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What do you look for in the answer for 3 to see if it's a good culture fit?

> Robocalls I assume are profitable to someone. Therefore they will always find a way around blockage.

False. Robocalls can be made unprofitable. Take a deposit from the sender before calling you, and if at your discretion you determined the call was spam, don't refund the deposit.

Robocalls aren't solved because phone software didn't add this feature.

If these companies set the wrong metric of success (in other words, if there can be better incentives) and these companies don't follow the better incentives, then better companies will arise.

How would you prefer comments to work?

Could comments be assigned some big weight that has the effect of the comment staying around high enough to clear the misconception?

Could each thread be allowed only a finite number of comments or words, to not disperse attention, with lower quality comments forced to disappear?

Could there be a fool-proof mechanism to force comments you know are wrong to disappear?

If a new site like HN or Reddit showed up, how would would like it work? I ask because I'm toying with the idea of one. Thoughtful beta users get in touch.

> sales & engineering roles

In the other comment you said sales & marketing roles.

You just saw a candidate's video. How do you "find a culture fit"? What do you look for?

This is too good to go unnoticed. Have you thought about making it a desktop app?

Pay to post is harsh on the consumer. Pay to prove you're not a spammer is better, because you get your money back.

I'm experimenting with a fix for this at repowcha. There's probably a cost threshold past which it becomes unprofitable to post bad comments with an agenda.

Why can you not do this if you are hourly?

Add cost to post the prediction. At high enough cost it can't be gamed.

edit: and it's also your revenue.

I want to know more about the book than what the page shows. It might help if the page shows in larger fonts what "We will look at", and maybe a teaser example as code.

xterm.js might help too.

Now I want something more. I want to be able to run localhost.run locally and give someone else an internet URL to connect to my local xterm, or to my local X display (vnc?). I want them to see my text editor and type stuff in it.

1. I got this

  $ ssh -R 2000:localhost:8080 localhost.run
  The authenticity of host 'localhost.run (35.171.254.69)' can't be established.
  RSA key fingerprint is SHA256:FV8IMJ4IYjYUTnd6on7PqbRjaZf4c1EhhEBgeUdE94I.
  Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no/[fingerprint])?

Make it so it prints the url without more input, so it can be called from scripts easily. Like this

  ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -R 80:localhost:8080 localhost.run

2. Then I got this

  Port 2000 is not allowed. Only port 80 and 443 are allowed.

I didn't see easily that it's the 8080 I should change.

3. Can you make it so someone can control my xterm? This could be a useful (and dangerous, but also useful) feature. Check out https://github.com/paradoxxxzero/butterfly

I wish the front page showed what I need to do to use it, without having to click or scroll anywhere.

"How To Get and Test Startup Ideas" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDXkpJw16os.

I keep a list of problems when I notice them.

To the people who downvoted: learn to distinguish expressing a fact from expressing an opinion. Don't be gratuitously negative.

To HN moderators: make it possible to understand why someone downvoted. This is an example of what makes HN off-putting.

Advice: only write sentences that are true.

> Bitcoin could never replace a national currency.

You can't predict the future.

> With transaction times in the tens of minutes and with a maximal global transaction rate of 5-10 per second. The Blockchain couldn't replace the banking system of single mid-sized town.

With millions of transactions per second, the Lightning network could.

> It's not money.

It's money. Here's an explanation of money https://powreach.com/crypto

Cool idea. I might work on this.

It's not a joke. rePOWCHA stops bots. If a bot automates sending the amount to get by the CAPTCHA, the bot won't be able to afford paying this amount at scale, because when you notice that the bot abused your service you'll flag it as "abuse" and won't refund the bot's deposit. Past some threshold of $x per CAPTCHA, bots can't afford to bypass them.

The reason spam is everywhere is that the cost of sending spam is low. The solution proposed by rePOWCHA is to increase the cost. It's a form of proof-of-work.

The anti-spam system is that the user has to pay to send you the message. If you ask for $50 per message, and the message is spam, you'll flag the message as "spam" which means you get the $50 and the spammer doesn't get their refund. At high enough cost spammers can't reach you.

If you're powerful and get 100 emails a day for things that take up your time, you don't want to read 95 of them, but do want those 5 that matter to still be sent to you, by people who are confident enough that their email is important.

How is this different than using the window manager in Linux?

> will work in the beginning by me judging which project to include into the ad network.

A solution to this problem that doesn't take your time is to ask projects to put down a deposit. Bad/spam projects don't get the deposit back. https://repowcha.com solves this.

Hello HN, I made an online contact form prevents people from saying everything is important. It's also a way to cut down on spam.

Check it out at https://powreach.com. It's powered by LTC.

I also made the opposite of an online contact form. You can put down a deposit, basically in escrow, and send a link to someone to redeem it. For example, you can ask someone to give you feedback on a side project and you can pay them, without knowing their payment info. The recipient attaches their payment info when they receive the link.

This is all built on top of https://repowcha.com. I see rePOWCHA as a big missing block in the Internet, with multiple uses cases that remain to be discovered.

Let me know what you think.

What caught my attention are the projects with the highest number of positive + negative votes, yet the lowest positive count overall. Might mean looks like a bad idea but is a good idea.

> for easily measuring the timing of each stage

Why would easily measuring the timing of each stage be way more work with an SQL database but way easier with a NoSQL database?

I applaud you for asking good questions.

> Why do you care so much about predictable supply if the price is anything but predictable?

Because the price will go higher. When the price goes over $x MM per BTC it will be very predictable.

> How is such high volatility commodity a good storage of value?

It stores more value than any other commodity. When the stock market started in 1920s it was no less volatile than Bitcoin. Volatility is a sign of disruption as much as it is a sign of value.

> 1 BTC > 50k USD... Yeah, sure...

If only you could see the data I'm seeing.

"It's win-win for my FT company too because they get my best ideas first."

Companies that don't matter don't get this.

Hm...this is worth trying. To get it to work, at this stage practically, the website would have to explain to users that it's basically a promise by the creator. The site could draft documents and give people some sort of equity certificate or what not.

But since I have no clue how this works legally, and really have no users, I can't go out talking to lawyers about some idea that doesn't have legs. I'll probably take the site offline in a week if posting on Reddit doesn't get users.

2) Added the badge, thanks!

3) Added a link to setup a wallet and explained that users can buy LTC with a credit card. I don't know about regular card transactions. It doesn't compromise the creator's anonymity but affects the backer's anonymity. I'm not excited about hooking into Stripe.

Awesome app! Constraining the time to 1 week makes users more interested. An MVP of anything can be built in ~4 days.

captcha is probably enough for spam control.

Posting it on /r/Crowdfunding might get more users.

I'd love to help when you're ready to build the first project :)

edit: If there aren't enough votes after a week, maybe try requiring some number of votes before the project gets built. 500? 10000? Something that will give enough time for the projects to get enough attention.

Thank you so, sooo much for writing this illuminating feedback.

1) I just made the amount configurable. I had this feature implemented but disabled, because I didn't want people to stop to decide how much to ask for. One less thing to think about. That's how uploading to ptwi is 20-30 times quicker than Ks.

2) What would you suggest to improve this? Similar to (1) I didn't want people stopping to think about spam when creating the project. I had a version where the qrcode was in /prove and I didn't like the user flow. I also disliked it visually. I made three changes now that might help. Reduced the amount to $5 (I hope it's not too low), explained posting projects is anonymous and how it fights spam, and explained in /prove that making a project public will need to pay to prove the project isn't spam.

3) Maybe /project should include a link to a page that explains what cryptocurrency is and what money is. I'll add this.