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Switching = forwarding by looking at l2 headers

Routing = forwarding by looking at l3 headers

It does not matter one bit if above is done in software or an ASIC/FPGA/NPU, what the device looks at to perform it's forwarding decision is what matters, so one device may not just fit neatly into one OSI layer.

Layer 3 switch is mainly a marketing term, it's nonsense really. The devices that fits into that category are what would classically be switches (many ethernet ports, small buffers, cheap) but with full routing capabilities.
Routers can be either software or hardware based. Software routers mainly make up the low-end offers from vendors, rich in features and cheap. Hardware routers that use ASIC/NPU's make up low-ish end to the very high end. Any router that ISP's use in their backbone will be the very high end and do all forwarding in hardware, have all QoS features in hardware, etc.
I love stuff that's durable and repairable, but it's so hard to come by these days. And even things that are theoretically repairable often aren't worth doing so (e.g. refrigerators).

I have Oneida flatware, solid wood furniture, and a Blendtec blender because these things will last. I don't want to buy flatware ever again, and, because I bought quality the first time, I won't have to, and I wish there were more things I could buy for life.
Unrelated to this post, the author also has a GREAT series of lectures on Category Theory which are on YouTube [1]. I've seen them recommended several times for anybody interested in Category Theory coming from a programming background.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbgaMIhjbmEnaH_LTkxLI...
I think you meant encouraging centralization. And yes, big players will often find it cheaper to undercut you via reimplement than a sale. (Or force you to capitulate then get your employees.)
Wow this thread is depressing..
My father-in-law had to clean out his brothers house. As soon as he was done with that, he went home and started "death cleaning" as he calls.
Doesn't hold up in independent tests.
You attempted to dress up quotes from a Cosmopolitan news paper as it was a study based on data. It don't work, and I am not sure why you trying such a futile attempt at misdirection. That is anti-science, and is fatally doomed to fail at persuasion.

It clear that you won't admit that consumer preference exist, as it would shows a clear link between gender specific incentives and behavior. You can try to play ignorant, but it won't change the data. Incentives has a real impact on human behavior, and it is trivial fact in psychology.

Finally you admit that men, just maybe, just possible, just as a theory perhaps, might face a unique pressure to make money. Funny that. And yes there is a strong possibility that gender segregation has a multitude of factors (a fact that was well written in a government issued report on gender segregation in the field of education). The problem statement then changes at this point to define which factor has the bigger impact, and we get back again to look at experimental data to see what has a strong impact and what has a small impact.

Let for example guess there exist a study on what jobs children want to do when they grow up. What will the average income of those jobs be when comparing boys vs girls preferences?

Or let say a study at a bit later time in life, and look at when people enter the work force. Will we see men entering the work force earlier and with greater haste than women, and what incentives is there for young unmarried men to get an income around the ages of 18-25?

We can look at studies that survey what teens want in a job, and how they select which profession to study. We can continue by looking at whom and what impacts behavior during this crucial time period in a person life.

We can also look at the primary cause of gender segregation as highlighted in that government report I mentioned earlier. Do people feel more confident when entering a group that they belong? do they feel more self-doubt when they are a local minority (such as in a class room or work place). Does ingroup and outgroup exist as theories, what is the scientific proof for it, and does herd behavior exist in human psychology.

I will note that in the government report, no where does it even entertain the idea that women are crowding out men from the education system. Similar to bloomberg it does record a historical change where men used to be the dominating gender in education, but is no longer. Instead it gives other explanations, such as the government cutting funds and thus the social status of teachers dropped. When money disperse from a profession it also caused the gender ratio to favor more women. When money increase, the opposite happens. Fairly simple statement to prove or disprove by data. Here is your golden opportunity: convince someone on the Internet of your theory by disproving that a influx of money has an impact on gender segregation.
"So you've sewn up the market eh? Here's your check for $500million."

"But don't you want to know what technology we built it with?"

"No."
Fair suggestion, though "feeling" might be confused with emotional response rather than senses. Perception is the general term in psychology AFAIU (e.g., "perceptual psychology" -- among my more surprisingly fascinating uni courses).

But the breakdown is a good one.

It also brings to mind the trivium from the mediaeval academic curriculum: grammar, logic, and rhetoric.

Grammar is the process of acquiring (and making sense of) information.

Logic is the process of interpreting and processing information.

Rhetoric is the process of transmitting information.

Or: it's an input, logic, output sequence.

This can be applied to much of information-systems or information-theory work. Perhaps with the addition of some endogenous or exogenous information storage and retrieval system.

