skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It won't even work for that and will end up destroying your brain. If you're going to take something not legal, use modafinil at least.

The idea of cognitive enhancement is mostly fake. If you're ADD, ADD medication helps, but if you're baseline it doesn't. Get some sleep and go running.
Feature Flags: Smaller, Better, Faster Software Development
So I think we have a different fundamental problem. I do not think a system can be fully secure. I think the vast majority of security researchers would agree with me too. A common saying is "given enough time and enough will power, someone will break your system."

What we're talking about here is the discovery of a vulnerability. Not that the company knowingly shipped the product with this issue.

Security is a constant cat and mouse game. Security through obscurity is an effective method in the short run. A company cannot and will not be responsible for shipping a car that could be hacked unless security researchers could show that there was gross negligence.

>Under no circumstances would I want to get into a car that an sdr could control

I suggest never entering a car with a computer in it. This likely means the car you own. Basically if your car has power steering and power braking then it can be hacked.
Umm, they ship a crappy radio in their wifi device. They know this, the technician "installing" it even told me not to use it.

I had nearly the exact same results after disabling wifi and patching in an Apple Airport Express that I could connect to using 5GHz spectrum.. Speeds jumped from 25Mbps down to ~95Mbps down and latency dropped from 20ms to 9ms.
Don't use Speedtest.net. The major providers all prioritize their traffic and it gives unrealistic results.

I built a graphical console-based speed tester (client+server) that you can run yourself to get a more accurate picture and test between your home and servers you actually use:

https://github.com/chrissnell/sparkyfish
Of course, there's always the suspicion that ISPs, including Comcast, give priority to the various speed-test sites...

http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r28685577-Speed-comcast-spee...
The comcast wrapper is very easy to use because its capabilities are so limited that it is essentially useless. It can accomplish some throttling, but it cannot produce a usefully accurate simulation of a Comcast connection or any other commonly congested bottleneck.

tc is complicated because it does more things.
Free but with ads is Hulu. Netflix crushes Hulu. Netflix is massive for three reasons. Original content, binge watch/no schedule, no adverts.
My Nephew vs. Machine Learning
In terms of C and C++, that's fairly new. Lots of older code using pre-C11/C++11 standards is out there.
Is it possible your wireless channel was overused? Most of my neighbors have comcast, as do we. I've had poor coverage and connection also, couldnt even get our wireless printer to work anymore. I used a program called WifiInfoView and viewed how many nearby wireless networks there were, their signal strengths, and set my router to a channel that wasn't being used.

Cleared up all of our problems instantly. I would check this, perhaps his google modem was preset to another channel.
Norway to open a doomsday vault to preserve World's information
via https://twitter.com/TrustedFlagger/status/848664259307466753

".@h3h3productions messed up. The video was monetised by OmniaMediaMusic. Evidence in source code of original video."
"The video was claimed due to the copyrighted content, hence the sudden drop off in ad revenue. Nothing to do with it being demonetised by YT"
I agree that you don't need a university to be successful in web development, but they ARE getting on the train and offering web development programs and have been since I graduated some time ago. I did C and Matlab in school and my much younger brother is doing Java and Python. You can teach the fundamentals while still having a web development program that is more interesting and applicable to the student and less intimidating for a wider audience. I wasn't advocating for teaching frameworks or any specific technology because that doesn't make sense for a university. I do think the unis are disconnected from building soft-skills though. I'm thankful that my experience in sales & marketing classes opened that up for me - persuasion, team projects, building rapport & sales, speeches, etc.

> My Summer software engineering internship at a Fortune 500, non-tech company is composed roughly of 75% of students from reputable or name brand schools

You might be right with the big companies, but even they have had to open their requirements because of the shortage of talent. SMBs can't afford what those reputable school graduates want. So there is a big gap and opportunity which I think the more value priced colleges, boot camps and apprenticeships can fill to add more good paying jobs which will stimulate the economy.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14014920
The USPS Can Now Email You Photos of Your Mail Before It's Delivered
Oh man, my thoughts and best wishes are with you. Incredibly unfair and damaging to not just you, but to anyone who would have (and did) benefit from your work. I hope for us all (but you especially) that you get out of that hole. (And receive some help on the way, since you were helped 'down' so quick.)

I studied econ in college, and looking at our society and how we judge and reprimand, the dumping of babies and bathwater, we've got to be wasting supra-historical sums of human potential and welfare. But, on the other hand, unintended cruelty seems to be our nature.
Is property-based testing related to equivalence (class) partitioning?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equivalence_partitioning
There's a company thats working on getting there. https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/20/sigma/
"Translation is one job that has already been disrupted by technology."

