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Not a quote but a poem - If by Rudyard Kippling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If%E2%80%94

Without mining (proof of work) how would the block chain be considered secure and immutable?

I created a bot a while back based on phantom.js a headless browser. Mostly I wanted to see if upvotes could be scripted and I wanted to play with phantom.js. It seems that the system is based on 1 vote per public IP. It's possible to use many instances of DO/GCloud/AWS.

I would suggest that there are probably a few vote brigade bots out there. I think the most common bot would be a story cross poster, which takes top-stories from places like lobste.rs et. al. and posts them to HN to build reputation.

NASA has even published on this issue https://www.grc.nasa.gov/www/k-12/airplane/wrong1.html

While it might seem nonsensical to advertise something you have already purchased, the next time you need to purchase it chances are the brands you saw in ads will seem more trustworthy.

My only suggestion is you should find a problem and build a solution. It sounds like you have a solution and you want to man-handle it onto a problem.

Agreed - Obviously account quality is the key factor. I have heard in recent times that HackerRank accounts can be easily improved implying a high level of skill however a top GitHub account is probably less likely to faked.

I made 7.5k for a Facebook Vulnerability that i found while procrastinating instead of studying for exams.

Haven't done much since though.

I think the happy medium would be to add a link to search in the top bar but not the actual search bar.

Yep the Right wing has come out and blamed it on renewables, the left wing has blamed it on climate change and the centrists are just calling for blood.

The reality is with 22 Main transmission towers which feed the state collapsed in high winds, even additional coal/gas stations would not have saved the day. At the time of shutdown, wind energy was producing close to 1000MW, it was the loss of transmission towers that caused frequency events leading the National Energy Market operator to Isolate the state from the rest of the Country. The cascading safety systems then caused all generators to shutdown.

Why not create this and pull it into the actual Requests Repo?

Thanks, I think this really hits the nail on the head - and it's exactly what my country and city struggle with.

Thanks! I live in a western country so 2 or 3 of the following are covered. The more people I talk to the more I find that funding is the biggest risk - that and people will not risk their current secure job for a venture that will not be backed by investors without showing strong traction.

I have been building a small app and I want to launch but I am continually unhappy with the aesthetics. I know enough to do a basic design but my focus is mostly backend.

Do I launch the product early and then work on UI or do I spend time on UI and delay the launch?

Apologies, right you are. This is a default install though, I've never actually installed new filters

I have a solution that would work for this, it's not quite ready to launch but I would suggest the biggest barrier to any app trying to service this market is the effort of writing this down into an app.

I think the simplest solution is the notes app on your phone.

"I work for one of the top 10 tech companies in Bay area"

Has been on HackerNews for 23 hours

Choose one.

I'm also interested in this. From reading Zero to One and watching the industry it seems that for a unicorn, the app needs to enter the market quickly grow and essentially gain a monopoly over the market prior to competitors. This makes it difficult for a competitor to gain market share.

For smaller sass apps, the standard business metrics apply: Customers, Customer Churn, Customer growth, Costs. Protection of IP is important but rarely the differentiating factor in this market, take a look at all the email marketing apps for instance. There is no IP there and nothing particularly new, they just provide excellent service at reasonable cost and are still valuable businesses.

Love the idea but how do you capture data without a backend?

I like the blog and post marketing strategy and to be honest. I doubt I will drive much traffic with paid adds, remains to be seen though.

I've looked into the feature sets of the above previously and while they are good, efficient solutions, they don't necessarily meet my requirements in terms of information capture. I'm building a relatively simplistic landing page server to manage the backend, and while it will not give me the flair and user interface of the options above, it will deliver the information I want, how I want. I'll probably just open source it when I'm done for others to use as an alternative.

In terms of design - I've done a fair bit of reading on design and layout, and I worked with one of the design guys at in my sharespace to build the concept. I'm just trying to capture tips and tricks (the little stuff I might not have thought of).

Jesus, he's either good or crazy. But given anaesthetists salary in Australia he can probably work part time quite easily.

Leadership spill with:

Malcolm Turnbull 55 votes Tony Abbott 44 votes

Ultimately I think the main danger is a skilled attacker targeting the system. That said I would like to secure data from a local attacker as well. Ultimately I understand that it will be difficult to secure fully against someone with hardware access but any risk mitigation practices I could use?

Some clarification. Sensitive data will be things like full names addresses passport photos credit card details etc

Encryption. I'm thinking public key might work, but if I want to decrypt on the server how do I keep private keys private?

What I'm interested in is how should I encrypt and store sensitive user data on a server such that it is retrievable but secure.

Obviously there is a lot of specificity depending on your goal but what I'm looking for here is an early stage test. Is it worth developing this idea further or not? And more than that provide a prompt list to flesh out the idea.

This is largely aimed at tech businesses but to paraphrase I'd like to make it as general as possible but not more.

I agree with you about keeping a list of problems, and to most extents each idea has its root in a problem which I've encourtered somewhere.

That said if I'm solving a problem that a lot of people have but it's extremely complex to solve then to my mind it's not as good as an easier to implement idea with a smaller user base.

The entire app is built on a Heroku static php stack, with a memcache backing.

Despite ~20 users per minute, and free hosting tier it's still running reasonably quick