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Libra at launch is going to be extremely centralized, with decentralization being merely a possibility for future "growth".

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?

Not because it "MIGHT" happen, because it does happen.

"without an audit"

It would be more accurate to say that they have failed every attempted audit of the protocol.

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?

The canonical shebang line to do this is '/usr/bin/tcc -r' - the Tiny C Compiler in "run" mode.

But going Alt-right -> Anime has a second path through Vaporwave.

Why go to all that trouble when you can just

#!/usr/bin/tcc -run #include <stdio.h> int main() { puts("Hello, World!"); }

>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_ motivation. Preserve your history or it will be lost.

Who said anything about chat? Parent was talking about https://discourse.org which has effort put into archival / finding old discussions

Or on Hacker News, for that matter...

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.

Grapevine says that they were holding a transaction open for the entire duration of the Uber ride.

the beauty of it is they're /not customers anymore/.

Vote for all applications you approve of ("approval voting"). The only wasted ballots are no votes and all votes.

The actual problem resulting in untrusted cert is the "extra download" certificates.

Looking at the economics, it seems like you're just making them burn cash faster.

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.

Or require crossorigin="anonymous", maybe in combination with Cache-Control: public.

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.

> The author also calls out error reporting as being terrible.

Actually, he never got far enough to see the error reporting tool, Logster.

Keep in mind, we're trying to make 3 copies of all this data - so multiply that bandwidth by 3.

> 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 Quora.

Yep, people looked and it's using filter lists, just less of them.

So, basically, systemd-bus would solve the problems even without kdbus, if it avoided all the extraneous memory allocations.

No, the *.google.com cert has SHA-1. It's just that it expires before 2016, as they get issued for 3 months.

If you're on a mac, try $ brew install gnu-units - it's probably using a very incomplete library of units.

µBlock can import hosts files, and it has an off-switch :)

Looks like they actually started, then abandoned it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8854100 https://github.com/EFForg/pushserver/blob/ce2e5034629185af64...

... email account passwords ...