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rmac··on S.Korea parliament committee votes to curb Google, Apple commission dominance
Kakao: Wechat/Uber

Ahnlab: Symantec/Norton

Hancom: Microsoft Office

Snow: Snapchat

Melon: Spotify

Cyworld: Myspace

Afreeka: Twitch

Toss: Venmo

NCSoft: Blizzard

Coupang: Amazon

Carrot: Ebay

Daum: Google/Medium

rmac··on An attempt at demystifying graph deep learning
when your input makes more sense as a graph, or your desired output resembles predicting node labels or edges?
rmac··on Hackers used Slack to break into EA Games
They said they lost their phone, which means they could have told the IT person they also lost access to email "my laptop email logged me out!, Our game is already behind schedule I need to get online now before I get fired"

Remember: a good phish will push the target to make quick and poor decisions, by appealing to various emotions.

rmac··on Hackers used Slack to break into EA Games
https://www.f5.com/labs/articles/threat-intelligence/genesis...
rmac··on Hackers used Slack to break into EA Games
I would guess an EA employee or contractor device had a bot installed that was harvesting data (e.g., cookies). Check out this article on how Genesis Market allows bot herders to monetize this data : https://www.f5.com/labs/articles/threat-intelligence/genesis...
rmac··on I Was Paralyzed by Severe Depression. Then Came Ketamine
Non-recreational? :)
rmac··on Forced Entrepreneurs
vc's job: find and invest in companies that will make large amounts of money. if they are good at their jobs, these companies will make them large amounts of money and in so doing employ a large pool of workers.

if what I just wrote is true, then I can see how others might use vc-backed companies as a proxy for broad economic gains

rmac··on Show HN: We wrote a book about building business applications in Go
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rmac··on TikTok launching jobs service for Gen Z
While sex appeal works, thirst traps have a limited shelf life. Comedy, ingenuity, and creativity go viral.

Also, Remember how the tiktok algorithm supposedly works: if a brand only watches / likes / comments on tiktokers who build things, the "hiring" feed will be full of people building things.

rmac··on Hydrofoiling
Has anyone seen hybrid propeller / jet-pump boats or foils?

It seems like it would make sense to have a gas engine and propeller to get the foil on-plane from stopped, then when "gliding" switch to a battery powered jet pump to keep it at speed.

rmac··on Nonsense Laboratory
I hit the "play" button on the SEQUENCER 5 times hoping it would say the word out-loud for me :)
rmac··on Fortnite’s cash cow is Playstation, not iOS, court documents reveal
This comment is important and timely, as Australia and other countries start to crack down on "app stores" like google's and apple's. I smell gov intervention:

https://www.accc.gov.au/media-release/dominance-of-apple-and...

rmac··on Grand jury subpoena for Signal user data, Central District of California
"Upon information and belief, these servers are physically located in Virginia."

Such strange and probably necessary legal language...

rmac··on Dan Kaminsky has died
Seeing him present his work on stage at DC was one of those things I'll never forget: the technical excellence, the dazzling visualizations, his comfortable and confident style, and whether you agreed with it or not -- his own point of view, not a thinly veiled corporate / gov / academic shill.

Dan: streams a tv show over DNS

Crowd: goes wild

He was one of the ones who I aspire to be: to show others they can do .*

rmac··on The Rise of North Korea's Hacking Army
This article missed the recent social engineering attack dprk carried out against cyber security researchers: https://portswigger.net/daily-swig/prominent-cybersecurity-r...

Their social engineering skills are impressive!

rmac··on Ask HN: What tech job would let me get away with the least real work possible?
https://famicoman.com/2018/06/28/emulating-a-z-os-mainframe-...
rmac··on Ask HN: What tech job would let me get away with the least real work possible?
get really good at sysops/dev for legacy mainframes: AIX, etc. get an IT job at a hospital or financial institution that has this legacy system. Install a remote access serial device. Write automations that cover most failure cases. profit (time)
rmac··on Google Cloud vs. AWS Onboarding Comparison
off topic but: that sidebar is huge. Can I resize it?
rmac··on There’s no such thing as “a startup within a big company”
this topic has been beaten to death (read these)

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2615.The_Innovator_s_Dil... https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11797471-the-idea-factor...

you have to ask yourself: why would the most talented and/or visionary and/or defiant individuals want to stay at a large company to build new products? Be it in Labs, Spin-outs, Spin-ins, corporate accelerators, skunkworks projects, or what have you. The craziest of the crazy will go out on their own and try to build something. Most will fail. Those that persist eventually combine luck+opportunity and turn their hallucinations into mainstream-disruptive innovations.

rmac··on I am a heroin user. I do not have a drug problem
there could be some underlying pain or trauma or anxiety, and when you find a chemical that obfuscates it, your brain goes "oh I like this new feeling", and you start using that chemical as a way to mute the negative, often without realizing it OR realizing those underlying issues even exist.

