skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For $2.5k you can get 13th/s, that's $935 annually, that's a 40% gain annually. If you know of any investment that can give you a passive 40% yearly return, I'm all ears. And that's only if bitcoin doesn't go up. Again, I fail to see how this is a bad investment. Plus, with the latest all time high, most existing miners already paid for their hardware and are just all profits now.

https://www.cryptocompare.com/mining/calculator/btc?HashingP...
It's one thing for humans to go to war and kill each other for nothing, but when they have to drag animals into it...
This is a general problem with decentralized alternative platforms. There is no way for the creator to really profit massively out of their project.

But there could still be economic incentives. For example, if GNU Taler succeeds as a payment system and manages to replace Visa, that could mean less fees for both customers and merchants which would be incentive enough for the merchants and customers to adopt the system.

Basically you cannot think in terms of traditional business models. You need to think of it as a free software project that might potentially be a massive cost saving for enough people to adopt it.
Even fake ratings are really hard to guard against in the individual case.

You’re also forgetting sabotage by competitors.
I do not know if it helps but I created a small framework to build and maintain Bash scripts, and load/save them on Github.
It is horribly undocumentaed, but it is a life saver for me.
Cf https://github.com/lolive/shinyshell

I have no clue if it can help for your project, but feel free to fork it.
Very bloated, lots of allocations, not compatible with other JS module systems, no uncurrying optimizations, no integer optimizations, etc. Bucklescript's output is pretty damn impressive on the other hand: https://reasonml.github.io/en/try.html (check out the factorial example, for instance)
I see the confusion.

1. Anonymity isn't a goal, persay. Everything you're talking about, in terms of "public incompetence" is true immediately once you post anything online. It's only a matter of time. Personally I'd argue that people who are actively seeking tutoring would be more sought after, but that's another story. Not to mention most of the things you're mentioning could be accounted for during implementation.

2. In your example, if you tutor Thomas in basic math, you would receive 20 Tutorbucks in exchange for said knowledge to be available to everyone, hence the exchange being public (furthermore, a third party would have to spend their Tutorbucks to actually view said session, perhaps). If, you wanted Jenny then to help you with Spring's authentication you could then give her the 20 Tutorbucks as opposed to the system giving it to you, and then it could be private, though that's not how I originally conceived it.

As for the submission question -- how do you guarantee to all participants that data isn't changed without blockchain?
You are exaggerating the claims of the study. Nowhere does it says or suggests that men are magically immune to sleep loss.
A vegan would not wear leather shoes. If we're going to go off anecdotes, most vegetarians I know wouldn't either.

However many people I know transitioning to vegan/vegetarian lifestyles will continue to use leather products from before the switch, at least until they wear out, to avoid being wasteful.
So in other words, the technology doesn't have any particular benefits in this regard — all of the advantages come from hosting somewhere without a high enforcement risk.
The current implementation will look up any URL you visit so that it can populate the "number of comments" text that appears over the button. The data only goes to 1 server - hn.algolia.com, a HN search API provided by the company Algolia.
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I'll speak for myself. It's not about purity. It's about reducing harm. I know I can't be a "pure" vegan without either living in a bubble, or some remote area with really good farming.

Do people know we use every part of the proverbial buffalo?

Yes.

Or do vegans often ponder the "ingredients" in everyday objects?

And yes. I'm aware the paint on the walls might not be vegan. I just have to live with that.

Is vaccinating your kids vegan?

I don't know, and I don't care. I'm okay with using animal products for medicine. Maybe that makes me not vegan.

Are all vegans anti-vax?

No.

Are soaps, cosmetics, detergents, plastics, tires, and lubricants made with stearic acid and other beef products vegan?

Strictly, no.

And if you're eating organic food, isn't it more likely that your spinach was grown in a bath of bone meal, blood meal, fish meal?

Maybe. But I'm sure this is better than actually eating the animals, in a calculated sense. I make no effort to eat organic, anyway.

Do vegans know how we produce organic fertilizers?

Some do, some don't.
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If you read a headline and the body of the article is something totally different than what you expected, your attitude towards the piece starts in a really negative direction. Why would they mislead the reader into thinking it is about how now, this generation, is the time when creativity is the biggest factor for success (which "The Age of Creativity" would imply), when it really is about something else. The discrepancy between the promise of the headline and the body makes you not want to read the thing.
Title should be: SalezTalk - Check out my website. This is the Saas App I built (while holding a full-time job and a baby)
Its an interesting question that hasn't really been studied, I think. If a decentralized system is centralized in practice, is there any value to it being decentralized?

The crypto market always stuck me as being designed the way a student is taught how markets work in college. Exchanges all the way down.

