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Ask HN: Start a blog or podcast? any better ideas are welcom
I am regular reader of hackernews but this is my first post so please don't mind about my language.

I have 15+ startup related domains that I bought last year by thinking I will start blogs on each one but was not able to do it because of deadlines in some projects. I would welcome good ideas and suggestions which I can start implementing.

Thanks in advance
Will swift not get the `impl trait` that Rust is slowly churning out?
As someone who about programming and electronics, but knows very little about parallel computing, is this a good place to start? Does anybody have other resources or projects to recommend?
I keep saying it, but I don't really ever think it changes anything, but it is the interest rates. You can't keep interest rates at 3% for 30 years and expect things to keep working like they used to.
The world is a big place, even the USA. So many of Amazon's dreams and current services apply only to cities of a decent size. It can't be worth it to them to have their own delivery to the middle of nowhere. Even UPS struggles with overnight in my area. I'm sure Amazon will succeed in their goals, but there will be some pie left for the others.
The premise is silly and forced.

The reason why the "tubarcular" version of beauty declined is because the rich and famous stopped dying from tuberculosis.
The reason why the flappers wore far less clothing, of different material, and cut their hair short is because the rich and famous were afraid of disease carrying bacteria, not because of some proto-feminism.

We saw a similar beauty movement in the 1990s with the "heroin addict" version of beauty.

Whatever physical aspects distinguish the rich and famous are the things that become the next beauty and fashion standard.
In general though, what is the alternative to trusting the source and distributor of a piece of content? As you've noted, if you can't trust the developer, the walled garden is irrelelvant... But if you can't trust the data source, isn't basically everything about the medium irrelevant?

In contrast, if you do trust the data source, why is a walled garden model of security worse than alternatives?
Really unlikely to ever happen. I tried to get AOL to open source Q-link software from the 80s, when it was a bulletin board for commodore 64s and legal just sat on it for years until i gave up.
> Adds[sic] allow for free stuff

The opposite is true: ads must be paid for, which makes products and services more expensive.

Ads are a convoluted, inefficient form of wealth redistribution; whether that's "good" or "bad" depends on the specific circumstances.

For example, we might (simplistically) say it's "good" when we receive something paid for by ad revenue, but the burden of paying for (e.g. by price increases) and being subjected to those ads is carried by others. For example, if we tune in to a radio station, listen to a song, and tune out before some ad for a product we don't use.

We could say it's "bad" when the opposite happens, for example if we pay higher fees for shopping on Amazon, which then get spent on advertising Prime Video which we don't use.
Finding the first primary component also appears to be a pretty good way greyscale an image.
2FA still uses passwords (usually), so it stills makes sense to review and change them.
They were not billionaires when the price was 0.70
My public key: https://keybase.io/swapagarwal
[ my public key: https://keybase.io/swapagarwal; my proof: https://keybase.io/swapagarwal/sigs/--ZvbDhjdXGq0V90VdWJktroQ9K-GgVnWPgbxsso_0M ]
> Given the technologies we're talking about, what the parent wrote in those two quoted sentences is literally as close to stating an obvious fact as possible when discussing future technology.

Yeah uh, it’s statements like these that make people so angry at Silicon Valley nerds who think they’ve got it all figured it out and that anyone who disagrees with them are beneath them.

These things aren’t facts, they’re statements that are very much up for debate and discussion. If you can’t even see that, maybe try signing up for an intro course to philosophy at your local community college or something.

(Oh and a little tip for you: angrily repeating that something is an obvious truth over and over doesn’t make it so, surprisingly enough)
I was amazed the other day to discover my favorite board game publisher, Rio Grande Games, has the email address (posted in their games as of 2017) of riogames@aol.com, which really surprised me. I wonder if they're still making money off of AOL email accounts?
Someone Used Wet String to Get a Broadband Internet Connection – Motherboard
EDIT

Yuck, this blew up and I think alot of people took it the wrong way. I think Coinbase is great, and I'm sure everyone who works there is awesome and terrific at their job.

Anyone who has worked on any half way successful project knows just how hard both uptime and security are and I'm in no way upset at Coinbase for having growth issues.

I've done this for years and might not even get an interview with them. They'll be fine, they're just learning how to deal with alot of hard issues all at once.

The question was posed, what do you need to do to get institutional money and I answered.

To clarify...

Coinbase , atleast from a hedge funds perspective has 2 tasks.

1) prime broker or custodian, from this perspective you just can't be hacked and loose anyone's bitcoins.

Not sure how a hedge fund would tell its clients that they lost any amount of their funds due to an exchange being hacked, this is just so foreign to the way the markets currently work. I don't think the funds clients would be too accepting of a loss of any amount due to this.