For some language pairs that is true. And that's one reason people aren't willing to pay decent rates for human translation. But for other language pairs machine translation produces nonsense. I've run a small translation agency addressing one of the latter language pairs and have stopped focusing effort on building it since there aren't enough customers willing to pay for decent translations. I even get people who send me text that came from automatic translation and ask me to proofread it, saying it should be quick and low cost to do so because it is "already translated". In fact it is worse than starting with the original and doing the translation because it is mostly nonsense.
You are using your own equipment, right? Thats the point of this post....their equipment doesn't support their service speeds, you have to use your own.
I was talking purely about humans finding messages they don't have the schema for during the course of debugging. Computers do equally badly with JSON data and Cap'n Proto data they don't have the schema for.

A fake example scenario of what I'm talking about: Someone notices a server is producing way too many errors, they check the logs and see a bunch of "invalid request: ...." messages. The messages are JSON like {"api_version":2,"cpu_usage":0.57}. They figure out that the server monitoring system is forwarding stats to the wrong IP address. Even though they don't know the full schema of the messages, they get the gist and it helped debug. With Cap'n Proto that would have been a few nonsensical bytes.

I don't think this is a very big downside, so in general I like protocols like Cap'n Proto.

Perhaps a much bigger downside is that in most languages integrating code generation into the build pipeline is a pain in the ass, so it is way easier to use dynamic serialization protocols that don't require compiling a schema.
I've long ago stopped using C's standard library floating point routines and use Gay's code. Main reason was inconsistencies between compilers.
This is interesting. I had the same experience in Mountain View - paid for 100mbps+ service, and only got 30 - and even that was haphazard.

I went through a series of support requests. I eventually complained to the FCC and cancelled service. Once I involved the FCC, I had a rep call me, say they absolutely understood why I would cancel given my experience and wish me well. They provided me a partial refund for service levels that they never provided me with, and for days which I received no service.

I'm on Sonic now and I've been happy with them. The few times I've had problems they have been very responsive, and you definitely get the sense that their techs know what they are doing. They scoffed at the idea that they would ever sell their customer's data after the recent bill passed, and pointed out that although they resell AT&T service, their contract prevents AT&T from selling it either. It's the only ISP that has made a statement about their intentions publicly. I get a lower service level than what comcast promised, but I actually get that speed, and sometimes burst higher than promised.
> Think if you believe you're able to pick it, then buy one, pick it, post the video to YouTube with ADs enabled - and you'll easily make back the cost of buying the lock.

What if he thinks that someone will be able to pick it? Someone who picks locks for a living, perhaps?
That seems to be common practice, also in Europe, across providers. And a single look at the GPL source code for your cable modem usually offers the reason (ancient kernels, slow CPUs, more security nightmares than you ever wanted to see)... replace your provider-supplied modem by an AVM FritzBox Cable and boom, gone are the wifi and cable speed problems.

Not to mention that AVM has quite a good track record when it comes to security fixes... way better than every other SOHO router vendor I have encountered.

Downside: newer FritzBoxes are way less open than they used to be (no Telnet, no selfbuilt firmware support), and they can't do VLAN.

(Not employed or business related with AVM, just an extremely happy customer)
Interesting. I wonder if Las Vegas would cut it, since it's so close (reasonably speaking).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13931762
> Also, FWIW, Rust's regex engine guarantees linear time search. (Interestingly, it may decide to use backtracking to resolve the search, but it's only an optimization. And the backtracking is always bounded so that it never revisits the same state on the same input byte.)

Ah, fair enough - I saw "extended" and assumed that meant backreferences and the like (which I think require backtracking?). If the search is guaranteed-linear-time in any case then why the requirement for a Turing-complete language?
They'll bill you more for an hour of a technician's time than the cost to just buy a new modem/router.
It would probably be quite difficult to hammer together some "agreed upon standard" for "levels" of proficiency in X_language.

That said, it's been done before...with spoken languages for the Military. Taking the DLPT will give you a rating on your proficiency, and then you get both the credentialing and then additional pay (Once upon a time I took it for Arabic and scored some 0+s). It'd be hard, but I don't think it would be impossible to do it for some kind of development credential.

http://www.dliflc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Generic-Fam...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_Language_Proficiency_T...
Kissing number problem – The maximum number of adjacent circles or spheres
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14006059
Are you saying Texans would succeed? You didn't argue my notion that they wouldn't, just stated that it wouldn't be pleasant.

EDIT: @remarkEon that's ridiculous. We have ~ 1.5M active troops. Drones, aircraft, firepower and heavy surveillance which these Texans don't have. This is not Baghdad or Afghanistan geographically or politically; it's our turf and everyone would rally around crushing any rogue Texans. Some of you are worried about 10k Texans in some crazy hypothetical situation where they get disgruntled due to lack of job prospects like its the first time that ever happened to the south. Then someone says North Korea is not a threat. I yield.

