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> Why stability is better than volatility?

It's self-evident that a stable currency is preferable to volatile, though I'm interested in reading an argument to the contrary.

volatile: liability to change rapidly and unpredictably, especially for the worse.

stable: not likely to change or fail; firmly established.
There are good F/OSS versions of LinqPad - see Arnova CShell and RoslynPad.
You may not be aware, but there are still real Ponzi schemes operating in the 21st century, and they don't look and feel like Bitcoin. Some of them use Bitcoin as a method for money transfer, but that doesn't make Bitcoin itself a Ponzi, and Ponzi schemes are not the main driver of Bitcoin usage.

I believe MMM is the most popular Ponzi scheme at the moment after being revived. This is what a 21st century Ponzi scheme looks like:

https://mmmglobal.org/ (Warning: real operating Ponzi scheme)
When I talk to my mother or father, we both put each other on speakerphone. On my end, my wife and I can both talk at the sime time... on their end, they can also have multiple people talking at the same time. This is a 2-endpoint call with 2+n users.

All Echos have better mics and better sound than my cellphone for this use.
Yeah, I just opened HN to waste a few seconds and saw this on the front page and my jaw literally dropped. If all my money was invested here I couldn't imagine what I would be thinking. This currency could probably make me bipolar all by itself.
Former Spotify engineer here.

The reason you see Spotify excelling in streaming performance is that Spotify has both some very smart people working both in Europe and NYC to make that happen and Spotify made mobile streaming performance (to feel like a local file playback) a number one priority.

Also apple's offering is a reaction to Spotify's success and it suffers the "sequel effect" where the me too product is not that good. Their previous model was track downloads.

Also it is not a Big Corp vs Startup, but more of a team in a Big Corp vs well funded Startup that is dedicated to that mission.

(I'd say Spotify is way past the startup stage so it is more of Big Corp doing many things vs Big Corp doing only one thing).
Echo is the new PC
(for its target audience/use case).
That is a possibility but it seems unlikely given the varying ages of the accounts. gofccyourself wouldn't even be a thing until a day or two ago, and some of the accounts are over a month old (with no comments until now)
The reason BitCoin has spiked is because it is the most supported crypto currency and the easiest to get hold of when setting up your wallet with a bank or exchange.

There has been and influx of people trying to buy Etherium but first they need to buy BitCoin.
> This is probably not a popular opinion here in HN but why does it matter what language you use to make your game in?

To the end user? It doesn't matter one bit.

To your peers? It's interesting and educational to talk shop.
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It's not a stock because it pays no dividends. It's an asset.
> Currency isn't SUPPOSED to be this volatile. Currency is NOT supposed to be an investment mechanism in and of itself.

Agreed.

> If I buy a loaf of bread for $1 now, I should be able to buy a loaf of bread for $1, 10 years from now.

Don't agree.

> Currency inflation is BAD, and so is currency deflation.

Don't agree.

> Stability is GOOD.

Agree. But stability doesn't mean the value of currency doesn't change, it only means the value is predictable. A currencies value need only be predictable, not stable.

Stable value of a currency is impossible, you cannot keep the loaf of break the same price over a decade and you certainly can't even attempt to do it without the power to inflate or deflate the currency.

The things you want from a currency, i.e. unchanging value without inflation or deflation is simply not possible. Wealth isn't fixed in supply, it fluctuates drastically over time and thus so much the supply of money if you want to attempt to keep the value stable and that's why we inflate the value of our money ever so slightly each year, to maintain predictable value over long periods of time while avoiding the negative feedback cycle inherent to deflating it.

We had a currency that relatively stable in supply, gold, it made a horrible currency because as wealth fluctuated in supply, and there was no ability to manage the supply of gold, the only natural thing that could happen did, the value of the gold supply fluctuated wildly, exactly what you see happening in bitcoin. If you want stable value from a currency, you need the ability to inflate and deflate it to maintain parity with the fluctuating supply of wealth in the world.
I quite often call a house, or wish I could. We eat dinner with my mom most nights, and my grandma if she cares to come. "Whoever's there: dinner's ready!" is a message we have to send to their house, every day, and all we have to do it with is their two cell phones. I'm counting the days until we can call their Echo Dot instead.
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That's a slippery slope to saying that OpenOffice for Windows isn't free software either because you have to buy a Windows box. This is not a useful definition of free you're using. GarageBand is not Libre software.
The Chinese government has been cracking down on ways its citizens can get their money out of the country.