2) as an exchange, This is probably easy for people to understand. When the volume picks up that's when you make your money. If Volume causes the exchange to go down, you can't make money.

Again this is very rare for most markets now to go down to volume and when it does it doesn't really matter too much because the concept of having your shares with an exchange doesn't really make sense in the equities market.

You'd just start trading at another exchange and none of your shares are actually held with the exchange, nor do you need to send shares to an exchange to trade, you just trade and settle at the end of the day.

EDIT END

I'll preface this by saying, what I'm asking for is hard, very hard, but being a grown up is hard..... You can't just ask people to invest billions of other peoples money and then claim "best efforts" if your exchange crashes under load.

Well what institutional investors want is pretty simple to understand, though very hard to implement.

1) No counterparty risk. Everyone can get hacked, but coinbase being hacked shouldn't every, under any circumstances result in me loosing any bitcoin they hold on my behalf.

A hedge fund can't just go to their clients and say sorry, lost all our money, coinbase got hacked, the hedge fund itself and its principles would be sued into oblivion.

I mean if the Nasdaq, NYSE or prime broker ever got hacked, no one would expect to suddenly loose all their shares, or cash held with their prime broker.

2) The exchange can't go down, like at all. Once a year for 5 minutes is fine, or every day at midnight for 10 minutes is fine, but during regular trading hours you can't just throw your hand up and say "hey, best efforts here there just alot of volume right now, we'll be up in a few minutes"

Hedge funds make their money on volatility, which means the more volatile and busy the exchange is the more they'll want to trade. Going down when times are busy is just can't happen.
I live in a college town with several bike shops, all of them still tied to the traditional retail model. The one I suspect has the worst prospects is the most upscale one. They have a big clean showroom full of expensive sporty bikes, but their mechanics are second-rate. You can tell because their shop is in the basement and you're not allowed to come down and watch them work on your bike. And the one time I made the mistake of going there for service they sniffed at my decent, well maintained commuting bike because the paint was dinged up and it was covered with road dust, charged me twice what the repair was worth, and didn't fix the problem. The shop I'm rooting for has a tiny showroom and a big repair shop right behind the counter. There's grease on everything, and I'm pretty sure they've been under-charging me for labor because they know I commute by bike. They already order and assemble bikes for people, and they also rent by the day. They, I suspect, will be just fine.
I have spoken with many bike store owners and employees, they know they can't compete with the prices you can get for parts and accessories from online retailers. But very few have an alternate plan.

The ones I see who are being smart about this reality are instead focusing on having absolutely excellent mechanics and experiences like shop rides to get groups out on amazing day trips / overnights. There is a huge value add in teaching people skills and thus converting them into more advanced cyclists who'll want better gear.
Getting back into the development world
Website works on iOS without any problem.
Why would you even think it has any relation?
Don't forget torches, you have to burn down the evil castle or else they'll just hide until everyone leaves.
That is always the beauty of becoming the largest player in the space.

Imagine tomorrow that Cloudflare & Netflix came out tomorrow notifying users to switch to NewISP because their current ISP throttles their content.

I think a lot of consumers just don't truly understand the impact. I remember the amount of chatter that happened just when Netflix released the ISP speed numbers and consumers were pissed about their quality of internet.
You just reminded my that my main screen name I use for everything was the one I originally came up with for AIM in like 16+ years ago.
Dave Winer's http://outliners.scripting.com/ site has some interesting history. You can download the old programs there.

I remember using MORE on the Mac in the late '80s.
Sounds cool, but slow. Bluetooth and/or Blockchain are not synonymous with speed.
AI Weekly 15 Dec 2017
The final user numbers were way less than you would guess. It was a service built to handle tens of millions of users serving thousands. Scaling down that much is as labour intensive as scaling up. It's not just a launching all the services on a handful of VMs. The time had passed to make it a WhatsApp etc competitor.
propaganda
There again, I find the BBC journalists themselves try to do a good job, against sometimes quite obvious manipulations from above.
The headline here is of course blatant propaganda or at best "click bait", but the content is perhaps attempting subterfuge?
While you certainly have a lot of experience and impressive education, I’m not sure how this shows how willing people are to commit violence. Or whether this is a significant probability. Or even an attention worthy probability.

Through your studies have you been able to identify evidence for a range or risk / odds ratio difference of haters to commit violence vs the standard population?

This is certainly hard to quantify, but seems important if it’s going to impact how you interact with people and how you recommend others interact with people.

