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How to make your users become shareholders
TL;DR - I need help with a strategic decision for our company. We want our most active users to become shareholders of our product/company.

CONTEXT - We're building a product very similar to the idea of token-curated registries. Users can create lists, listings can be upvoted, the reputation of an upvoter weighs the upvote. Anyone can add listings to a list, though the owners have to review/approve listings before going live. There's other aspects of the product focussing on the demand-side of it but that's not too relevant for now.

MOTIVATION - After analyzing Wikipedia data I found that the #1 contributor makes up for 1% of all contributions ever (from a total of 32mn contributors). The top 5000 contributors (0,01%) make up for 26% of all contributions. Looking at other user-generated content (ugc) platforms, it seems it’s always a small number of users who contribute the major part of the content.

SITUATION - Building a UGC platform we want our creators to participate in our platforms success. We learned a bit about blockchain technology. In a previous version, we integrated an erc20 contract to reward creators with tokens based on their content's effectiveness.

QUESTIONS - We're not sure if we want our platform to be put into the crypto/bc/token space. We don't want our tokens to be traded in the early days. We don't want to do an ICO/airdrop right now.

Anyone up to discuss some ideas what we could do?
having you here i'd like to take the opportunity and to ask about tetraquarks.
if i recall correctly there have been several identified tetraquark particles over past years (many of detections coming from LHC) with hint of possibility of pentaquark.

i always wondered how does standard model includes/describes these?
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And pensions.
Pensions funds have not been allowed to grow like expected, because of the artificially low interest rates.
So to avoid the funds being emptied the solution is more tax. It will get worse.
Due to lack of personal knowledge is not quite clear to me what the problem is with mobile devices. It seems to be the fact that they very often change IP address.

am I right ? Is there any resource you would recommend to make my mind up ?
There are some old giant calculators Friden EC-132s?) that propogated torsion waves down coils of wire for a delay line.

This is way out of my knowledge domain, so I'm curious why mercury delay loops were used in the first place.
I wonder if they will change the policy on the full refund.
I think the cooling could be a significant part of the picture here---you can nudge the power/frequency curve a bit with very aggressive cooling (phase-change is extremely aggressive) to drop the leakage power (e.g., as AMD did with the liquid cooled Fury X [1]).

If this had a different core count from the 8180 I would agree but I wouldn't expect Intel to do a completely separate design just for a model that will need to be highly binned regardless.

That or Intel has made some serious magic happen at 14nm++++++++++.

[1] https://www.anandtech.com/show/9390/the-amd-radeon-r9-fury-x...
> So you're saying Tesla should have...

I didn't say that, and I don't have an opinion on what Tesla should have done 6 years ago. There's a pattern in this little comment chain of you criticizing people for beliefs they never expressed, or for saying something they never said. You're having conversations with yourself under the guise of replying to others. It's a little strange.
Same here. I went up to the partner list, didn't get what the toggle buttons were supposed to mean (should I toggle them on or off?), closed the page. The title (on HN) will have to do, good job to them.
The Pie fallacy is false on shorter periods of time. In the real world. The Pie size is fixed. Or atleast the Pie size expands only in cycles.

So in one particular cycle people try to gather as much Pie for them as they can.

There fore ultimately one has to be selfish, even if not out of nature, but out of sheer compulsion. These days you have to do these things just not to get walked over.
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Serious question, Who buys these chips?

There can't be many people in the world who will pay the 10k-20k price tag. How many people have the pull with their employers to justify it?

