skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We had a Comcast SMC-D3G on Comcast Business. It's garbage. Once we pushed too many connections through it, it would crash and packet loss would skyrocket requiring a manual restart (unplug/replug). This is because it's also a very poor router that can't be changed to bridge-only. There's still plenty of these pieces of crap in the wild, and they also can't properly route ipv6.

If you're a business class customer that needs static ip's, you're stuck with Comcast hardware. Fortunately all my locations now can get away with dynamic ip's so we run our SB6121's (deprecated, but fine for 50/10 or 75/15 tiers).

The final bullshitty thing that's started in the past year is $100 per on-site visit if they can't prove the issue was caused by their network. I used careful wording there because if this is a peering/intermittent issue they'll come out next day just to pocket that charge and blame you.
Hi, sorry if the description is confusing, we are just launching and there are a lot of thing we need to polish, feedback and comments like this will help us to improve. Let me try to explain you.

This service is an API that you can consume by sending data in XML or JSON format, the service will take that data and a custom design (previously created with PrexView Studio a free app you can download in the site, it is like basic HTML/CSS editor) and finally the service will return a PDF, HTML or Image file.

There is only one design available at the moment (Invoice) but we will add more on the fly, If you have a particular XML or JSON you can map your data into a new design using PrexView Studio, save the design and then use the API to generate the documents. This is useful for apps that need to generate programatic documents like invoices and reports.

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2 works for me on Google's voice assistant. Setting alarms, getting directions, and voice dialing also work well. Nothing too exciting. Mostly useful when you don't have hands/eyes or don't want to get up and reach your phone. "Clap on/clap off" lights type of thing.
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- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop

- HEADLINE: Under "open with other application" menu, add option of "Set As Default Application"

- DESCRIPTION: Right now we have a not so friendly method to make some application as a default application while opening a certain type of file. For example, I want every text file to be opened in Atom and not in Sublime, I usually have to go to properties> change the default app. Could we make it a bit simpler by introducing the option right in the window - "open with other application"? Right now, there are only two options - "View All Application" and "Find new application".
It would also be worthwhile to keep it in the right-click menu window.

- ROLE/AFFILIATION: Software Developer
Bill making cryptocurrencies legal way of payment comes into force in Japan
You as the end user can't 'upgrade the firmware' in cable modems, it's all sent from the CMTS.

It's how they enforce "supported modems" - no firmware for your modem, you can't use it.
Interesting. I didn't know that. For what it's worth, sparkyfish uses randbo [1] to generate a fast random stream of data for the speed testing.

[1] https://github.com/dustin/randbo
MPEG LA is a for profit firm that has historically specialized in getting huge corporations in a room, the patents surrounding a technology all of them need, and getting them to agree on a standard code to be licensed to everyone: Apple, Cisco, Dolby, Fujitsu, HP, Hitachi, MS, NTT, Panasonic, Samsung, Sony, etc.

They have no biomedical or biochemical expertise. They have no hand whatsoever in discovering or understanding any science at all. It now appears as though they would like to try to get another group of mega-companies in a room to cross license their patents on Cas9 variants - there are as many (natural) variants as there are bacteria out there, and there are a combinatorially large number of synthetic variants on top of those. The Berkeley/MIT faceoff you've likely heard about in the news is over a very broad patent on using Cas9 therapeutically, but the space of natural Cas9 variants is actually broader still than even that patent could cover.

We as a country need to have a conversation about patents and how the policies that work for computer code may not be the same policies that work for small molecules, which may not be the same processes that work for genetically encoded materials. Each of those technologies are all extreme in terms of the cost of R&D, verifiability, producibility, reproducibilty, and longevity. It is difficult to shoehorn each of these technologies into the same patent framework.
Not to be skeptical, but Blackrock was never known as a stock picker's shop, it's a fixed income shop. The equities side has largely been a function of their indexed ETF biz.

If Fidelity or TR Price were going all in machine based stock picking, then this would be news.
> The first option gives pretty useless results

Does it though?
Wouldn't a result of `(-∞, +∞)` be a solid indication to go and reduce the range of your input parameters?
CloudFlare has 105 PoPs. CloudFront has 45 PoPs.

