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Ask HN: Recommendations for Peer to Peer Frameworks?
276 points by zilchers 9y ago|75 comments
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by zilchers 9y ago
For what it’s worth, I think YouTube is generally much more net positive than Facebook (especially if you stay out of the comments).
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by zilchers 9y ago
Had not thought of that, though it would only really work if it was Zuck getting caught up, I don’t think a lower level person getting netted would change how he acts.
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by zilchers 9y ago
That’s interesting, hadn’t thought about that, but undoubtedly there are hundreds more examples of this. That’s a congressional investigation they would probably like to avoid...
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by zilchers 9y ago
But that’s sort of my issue, this is Mark Zuckerburg and Cheryl Sandburg, engaged, liberal leaning (to my knowledge) individuals, you’d think regardless of the business model, they would be taking extreme steps to understand Facebook’s role
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by zilchers 9y ago
That’s a great statement on the issue almost always faced by security professionals. Almost impossible to impress upon people the stakes when you can do something, almost impossible to do anything once it’s too late.
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by zilchers 9y ago
I seriously feel like I’m missing something here, why isn’t Facebook fully behind getting to the bottom of this? Going back even further, why was it so difficult for them to even admit they had a problem during the election? I don’t think i
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by zilchers 9y ago
Cassandra has a host of other trade offs besides java (tombstones and data garbage collection come to mind).
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by zilchers 9y ago
CockroachDB is implemented on top of a key / value store. I don’t know too much about the internals, but a kv store with lots of degrees of consistency seems like a good primitive to build more complex data stores on top. For instance,
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by zilchers 9y ago
Big missing piece of this was clustered / HA configurations. To run a production level application, you’re going to be running with some sort of clustering or replication, which is going to add a pretty significant latency depending on
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by zilchers 9y ago
This was non-sensical...someone will compete with google because Blockchain? There’s no issue with current payment models, you don’t need a trustless peer to peer system to beat google, you need to significantly change the nature of what it
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by zilchers 9y ago
I believe it came from this talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSRoEeqYtJA And I think this is what Greg's referring to: http://bitcoinfibre.org/
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by zilchers 9y ago
It obviously depends on who you ask, this is an incredibly politicized issue, but core developers would argue blocksize is not bike shedding, but rather an important defense against centralization and censorship. I think the stat I heard is
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by zilchers 9y ago
Is it just me, or was that huge bug with serious implications if you don’t know it exists? I don’t often use MySQL, maybe its well know in the community.
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by zilchers 9y ago
Man, I tried to troll 10 different channels and only got kicked from #bitcoin-dev Its interesting how hostile and vitriolic the bitcoin development community has been lately, kind of a good proof point for what the original article is try
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by zilchers 9y ago
The Bloomberg article described Juicero as "one of the most lavishly funded gadget startups in Silicon Valley" and founder Doug Evans once said he planned to do for juicing what Steve Jobs did for computers. With vision like tha
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by zilchers 9y ago
Ya, great point, though at big companies it can be very hard to just let things fail. Though that reminds me of another answer to the parent question which is managers who reward people who fix broken stuff, but don't reward people who
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by zilchers 9y ago
Something I see a ton is management by crisis - 20 people from an organization could tell certain managers that there will be performance issues in 3 months if we don't pay down tech debt, but nothing actually sinks in until there is a
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by zilchers 9y ago
I think it's unlikely you'd have a fully split chain, although this is actually an interesting attack against bitcoin, considering China could theoretically cause a China / rest of the world blockchain partition.
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by zilchers 9y ago
I'd also add, coming from a startup to a big company can be incredibly frustrating, and a lot of high performers can be quite demoralized by the bureaucracy and pace (even while they're being paid well to be there).
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by zilchers 9y ago
If you haven't, read and listen to this excellent podcast: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/10/21/357629765/when-... The gender issues from this paper have been pretty well hashed ou
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by zilchers 9y ago
I wouldn't even call these complex mechanics - TFA basically says more favorable terms in later rounds (liquidations preferences, etc) mean that the high share price in those rounds shouldn't be used as the price for all outstandi
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by zilchers 9y ago
Ya, that's not a bad point, I guess really any completely virtual item that distributes on a first come, first serve basis could work. That's sort of a generalization of bitcoin itself (if you think of the proof of work is a first
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by zilchers 9y ago
Ya, I was going to point out there's a lot of faith with normal currency too - I think bitcoin still is a grand experiment. So far, when there have been forks, a winner has emerged very quickly (see Ethereum), but the UASF is going to
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by zilchers 9y ago
I could be wrong, buy I didn't read this as an indictment of bitcoin, but rather blockchain as a platform. I'm very pro bitcoin, but I see it as really the only killer app for blockchain at this point. Don't get me wrong, I&#
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by zilchers 9y ago
This article pretty well sums up my overarching opinion that, at this point, bitcoin is the only actual killer app for blockchain. I'm always looking for the next kill app, but haven't seen it yet. With bitcoin, the idea of no gov
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by zilchers 9y ago
Haha, my issue with Ethereum has always been that, as a software engineer, I know it's impossible to write bug free code. It's a great idea to have a code driven contract utopia, but our first experiment with that model proved we
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by zilchers 9y ago
I think this is the point though - for something like bitcoin, this tension is ok. It's when you start getting into things like blockchains for real estate in developing countries (I think there are a few startups working on this) when
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by zilchers 9y ago
Late to the party, but does anyone know how the card was supposed to work? It always seemed like a tricky technical problem, but may not?
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by zilchers 9y ago
I remember when this first was announced, seemed like a really tricky technical problem, and I definitely never understood what tech they were proposing. Does anyone know if they ever had a prototype?

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