Any finance professional will tell you that only a tiny fraction of stock market trades are actually on an exchange, the vast majority are filled privately between a successive layers of a broker's clients and only the ownership change is sent to the authority.
Excellent points. Thank you!

Yes, a blockchain is just a graph data structure. centralization and censorship resistance are only due to how the data structure is used not to there being a data structure.

It's actually pretty similar to saying - Need to drink milk? Use a splay tree.
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The title really suggests a blog post. At least, when I see titles like these on HN, I see a blog post. Instead, I see a product offering. I would like to recommend the author to create a blog post and put that up for submission or change the link.

Just offering your product is of less value to a wide HN audience, whereas an article on software development / managing a side project is worth more. Nevertheless, I am impressed by the feat that the author did.
Giant Bomb used it for a while (half-jokingly IIRC) for listing their livestream times (alongside traditional Eastern Time listings).
It could do that - I built it to satisfy my own use case, which was that I wanted to see the HN comments side-by-side with the content while I was browsing.
Director of project management, Android, said of Kotlin last July: "we're already using it ourselves to write code in Android Studio which gives us more ideas for making our support even better."
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Ask HN: What do you think of TheNextPlatform?
Hello fellow HN readers,

I read https://www.nextplatform.com/ on a regular basis. Sometimes it seems that they have valuable insight into industry trends & markets which no one else has. At times, it also feels that their articles are too long, boring & deliberately stretched just for the sake of it.

I would like to know your opinion about it.

Also, how would you compare it with www.nextbigfuture.com and www.inverse.com

Thanks :)
Falcon Heavy Test Flight – Live
Cool! I think this might be a great product idea!

I think the messaging is very clear, but would have wanted to see an example of how the button actually works/looks like on the front page.

The landing page looks great! I've seen a few similar ones recently (with the lines that move etc). How did you create it?
OP here - this was a personal collection I had been keeping up to date and decided to make it public given the number of people that have asked me how to get started with VR.

There's a lot going on in the space so if I missed an important resource, would be happy to know.
So now that she has major assets ($560 M in potential earnings), lets call her a business. Her business depends on her staying anonymous and collecting these earnings. It's hardly reasonable to deny the business that owns a $560M lottery ticket their money.

See what I did there?
Like, can you actually read, or are you trolling?

Should I tell my clients that I won't do iOS version of their app and that I don't care that their frontend will not have workarounds for bug ridden Safari?

I didn't have to buy Microsoft hardware to support Edge and Windows Phone.

I didn't have to buy Google hardware to support Android.

I had to buy Apple hardware to support iOS and Safari.

So no, I'm not free to not have a mac standing next to my real computer.
Yes, and I believe the actual mining breakeven is closer to $1,250 based on a tweet from Adam Back today.
Both are used, and it's fairly arbitrary which is used - bus/train times are usually 24-hours, general speech is usually 12-hour unless referring to something that is already in 24-hour time (but even then some people will switch them to 12-hour), and I see appointment cards, invoices etc. using both.

It's definitely in keeping with how we mix meters/feet and pints/litres.
Thank you, i support this. I hadn’t noticed before but yeah, redundant.

Its mildly infuriating, like DB schemas that are named something_schema. The object is a schema so using “schema” in the name is the first step into the inferno, in my view.
Show HN: A payroll system developed with React and Solidty for Ethereum
> I already missed the Saturn V going to the moon (wasn't born), there aren't that many positive, predictable historical moments like that in a life time

I was 4 years old when that happened and it is as far as I can tell my earliest memory. We had this incredibly small black-and-white TV and watching that really impressed me, the moon never looked the same afterwards.

Incidentally, that live broadcast was quite a thing to pull off:

https://www.popsci.com/how-nasa-broadcast-neil-armstrong-liv...
How Nasa Broadcast Neil Armstrong Live from the Moon
Funnily enough I was explaining that to someone else this morning ... But, you're not invested in the whole market.

I'd find it instructive to know the answers. I can't imagine no indexed stock has ever failed, nor that the indexes are a perfect insulation - you wouldn't need FTSE250 if the 100 was perfect, they do moderately different things.

Indexes are picked by "stock pickers" they're just picking conservative long, wide spreads AFAIK.
Why send each URL to a server to be checked, instead of doing a periodic download of the (very small) list of HN links and comment counts, to be checked offline like an ad blocker? It's probably 5kb compressed.
but your equivalent spending power vs your neighbor will be higher! That's what mattes... right?
InVision launches Studio Platform, challenging Adobe with an open ecosystem
I know, hence my question! Why go through bs (which is locked to an old version of OCaml) to distribute executables, when you can use the normal compiler and enjoy the latest improvements?
Also, the aforementioned Frank Worsley (Shackleton's navigator) wrote a terrific book called 'Shackleton's Boat Journey', an account of their (successful, as it were!) attempt to rescue the crew after the pole-traversal expedition ran into problems. Reads almost like a thriller.