I’m a bit disturbed that you seem unwilling (or unable) to discuss this and end the thread with “just trust me.” I certainly would like to trust you, but I try to shape my worldview through evidence and defendable evidence.
Measuring your agile/scrum team’s health
They sell ads on it. I think they’ll keep the email addresses and use the yahoo mail back end.
Dangerous says who. Someone representing vested interests?
They absolutely have the technical ability, and now they have the legal ability as well. If a page is http, not https, then they can arbitrarily modify the page in transit. Otherwise, they can simply decide not to serve pages from any site they want.

> On the other hand, I'm not opposed to censoring some things, like porn.

This is how censorship tends to start. Porn, copyright, and/or terrorism. You are opening yourself and your country up to a world of abuses by those in power once you start letting them censor. (Also, why is it any of your business or mine if other people watch porn? And if it is, the path to change practices we disagree with is through dialogue and education, not authoritarianism.)
Its not just that. Its also family ties, sense of belonging and identity.

Specifically in regards to ISIS its also about "changing the world" and being a force for "good" in the world. This sort of idea is appealing to those that are young as well as those who feel the need to be "redeemed" or are stuck in some sort of rut. To just attribute it to religion is missing a lot of the background detail of why people do these things.
The Word ‘Hacker’ Has Lost All Meaning
I don't understand the problem. If you do not have an ID you do not get to vote. The reason why you do not have an ID is irrelevant; without an ID they cannot verify that you are casting your own vote. Without this requirement it would be possible for people to buy other people's "stempas" (the letter that you get in the mail that allows you to cast one vote). That would be very bad because it allows wealthy people to cast multiple votes. This is also why there are strict rules about only one person entering into a voting booth, and why you are not allowed to take a picture of your ballot.
For the purposes my question, it would be a complication, but resolvable by using a unique identifier. Perhaps I should have limited my speculation to databases that are in at least first normal form.
Wow, FF is sniffing the content and changing words.

Could not think of anything worse a web browser could do.

Do they change political arguments on pages in the future to see how I react in a user study?

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Mr. Guinea Pig
It is easy for some of us to remember what it was like 40 years ago when SF rose to become the US center of non-capitalism at the time.

The Grateful Dead were local musicians who gained more widespread popularity whether every one of them wanted it or not, especially once they signed a record deal with a capitalist outfit that could advertise and promote in ways that the musicians could not or would not do on their own.

As the purported leader of the band, Jerry Garcia for one indicated that he was soon earning more income than he really needed, and having a strong balance toward benevolence over greed, set out to give 1000 dollars each to numerous individuals who without a doubt were truly in need of the funds.

A thousand dollars really would go a lot further then compared to a short 10 years later once the devastating devaluation of the US dollar was set into motion after it was unlinked to a universally appreciated natural resource (gold).

Anyway, turns out that before too long it was determined that it was costing twelve hundred dollars to give away each thousand, and the program ended up grinding to a halt.
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A good currency is fungible: It has a stable value and allows rapid exchange. Bitcoin does not meet these basic requirements. So many people forget that the original paper clearly states that Bitcoin is an experiment.
There are two key differences between Twitter and public space. One is that public space is owned by the public. The other is that public space is physically central to a community. All web sites are equidistant. The reason we don't have public space on the Internet yet is that we have a such a superfluity of private spaces.

I get your theory that private community spaces take on additional responsibilities once they're important enough to a community and maybe there's a way to legislate that. But it would be challenging. HN is definitely an important space for this community, for example. Every local newspaper is important too. The notion that we should have detailed federal regulations for exactly how to moderate a discussion thread plus a legal appeals process strikes me as unworkable in practice.

If we really want virtual public space, I think the thing to do is just to build or buy it. It would be easy enough to nationalize Facebook and Twitter for example; Congress just says "now they're part of the government", optionally paying the shareholders.
I don't know what reality you operate in, but hedge funds don't provide anywhere close to those types of guarantees. Exchanges do indeed go down, and when they do they shrug their shoulders and say "woops".

Source: I work for a hedge fund.
> But I think many of the researchers applying it don't either, heh.

As a statistician myself, I'd agree with that statement.

I've actually said previously - and only half-joking - that p-values should be banned from research journals. The problem with p-values is that they don't mean what people generally assume they do, and because they look so close to what people want them to mean ("the probability that my conclusions are wrong, given my assumptions and data"), it's very easy to project spurious meaning onto them.

In reality, p-values actually provide very little information, and the information they do provide is generally not of relevance. But they're so commonly-used that it's very hard to convince people to use more sophisticated techniques for reporting and modeling information.
That's novel, going to so much effort to use a tracking service while proclaiming you are not tracking!

Sounds like taking a shower without getting wet. I see you silently dropped the Pocket thing, then?
That's a very rational analysis, but I think a factor that is more relevant to politics is people's strong gut reaction to issues. Some people reflexively oppose all efforts to protect the environment. I'm very liberal, so I have a lot of friends who reflexively support all government regulation of business, without bothering to know the specifics. I would call them anti-business. Or if you tell someone there was a police shooting last night and the first thing they say is "Fucking cops!" instead of "What happened?" then I think you could call them anti-police.

