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Ask HN: Is HN's account creation CAPTCHA broken?
2 points by sysk 11y ago|2 comments
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by sysk 11y ago
Is Forth still being used in industry other than for legacy systems? (genuine question)
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by sysk 11y ago
Here's another good one: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2540955/Beijing-clou...
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by sysk 11y ago
Indeed. I was also surprised to find this out given how popular Electrum is. The code is here: https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/blob/master/lib/blockch... and https://github.com/
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by sysk 11y ago
The issue is not with SPV itself but with Electrum's implementation (by "and friends" I really meant Electrum forks, not all SPV clients). Electrum does validate block headers but it doesn't handle re-orgs correctly. It
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by sysk 11y ago
> They don't calculate the difficulty correctly? Yes. It's possible to create a long chain at low difficulty and the original bitcoin client protects against that by computing the total "work" that has gone in a chain
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by sysk 11y ago
Also, Electrum wallet and friends don't do proof of work validation, they merely check which is the longest chain.
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by sysk 11y ago
Pretty disappointed by the derisive comments in this thread. For a bunch of startup enthusiasts and innovators, we sure do seem to like status quo. Or maybe it's just a contrarian signalling thing? Sorry for going meta.
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by sysk 11y ago
I have a very limited understanding of how distributions work so this is probably a stupid question but why don't RHEL/CentOS update the Linux kernel they ship with their 6.x OS? Isn't the kernel supposed to never break user
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by sysk 11y ago
When there will be a better alternative.
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by sysk 11y ago
I'm not a sysadmin but recently started using CoreOS to deploy small web apps. Could anyone explain to me like I'm 5 what's the difference between those cluster schedulers and something like CoreOS' fleet ( https:/&
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by sysk 11y ago
Ah, interesting question. I had never implemented a chat server before and initially read the IRC/XMPP specifications but Slack felt like a "superset" of both (federation/p2p wasn't a priority for me) and I was more
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by sysk 11y ago
Depressing indeed. Are there any other open source projects that are API compatible with a proprietary product/service? Is it ethical? I feel like it is but would be interested to hear HN's opinion.
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Ask HN: I wrote a Slack compatible server. Can I open source it?
101 points by sysk 11y ago|53 comments
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by sysk 11y ago
Some variant of this comment is also constantly being made in "X written in Y" threads and it's getting a bit annoying. ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8907143 , https://news.ycombinator.com&
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Ask HN: Is it too late to apply for YC summer batch?
1 points by sysk 12y ago|0 comments
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by sysk 12y ago
What is the best way to reach you? I've been working on a Bitcoin related web-based/mobile software for the past few months and have a working MVP (Node.js, PostgreSQL, Angular stack although I'm flexible about using other te
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Ask HN: Feedback on project idea (automated regression test generation)
2 points by sysk 12y ago|1 comments
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by sysk 12y ago
Have you considered freelancing or running a small consulting business? I admit that if I was faced with the opportunity of hiring someone a lot older and experienced than me I'd have two immediate thoughts: "This guy would be a g
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by sysk 12y ago
I was hoping there would be an obvious answer. I guess I could rephrase the question this way: "is it common for people who make ~120k/year to drive a Porsche?" or "if you'd have a median income of all Porsche owner
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by sysk 12y ago
I'm actually wondering about the "Porsche or a civic" question now. Can you afford a Porsche on ~$120k a year in the US? (I'm not a car guy)
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by sysk 12y ago
Do you actually have 167 servers running in your home or do you rent them on e.g. EC2 when you need them? If it's the former case, is it because it makes financial sense (I'd be surprised) or is it for the experience/fun?
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by sysk 12y ago
What I really meant by "easily accessible" was "publicly available".
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by sysk 12y ago
Could you link to some concrete examples? If I find a bug, I will always use Github's issue tracker. I also usually ask questions directly on Github for the less popular libraries and only use SO for more popular languages/librari
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Ask HN: All of you working with Big Data, what is your Data?
117 points by sysk 12y ago|94 comments
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by sysk 12y ago
The next philosophical question would be: Is it meaningfully there if we don't notice its presence? :)
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by sysk 12y ago
> They did grasshopper landing without them right? As someone who doesn't know the slightest bit about space technology, I was a bit confused about the fact that they successfully landed another rocket. If that's the case why i
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by sysk 12y ago
It's crazy how some people in this thread get so emotional and negative about a new tool. If you don't like it, just don't use it. Yes, we know that CGI is slow and that you don't like Javascript.
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by sysk 12y ago
My current web app is composed of 10 database hosts and 11 REST APIs. 21 VMs would blow my laptop's resources away while 21 containers run just fine. For me, that makes Docker a lot more attractive for local development. Also, Docker r
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by sysk 12y ago
I thought creating a BOSH release would be too much work but I will try that. What would be nice is if BOSH could abstract a cluster of VMs as a single Docker host and let me operate on containers instead of VMs (I'm not sure if that&#

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