure how you can call that 'micro'...

That is more than the median surface area of farms in my country, and that was the average surface area 20 years ago before some capitalistic movement to build big 'company' farms that skew the mean. It can support a family. And I am not talking about a developing country, but about the country with probably the highest agricultural productivity in the world.
True. This hasn't stopped Chrome though.
I feel like there's a lot of anti-Mozilla trolls on this particular comments section. Compared to most other articles on HN, it just doesn't align with the views I've heard elsewhere, and certainly doesn't align with my experience as a happy Firefox user.
It would be interesting to see this vs cost of relocation, which I believe has been enormously high (as has the emotional cost).º

Different agencies price the cost of a single life ("statistical live value") differently. For instance the US department of transportation won't install a highway guard rail that would save one life per year if the installation costs more than $9.6M. FAA $5.8M. (and TSA clearly 0 while for DoD it's clearly enormous).

º Even people who stay will suffer psychological problems, in part due to poor understanding of physics, and that isn't taken account of in the summary. Then again some people near phone towers suffer imaginary fears too. The original article is paywalled so sorry to the authors if these topics are discussed.
In context, these are not part of IEEE 754.
Not to put you out of a job, but I do think it's important for the government to take responsibility to coordinate and inform citizens of known issues (via CFPB) and provide a clearing house of information and research for citizens. CERT, who tracks vulnerabilities, is almost useless it seems today, but if it would coordinate with the CFPB to determine impact to citizens by various business, creating a proactive service for business as well as citizen. Information coordinated between CFPB an NSA on the vulnerabilities they find as they float their way thru the internet, goes to CERT and CFPB, then used to both inform the companies of their issues and make for speedier fix/notifications/reparations. While NSA wants to exploit what it finds for purposes of cyberwar advantage, has a duty first to protect it's own citizens.

In such a system both business and citizen gain value. The information from this arrangement can give business advantage of the expertise and leverage the information quickly to resolve issues they may not have $$(expertise) to find,
so they appear to customers proactive and responsive. Customers gain with visibility and accountability of the companies who don't resolve issues by making public that same information.
I'm not opposed to reasonable grace periods between telling a company they have a problem, and before it's made fully public.

Companies generally only focus on security to the extent they understand the risks of the impact. By making impact very clear and those impacted given a strong selection of reparations (a credit monitor being only a pale solution - useless to many today). I think CFPB could come up with additional recommendations on reparations for companies that citizens would accept.

Weakness of this argument.
Gov't is slow, evidently even with information.
Coordination and competing purposes between Govt Orgs are nothing to sneeze at - they are hard to resolve.
Businesses who feel they cannot quickly or inexpensively resolve a problem given to them will attempt to hide it, working against the idea business will gain value.
Weak Men are Superweapons (2014)
Do any courses include radix or discrimination sort yet? Mine sure didn't.

I've never been a fan of quicksort as an algorithm. It's more like, "Let's fit this sort option to the weird hardware constraints we arrived at instead of asking for better hardware."
The answer is it depends and it's complicated, as raw milk is actually fairly highly regulated. The FDA has laws that prohibit the sale of raw milk across state borders. State laws vary, obviously. In some states it is legal and can be found in stores on shelves, in some states it is legal and can only be sold on the farm, and in some states it is illegal to sell. And, of course, those state laws can be superseded by local laws. You really have to put a little effort in to reading the local and state regulations in each area to sort it out.

I feel that if I was going to buy raw milk from a very small scale operation that I would want to personally see their operation. You have to ensure that the farmers milking are really paying attention to what they're doing. I've had some particularly nasty food poisoning in my life, one instance of which landed me in the ER and had me on a quasi quarantine watch by the county CDC, in fact, and so I don't really play around with my food too much. Milk is a tough one because a healthy cow can become a sick cow overnight. It's also made more challenging by the daily goings-ons with the milking process.

Having said all of that, my wife and I buy raw milk from a mid-scale creamery in Los Angeles, near where my wife grew up, whenever we are in the area. I've never really had much concern over it, because this creamery has been in operation for many decades and is quite reputable, but we are also well aware of the risk.
The primary source is the one posted above by elsherbini.

I would definitely trust a small negative placebo controlled trial over a large meta-analysis that didn't include any placebo controlled trials, especially for a treatment that has a 90% placebo responder rate (as the trial posted by elsherbini shows).
..and closures
I visited these labs under the Louvre when I lived in Paris (someone who worked there was an MIT classmate). There's some pretty amazing research done there.
I've built a crypto alternative to Airbnb that enables decentralized P2P travel
This is much more readable than Medium's 5 lines per page style for me.
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Your post is inaccurate because your belief that competition within the local American market distorts prices is somewhat misplaced, IMO.