then, the press secretary in your brain (the thing between your subconscious & conscious mind) goes into hyper-rationalization (denial) mode and you start to defend the amount and type of chemicals you use, even when they are literally killing you and those around you

If you're asking about what physical or psychological withdrawal from a drug feels like, it depends on the person, the chemical, and other variables. The worst opiates (Suboxone / Methadone) have 6 month+ withdrawal symptoms, and the faster ones are ~7 days. Hellish times. However, while abstinence frees you from withdrawal symptoms, unless the underlying mental issues are addressed it's likely you'll go back to the very same substance that got you here.

rmac··on I am a heroin user. I do not have a drug problem
Man, I read this as someone who tried to use opioids and I just couldn't chip. It spiraled into full blown physical dependence. I guess i'm the type with an underlying psychiatric illness which drove my usage and denial.

That there exists people like this person who can chip (controlled use of opiates) always intrigues me -- as this drug was the ultimate pathway to euphoria and thus I became the mouse hitting the button for more more more. If you're on the chipping path I hope you can find peace just for today.

I am pro-legalization of all drugs with some FDA oversight on quality.

rmac··on Samsung Foundry: New $17B Fab in the USA by Late 2023
When US universities sold out to china $ the national security argument went out the window as labs were willingly giving the r&d away.

I don't know much about semi plants but what sort of jobs are these? Why aren't these plants all automated?

rmac··on Samsung Foundry: New $17B Fab in the USA by Late 2023
Yeah I'm not sure what a policy-solution would be here. I'm definitely for allowing states to do whatever they want. It's the great A/B test.

Just seems like the smallest businesses and the largest businesses get the most deals and those in the middle get hosed. Maybe that's working as intended.

rmac··on Samsung Foundry: New $17B Fab in the USA by Late 2023
Can someone smarter than me explain why larger companies (e.g., samsung, amazon) can get 50-100% tax breaks from various governments, and we are all seemingly ok with that? What about mid-size businesses? Should they band together to come up with the same "we'll create X jobs in your town claim"?

Whatever happened to taxing the rich?

rmac··on Ask HN: Who's looking for a co-founder?
how do you know it's 80%? have you spoken with other local buyers? Maybe the floor is something like 20%?

let's say it is 80, can you imagine a way to get 80% of the supply (stores) onto this platform? Or, could you chart a path to get to x% supply after y weeks?

idea 1: fake it, just list stores and items on a website and find out a way to get users to see it without paying for ads

idea 2: sign stores up one by one, using some interview-derived value proposition, and get your friends to help onboarding new stores, challenge them to sign up x% more stores per week

idea 3: post about it on hn :(

rmac··on Ask HN: Who's looking for a co-founder?
Why do you need money? Go to 50 stores, interview managers/owners. If there's a trend in their pain and you can solve it with software or sweat, build it as simply as possible.

Doordash put up menus on a website and started delivering orders by hand.

rmac··on Ask HN: Who's looking for a co-founder?
what were the reasons it didn't work in Germany?
rmac··on Ask HN: Who's looking for a co-founder?
the anti-amazon thing has legs, but the angle of attack to get beachhead might be difficult. Open problems:

1) fake review/counterfeit problem 2) support mom and pop

Google Shopping is trying to go after the "amazon prime for the rest of the internet", which seems like a good idea.

On 2), One thing to do would be to do what doordash did, just go to 50 mom and pop retail stores in one region and talk to them. see what their problems actually are.

The fake review/counterfeit goods problem is actually pretty hard to solve, but it's interesting because it's not on amazon's top 3 problems list, so you could disintermediate. Ways to solve it that may be businesses: machine learning, limiting manufacture geo's, relying on video product reviews with trusted influencers, tracking PE acquisitions as a proxy for brand deterioration, reading negative reviews first, etc.

rmac··on Ask HN: Who's looking for a co-founder?
An analog would be doordash & restaurants, with the added difficulty being brick and mortar retail often don't have great inventory and cataloging. Most restaurants were already doing take out, so hooking that up to a logistics machine (doordash), was easy. Here you need to go in and get stores to take photos of inventory and track said inventory, THEN hook them up to a logistics machine. doable for sure.

This race-to-the-bottom rhetoric seems like a pessimistic view blocking actual opportunity; as we've seen with any marketplace (e.g., amazon, doordash, walmart, shopify) it's a balance...

rmac··on Fantasy UI
This is why most b2b tools have boring interfaces: they don't know what the task is, so they generalize and build yet-another interface on-top of SQL. See splunk, looker, G Analytics, Stripe, Shopify, etc.

Is it possible to somehow let the end user design a ui/ux that works for them?

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