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wjh_··on Scuttlebutt, a Decentralized Alternative to Facebook
Would you be able to elaborate on these issues?
wjh_··on 500M of “Have I been Pwned” hashes broken
Nope, it isn't necessary. It just helps with peering, and the actual download will start faster.
wjh_··on Monero Is Less Untraceable Than It Seems
Every single time something seems to claim to be untraceable or anonymous, it seems to hold for a while, and then there's a "<X> is not as safe as we thought" headline.

Seems to be a good rule to just not trust anything.

wjh_··on Caffeine and Cannabis Effects on Vital Neurotransmitters in Rats
My subnet is blocked, but I'm going through my VPS...

Apparently the subnet I'm on has been blocked for bulk downloading.

wjh_··on What to Do When Laptops and Silence Take Over Your Cafe?
Pretty much. Perhaps billing per minute if you're going to stay for longer than an hour, or per item if you're staying for less. Though that seems overly complex and a logistical nightmare.
wjh_··on What to Do When Laptops and Silence Take Over Your Cafe?
There's a place I often visit in Shoreditch called Ziferblat[0], and I think that they have something of a solution to this (they have other places too).

Essentially, you are charged for your time and everything else is free. Presently I think it's about 7p per minute for the first hour, and then 4p a minute afterwards - there's also a cap.

While in there, coffee, snacks, etc, are all "free".

Perhaps this sort of model could work? Obviously if you're not willing to kick out all the remote workers. I guess this turns it into more of a coworking space though.

[0]: http://www.ziferblat.co.uk/

wjh_··on Farewell from Rusty Russell
> The parent comment and an answer as a mobile link are making me feel old

If it helps, I didn't actually exist at the time

wjh_··on Do you need a blockchain?
> I am not 100% whether Kademlia networks are censorship resistant but I think so.

Seconded. I'm almost certain they are, or at least, they're pretty damn hard to stop.

wjh_··on Do you need a blockchain?
I was about to comment exactly that.
wjh_··on Non-Consensual Intimate Image Pilot
PhotoDNA would be an option, I imagine. Or at least something similar!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhotoDNA

wjh_··on Ask HN: What Go framework for web API are you using in production?
Also using Gin, works really well.
wjh_··on One Hundred Books in April from Hacker News
Woah What Computers Still Can't Do sounds really interesting, I think I might read What Computers Still Can't Do.

Would you be able to tell me more about What Computers Still Can't Do before I buy What Computers Still Can't Do?

wjh_··on Acetaminophen reduces empathy for pain (2016)
Probably not the best idea. While they do tend to summarise well, comments tend to be filled with opinion - generally a better idea to ensure you form your own, rather than rely on a potentially biased third party.
wjh_··on Why we should teach kids actual programming, not Scratch, etc.
I agree with what you say.

I went to a British Secondary School, and am just about to leave Sixth Form - I took computer science at both levels.

The trouble is - again, at both levels - there are few teachers who understand the topic. Scratch and the like are easy to learn for more or less anyone, and teachers can teach it easily. I know that in some cases CS teachers are IT teachers who took on the extra subject.

With like Python, unless the teacher has actually written a decent amount of it then they're going to struggle to teach it well. If they've never properly programmed, they will also struggle to point out that "Twitter has an API that you may want to use to analyse tweet contents", for instance.

I'd just like to reiterate that I am not disagreeing with you, I would very much love a curriculum change. I just think that the lack of qualified teachers needs to be addressed as well.

wjh_··on Performance notes
A good read, though funnily enough the live departures board doesn't seem to work for the closest station to me. Nor does it seem to work for lines that have trains going in both directions.

Though to be honest most things don't, I blame being rural.

wjh_··on Watch the world currencies flow into BTC in realtime
It is also pretty late here in Europe, perhaps there's more going on during the daytime
wjh_··on How Four Native Developers Wrote an Electron App
Okay so, as much as we all want to complain about how awful Electron is for battery life and just general efficiency, the facts are that it most likely is going to stay - at least for a little while, considering how much is being invested in it.

Instead of complaining about what it does, perhaps we could be trying to make it more efficient, or make an alternative that solves the same problems (perceived or otherwise) in a better way?

wjh_··on Go Long on Web Components
To be fair to them, I doubt either of them envisioned their work to be used for anything like what it is now.
wjh_··on Nim Programming Language v0.17.0 released
When this happens with most other posts, most people tend to not read them, not comment on them, and most definitely not shit all over them.

Enough people have been interested in it for it to be voted high enough for you to see it.

wjh_··on Author illustrates book using MS Paint after spending 10 years mastering it
Available in Sweden, however.
wjh_··on Ask HN: What's your working day like?
3 hours of daily commute for college.

Can confirm. Not fun.

wjh_··on When You Accidentally Break Your School Network in 1995
In 2015 (perhaps more recent than other comments...) I was in trouble for starting powershell via a shortcut and using it to kill the monitoring process. Apparently it was "causing intentional damage", when in fact I just wanted to finish reading something online after the teacher disabled the internet.

Luckily they didn't take it any further than a stern telling off, unlike the article.

On top of that, I had actually revealed a vulnerability allowing anyone to access anyone elses' files earlier in the year.

wjh_··on Vue HN 2.0
Neat idea!

I guess it's using something like headless chrome to get the thumbnails?

wjh_··on Ask HN: How did you acquire your first 100 users?
Lanes looks really neat! I'll be giving it a go, it does a lot of what I want.
wjh_··on Nomx Passes Security Tests After Blogger Claims to Have Penetrated Nomx
Stands in burning building

"Our fire protection systems passed all tests, nothing is wrong."

wjh_··on Ask HN: Who browses the web without JavaScript and why?
I personally browse with JS on (with a lot of filters), but I know a lot of people who have it off and whitelist sites that are broken without it. Sometimes on a per-script basis.

Main reasons are for extra privacy (scripts aren't there making arbitrary requests), better responsiveness, and better battery life etc. Of course there is a cost.

wjh_··on Ask HN: Review my startup
Looks like he did. Most of the replies to the reviews are from "Sportal Inc."
wjh_··on Dead, IRL
Sounds a lot like Black Mirror.
wjh_··on Ask HN: Fingerless glove recommendations
I found some cheap ones on Amazon for £1.10. They've been great for a couple of months, so really anything would do.
wjh_··on Show HN: Zif, peer-to-peer torrent indexing in Go
Thank you! It's been my work of the past few months, actually part of a school project and presentation.
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