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For all the janky looking URLs I get from eggs that only have like twenty tweets, half of them janky looking URLs, I don't believe anything is trivial for Twitter's spam filters.

> Ironically, there's a Nissan car that does enable and disable the limiter based on the GPS detecting it being on a race track or not. But they're transparent about it. It's the G…

From firsthand experience, the PostGIS extension for PostgreSQL is fantastic. A couple of my coworkers at Basho have done geospatial work with Riak, our scalable, distributed datab…

That's so indescribably worse than just killing that process the mind boggles. Breaking in a simple, predictable, and detectable way vs. corrupting data and hoping (excuse me, "pra…

Spying on all of the email isn't simple either. When there's a will and a bottomless font of taxpayer money in the name of national security, there's a way.

Is this a case of design for the sake of aesthetics alone? Welcome to Hacker News!

I've never had this happen.

Yes, this is pretty common for printers installed in service desks at the airport. However, they tend to not have overly-branded stock because in the irregular circumstances you te…

Usability. One time pads have been around forever, are provably secure, but a pain in the ass. Modern symmetric ciphers solve the "you need to securely exchange as much key materia…

I'm confused as to why you'd need a third-party for this. The Authy app is better. Look at the screenshots at https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/google-authenticator/id38849... . The …

Flat is in this year.

Sterilize & release programs for feral cats work; the sterilized cats compete for the same resources as unsterilized ones, but are more effective and longer-lived because they don'…

" http://jessicahische.is/monkeyingaround" has got to be the best URL I've seen in a long time.

It does a merge sort, and I can't see that you can opt out of it: https://github.com/basho/riak_kv/blob/master/src/sms.erl 2i doesn't use mapreduce in normal operation.

Secondary Indexing Improvements: Query results are now sorted and paginated, offering developers much richer semantics So the results can be sorted but are not stored in sorted ord…

This "poison" is easy to deal with - just go again next year and win it. At what cost, though? From DHH's post: When you expect to win, it’s merely a checked box if you do — after …

The credits at the end state that most of the actresses were hired through a firm in Portland, so I'd assume he's in Oregon, where summer days aren't 90°F.

> Oracle's files are based on the tzinfo files, and are just as vulnerable. If anything, more so because Oracle has a lot more money than the tzinfo maintainers. Oracle's got enoug…

That's one of the reasons Java ships its own; if some systems have different or absent system databases, Java's should still act the same as it does anywhere.

Lawyer-resistance; remember the situation a year or so ago when the tzinfo files were the subject of a patent claim? Oracle's weren't at risk because they have lawyers on retainer.…

I got this to build on Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal: libtoolize aclocal autoheader automake --add-missing autoconf ./configure make No performance numbers 'cause I did it on a slow…

I wonder if they could just use a simple locking scheme to prevent more than 1 parser from parsing the same feed at the same time. This sounds simpler than conflict resolution, to …

I believe it's part of Riak 1.4, which is our next release; no date yet. The number of entries in a 2i isn't going to bog down querying it any more than lots of objects bog down Le…

Assuming you are using Riak's default configuration each range query hits 1/3 of the cluster, which could get pretty hairy on large clusters that have lots of requests. Also, there…

For the listing/deleting problems, have you looked at using LevelDB and secondary indexes (2i) to make range queries cheaper? Disclosure: I work at Basho, makers of the Riak databa…