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Hortinstein··on Build a crawler to crawl million pages with only one machine in just 2 hours
also docker makes it trivial to link a bunch of swarm hosts together, scaling this across multiple machines would basically be free as he added them to the swarm.
Hortinstein··on Ask HN: Which developers do you closely follow?
I really like Substack's philosophy of development. It has stuck with me for a long time:

https://gist.github.com/substack/5075355

Hortinstein··on Docker: insecure opening of file-descriptor allows privilege escalation
is there a poc? would love to see a walkthrough
Hortinstein··on Show HN: Spamnesty: Waste spammers' time
I think that this or something very similar was a plot point in Neal Stephenson's Anathem. Cannot find a good reference, but it was pretty entertaining.
Hortinstein··on How Japan Prepares Its Children for Independence
hahaah that happened to me at least twice with my cell phone when I was living there. One of the times a girl missed the train she was taking to return it to me.
Hortinstein··on How the Arab World Came Apart
I really hope this gets put into a podcast/audio format, would love to ingest it on a commute
Hortinstein··on World of Warcraft: one simple line of code can cost you dearly
hahah this brings me back. I can shed some light...at least a little, there were exploits that crashed peoples consoles, this didnt give the thief any items, but cleared inventory or even saves for some players.

http://dcemulation.org/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=11941

great game would love to see a rerelease of the original or even PSO2 in america

Hortinstein··on Show HN: Fabulous: Print images in terminal with Python
great job keeping stuff like this current...it is sad to think how many promising projects might get lost due to inability of the original devs to maintain them.

Sorry if i missed it, but does it support python 2.X and 3.X?

Hortinstein··on Raiden Network – High Speed Asset Transfers for Ethereum
not sure what OPs reason is, but I agree. I am really disappointed by the Ethereum team considering the option of providing a revision in their chain's history in order to prevent a loss caused by an independent application. There is a conflict of interest since very prominent Ethereum devs have vested interests in the DAO and revising this history goes against many of the ideas that they stated Ethereum was built around.

Watching some of the talks from the first Ethereum Dev convention highlights this hypocrisy as they specifically advocate for "the code is law".

I still have a vested interest in Ethereum as an Ether holder, but the last few weeks have not really impressed me about it's communities adherence to their stated values.

Hortinstein··on Learn JavaScript and artificial intelligence in a fun, interactive way
do you have any high level thoughts about how those could be used to dynamically solve these puzzles?

I was thinking about how to do this using QLearning to solve the optimal solution given any level, though I am not sure how long it would take to converge since their are so many different actions.

Hortinstein··on How Two Seattle-Area Brothers Made Dwarf Fortress
haha wow, I remember reading this several years ago. I really need to learn how to play that game...any reccomendations for how to learn?
Hortinstein··on The Fusioneers, who build nuclear reactors in their back yards
excellent documentary
Hortinstein··on Coinbase Co-founder: Ethereum Is the Forefront of Digital Currency
so...are DAO shares actually worth anything if you do not want to vote? I am confused on why people would invest
Hortinstein··on Coinbase Co-founder: Ethereum Is the Forefront of Digital Currency
thanks for putting this together, I came here looking for exactly this.
Hortinstein··on I love my Amazon Workspace
same...would love to sign up to play around with this
Hortinstein··on AWS IoT Button
in case anyone is interested I wrote a node.js module a while back to repurpose dash buttons

not as elegant as their official IoT button, but it works (and dash buttons are 25% of the price)

https://github.com/hortinstein/node-dash-button

edit: corrected my tired beer math

Hortinstein··on Volvo's Self Driving Pilot in Hands of Customers
does this mean you can be drunk in the car?
Hortinstein··on 30 years later, QBasic is still the best
done

http://stevehanov.ca/blog/index.php?id=92

Hortinstein··on Blizzard shutting down Nostalrius, popular WoW private server
Do you have any good reads on how someone would go about starting a TrinityCore like project and the approach it takes to emulation?
Hortinstein··on Microsoft Bot Framework
Neal Stephenson must be smiling[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Beginning..._Was_the_Co...

Hortinstein··on Left-pad as a service
I submitted a pull req to fix them...and added some tests. Sarcastic programming is fun!
Hortinstein··on Left-pad as a service
yeah, I added some tests...did you mean to return strings? Also fixed some syntax errors
Hortinstein··on Ask HN: What's the most useful online course you have watched?
Artificial Intelligence for Robotics Programming a Robotic Car

Sebastian Thrun (former leader of Google and Stanford's autonomous driving teams that won the DARPA challenge) teaches a class focusing on the basic methods in Artificial Intelligence to support autonomous vehicles, including: probabilistic inference, planning and search, localization, tracking and control, all with a focus on robotics. Programming examples and assignments apply these methods to building self-driving car like experiments.

Free course!

https://www.udacity.com/course/artificial-intelligence-for-r...

Hortinstein··on Ask HN: What's the most useful online course you have watched?
Yes, came here to say this. While I never completed the course (started OMSCS @ Ga Tech shortly after), it did cement my desire to focus on machine learning in my graduate studies. Highly recommended!
Hortinstein··on Minefield: HTML5 Massively Multiplayer Online Minesweeper
any details? source?
Hortinstein··on Best things and stuff of 2015
I think the reemergence of Virtual Reality (oculus/vive) has a lot to do with it
Hortinstein··on Ask HN: 11 days off for Christmas vacation – What would you learn?
I dont play minecraft all that much either, but you could probably replace mincraft with some other networked service, maybe a database simple web server?

Database roulette sounds less than useless but still would be a good way to learn

Hortinstein··on Here be dragons
I had never heard of this show, after looking at the reviews, it might be my christmas binge watch. Hope to see a Feynman cameo at some point!
Hortinstein··on Ask HN: 11 days off for Christmas vacation – What would you learn?
> 1. Learn the basics of how to architect a small distributed system that is fault tolerant, resilient and reliable. You can't learn it all in 11 days, but man you can make a big dent and it is to me one of the most fun and challenging problems to solve.

There was a great tutorial for something like this that google published last month using kubernetes and docker that involves setting up several minecraft servers in a cluster. Would be a great into to docker/kubernetes

http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com/2015/11/containerizi...

Hortinstein··on Ask HN: 11 days off for Christmas vacation – What would you learn?
do you have any good intro tutorials?

A chatbot that could receive pictures and describe them back would be pretty cool!

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