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That's a political problem with the miners and developers. There's no technical reason they couldn't raise the block size.
The northernmost french community (of appreciable size) in the world is the remote mining town of Fermont (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermont), in Quebec near the border with Labrador. It has ~3000 inhabitants, and is based around a large bunker/building containing housing, shops, schools, etc, which let's people live their lives in the winter without having to go outside.

The second northernmost French community is Dunkirk, France...
I have an Atom C2750 board (8 core), it runs at 2.4 GHz with only a heatsink and has a TDP of 20W. It'a much slower than current low-end desktop CPUs, but it runs circles around a Raspberry Pi 2. Its unique advantage for server loads is that the board holds 64GB ECC RAM. The Xeon-D is currently an even better option though, since some of the server boards with soldered CPUs can be kept fanless too (e.g. Supermicro X10SDV-4C-TLN4F ) despite 35W TDP and much better performance.
The Bitcoin network is not having much difficulty with a couple of transactions per second. It is the community that struggles with adjusting to an appropriate throughput.
Maybe, but losing pollinators probably means the loss of thousands of plant species.

Wealthy countries who have industrial agriculture will be fine (although arguably the world will be poorer for the loss), but poor countries will be 100% fucked if they lose their pollinators.
Not to mention the teensy line. Unless you *really need the slightly smaller size, these things are great:

https://www.pjrc.com/teensy/
All the world is an abstract interpretation (of all the world) [pdf]
The latitude is an analogue for habitability. The ocean currents do enable agriculture and thus historic patterns of stable habitation at higher degrees of latitude on the east side of the Atlantic, compared to the west.
Quite a lot of agricultural isn't to keep people from starving to death - think hemp, cotton, tea/coffee, sugar cane, natural rubber, chocolate, and coca in places it is legal. None of those things prevent people from starving at all.

A lot of agricultural foodstuff is terribly inefficient at meeting the goal of "keeping people from starving." We grow them though (and produce in the case of meat) because humans really enjoy them. If the main goal was to prevent starvation we wouldn't produce resource-intensive food products or we would produce them in moderation.

Agriculture's purpose is economic. Eating (and eating tasty food) does have a large demand though.
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In popular culture and public consciousness, the two are equated very often.

See, for example, the latest hit show - Game of Thrones which shows a very cold, hardy North and a warm, indolent South. Now I know these specific books that the show is based on derive from the Wars of the Roses -- but have you ever a fantasy writer who put people on the Southern hemisphere of their planet and made the North warm?
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This was a no brainer. Only 32 signatures? We engineers can do better!
https://github.com/servo/servo/issues/9758
What is the value in using a system that you admit is in beta and not optimized to benchmark two different hardware platforms?
And how do you think every country came up with their agendas for the negotiations?

I don't know, and I don't think you do either, because it was done in secret with no open, democratic debate. You can tell this from the fact that many elected representatives who participate in the normal democratic processes are among those complaining about a lack of access.
The wrapper is one way to look at it.

Another might be about reimplementation of APIs. The binary blobs could be evidence there is an API (even if you say you don't support it). If I reimplement it, is it derived?

So yeah, it's nuanced ... Otherwise I guess it would never have got so far
Very true, but what's the ROI for full automation?

If a typical 2-3 click deploy generously takes an hour, and they do 40 per year... then it would take 1 year to break even presuming that a fully-automated system could be built and deployed in 1 man-week. If the deploy takes 10 mins, can it be built in less than 1 day?

Ignoring the development time for a fully automated system, I think the real question is, "how does a rollback and unscheduled downtime impact the ROI due to unforeseen problems?" because it will happen, eventually.
It'll work the same way it happened in PC land.

1: Microsoft will ensure that capable hardware (both phones and peripherals) exists so that Continuum succeeds.

2: Ubuntu will leverage the hardware so that it's usable by the 1% who actually want it. 1% of a really big number is still a big number, so it'll be viable, if only barely.
How do I continue using Bitcoin as a transactional currency if I can't perform transactions with it?
Who would use a beta version of a crypto product in a production setting?
Perhaps, the HN dupe detection algo needs to be slightly improved to check parent comment? :-)
> Bitcoin is used by millions of people a day now.

Tangible example please. Bit Coin transaction volume is about 200k/day, so how are these millions of people using it?
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You most certainly can spurt WiFi for days and days .. and don't need to stay up.