Also, Apsley Cherry-Garrard wrote a quite harrowing account of Scott's expedition. Highly recommended.
I tried it and my browsing exeprience was just terrible. It made Chrome so slow that there was a delay in typing and the character appearing. Haven't tried it again.
Every time I think about going easy on my projects because I have kids, I remember that Euler had 13 kids and he was the most prolific mathematician of all time.
>"But that's just a write-only distributed database....with a layer of asymmetric cryptography". Yeah...

Glad we got that out of the way.

>It is aggravating when some in the industry try to champion everything as a silver bullet, but it is just as flawed when many instantly veer to being anti-that thing just because.

I disagree, it's not "just because". We're not talking about whether or not Rust or your Javascript framework du jour has a future. We're talking about a highly speculative bubble where people are dumping millions because they believe that the technology has a future. If Rust fails I'll have one more useless programming skill and a few codebases to rewrite. If cryptocurrencies collapse people are going to lose their homes.

The whole "blockchain tech is here to stay" argument plays into that. I've heard some close friends use it to justify their investments in cryptocurrencies. Surely if everything is going to run on blockchains 10 years from now then surely at least one of the cryptocurrencies in my portfolio is going to be worth a ton then, right?

Maybe let me rephrase my question in an other way: if somebody had asked you 10 years ago to solve the problem you're describing, what would you have replied? "I'm sorry I don't think that technology exists" or "you need some kind of write-only distributed database with a layer of asymmetric cryptography"?

So no, it's not just me being a contrarian naysayer, there are real consequences to all this bullshit and pixie dust surrounding cryptocurrencies. I mean look at the replies for this joke tweet somebody linked elsewhere in the thread: https://twitter.com/MalwareTechBlog/status/93264913325659750...

Note the number of defensive tweets claiming the author doesn't know what they're talking about and how the blockchain is actually great:

>Maybe learn how the technology works before pretending to be a snarky expert. This doesn't make you look smart.

>very funny, but blockchain has some interesting use cases that might make some cros domain and cross org stuff better.

>No one will need/want Blockchain is today's version of no one will need more than 640k RAM.

>Blockchain has applications far beyond just coining it.

>That’s a pretty short sighted way of thinking. Block chain based voting is a really good idea.

Because apparently block chain voting is something that exists.

I like this one too:

> give me an actual current non hypothetical real world use case.

Reply:

> I'd be more inclined to answer this publicly if I were not actively working on a related project that I am not at liberty to discuss openly

I could go and and on and on. I've gone through pages of this and the only actual use case I see mentioned is:

>Might be useful for monitoring chain of custody for secure documents. Not that that’s a huge use case.

Which I assume is related to the use case I mentioned in my previous comment.

In my experience these types of replies are common on every public discussion of anything criticizing bitcoins or cryptocurrencies.

So yeah, I don't think the bullshit is on my side, and neither is the burden of proof.
Yes, this is typical AI weenie optimism. "We can handle many of the easiest cases, so in X years we will be able to do all the really hard things that we haven't even thought of yet!" No.
Seems like a pretty glaring test case...
I think people like to argue the details, like honey and shellfish, but most vegans I know are pretty aware of what vegan is, anything with an animal product or byproduct.

There are definitely clueless people who eat chicken and call themselves vegan and such, but anyone whose done the research, or at least knows what an animal actually is, agrees on the base set and may have personal exclusions like honey.
sick nice job Jeremy
US regulators: Cryptocurrency's “a new chapter of economic history”
I think this is why we see hubs in this space. Like Insteon, etc. AFAIK, these allow for a local network to be created so that control/connection can still happen at a local level. If that's not the case then why the hell am I required to connect all my switches/outlets to a hub?

It makes total sense to go with a local solution like yours, however when all the control is done through the cloud (http://home.nest.com, Siri, Alexa), it kinda negates the usefulness of it, except for momentary internet connection loss. And it makes it 12x more complicated for the Average Joe ("What's a Raspberry Pie?", "Local network configurations?", "I don't even know my router's password...").
>I remember clearly thinking the whole idea of landing the booster as being completely unrealistic, verging on not possible

Please share why you thought it was not possible. Just curious.
Awful products that succeeded (sales-wise) because of great marketing
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A thought I've had about SpaceX, Crazy Horse Memorial, and 9/11...

They were all once the kind of things that only nation-states could accomplish... Putting up massive payloads into space, building huge monuments, and killing thousands of people.

