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by dineshp2 10y ago
PG talks about this idea of looking back at the present from the future in this video [1]. Applying this technique to the way power on the internet is distributed, it seems ridiculous to me that Governments have massive surveillance capabil
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by dineshp2 10y ago
I have been following the recent hacks by the OurMine group, and find it all fascinating. If anyone knows more about the group, their motives and how they actually manage to compromise various high profile social media accounts and websites
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Don’t make founders’ equity even(techcrunch.com)
4 points by dineshp2 10y ago|1 comments
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100% Fun(techcrunch.com)
1 points by dineshp2 10y ago|0 comments
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Introducing Microsoft Stream(blogs.microsoft.com)
3 points by dineshp2 10y ago|0 comments
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by dineshp2 10y ago
> Can't be sure, of course, but I would not feel comfortable with using TOR for anything sensitive anymore. Out of curiosity, what alternative(s) would you use?
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Scientists move one step closer to creating an invisibility cloak(qmul.ac.uk)
1 points by dineshp2 10y ago|0 comments
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Highly Available Block Storage(digitalocean.com)
262 points by dineshp2 10y ago|140 comments
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We need to talk about AI and access to publicly funded data-sets(techcrunch.com)
3 points by dineshp2 10y ago|0 comments
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by dineshp2 10y ago
Thank you for the helpful answer! Could you also comment on this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12056991
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by dineshp2 10y ago
> I can get someone from the backend performance team to comment too if you'd like :) Sure! > the biggest bottleneck at this point is with the file system. Would something like AWS EFS [1] solve the problem? It might not be a pra
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by dineshp2 10y ago
At a high level, what are the major areas where you face performance issues? Does the choice of RoR play a part in performance problems? Can performance be improved by deploying more servers? PS: I really enjoy using Gitlab, and would be re
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You can’t kill email(techcrunch.com)
2 points by dineshp2 10y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: How would you improve GitHub?
9 points by dineshp2 10y ago|38 comments
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by dineshp2 10y ago
One of the arguments against mass surveillance is that it is blatant intrusion of privacy, and hence it should not exist. On the other hand, the arguments against encryption seem to be that it cripples the Government agencies in their work
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NGINX’s Amplify monitoring tool is now in public beta(techcrunch.com)
2 points by dineshp2 10y ago|0 comments
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by dineshp2 10y ago
Great talk. Is it hard to find developers familiar with elixir/phoenix? Or is hiring RoR developers and training them to work on elixir/phoenix a better option than specifically hiring people familiar with elixir/phoenix? Jus
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by dineshp2 10y ago
Hi Alan! From your comments, it's clear that you are not happy with the state of programming languages as it stands. You mentioned that the current languages lack safe meta-definition and also that the next generation of languages sho
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by dineshp2 10y ago
The Startup Visa[1] is designed to tackle the issue of visas specifically for founders of startups rather than having founders jump through hoops to fit into the existing visa categories. Even though it enjoys bi-partisan support, it seems
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CS50 Lecture by Mark Zuckerberg (2005) [video](youtube.com)
3 points by dineshp2 10y ago|0 comments
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by dineshp2 10y ago
First of all, it's very exciting to hear that Zach will be joining GitLab as an advisor, especially given his background at GitHub being one of the first few engineers hired there. Given that GitLab and GitHub have similarities in term
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by dineshp2 10y ago
Functional programming is different from object oriented programming and takes some time to understand. In elixir, data is immutable and hence you can't simply modify data like in non functional programming languages and that leads to
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by dineshp2 10y ago
> Go is very simple (many people say too simple) and writing a web app in it doesn't really require a very good understanding of the language. But you do have to know to how to use the standard libraries well to write anything beyon
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by dineshp2 10y ago
> But our fate at the hand of clever cloggs robots may in fact be worse - to summon a class of eternally useless human beings. Can't help but notice the sensationalist tone. The author also seems to have a pessimistic view of the fu
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The WhatsApp Architecture Facebook Bought for $19B (2014)(highscalability.com)
5 points by dineshp2 10y ago|0 comments
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by dineshp2 10y ago
Where did I mention that Gitlab should allocate a 2 CPU 4gb RAM server for every user? The point of the comment was to show that Gitlab performs well when there are appropriate server resources, hence the reason for Gitlab.com not performin
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by dineshp2 10y ago
> Due to the rapid growth, GitLab.com's performance slowed down. Not sure why Gitlab is still not able to scale the platform. I run Gitlab on a 2 CPU 4GB RAM VM and it performs very well(even with fairly large repos). There is also
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FBI can obtain a warrant if you run Tor [pdf](supremecourt.gov)
125 points by dineshp2 10y ago|22 comments
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by dineshp2 10y ago
Can you explain a little bit about how your values don't align with YC's values? It would be interesting to hear your thoughts. If you don't mind me asking, how would you have used the money, if you were accepted into the pro
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by dineshp2 10y ago
I assume the (very broad) criteria listed on the blog are supersets of very specific sub critera. Maybe if you could elaborate on what exactly those sub critera are, it would make things clear.

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