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03-26-2017 05:12 AM

If you have a different firmware in the router's alternate image location you can manually switch to it by turning the router on and off three times in a row right when the LAN LED starts blinking.

If you like to use 3rd party firmware on you router this is a failsafe function in case you do something your router cant handle. the problem is the power to the router can be interrupted at a number of points such as the wallwart plug, the ciruit breaker at the main fuse panel, faults or brownouts on the utility side of things.

I had this sort of thing happen often just out of accident, when the power fails it often cycles in and out until blackout. this is enough to put it into an alternate partition, and its a PITA when it happens so i use a UPS to plug into, and problem solved.

https://forum.archive.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=50173&p=10

1. Reset the router by holding the reset button in until the PWR light starts to flash {mine takes about 15 sec's}
2. Once the power light stops flashing, you can power off the router with the power switch.

3. Turn the power back on and the PWR light will light. As soon as any other light turns on, power off the router with the power switch.
4. Turn the power back on and the PWR light will light. As soon as any other light turns on, power off the router with the power switch.
5. Turn the power back on and the PWR light will light. As soon as any other light turns on, power off the router with the power switch.

6. Turn the power back on and the PWR light will light. This time just let the router power all the way up. It should now be on the alternate firmware.

Yes, you will power off three times.
Hope this works for you-all...

this procedure was posted in 2014, and we have here in this submission, the same sort of proceedure, so this at this point has been the case since at least 2014.

this is one brand name of router but any product that reverts firmware or OS in this way ["counting boot failures"] will do some unexpected things

Here is a good place other than openWRT to browse if you really want to get into the sport.

https://www.linksys.com/us/support-article?articleNum=164513
Elon Musk is often high and even when not, says things that are completely unacceptable. Look them up. He's loved here on HN. But even if you do love him you shouldn't give him control over your life.

Why does anyone need a Ring doorbell? Can't you just stand up and answer the door? I don't understand any of this (I do understand I'm in the wrong forum for saying so).
This is only true if you think protests need violence to be significant.
The problem with the Government is that the people in power feel like they have all the power and don't want to let it go. I think that robots would serve us better.
I have a personal website. It's very easy to forget that 99% of people have no interest in making their own personal sites, never had, and never will. That's not a bad thing. Making your own site is a weird, niche thing to do -- a lot of work for no concrete reward.

In the past, the internet was dominated by people in that very strange 1%. The advent of social media didn't remove them, it just let everybody else in. The few that want to make their own sites still do, using platforms or tools that are far more convenient than a decade ago.
Unfortunately it's not just social media. I've seen this creep into programming tutorial articles, including ones that are otherwise high-quality. Time to install a browser add-on to filter this noise out?
The narration is too much.

That UCLA differential analyzer from 1947 was the peak of that technology. Earlier ones in the US go back to 1928. Wikipedia says UCLA had three of those. Probably for the Southern California aircraft industry.

That was near the end of the line for the pure mechanical analog computers. Even the gun and missile guidance systems had electrical inputs and outputs. 1947 was late to be building that, but it was a mature technology and worked, although, as shown, a huge pain to reprogram. Mechanical fire control systems had one built-in problem to solve, so they didn't have to be set up as a parts kit like this.
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No it is not assimilation. See my edit.
Any source that is more neutral reported on this?
But if a neural network auto-completes my thoughts, then they aren't my thoughts any longer.
if i wanted to come up with posts to degrade discourse regarding snowden and make people unwilling to engage with his revelations, i would probably make posts like yours
> However, Mr Gates questioned the divestment movement’s “theory of change”, arguing that investors who want to use their money to promote progress will have better results by funding innovative businesses such as Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods, two alternative protein companies he has backed.

I must be missing something, but isn't that exactly what "divestment" is? You sell off shares in fossil fuels and reinvest the money in other industries which are more climate conscious? It sounds like he's saying people are getting their money back from fossil fuels and hiding it under the mattress.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence or any in your case.
The quotes are not particularly damning: a rumor that he hit on women, a report of unsubstantiated assumptions about the mattress, and a direct quotation of his hitting on a woman. The balance of the post is about his opinions in the abstract, the (mis)quote, other sexism at MIT, and the author's personal feelings.
will wear and tear of the mechanical parts affect accuracy?
> If continues, this means the Fed will effectively be monetizing US deficits.

You seem informed, and I want to be upset by this, but...

What does "monetizing US deficits" mean here?
We are talking about the same Hong Kong in which sellers of questionable books were disappeared to the mainland, apparently without the knowledge of the HK government.
I live in a country where age of consent is 15 and many teens start to be sexually active around 16. From this point of view higher US age of consent, like 18 in California, seems totally absurd.
Disclaimer: I work at Backblaze.