The production run must be insanely low or i just don't understand the marketplace around high end chips.
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I'm getting a bit worried about Apple dropping out of the business of producing professional tools and rig. I always liked that you can walk into an Apple retail shop and get a decent Unix notebook (though I've opted for a different notebook for my last purchase because of the lack of display, keyboard, and port options). But with Apple pulling out of OpenGL, what little pro (or at least pro enough for me) F/OSS software for 3D (Blender) and other graphical stuff was running on Mac OS won't any longer. I can't imagine Blender has the resources and inclination to port their software over to Metal, especially when Apple deliberately torpedoes their efforts.
GDPR rules in practice seem to turn into the "this site uses cookies" notice but on mega steroids. Privacy control is great, but it's just not interesting to have a checkbox or agreement click through on every new site visited.
Bye bye even more software on mac.
Goes both ways: you don't need to be good at sports to be an excellent problem solver in the office.
I can guess this will happen soon when working with Azure and found that Microsoft documents had been stored on Github one year ago. I think this is a great deal to push Azure close to the developers and compete with Amazon.
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Safari Extensions appears to run as JavaScript code in an internal webpage instance that has unrestricted DOM access to your tabs and their content.

Safari App Extensions appears to separate “in-page JS code” from “out-of-page Objective-C code” and introduces a sandbox that protects the in-page JS code from inspection or alteration by the out-of-page ObjC code.

If I understand that correctly, then I feel this is a clear security win. It forces extensions to run in-process (with DOM access) only the code that they shipped at build time, with only a simple data structure channel available to communicate with their out-of-process component.

I’m not sure what attacks on Safari using the old extension model led Apple to sandbox and secure this, but given the “App Store” hint, it seems likely that in-browser malware extensions exist and are being installed into Safari without user consent to spy on surfing and exfiltrate data for tracking. This would be a gold mine for a government-backed attacker, as the extensions are silent once installed and effectively invisible to most users.

By introducing mandatory App Store review of all extensions, Apple could then analyze the in-page JavaScript code to ensure that it does not perform malicious actions. This explicitly protects against advertising and tracking attacks: any that escape initial analysis will be reported by users and security researchers. As we’ve seen on iOS, when someone finds an attack vector in one app, Apple can find and destroy all apps that exercise that vector. They would now be able to do the same with any malicious extensions that somehow survive the App Store review process.

As an end-user, I’m very glad to see this. I sympathize with uBlock users, but ultimately I do not want unreviewed code in my browser. I am not qualified to evaluate whether an extension’s latest update is safe or malware-infected, when a single compromised release could be used to spy on that userbase.

To those who would attack Apple for requiring extensions to go through review, keep in mind that Apple didn’t invent this review-required approach, and I believe they aren’t the first to market with it either.

To those who believe that sandboxing and reviews are morally unacceptable, I respect your position but ultimately disagree with it. Protecting me from coin mining and tracking and credentials theft attacks is more important to me than having the freedom to easily run arbitrary code in extensions. It’s still possible, but it requires Xcode to be installed and operated regularly.

I feel safer as a result of this change. Thank you, Apple.
I think that's the point - clock speed isn't everything, so have a ludicrous number of cores on a chip?
Because of security, we want to make sure each test can not be affected by a previous test.

If you'd run multiple tests on 1 VM, then one customer could change a property on the VM or alter a state that might cause the next test on the VM to fail.

By providing a pristine VM per test, we guarantee that each test cannot be affected by any previous test.
well the cost estimate is a little bit funny.
Probably inaccurate :D

> Estimated Schedule Effort 25.879043 months

> Estimated People Required 18.118657

Well I'm working alone on the project for 4 years...
Disclaimer: I'm not trying to be the Devil's advocate here, but just wanted to share an observation.

Apple always removes stuff which looks untimely or just plain stupid (headphone jacks, optical drives, USB/Firewire ports, optical in & out, rosetta, APIs, etc).

Always the same outrage has happened, but things normalize then. People, companies adapt, hell does not freeze over, company doesn't go bankrupt.

I feel that maintaining OpenGL & OpenCL felt like a burden to Apple. We all know that Apple likes to control everything from hardware to user interface, and GPU drivers are one of the most notoriously complex, overprotected part of the software stack. In the OpenCL world compilers and other stuff (I don't remember the terms clearly, sorry) also gets in, and makes everything much more complex.

Maybe this move will help them to slim the drivers to the basic "hardware-software" interface level and build metal and related technologies to their own term on top of this relatively simple interface.

