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This is pending official confirmation from IBM that the feature is enabled and accessible to openPOWER chips.
Altcoins rely on economics. If you're a miner, you invest your fiat in mining coins showing sufficient value and liquidity. If an altcoin rises high enough, ASICs will follow.
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> Bitcoin will become usable again.

Make Bitcoin great again? ;) Seriously, I doubt that BTC will be usable as a day-to-day currency soon - you still have that nasty 10-to-30-minutes confirmation delay, and the tx fees make any kind of nanotransactions (sub-dollar) totally impractical at the moment.

I seriously hope that the Bitcoin devs find a way to resolve this... better sooner than later.
Wish I knew what bb 9930 was but I am considering becoming a Luddite
Easy bit wonky swift key is probably the best
People care though - there's subreddits that hype about breaking another limit. It's just that the media doesn't talk about it that much. And yet they have.
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It may not be ideal, but individuals who amass power and then override other's collective judgement is a large part of how our society behaves.
Also, have they not realised how volatile that price is right now? In the time it takes to put out such an article, a 20% increase could easily have occurred. Or the original 20% drop might now be a 40% one.
That's just the thing, it needing a patch - or consensus amongst miners - means it's broken and there might be better architected currencies around. Will Lightning allow it to do 50K transactions / second or more? <1 minute confirmation times? Low transaction costs?
bitcoin so cheap this morning
Bitcoin price posts in both directions are often removed from the main page for not being newsworthy and attracting uncivil discussion, I highly doubt there is any organized conspiracy.
Yeah, he's certainly guilty of creating the circumstances.

But to what extent would the outcome have to be predictable?
I'm curious...

Also shouldn't this prankster benefit from a presumption of regularity? Otherwise, don't we conclude that it's is regular for the police to shoot innocent people in stressful situations. Which seems like an irregular thing..

I'm obviously not lawyer, so maybe this is too smart, but if the police benefits from a presumption of regularity, shouldn't they prankster calling them also benefit from the presumption that the police acts _regularly_?

And what happens if that presumption erodes...
>meaning scalability issues are largely eradicated

I don't know how much you know about the lightning network, but this is _not_ true by any means. LN introduces a lot of new challenges and is by no means the end of the road.

The naive approach, for example, means your morning coffee actually takes _two_ transactions instead of one, making the problem worse. To take advantage of LN will mean new networks, new organisations, centralised brokers, et cetera.
The tweet implies they're in the process becoming an approved currency in the app store, not that they've already been approved. Am I missing something here?
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In other words, I could spend an hour exerting effort and have nothing of value to show for it at the end?
Wish i had one of these for the SAT
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As it currently exists, BTC cannot be used as designed. You cannot have a functional currency where the value goes up and down 20% on any given day. There's no incentive to use it to purchase any good or service, it's only a vehicle for speculation or as an exchange value while dealing with other coins. Lightning network wont change that, either. Only price stability will.
an older Blackberry model: https://www.gsmarena.com/blackberry_bold_touch_9930-3755.php
I love how Fiat Money was designed to be impossible to use for illegal purposes, and there is no way to steal it. I mean really, if there were a way for it to be used in that way, surely your argument would be pointless, but luckily we know that the more middlemen we introduce between us and another party, the more affordable the transaction will become.
You're basically right except with payment channels you mostly don't have to trust the counterparty.

The simplest case is a unidirectional channel. To pay you a series of micropayments, I send a series of transactions with each one slightly larger, so each is the sum of all my payments. You can only submit one such transaction to the blockchain. I lock my funds so you don't have to worry they won't be available.

Bidirectional channels and networking are elaborations on this idea. In bidirectional channels the main risk is that your counterparty will submit an obsolete state; there has to be a delay and you have to monitor the chain so you can submit a more recent state if that happens. You don't have to know who the counterparty is.

