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electic··on Keybase and Stellar is live for everyone
Correct. The price especially is wrong on CMC when there is high volume events.

I also invite the OP to check out Blockmodo's API. We deliver this data to developers and institutional investors.

https://blockmodo.com/docs/api

We stream everything which includes the price, trades, news, social media and community posts, and code checkins.

On the price side, we have two channels. We have a stream channel and a ticker channel. The stream channel derives the price of tokens by looking at raw trades from a select set of exchanges which have been vettted.

We are based in SF and happy to help at no charge! Drop us a note.

electic··on Netflix stops paying the ‘Apple tax’ on its $853M in annual iOS revenue
There is no need to attack. Let's be nice. You don't have any idea what the app is.
electic··on Netflix stops paying the ‘Apple tax’ on its $853M in annual iOS revenue
I am really happy for you. Genuinely. But most apps do not share your fate no matter how well designed, performant, or useful.

I am actually fine if Apple doesn't do any sort of discovery or promotion of our apps. Just don't charge 30 percent then.

electic··on Netflix stops paying the ‘Apple tax’ on its $853M in annual iOS revenue
> The Apple store seems good for small apps

This is simply not true. As a small app developer, I can tell you first hand that Apple only promotes and supports larger apps in the ecosystem. It is the exception, not the rule, when they promote a smaller app.

As a developer, you are on your own on the marketing and discovery front. The billing infrastructure you allude to would be easily replaceable with a dozen or so startups and wouldn't warrant a 30 percent hit that Apple charges.

electic··on Startups Are Becoming Dumb and Hard
I actually tried to read this article but gave up. The scroll jacking on the site made it incredible difficult to read because when you scroll, the paragraph you want to read, is unnaturally scrolled of the page.
electic··on Show HN: Coinmarketcap replacement with free JSON API
Different experiences I guess. We do not require a login. You can use the API without a key.

We actually started of with the price. Our goal was to be as low latency as possible. We have all the stats like price, histograms, market cap, etc in there. Most of our infra is keeping number stats on coins and maintaining profiles on them

However, the days of price and marketcap are over. We are seeing that feedback come from larger customers. They want to see code checkins, they want to see what's happening in the different sub-reddits, they want to keep up with what the team is tweeting. All those feeds are important to give you a holistic view of a coin and the market in general.

Anyway, happy to help and share whatever we can. Feel free to drop us a note.

electic··on Show HN: Coinmarketcap replacement with free JSON API
This is really cool, great work!

I am one of the developers of Blockmodo. It offer realtime data streamed directly from the exchanges via a WebSocket API. Alternatively, you can also go through our REST API as well to get this data.

Data can be streamed aggregated or if you choose, you can also stream and poll the data on a per-coin basis. For example, if you want the aggregate price of Bitcoin you can do that but if you want the price streamed of Bitcoin for BTC/USD for Bitfinex, you can do that as well.

In addition to the price, we offer full streaming and REST data on:

- Realtime news on each coin. Our backend also detects bot generated articles and excludes those.

- Realtime community posts across different sub-reddits, forums, etc

- Realtime social posts from the developers of each coin (twitter, etc).

- Realtime code checkins from the developers across multiple repos segmented by the coin (github, etc).

- Full coin profiles (name, website, telegram urls, etc).

We do this on over 2700+ coins for developers and terminal makers across 100+ exchanges. You can explore the documentation here:

https://blockmodo.com/docs/api

How can I see it in action?

You can see it in action here by visiting our front page:

https://blockmodo.com.

Another terminal app that is connected to the network is CoinHub for iOS which you can check out here:

https://coinhubapp.com

electic··on Facebook ends platform policy banning apps that copy its features
The amount of companies that have been burned from Facebook is staggering. And it not just fasgarewq
electic··on Ask HN: What’s the state of Bitcoin/Alt coins?
This is probably a hostile forum to ask such a question to be honest. The HN crowd is pretty negative on the whole concept from past experience. Which is fine, everyone has a right to a view.

I do have some resources you can dive into where there are people talking about this very topic:

Market at glance:

https://blockmodo.com/

News from the entire space:

https://blockmodo.com/markets/latest_news

Community posts from over 2,500 sub-reddits that deal with bitcoin and alt-coins:

https://blockmodo.com/markets/latest_community

You can also get this all segmented by coin as well. For example, if you just want Bitcoin you can go:

https://blockmodo.com/quotes/BTC

Some other blogs that I like are:

1. https://coindesk.com

2. https://cointelegraph.com

Hope this helps.

electic··on End of Cryptocurrency is near as Bitcoin drops to new lows
Seems like a clickbait title that is not even the title on the original article on the site.

Either way, this is nothing compared to the 2015 crash and probably the 100th time someone has said it's over when it really isn't.

electic··on Bitcoin-Rigging Criminal Probe Focused on Tie to Tether
The explorer does not report trades. It simply shows transactions on the chain and the supply.

If you want the price, you need to aggregate the USDT trades across all pairs to get the price.

https://blockmodo.com/quotes/USDT

It moves up and down but it largely comes back to a dollar.

electic··on Build a do-it-yourself home air purifier for about $25
Woah, this is pretty scary. Thank you for sharing. How did you know it was mold that was in the air? Is there some sort of test kit that you can buy to test for this. Mold is pretty hard to detect because you can't really see it because it typically hides between the walls.

