BTC was priced at ~$825 on 2/1/2014 when Mt Gox disabled transactions, and is around $6,150 now. Provided they're able to pay out ~13% of each claim, claimants will at least be able to "break even" on the freeze (ignoring, of course, BTC's astronomical gains in the last 4 years).
You forget that on Mt Gox, the price dropped to something like $125 before they shut off trading... I know because I bought some at that price just before they went dark
Same here. Everyone was fleeing from BTC like rats from a ship. Luckily I managed to sell everything I had when it was close to $1000 and buy all the BTC I could when the price dropped to two hundred something.
You'll want to take a look at your site's theme on mobile devices. On my iPhone 6 on iOS 9 (Safari), the navigation bar is fixed at the top half of the pane and takes up over half the screen.
A lot of downvotes happen by accident, as on mobile it's easy to fat-finger the down arrow. No need to comment, typically people will notice the mistake and correct it with upvotes.
If the mods read this, I'd like to put in a suggestion to, on mobile, add CSS that places the down arrow on the right side of the screen, nowhere near the up arrow on the left, and make the icons bigger so you can tap them without having to zoom in. Or if that looks cluttered, make the icons as big as they normally are, but make the clickable space larger using padding rules. This is the biggest UX problem HN has, in my opinion.
iPhone 5s, iOS 9.1. sorry to all reading my tweet about the snark. But I just find it so sad that I have so much rendering power on desktop (JavaScript on/off, elinks web browser, my rss reader), but if some silly CSS thing borks the mobile page, there's nothing I can do.
I came here to include a picture of the kakoune.org problem, but since you already have one I'll include a (hilariously?) similar picture of your tweet.
On the subject of kak, I tried it a few months ago and thought it was really impressed by it but didn't stick with it long enough to decide if it would be better than vim for me.
A neat idea, but the resultant vendor lock-in here worries me. I've heard horror stories of the amount of effort required to move away from PaaS platforms like Heroku (I believe Genius is one such tale) due to architecture-specific components like jobs, but this seems to take that reliance to a whole new, all-inconclusive level.
This might be neat or a quick weekend or hackathon project where you just want to Get Shit Done, but I can't imagine anyone ever committing fully to the platform and having no second thoughts.
An open architecture built on this sort of idea would be nifty, but tools like Docker have almost reduced the sysadmin components for a lot of simple projects to something that's not too far from this anyhow, from an ease of use perspective.
I understand this concern. This is where JAWS comes in. The best way to do Lambda development, is to make AWS Lambda a thin wrapper around your own separate code, to keep that code re-usable, testable and AWS independent.
JAWS generates scaffolding to encourage this for you. As a result, your code ends up looking just like a traditional application framework's code.
I just did a talk on JAWS @ Re:Invent to over 600 people. The line was out the door. Honestly, I didn't hear "I'm only going to use this for a hackathon project" once, except for now. Instead, all I heard was, "OMG we don't have to deal with servers!!! We will use this for everything!!!". And there were huge enterprise companies there.
I'm a Docker lover, but Lambda has a huge head start in many areas. Super fast spin-up times, orchestration handled for you, the ability to containerize functions/endpoints not just applications, and pay per use pricing. All of this comes with Lambda out-of-the-box.
Lambda functions are just small Node scripts wrapped up in a Docker container and then executed on a custom scheduler. I don't think it would be too difficult to port to another platform.
My thoughts exactly. To me, OS/X's quality has been slipping, but I haven't found any non-Apple hardware that's comparable. If they get the trackpad and keyboard right on it, this will open a lot of interesting doors.
I'm amused to see the 'OS/X' typo still lives on, more than a decade since OS/2's been relevant :)
On topic, I've just upgraded to the latest version of OS X and it really seems rock solid. Fastest, most stable, and most secure version yet. Still a bit of an evolutionary dead end though, in that there have been no moves to add touch support beyond multitouch trackpads. I admire their vision with keeping iOS and OS X separate, but given touch is so ubiquitous elsewhere, I can't imagine it'll be long before Windows users are genuinely surprised and baffled by the lack of touch screens in Apple laptops...
Probably apple's next move is not to add touch to os x but to release an iOS laptop to replace the MacBook air, they could call it an iBook. It's pretty clear OS X is legacy tech and on the roadmap for being phased out.
I'd buy an iPad Pro tomorrow...if only it ran Xcode. But I can't justify $1200 or more if I doesn't help me to get my work done. At that price, and admittedly for my purposes, the iPad Pro is just a very large and very expensive gadget.