(Your analogy to a ledger with account balances is precisely correct for Ethereum, but Bitcoin actually has a somewhat different model.)
That's exactly what the lightning network that GP mentioned is supposed to fix, isn't it?
(2) Property entails obligations. Its use shall also serve the public good.

(From here: https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_gg/englisch_gg.h...)
I think you have not understood "C is the desert island language". Java is very much used for application because C++ is a nightmare, C is prehistoric, ...

Recently I have migrated a large application from RedHat 6 to RedHat 7. A lot of code in Ada, C++, Java (all using corba), many scripts in shell, Perl, Awk, make. Most of the code changes needed were in C++.

Most of the new applications here are developed in java or C#.
Oh, I see: it's not just that it's a simple app with payment on endpoint access, it's that it can spawn tons on this app very quickly.

Am I correct to assume to ideal use case for that is to replace what is typically implemented as a background workers for webservices?
Pretty similar to what happened with the Jupyter Notebook last year.

https://github.com/jupyter/notebook/issues/2254
Google translates it as

> Property obliges. Its use should also serve the public good.

which is more or less accurate.

> If you want to spend your resources on public good, find a good charity.

That's kinda like saying cars should only go fast, if you also want to not die when taking a breath outside, you have to wear a gas mask or deploy nanobots that remove pollutants from the atmosphere.

Public transport is fastest when everybody just uses kung fu to move others out of the way, and when the doors are razor sharp and close on a timer -- if you also want people to not be injured, go to a hospital.
Not really. It took a long time to bottom out post-gox
You can't downvote post on HN, only comments.

What you're seeing is people flagging Bitcoin related posts because they have no substance. "X moved Y% in the past Z hours" with no actual news or commentary behind it isn't a story worth discussion when it happens every couple days.
>> It’s amazing how many people are against crypto currencies for some odd reason.

Perhaps that's because we've seen this pattern (and it's knock-on effects on the wider economy) three times in the last 20 years?
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I can't find a post which i'm quite sure i found here.
The article was posted in hackernews, and started with some simple acoustics, mathematics and elementary music theory. I don't think there was too much about harmony in it.
Probably there were mentions of the circle of fifths though.
At some point the writer diverted to a road describing certain ideas about how the western music was also shaped by the ergonomy of the instruments used and finally he introduces his idea own for a new interface.

The article was a little bit too hard for me to ubderstand i whole, but i'd like to give it an other try.

Please help me finding it again, and excuse my english writing.. :-)
I'm on the same boat, I'm Italian and speak Spanish a lot with friends, English is my daily language. The latest Google keyboard has helped but it's not nearly as good as T9 was.
It could also sensibly fluctuate around $1000 or $100.
I wonder why they did it - perhaps they were trying to avoid having digraphs mapping to a single sound. An alternative might be carons + acute accents to modify the letter like the Czech, Slovak and in the Balkans so in the example from the article below...

> Under this new system, the Kazakh word for cherry will be written as s’i’i’e, and pronounced she-ee-ye.

You could define the alphabet so that this is written "šííě". To be honest it seems like this is a tricky example to map to any latin-based alphabet. Maybe diacritics were avoided to avoid internationalisation issues (i.e. you could easily fall back to the locale "en-us" and your Kazakh doc still looks alright)
One of the difficulties I see with this approach is to identify personas.

It would be fine it was work + home persona.
I feel though that it woild end up like
work local branch + work parent company report + work programming + home family member + home personal hobbies + home grand parent’s health

For context I already have two IDs for work and private stuff, I still hit a lot of barriers on Google search and ended up in ddg, using the location switch when needed.
That a thread that generate a small amount of reactions got trashed fast is perfectly normal. But I don’t understand why recent adversial discussions with a lot of comment can never sustain more than a few hour while some, pro bitcoin thread seems to last longer.

Again, it’s just a hunch, would be nice to review the log to see if I suffer cognitive bias or if my hunch is somewhat justified.

