Hacker News: xir78

New comment by xir78 in "Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub"

xir78 — Sun, 03 Jun 2018 20:52:20 +0000

GitHub is also used for recruiting and many other data mining purposes, so seems obvious they’d find ways to restrict the data just enough or require you pay based on how you use the data somehow.

And combining that data with LinkedIn’s data would be valuable indeed.

New comment by xir78 in "A coworker stole my spicy food, got sick, and is blaming me (2016)"

xir78 — Fri, 27 Apr 2018 21:44:45 +0000

It’s so far over the top, it’s hard to see returning rather than thanking them for the mela cupola and moving on.

New comment by xir78 in "GameNetworkingSockets – Reliable and unreliable messages over UDP"

xir78 — Sat, 31 Mar 2018 19:56:55 +0000

It’s not easy to share the bandwidth fairly, it’s taken decades of research and it continues to be improved in TCP.

You’re not consindering a server, the bandwidth is very high on the backend and does saturate links. You run many servers per physical or virtual machine due to cost, so you can have 1000s if players connected over a single network path.

New comment by xir78 in "GameNetworkingSockets – Reliable and unreliable messages over UDP"

xir78 — Sat, 31 Mar 2018 19:53:31 +0000

You’re just thinking of a single game client, if you have a server running 100 matches then it’s real bandwidth and will saturate network links.

New comment by xir78 in "GameNetworkingSockets – Reliable and unreliable messages over UDP"

xir78 — Sat, 31 Mar 2018 19:39:08 +0000

Would be great for TCP to better address the reliable transmission of messages for games, these “reliable UDP” code bases in game engines don’t address all of the other issues such as bandwidth sharing fairness and avoiding saturation of networking links, which ultimately will just make networks slower than faster and more reliable for everyone.

New comment by xir78 in "Ask HN: Would you prefer paying $1 per 1000 API calls or $30 fixed monthly?"

xir78 — Sun, 04 Mar 2018 18:25:51 +0000

$1 per 1000 easily, because your cost is upfront, a quota means your wasting people’s time by trying to game the cost of each call.

New comment by xir78 in "China Seeks to Repeal Presidential Term Limit"

xir78 — Sun, 25 Feb 2018 15:19:05 +0000

More of the same would be keeping the term limit, this signals a regression to the worst tendencies in humanity, eroding the laws that are designed to prevent them. Even if Xi is a stable leader for the next 30 years, will the next leader to take advantage of the removal of term limits be the same?

New comment by xir78 in "Rainbow Deployments with Kubernetes"

xir78 — Wed, 14 Feb 2018 19:11:07 +0000

TL;DR

You can drain stuff by changing a Service's selector but leaving the Deployment alone. Instead of changing a Deployment and doing a rolling update, create a new deployment and repoint the Service. Existing connections will remain until you delete the underlying Deployment.

New comment by xir78 in "Amazon, Berkshire, JPMorgan to Create Healthcare Company"

xir78 — Tue, 30 Jan 2018 13:40:11 +0000

Since this a free market heath care, clearly it should have full bipartisan support in Washington.

New comment by xir78 in "Europe’s central banks are starting to replace dollar reserves with the yuan"

xir78 — Tue, 23 Jan 2018 15:44:58 +0000

You should actually go to China, go to Taiwan too to compare, and talk to people who had to leave and were granted refuge status in Canada. You might have a more nuanced understanding than “American fud”.

Normally fud isn’t well documented: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Falun_Gong

New comment by xir78 in "Europe’s central banks are starting to replace dollar reserves with the yuan"

xir78 — Tue, 23 Jan 2018 05:36:04 +0000

A few years ago I couldn’t tell you the name of a Chinese company off the top of my head, now I can not only rattle of a list, they’re companies I’ve worked with or have significant investments in companies in the US. I also have a roster of WeChat contacts.

I also work with multiple ex-pats that fled fearing for their life due to persecution based on their religion (Falung Gong), and laugh at how freaked people are about an insignificant Trump compared to a truly vicious government.

New comment by xir78 in "House Votes to Renew Surveillance Law, Rejecting New Privacy Limits"

xir78 — Thu, 11 Jan 2018 17:22:31 +0000

He opposed it according to the article.

New comment by xir78 in "House Votes to Renew Surveillance Law, Rejecting New Privacy Limits"

xir78 — Thu, 11 Jan 2018 17:04:26 +0000

Turmp should be happy about this, it will be useful in cracking down on citizens and opponents who criticize him.

Circular Runways

xir78 — Sun, 07 Jan 2018 16:13:26 +0000

Article URL: http://www.bbc.com/news/stories-42443334

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16091309

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by xir78 in "Show HN: PAST, a secure alternative to JWT"

xir78 — Thu, 04 Jan 2018 21:56:58 +0000

How do you support multiple keys and key rotation without using RS256?

New comment by xir78 in "A wall of lava lamps helps encrypt the internet"

xir78 — Sun, 31 Dec 2017 18:09:48 +0000

Do they have the distribution posted somewhere?

New comment by xir78 in "At Vice, Cutting-Edge Media and Allegations of Old-School Sexual Harassment"

xir78 — Sat, 23 Dec 2017 19:35:22 +0000

I recall an episode about Lady Boys in Thailand, where at the end Shane signs off by essentially says he’s going to have sex with a male prostitute.

That seemed more “wrong crowd” than just “edgy” to me.

New comment by xir78 in "How the Rohingya Escaped"

xir78 — Sat, 23 Dec 2017 03:07:02 +0000

> Although the vast majority of Buddhists condemn the ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya, it is not intrinsically incompatible with Buddhist ethics.

For the level of Buddhism practiced in this area (Theravada) it is incompatible, there’s clearly nothing good that can come from it. They were clearly taught not to do this, there’s no ambiguity.

Additionally monks have no authority, they are not saints or have even the slightest clue about anything, anyone can put on a robe and be a monk. This isn’t understood in the West, where a monk is considered to be a title, but it’s really a zero, like saying your child got into pre-school.

New comment by xir78 in "How the Rohingya Escaped"

xir78 — Sat, 23 Dec 2017 02:29:36 +0000

It would be interesting to see a candid interview with what the real reason for not liking then is. I suspect it’s rooted in the Muslim conquests which are still mentioned in Buddhist texts. Needless to say the Muslim religion is not held in much regard due to that, as opposed to Hinduism which is considered worthy of debating.

New comment by xir78 in "Firefox is on a slippery slope"

xir78 — Sun, 17 Dec 2017 15:00:40 +0000

Then why were the tickets private?