I say this, because I have devices doing it in front of me. Maybe not for 'years and years', but certainly efficiently enough for long-term sensor usage.
TIL Texas isn't as warm as I thought...
Side note: Ethereum is the technology, ether is the currency.
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A favourite question of mine: Which reaches further south, Ontario or Oregon? As you said, the answer is Ontario, but it's counter-intuitive without a map.
From the Benchmarks Wiki page:

Benchmarks are extremely important when making infrastructure
and configuration changes. The Raspberry Pi is by no means a
'high performance' computer, but even with it's power-starved architecture,
we can optimize many different parts of the stack to make the Pi perform well.

I've been hosting www.pidramble.com on a cluster of 6 Raspberry Pi 2s with an Nginx load balancer, 4 Nginx + PHP web servers, and one MySQL database server for about 6 months, with two periods of downtime when I had to switch off the circuit in my office for some electrical work.

The Pi 2 isn't a speed demon, but it's actually not so bad for a casual on-premise hosting solution, especially if you add in better failover modes. I'm going to be moving the architecture that direction for a presentation I'll be giving at php[tek] this summer.
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Distributed systems aren't easy, highly available properly built ones even less so.
'Defacing' is from the original headline and is not my own phrase. Me, I think there's something bold and brave about replacing 'black lives matter' with 'all lives matter,' repeatedly and in the face of official condemnation.
No I think those should work with async functions as it is literally just translating `async` -> `yield`, but worth investigating.
To see how it changes as you work on it?
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It's a little misleading, because climate zones are just based on minimum average temperatures. British winters are similar to Texan winters, but British summers are more like Alaskan summers.
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I would think that if they wanted to redact the amount, they should be careful of the entire letter being "personalized", to be used as a canary trap, as Elon Musk apparently did: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canary_trap#Known_canary_trap_...
It is good to see a petition that is actually within the power of the executive branch rather than being a legislative power.
I'm not sure if I'm reading ethereum right, but it sounds a lot like mesh computing, where a user can bid for unused cycles on a bunch of networked computers, or one "world computer" if you agree with the author's characterization.

If that is correct, then ethereum and Amazon spot instances could be interchangeable - low availability, but potentially lower cost due to the bidding process if there is a lot of excess compute power on the network.
What happened overnight ? Why am I seeing so much ethereum this morning ?
That's heart breaking he spent so long without hearing confirmation from those above. I'm happy in the end he got the closure he needed.
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I've been benchmarking Drupal 8 since early alphas (not all benchmarks are published on that Wiki page... I really need to update it), as I'm interested in seeing how different infrastructure, different PHP versions, and different caching architectures can help or hurt performance.

See, for instance: https://twitter.com/geerlingguy/status/702909750405517312

Drupal 8.0.4 is the current release, and I'm going to be rerunning all benchmarks on that version soon.
Latitude doesn't equate to temperature.

The poor pilgrims thought Massachusetts' winter would be warm or warmer then London's and not to far off of Virginia's.

The temperature of the Gulf Stream and its effect on the UK and Western Europe means that while London is 1000k north

London UK March Avg

in C High 12 Low 5

in F High 53 Low 40

London, Ontario March Avg

in C High 4 Low -5

in F High 40 Low 24

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Very impressive project. Some things are more simple recognition to scrape the numbers that show up on the screen for k/d, etc. but their engine also has k-nearest neighbors learning to recognize weapons & abilities.
There are a few Facebook groups about it (search 'EU VAT Action Group' and 'Digital VAT 2015'). They're mostly microbusinesses that are UK based (so that may colour the comments you see). There's an astounding amount of ignorance and conflicting information amongst both business owners and tax authorities in many countries about exactly what this VAT for digital products thing is. I myself am in your position of needing to figure out the VAT situation very soon, so I hope you find some useful information and ideas.
Thanks for the insight on this, by the way; I'm more of an applied math person, so I have no firsthand experience of things like computer-verified proofs, Coq, etc.

What do you think are the specific ways in which a proof compiler would be different?
In other words, avoid UK tech products...
Why does there have to be large scale production use while it's in beta? Bitcoin's genesis block was mined in 2009, but it took years for it to come out of "beta" and see production adoption.

Ethereum adoption actually is already outpacing Bitcoin's adoption. Ethereum has only been live since July of this year, and already has seen adoption by numerous corporations (even if it's largely development projects at this point).

For example Microsoft Azure Blockchain as a Service runs Ethereum. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/ethereum-blockchain-a...

And here's a large test run conducted with 11 Banks across the globe:

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/r3-connects-11-banks-distributed-le...
Being as Google have come out supporting Apple could they not just stop licensing Android/Google Play for sale in the UK? In fact Google actually have precedent for this when they stopped providing search in China.
The Australian "National Heart Foundation" for instance has killed a lot of people, fucked up shit.