I would be delighted by a « Show HN » that prove how wrong I am.

PS : Sorry i didn’t get HN internal right (no downvote). So maybe studying if there is a bias toward more flagging of counterpoint on bitcoin would me more appropriate.
I went and looked at the ETH price over the full history in log view. From that perspective today's move is a typical little jiggle.

https://imgur.com/13J5kkC
Isn't that just exactly the same as 'hype', in the opposite direction? Clearly the logical approach is neither to follow the hype, nor shy away from it, but to ignore it altogether.
No, that is not correct. If you have any idle processes, their memory can safely swapped out without impacting performance. The user should not be forced to quit programs as soon as they become idle. Also, as described in the article, a program often allocates pages, which also become unused and can be swapped out. In an ideal world, a program would not allocate pages which become idle, but that happens with complex software (and often depends on the user interaction, and thus is not completely predictable). Swapping out idle pages is a very simple solution to make more memory available for the active processes.
Hmm, relying on Python 2 for a program that's still in early stages and is supposed to have a long lifespan?
> There is only one coin in existence that a train the size of a planet can ride on, and it's XRP. Hodl. There, I said it.

2 sentences later

> Also, please don't ask for financial advice or price predictions short or long term. You have to make your own decisions.

This contradiction undermined the point of whole article for me.
Yup, seconded. My first thought was that I was seeing Chrome's no SSL warning. I'd recommend changing the colour scheme, even just slightly.
If you're in crypto you've seen a correction like today's last month (Dec 22nd to be exact).
Slightly aside of BGP on an internet scale - We’ve recently switched to using BGP internally within our network for kubernetes + load balancer (nginx) routing, (announcement / discovery) amongst other things and I can tell you - it’s one of the best moves we’ve ever made. The simplicity, performance and reliability is brilliant.

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Reporting a continuation of a trend won’t get many page views. It’d be like a story about world population.
Down almost 40% in 30 days.

Roll a dice. Is the next 30 days + or - 40%
There’s a patent for that: https://www.pcworld.com/article/224698/apple_develops_e_ink_...
Same with Czech on the internet. Sometimes there is confusion but 99% of time it works. We use diacritics on official documents though.
Then why is even a harmless increase to 2 or 4 refused? The current confirmation time and fees are beyond any worst case scenario, but yet there are still people completely brainwashed to argue that Bitcoin Core is perfectly fine.

Bitcoin Cash scale what it can scale, that is, blocksize. That's it, it is a pragmatic approach absolutely obvious for anyone with more than 2 year of experience in programming.
My 338 byte, 2-input 1-output (no change) transaction, paying 88 satoshi per byte, $5 at time of sending, has been stuck in the mempool for nearly 2 weeks now. With some luck, it may get processed in the next month.
Who is at fault in this situation? I would assume the monitor driver should be able to limit the max brightness to prevent this type of thing lol
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It doesn't change a thing and I do not acknowledge the efficacy of such an action. Sometimes in life you have to actually do things, thinking about them is not enough..
Yes, of cause. The new China hubs (giant market, gov backed) are the reasons for the Downfall of HK and SG. (tiny market, geolocation not great).

https://www.bloomberg.com/gadfly/articles/2017-01-19/ominous...
third world countries originally ment states not aligned with USA, Nazi Germany or USSR, during and after ww2. this actually included ireland.
> Getting a graph of every wallet connected to every other wallet is a mathematical impossibility.

Why is that remotely relevant? Why would I want my wallet 'connected' to any wallet I'm not going to transact with?
I think productivity is productivity, even if it's hard/impossible to measure. Quality is a productive output, just like quantity is.

There was some teaching expirements (don't hold me to its quality) with ceramics. Students either focused on quality or quantity. Iirc.. the quantity group produced better quality by the end. Quantity was just a good way of practicing productivity, which could then be used to produce quality.
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It is not in the Constitution. Some have argued it is in conflict with the Constitution. See https://mic.com/articles/11949/supreme-court-must-strike-dow...

