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by joecot 8y ago
* Self hosted using wordpress or (maybe) drupal. Both have event managing plugins. * As funny as it might be, a subreddit. reddit meetups use subreddits for tracking just fine, I suppose a HN meetup could as well. The overlap between platfo
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There's a meetup at Cooperage in center city every Thursday. If you decide to go one day, shoot me a reddit message (same username) and I'll try to swing by. As far as organizing, there's an /r/philadelphia discord,
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EDIT: Let's go ahead and have a Philly HN Meetup Discord: https://discord.gg/jFeJUsJ There are plenty of /r/philadelphia reddit meetups, and there's a decent number of tech people there (the ratio was hi
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Yes, that was definitely also part of the calculation. We expected clients would not use it, because every extra step destroys conversation rates, but we wanted to at least provide the option. ... But even providing the option was a non-sta
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> Provided the merchant did not incur liability by doing something immensely stupid and insecure, the bank is on the hook. If the perpetrator is caught, they will pay restitution to the bank. Source? As someone who helps support an onlin
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Ah, I saw they had moved to Netplan, I hadn't realized NetworkManager supported a Netplan interface.
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Ubuntu is my daily driver, but don't expect Ubuntu promoting something to mean they're sticking with it for the long haul. See Wayland[1], Unity[2], and NetworkManager (EDIT apparently still supported with Netplan). I once backpor
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That allows ZoL to run on many different * nixes, which means that if Linux made a drastically breaking change, you could use it on another OS, sure. And the Linux kernel has made numerous breaking changes to their APIs that ZoL has been ab
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The linux kernel has made breaking changes [1] and deprecated APIs [2] internal APIs before. Specifically, your example brings up the danger that ZoL is in. The Linux kernel does everything in their power to not break User Land APIs. ZoL
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The risk to Nvidia is much lower than ZoL -- Nvidia has the resources to keep up with the kernel. It's maintained in house by the company selling the cards, and they have the resources directly to do development. But just like ZoL, if
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The risk is in trying to keep compatible with the Linux Kernel, when not part of the Linux Kernel dev team. If ZFS was a module within the Linux kernel source tree, Linux kernel devs would keep it in mind when making changes to the Linux ke
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You can get something very similar using AWS Cloud9. You can make Cloud9 workspaces that are full IDEs, which also includes terminal access. If you use your Cloud9 workspace as just a frontend to you own server (using SSH), it's free (
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Google talking to us like trying to trick a toddler. "Do you want to clean your room now, or after dinner?"
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I was close to convincing my small company to go with discord instead of slack, until we realized discord specifically disallows commercial use. Maybe they can charge something for commercial use and I'll get them to switch back.
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San Francisco has already found "ways" to deal with many of those issues. They can't afford wait staff anymore, so restaurants are switching to counter service[1]. A law firm started housing their lawyers in Texas and flying
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I could see cities going one way or the other. * Some cities might readily accept the leverage to change policy they weren't happy with. * Some cities might decline the federal grants, under threat from home owners. * Some cities might
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Would they though? Are cities required to make up the difference? Problem: cities are artificially keeping housing prices up, pushing lower income people out in favor of the upper class. The housing market is forcing lower income people o
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> On Aug. 13, Carson proposed requiring that cities that receive federal housing grants reduce their use of exclusionary zoning. Question: is there anything stopping these cities from just deciding to decline federal housing grants? The
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Just using SSL connections doesn't cover it, for two reasons: 1. You can't force MySQL to only accept connections over SSL. You can only enable SSL, and set specific accounts to only allow SSL logins. This means that any sort of &
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The problem with just using something like Lambda on a VPC (so you can use a traditional firewall to protect your MySQL server) is that the cold start times are 10-15 seconds, to get your local network interface and connect to the server. Y
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As far as protocol is concerned, if you're using TLS, a client certificate, and a strong password, sure, opening your database servers to world accessible should be fine. The problem is that it's possible, and very likely, there
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The problem is that most consumers don't plan ahead for wanting to buy a porn subscription. It's a spur of the moment decision. Any form of barrier you put in front of that decision -- whether it's extra verification, or a di
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3-D Secure is not a european only thing. If someone successfully signs up with 3-D Secure, the onus is on the issuing card's bank, not the merchant, so that would be ideal. The problem we ran into was that since the 3-D Secure verifica
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"You could have invented that Bluetooth attack" Proceeds to explain elliptic curve mechanics that would make most readers completely glaze over. Maybe they mean they just mean their normal reader base, who has an attention span
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VPC NICs for Lambda were released in February 2016, and API Gateway + Lambda is heavily pushed as a use case. It's been 2 1/2 years, numerous new features have been released since then, both for Lamda and RDS, and this has not bee
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This is extremely frustrating. One of the biggest use cases for wanting to use Aurora serverless is connecting to MySQL using lambda functions -- Function as a Service apps that can still use rdbms. The problem is that RDS endpoints only ex
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AWS also has NoSQL cloud solutions, particularly DynamoDB, and maybe SimpleDB if you want to risk building on a someday deprecated service. Those options work fine, if you were OK with using a NoSQL DB. But what if you wanted to use an actu
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Here's the problem. Uptime pingers work great if you have a low volume service. You keep 1, 2, or maybe 3 instances of the function warm, and you don't have to deal with cold start times. But there's 2 places that idea falls
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How do you deal with the 10+ second cold start times for Lambda when using it in a VPC? Are you pre-warming your lambda functions? Did you open up your RDS instance to the world so you could connect to it from a public lambda network? I kno
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My coworker is running a hosted affiliate tracking system on AWS as part of our company. He regularly has to deal with AWS wanting to pull our servers because of email spam -- not because we're sending spam emails, but because some aff

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