Bitcoin is an easy, hard to trace way for them to convert RMB to USD.
Depends on what you are doing. Is it really a currency? I dont personally treat it as such no matter what anyone says. I enjoy and profit off the volatility, at this point its impossible for me to lose any money if it crashes to zero even while I am holding botcoins. If I want "stable" I have stock market etc.
And everytimes a fall happens ( eg. 30%), it gets back up way too fast. Bitcoin seems here to stay
This is like seeing some potentially horrific error handling logic in critical infrastructure. Wait, it is actually that.

The storm drain should have the overflow-to-river mechanism before it's combined with sewage?
Indeed my experience is mostly with Clojure, which I mentioned because my parent commenter referred to ClojureScript. Glad to know a "normal" lisp handles this differently.
If you buy in today and it drops to $1.7 tomorrow, do you spend or do you hope that it'll get back near $1700.00 soon? how much are you willing to do with out for how long? that's the question that volatility is constantly asking and it depresses the velocity of money, depressing whatever economy is based on it.
Well the price has been bound in a wide channel since the start of 2016, showing stable growth within that channel for 18 months. The second half of 2016 was very benign growth, especially compared with bitcoin's past.

It was only the surge to 1500 that finally broke out of the channel, and we're seeing typical channel breakout price action. We will test the previous upper bound to see whether the price will stay outside the channel or not. This would be a crash back below $1500 at this point.

Think about utility from this angle: 300k transactions per day are willing to pay the fees to get into the blockchain. Higher fees necessarily crowd out lower-value use cases for bitcoin. This means that bitcoin remains useful for ever-higher value transactions, which continue to find utility in the coin.

The Reddit post about the home equity loan is a sure sign of the top. Of course this sort of investment folly is not unique to the crypto world.
That was basically the conclusion of the widely-circulated SlateStarCodex piece [1] -- that health care (and schooling, and housing) are becoming much more expensive with no clear reason why, and if it weren't so expensive, we would all be in much closer agreement on what problems need fixing and be able to reach a compromise.

SSC in particular noted that it was not any individual salaries that were the problem -- everyone's pay seemed about reasonable. Rather, what made the US so different was how much they had to spend in near-paranoid countermeasures against the dreaded "lawsuits".

That, I think, provided the clearest clue: in Europe, it's near impossible to "sue the school", "sue for malpractice" if they adhered to the regulations, and if you can, the loser pays. On top of that, the state automatically covers the injuries, so it's much less likely for resources to get lost in the black hole of litigation and discovery.

[1] http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/02/09/considerations-on-cost-...

HN Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13613687
All crypto will eventually be broken. SHA-1 seemed bulletproof a few years ago, and now people are trying to phase it out.

If it becomes worth it to break bitcoin, these vulnerabilities will be used, discovered faster, and likely won't be published before someone uses it to profit off Bitcoin and crashing the price.

Bitcoin is priced this high because uneducated people expect it to replace paypal and credit cards but it will never be able to because 1 transaction take 30+ minutes and that is by design. The faster they make transactions take, the higher chance of forgery. Other crypto-currencies that attempt to have faster transactions are simply trading safety for speed.
Strangely the on that had the best discovery for me was Google Music. It just seemed to eerily read my mind and I stumbled on so many good titles that I love. Rarely did I need to skip any song during, say, a workout playlist.

As for the UI, I loved the Google Music one... when I was on Android. Now that I'm on iOS it's totally alien and just unusable because zero iOS conventions are respected, like I'm in a virtual machine, it's just frustrating. I find all of the other music platform UIs quite awkward and despite its flaws Apple Music is still the best for me.

Seems like we hit a wall and "all MUAs suck" just changed the M from "Mail" to "Music".
TL;DR: "sky is the limit", "this is not a bubble but a new paradigm", "the price is going up because of China", "buy before it gets too late", etc.
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For anyone who is interested in looking at some growth data take a look at this chart showing the worldwide value transfer of Bitcoins through localbitcoins denominated in USD:

https://coin.dance/volume/localbitcoins
> Maven is very unpleasant because of its declarative XML language

Maven was intended to be configured via a GUI. If you want to configure it directly, try Polyglot Maven at https://github.com/takari/polyglot-maven which is a very light wrapper around Maven enabling you to use many other languages instead, e.g. Scala, Clojure, and Ruby as well as Apache Groovy.

The Gradle people marketed their product by slagging the XML which was never intended to be directly manipulated by humans. If you really want to use Gradle (and get a coffee whenever it builds something), it also lets you use Kotlin for writing build files.
Now, imagine how much is being lost by most people having to go through that, most of whom aren't perceptive enough to notice this...
I listen to entire albums too! But not from artists I've never heard of before, as is commonly the case in recommendations. It takes me a few listens from their singles to warm up to them, and then dig further into their discography.

