joaojeronimo

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Simplest API clients for distributed computing ever(blog.crowdprocess.com)
8 points by joaojeronimo 12y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Where is Brute Force Search still useful/used?
1 points by joaojeronimo 13y ago|0 comments
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by joaojeronimo 13y ago
We thought of sending puzzles to the worker that would have to really be computed by the VM and would take some amount of time until it was possible to be faked, or would have changed by the time a human could decipher the puzzle and return
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by joaojeronimo 13y ago
Well we noticed that flash ads sometimes take up even more than 100% of a CPU (meaning it can spawn threads and use multicore processing), video ads perhaps even more since they may get to be gpu accelerated, as CSS3 animations. We figured
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by joaojeronimo 13y ago
We -really- don't want to seem sketchy and immoral. We plan to stop computing after a certain amount of time (still to figure out, so far we don't have that many tasks running for it to be significant), and we completely block mob
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by joaojeronimo 13y ago
that may be harder to do efficiently than building the entire platform and we're an extremely small team. I'm sure some day we'll do it but can't prioritize that now.
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by joaojeronimo 13y ago
Sure! You'll want to block ss.crowdprocess.com An opt-out is under way, one website requested an opt-in but we haven't translated that yet: http://cdn.crowdprocess.com/opt-in.html
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by joaojeronimo 13y ago
That's actually pretty good advice, except it may be hard to find legal and moral things to run. We wanted to find the cure for cancer and not produce rainbow tables or do DDoS attacks.
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by joaojeronimo 13y ago
There is an opt-in: http://cdn.crowdprocess.com/opt-in.html (only one website requested it so it's not in English so far). It's as immoral as advertising, maybe even less. In advertising you show up at a web page
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by joaojeronimo 13y ago
It's not possible, sorry. It's possible if you ask us to access a certain address, but to the outside world it's not allowed. It would be pretty cool to have distributed web crawlers but it would also be extremely dangerous i
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by joaojeronimo 13y ago
that's a pretty good one, especially since mining Litecoins is still profitable on EC2 (at least last time I checked). I was planing to write something like that on the weekend but couldn't, will have to do it pretty soon...
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How fast is a distributed computing platform made entirely of web browsers?(blog.crowdprocess.com)
8 points by joaojeronimo 13y ago|0 comments
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by joaojeronimo 13y ago
not what we're trying to do
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by joaojeronimo 13y ago
Yup, still tons (really tons) of people ask us why we mine bitcoins.
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by joaojeronimo 13y ago
The title has everything to do with it, it's about a better alternative to mine bitcoins
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Why mine Bitcoins when you can use Computing Power for Hedging?(crowdprocess.com)
12 points by joaojeronimo 13y ago|7 comments
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Browser Powered Genome Sequencing(blog.crowdprocess.com)
9 points by joaojeronimo 13y ago|5 comments
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by joaojeronimo 13y ago
already "slashdotted": Error establishing a database connection
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Why this huge performance difference for an encapsulated Javascript function?(stackoverflow.com)
1 points by joaojeronimo 13y ago|0 comments
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by joaojeronimo 13y ago
this is amazing!