That's a big difference.
The TP-Link "crap" I've bought has been bottom priced and dependable.

Why by expensive routers, repeaters, etc when you can get a TP-Link for $20 that lasts for years and if it breaks... you spend another $20 to get the newest version... AND you've still spent less than the alternatives?

I do spend the extra where warranted... but TP-Link is top notch "crap" in my book.
Celluloid for Ruby.
There's been a flurry of Military related posts on HN the last few days. Not complaining, I love talking/writing about this stuff. But I have to point it out that I've noticed.

So, are folks submitting more of those articles or is there something about the cultural zeitgeist right now that pushes people who frequent HN to up-vote them?

Perhaps more directly: Are people becoming more afraid about the Military co-opting advances in tech for use in Warfare?
It's actually pretty simple, if you've taken prime number theory.

FTFY
Katyń was a political massacre of the Polish officer corps by the Soviet Union. Babi Yar was part of a genocidal campaign of extirpation against the Jews.

Katyń was a horrible crime. But you can't, and should not, compare the two.
I built a fairly large backend system using event sourcing ideas and am now using Redux for another backend tool I'm building. Redux and event sourcing are very similar. One big advantage of using Redux is there's tons of documentation and blog posts and plugins so you get a lot of power out of the box. E.g. it took me 5 minutes to add in support for the Redux devtools https://github.com/zalmoxisus/remote-redux-devtools.
Never rely on your ISP to provide great wifi equipment. This is not something specific to Comcast. Generally, it seems residential ISPs are only on the hook for providing quoted speeds via a wired connection to their gateway.

This is why I always either disable the wifi from my ISP's modem/router combo and branch off my own wifi router from the modem's LAN or request a modem only device from the ISP and use my wifi router's LAN. The downside to the former case is that your wifi devices are now double NATed (unless you use a wireless bridge) which can be annoying if you want to forward ports (you now have to do it twice). The modem/router combo might not support disabling its LAN to act as a bridge very well.
Well a) SS is barely livable and b) unemployment insurance would actually be a much better proposition if people paid into it.
It's a joke. He's saying no educational programme will make you as stupid, naive and exploitable as you were in your twenties. One day = 24 hours
If ageism is hitting in our early 30s things are worse than I thought.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/academic-program/da...
Understand, just understand, understand how something works, what makes it tick, in biology, chemistry, physics, mathematics, the economy, etc., just, darn it, UNDERSTAND ....

As we know well from experience and might expect, just understand
is nearly necessary for a huge fraction of fantastic progress and often sufficient or nearly so. The track record is the best of any allocation of resources.

Or toss some rocks into the camp fire and in the morning find some clump at the bottom. Then, try to UNDERSTAND that? That clump is different; what the heck is it? This was the first time saw this; what caused it? Can do that again?

Okay, just used the carbon in the fire to remove the oxygen from copper oxide and leave some copper metal. Start of exploitation of metals for humans ....
To be fair, there are ~28 million Texans, many whom are not sympathetic to the government and carry arms. I'd also reckon there are a number of Texans in the military that could possibly defect.

Anyways this is a fun exercise, not in anyway an exhaustive argument.
Similarities Between Music and Programming
I can see how what I wrote can be read that way, but I meant more that human history and the history of humans in power is not a positive history.
>Is "much of the rest of the world" really wrong?

Yes.

>The US is a country that spends more on the military than the next seven (?) combined...

That's orthogonal to the discussion. So what?

>...and since World War II has been heavily intervening using (both explicitly and covertly) in countries all over the world.

Yes. Thus my description of the US as "the heavy".

>Korean / Cuba / Dominica / Vietnam / Grenada / Libya / Panama / Gulf War I / Somalia / Haiti / Afghanistan / Gulf War II

Right. And in almost every case it was a question of trying to put out a small fire before it got too big. We haven't had a major war between first world powers since 1945, and that's no coincidence. The wars that didn't fall into that category were misguided attempts at some kind of humanitarian project.