> I backed up 11TB. As long as we are outliers I don't think it's an issue.

I work on the backup client, and I like larger customers for the reason that if the client works for the larger customers today, then it will work really really well for average size customers for several years to come. Larger customers help stretch and test the datastructures for me. :-)

We politely ask the larger customers to recommend Backblaze to their friends and family with less data. We live on the averages, so as long as that works out, we're happy to free customers from worrying about exactly how much they store.
Is there a reason why I can't, say, sell equity in my car to cover the shortfall? I have a vehicle worth $nK at purchase, so I'm also solvent, just with a liquidity problem.

It just seems like real cash and assets are valued less than financial instruments? Because they're More Future Money That We Expect To Exist compared to Less Now Money Which Actually Exists? I guess that makes sense but is also absolutely insane?

Again, correct me if I'm wrong.
I spent years browsing the web before it had any advertising on it at all. I remember the first ads, they were called "banners" and everyone raged out about how awful they were.

But we had no idea just how truly awful they could become, and that in fact the entire infrastructure of the internet would bend so that tracking and advertising became omniscient and pervasive. What a nightmare.

For a few years there though it kind of looked like the web was going to remain free and open forever. Back when we were all so young.
Amusing, I wrote myself a barely coherent story: https://i.imgur.com/rkbntEE.png

You can use it like someone's is playing mad libs with what you're writing. All the suggestions I received were fairly short in comparison with TalkToTransformer.com with the largest being 3 words or so. Did everyone else just keep hitting accept on every option?
Because regular, predictable releases mean that developers know they can always "catch the next train", and users know they can plan around predictable upgrade schedules.
Honor the facts please. First Minsky was approached by Guiffre at the island, and Minsky turned her down. Guiffre was already 18 at that time according to one statement.
So both accusations on Minsky needed to be defended, which RMS did.

There was no sex, no rape, no violation of age of consent, just a lot of slanderous allegations by folks who had no idea about the background, and didn't read about it.

On the other hand the students allegations on their Facebook event had a proper basis, against MIT management. But this had nothing to do with RMS defense of Minsky.
They seem to have achieved golden child status on HN, and from my experiences its hard to see why. Glad there's a non-Microsoft option, but I wish it were another whole setup.

Support is non-existent, clunky CI infrastructure, barebones all over. They seem to just be good at reacting in public threads.
>No, think of it as paying $236,000 for something that normally costs $27,000.

While dealing with assets in the billions and lending out at higher interest all the time.

>Show me a business where a sudden 10x increase in costs isn't painful...

All the ones where one input went up 10x temporarily and survived, or just the most characteristic examples?
The criticisms will occur at this point no matter what he does. I would actually bet he welcomes the talk as a distraction from his easy to prosecute crimes.
This was the podcast that took me from opposing software patents, to opposing the very concept of patents altogether: http://5by5.tv/hypercritical/67

See also: "The idea that I can be presented with a problem, set out to logically solve it with the tools at hand, and wind up with a program that could not be legally used because someone else followed the same logical steps some years ago and filed for a patent on it is horrifying."

- John Carmack
Joel is a great speaker. I am 100% on board with whatever he says. He's awesome.
Probably specifically meant the purely theoretical (and devoid of any tangible engineering feat) paper
It's Duo that has the "Software Update Notification" feature ( https://guide.duo.com/software-update ). If more vendors go the direction of faster updates, that feature on Duo (and I'm sure others) will need to be tweaked heavily.
The US patent system is why the US lost 10 years of aviation development and the Europeans took the lead. The US arguably did not catch up until WW2.
In an effort to get people to bring back the blog, I started https://startablog.com - to do just that.

We actually offer to set up people's blogs for free here - http://startablog.com/free-blog (and are hoping to help 10,000 people do it).

I know WP blogs are not always the favorite of the HN crowd, but Wordpress has been super accessible (esp for newbies) once things are setup, so hopefully we can remove that first (slightly technical) obstacle for the crowd that's used to doing something on everyone else's platform.
The visualizations look great, but wouldn't run on an N64, which had many physics games. I'm wondering the same thing as the OP--was this advanced level of graphics used during the research, or was the styling added after the fact for readers? A low res visualization seems like it would do the job equally well, but maybe not. Curious what they are finding and whether there are benefits to having a great looking visualization during the EDA phase.
Distributed over numerous billion-dollar businesses will annual profits in billions.
Compared to Jeff Bezos, everybody else on the internet is working practically for free ...
Hollywood was also born of people trying to get away from Edison and his patent lawsuits.
Really positive, since I love Rust very very much. It's great to have modern conveniences but insanely fast and safe.

