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31.
by riking 7y ago
Libra at launch is going to be extremely centralized, with decentralization being merely a possibility for future "growth".
32.
by riking 7y ago
Are you (1) employed by the Libra Foundation or Facebook, (2) in possession of a large Libra stake, or (3) duped by the marketing and in possession of a large amount of free time?
33.
by riking 7y ago
Not because it "MIGHT" happen, because it does happen.
34.
by riking 7y ago
"without an audit" It would be more accurate to say that they have failed every attempted audit of the protocol.
35.
by riking 8y ago
Did anyone consider comparing the cost of this vs. Cloud Spanner? Because CockroachDB has the explicit inspiration of being Google's Spanner without the special hardware, so... why not just use Spanner with the special hardware instead
36.
by riking 8y ago
The canonical shebang line to do this is '/usr/bin/tcc -r' - the Tiny C Compiler in "run" mode.
37.
by riking 9y ago
But going Alt-right -> Anime has a second path through Vaporwave.
38.
by riking 9y ago
Why go to all that trouble when you can just #!/usr/bin/tcc -run #include <stdio.h> int main() { puts("Hello, World!"); }
39.
by riking 9y ago
>It's also possible maciej wants to ~~do Machine Learning on the data~~, Excuse me? "Unlikely"? Understatement of the thread. And I wouldn't describe that sentence as a sentimental motivation, but rather an _archival_
40.
by riking 9y ago
Who said anything about chat? Parent was talking about https://discourse.org which has effort put into archival / finding old discussions
41.
by riking 9y ago
Or on Hacker News, for that matter...
42.
by riking 10y ago
It's still absolutely terrible in terms of ergonomics. You're forced to perform manual memory management, etc. I've done it a few times and I absolutely don't recommend it.
43.
by riking 10y ago
Grapevine says that they were holding a transaction open for the entire duration of the Uber ride.
44.
by riking 10y ago
the beauty of it is they're /not customers anymore/.
45.
by riking 10y ago
Vote for all applications you approve of ("approval voting"). The only wasted ballots are no votes and all votes.
46.
by riking 11y ago
The actual problem resulting in untrusted cert is the "extra download" certificates.
47.
by riking 11y ago
Looking at the economics, it seems like you're just making them burn cash faster.
48.
by riking 11y ago
Problem: "Backend services" - how many of the Slack integrations don't have public APIs and Slack was only able to do it by being a single company? Good luck convincing people to set up the API keys for all of those services.
49.
by riking 11y ago
Or require crossorigin="anonymous", maybe in combination with Cache-Control: public.
50.
by riking 11y ago
Nope, that's on a 64-bit Digital Ocean machine that we provision for you. The only secret sauce in the $99 install is the Mandrill reseller code.
51.
by riking 11y ago
> The author also calls out error reporting as being terrible. Actually, he never got far enough to see the error reporting tool, Logster.
52.
by riking 11y ago
Keep in mind, we're trying to make 3 copies of all this data - so multiply that bandwidth by 3.
53.
by riking 11y ago
> The visitor agrees with this and receives the content. I'm sorry, on most websites, if I come from HN or IRC or whatever, I don't recall being forced to agree to shit before being able to read the content. Unless your site is
54.
by riking 11y ago
Yep, people looked and it's using filter lists, just less of them.
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A Story About Jessica (SwiftOnSecurity)(swiftonsecurity.tumblr.com)
3 points by riking 11y ago|0 comments
56.
by riking 11y ago
So, basically, systemd-bus would solve the problems even without kdbus, if it avoided all the extraneous memory allocations.
57.
by riking 11y ago
No, the *.google.com cert has SHA-1. It's just that it expires before 2016, as they get issued for 3 months.
58.
by riking 12y ago
If you're on a mac, try $ brew install gnu-units - it's probably using a very incomplete library of units.
59.
by riking 12y ago
µBlock can import hosts files, and it has an off-switch :)
60.
by riking 12y ago
Looks like they actually started, then abandoned it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8854100 https://github.com/EFForg/pushserver/blob/ce2e5034629185af64...

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