We've made all kinds of things easier to do - some good, some bad.

I hope we continue to grow into our capabilities a bit more smoothly than we seem to be, right now...
"We want you to vote for X or else Y" or "Prove you didn't vote for X or else Y" attacks are possible as long as verification is possible. This seems like a huge drawback of blockchain voting.

Edit: Example - people vote against unpopular candidate Paul. Paul then stages a coup and takes control of government. He then asks you to provide a receipt that you voted for him on the blockchain or all your property is confiscated by the state.
Cool project, but got to ask, why aren't you using it on your site? You should focus on selling now.

Godspeed
This comment refers to a similar extension but was asked by HN to stop doing it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15938700

And there is also: https://github.com/powerpak/hn-sidebar which was in the Chrome Store but not anymore...
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It’s is it vegan, not is it allergen okay. I think blacklist is a good tool for that job.
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I've never seen a build-your-own solution be easier than "Register Here/Get Started".
Is Gummy Haggis vegan?

https://laughingsquid.com/gummy-haggis-gummy-tapeworm-from-a...
Also, I would consider increasing the price quite a lot. If this really increases sales people are willing to pay a lot more. That would also mean that you can take the effort to do direct sales, whereas now the ROI for manually aquiring a customer is too low. Good luck!
Some issues:

1- You don't have a way to show customers how this actually works, I have no idea what i'm signing up for, so I won't sign up.

2- You don't actually use the button on your own company's website, but use only a contact form, which tells the users in a way that you don't really use your own product.

3- You mention mobile app, but there's no where for it to be found.
That's what everyone who makes a fortune on the markets does, they extract value from the system to create personal wealth. The individuals desire is to do just that; that's how the system "works".
The definition reads: "Veganism is a way of living which seeks to exclude, as far as is possible and practicable, all forms of exploitation of, and cruelty to, animals for food, clothing or any other purpose."
I would be really interested about why this is getting downvoted? This seems like a related project, and I was happy to learn about it.
I blocked Grammarly at my last company, nothing like giving a company tracking access to everything you type or read, and their EULA gives them the rights to everything they track.

Using Grammarly is stupid, paying them is downright insane.
Ok. I am getting huge traffic from HN so disabled it. I have enabled it for few minutes.
An alien won't be this good at human PR.
> I remember clearly thinking the whole idea of landing the booster as being completely unrealistic, verging on not possible.

SpaceX also had that same opinion originally. I believe their first concept was to use parachutes for the first stage (and maybe splash down in the ocean for recovery).

They interviewed an engineer from Masten Space Systems (who have really cool test platforms). He was talking to them about VTVL (vertical takeoff, vertical landing) systems, and SpaceX basically just laughed at him.
Appears to be someone who was created 2 minutes ago, I presume the author?

HN tends to enjoy content they can read or interact with for free first. Specifically, they really hate click baity titles. Do another with a blog post and perhaps it'll get a better response.

Also, it appears you may have upvoted yourself (not 100% sure in this), but be careful. Finally, if you only create your account 10 days ago, you appear green to the rest of us - so we know you aren't part of the community and likely are just trying to promote your own stuff.

Without being part of the community, we know you don't know the customs and perhaps more importantly you may not continue to contribute.
ham is a product. pork would be the ingredient which is on the list...
This is all true at the moment. Heavy research is going into making blockchains more scalable and energy efficient within the Ethereum ecosystem. If fruitful, these improvements will address the concern you have about efficiency.
That is dumbest fucking thing I've read this morning.
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> we felt like we had a sense that reputation portability was a real issue for some gig economy workers

But it wasn't an issue for the "gig economy" platforms. They are happy to lock in workers by not exporting ratings. On top of that, accepting imported ratings would provide a boost to the competitors that export ratings. So, what's the business case?

Pretty design, but I'm amazed somebody could write an article covering so many detailed questions and not even touch on this rather fundamental one.

It reminds me a bit of the heady OpenID days where every piddling website was an OpenID IdP (identity provider), but next to no websites actually accepted OpenID logins.
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Would it help to change the rules such that whatever "shares" (RSUs or otherwise) are granted to private company employees count towards the private company shareholder limit?

You would either have to go public or compensate employees at public company salaries.
> Also this website is blocked in the UK.

Use the Tor Browser to access it: https://torproject.org/download
Just.... don't.

There's so much that can go wrong with that, especially if this stuff eventually shows up in some data leak.

Here's some examples:

1. URLs can contain sensitive data, which will tie your session to your person (facebook URLs etc)

2. This could create vulnerabilities in (for example) checkout flows that pass data via URLs

3. I'd rather not make the job of intelligence services easier than it already is

4. Sometimes I clear my browser history for a reason