@remarkEon's history of the US: Scrappily defeats the Redcoats and turns a country into a superpower in a mere 150 years. Survives a Great Depression. Takes down Hitler, the Axis of Evil, Osama Bin Laden. Helps overthrow several dictatorships. Builds the most powerful military in history. Avoids nuclear war with North Korea and other dictatorships. Does not fall due to over extension like most great empires. Ultimate demise: 10k Texans with deer rifles.
You can opt for the league-provided services, or if you look on the internet you'll quickly find services that are better than the officially-provided ones themselves.
http://mynewmodem.comcast.net/ Lists most of the modems you can purchase from amazon. They have a slightly larger list of supported modems but many of them are noy sold to the public like some Cisco models.
The unique thing ad tech does over traditional is provide info on if you clicked the ad, visited the site, etc. marketing to specific demographic is nothing new.
In many apartment buildings the 2.4 Ghz spectrum is just too crowded. Just using a cheap 5Ghz 11n without breamforming would likely solve the problem. I've got at least 40 bss's on 2.4 and I'm the only one on 5Ghz. It's crazy.

I'd say Comcast should use 5Ghz but then that spectrum will get crowded too.
https://mydeviceinfo.xfinity.com/ will walk you through finding which devices your local service + speed work with. Spoiler: most DOCSIS 3.0 modems are compatible.

Buy it, unplug your existing modem, plug the new one in, and call Comcast. I had mine out of the box and up and running in all of 15 minutes (most of that was spent on hold and waiting for the modem to reboot).
I appreciate the tool you've built. Having options is awesome.

That being said, when you know that Comcast and others prioritize their traffic through Speedtest AND you encounter subpar speeds even with this allocation in place, you know there is a problem.
Great points. Also – these enhancers are also being used left and right to stay on the up-and-up at work, competitively. It's not at-all strange right now in my part of the tech world. Ever see Nurse Jackie? That.
it's so strange to see Victor Granville, there is also Andrew Granville and he writes professionally on patterns of the primes.

"Mathematicians Discover Prime Conspiracy" (Quanta Magazine, 2016)

A previously unnoticed property of prime numbers seems to violate a long-standing assumption about how they behave.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/20160313-mathematicians-disco...
One idea I've been mentioning whenever this sort of thing comes up are those 20-question bots. I remember several years ago being blown away by its ability to guess some extremely specific and random things. I always thought it would be an interesting interface for a "find" function in an OS. I think it might work as front-line support as well.
Being up on stage can cause these behaviors to magnify, be it from nervousness or excitement or showmanship
Thankfully Yarn is here to solve most (if not all) of these problems.
The fact that we do binary floating point by default is an artifact of RAM being expensive way back in the day while arithmetic coprocessors became cheap. Single-precision is 4 bytes and can represent practically every quantity you care about precisely enough.

While IBM has been harping about this for ages, BCD (binary coded decimal) was sufficiently important that it had special instructions on even the earliest microprocessors. The 6800/8080/Z80 series had DAA (decimal adjust accumulator) and the 6502 had SED/CLD (set/clear decimal mode). The 8008 is notable in not having a specific BCD instruction.

And the 4004, which started it all, was a BCD oriented microprocessor from the start.
This person seems very confused as to how to verify the truth of something before calling for media attention.
The World’s Favorite Number
http://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-cable-modem/

You can figure this sort of thing out with less than 1 hour of effort.
I agree, I translated a fiction book and of course in that case that does not work. And it usually sounds bad and there are errors, but most people don't need super exact translations. What I meant by my comment was that it used to be that knowing many languages was a valuable skillset, i.e. "you can get a job easily". That is no longer true. One reason for that is the rise of "translation agencies" which have taken a big chunk off of the pay rate.

I am learning Chinese and a bit of Russian but it will take about three years to become fluent in these two since the alphabets are different.

Translation gave me the ability to see abstract patterns in text which is something I only realized when I was randomly attacked by what appeared to be bots on Quora. I could tell the language patterns buried underneath the non-sense and I could see through their code. This was useful but unexpected.

That is when I realized that language is related to form (syntax) as much as it's related to meaning and that's how it is connected to programming (or how I experienced this connection, I am not sure if there is an "official" explanation somewhere).
Inventing a telescope require many great minds, but inventing a whole universe from scratch might not require intelligence. Think about that
Prime elements in a ring (usually an integral domain) are elements which satisfy Euclid's lemma (so p is a prime element if p | a b implies p | a or p | b), so the prime elements in the ring of integers are 2, -2, 3, -3, and so on. But if someone refers to prime numbers, they mean 2, 3, 5, ... - it's the standard definition. In fact, if I meant to include both positive and negative elements in the context of the integers, I would go out of my way to say so to avoid confusion! I think the key is the use of the word "number" as opposed to "element" (say).

