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Ask HN: Well-known algorithm to describe the balloons in hallway scenario?
2 points by byoung2 5y ago|5 comments
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by byoung2 5y ago
https://www.fragomen.com/insights/president-trump-imposes-ba... The ban has been lifted, but there is a backlog
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by byoung2 5y ago
Travel bans, plus fallout from Trump era policies have led to a 9% drop in H1B visas [1].But could it also be that now companies are more remote-friendly, there is less of a need to sponsor workers? Companies a few years ago based in big po
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by byoung2 5y ago
In the case of colors.js, since it was MIT licensed, anyone who has a copy of it is able to use it for free, and provide it to others for free, even if the author decides to charge for it. Maybe this is a wakeup call for developers not to b
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by byoung2 5y ago
I have similar ones: PersonalLoanforYou (sent from Personal Loan Pro <pedrojoilmaantonio@gmail.com) 𝐃𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐥𝐞𝐭 𝐡𝐢𝐠𝐡_𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐃𝐞𝐛𝐭 𝐑𝐮𝐧𝐔𝐩 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐞 (sent from Personal Loan <xarthostalorr@gmail.com>) The co…
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Ask HN: Is anyone familiar with an anecdote about diluting product quality
7 points by byoung2 5y ago|6 comments
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by byoung2 5y ago
Maybe something like AWS Lambda, but the functions live on distributed nodes run by community members.
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by byoung2 5y ago
But in practice doesn't nearly everyone use Gmail (50%), Yahoo (20%), or Outlook (15%)? I could set up email on my domain but it's easier to just forward to Gmail.
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by byoung2 5y ago
But is there a real one out in the wild?
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by byoung2 5y ago
LinksDAO is only a few weeks old, and no real estate has been purchased. It’s not even truly operating as a DAO yet Is there an example of a true DAO in the wild yet? I'm interested to see how things like ownership of physical assets
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by byoung2 5y ago
Marak was asking for money last year. He seemed upset that big corps were using his open source software for free and contributing nothing in return. Seems like he shouldn't have used the MIT license if that's the case.
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by byoung2 5y ago
Probably both at first. There are valid use cases where we could use a decentralized web (email, photo sharing, social networking) but there are a lot of issues that need to be worked out. And of course the incumbents will resist...governme
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by byoung2 5y ago
What are the chances of guessing a bitcoin private key? If they are 256 bit hashes then there are approximately 2^256 private keys possible and the author guessed around 2^31 possibilities in 6 months with 0 hits at a cost of $720. I can&
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by byoung2 5y ago
It's worth pointing out, though, that having per-recipient prices would require a change to the protocols to allow the sender to know in advance how much it will cost for them to have their email delivered (and thus whether it is wort
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by byoung2 5y ago
The same thing happens when kids buy $500 of Robux because you left your card active in their account. The solution could be to require 2FA for a transaction over a certain amount.
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by byoung2 5y ago
And who decides how much that should be? The recipient. Right now I can't stop you from sending me spam if you know my email address. Spam filters work somewhat, but I should be able to say: block everyone except these 100 people on
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by byoung2 5y ago
I'm surprised that GCP is claimed to have less than the third of Azure's market share. And AWS is still comfortably in first place. It is amazing how much the first-mover advantage helped AWS. I signed up for AWS in 2009 after t
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by byoung2 5y ago
Get the Bypass Paywalls browser extension. It automatically removes paywalls from hundreds of sites
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by byoung2 5y ago
I guess it is economics. If the company is paying to store your data, they want unencrypted (or decryptable) access to it to use the data to make money. If they are storing it encrypted (and not decryptable), then they are not able to monet
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by byoung2 5y ago
I guess that it would encourage spam, and less-qualified leads. As an employee, I would know better how to screen for culture fit than a random person on the internet. I would also have a vested interest in finding good people since I would
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by byoung2 5y ago
45 tabs in one window, 5 in another
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by byoung2 5y ago
everyone at the company would almost certainly like to move faster Not necessarily true. This is certainly the case at a startup, but at a more established BigCorp, things move slowly, and the ability of an engineer to work at a slower pa
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by byoung2 5y ago
Imagine a security guard at an office building. 90% of the time might be sitting in a booth watching monitors. The other 10% of the time is buzzing people in or making rounds. But that 90% of the time when they are sitting around is importa
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by byoung2 5y ago
I didn't see a link to the actual spreadsheet
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by byoung2 5y ago
Toyota is a big player in many developing countries. There is little charging infrastructure in places like the Philippines (where nearly every taxi is a Toyota). The push toward electric cars would mean making gas powered cars for some mar
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by byoung2 5y ago
I bet many of those "failures" were before their time. Example the Apple Newton was a failure but the iPad was and is a success. Sega channel offered games via subscription in the 1990s. Nintendo power glove offered an immersive V
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by byoung2 5y ago
Kik and Fring were Android apps I used in 2009. I doubt many were using video calling on smartphones before that.
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by byoung2 5y ago
If “the next big thing” was predictable it would be “the big thing right now”. Sometimes you know the next big thing, but tech has to catch up. I knew in 2003 that smartphones would be huge. I was a big fan but I knew not everyone had unl
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by byoung2 5y ago
It seems like kids and nerds are the first to discover new trends. See what kids are into now, and adults will catch on in a decade (e.g. Roblox in 2006, Minecraft in 2011) and just now adults are discovering the metaverse. Also nerds...I w
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by byoung2 5y ago
Learn how to back up a trailer. Comes in handy at the boat ramp or at hardware stores.

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