"My New Music Mix" is updated 1x week for some inexplicable reason (I know Spotify does this too), while it seems to recommend albums programmatically based on likes/listening habits. Other playlists seem to be manually curated and recommended based on genre.

Understandably, there is just no way to expect manually curated playlists to cover everyone's personal tastes.

I believe it is possible to recommend songs/artists/albums without favoring one form of discoverability over the other as it is currently done.
> For my above rules, I split on an IPC of 1.0. Where did I get that from? I made it up, based on my prior work with PMCs. Here's how you can get a value that's custom for your system and runtime: write two dummy workloads, one that is CPU bound, and one memory bound. Measure their IPC, then calculate their mid point.
If I'm not mistaken, he's the first FBI director to be fired.

Edit: I was, in fact, mistaken.
It's not clear to me how much Trump policies will be influencing this decision. So far the extent of Trump's influence over the SEC is his appointment of one of the three current commissioners, right? I don't see that causing a 180 on this decision in the near term. I'd be happy to be wrong.
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FBI Director James Comey 'terminated' by Trump
As long as it is not flash! Some serious flash hating here.
Well as someone who's currently waiting on support@coinbase.com to respond to a ticket, it certainly doesn't feel like FUD. It's not related to KYC laws either, I've been a customer since 2014.
"Trump just fired the man leading a counterintelligence investigation into his campaign, on the same day that the Senate Intelligence commitee requested financial documents relating to Trump's business dealings from the treasury department that handles money laundering." -Comment from reddit that sums up how strange this is.
why didn't you buy last week? the price is never too high to buy, and never too low to sell.

if you really believe it will go up, why not buy when you think the chart looks good and move your stops up as it increases? your position sizing algorithm and exit strategy should allow you to capture some of that profit and protect yourself from a large correction
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/10/31/1589230/-Only-One-U...

> When Bill Clinton took office in January , 1993, his FBI Director was William S. Sessions, serving an appointment made by Ronald Reagan at the time of the Iran-Contra affair. Making it clear that the new President did not want the Republican FBI Director in his Administration, Clinton’s newly appointed Attorney General, Janet Reno, quietly pressured Mr. Sessions to resign.
A few? https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/02/sha1_broken.h...
Here's one way to see it: if you need to use Bitcoin to pseudonymously transfer large amounts of money anywhere in the world relatively easily, then you should worry not about the price it's currently trading at. If you want to transfer 1 million $'s, then you buy the appropriate amount of BTC and cash out when the transaction is done. A lot of people who are "invested" in Bitcoin are there to make money selling it for a higher price than they bought it for.
The thought of Trump nominating an FBI director is bone chilling. Summed up with what's known about Flynn and every other suspicious data point we have what I am increasingly sure that is a modern day coup of the USA.

Time to pause tech and effect change, this is leading to a future darker than I can possibly contemplate.
> but if you want to work with data, T-SQL is where it is at.

Depends on your definition of "working with data" I guess.....TSQL is fast, but beyond that almost anything beats it for functionality when messing around.
How many examples from military systems using real time Java do you want me to provide?

I can also provide examples for energy motoring, copiers, factory control systems and phone infrastructures.
How do people in developing countries spend their money?
I have one of the last Panasonic Plasmas. Actually two of them in different sizes. I'd be hard pressed to justify replacing while they still work. Though an LG OLED did turn my head a bit when I walked into a Best Buy last month.
I saw this awhile back and was impressed with how it was shaping up. Your videos are great. I previously built a similar CLI + desktop app combo for WP dev (no longer affiliated with it sadly), and it's funny seeing how similar our thinking is. I started with the CLI first and built the desktop app on top of it; looks like you did the opposite which is cool. Anyways, I wish you luck getting the desktop app shipped!
That's... not good.
I wouldn't short bitcoin actually. The big capital is coming in. Not all for bitcoin, but bitcoin is still the "safe" haven
It's not a conflict between Libertarianism and medication. It's a question of the role medical technologies (or any technologies) in opportunity and liberty.

If we come from the frame that certain mental conditions are neuro-chemically-based, and that these conditions prevent someone from being able to be productive members of society, medication might be seen akin to the freedom to participate in a market economy.

When I asked my friend that, I was probing for underlying narratives. From my perspective, there seems to be a heroic element to libertarian narratives, one in which medication like this seem to cheat.
Well I would be certainly interested in the circumstances especially considering that I always believed he was pro trump. Some even said he played an important role Trump won the election because he opened an investigation into Clinton's emails right before the election.
> They're middle class, the same way I'm upper class nobility because I was awarded a college degree complete with a title of "Bachelor of CS"

I have a very hard time believing that anybody believes this
You're not alone. I am very surprised that people on HN of all places are so accepting of this when they are the first to tear others apart for their lack of security.