But people love them cause they are functional. Lot's of PR.

The op topic (On topic to the parent link) was they are very broken internally. So much so they fail the the cause of good.

They do, and they don't, on topic is how good they are, is 500 million the red cross spent on 6 houses true, and right. What's the real story. Are NPO that bad really?
This is as absurd as prohibiting hyperlinks because the site being pointed to might have copyright violations

Not to mention completely non-enforceable. You're forbidding people to say "David et al. [3] did a work in this area"
I wish I had written some code that saves lives. This is pretty good read
> means that the owner of the device can replace the firmware

It means that a small minority of owners of the device can replace the firmware. Most people don't have the resources to do something like that.
> I have never seen a functional non-profit. For whatever reason, non-profits seem to attract all kinds of people who are motivated by things I can only describe as "weird."

I interviewed there for a Systems Administrator position. Part of the interview was a code sample -- solve a specific problem using a scripting language. I submitted a 'mvp' -- a script that worked well, took about an hour of effort, and performed the required task in two environments, one of which was a chrooted jail that the person who graded it was welcome to log in to just in case the code did not work on their workstation.

The feedback from the examiner relayed via the HR recruiter was that it was the "worst code they had ever seen," and they were offended that I did not write it in an object oriented manner and that it completely lacked any testing and validation -- which was wrong, actually, I validated inputs with a regular expression.

Remember, this was for a systems administrator position, not a developer position.

And after that feedback, I didn't want to work for Wikimedia anymore.
Definitely a good idea for walled-garden environments. No, he's on Windows desktop and mobile. Not a showstopper there.
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I still don't understand how anyone can believe that paying ten to a hundred times as much for algorithmically provable trust or whatever will get any market traction ever.
I often notice HN topics come in groups. I think its because people read about a topic, get interested, do some research, and then start submitting articles they find.
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Sorry, I suppose I'm guilty of the same thing that I objected to.

I didn't mean that as an absolute demand. Rather, I disapprove of the absolute x-sucks attitude, along the lines of "guaranteed Intel did <name bad thing>, after all <some other bigco> did <some other bad thing>".
The Ethereum foundation has been putting a lot of resources into scaling research. Theres some promising proposals involving sharding the validation process, in addition to the off-chain scaling protocols that Bitcoin is pursuing like the lightning network.
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Isn't that inherent to blockchains (every node must have a copy of all transactions)?
Probably the best thing to do with the old code of failed startups is to ignore it. Most code isn't in a quality state suitable for other people to reuse and unless the startup was maintaining their code as open source and seeing reuse, the odds that someone else will come along and pick it up and maintain it are about zero.

Good luck.
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This platform allows you to publish an mp3, complement it with show notes in the form of cards, and people can listen to it and be social. Think Medium for your ears.

We are bootstrapping this so far, and want to build a netflix for your ears out of it. Any suggestions, feedback?
You could likely interface with Android using MicroPython's wifi interface (which will almost certainly be included in the upcoming ESP8266 release) or using the micro:bit's Bluetooth Low Energy link.
Some group has to run the technology - Congress can simply remove funding for the group to run the technology.
Maybe where you live. I live in the country, where none of that happens. Good luck with that superior city living!
The actual northernmost French (the Republic) community is in Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, which is funnily enough just next to Quebec! it's an overseas territory and they use the Euro as their currency.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Pierre_and_Miquelon
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Could someone please describe what this repository accomplishes? I know the game but don't know what is the use-case for this tool.
This is missing the point. People think of Canadians as tough hardy, northerners because it's -8C in Toronto and we've been having really nice February, last year it was like -20C all month. It's -12 in Montreal right now.

It's still interesting to think about it but don't try to imply that it's not actually cold, bitter and rough sledding here because we're "south" of London.

Because it's 8C in London right now.
Sorry, thats not correct. The only person who gets compensated for performing computations are the miners. Everyone else performs computation so they can have an up-to-date blockchain, but are not compensated.