I'm all for stopping both. If China and Japan go at it, or maybe Germany and France... it's not our problem.
Deconstructing Branko Milanovic’s “Elephant Chart”
The Case for More Intellectual Humility
Does it count if your mother took in laundry to survive and your father was a usually-out-of-work bricklayer?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_Johnson_(engineer)

and his autobiography:

"Kelly: More than My Share of It All" by Kelly Johnson
https://wikileaks.org/bnd-inquiry/docs/Sek/MAT%20A%20Sek-13-...

That pdf from the NSA in the BND documents on Wikileaks clearly shows that NSA decrypts VPN, both IPSEC and PPTP, in real time and in bulk.

The BND leaks came out what, over a year ago?
20,000 "hackers" attended the most recent Defcon.

How not one person notices this slide deck, including Assange himself, is pretty shocking in itself.

Hello, McFly, is anybody who's job earning 6 figures in Infosec paying attention?

Why is the Computing industry so asleep at the wheel? Yet the Beogrammers cranking out widgets for Startup Inc think they're the smartest guys in the room.

The arrogance from all the fake paper billions in this industry has made everyone lazy and dumb.

NSA LOVES it when the sysadmins are lazy and dumb. They're so much easier to hunt.

Of course that slide deck presents more technical questions than answers, but it proves VPN is no longer the Silver Bullet we once thought it was.

"Well that's what they're supposed to do, NSA is just doing their job, so that's not my Department" you say.

Yeah, well look at home careless NSA is with Cyberweapons and exploits.
They lost the Keys to the Kingdom to the Shadowbrokers, and god only knows what else they lost that they never tell us about.

It is entirely reasonable to believe NSA lost their VPN exploit pack too.

Try to imagine the chaos that's possible in a scenario like that.

We might as well not have ANY security.

Which is funny, because yet again, RMS was right! His tales about the MIT Media Kab in the 70's where he rejected new mandatory security policy and instead all users of the system shared the sysadmin's password.

The honor system used to work. As a system of trust, high trust small tribes will always be better than any artificial security mechanisms.

We as an industy need to somehow get back to that.
Trust in computing is only going to get worse, the hacks are going to become deeper as they copycat NSA's methods of industrial scale, and the consequences are truly unknowable.

Skynet and Mr. Robot could end up looking like naive optimism.
The "replaceable" nature of the translator is the key.

As long as publishers can easily get a different person to do the work with little effect on the success of the piece, translation compensation will be low.

Yes, it is a creative effort. Yes, an excellent translation (especially of poetry!) is difficult, and is a much better final product.

But if the translator's name doesn't drive sales, translators won't be compensated as if it did.
Well, that's not quite the same as fraud, which is a much higher bar to prove. I absolutely wasn't disputing that if you're not getting the advertised service, you should seek recourse, I was just disputing "fraud". It's the difference between being sold a lemon car, and being sold a car that someone turned the odometer back on.
IIRC chatbots were an idea transplanted from success in China (WeChat), where users seem to like them. But of course users aren't fungible.
Sorry, I'm a bit lost. Am I missing something? According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG_LA

MPEG LA, LLC is a firm based in Denver, Colorado that licenses patent pools covering essential patents required[1][2] for use of the MPEG-2,[3] MPEG-4 Visual (Part 2), IEEE 1394, VC-1, ATSC, MVC, MPEG-2 Systems, AVC/H.264 and HEVC standards.

MPEG LA is not affiliated with MPEG, the Moving Picture Experts Group.

Doesn't that mean MPEG LA is affiliated with MPEG?
The beauty is that (as far as my experience for the last ten years with Comcast for home and business in Seattle and Portland) I've never once had to do any configuration other than plugging it in while on the phone with support and reading off the various IDs.

The only thing I've ever needed was the serial numbers and such that are printed on the bottom of my modem.