A detailed technical guide to the security features of this device would almost be enough for me to buy one if their methodology was good and their security sound.
Right. Unless a flaw discovery is coming, in which case the passage of time and an increasing "bounty" both make it more likely there will be a flaw soon.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14304088
For a merchant a CC transaction can take up to 30 days. A customer can initiate a charge back any time between when they txed and when they pay their bill.

With bitcoin the ~10m+ tx time is a cost, but is in material if you are dealing with either a trusted party or a small amount of $
The problem is that IPC is also a crude metric. Even leaving aside fundamental algorithmic differences, an implementation of some algorithm with IPC of 0.5 is not necessarily faster than an implementation that somehow manages to hit every execution port and deliver an IPC of 4.

I can improve IPC of almost any algorithm (assuming it is not already very high) by slipping lots of useless or nearly useless cheap integer operations into the code.

People always tell you "branch misses are bad" and "cache misses are bad". You should always ask: "compared to what"? If it was going to take you 20 cycles worth of frenzied, 4 instructions per clock, work to calculate something you could keep in a big table in L2 (assuming that you aren't contending for it) you might be better off eating the cache miss.

Similarly you could "improve" your IPC by avoiding branch misses (assuming no side effects) by calculating both sides of a unpredictable branch and using CMOV. This will save you branch misses and increase your IPC, but it may not improve the speed of your code (if the cost of the work is bigger than the cost of the branch misses).
Went to a bitcoin conference recently and met a plumber who had quit his job to margin trade altcoins. I think a lot of his positions would have been wiped out in the beartrap 12 hours ago.
Nope. Always wired when the phone heats up like a frying pan. Playing podcasts does not drain the battery. Did not have the problem on iPhone 6, only noticed after switching to iPhone 7, and only really the last few weeks, but I see their support forum is full of complaints dating back a while.
You are forgetting an important demographic of many households who do not yet have personal phones but are perfectly capable of communicating verbally: small children.

Amazon is betting on these children growing up with an Echo in the home which can be a nice way to catch up with your kids' activities while still at work or on your way home.

Child: "Alexa, record a message for mom."

Alexa: "Recording message."

Child: "Mummy, don't be late. But you promised to undo my hair when you return from work. My head hurts."
I use `htop` for all of my Linux machines. It's great software. But one of my biggest gripes is that "Detailed CPU Time" (F2 -> Display options -> Detailed CPU time) is not enabled by default.

Enabling it allows you to see a clearer picture of not just stalls but also CPU steal from "noisy neighbors" -- guests also assigned to the same host.

I've seen CPU steal cause kernel warnings of "soft-lockups". I've also seen zombie processes occur. I suspect they're related but it's only anecdotal: I'm not sure how to investigate.

It's pretty amazing what kind of patterns you can identify when you've got stuff like that running. Machine seems to be non-responsive? Open up htop, see lots of grey... okay so since all data is on the network, that means that it's a data bottleneck; over the network means it could be bottlenecked at network bandwidth or the back-end SAN could be bottlenecked.

Fun fact: Windows Server doesn't like not having its disk IO not be serviced for minutes at a time. That's not a fun way to have another team come over and get angry because you're bluescreening their production boxes.
Big difference between that and outright firing. Behind the scenes pressure is politics as usual.
Previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2561043 (May 2011, price $7.50)
Hopefully there's a silver lining and that this means the encryption backdoor push (led by Comey) will slow to a crawl or be forgotten. He was already preparing a push for FISA Amendments renewal together with Dianne Feinstein (who is apparently having a change of heart about her own retirement).
>a new DAW that should make writing music a lot faster and easier.

>Current DAWs don't really understand music.

>Current DAW : my thing = Windows Notepad : IDE.

It really sounds like you're promising a lot.
Of course the price of Bitcoin is going to keep rising due to the fixed amount of coins that can be mined and all the long forgotten stale accounts with coins just sitting in them. There will be a real issue with the velocity of coins exchanged decreasing over time as they're horded in this fashion.
> steadily replacing democratically-governed public services

That's exactly what politicians and wealthy are calling for, very plainly and in the open. Not JUST VC's calling the shots, but the wealthy elite in general.

They own all the IP, we focus on making products they think will do best, we vote for their candidates...

Welcome to the real world.
> Although Sessions denied that he had acted improperly, he was pressured to resign in early July, with some suggesting that President Clinton was giving Sessions the chance to step down in a dignified manner. Sessions refused, saying that he had done nothing wrong, and insisted on staying in office until his successor was confirmed. As a result, President Clinton dismissed Sessions on July 19, 1993.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_S._Sessions