Any advice appreciated.

electic··on VSCode silently opts you in to data collection
I guess this might be a precursor to the type of behavior we can expect to see with the GitHub acquisition.

Secondly, is there anyone out there that has a solid emacs step by step guide that might be able to replicate the functionality of vscode? I haven't had time to look at it but I think the time has come where I can't put it off any longer.

electic··on An artwork by Banksy shredded itself after selling for $1.3M at Sotheby’s
Appraisers are saying the instant the artwork was shredded it became more of an artwork and is now worth a lot more.
electic··on Spice is throwing up problems not seen with other drugs
https://outline.com/uzZP8x
electic··on Automakers working to transform data from cars into secondary revenue streams
I often think the same thing. There needs to be a UL type company that certifies a product or service isn't spying on you.
electic··on Time Magazine Sold to Marc Benioff for $190M
I think it will be quit the opposite. It will be run like the Washington Post and it will free them up to actually focus on making great content vs. making spammy content to drive clicks and sell magazines.
electic··on Sheryl Sandberg’s New Job Is to Fix Facebook’s Reputation and Her Own
https://outline.com/5PcXMf
electic··on Apple Goes Vertical and Why It Matters
What I am stating is that the definition of being vertically integrated has changed. The OP is arguing it is bad because of the history of capital costs associated with manufacturing.

It is not longer cost prohibitive to be vertically integrated because you don't have the upfront capital costs of manufacturing. With that, Apple is excelling at what they are doing. AMD is excelling at it as well. Historically, this type of behavior would be risky if not foolish.

electic··on Apple Goes Vertical and Why It Matters
Apple doesn't make their own hardware. What they do is design their own hardware and chips. I agree with you that if they actually made their chips this would be bad.

Case in point, you can see Intel really struggling because not only do they design their own hardware but they also make it quite literally with their own fabs. This has resulted in a lot of delays moving to 10nm and beyond.

AMD on the other hand spun out their fabs and now use fabs around the world to handle the actual manufacturing. This frees them up to actually design hardware and innovate at a much greater clip. Heh, they are even going to 7nm.

The same applies with Apple. It is quite cheap to be vertically integrated because you simply don't really have to make anything. The capital investment is quite low. It is something that Sun didn't have the luxury of.

electic··on Silicon Valley is changing, and its lead over other tech hubs narrowing
You're kidding? There is more and more rhetoric being spewed relating to the legal kind as well. There is even policy being enacted to drastically cut down or make it very hard to gain legal status by burying you with paperwork.

Beyond immigration talk, the constant spewing of racism coming from the administrations is a clear signal that immigrants of different backgrounds are not wanted.

To that end, they simply pack up and build their business and wealth elsewhere. We won't feel those effects right now but it will hit hard in a few years.

electic··on A majority of US teens are taking steps to limit smartphone and social media use
I am not surprised. One thing that I have noticed about myself is I ask myself after a session on Instagram, "What did I get from that?" and the answer is usually nothing. Did it help my career? No. Did it make me smarter? No. Did it help me make friends? No.

It didn't improve my life in any way.

The instant I asked and answered that a few times, I started cutting down my usage dramatically.

electic··on Netflix is the latest company to try bypassing Apple’s app store
Hacker News is one such site that is very basic and has none of the stuff you outline as modern features. You know what? It is by far one of the most performant and enjoyable websites I use daily.
electic··on Open source takes continued investment, and that must be subsidized somehow
There are lawsuits pending on the issue of college players not getting paid. It is a problem and it is going to get sorted out soon.
electic··on Show HN: Coin Registry
Yes, it is free. However, there is no way to get these registry files from the API yet.
electic··on Show HN: Coin Registry
Hi HNers,

It's been awhile since we posted here about our release of CoinHub[1] and everyone gave some amazing feedback. Since then, we’ve expanded to build our own data network because we grew frustrated with the lack of real-time pricing, news, and social posts. Most of the stuff out there is polled and could be up to 15 minutes late. So we’ve launched Blockmodo[2].

One thing that we had a huge issue with is keeping track with all the coins that are in the market. We decided to open source our entire token database:

https://github.com/Blockmodo/coin_registry

We’ve spent hundreds of hours curating information on hundreds of coins and we wanted the process to be a community process going forward. Let us know what you think!

- Blockmodo Team

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15403495 (New Version Soon)

[2] https://www.blockmodo.com

electic··on Keyboard Service Program for MacBook and MacBook Pro
The problem is that this service will mean sending in the computer because the keyboard is not easy to replace on this model. I've heard from techs they just end up replacing the whole thing.

Does anyone know if the keyboard they plan to replace it with is better? Or is it the exact same keyboard that will end up sticking again after a month?

electic··on Facebook's Mandatory Anti-Malware Scan Is Invasive and Lacks Transparency
To the common person, what you have outlined is rocket science. You have to remember that most people are not as advanced in computers as you are. What Facebook is doing here is wrong. They are actively indexing files on people's machines and sending that data back to Facebook and their partners. This is a gross invasion of privacy.

Another reason not to use Facebook.

electic··on Ask HN: What software is so good you are surprised it is free?
- Visual Studio Code.

- iTerm2

electic··on Cryptocurrencies Are Selling Off
Proof of Stake. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof-of-stake

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