harrigan

You might be right: I am indeed using https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/minecraft-server. I thought IDLE_SERVER was an upstream feature but it seems to part of that package's management script.

Minecraft servers are resource hogs even when idle. Enable the built-in idle server shutdown (IDLE_SERVER=true). It automatically stops the server after a few minutes with no players and starts it again when needed. It's not enabled by default.

I'm not familiar with this -- is it in one of their games in particular?

Somewhat related, the experiment ongoing at https://www.ecdsa.fail/ is fascinating: it's a competitive, leaderboard-style research challenge trying to optimise a quantum circuit for breaking ECDSA (specifically the elliptic-curve point addition in Shor's algorithm). It quickly surpassed a result announced by Google researchers last month. Now it's showing a 40% gain over Google's result.

It's being worked on right now: https://www.twitch.tv/pushcx

Same. I also find Niri paired with an ultrawide curved monitor to be particularly good.

Episode 4 of the BBS documentary covers Fidonet and is worth watching: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ng0NE4lDP2U

We replace push advertising (unsolicited messages) with pull systems (discoverability on demand).

I'm not sure about the metaphors. The "Axe of Satisfaction" suggests that some of the ills of late-stage capitalism can be overcome through individual grit alone. Maybe we need to band together and target the root system rather than hacking down individual trees?

For me, Jellyfin makes my smart TV (running webOS) tolerable. It turns the TV into the appliance it should have been from the start, without ads, AI assistants, or silly apps.

I prefer the notion of Productive Failure [0].

[0] https://www.manukapur.com/productive-failure/

Micro Men (2009) is also a fun movie: it's a dramatised version of the Sinclair vs Acorn story.

"We ask that the use and possession of Proof-Of-Work cryptocurrencies be banned, with a one year max wait period to let the various projects transition to other technologies, like Proof-Of-Stake (so that nobody loses money, and this is already happening in Ethereum)". Ugh, I think that says it all.

> Our goals throughout the effort, when articulated at all, have

> always concerned themselves with building a comfortable relationship

> with the machine and with exploring ideas and inventions in

> operating systems. We have not been faced with the need to satisfy

> someone else's requirements, and for this freedom we are grateful.

>

> Dennis M. Ritchie and Ken Thompson (1974)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gP4PqVGudtg is a nice animation of AES. Of course, the inputs are fixed unlike the above.

The article doesn't mention it but entries can include an "annotate" field. I use it to add short summaries and notes. It is not used by the standard bibliography styles, but it can be used to produce an annotated bibliography.

BBS: The Documentary Part 4 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Cm6EFYktRQ) has some great interviews with Tom Jennings & co. on the beginnings, growth and decline of Fidonet.

"It just runs in spite of the idiots." (Tom Jennings)

It is great to see a project like this being open-sourced. There are so proprietary blockchain analysis services with closed-source software.

How do you handle forks and reorganizations? Can the software detect these and adjust its database to match?

Graph Drawing: Algorithms for the Visualization of Graphs by Tollis, Di Battista, Eades and Tamassia (http://www.amazon.com/Graph-Drawing-Algorithms-Visualization...). The book is from 1998 but is a good basis for reading future papers and algorithms in this area.

Very cool. Are you able to compute the shortest paths on fly?

The alleged Mt. Gox insolvency document claims that they lost about 744,408 BTC due to malleability-related theft which went unnoticed for several years. This is an address that just happens to have had 782,558 BTC flow through it over the last two years.

Of course, if the Mt. Gox document is a fake, the author could easily have chosen an amount that corresponded to an address that had such a number of Bitcoins flow through it.

It's difficult to know what's going on here.

Transaction malleability is a known design issue with Bitcoin. It is interesting to see that people are now trading "goxBTC" for "realBTC": https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=457723.0. One could imagine a conspiracy theory in which... ;-)

Also, it is technically possible for someone like Mt. Gox to publish a "proof" that they have enough BTC to cover everyone's deposits: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1xedpu/headlines_yo...

This was tried out about a year ago: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=138749.0. The rules were originally very similar to the website above; then the owner modified them so that the gem randomly "reset".

For the 210,000th block some people voluntarily provided high transactions fees to reward the miner of the block: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/13xd05/idea_for_the...

It's a little unfortunate that there are two apps named "Hacker News Reader" and "Hacker News Reader!". Nice app though.