Ethereum is the most expensive computational environment you can imagine. However, it is also the highest trust. Its not for computationally-limited (gaming/data analysis) its for trust-limited (financial applications/privacy)

There is an effort to build a computation market on top of Ethereum, but the computation happens off the chain.

https://github.com/pipermerriam/ethereum-computation-market
FWIW, the green500 list is dominated by accelerated systems, not pure Xeon clusters.
I use Quihoo (Total 360) antivirus and find it to be fast, well constructed and non-intrusive. I would like to hear a good reasoned argument why it isn't safe or secure to run it. I have looked into this matter a couple of time and was unable to find any evidence, aside from run of the mill "it's chinese" slander.
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And that a large percentage of the US population lives near the canadian boarder. The line was drawn through the great lakes. So everyone in New England, Chicago, Detroit, Cincinnati etc can be said to be living near the canadian boarder. It's not that canadians need to be near the US, but near the water routes for trade with the rest of the world.
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Let's add "at rest" to the end of your question:

"I suppose each proton/neutron is unique in terms of its mass/energy content"

Oh boy, so there's a can of worms. "Unique" would need to be nailed down to test that statement, and runs into some observational problems in that atoms exist and can be found in things like monatomic gasses in enormous enough quantities that you can wash out any contributions from other matter. These gas clouds can be measured and manipulated, and have been. The results limit the variation from proton to proton (and climbing the periodic table of elements, from nucleus to nucleus) to be entirely negligible.

Theory depends on where you look. Protons are usually taken to be indistinguishable particles (each proton obeys the same particle statistics at low energy). Additionally, there are good reasons to believe that any distinguishability -- however small -- leads to observables (an example is elucidated and generalized in the "Bosonic Birthday Paradox" http://arxiv.org/abs/1106.0849 ). Those observables are not seen.

Proton distinguishability also goes to the question of the mechanisms by which the Pauli Exclusion Principle manifests. It does manifest among protons in atomic nuclei, which is important. Retaining that and introducing actual distinguishability at small scales is a challenge.

If protons are (barely) distinguishable to us in experiments, they'll be (barely) distinguishable in decays and in electron interactions too. But if you think of a proton as "a mess"[1] and look at it at, say, the QCD scale, your question might be better put as,"how do confinement (and asymptotic freedom) and colour exchange work?". Peering into the structure of a proton at that scale is certainly interesting, but any information in there can only escape in ways permitted by confinement.

[1] http://profmattstrassler.com/articles-and-posts/particle-phy...
You are getting taken advantage of. 10% equity while not taking any salary isn't fair in any circumstances I can fathom unless the company is already profitable.
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To call attention to the fact that it needs that optimization?
Because it's something that doesn't otherwise exist. It's actual innovation, where else in the world can you run trustless global peer-to-peer applications? It will be a while before it's commercially viable, sure, but it's something unique.
>British winters are similar to Texan winters

Hmm. That's not so bad. What does everyone complain about?

>but British summers are more like Alaskan summers

You poor, poor people. Though they probably say the same about our 100F (~38C) summers.
Okay, so how do you verify that only the owner can do that, on the OS level, if the firmware is not first totally locked down? The security of iOS devices comes from the fact that Apple has engineered the devices to behave a certain way when using Apple firmware and that that firmware can't be modified or replaced without the signing key of Apple. And Apple is making it clear that they are on the side of the consumer, not the three letter agencies.
Canada also isn't as big as you think, as hinted at in the article. It's still big though.

Try asking people which they think is bigger, Greenland or Brazil. Brazil is of course much, much bigger but projections can be deceiving if you've only looked at flat maps.
I didn't include that bit, but yeah, I only lasted a few years in the industry myself before being burnt out. Now I'm back to making games as a hobby.
That's continental vs maritime climate for you.

Rain or not, at least we don't freeze our asses (so bad) over here :D
As a Linux guy, I tried to setup Office365 OneDrive for the technologically illiterate side of the office, because they get 1TB. Set it up on a 7 computer, an 8.1, and a 10. Used the registry key to activate business accounts mode. Made an Office356 Group to have a shared directory. Looked at every alt menu and right click menu for shared directory options. Nobody could see anybody else's content no matter what I did. Then I spent 10 minutes setting up a NAS on a random PC and mounting it on all the other computers, used OneDrive on that PC and was good to go. I think I'll never use one drive, I've never had a sharing issue with any other cloud drive provider.
> Particles are sort of mathematically more poorly defined the shorter their lifetime.

This sentence doesn't make any sense to me. Could you please elaborate?
There is a lot of good advice elsewhere. I'd recommend Norvig's essay:

http://norvig.com/21-days.html

The complexity of programming ramps up really fast from "Hello World" toward professional tools and techniques due to a massive permutation space and in the case of JavaScript comprehensive instability in best practice.

Good luck
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The cost comparison you want to look for is where people pay a very high premium for the execution of business logic by a trusted counterparty. In other words, its not cheaper computation in general, it's cheaper computation for trusted services (eg. financial instruments).
I'd honestly prefer he remains independent of Apple.

I have no desire to purchase Apple products and them picking him up would probably be a loss to Signal which I actually use.