I think the terminology is a convenience - so many results pertain to 2, 3, 5, ... that it's easier to let "prime numbers" refer to them, rather than to have to qualify everything by saying "positive primes" or taking absolute values.
And the other just created a better version of already existing ideas.
Comcast ripped me off much more than that. My HOA signed a (incredible bad) deal with Comcast to provide basic channels (the ones nobody wants) for $35/unit* * for 3 years. Then, Comcast's rep allegedly* forged the contract to last 8 years instead of 3.

The stupid manager lost the emails, Comcast insisted on the (allegedly* forged) 8-year contract and so the HOA paid it until the manager found the original signed contract (years later) and compared it to the forged version. Then Comcast still pressured the board on the 8-year until we hired a lawyer.

I estimate that this alleged* fraud was worth $378,000.

* It was never proven in court but the evidence is pretty strong. The forged pages have inconsistent numbering, scanner marks, wording, and date format.

* * It was actually a rate that increases over years. $35 was last year's rate.

I'm not under any NDA so I'm exposing it but making sure all my details and wording are correct so I don't get sued. Please forgive the edits.
> I've never heard anyone advocate for a 50/50 split.

It's lazy thinking, combined with political expediency.
So YouTube likely was showing ads for the video, but the revenue wasn't going to the uploader, rather going to http://www.omniamedia.co/

There are a lot of thumbs in this pie.
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Ditto, relocated there from Doha. It is conveniently close to a large cluster of AirBnBs, which helps out big time while waiting for a resident's permit.
You'd have to be okay with a pretty dark, Mirror Universe, version of COIN to prevent them from succeeding, yes.
For firewall rule purposes, I wish your program would have used 5201 by default, the standard iperf port.
https://www.xfinity.com/support/internet/list-of-approved-ca...

To configure it, you just plug it in. I think you may have to call them after you plugged it in and then activate it on their end.
It should be well understood by now that when you hear or read anything good about a brand or product online, 99% of the time it is a paid advertisement. Paid content is the norm. You are right though, it sucks when kids are the target because they can’t understand.
I complained about my speeds and they upgraded my router to a newer one. I find it pretty unacceptable that when I'm renting equipment from them, they don't provide me the equipment that is the speed of the pipe I pay for unless I complain...
They're also not trained to fight their neighbors.
That is what I meant, yes this is the way. Creative and unexpected experiences.
still down ?
Would also recommend fast.com, which uses Netflix cdn as the test, and so theoretically will reflect actual usage.
Why not just send that OTP to their phone immediately if someone has trouble logging in?
Just turn it off, I did when I was using Comcast equipment last year. You dont owe Comcast any favors.
I know Verizon at least is preparing for the day where each family member is watching their own 4K TV stream: 15.6 Mbps is required per stream for Netflix. It would be interesting how their "quantum gateway" performs, this one:

https://www.verizon.com/home/accessories/fios-quantum-gatewa...

Fios is great, but they were focused on the 4G LTE network for home internet instead of further fios rollout. Here is the router for this:

https://www.verizonwireless.com/home-office-solutions/verizo...
How long until we get .ai top level domains?
Building, Testing and Deploying Your Nuget Package with Travis CI
It looks like they're solving a different problem.

Lots of analog credentials do exist that should be digitized (the SCUBA one is a great example that I've personally encountered), but I'm talking about a replacement for traditional, outrageously expensive 4-year Universities where a fraction of what you pay for is directed toward what you'll do for work - but more importantly, folks that wish to career switch from whatever they'd doing to a more technical field but lack that 4-year "degree".
Quite effectively in the "classic media space", it kept "Schleichwerbung" (paid, but unmarked as such, content, and the mentioned evil forms of product placement) at bay in the major media (newspapers, TV, radio and their respective online sites). There have been some scandals when someone did try to fool the system, but you always get these. Mostly these cases additionally involved corruption.

Regarding the "new form of media" aka clickbait youtube junk, weird blogs etc., however, it has not held up, for a couple of reasons:

- these participants often don't have imprints so it makes filing a lawsuit pretty difficult

- filing a lawsuit according to UWG is allowed only for competing companies (and they have to be competing with the advertiser, in the same areas of business!) and consumer protection agencies. No one likes an internet shitstorm for "going with the lawhammer after 16 year old youtube kids".

- there are just too many small-scale offenders, it's not worth the effort to go after them
a real scientist was one who would peer fearlessly into the gates of hell if he thought he'd learn something about his field.
You can't just train/encourage people into that. They are born that way.

What if your mother was a drug addict and your father was a fast-food worker? Would you still be a natural-born scientist?

It's too easy to think "People are born how they are."