The deal is in writing.

As you allude, though, it's a terrible system. The DA deliberately files charges one or two tiers higher than needed as a scare tactic to encourage defendants to plea out.

The motivation seems mostly to keep the number of actual trials down to match the capacity of the overall system. And it's one of the reasons (there are others) that our incarceration percentage is higher than anyone else's.
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have started using it some days ago and am really happy with it on both Android and the Linux Desktop version. Feels very lightweight in terms of resource use while giving the same feature-set as Skype (just with better security).
I’m curious why this post got flagged? It seems an appropriate question to me?
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> As the technical field, we do not follow the scientific method.

Surely we should be looking to engineering here, not to science.
Employing George Osborne for squillions straight from government is definitely unethical. How can he act in the best interest of the country when there is a colossal personal incentive to keep BlackRock et al on side during his tenure?
Well, consider TSLA, one of the most shorted stocks of last years. I don't think that Tesla short-sellers are deliberately hiding some information from investors. Jim Chanos, the most famous TSLA seller, is very open why, in his opinion, true tesla price is zero [0] and definitely not hiding anything. Some even argue that Jim is too vocal.

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/14/jim-chanos-we-think-tesla-is...
I've just made a bet it's dead cat bounce. Let's see how it goes.
My bias is not pro-bitcoin, but I personally haven't noticed pro-bitcoin posts lasting longer than anti-bitcoin posts, I think it has more to do with whether they have substance. Price events are newsworthy, but just like political events, newsworthiness doesn't they fit the scope of HN.

(I'm not the one down-voting you by the way)
> It comes down to intent

There is nothing in the film that communicates this. It may be that we are supposed to view the film this way, but the film itself is not sophisticated in communicating this message. Meanwhile, there are many characters who are clearly well-intentioned (Poe and Finn) whose actions seem to be explicitly criticized.

Lucas was a far more sophisticated filmmaker. In his prequels the Jedi are deeply flawed, and the audience is supposed to notice that they abandon their commitment to peace ("I can protect you, but I cannot fight a war for you") to the point that they die (literally and allegorically) marching into war. Likewise, Luke's effort to rescue his friends in Empire is well-intentioned, but nearly destroys him because he chooses violence as his tool (similar to Anakin's efforts to rescue Padme through violence). It is not accidental that the temptation that Vader offers Luke is the same temptation Palpatine offers Anakin: the use of violence for the sake of good ("join me, and bring peace and order to the galaxy") -- a trap in both films.
In Chrome, I've set up Google Verbatim as a search engine and made that the default address bar search. Here is the URL format: {google:baseURL}search?{google:RLZ}{google:acceptedSuggestion}{google:originalQueryForSuggestion}{google:searchFieldtrialParameter}{google:instantFieldTrialGroupParameter}sourceid=chrome&ie={inputEncoding}&q=%s&tbs=li:1
I work remotely, and I'm always on the lookout for a video chat system with fewer audio problems than Skype.

Anyone know of a website that maintains a ranking of video chat services, in terms of audio quality?
The page you link to <https://jitsi.org/downloads/> contains (mostly) instructions on how to install jitsi-meet on your server for a self-hosted WebRTC videoconferencing solution.

This does not include the older 'jitsi' named softphone / voip client, meaning there will be no jitsi command that can be executed.

Installation of jitsi-meet was straightforward for me, exactly as oulined on their page:

- first, add their repository to your apt sources.list

- then apt update && apt upgrade

- then apt install jitsi-meet

You should end up with a running web server hosting your own jitsi-meet instance.

