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skynodeon ReactXP – A library for building cross-platform apps

This is simply awesome. Nothing more to add.

skynodeon Marc Andreessen: “Take the Ego Out of Ideas”

You want evidence of what exactly? How Soviet-style prosperity should be public agendas collapse without mercy? Please. SV needs to grow up.

skynodeon Marc Andreessen: “Take the Ego Out of Ideas”

Lol! Undoubtedly down-voted by the libertarians. :)

skynodeon Marc Andreessen: “Take the Ego Out of Ideas”

> They will just as quickly dilute your quality of life as they will dilute the shares in your company.

Lol! I think this incentive-based version works better though. If the libertarian culture of Californian idealists is imposed across the board, we would probably witness the end of innovation (unless war and existential threats provide the incentive)

Even if it's broken, don't fix it.

skynodeon Marc Andreessen: “Take the Ego Out of Ideas”

The media (in 2017 at least) is not necessarily here to inform the public. Some of these vanilla interviews are staged by actors on both sides of the aisle just to keep the capitalist machine oiled and keep the relevant guys relevant. As an analogy, Marc can have an opinion (and y'all should hear it) about ML/AI not because he has great domain knowledge but because he's Marc Andreessen and he controls a large chunk of one of the most hallowed means of production.

skynodeon Where will UX Design be in 5 years?

I constantly have to export my work in webflow for further development on Node, React Webpack, etc. Nothing like fine grained control over the digital elements! :-)

skynodeon Why is this Go faster than the equivalent Java?

Just like many squabbles over programming languages, not all, but many to most.

skynodeon Shutting down CodePlex

Another example: https://github.com/dotnet

skynodeon VPNs are not the solution to a policy problem

Stated anti-features leave a lot to be desired.

skynodeon Anger as US internet privacy law scrapped

No I'm not.

skynodeon The House just voted to wipe out the FCC’s landmark Internet privacy protections

I also found it quite shocking at the sheer volume of requests for VPN guidelines; something I already take for granted. Just when I thought 2013 A.D changed everything.

skynodeon Anger as US internet privacy law scrapped

May be a good time to reconsider that move abroad. There are quite a bunch of places that still cherish privacy or don't even bother about privacy (so you run your own infrastructure as you like), while you still get to conduct your business reliably. With an Internet connection and a few good bank accounts (and of course a BTC wallet), you can be anywhere these days and still accomplish so much. But you must be willing to be quite flexible about your worldview and learn.

skynodeon Anger as US internet privacy law scrapped

And here I am with the VPN solution :)

https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/pages/privacy-from-int...

Disclosure: I'm a customer but thankfully not a US-based customer (there are more and more reasons to NOT live in the US these days).

skynodeon Ask HN: How do you make money from your side projects?

Currently building something in the data science space myself. Mostly for the Enterprise though.

skynodeon The AI Misinformation Epidemic

I think it's also important to consider and analyze technological advances in the context of various periods in the historical development of humanity.

For much more than half of the 20th century, nations were at war with each other, the British Empire was declining (and there had to be a replacement fitting for the times), etc. Man's taste for blood has not necessarily gone away with the 20th century, it only found expression in soft power and other psychological means of domination (e.g., Hollywood movies whose central theme is American Exceptionalism). This fresh awareness that actionable information is what may determine the fate of nations has also polarized technological progress in favour of advancements in understanding data and processing large volumes of it in the most efficient way possible. To be fair, Claude Shannon and Alan Turing made outsized contributions to this space.

Just as there were Economic Consequences of the Peace (thanks, J.M. Keynes), I think we will also have to chronicle the The Effects of Peacetime on Technological Progress.

skynodeon Survival of the Friendliest

As usual, another title selection that has been passed through the finely tuned media/techno filters for maximum shock value. Survival of the Fittest Group is actually more to the point.

skynodeon Ask HN: Do you think there is an opportunity for a better alternative to Upwork?

A developer-review system could handle the possibility of low quality work from savage devs, whether they reside in the Western hemisphere or anywhere else. 2 bad reviews and you're out. Actually, after the first bad review, should be very difficult to get a job again.

skynodeon Twitter explores subscription-based option

Twitter should leave the platform as is currently and clone into an alternate twitter-verse, ATV, where all kinda vices and foul language would be allowed and supported. Original Twitter would be more intolerant of trolls, related vices and foul language, outrightly deleting transgressing accounts even for incomplete, symbolized hybrids like f*$# and so forth.

Subscriptions to ATV would be based only on fake names and related credentials (including email addresses) and subscribers would be able to purchase troll units, (instanceOf)xVice units, etc.

To register, you would have to use your original Twitter email address initially and maintain an annual subscription to keep twitter-verse from disclosing your identity on Twitter. The revenue sources from ATV could be expanded further from this point.

skynodeon Opening a new chapter of my work in AI

I recommend this AI/ML learning method too. Practical first. Trust me, it'll keep you from getting bored/sleepy.

And for the practicals, I'll also suggest going over some of the hands-on examples at blog.algorithmia.com, especially if you have some Web dev experience.

skynodeon Distill: a modern machine learning journal

Hopefully this won't be another ResearchGate dressed in open source clothing.

skynodeon YC AI

Democratize all the things.

Democracy is dead. Long live AI Democracy.

skynodeon Ask HN: What are your app monetisation strategies?

A Procrustean-Bed situation right here; it can be hard to accept some (looming?) reality particularly when the consequences for your craft and pocket are very unpalatable.

Well, we've been told that software is eating the world. We forgot that Silicon Valley and all it represents still draw their breath from the world that's getting eaten up. :)

skynodeon Ask HN: What are your current pain points while using data viz software?

Interesting. I also think a lot of functionalities, and annotations are definitely one of them, which are currently manual could implemented in much better ways. Fundamentally, charts really haven't changed much over the last half century (or more).

skynodeon How much should you charge for your Software-as-a-Service tool?

I think this is an important contribution to the discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13840282

skynodeon Ask HN: If the bots take your job, what would you do?

Become a bot and get to keep your job. :)

skynodeon Ask HN: What is the biggest untapped opportunity for startups?

While we seek out new areas that are ripe for disruption, I'm particularly excited about what MapD is doing using GPUs in analytics.

Disclaimer: I don't work for MapD.

skynodeon Ask HN: What is the biggest untapped opportunity for startups?

>then you'll create a huge amount of value for companies around the world and it should be easy to transfer some of that value into your pockets.

Corollary: It's probably time for a much wider adoption of bitcoin in tech. To transfer that value from halfway around the world to personal pockets capitalism style, we need crypto to become a primitive member of apps, markets and tech deals, and no longer a big deal.

skynodeon Ask HN: What is the biggest untapped opportunity for startups?

'Top-down' is actually why data management is still the way it is. Our handling of the primitives (think bottom-up approach) that build up to how things are structured at the higher level is still subpar at best, resulting in the massive inconsistencies, scaling issues and data integrity problems we face daily. Neurons (near-atomic components), from the biological sciences are still being compared analogously with more complex data structures in computing, raw grapes and wine style. Per being a technology problem, the question was about area/market segment requiring a breath of fresh air, not particularly what technology needs to be deployed.

skynodeon Ask HN: What is the biggest untapped opportunity for startups?

We need to simplify the whole lifecycle of data management. It is still considerably complex. We'll see an accelerated revolution in other areas such as machine learning when this simplification is complete.

skynodeon Node v7.5.0 Released

TypeScript async/await helps a lot with this. Type safety plus async ops. Awesomeness.