Talent is global. Large corporations have satellite offices, and there's a lot of nice places to live outside of the US. If people aren't going to the Bay, then they're going to London, or Berlin or Frankfurt or Paris, because costs in those cities are ultimately similar. Good devs want to go to interesting places.

And if you can't pay for those places, there's a lot of alternatives in satellite offices in countries with a lower cost of living but incredibly talented engineers. Argentina, Poland, Czech Republic, Romania, all have their own hubs with substantially lower costs.

No amount of visa restrictions in the US is going to change those variables. And if the engineers can't go to the US, American companies just open satellite offices; Amazon has just opened an important AWS office in Madrid and it's attracting a lot of smart devs of Latin American countries who would be interested in immigrating to places with much different cultures or who can't be arsed to go through the pains of the American visa process.
I would love for a decent midpoint solution, ie, a way to digitize my notes. A livescribe would be nice, but the issue is that my handwriting is...not too great. I can understand it,certainly, but I'm not sure it would escape OCR unscathed.
The really interesting prospect raised in that Reddit thread is that while the velocity is likely wrong for an interstellar spaceship, it could be just right for the spent and discarded deceleration stage of an interstellar spaceship. In which case the spaceship would be arriving some time later...
No, because people don't switch to the best product, that switch away from the worst.

People went to Firefox because it was head and shoulders better than IE6 for regular use - popup blocking and tabbed browsing were the most obvious examples, but even then (and being advertised on Google's front page), it only for about 35% of the market.

Now let's say it'll be a bit faster than Chrome. Let's say it'll be twice faster than Chrome, with better deep extensions coming back, it won't make a difference. Chrome is too usable.
Wouldn't this just add fuel to the young-Earth idea? If evolution can happen so fast, those billions of years might not be so billion after all...
Yes, you can! However, the standard of healthcare, education,... is commonly low.
This could be the perfect thing to announce a failing code build.....begone old traffic light systems, Jenkins + Furby could be a thing of beauty.
Nothing but negative comments here.

Longtime FF user but I gotta say the new version is great. MUCH faster than the old version or Chrome.

Great work Mozilla. Feck the begruders!
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Yeah, I use Shift+Pg Up all the time in the terminal: on the laptop keyboard, at least, you can hit Fn+Shift or Fn+Ctrl with one finger and then the arrow key with another.
How does this relate to the 'constructal law'? For reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructal_law
I use org-mode to track my todos, track my time, and to take notes.

The big benefit for me is that it can link to lots of different types of things within my emacs environment. For instance, I manage my email from within emacs (using mu4e), and I can set up org-mode to quickly make TODOs that link back to whatever email I have open. I can also link to files (local and remote), web URLs (of course), and to git commits which will open in Magit (an excellent git interface). So using it as my todo tracking is really quite handy. It would be less so if I weren't mostly living in emacs already.
OT: I'm not a front end guy, so maybe this is a dumb question, but why do so many sites with some kind of floating header mess up page at a time scrolling?

By "floating header" I mean that thing at the top on the story site that has the story title, the link to comments, a read later link, and a share link, that stays in a fixed position in the window as you scroll the story.

When you scroll the site (Firefox, Chrome, Safari) by hitting the space bar, it scrolls an amount appropriate for what would be visible if the floating header were not there. What this means is that the first line or two that are invisible before the scroll, because they are below the bottom of the window, end up at the top of the window, under the floating header.

Is there no way in CSS or something to set the size of the viewport that the scrolled content is shown in, so that the browser can scroll the appropriate amount? Or do you have to take over scrolling yourself in JavaScript to make that work, which then tends to result in scrolling that does not quite match native scrolling and so annoys people?

If the latter, couldn't you leave scrolling alone when done via the mouse wheel or clicking in the scroll bar, but intercept keyboard events and handle space processing yourself, so that you ONLY take over that form of scrolling? That would be a big improvement over the current situation.
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It appears to be tumbling end over end. It's possible that it's spinning end over end in order to generate artificial gravity at the ends, but this contradicts one basic design star-ship design principle. You build a long narrow ship so you can have heaviest particle shielding only at the narrow front to reduce shielding mass required.

But maybe since it's traveling so slow, they didn't need any excessive shielding. Maybe they have super light super strong shielding technologies. That itself would seem to be contradictory, given you'd think they'd have access to far more energy than would produce only 40 km/sec velocity.
It was a cool experiment but I think currently it's deprecated? The presentation slides are very nice and detail and explain a lot of internals.

For more details about the internals of BEAM VM can check out this open source book: https://github.com/happi/theBeamBook

(Online rendered version: https://happi.github.io/theBeamBook/)
It's not legal to sell it in a store but there's no problem buying directly from the source.

At least that's how it worked in new Hampshire about 10 years ago.
Ok, but that doesn't make it intellectually interesting, which is what we're looking for here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html