As for talking: the deaf speak, with their hands.

Symbolic representative abstract communication is just that. I'd argue that the relevant element of talking is the interactivity of the conversation.

Take the old Unix "talk" command. It was contrasted to "write", "wall", or "mail", in that both parties could talk at the same time.

Myself and my girlfriend, 800 km apart. That in the 1980s was mind-blowing. And much cheaper than long-distance telephony.
You hooked me toward the end:

I absolutely hate how older folks seem to covet things they're sentimental about. Lock it in a box or display case and never make it a part of your life. Fuck that - when I inherit the things that remind me of my mom or dad I'm going to use them until they become useless. I will love them for their use, and not treat them like something to be kept on a shelf or in a locked safe.

I'm going to keep my dining room table laid out nice like it's Christmas Dinner everyday and I will not cry over the stains that accumulate.

The sad irony is when I inherit my parents' nice things I will then be putting my parents in a box.
The open office layout won't be dead in the U.S. until tax laws offer accelerated depreciation for building office walls. Right now the depreciation schedule for commercial building construction is something like 39 years, meaning that expenses incurred this year to renovate an office won't be recouped for almost four decades. Meanwhile, cubicles are considered furniture, which has a depreciation schedule of 7 years. (Note: I didn't look up the actual numbers, so I might be off a little.)

If companies got the same tax benefits for building walls that they do for buying cubicles, we'd see more walls, since everyone knows they're better for productivity and office harmony.
Just out of curiosity, what smartphone and OS do you use, if I may ask? iOS and Windows Phone are closed source, which I'd argue it's worse than using Google services. Android seems pretty much unusable without Google integration. So...?
> I like my metal working tools, my woodworking tools, my 3D printer, and all of the stuff in my workshop because I like making things. I enjoy buying things to make my hobbies more enjoyable.

All the other makers here will understand that sentiment. Tools take up space, but having the ability to actually make and repair things without having to rely on some shared makerspace or workshop is mentally so fulfilling, not to mention economical if you consider not having to rely on contractors and handymen so much for the basic upkeep of your house.

This year I used my amateur woodworking skills to build a wall-to-wall (390cm/12'9"), floor-to-ceiling (270cm/8'10") bookcase in our home. It is filled with books my girlfriend and I have read, still have to read, want to reread at some point, or want to share with others. Collecting and reading books is our material vice. Some people love it, most people wonder why we don't just buy two e-readers (philistines…).
If you truly embrace that philosophy you will not be able to marry someone who does not also follow it. It's like a religion and your SO's things will be a daily affront to it.
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This would have no effect on NPEs, which are the most pernicious types of patent trolls as I see it today.
Why do you say, autonomous car technology will be freely available to everyone? So, if Apple or Google are the first to achieve autonomous driving stage 4 technology, they will directly open source it even though it is their one competitive advantage?

I don't buy that. They'd use that technology to build out their advantage over all the competitors instead.

Regarding your point about Uber not being able to compete in the autonomous technology race. Having a network of drivers (which will become obsolete) and users is a bit of an advantage, but not much.

The first company to reach stage 4 can release their own app and get 100 million installs in a few months, if they reach stage IV. They don't need the Uber app.

Maybe a second mover who reaches stage IV after the first mover will buy Uber, because they can't get that many installs as the first mover, and they want to catch up as fast as possible, but that won't be worth more than a few billion.
I was going to try to say something witty, but as the saying goes, reality is stranger than fiction.
Picture executives hording it for themselves.
http://clark.com/shopping-retail/high-quality-toilet-paper-c...
Odd I'm in firefox. I think Chrome for me asked which app to open with but that probably means it was already downloaded.

I don't know I've heard of malware with PDFs, I know probably a stretch on Android and this person/HN probably not really a concern. Still don't like auto-download unless expecting one. But I get it was the lack of a browser PDF displayer. Maybe he isn't running PDF.js or whatever that is you run to display pdfs on your site.

(Sorry for so much text, TL;DR I'm afraid of what I don't know) I think I'm secure, but am I really secure?
Pretty simple answer really - these things usually happen at night. There's a much higher chance of spotting a tanker during daylight.

It's surprisingly difficult to see someone in the water during the day - there's less body sticking out of the water, than there are waves to hide it. At night? No-one wants to admit it, but you're a lost cause before you hit the water.

