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This is the first site I've run in to that uses neumorphic design. Love the aesthetic -- just never seen in it the wild before.

This appears to be riding the [Solid Cache](https://dev.37signals.com/solid-cache/) idea that DHH has started espousing. At the core of this idea is that SSD's are sufficiently fast for caching. Sure, this may work for 37signals, but that is because they manage their own hardware. That is the exception and not the rule. And, per [this discussion two weeks ago](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39443679). SSD's aren't as fast for most of us that leverage "the cloud".

Sure, you can do it, but why? I am all for removing complexities in my infrastructure. That said, Memcached and/or Redis are both rock solid and dead simple.

This just seems to be a waist of time 99.999% of use cases.

This is a win for the environment and for human rights. A lot of people on here are talking about how solar and wind are better alternatives. The problem with that is that they typically need to be stored in batteries made of cobalt. The vast majority of cobalt mines exist in the Congo where modern day slavery exists to extract it. This affects everything from your Tesla to your iPhone.

Because not tipping someone that makes their living off of tips is a jerk move.

The reason why everyone is upset is because Apollo works perfectly for the Reddit use case while the official client does not. Sure it is technically superior, but it is "better" from a product management perspective.

Reddit, Tumblr, TikTok, Instagram, etc, all attract a similar type of user but they are different products that engage people in different types of social interactions.

You can't port that.

At Amazon's scale, betting on M1 servers for a niche subset of their EC2 offering doesn't seem to be really risky.

What are some of the other exciting things happening in the Rails world these days?

This looks great. I'd love to remove Redis from my tech stack on applications with low throughput background jobs. Sadly, it doesn't appear to have a UI.

Resque and Sidekiq are both good enough solutions, but what makes them my defacto choice is the robust web UIs that comes with them.

You can implement background processing with less operational complexity. This allows you to leverage activejob to get something up and running quickly and easily.

Granted, if you start having higher throughput, you want to move on from using postgres as your message bus.

1) Setup a status page for what you want to monitor (/health/queuelength) 2) Point statuscake at that url 3) Connect statuscake to pagerduty.

This approach is easy to implement and scale

I hired the best Engineering leader I have ever worked with early in his career from posting on an HN "who's hiring thread".

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Step1 helps Realtor's organize the home buying process while putting their clients first. There are plenty of tools that organize this process (known as Transaction Management), but none that put their client first. As we know, the best products put their users first. We are taking that idea into the Real Estate industry.

Step1 is currently in a closed beta and we are going to need a lot of help getting the word out. Lay the foundation of a Marketing Department that you will build in your vision.

email aaron@getstep1.com to began a conversation.

Isn't this the inverse experiment? The theory that removing ads will increase your user base?

EBITDA is intended to reduce the possibility of "financial engineering".

The medical field has a term for this: iatrogenic.

The majority of these websites appear to be US based local news outlets. They have very little motivation to comply with GDPR.

As a side note, a lot of the comments here suggest that few people are reviewing the list at all before offering their opinion. Yes GDPR is a great step forward for data privacy, but there is little reason to shame "The Pueblo Chieftain" for not complying with GDPR. What is more likely:

1) compliance doesn't matter to them or their audience 2) they are trying to exploit and monetize your data

Reddit can't contact them because Reddit didn't require an email address to create an account back then.

If they did require an email address, they could restore their database backups to retrieve that information.

Stock analysts should have to share what percentage of their portfolio is in any company they write about.

It is a team sport. Learn to recognize when to ask for help and who is the best suited to help you.

The user couldn't be signed in as the attacker if search.com required their cookie to be signed. Only search.com would have the secret key.

EDIT: Just read https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10279794 ... NM, you are correct.

Another great argument for using signed cookies.

That's a rather entitled viewpoint.

What exactly would you like to see?

I have two at my house and absolutely love them for the simplest tasks: weather, time, timer & shopping list. It's other features are fun, but I haven't found more useful than grabbing my smartphone.

For me, it's a more useful Siri.

I disagree. The primary purpose of language is to help one give form to their thoughts. Communication is secondary to this.

Also, this is only an issue if you are running version 1.0.2. It doesn't affect any other version.

So, this exploit allows for a Denial of Service Attack. While this does mean a single person could bring down your site, it does not appear that it will allow someone to gain access to your server via this exploit.

No, probably not anyone who is reading hackernews, but imgur has a much wider audience.

GIFV will help communicate 2 things: 1) this file is audio free 2)this file is safe (people don't generally worry about getting a virus from a gif).

Austin TX, AcademicWorks, Senior Ruby Engineer / Systems Architect

We are looking for someone to help us scale, automate, and maintain our SaaS application that is used by some of the largest and most prestigious universities and foundations. We operate a heavily sharded environment and process millions of scholarship applications for our customers. If you love working on interesting problems while knowing that your work is actually helping students pay for school, we'd love to talk to you.

We are a close-knit, pragmatic group. We have fun solving hard problems by tackling them as a team, relying on open communication, and a consistent willingness to pitch in. As a member of our team, you will be given ownership over key projects and entrusted to lead them through to completion. The contributions you make will have a real impact, and will be recognized by both our customers and other team members.

Examples of the work you might do are: * Writing and assisting with the design of new core features for both existing and new products; * Optimizing application and system components for performance and reliability; * Creating tools to automate the scaling of certain components of our AWS-backed infrastructure; and * Instrumenting our application and systems to capture performance and business metrics.

Our technology stack includes: * AWS EC2, Route53, S3, and ElastiCache * Ruby/Rails * Cassandra * Elasticsearch * Postgres * Chef * Redis

If these types of problems and technologies interest you, please contact us at careers@academicworks.com . Experience in one or more of the technologies mentioned is preferred. Passion (and a basic understanding of Linux) is required.

Seems like you might want to consider getting all of your data in the same place. A Foreign Data Wrapper feeding a Materialized View might be a neat way to solve your problem: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/interactive/rules-materia...