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Hi, I'm the author of RLPx. Great post and thank you for sharing! Looking forward to more.

On iOS9, iPhone6: The comment box and comments overflow which require horizontal scrolling or zooming out. It worked better before simply because zooming in (double tap) is easier …

Hyperledger's home page talks about a protocol, pools, consensus, security, and decentralization, however, none of those features exist in the codebase. Proof of work and distribut…

Perhaps this could be good to introduce a little at a time. Like musical instruments (drum kits) or building blocks (legos). As a parent, I agree, that surrounding children with te…

LiveJournal doesn't route messages. It performs database queries which renders to HTML. As a result twitter will broadcast what you say to all of your followers, immediately, to th…

IRC has no such long-established functionality. You can MSG a #channel or a user and that's it. User's can't follow each other and there are no lists. These followers and lists are…

The patents involves routing messages with emphasis on followers. Everything previous I'm aware of has been multicast based or address based, like email or mailing lists. Most inte…

This doesn't help adoption like the article suggests; what it does do is shave a few milliseconds and overhead off the initial connection which is great for thin or long pipes (low…

Ask your investor.

As for the title of your question, sure, PHP/MySQL are stil practical. If the answer to your question were no, then that would mean companies like Facebook and Yahoo aren't practic…

Unfortunately, this is a common response from upper management. In larger companies, one way to get around this, is to go to Human Resources instead of your chain of command. Let t…

Did you do anything illegal or unethical? Advertising? Hacks? Assuming there are HN/YC'ers with million+ users.

The chart excellent for visualizing one's contributions against and general activity. Would it be possible to generate a similar graph for other mainstream languages, gcc, and linu…

Last line is great: "If you take out the 20 best transactions, our record is a joke," he admitted. "The 20 best transactions occurred over some 40 years — that's one every two year…

Nice and clean look. Have you considered lexical parsing to generate a list of trending phrases? I suppose there are several possibilities to track trends this way. Great job.

That's a much better way of looking at this post. I suppose, I could've phrased the post: Is a link full of SEO spam, aa links, and ad networks a legit HN post? I guess from the up…

Is HN really the new place for book spamming aa links? Which books don't matter. Half those are outdated or will be by the time they're read.

That sounds like a more expensive long-term process than finding an applicant who is better qualified. Maybe the OP is better finding a startup or open source project where he can …

I don't think interviewing for highly technical positions at Facebook could be "prepared" for, not especially, by reading so many books about high-level subjects (ex: Visual Basic)…

I can't help but notice the circles; they remind me of (the late) OpenSolaris logo.

I'm working on a system which is similar but higher volume. Have you done any benchmarks to test thousands of updates per second? Same, but on the front-end. What is the impact of …

Does warranty case law supersede DMCA? Nope, didn't think so. Blame IP law, and blame the DMCA, but don't blame Apple for being diligent.

Please, not SCII. I'M NOT GOING TO BUY IT. OK? Say it with me: I PROMISE NOT TO BUY SCII INSTEAD OF BUILDING MY COMPANY I PROMISE NOT TO BUY SCII INSTEAD OF BUILDING MY COMPANY I P…

The stats are for "AD" content, not Web Traffic. I would estimate Android has more ad-supported applications so I'm not surprised at all. To reiterate, this statistic has nothing t…

I gave up on Linux. Not fodder; ^ if you agree.