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I curate ideas.

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jbpetersen··on Show HN: Friendtainer – Get reminded to meet with friends regularly
That sounds like a good one for the EFF to take on if it's true.
jbpetersen··on Google plans ad-blocking feature in Chrome browser
The political pendulum swings both ways.

I look forward to seeing what happens to any businesses that get too greedy and disregard what happens when the pendulum swings left again.

I wonder what would be happening now if we had a wave of left-wing populists taking office instead.

jbpetersen··on A TensorFlow implementation of the Differentiable Neural Computer
Sounds like you may have stumbled into the same ideas behind CBT more or less. It makes sense that they'd crop up in different places and times assuming they work well.

I'm certainly no expert on it, but if that's a decent assessment then you may be sitting on some very handy metaphors.

jbpetersen··on The Shamanic View of Mental Illness (2010)
If you're inclined to detail the structural changes you made or have already done so, it seems like something that could be incredibly useful if it finds its way into the right hands.
jbpetersen··on Acme Klein Bottle
How'd the scones turn out?
jbpetersen··on Amazon's Tepid Response to Counterfeiters Frustrates Sellers
Your solution #2 is one of the major selling points of "blockchain".

Unfortunately the hard part is getting everyone along a supply-chain to participate in a new tracking standard that could easily reveal valuable information to competitors. So it's probably not going to be adopted except in cases where counterfeiting is an obviously greater threat.

jbpetersen··on Michael Seibel, CEO of YC, is doing an AMA
Is it possible to participate in YC without selling equity?
jbpetersen··on Developer Hiring Trends in 2017
IMO Go is a spiritual sequel to Java. Both strongly focus on programming for multiple platforms by large teams.
jbpetersen··on Hot chillies might be good for us
Any advice for using this tactic without ending up with ulcers from an overly heat-tolerant palette?

I used to eat some pretty spicy stuff to open my sinuses up but it stopped working for that without going to gut-wrenching levels of heat.

jbpetersen··on Google Splits Hangouts into Chat and Meet
It's almost like Google is the new Microsoft according to a certain famous parody of corporate hierarchies.
jbpetersen··on The possibility of remaking the financial system with the blockchain
Alternately, you could start up a prediction market on how likely the accused is to commit crimes in the future based on potential sentences, sell shares of their future income in order to incentivize proper rehabilitation, weigh the various registered values of voters to determine how much money and time should be sacrificed for the sake of seeing the guilty punished, get the case analyzed by various remote contractors who have proven records on predicting verdicts, and various other ambiguously utopian/dystopian "improvements" to the legal system of today.

And how long until you can train the ML bot to do better than a randomly selected jury at predicting what a larger jury would make of a case?

jbpetersen··on The possibility of remaking the financial system with the blockchain
"Blockchain tech is reinventing finance and law" perhaps?
jbpetersen··on A private high school in California makes $24M gain on Snapchat investment
We've come full circle, now even the clickbait is fake.

/s?

jbpetersen··on In praise of cash
Fun fact: The SF innovation center of Visa has t-shirts which literally say "The Mark" on them. Though supposedly in reference to [this guy](https://usa.visa.com/visa-everywhere/innovation-centers/san-...).
jbpetersen··on How can a programmer help The New York Times report stories?
I'm waiting to see something like this turn up. Props to you if you're the one who finally goes ahead and makes it.
jbpetersen··on Kitchen worker becomes part-owner of top restaurant
This is the most hilariously HN comment I've ever seen.

Thanks for making my day.

jbpetersen··on Ask HN: How would you turn Twitter around?
Merge it with Square to confuse the investors a while longer and/or take over the social payments space in a one fell swoop.
jbpetersen··on As a software engineer, what's the best skill to have for the next 5-10 years?
If you already know Dvorak I'd personally recommend Workman as a third as someone who was in the same position of already being competent with QWERTY and Dvorak.
jbpetersen··on Ask HN: How to handle bookmarks so you can find them again?
A manually edited file with a JSON-like syntax for different tags and items listed under each. Regularly left open with several other text files used for personal organization.
jbpetersen··on Starting an Internet Service Provider
For what value of "more than just an ISP"?
jbpetersen··on Ask HN: Which cloud is good in support and value for money for small websites?
No, but their pricing looks impressive enough to try.

And impressive enough that it leaves me wondering what corners are probably being cut.

jbpetersen··on The importance of upvoting
Any ideas for ways it could be abused?
jbpetersen··on Nim core developer wanted
Nim is one of those things that seems very well put together yet I can't currently see what role it fills in the wider market for programming languages and different types of communities around them.

What kind of stuff is particularly popular among Nim users compared to communities for other languages?

What kind of stuff do the people working on Nim want to use it / see it used for?

jbpetersen··on Ask HN: What is the most exciting development in your field right now?
To add to that, the escalating hashrate war within Bitcoin between Unlimited and Core is popcorn worthy.

And within the wider space of blockchains, improving access to strong anonymization techniques appears to be moving forward quickly: https://blog.ethereum.org/2017/01/19/update-integrating-zcas...

jbpetersen··on J.S.G. Boggs, artist and trickster, has died
What was the class like?
jbpetersen··on Ask HN: Which book have you re-read recently?
It's something that has arrived gradually without much fanfare as there don't seem to have been any qualitative leaps forward so far.
jbpetersen··on Network programming with Go (2012)
I've got a strong impression that Go is taking a similar spot in programming culture over time as Java has in the past of being an enterprise-friendly language with strong standards built-in.
jbpetersen··on RxGo: Reactive Extensions for the Go Language
But without fads, how will you signal effectively to employers that you're quick enough to keep up with the latest fads?

/s/2

jbpetersen··on WorkinTech – Find a Tech Job
A suggestion:

html { display: flex; justify-content: center; }

http://imgur.com/a/gnul5

Other than that, it's a wonderful site. It has exactly what it should, nothing seems out of place, the name is great, and the styling is eerily close to my ideal for minimalist websites.

jbpetersen··on Copper is key in burning fat
[citation needed]
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