Viewing profile — walden42
walden42
HN member- Joined
- Tue, Jul 23, 2013, 12:59 PM UTC
- HN karma
- 135
- Public activity
- 125 items
- HN profile
- View on Hacker News ↗
About walden42
No profile information was provided.
Recent public activity
-
comment
Comment #12370314
Live news broadcasts from individuals passionate about researching live events would be great, too. Anything like that that could replace MSM. From people compiling the current lat…
-
comment
Comment #12088440
> He thinks that Uber is really unfair to union taxi drivers who jump through some hoops to get licensed, etc. So they were forced to jump through ridiculous hoops, so should we fo…
-
comment
Comment #12039853
The list of common mistakes includes "Spending a lot of time trying to get a warm intro. You’re better off just following these rules and emailing me directly." That goes contrary …
-
comment
Comment #12002787
Assuming all assets get stored on S3, the other common writing scenario is logging. How would multiple machines writing to the same log file work?
-
comment
Comment #10126727
See MaidSafe.[0] It's what you describe. They're working on it, hopefully to be released some time this year. You upload something, it gets distributed to random nodes on the SAFE …
-
comment
Comment #8745365
Ha! I just recently came across this discussion on the MaidSafe forums. There are talks of doing this to bootstrap the network: https://www.maidsafe.org/t/bootstrapping-the-safe-ne…
-
comment
Comment #8731250
Ah I see you're not really familiar with the project. "backing up personal data to a p2p network" is far from what they're doing. They're creating the backbone for a completely dec…
-
comment
Comment #8729455
Decentralization, and thus p2p, is the very reason services like these are being created, to protect against censorship. That seems the logical next step. And besides the "altcoin"…
-
comment
Comment #8688337
I thought paypal does recurring donations? Anyhow, for bitcoin, look into Coinbase's recurring payment options. I don't think it should be a problem.
-
comment
Comment #8665619
Completely free with ACH purchases.
-
comment
Comment #8568817
Are there open-source voice recognition projects in the works that could replace the likes of Google Now and the others? If not, there should be.
-
comment
Comment #8558597
Try stripping locally and see if the checksum matches.
-
comment
Comment #8397580
> From the non-profits perspective, re-occuring and emotionally invested donations are much more valuable than a one off big shot of money. That's the big one, IMO. Would definitel…
-
comment
Comment #8391099
I think it's an interesting issue because the primary issue is what interests people, not the website itself. If a majority of people want to concentrate on the bad, then the bad s…
-
comment
Comment #8383395
Most credit/debit cards globally, mostly US bank accounts only.
-
comment
Comment #8298128
Certainly this makes it easier on the government if they really wanted your calls.
-
comment
Comment #8298116
Same here. Someone calls, I press Accept, and it could take up to 10 seconds to actually accept the call. It would open a new window, start loading stuff, and then the call was mis…
-
comment
Comment #8260882
Why not just run backups on a replica suited specifically for that purpose?
-
comment
Comment #8197206
I would argue that if built upon a platform like MaidSafe, which should come out late 2014/early 2015, it would be a decentralized network.
-
comment
Comment #8188225
Maidsafe seems to be the all-in-one that builds a decentralized internet infrastructure. I have high hopes for it.
-
story
Ask HN: What cloud management providers would you recommend for sysadmin work?
We're looking to outsource all our server infrastructure setup and management. Amazon has a large list of partners[0] that offer this service, and was wondering if anyone here has …
-
comment
Comment #8123594
Nice idea. It'd be great to have a MPAA rating as well to be able to filter out family-friendy movies (e.g. G, PG) and vice versa.
-
comment
Comment #8111873
Read up some articles from Coinbase or Bitpay. You can also contant Bitpay with any questions you may have and I'm sure they'll be able to help you. Also feel free to ask me anythi…
-
comment
Comment #8103042
This is the feature I'm missing from the Firefox Adblock Plus. One of the Adblocks for Chrome has this (can't remember which one) and it was great. I only blocked ads on the site I…
-
comment
Comment #8068613
Can't find any information for a planned Linux release =(