The other half of your problem is that missing doesn't mean MOB. In the relatively recent Fitzgerald incident, those lost were found in a sealed compartment. Pretty much damage-control 101 to seal any compartment you can, and especially those breached. While locking people in a flooded compartment has to be a gutwrenching decision to make, the alternative is to allow a compartmentalized breach to take the whole crew.
The Economist had an article on this is Issue last week.

Mistrust in America could sink the economy

https://www.economist.com/news/business/21726079-part-proble...
This needs a 2013 mentioned in the title. Not that there have been huge improvements in this research since then, but there is other stuff to read on the topic that's more recent.

Also, if you're interested in his work on the subject, read through the issues on github for his code, it clarifies where the problems are in this implementation. Still, it is quite interesting.
It's definitely a generational thing and younger folks have never seen a repair and retain society or scarcity that drives that hoarding attitude

At the point that the fountain of artificially cheap consumer goods from China dries up, they are in for a rude awakening. Suddenly quality items made to last by local craftsmen won't seem so old-fashioned!
They aren't offended by it, you just sound like a tool doing it. No offense.
A laptop is a great substitute for a desktop if you have a dock. I just place my laptop on the dock, it clicks into place and I have a couple of big screens, a full size keyboard and a mouse on my desk. No different than a desktop.
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> Only the extremly wealthy can be philanthropic to an extreme extent.

So it follows that the normally wealthy can be philanthropic to a normal extent, then?

Separately, I have to admit I'm unsure if you meant to conflate philanthropy with monetary value.
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Damn, I played the flute, and switched to double bass. ;) The problem is that my town needs roughly 2 or 3 professional flutists, but every band needs a bassist.
Spoiler: Pattern-matcher, which matches 3 forms: "X", "(lambda (X) Y)" and "(X Y)".

Visible at 55:48.
Their sites aren't very clear - what differentiates their open source version (http://devexpress.github.io/testcafe/) from the paid ($500/dev/year) version? (https://testcafe.devexpress.com/)
Yup, that's why I was saying that it's a much weaker argument, because it is a much weaker argument.

If I was going to add more evidence for that argument, I would point out that women were added to the workforce at a rate that is greater than what population growth usually is, but certainly, there is a good case to be made that adding more workers doesn't always push down wages.
>Facebook claims that if every company adopted a React-like license, that software patents as we know it would basically die.

If you think patents shouldn't exist then why is the purpose of the license to protect a single company from patent lawsuits. Why isn't the license covering any patent lawsuits of any kind to any party like the ASL does? Why does the license only protect facebook? What if there are patents that apply to react that facebook doesn't own? Patent trolls can't sue facebook but they can still sue users of react and continue to use react.

>If everybody did that, maybe software patents would finally go away.
No because facebook can still sue you for other software patents for internal software they didn't release.

Facebook's patent grant is a halfassed solution. They are either outright malicious and merely acting in self interest or blatantly incompetent. But since they are unwilling to change the license and patent grant I'm betting on the former.
Shadow flagged I guess.
In europe you could do almost the same. Most courses can be exempt. Only the social courses and the final can't. You can do those in 1 year. Masters have this too.
OK. So what do you believe is the logical course of action to take based on this? Since he mentioned diversity programs, presumably he thinks there is some logical link between his argument and some proposed course of action, though of course for any such proposed course someone will pop up and say that he didn't advocate that and obviously anyone claiming he did must never have read what he wrote.

Do you believe that, if this position were to be conceded for sake of argument, there would be any logical change to be made to, say, how Google approaches interviewing and hiring?
My parents' entire generation seem to think the same thing, but I don't buy the "scarcity" argument. I don't think it was ever true. Planned obsolescence was a concept pioneered (and coined) by those very generations. From its beginnings in the depression-era auto market to its peak in the fashion driven 1950s with cars designed to last three years or so.

Fashion-driven, low-quality overpriced US cars left the market wide open for cheap, high-quality foreign imports in the 1970s - and forced US manufacturers to significantly increase quality. That's pretty much the opposite of the story you're telling.

Instead I see a society which had a post-WWII manufacturing abundance just binging on material goods to the point that they were buried in stuff in a way that has never really happened before and people don't have good mechanisms for dealing with. At least not until they realise that "stuff" is the problem.

Both my parents and grandparents would claim that they bought stuff that lasted but they just bought the trendy items of the 1950s and 1980s respectively, and 90% of it went in the trash years ago.
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I don't know why people are down voting you.

Yes, the eclipse doesn't start until ~15.50 UTC. If anyone jumps on the live stream now they're going to be bored for a while.