I have a feeling that metal can be directly translated bidirectionally and relatively cheaply to OpenGL (and maybe Vulkan and OpenCL too), so at the end things don't become extremely complex for everyone.

Apple doesn't feel that backwards compatibility is strictly necessary unless things can be translated and made to work with relatively good performance.

As a Linux and Mac user for 10+ years, these are my observations. They may be wrong, technically incomplete or else. Feel free to discuss, debunk, or downvote.
I'm using Puppeteer for website / transaction monitoring at https://checklyhq.com. People script their own checks and we run them for you on a cron like schedule and alert when things go off the rails.
I think everyone can agree that Microsoft is going to push Azure very hard once they start sinking their teeth into GitHub-- that's not surprising.

However, I'm very skeptical about the idea that GitHub is going to somehow become an Azure-only walled garden. It makes little sense business-wise. The entire point of buying GitHub was to acquire an audience that they are aware is not necessarily interested in Azure or their stack. Forcing it on them will only cause them to leave (there is plenty of competition in the code hosting space now), which will in turn reduce revenue. I give MS enough credit to know that the only way they succeed in this space is to provide value, not vendor lock-in. This is true now, and it will be even more true in 5 years when other big companies inevitably start following Microsoft into this space and competing for market share.

If they wanted to just sell services to people already using MS products, they already had VSTS for that.
Electric cars might need very little maintenance during the first few years of operation, but why should I be needlessly locked out from making repairs on my own vehicle? We've let car companies create what will end up being massive hunks of useless metal and batteries, all because we won't properly regulate them to ensure end users can work on their own cars and extend their useful lives.

That right there is why current electric cars are far from green, if it ain't repairable, its trashcan ready. Trashcan ready products are the anti-thesis of environmentally sound products.
Nice said :) but come on. CSV parsing is trivial.
The only product I use from what you listed is YouTube. While I have found some interesting videos there, I can't say it made sense based on what I had watched or searched before. In contrast, with books on Amazon I am thoroughly satisfied. Not sure if this is because books are easier to encode for the recommendation mechanism than videos.
Cool! That is really interesting. ActivityPub would be great for this. I've added in links to the issues below:

Gitea:

- https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/1612

- https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/184

Gogs:

- https://github.com/gogs/gogs/issues/4437

Gitlab:

- https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/44486

- https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues/4517

edit: added gitlab enterprise link (plus formatting)
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I still can't fix poor Bluetooth support in my new Toyota.

Also it's quite possible that the mechanics of a car are simpler than most software, for starters software often runs on an extremely complex operating system.
I have written about it elsewhere but it is worth repeating here. RMS prefer liberty software but because of US politics he choose to use free software in order to not associate the free software movement with the United states libertarian political platform.
It comes from the same latin origin, I don't think we can link it to one language more than to the other.
There are interesting problems (technical and business) in boring businesses. If you want to work on interesting technical problems you probably need to excel at a technical company. At an enterprise you are likely to find "interesting" business problems which you should really endeavor to solve in the simplest most fault tolerant manner. If you can work out which parts of CS interests you maybe you could find a problem to apply that to or research in depth.
Eclipse Vert.x goes Native
I think the GP’s point was laptop sales are outgroing desktop sales at a high pace for a while now. And that in an overall stagnating market.
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Doing something nice for other developers, I guess.

Unless you mean "what guarantees do I have that if I integrate this in my workflow it won't be gone tomorrow?". In which case, I agree.
Not to mention that, depending on how active the group is, after a few days / weeks / month the content will be impossible to find even through Facebook itself.
ahahah you made me laugh! :)
it's funny because it's true.
I wish we as a race could get over the whole 'this is copied from this'. How am I as a user meant to care? If Android has something I would like as a feature and Apple implements it, that's a win for me as before I didn't have that feature.

