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anonovaon Update for customers with Bitcoin stored on Coinbase

They did allow ETC withdrawals after the fact: https://support.coinbase.com/customer/en/portal/articles/252.... I'm not sure this is a matter of difficulty to implement.

anonovaon Show HN: Termplay: Play videos in your terminal

mpv has a true color terminal renderer.[1] It's not the fastest though: http://i.imgur.com/919Rez5.png

  $ mpv --vo tct https://www.youtube.com/watch\?v\=PA4InNa0NSQ

[1]: https://mpv.io/manual/master/#video-output-drivers-tct

anonovaon Ableton Live Redesign

I don't really have a problem with the UI; I want Ableton to fix the other annoyances first:

* Saving the project resets the undo history. A someone who frequently saves, this is super frustrating.

* No normal zoom controls. You have to use the "minimap" at the top.

* Only a single project can be open at once, which makes copying from old projects tedious unless you shuffle files around into your current project.

* Tracks can only be grouped one level deep, i.e., no subgrouping. Most DAWs give you arbitrary grouping depths.

* No way to overlay multiple tracks in the piano roll. I end up starting in one group and extracting to individual buses afterward. This doesn't work well the other way around.

My biggest wish for the next version is project versioning. It's an absolute nightmare managing so many save "checkpoints", especially, as I mentioned, you can only have a single project open at once.

anonovaon The Xbox One X: Initial Impressions

Yes, a lot of games target 1800p with checkboard rendering and upscale to 2160p. The PS4 has native hardware acceleration for checkerboard rendering.[1] [2]

[1]: http://wccftech.com/blow-checkerboard-rendering-ps4pro-isnt-... [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checkerboard_rendering

anonovaon Coinbase is down

Note that Coinbase sent an email out some weeks ago telling customers to switch to Google/Microsoft Authenticator instead of relying on Authy and SMS: https://blog.coinbase.com/how-to-increase-your-coinbase-acco...

anonovaon Ask HN: Alternatives to Yubikey?

Another hardware wallet that supports FIDO/U2F is the Ledger Nano S: https://www.ledgerwallet.com/products/ledger-nano-s

The downside of this and the Trezor is that you need a cable to connect it to a device.

anonovaon Announcing Rust 1.18

I use the executable name in the config and tell people to add $STANDALONE_NDK/bin to $PATH.

  [target.arm-linux-androideabi]
  ar = "arm-linux-androideabi-ar"
  linker = "arm-linux-androideabi-gcc"

anonovaon Bitcoin surges to all-time high above $1,700

> Where does the $52 billion market valuation come from?

That seems to be a mistake in the article. $52 billion market cap is of all currently tracked cryptocurrencies, not just bitcoin.[1] Bitcoin is ~$28.7 billion right now.[2]

[1]: https://coinmarketcap.com/charts/

[2]: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bitcoin/

anonovaon Dell’s 32-inch 8K UP3218K Display Now for Sale

An Asus PA328Q (32" 4K monitor) specs say "Power On: <138.3W".[1]

For the tv comparison, choosing the first 55" 4K tv on Samsung's site: "Typical Power Consumption: 65, Maximum Power Consumption: 170".[2]

[1]: https://www.asus.com/us/Commercial-Monitors/PA328Q/specifica...

[2]: http://www.samsung.com/us/televisions-home-theater/tvs/4k-uh...

anonovaon Laptop security: Apple vs. [Insert name here]

This is pretty neat, but do note that the remote wipe feature as described by OP requires a subscription: https://www.preyproject.com/pricing. But I suppose this isn't a huge issue if you're already using full-drive encryption.

anonovaon SEC Rejects Rule Change for Bitcoin Exchange-Traded Fund [pdf]

Coinbase/GDAX is incredibly unreliable during "big news" moments like this. Time and time again this happens, and they haven't quite figured out their scaling issue yet.

anonovaon SEC Rejects Rule Change for Bitcoin Exchange-Traded Fund [pdf]

https://cryptowat.ch/ is great. The front page gives a good overview of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Click on one to see charts.

anonovaon Show HN: A theme color extracting library implemented in C

I ran the test script on this sunset photo: <https://i.imgur.com/9EXyYlJ.jpg>. Output for the different algorithms:

* otree: https://i.imgur.com/AnqaTLE.png

* mindiff: https://i.imgur.com/2UMzyub.png

* mix: https://i.imgur.com/TJm6tJ3.png

anonovaon Announcing TypeScript 2.2

> TypeScript's type definitions I found are very, very poor, as a relic of the days where versioning was an issue and many have not been fixed.

