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Artemis2on How much does Netflix spend on Amazon AWS?

“AWS Free Tier limit alert”

So you’re already halfway done :-)

Artemis2on 2018 MacBook Pro Has Fastest SSD Ever

Isn’t this from the custom SSD controller they’ve been iterating over for years? [0] A variation of it even made its way into the iPhone [1]. Of course there are likely more hardware factors, such as binning.

0: http://www.iphonehacks.com/2015/04/apple-custom-ssd-controll...

1: https://bgr.com/2015/09/29/iphone-6s-macbook-ssd-storage-con...

Artemis2on Ask HN: Any recommendations for PCI audit firms

Email me (address is in my profile), I can put you in touch with our current firm. The process has been very smooth for us in the past.

Artemis2on Intercom IPs blacklisted by Spamhaus

I’ve received spam from Intercom many times. They have always responded swiftly when forwarding the messages to abuse@. No spam at all would be better.

Artemis2on What is wrong with Microsoft buying GitHub

Not commenting on the acquisitions rumors;

> The acquisition of Skype, after which all the peer-to-peer traffic was routed through Microsoft, essentially allowing them to snoop on the conversations. To pre-empt the technical counter argument that this was done to improve the service: It only improved the service for some edge cases, for everybody else the service got worse because of the extra round-trip latency. So if that was the real reason then you’d have expected to see the traffic routed to the central servers only if one of those edge cases was detected.

IIRC the main reasons this was done are (i) due to the complexity of porting P2P code across many platforms and (ii) for resource consumption on mobile devices. These are hardly edge cases.

Artemis2on Visa card network crashes, causing increased decline rates across UK and Europe

Same here — I work for an online payments company. We’ve been seeing a dip of 2–7 points for the past few hours across our network.

Artemis2on Architecture of a Database System (2007) [pdf]

I would recommend Monodraw: https://monodraw.helftone.com

Artemis2on $36k Google App Engine RCE

This report showcases a ton of tenacity and thoroughness. Not his first time as well: https://sites.google.com/site/testsitehacking/10k-host-heade.... Very impressive.

“Please stop exploring this further, as it seems you could easily break something” has got to be the best reply one can receive to a bug bounty report.

Artemis2on What SSH Hacking Attempts Look Like

I love the idea of Single-Packet Authorization with fwknop instead of port knocking: http://www.cipherdyne.org/fwknop/

Artemis2on How Algolia Built Their Realtime Search as a Service

Have you tried https://hn.algolia.com?

Artemis2on Why it took a long time to build the tiny link preview on Wikipedia

Learned from this article that they make their Grafana dashboards public: https://grafana.wikimedia.org/dashboard/file/varnish-http-er...

The variety of metrics and the sheer volume of those is awesome to explore! (e.g. frequent peaks to 20M requests per minute)

Artemis2on Distributed architecture concepts I learned when building a large payment system

IIRC Braintree, which routes some transactions to Adyen (yes, it’s possible)

Artemis2on Amazingly Good Security

> Am I late for the T-Mobile party? @c_pellegrino, @tmobileat

https://twitter.com/fabricio_giglio/status/98236273592413798...

Artemis2on Cryptographic Right Answers

Enveloppe encryption (what you are describing) is absolutely the way to go, but the caveats described in the document for key generation and symmetric encryption apply.

Artemis2on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2018)

ProcessOut (https://www.processout.com) | Paris, France | ONSITE, FULL-TIME

ProcessOut is a payment data company started 2 years ago. The company is currently based in Paris and employs 7 persons. ProcessOut is on a mission to help online merchants monitor and optimize their payment performance. Using our payment monitoring & smart routing systems, online merchants optimize payment fees and decrease failed transactions. We’ve already seen billions of dollars go through our platform since launch just last year, and we are still growing strongly.

We’re looking for a fearless individual to join our infrastructure team. We’d like to see production experience with the cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure), orchestration systems (ideally Kubernetes), declarative cloud configuration (we love Terraform!). We have a lot of interesting scaling and reliability problems to solve (we are processing millions of high-value requests every day).

Email me at louis-paul@processout.com.

Artemis2on Facebook tracks your private calls

As long as they don’t kill people incorrectly…

Artemis2on ChargeBee Raises $18M Series C Led by Insight Venture Partners

Congrats on closing the round! Too bad the story didn’t make it to the front page :-(

Artemis2on N26 raises $160M from Tencent and Allianz

IIRC this is exactly the case.

Artemis2on N26 raises $160M from Tencent and Allianz

> There is a standardized API for interfacing with banks, HBCI, which almost every other bank supports. Except N26, who stated that they have no plans to do so

Won’t that change when PSD2 comes into full enforcement?

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I like the “Answered in 0.15 seconds” instead of “About X results (0.27 seconds)”

Artemis2on Ask HN: What's the worst-designed, slowest app that still makes a lot of money?

Everything Qualys. A simple task that I need to accomplish regularly which should take 30 minutes tops requires a full day almost everytime (despite building an internal wiki for the process with all edge cases).

Artemis2on 2,800 New Data Breaches with 80M Records Added

16 sites (+2 pastes) with an old email address.

Artemis2on Why It’s So Hard to Actually Work in Shared Offices

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_windows_theory might be an interesting read.

Artemis2on Ask HN: Is there server-side software that we are missing in 2018?

oklog might be for you? https://github.com/oklog/oklog

It’s still new, but the architecture is sound and it worked well for me on a small single-node deployment (about 30 clients sending logs).

Artemis2on ProcessOut chooses the best online payment service for each transaction

ProcessOut cofounder here. Happy to answer any questions you may have :-)

Artemis2on Robinhood Crypto – Invest in Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies

Right, it’s based on market manipulation.

Artemis2on Bolt: An End-To-End Payments Stack with Zero Fraud