I've installed it with a letsencrypt cert... you have to convert it to pkcs#12 with openssl and move it to /etc/jitsi/videobridge/ .
They get buried pretty quickly, so there's already either an explicit or implicit rule in place.
Yes... The market encourages it.
How else do you get inexpensive, pretty, fresh, tasty food so easily in supermarkets?
why would you considering how you're treated at the border as foreigner by the current regime?
> 4 years ago was a very different time. Software quality in general continues to drop. I’m not sure if that’s due to increasing incompetence in the software engineering workforce (unlikely, but possible), malice (more unlikely), or apathy (most likely).

I think another dimension is how deployability has changed.

Before... When you wrote and shipped software, getting your software out was a big problem, a big deal. This also meant that if you shipped a bug, shipping an update would be equally expensive (for you and your customers), and the amount of goodwill you lost would be quite tremendous.

Now everyone has a appstore, always up to date apps, and whatever else is usually "in the cloud" somewhere. The time of people installing applications in a normal desktop-context, with installers and having IT-administrators handle updates once every second year is surely long gone.

With that kind of change, and an increased focus on delivering early, doing proper QA is no longer something which is rewarded in the market.

Who cares if you made a bug-free, awesome service, when you did it 6 months after someone else shipped a similar, but buggy service which everyone is already using? They have established a user-base and as such already has social momentum and lock-in.

What do you have to offer which is not only fantastic enough to make some bother migrating, but also so amazing that these people will also go convert their friends and families? "Less bugs" alone is not going to cut it.

Basically, taking the time to deliver quality software these days is increasingly something you get punished for in the market-place.

The result? We get shit like this and we can only blame ourselves.
When posting job opening for my company, we always ask for resumes in PDF format. It’s amazing how many applicants send NOT PDFs.

I suggest reading the description to see if there are any format requests.

Yes, I know pdf is not the tool to make the resume, just an output. But I think this is a related input.
> Maybe diacritics were avoided to avoid internationalisation issues

Yes, the article quotes the president as saying: "There should not be any hooks or superfluous dots that cannot be put straight into a computer."
For me its all about using contacts I already have. I've been trading for over 2 years and haven't had a single job come through that wasn't either an existing friend or a friend of theirs. Keep in touch with people. Talk about your projects. Things crop up, just not instantly. Depends where you are in your career. If you are just starting out then this may not work, but chances are you cna find a route to finding contacts. A local co-working space might make sense for a few months, or local business seminars. Again, depends on what industry you're operating in.
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I've not used it much outside my own area but yes I think that's a very good use case. Particularly if there's a "process some files" part. The classic example is thumbnails for images, you can point a very simple bit of imagemagik calling code at a bucket and say "any time a file is dropped in here, create a thumbnail and put it over here" and it'll scale when you have a bunch of images dropped in and cost nothing when nothing is happening.

Not perfect for all use cases, although some people do seem to enjoy running as much stuff in lambda as possible, but when it matches what you need it can be a surprisingly simple solution to quite annoying problems.
Good point. I guess it would be only fair that emulators publish download numbers :)
What makes you think <ALL> of them have no use case or real life application? It's ignorant to believe "they will all die" if you ask me.

But yes, 95% of them will slowly go away
Xargo isn't that bad, and neither is using a Docker container to build. Plus, a lot of teams generate their build artifacts in CI environments that are already Linux. So there's a bunch of pretty easy ways to get Rust code running in Lambda.

Honestly the reason why official Rust support may never make sense is that it's so easy to use Neon to build native Node modules with Rust. Not one line of JS is needed and the impedance between the two languages is minimal. Go would require more hacks and copying thanks to both it and Node having their own GC. Basically Rust is flexible enough that official support isn't necessary whereas Go requires official support to avoid ugly hacks.

FWIW, I've never used Lambda to do what I'm suggesting above, but I've done it with GCP's equivalent and it works great.
Cute video. Too bad the costume had a few weak spots, the idea of sealing/isolation is deeply valuable. If it hadn't failed there, it would have helped many other diseases.
Nothing wrong with that. You generally shouldn't optimize applications for power users. Software should be usable.