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doesn't seem that hard, launder it through mixers and then sell it on unregulated exchanges at a discount, maybe use localbitcoins too.
Re:Show HN: WAPM – Package Manager for WebAssembly on Tuesday April 23, 2019 @05:36PM (#19733148)
anyway, sounds really cool and hoping it gets inspired by things like bundler/homebrew more than npm/yarn.

btw it has "telemetry" enabled by default.

edit: thanks for the link, didn't find the source previously

the issue is that the name of the new era was unknown until ~2 weeks ago as far as I can tell

https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/15195

https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/15742

> Ruby is notably absent as I use it and am looking for something better/different

what issues do you have with ruby? it's the de-facto standard for meta-programming

I often use things like `define_method`, `constants`, `method_missing`, etc in select places.

last fun thing I did was adding `let` and `it` to rails's tests.

yes I meant I didn't see anything very old.

I meant that it's just copying the API format (e.g. probably to make migrating from the other service easy) which isn't uncommon (e.g. most of AWS services copied APIs)

not sure how to formulate it but wouldn't a great execution be very hard to reproduce? looks like it's copying the external API.

also looking at the other company documentation, it's different from the screenshots: https://docs.otonomo.io/docs/getting-started (archive.org history is quite limited so may have been scrubbed)

edit: yes those "screenshots" are very disingenuous: https://smartcar.com/docs/api#introduction

Re:A Profile of Zoom CEO Eric Yuan on Monday April 22, 2019 @10:40AM (#19719253)
really liked appear.in until they added "sign up to create room" basically
Re:JavaScript debuggers are broken on Monday April 22, 2019 @06:49AM (#19717856)
s/Javascript/React (e.g. debugging works fine with stimulus/coffeescript for instance)
Re:Types will be part of Ruby 3 stdlib source on Friday April 19, 2019 @07:29AM (#19698623)
homebrew's performance is mostly network (git / http / https) and compilation times when needed.

also for some reason homebrew really likes to updates its index all the time (I think it got tamed in the newest version), but setting HOMEBREW_NO_AUTO_UPDATE to 1 helps a lot.

Re:Types will be part of Ruby 3 stdlib source on Friday April 19, 2019 @07:27AM (#19698612)
what's cool is that you can write your types in another directory / another repo, e.g. https://github.com/sorbet/sorbet-typed
Re:Types will be part of Ruby 3 stdlib source on Friday April 19, 2019 @07:12AM (#19698544)
small discussion that was marked as dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19696669
not sure why they don't release it, it's been a few years already
Re:Oracle Splats 300 Vulns in MySQL, Database, Fusion, etc. on Wednesday April 17, 2019 @09:13AM (#19682210)
so they are releasing security fixes with a new licensing agreement, wow glad I don't use any oracle stuff
not likely to be taken down as the CEO tweeted about it: https://twitter.com/natfriedman/status/1118057606159798274
aleteia seems to just be a catholic media:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleteia

seems like it's an almost official catholic source

Re:Quick scan through lobsters's source code on Monday April 15, 2019 @06:23AM (#19664320)
I actually like master links better, they will at least try to be up-to-date instead of always behind. this could be discussed in a PR if you care
Re:Quick scan through lobsters's source code on Monday April 15, 2019 @06:18AM (#19664295)
I removed it but I think quite a few people (including me) tried to make it work with postgres (I did a lazy attempt where the search doesn't work)

https://github.com/localhostdotdev/lobsters-postgresql

Re:‘Land Lordz’ Service Powers Airbnb Scams on Sunday April 14, 2019 @04:09PM (#19661402)
reminds me of the beginning of e-commerce with all kinds of shady websites before amazon, paypal and now stripe came.

gumtree is probably the one who is going to have to reimburse all those people.

> We consider that the agent successfully defeated the reCAPTCHA if it obtained a score of 0.9
Re:Support of Ruby 2.3 has ended on Sunday April 14, 2019 @03:47PM (#19661286)
depends on where you are going to, ideally you would go for 2.6. the vast majority of gems is compatible with 2.6 so it would mostly be fixing internal code.

the main change I remember would be the Fixnum/Bignum disappearing in favor of the Integer parent class [1][2][3] (which isn't hard to fix).

also if you are stuck on 2.3 you might have a lot of other issues too (like outdated gems).

[1]: https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2016/12/25/ruby-2-4-0-rele... [2]: https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2017/12/25/ruby-2-5-0-rele... [3]: https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2018/12/25/ruby-2-6-0-rele...

Re:Matrix.org Security Incident on Friday April 12, 2019 @12:07PM (#19646044)
account got banned :) (it's on archive.org though)
Re:Matrix.org Security Incident on Friday April 12, 2019 @02:17AM (#19642431)
content before it gets fixed:

    Time for actual transparency.

    [list of servers, uname -a for each]

    root@[name]:/var/lib/postgresql# df -h
    [list of partitions]

    $ cat users.txt | grep [name] | head -n1
    @[name]:matrix.org|[hash]
    $ wc -l users.txt
    [~6M users]

    See you soon.
(affects whole site, even https://matrix.org, site is on jekyll BTW)

    require 'base64'; Base64.decode64("Z29vZ2xlLXByb29m")
very easy /s
Re:DNSSEC Outage on www.cloudflare.com – 2019-03-21 on Thursday April 11, 2019 @10:38PM (#19641455)
time doesn't match exactly but that might be it: https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/3k7gtg4fml1p (https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/history for the list)
Re:Uber S-1 on Thursday April 11, 2019 @04:58PM (#19639138)
you forgot option B: raise prices, reduce costs

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