The really annoying thing is that these days a late-model iPad probably has most of the horsepower needed to pull it off.
For me it's "I'd buy an iPad Pro tomorrow...if only it ran Xcode [and had a terminal]." It can be heavily sandboxed as far as I care, I just need a proper Unix terminal. The trouble with Xcode is that it just needs so much screen real estate, I just can't see it working very well on iOS.
I assume you mean a terminal for the local machine, not an SSH session to another machine, in which case Panic's Prompt is what you want for SSH.
I'm with you in that I'd like a local terminal, but I could live without if I had Xcode on the box and some sort of full-screen editing mode. Working with storyboards would indeed suck, though.
There are terminal emulators on iOS already, that's not the issue, but not having a local filesystem means it's only useful for remoting, there's nothing a terminal will let you do on the device (unless it's jailbroken)
The MBA is already replaced, that's what the "new Macbook" is, an MBA replacement. The iBook brand was replaced by the Macbook brand and isn't going to come back (the name would collide with ibooks anyway).
The whole discoveryd fiasco was the final straw for me with regards to having a Mac. Having such serious networking issues in your primary OS and not fixing them for almost a year after release tells me something is rotten in the Kingdom of Apple.
Yes, the issue was eventually fixed, but I'm done with Apple. They have lost my trust.
My girlfriend is still having networking issues on her MBP. I asked about the problems on IRC and was told that it was a regression that should be fixed in El Capitan, after updating to El Capitan the issue still persists.
I was considering buying an MBP myself but after seeing the issues she is having I am changing my mind, especially after this reveal from Microsoft.
I can't believe how few laptops get the trackpad right. It's the first and primary interaction anyone has with the laptop, how are all of them so terrible! I'd love to get a non-macbook, but the list of laptops with powerful hardware that plays nice with a Unix based OS and has a trackpad that isn't unbearable is shockingly short.
But yeah, it's mindboggling. The internal hardware is largely the same anyway, why are companies throwing away a chance to get ahead of the competition and use the same shoddy keyboards/touchpads everyone hates?
For me it largely depends on the cap. The soft rim cap is really easy on the fingers, while the old IBM and default Lenovo caps only seem to exist to generate callus.
I don't understand how anyone can state that, OSX has always had shit-show releases as a rule with a few exceptions (spit and polish cycles like Mountain Lion), and "never buy a v1 of a new design" has been the community's mantra since before I bought my first Apple device 15 years ago, it's one of the first things I was told.
It used to be that your computer was faster with every release of OS X. It hasn't been true for a few releases now. Oh that and my niece's iPhone 5c (not even a year old) was bricked by an iOS update. And the only thing Apple offers is a discount on the purchase of a new one...
Andrew Sullivan's blog The Dish[0] did this for its entire existence. It was a driving point of the site's culture, to the point where certain topics gained frequent contributors that were probably better recognized because of the advantageous signal-to-noise ratio.
Many sites seem to be turning toward a manual moderation model now. This doesn't seem too whacky as a next step for many of them.
And to pursue this point, one person greatly influenced by Sullivan was his ex-colleague at The Atlantic, Ta-Nehisi Coates (who just won a MacArthur fellowship).
Coates had a very well-policed comments section, which for several years attracted some high-quality comments and really excellent exchanges - the equal of anything here on HN within its chosen domain (essentially, race and history). Coates is black, of course, so there was a lot of moderation needed. It proved unsustainable and his posts don't have comments any more.
Is it just me, or is the childish, mocking tone in the OP simultaneously baffling and totally befitting of the point they're trying to make? I understand that they're frustrated by the repeated submission of automated security vulnerability reports, but blanketing it entirely as "reverse engineering" and responding to it like this is... a strange approach.
Did someone at Oracle actually think that this was the best way to make this point?
In my opinion she is being paid for propaganda in support of Oracle. By that I mean the message is not beneficial to the whole population of Oracle Users, but only to Oracle Corporate.
Yeah, it's very poorly written. I always cringe when some exec thinks "oh, it's just a blog so I don't have to write with the same professionalism and attention to detail that I would in other corporate communications".
Well, it's not even 'just a blog', it's a blog hosted by oracle.com about the author's employment at same. The standard of professionalism should be higher given the direct link, methinks. If it were a personal blog on a personal topic, it wouldn't matter as much.
I think if recent history is any guide, a C-level who claims "you can't hold me accountable for stupid shit I say on my personal blog" isn't going to be one much longer.