There's a quite convenient little countdown on https://www.timeanddate.com/live/
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Photos are anchors to memorys, and memorys is all that remains.
Same goes for a lot of services I've found .. but it doesn't seem to be talked about much.

The fact it happens for a service as massive as Outlook is unforgiveable though.
Right. The economy has a fixed amount of assets that generate money. Oh, wait.
This is the same BS repeated on HN almost every day now. You can sue FB anytime, whether you use React or not. You do not give them any kind of permission to use YOUR patents just by using React.

The only thing that happens when you sue FB over patents is that your patent grant covering React is gone, reducing your license to a regular BSD license. If you use Angular, vue or whatnot open source products covered by licenses without patents grants, there is NO guarantee whatsoever that this piece of software is free from patents of Google, FB, Oracle your favorite patent troll from around the corner. Yet people seem more fine with using software which comes without any patent grants whatsoever, and declare that hell would come over us if the FB patent grant on the software would be revoked.

Btw, clauses that revoke patent grants when you sue a party are pretty regular and present in the Apache License v2 and the (L)GPLv3, no one is crying about it and says that those licenses are not open source anymore. The GPLv3 goes even further and invalidates your right to use the software at all if you start sueing people who created that software.

Gosh, I am so happy to live in the EU where we do not have to deal with this kind of BS and can just use the best technology that solves the problem.
Ask HN: How can I better understand VCs?
I've been part of executive teams interacting with VCs. I've pitched (with limited success) to VC. And I've assisted investors with their DD and understanding the market (paid consulting).

I still don't feel I have a good understanding of their mindset. What can I read to better understand VC motivations? Are their any forums where VCs discuss the current environment or even just their opinions on various deals?
on the front page for me.
Users flagged it. This is obviously a substantive article by HN standards so I've turned off flags.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2052586/microsoft-is-quietly-...
Probably not as bad, PVC tubing uses different plasticizers, silicone does not need that. However, other hardware is not of the hook (e.g. plastic bags) and what they use in these materials as well.

The most terrible thing is that this might be partly heritable via epigenetics.
All: this article was flagged but we've turned the flags off because it contains significant new information. Threads about sexism have upticked in contentiousness lately—as has everything else, it seems—so would everyone please take care to follow these rules?

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Yes, there's redundancy there; we appear to need it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I don't get it. Aircraft carrier and a Tanker.. perhaps, but it's a destroyer.. intercept and agility is it's entire design concept...

Tanker: 30k ton, 10 knots

Destroyer: 9k ton, 30+ knots

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWZA_nJrQW4

At 7:27, look how short of a distance it needs to make a 90 degree turn.

I don't see any scenario where they can't evade it, even for hollywood standards it's quite unrealistic.

It takes miles too change course on a tanker (as stated in the article), which means you can anticipate your course miles ahead. Even a child with basic math can figure this equation out.

I don't know, secret US stalking off ships gone wrong, Korean infiltration, GPS spoofing, corrupt crew, lazy crew, crash on purpose..

What do we really know, it's military in the end, which means a potential for classified info being held back. If it's a fatal technical flaw, they would not tell that to public media I figure, for political reasons.
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It's called leading by example: do you want a government that shows people it's important to care about others, or do you want a government that doesn't care about it's people? A government that sets the example by lying, ignoring people that can't pay healthcare, can't pay for education, and basically shows it's all a fight about who gets to keep most money?

What example would you have citizens rather follow?

Also, if you think it coercive you are basically admitting your democracy isn't working. Otherwise it wouldn't be coercion but executing on the whishes of the people voting.
Not related, I think it would be cool if tech company offices had VR headset for seeing forests/deserts/other scenery. Holodeck haha
And your take-away was obviously to copy the tactics he described in the book: ignore the actual science and the actual arguments put forward, because you know those show you to be clearly in the wrong.

Instead, weave around the facts, do advocacy and sell it as science, vilify your opponents etc.
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I checked on the repo and I didn't see it.
Are they robust enough for everyday use? The Sony equivalent is plagued with problems I've read in reviews.
Perhaps the new OS prototypes could be built on top of a hypervisor. Yes, it's a layer. But building hypervisor-up would be a nice jump-start.
>I've heard many people ask why they should volunteer or help out others, when they're already paying lots of money in taxes to "take care of those problems".

They'll say that no matter what the tax rate is.
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Yup, this was my first experience with my brief stint owning a bloodborne machine.

Put in game, 20GB update. Cool, guess I'm not playing that today then.

Sold that thing a couple of months later, what a waste of money the whole rigmarole was. Bloodborne wasn't even that good imo either.
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