We should only be worried when Apple or Google are too arrogant to provide a feature that is a huge benefit to users just they didn't think of it first.
It would be infuriating if this doesn't come with ECC RAM support.
No, the fundamental equation 1.1 and 1.2 is structurally similar to the Equation of Matter suggested in 1958 by Werner Heisenberg, except for two significant differences:

1) 1.1, 1.2 does not contain a dimensionful coupling constant

2) It contains the point-split which Heisenbergs equation is lacking of.
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Sounds like closed source software to me.
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Depends, it's possible to drop user data from a database based on a support request, you don't necessarily have to build a end-user tool for this.
Amazon Silk does that whenever you log in to facebook (or any other site, for that matter). The data they capture during that presumably isn't even covered by a similar data use agreement.
please do share!
Because HN users found it interesting.
It’s a bit disingenuous to call it that. 140 characters on one line that most people would format very differently.
Apple will attempt to jam Facebook's web-tracking tools
What you can do today:

- If your browser doesn't have this option yet, write its developers, product managers, or CEO, voicing your most humble request that they try do something that does work, at least with some pages some of the time, to try to proactively automatically agree to GDPR and cookies. (Or automatically disagree with them, discard cookies, whatever.)

I promise you that it is possible technically to do something that works on at least 1 page, that other web sites could mimic the interaction of and have it work on them too.

Sites won't all support browsers' solutions but if browsers can automate something, then some web sites can adapt to it. (By using the same interaction, names, etc - i.e. legally clicking for the user, or so that the web site can't tell if the browser sent that automated per the setting chosen by the user, or if the user manually clicked. Even if they can only automate ones that closely match certain element names etc it will still be a step ahead.)
This may be true for most (non-tech) people, but there's a huge difference for us : we know that you can't refuse cookies and still be able to log in to an app (since cookies are used for session permanence).

The GDPR is very different : it does not prevent offering legit features by itself. So I often happen to leave a site if I'm not satisfied by their GDPR implementation and they try to force tracking on me, I won't sell my privacy that cheap if I'm given the choice. That's something I couldn't do with cookies and I just was accepting their notice blindly.
Yeah, and the old jeeps in Jurassic World have 20 year old batteries and 20 year old fuel, and a couple of kids got one of them working again.
I have similar setup but use Exim instead of Postfix. And I am still glad I host my own services. Yes, it took time but it will work as I want it forever. Only lazy people prefer ready-made cloud services - yes, it's convenient - but it's more costly, you lose control over your data and they are constantly redesigning and reinventing something. You never know when they sell the business or increase prices, ban or limit you.
It's infuriating ECC RAM doesn't come in everything.
Great article. Do you have any prevention of overloading a single domain if the number of concurrent requests is increased?
The GitHub acquisition: it's all about cloud for Microsoft
microsoft changed the pen behavior in one of the creators' updates and now the pen buttons behave strangely (randomly dont work in certain applications) as well as the pen being registered as a finger in legacy applications for a while... making windows 7 the only really viable way to use wacom for a professional (speaking as one)

let alone the inability to reconfigure things like n-trig pens to have hover right click/middle click functionality, it's been INCREDIBLY frustrating without any communication from microsoft.
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A relative of mine who works for JLR was claiming that the iPace was better than the Model X in every way the other day too. He started reeling off figures that were blatantly inferior. I can only assume GP also works for them. It's a strange mindset over there.
> Always the same outrage has happened, but things normalize then. People, companies adapt, hell does not freeze over, company doesn't go bankrupt.

But that doesn't mean we took the best path. There is always an alternative future if x hadn't happened at all. If x hadn't happened, we might be in a better place, rather than accepting it and doing the best we can.
trademarks are a very special form of intellectual property and the furthers away from property. In part it is just an extension of anti-fraud laws, where one company is forbidden to masquerade their product as if they were produced by someone else (usually by someone of high reputation). I think historically you could not even sell a trademark, which really put it far away from the concept of property.
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Downvoters, I give you exhibit A:

https://imgur.com/a/VRS3wkd

What do those 3 apps have in common? They are brilliant Electron creations. They manage to beat even Java IDEs in memory consumption for no good reason.
Me neither... it could be partially the name though. It sounds like a condom brand :)
That just makes the service more flexible.
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