Pro tip, the chat is much faster, tether to your phone for internet and do it via their web chat.
How is Google VA with background noise. I will renew my phone soon and am between the Pixel and the iPhone 7 (but I hate the absence of the headphone jack and don't want an adapter)
This was an interesting read! The stack is out of the ordinary and intriguing. I'd love to see numbers, performance number: request per second and whatnot compared to a traditional architecture to back up the conclusion :

> This architecture is highly efficient, almost infinitely scalable, yet very light on infrastructure.

I'm curious on how scalable such fine-grain grains (pun intented) (i.e. one grain per user?) are. Wouldn't communication across all those grains yield to poor performance?

Another big question I'd be interested in is testing and debugging: Redux tree/reducers model let's you easily test things. How's the testing/debugging experience in orleans? The author mentions the "time travel", I'd be curious to know his experience so far.

> An Actor system makes sure that every data element / actor object lives in only one place (one machine in the cluster), so there is no duplication of data, which simplifies things dramatically.

What happens when that machine goes down? My understanding of Orleans is that it'll be fault tolerant and handle this, but what are the impact on performance? And is there any guarantees the data will be stored without corruption in the external storage (azure table in the author's case)
While Trump promotes coal, other countries are turning to cheap solar power
Show HN: Reactide a dedicated IDE for React web application development
Pinky's AI has a bug:
http://donhodges.com/pacman_pinky_explanation.htm
In self-driving car race, winners get all the way around track
Yo, is your DNS server down? I get no responses for either the US or EU endpoints when I try to query for A records.
And Birthday.
Wednesday - Sunday + 34h == ~7 days. Is it normal to wait that long to go to a doctor in the US? I'd be rushing by the third day, no simple flu has ever kept anyone I know down for over two days. Not to blame anyone, just curious.
Depends on the application of this, i.e. whether the total is more important or the individual values are more important.

Example: You're filling out a timesheet for a contracting job, and you worked 8 hours on several different tasks for your client, but your client's software rounds things to the nearest hour, then it would make sense to use an algorithm like this if your pay was going to be determined by this data entry. If your pay was not determined by this data entry then it may make sense to just round normally.
> Your language isn't broken, it's doing floating point math.

Specifically, it's doing binary floating point math, which is an odd choice for decimal literals that's​ common only because very few languages choose correctness and clarity over performance when dealing with numbers, which leads to all kinds of problems with the most obvious approaches to addressing common problem domains in industrially popular languages. If I had a dollar for, well, every dollar of errors I'd seen because binary floating point values were used in a monetary calculation, I could afford to stop having to deal with them.
There's plenty of science in making better drugs
Here's the /r/Rust bot, though I think it would be unfortunate for this to turn into a war between bots.

https://github.com/ruplace-controllers/ruplace/blob/master/s...
>The capabilities of proteins found (off the top of my head) in jellyfish

Flashbacks to that "Can a protein originally found in jellyfish improve your memory? Our scientists say yes!" commercial I've heard a million times without even setting out to watch TV. I was skeptical at the time, but I guess this means such a thing is at least in the realm of theoretically possible.

Edit: turns out that specific thing was still illegitimate anyway.
Here's an example I wrote where I test the fast API against the (probably correct) brute-force version: https://github.com/llimllib/ckmeans/blob/master/ckmeans.py#L...
Ethereum Ice Age Vote
My contention has always been that people prefer messaging primarily because there's a human on the other side.
The interesting part of your scenario is where you assume the 10k insurgency happens in a vacuum. The insurgency in Iraq only involved some tens of thousands of fighters but many hundreds of thousands or millions more were sympathetic.
The question that continues to loom over Uber and Lyft – and vex lawyers
You can transfer the money from 401k to IRA to Roth IRA then withdraw it after five years. You have to pay income tax during the IRA to Roth IRA conversion, but if you're retiring early your tax bracket is likely very low. Similarly, you'll be in the 0% bracket for long term capital gains.
>Pretending disability

And what happens to those that are 'genuinely handicap' and have medical costs that unavoidably exceed the 'lower amount'?
Seems like you're not addressing the root problem.
How Dilbert’s Scott Adams Got Hypnotized by Trump
> If you remove the indentation, your > will markup the text as a quote.