I switch between developing a pure simulation framework and working in Godot. The sim is 100% rust and then I have another crate which binds with Godot. There I can concentrate on updating the scene tree based on the simulation. Since only the simulation needs to be synchronized for multiplayer I expect this will work better long term.

I use these opensource bindings https://github.com/GodotNativeTools/godot-rust - Godot supports dynamically loading your game code in a DLL - Called "GDNative" - so you can use any compiled language.

For an old discussion of my Godot pros/cons see this post on Reddit. The community stepped forward and was very supportive, so I have decided to stay.

https://www.reddit.com/r/godot/comments/ch1xsx/i_might_switc...

I have also tried unity, I wrote a Rust chess AI against it for the "four kings one war" variant. My experience with Rust in Unity was more painful. For instance you need to restart the unity editor to reload the DLL. It crashes painfully often. Loading and switching targets can be very slow, etc.

https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/c0e5yf/i_created_a_ru...

However, the Unity game itself works very well now and the rust story was very very good. Building on Mac after building on PC was trivial - it just worked. Setting up a new dev machine was just checkout, rustup, cargo test - it just worked.

Getting things to look nice in Godot is trivial. I really just set up basic lighting, ticked some boxes and imported some basic meshes from Blender. I'm only getting started and I think my screenshots look quite nice :D
>> the vast majority of the benefit of open source contributions on github, be they to languages, runtimes, application frameworks, databases, etc, go towards increasing the bottom line of for-profit companies, not to developers.

Which inturn creates jobs doe devlopers.

Let's face it. As a devloper. My day to day would be tough and slow without many of the free tools devlopers created for fee.

So maybe the pressure for me to contribute is just.
EDIT: Removed for security.
> You're justifying the actions a lynch mob.

No I'm not. I also don't think the outcome had anything to do with the mob. There were plenty of people even before the mob knew anything, who took strong exception to what RMS was saying.

> Who are you to decide what's appropriate? Are you the arbiter of morality for the entire world?

I'm not. MIT decided what was appropriate for their organization and the moral behavior of its employee and associate.

I am making what I think is a pretty universal moral statement in that old men taking advantage of young women for sexual pleasure is very wrong.

> It sets a precedent that completely removes the ability to have non mainstream opinions.

These aren't just "non-mainstream opinions" he was defending actions which most western societies consider rape. This isn't some slippery slope where people can't say anything nonconformist, this is a situation where people don't want to be associated with you when you publicly defend taking advantage of vulnerable, abused young women.
The power to regulate an area is based on the subject matter, whether it qualifies as “interstate commerce,” not whether some conduct within that domain is permitted or not. It’s not a one-way ratchet where Congress sets a floor and states can ratchet it up if they want. Sometimes that’s what Congress wants to do, but other times it decides that some things should be unregulated beyond a certain threshold. That’s a function of the regulatory framework Congress chooses to enact, not what the Commerce Clause empowers Congress to do.
I mean, it’s pretty broken right now, so maybe not?
It was absolutely not the maintainer's "fault", which seems like it should have been clearly illustrated by them making the point that there was one developer?

The whole point is that tons of companies relied on OpenSSL but none of them were stepping up to the plate and funding its maintenance to the point of there being multiple maintainers, so it all fell on that one maintainer's shoulders.

Of course after the shit hit the fan those companies had a change of heart and... forked it. Learning the wrong lessons as usual

I recall reading a couple articles in the past about how NTP was (is?) maintained by one full-time developer who barely broke even on doing it, despite the fact that massive chunks of internet infrastructure rely on it. There's money and personnel out there who could be contributing to infra like OpenSSL and NTP and very often it seems like nobody cares enough to fund it.
last I checked, there's also amazon/microsoft pushing MX.net (which seems mature and actually seems to have tooling which is not presuming the user is Google-internal)
You can both keep existing investments in fossil fuels and invest new funds innovative companies. It isn't any either or proposition.
They don't even need to become "more confusing" -- the simple act of changing, even if they get simpler, forces one to 1) be on the lookout for changes, 2) when/if they land, understand the impact on one's particular requirements, 3) retrain one's processes accordingly. I pay an accountant to tell me how much VAT/sales tax I'm supposed to charge and what tax relief I can ask for, rather than to calculate the actual sums.

This is absolutely not a US problem alone, btw -- every modern country has a yearly cycle for fiscal policies at the very minimum, and often you have additional changes landing throughout the year.
If it is a model of restraint, what would be your definition of unrestrained. It seems like you would have a different way of handling the situation? Would love to hear it.
The C5 that accompanies the President's 747 is almost the exact same size a a 747.
The thing that scares me about this change is that it seems like the only reason they are doing it is "we’ve had many requests to take features to market sooner.". Where as the rest of the blog entry is to assuage our fears and otherwise placate everyone that things won't explode.

