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by faizshah 8y ago
Thanks! A system after my own heart, it even uses a Merkle tree instead of a blockchain <3 Does this have a system that allows users to keep ownership of their personal data?
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by faizshah 8y ago
I just don't understand why people think they can refute an argument that's been fleshed out into a book by writing a couple offhand sentences in response to a long form article on the book. Presumably the author would address pop
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by faizshah 8y ago
This blockstack architecture is pretty interesting, but I wish it didn't have a Token attached: https://blockstack.org/whitepaper.pdf Anyone know of a similar decentralized DNS platform and allows users to 'own&#x
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by faizshah 8y ago
Can you give us a quick overview of what's unique about Ramit Sethi's email marketing? I also found this blog post for anyone else whose interest was piqued: https://growthlab.com/guides/ultimate-guide-to-emai
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by faizshah 9y ago
That's interesting, I haven't seen that before. > I assume I am actually just ignorant of some great communities and stories out there though. I agree, I'm sure some people have done it. We just aren't aware of it. I&
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Ask HN: Short stories that take advantage of the web as a medium?
5 points by faizshah 9y ago|2 comments
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by faizshah 9y ago
The current business model of ICOs is functionally as a pyramid scheme due to the deflationary nature of most cryptocurrencies. The idea is you buy, then you hold & evangelize, then you sell at 10x/100x. Look at the dropping transa
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by faizshah 9y ago
More info on this in this issue: https://github.com/apple/foundationdb/issues/129
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Tesla and Beyond: Hidden Problems of Silicon Valley(revealnews.org)
2 points by faizshah 9y ago|0 comments
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by faizshah 9y ago
I think that's being a bit dramatic. In the 4 or 5 years that I've been here there's always been political and ideological conversations mixed in with people's projects, startups and tech news. The tech community has a c
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Why We Are Allowed to Hate Silicon Valley (2013)(faz.net)
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by faizshah 9y ago
Right and I'm saying that the broader point is it's legal for these companies, Facebook and Equifax being two of the biggest, to have massive caches of highly invasive personal data and have 0 legal obligation to protect it (they
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by faizshah 9y ago
The real point is that companies like facebook and equifax have such large caches of personal data and have no legal obligation to protect it. This is a point most people outside of tech don't understand. You might not even be a user o
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by faizshah 9y ago
Tangentially related: I recently learned that Satoshi's original paper on bitcoin was not actually written with LaTeX. It seemed to have tricked a lot of people (including myself). https://tex.stackexchange.com/question
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by faizshah 9y ago
"We can find no convincing evidence to support the view that the lower prices in affluent countries outside the United States do not pay for research and development costs. The latest report from the UK Pharmaceutical Price Regulation
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by faizshah 9y ago
I've been noticing a similar phenomena. No matter what news clip I click on, my recommended videos will always be filled with right wing videos. So if I click on a clip of fox news I will get recommended some clips from say Ben Shapiro
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by faizshah 9y ago
I'm sure we could attempt this today with a larger dataset of foods and nutrients. I know that there's nutritiondata.self.com and the usda's nutrition database, anyone know of an average price dataset for food?
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by faizshah 9y ago
If anyone else was wondering, this seems to originate from IBM in collaboration with Adobe. More information on the architecture here: https://thenewstack.io/behind-scenes-apache-openwhisk-server...
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by faizshah 9y ago
Not just a local db but an eventually consistent cache of remote whose data can be mutated offline and synced back into remote with some kind of conflict resolution. Examples here: http://offlinefirst.org/sync/ In the
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by faizshah 9y ago
Ha, I was just going to post this as well. I can't recommend this book enough, it's really an eye opening discussion of how value is created in the contemporary art market. If you wonder why some artwork that seemingly required li
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by faizshah 9y ago
Thanks for the info and the reply, this seems like a great solution for me for nativescript and I like the docs and feature set. But it's a little heavyweight for web, is there a lite version or a way to create a custom build?
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by faizshah 9y ago
Thanks for the info, I just need to allow the client to queue up mutations offline (duration of a subway ride) and then notify the user visually of merge conflicts when we are back online. I don't need true offline support or live coll
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by faizshah 9y ago
Not to derail the discussion, but I just got started using GraphQL myself. I've been using Apollo and just started looking at Graphcool. I was wondering if anyone knows of an offline first solution for GraphQL on mobile (ios and androi
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by faizshah 9y ago
I'm really happy that there's increasing efforts to help fund the people who write the OSS we depend on. I was really happy looking at Evan You (the creator of VueJS) being able to reach his patreon goal, but I really wish some of
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Ask HN: What's a good cheap/free receipt scanner/ocr for home budgeting?
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by faizshah 9y ago
I agree, I think they could even go further with integration into something like atomic.io. You could develop real working prototypes in a day full stack, then focus on market research and iterating your design.
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by faizshah 9y ago
I like Pugh's paper on skip lists [1], Shannon's "Mathematical Theory of Communication" [2], and these two might be a stretch but I also like Rong's "Word2vec Parameter Learning Explained" [3] and Levy &a
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by faizshah 9y ago
Thanks for sharing, what was your experience with node failure at that scale?
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by faizshah 9y ago
I'm looking for a small scale solution (several orders smaller than linkedin) for change data capture into an ordered queue that Flink or Spark can consume continuously. The solution needs to be reliable and highly available, latency n
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by faizshah 9y ago
I'm familiar, I emailed over a week ago with my usecase (change data capture with debezium and postgres at small scale) and asked for some basic pricing information in comparison to Kinesis. I never received a response so I assumed you

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