joepie91

No, your cryptocurrency cannot work

Whenever the topic of Bitcoin's energy usage comes up, there's always a flood of hastily-constructed comments by people claiming that their favourite cryptocurrency isn't like Bitcoin, that their favourite cryptocurrency is energy-efficient and scalable and whatnot.

They're wrong, and are quite possibly trying to scam you. Let's look at why.

What is a cryptocurrency anyway?

There are plenty of intricate and complex articles trying to convince you that cryptocurrencies are the future. They usually heavily use jargon and vague terms, make vague promises, and generally give you a sense that there must be something there, but you always come away from them more confused than you were before.

alexishida

--------  Intelbras -------------------------------------------------------
rtsp://usuário:senha@ip:porta/cam/realmonitor?channel=1&subtype=0

--------  Luxvision -------------------------------------------------------
rtsp://ip:porta/user=[usuário]&password=[senha]&channel=1&stream=0.sdp


--------  Hikvision -------------------------------------------------------
rtsp://usuário:senha@ip:porta/Streaming/Channels/102

masthoon

#include "stdafx.h"
#include <windows.h>
#include <Winbase.h>
#include <Wtsapi32.h>
#include <Userenv.h>
#include <malloc.h>

#pragma comment(lib, "Wtsapi32.lib")
#pragma comment(lib, "Userenv.lib")

yossorion

What I Wish I'd Known About Equity Before Joining A Unicorn

Disclaimer: This piece is written anonymously. The names of a few particular companies are mentioned, but as common examples only.

This is a short write-up on things that I wish I'd known and considered before joining a private company (aka startup, aka unicorn in some cases). I'm not trying to make the case that you should never join a private company, but the power imbalance between founder and employee is extreme, and that potential candidates would

amazon.md

I would like to tell my story of burnout at Amazon, considering the fact that there is so many stories out there on both sides of the issue. My story is also on both sides of the issue, and I've had a lot of time to think about why people can see the same culture but come away with completely different conclusions. This is a throwaway because I still work there and I don't plan on changing that, and I don't exactly trust the company to take this in good faith, despite the fact that I mean this as a purely constructive criticism for a company that I really do like.

I am an autodidact (my formal education only tangentially describes what I can do), and a polymath (capable of holding my own amongst PhD-level Operations Researchers, Statisticians, Econometricians, Data Scientists, Computer Scientists, as well as Software Engineers). I love to solve real world problems, and in many ways am the perfect type of person for Amazon's culture. I started in a level 5 position, but felt from the beginning that I warrant

longlostnick

class Api::UploadsController < ApiController

  def create
    @upload = Upload.new(upload_params)
  ensure
    clean_tempfile
  end

  private

FiXato

#! /usr/bin/env ruby
# encoding: utf-8
#
# Script to export the scripts inside the Scripts.rvdata2 data file to Data/exported_scripts as plain text Ruby files.
# If you run this script from inside RPG Maker VX Ace, I would suggest creating the Data/exported_scripts folder yourself
# as RGSS3 doesn't seem to support requiring FileUtils.
# Based on HIRATA Yasuyuki / 平田 泰行's rvdata2_dump.rb script: https://gist.github.com/hirataya/1853033
begin
  require 'fileutils'
rescue LoadError

lpereira

/*
 * Partial applied functions in C
 * Leandro Pereira <leandro@tia.mat.br>
 */
#include <assert.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdint.h>
#include <stdbool.h>

ndarville

Business Models

Advertising

Models	Examples
Display ads	Yahoo!
Search ads	Google

klange

Since this is on Hacker News and reddit...

• No, I don't distribute my résumé like this. A friend of mine made a joke about me being the kind of person who would do this, so I did (the link on that page was added later). My actual résumé is a good bit crazier.
• I apologize for the use of _t in my types. I spend a lot of time at a level where I can do that; "reserved for system libraries? I am the system libraries".
• Since people kept complaining, I've fixed the assignments of string literals to non-const char *s.
• My use of type * name, however, is entirely intentional.
• If you're using an older compiler, you might have trouble with the anonymous unions and the designated initializers - I think gcc 4.4 requires some extra braces to get them working together. Anything reasonably recent should work fine. Clang and gcc (newer than 4.4, at le