Maybe if you ask them rationally what their opinion is, it will come out pretty balanced, but that standard glosses over a lot of deeply rooted bias.
Please. Normal Forex is not the same as a deflationary crypto currency being trusted enough for normal transactions. If in the future I indeed can buy everything with cryptocurrency then I stand by my feeling that something must’ve gone quite wrong.
It would be interesting to see if this can be extended to use a raspberry pi GPU library, like QPULib or the like.

https://github.com/mn416/QPULib
> The scientific consensus is settled

Is it? I'm not aware of the GMO counterpart of the IPCC here and, unlike the question of global warming, there is a problem with Monsanto-funded studies muddying the waters.
Depends on what you're trying to do. Myself I've been in the IT industry since 1999 and have been mostly successful with a High School diploma. If you don't plan to move outside your country, I've found you can make a career out of it.
Looking at my use cases, I rarely need something of this power, but I'm excited that some of the advances will trickle down into the regular iMac line...
I'd decouple the content creation from the network delivery. How soon before cable companies start zero-rating their own content? Also, local regulations granting monopolies have to start being rolled back, or municipalities buy the infrastructure from the ISPs and let them compete to use it.
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No, they haven't, not yet. There is lawsuit being filed by multiple state attorneys general stating alleging the FCC violated the Administrative Review Act, and there is reason to believe they have a strong case.

During this whole process, the Republican commissioners have done many mistakes. They stated they do not need to mind the public's comment period. They even stated they would not pay heed to the public's comments. They cited technological reasons for this, were told they were wrong, and then tried to dismiss those reasons. They refused to work with investigators on the fraudulent comments. They refused to listen to Congress's requests to delay the vote. There have been statements and leaks of Pai acting openly hostile towards the public and catering to Verizon. The other thing is that there is no compelling proof the ISP landscape has changed enough since 2015 to warrant repealing these rules. There is a very strong case that if skillfully argued can demonstrate Pai was acting in an arbitrary fashion against the consumer's best interests, which is the mandate of the FCC.

It's not a sure guarantee, but as I said, the FCC has given the AGs more then enough fodder. It's what happens when you hand the reigns over to people who don't understand the limitations of their office.
Financial Modeling for Cryptocurrency: The spreadsheet that got my first 1,000%
Because it sure sounds similar. Look at Python's PEP 544, for example.
Besides being slow, the local telcos don't even allow VoiP protocols, how will this pass through
In my Firefox 52.5.1 under a current CentOS 7, there is no about:studies. Either "studies" has been newly removed (Firefox updated yesterday, I think?) or about:studies is new or Firefox Studies has been included by default after the 52 series. Perhaps its just me, but I still think of post-52 Firefox as "new".

It's nonetheless not obvious to me why you were downvoted; I don't know if someone else was annoyed at your definition of "new" or whether there were other dubious claims in your comment. Perhaps privacy advocates are just too exhausted and cranky to explain themselves again.
A long term viable cybercash exchange has to do more than guarantee you will keep your cybercash in the event of a hack, it has to make guarantees about execution time.

Getting your Bitcoin back after it drops to $5 isn't much consolation if you were unable to trade at $15,000.
And this is exactly what I'm going to do, switch to a simple browser, in my personal computers. If they programmed firefox to be capable of doing thinks like this, then definitely I cannot trust them anymore.
Specifically Comodo reports that they sent their normal validation email to hostmaster@fox-it.com (which unknown to Comodo or Fox-IT at the time was being directed to the attackers). I've never used Comodo's implementation of 3.2.2.4.4 but typically there's an email with a code in it, telling you to go to a web page and paste the code in if you want to authorise the issuance of the requested certificate, or something along those lines.

The security of this validation method (3.2.2.4.4) depends upon

1. You control DNS for your domain including the MX records used to deliver email (this is where Fox-It came undone here)

2. You control the MX servers, or if you have a third party providing backup MX, you trust them not to abuse that

3. The Certificate Authority does a good job of getting accurate DNS records and connecting to the right IP address

4. All email addresses in your WHOIS records plus a handful of famous ones like hostmaster@ postmaster@ are delivered to people you trust in your organisation.
That is why we have due process to get at the truth (or at least the most plausible explanation).
>Do they change political arguments on pages in the future to see how I react in a user study?

It's possible: https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/08/08/mozilla-information...
Obviously youtube is your best friend here, but once you are ready to give things a try I'd hop straight onto Kaggle and play around with some code and look at what code other people have created for the same challenge