I don't know if 4 weeks is or isn't the right answer (after all some SaaS companies update dozens of times a day), but I know that I tend to leave my browser windows open until it crashes or the computer reboots. While I don't regularly use Firefox right now, I can imagine that I could skip entire versions with this behavior.
How Postgres Makes Transactions Atomic (2017)
So soybeans aside... the same thing as 3 years ago?
Or (I hope people have a sense of humor here), space Nazis [1]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Sky
It's a shame that the government has effectively forced all moral citizens to avoid public service in intelligence.
Looks like a logic bug. You get that in an unreachable! macro, generally in a match statement where you think you covered everything by didn't.
You are confusing yourself by using per capita GDP. Simply use PPP GDP.
Same :D

I like also that it is no problem to use in countries which block VPN, like China. I had no problems accessing Posteo, but no way of accessing Gmail.
It also does not nag me every single time I change the VPN server I use, because I seem to be in a different location. I know this is supposed to be a security feature of Gmail, but man is it annoying not to be able to access your mail, because of that.
In Posteo you can also activate 2FA afaik, if you like such thing.

It just works, and I am glad to be able to give support to free software, while at the same time I also gain from it, by having an e-mail service, which is ethically way more acceptable than Gmail and is working very well.
unrelated to the article, but that banner at the top, "win a free women of science tarot deck" really makes me hmmmm
I think this gives more natural results http://textsynth.org/
Those changes would break existing code, so I don't think they'll go for that. I'm slightly hopeful that whatever Go 2 does for error handling will dodge this issue by not making you declare and re-use the `err` variable, but I don't remember enough about that proposal to tell if it would actually help.

In general, the trend of making things easier for the compiler rather than the developer is a thing that annoys me about go, you're right to point that out
Be cautious posting snippets generated from redacted text (assuming you didn't literally type "[big bank, redacted]" into the box).

If the generator is deterministic from input text (which many are, intentionally), someone could determine the redacted values by plugging in various well-known companies and seeing which ones generate the same text.
I would argue it's more like Captain forever

https://store.steampowered.com/app/758930/Captain_Forever_Tr...
Exactly, carbon regulation will be a lot easier to pass if the direct impact to peoples' finances is lessened.
That he was defending his dead friend isn't the issue.

He was defending statutory rape and taking advantage of vulnerable young women - it does not matter whether the actual event happened or not. RMS was defending rape in a very public forum and got fired.
It would help if much of the financial industry didn't purposely obfuscate the meanings, uses, and ramifications of use of their tools. There seems to be a lot of euphemistic jargon in use, for example.
Ah, I wasn't aware, sorry. Is there an English word that constitutes an accusation against someone with no proof?
One of the downsides to having a personal site, as a developer, is that some people will expect it to be a professional portfolio and showcase. So, there's pressure to keep updating it, to at least hint at your use of the latest Web frameworks, awareness of SEO/promotion, etc.

My own personal site's current look is pretty much an early CSS approximation of my old `table`-based layout, and is now mainly to preserve URLs for some open source contributions. It's also personal, with none of my professional work on it.

I'd bet the vintage look has cost me a few business opportunities, but not every aspect of my life has to follow this year's commercial fashion. Shoot me if I ever give my little personal site a stock React look, or a big dynamic anti-Web framework, or third-party CDNs to mitigate bloat hosting costs, or something like that. :)
Please don't give Intuit (makers of TurboTax) or H&R Block your money. They both actively lobby to keep taxes complicated / non-automatic and are a primary reason why it is so easy to screw up your taxes.
He did not mean it so literally. Not everyone suffers from gender uncertainty or multiple personality disorder.
Alongside winetricks (https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iI...), if you've not seen it before, protondb.com is fantastic. In particular, see https://www.protondb.com/app/799600 for help in getting Cosmoteer to start.

I'm a huge fan of Lutris these days; community participants wrap the above advice into install scripts, and it's surprisingly common for things to magically Just Work (tm).
This is good advice. I'm collecting websites like this ("handmade") here - https://www.btbytes.com/websites.html

My own website is compiled together with a python script, but aesthetically close to what you describe.
The 2nd Amendment only covers weapons available in 1791. Anything after is not covered and people who want those weapons are lucky they slipped under the radar with these poor interpretations that nuclear weapons and bazookas were to be covered by the 2nd Amendment.

We did ban most of those weapons (a 2nd Amendment violation according to the unrestricted interpretation), but we didn't quite get the regulation for the remain for guns and magazine sizes.
The short, non-snarky answer is, "No, you cannot, at least in time to get back from your 30 minute break."