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udia··on Reddit rolls out community currencies on Ethereum
How on earth did people ever post quality content on the internet without it being monetized? /sarcasm

Would this new feature would reward users any more than the existing karma/gilding mechanism? I am skeptical that the typical Reddit user would have even have a cryptocurrency wallet.

udia··on Solving Num: A combinatoric math game
There is a similar game that is available for Android and iOS called Calculords (http://calculords.com/) The goal is to apply arithmetic operations on a set of numbers in order to get outputs which correspond to your available attacks. It is not as strict as Num, where only one output is expected.

I like this solver, which uses a dynamic programming/search approach to find solutions. https://github.com/SomeKittens/calculords-solver

udia··on Ask HN: What do you do with your Raspberry Pi?
Currently have one Raspberry Pi serving as a home git (Gitea) server, incase a widespread GitHub outage occurs. Good to have multiple repositories and take advantage of the distributed nature of Git anyways.

https://gitea.io/en-us/

udia··on Ask HN: Advice for Hosting and Deploying My Side Project
Caveat: I have not worked with Rust. The comments below suggesting Heroku, DigitalOcean and other PaaS are good starting points. However, I want my side projects to be able to handle arbitrary load without managing additional infrastructure.

I design my current web apps to work using serverless functions https://serverless.com/ This ensures that if my applications become popular, I will not have to do additional infrastructure work to scale. I use a cloud provider managed database (AWS DynamoDB, RDS for Postgresql) so I don't need to worry about managing that either.

There is a steep learning curve! A quick Google search shows that Rust serverless is in its infancy (https://github.com/softprops/serverless-rust). Also, if you need to have bi-directional communication using WebSockets (or something comparable), the options you have to work with are limited (AWS AppSync is what I am currently struggling with)

That being said, it has been an extremely challenging and rewarding experience, migrating my personal projects.

udia··on Bitwarden Completes Third-Party Security Audit
Currently using Bitwarden right now. Really good to see that the security assessment is relatively positive:

> All in all, while the client and backend code are vulnerable to some issues, all of the problems can be easily fixed without a lot of effort. In that sense, Cure53 believes these items of the Bitwarden scope to be fully capable of reaching the desired standards of security in a rather short time. To reiterate, the results of this autumn 2018 assessment are positive for the client and code.

Wondering how they will address the current cryptographic scheme though.

udia··on Teenager facing prison for downloading unsecured files from government website
The teenager was downloading publicly available records on a Freedom-Of-Information portal. Why law enforcement is involved, or why this is even remotely a criminal act, completely baffles me.
udia··on Jsonstore.io – Store your data for free without signing up
Looking at your source code, it appears you're wrapping firebase. I'm very curious to hear how much this will cost you after the HN traffic hit.
udia··on CockroachDB 2.0 released
I find it very interesting that although CockroachDB itself is stable and production ready, all of the client drivers are still 'beta'.

https://www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/stable/install-client-dri...

That being said, I am really excited to try this out. 2.0 adding JSON support is what converted me to try this out for a project.

udia··on Airborn: Create and edit f​iles online​, securely
I just tried using this app with one of my friends and I found that editing in real time between two people wasn't working as intended. When someone else wrote text, the text I wrote (in a separate paragraph) would disappear.

Is anyone else seeing this? It needs a bit more polish before I could use it for encrypted collaborative editing.

udia··on A Year Away from Mac OS
Do you have a recommendation for an external GPU enclosure? I have the same model MacBook as you but I've been hesitant to pick one up.
udia··on All HTTP-based services unresponsive
I agree. Having CI with multiple git repositories is still a painful thing. (I continue to rely primarily on GitHub here. My backup repos don't have CI enabled.)

I think if your primary repo that's hooked into CI goes down, you're still SOL. Having your own repo just enables you to continue local development among your team.

I don't see any great solution, other than making your app distributed to begin with and doing your build/deploy manually.

As a complete aside, I've fantasized about deploying to all cloud vendors (Azure/GCE/AWS/Heroku/DigitalOcean/misc.) each with their own specific build/deploy and having persistent state shared with something like CockroachDB. Having some load balancer managing state between all instances. Taking advantage of the free/basic tiers provided by all of the vendors.

udia··on All HTTP-based services unresponsive
Relying solely on one platform for your organization's code repository needs is a bad thing in general. I have a workflow where I host my own Gogs instance on a raspberry pi, as well as on Github. Maybe this would be useful to you?

I've configured my push such that it will deploy to both Github and on my Gogs meaning that I always have an up to date repository in two places.

https://github.com/gogits/gogs (if you're interested in setting up your own)

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14290113/git-pushing-cod... (push to two remotes)

You don't have to use just BitBucket, or rely entirely on your self hosted git service.

udia··on How Do We Learn?
Giving you a vote for this. This Coursera course helped me reframe my study habits after graduating university and has proven to be invaluable for my self directed learning.
udia··on Show HN: Mux Video, a simple API to powerful video streaming
Do you have support for 360 videos? (Streaming from a Ricoh Theta S for instance)
udia··on Show HN: More feedback for Show HN stories
Why are there some entries with what appears to be a poll with garbage answers? Seems like they're taking up a lot of space and I don't understand the point of them.

https://imgur.com/a/FftPd

udia··on Show HN: TensorFire
Lots of potential here. Looking forward to seeing the source once it's released.
udia··on Reddit Users Lose Real Money After Meme Currency Bot Dies
I think you just answered your own question. The only thing that needs to happen for a currency to exist is liquidity and people to think its valuable.
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