I've always found it funny that DefinitelyTyped's tag line is "The repository for high quality TypeScript type definitions", but it's an absolutely disastrous system. If it's not a well-used library, definitions there will be woefully out of date. Versioning is a huge issue with it, so it's hard to figure out what definitions actually match the version library you're using. I can only admit that it's an effort that's better than nothing.

The few projects I added types to, the original project owners gladly accepted them into their main repos, which is great since types will "just work" without fuddling with @types packages.

anonovaon Intel Shows 2.5D FPGA at ISSCC

Given early benchmarks are showing that the Ryzen 7 1700X ($390) is performing similarly to the Intel Core i7-6900K ($1050), they definitely are going in that direction.

http://hothardware.com/news/amds-ryzen-7-1700x-delivers-i7-6...

anonovaon The future of iOS is 64-bit only: Apple to stop support of 32-bit apps

Arch Linux also recently announced phasing out the 32-bit distribution (though multilib will still be available).[1] Perhaps the start of a trend.

[1]: https://www.archlinux.org/news/phasing-out-i686-support/

anonovaon Music's weird cassette-tape revival is paying off

> They sounded bad.

Cassettes weren't _that_ bad. The problem is that there were essentially different grades of tapes and players that supported different noise reduction techniques, and people tend to remember the ones played back with low end gear.

Here's a great video on the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVoSQP2yUYA

anonovaon Dropbox Could Have One of 2017’s Most Interesting IPOs

I still use it, but I'll likely switch once they disable the public folder.[1] It's the sole reason I use Dropbox.

[1]: https://www.dropbox.com/help/16

anonovaon Intel Core i7-7700K Kaby Lake review: Is the desktop CPU dead?

I still can't stream HD video from Google Play or Amazon because I use OSX and an external monitor.[1] I have no problem paying for content... if I could actually watch it.

[1]: https://support.google.com/googleplay/answer/2528768

anonovaon Some Google Pixel devices shutting down at 30% battery

This was added in 7.1: http://www.androidpolice.com/2016/10/19/android-7-1-feature-...

anonovaon Ruby 2.4.0 Released

It's defined in their (somewhat oddball) version policy: "MINOR: increased every christmas, may be API incompatible"[1]

[1]: https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2013/12/21/ruby-version-po...

anonovaon Show HN: Rocket – Web Framework for Rust

It seems to be Atom's One Dark: https://github.com/atom/one-dark-syntax

anonovaon Show HN: The Road to learn React – Build a Hacker News App on the Way

Not a tutorial, but one of the official vue demos is a Hacker News clone: https://github.com/vuejs/vue-hackernews-2.0

anonovaon This Week in Rails: jQuery no longer part of Rails, and more

`--webpack` and `--yarn` are both coming, so they definitely seem to be headed that way.

[1]: https://github.com/rails/webpacker [2]: https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/26836#issuecomment-26424...

anonovaon Disseminating the New Kilogram: An International ‘Dry Run’

Not quite sure how you got that number, but here are the real file sizes: 77 MiB (1080p), 49 MiB (720p), and 18 MiB (360p).

anonovaon Quick, Draw

One it gave me was "camouflage". I have no idea how to represent that with a simple line drawing.

anonovaon Apollo Client 0.5

I've been wanting to try out vue.js and have a GraphQL endpoint. Apollo seems like a Relay alternative that's not tied to React. Can anyone compare the two (Vue.js+Apollo and React+Relay)?

anonovaon Go success stories from around the web

> However, I know that Dropbox is one of the biggest Go users and it isn't in this success stories list. Anyone knows more about it?

Maybe the go devs see them as traitors for using rust for their core components. :P They were having memory consumption issues with go, so I'm not sure that would be the best thing to add to a list of success stories.

[1]: https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2016/06/lossless-compression-... [2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11283685

anonovaon Twitter's Bootstrap hit 100,000 stars on GitHub

Susy is nice, but note that it's just a very fancy CSS layout calculator. Bootstrap, Foundation, and SemanticUI are full-fledged frontend frameworks. They're incomparable.

anonovaon Transmission BitTorrent Client OSX/Keydnap Malware Incident Q+A

Note that rtorrent is no longer supported by homebrew[1]. You'll have to build it yourself with gcc since it can't be compiled with clang.

[1]: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/369