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by hacknat 8y ago
Nah. 1 billion dollars is 1/13000th of the American economy.
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by hacknat 8y ago
I don’t buy the hype of the blockchain as much as the average hacker news user, but this article lacks anything but anecdotal data. A bubble needs two things: 1. Misallocated hype 2. Real money As far as I can tell no one has done much digg
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by hacknat 8y ago
I like this answer. I actually feel like a shorter work week is probably way less productive than just having more vacation time. When I have momentum on a project I love spending time killing it. When I’m wrapping up a project I would love
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by hacknat 8y ago
Most of the people on hacker news, myself included, aren’t skeptical of the technologicy of block chain. I grant Block Chain’s central technical premise, no other medium/platform/whatever can create decentralized trust wherein all
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by hacknat 8y ago
The more I think about this issue the less interested I am in the extreme of either side. The government shouldn’t have unfettered access to our devices, but I can’t think of any other product in the history of the planet that gave people t
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by hacknat 8y ago
Also, very few people are only kernel devs. Usually you can be an advanced systems programmer and ease your way into creating kernel features or fixing bugs as you need. The market for people who can do that is large and desperate.
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by hacknat 8y ago
I don’t disagree, but is the economist libertarian anymore?
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by hacknat 8y ago
So before anyone gets excited about using this, XDP has to be enabled at the driver level to work, because basically is allows you to write your own program to handle incoming packets from the driver, taking the kernel out as the middle man
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by hacknat 8y ago
IPVS cannot be dynamic like XDP can, which can be powered by a reactive bpf program. XDP bypasses every kernel function and basically takes over packet processing at the driver level, so the performance tends to be pretty good. Julia Evans
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by hacknat 8y ago
The real reason there is drift in Linux tooling is because there are two communities making tools for Linux (GNU and Linux Foundation associated projects) and the two groups seem to find new reasons to hate each other every year. It’s a dum
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by hacknat 8y ago
It wasn’t a hard rule. It depend on the app and the use case, but probably just docker on all the machines with some static cloud loadbalancers in between everything. Or just straight config management.
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by hacknat 8y ago
Right tool for the right job. Is K8s too complicated? For some use cases it is. They probably should do a better job of discouraging certain use cases, but calling their elevator pitch “bullshit” is hyperbolic. There are exceptions to every
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by hacknat 8y ago
They should. Glibc breaks its interface every few years. I’d love to see all the GNU tools migrate over to the Linux foundation, where they would be stable, safe, and free from autocracy.
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by hacknat 8y ago
The question is, why choose this over Kata...I guess. The post didn’t really do a good job of telling me why.
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by hacknat 8y ago
Well, I wasn’t arguing for a VM being a panacea, but in the context of not being satisfied with the Linux primitives for sandboxing, I think it is the next logical step up in security. From my perspective this project seems like an intermed
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by hacknat 8y ago
I hate to rain on this interesting project’s parade, but if you need full sandbox isolation then you should probably look to full VM isolation (ala Kata containers, formerly Clear containers). User namespace-ing, SecComp, and Selinux/a
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by hacknat 8y ago
It’s likely that web apps and servers will be least affected, I cannot imagine the performance on databases being good.
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by hacknat 8y ago
User namespaces can already get you this, but this is an added layer of defence in case their are exploitable kernel vulnerabilities that could allow an attacker to break out of a container. With this runtime if you break out of the contain
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by hacknat 8y ago
With about the same cost of living. I don’t think he was referencing those cities when he said “Nowhereville”.
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by hacknat 8y ago
I disagree. First of all I don’t think any organization, including the Census Bereau, Pew, Gallup, et al have some kind of official definition of what “middle class” is. Second, by and large most Americans seem to identify themselves as bei
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by hacknat 8y ago
I think all the hype around block chain is hilarious for the very simple reason that block chain can’t actually solve any business problem that a centrally managed service couldn’t solve (with less effort likely). The only thing block chain
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by hacknat 8y ago
Anyone who responds to this article by saying their particular house was a good investment didn’t read the article.
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by hacknat 8y ago
I think more people need to talk about best fit. People shoehorn scrum into every situation, when it is perfectly valid to say that it won’t work sometimes, and others when it would work well. You wouldn’t use JavaScript to build an operati
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by hacknat 8y ago
The biggest one for me is estimation. I grant that certain domains work on very predictable tasks, but what if you are working on a new product that is solving a lot of new problems? Practically everything should be a spike. I’m working on
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by hacknat 8y ago
The whole scrum isn’t good or bad thing annoys me. It’s like the people who argue in favor of communism and when you point out its immense failure rate they say, “well that’s not really communism”. Scrum seems to have a very poor implementa
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by hacknat 8y ago
That’s a flamey title. They’re objecting to them publishing their spec before the negotiations with WHATWG are over.
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by hacknat 8y ago
I would have asked about GDPR and why they’re only applying policies to fulfill their legal requirements for it to EU citizens. Then some follow up on how they plan on identifying EU citizens from Americans, what if one is living in one pla
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by hacknat 8y ago
The simple reason is that people are lazy. Someone isn’t going to put in the extra work of marking up their text with the correct semantic structure if they don’t get much out of it, and the ROI for an individual site owner was dubious at b
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by hacknat 8y ago
> But that’s vulnerable to MITM It is if that’s all you’re trusting, but you get to check the validity of the cert, so someone could MITM a TLS 1.3, but it wouldn’t do them much good as all they would get is a request for a certificate,
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by hacknat 8y ago
Most web traffic is encrypted these days so ISPs can only see what sites you’re visiting via DNS and SNI. While that is worrisome, I fail to see how that is greater data than my search history.

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