No it won't. It just puts a '>' in front of the line. You can also put asterisks around the text to italicize it (as I've done here). But the '>' has no special support.

> This is just normal body text.

https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc

> The indentation marks it as unwrapped preformatted text, which renders this text illegible on mobile.

Verbatim/code formatting does totally break legibility, especially on mobile.
Algorithms that predict the past accurately but are no better than random at the future are a dime a dozen, and I don't see how your suggested algorithm is different.
There's a back room with monkeys throwing darts somewhere :-)
Uber's experiment in behavioral science to subtly entice drivers
You can write D without using the garbage collector, or more pragmatically disable it or have threads doing work that are not registered with the GC. Some standard library functions require the GC, but a diminishing number, and you are no worse off than writing pure C. Just stick @nogc on the relevant code and it won't compile if you use the GC by mistake. Also, D generates less garbage than some other languages when written idiomatically, as you pass structs on the stack.
>Why put that on him, rather than Adam Zagajewski or Czesław Miłosz or Wisława Szymborska?

Because by 1961 the Nazis had been destroyed, so it was very much beating a dead horse, and because his country was the one that perpetrated the massacre in Poland and never owned up to it.
Corollary: having a time machine that can go a few minutes back in time is worth much less than one that can go a few minutes forward in time.
I replaced my router a few weeks ago (lightning!) on Comcast and the configuration was completely automatic. Maybe I had to enter my comcast id and password, but I didn't have to call anyone and it was done in just a few minutes. This was in Knoxville, TN.
It says it right there on the site! Did you read it??

"Illinois infers from the possession of a key designed for lock bumping an intent to commit a felony." Mississippi says a concealed pick set is prima facie evidence of intent. Similar for Ohio, Nevada, and Virginia. Tennessee code might actually make them illegal outright.
Just don't tell congress about it.
I read the book Complications by Atul Gawande a while back and it touched on this issue. He mentioned how a computer was more accurate at detecting heart attacks than an experience doctor. He also talked about how if the computer is better than the doctor at reading things like these, it really doesn't make much sense for the doctor to have to evaluate/approve the results. Kind of reminds me of James Simons' thought process on quantitative trading at RenTech.

Sorry about the lack of technical knowledge into the CS stuff, first post here and I haven't really put in the time to learn about CS and AI yet.
Reputable VPN providers use DNS proxies, which are reachable only through the VPN tunnel (having a private IP) and do lookups from the VPN exit IP.
And not even try to think to tax business! Tax constantly shrinking in % working population. /s
See the comment upthread about de facto Holocaust denial in the Soviet Union. This was an act of moral courage that Yevtushenko is justly lauded for.
I've always used Arris (sometimes branded as Motorola) and had consistently good results.

Today, from that list, I'd buy the Woot SB6183 ($51.09 on Amazon-ASIN B018IS1S4C) as that's what I've been running at home for 13 months without issue. (I upgrade about every 6-9 years. You caught me "just" after the latest one.)

It's a 16x4 modem, though when I use it on Comcast, Comcast operates it as a 16x3 (16 channels down, 3 channels up)
The context is the USA. They are not a threat to them. North Korea is a despicable concentration camp of a country, but not a threat to the U.S.
We drink the Lactose free stuff, that stores for months in the cupboard. Oddly it seems to taste nicer than fresh milk.
Penalize their UBI for felony convictions. Doesn't have to be all, but UBI can make it a citizen's "job" to not do crime.
MPEG creates the MPEG codec standards, MPEG LA is a separate organisation that exists to sell patent licences required to actually implement the MPEG standards. They don't particularly need to be affiliated.
Does Julia have good substitutes for Numpy / Scipy / sk-learn / Pandas / Matplotlib / Keras / Tensorflow / Theano yet either natively (for Numpy) or from libraries (for others)? Ease of analysis being almost at the level of matlab is why I stick with python. I would love to be able to switch to something that doesn't have such a heavy handed approach at the top.
How Facebook – the Wal-Mart of the internet – dismantled online subcultures