skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"There is no database ... that would have handled the traffic on this hardware and infrastructure"

That's what I meant by "not provisioning the necessary resources". I'm a programmer who dabbles in small scale systems building (from scratch, as in mount CPU on motherboard, etc.), so I'm perhaps not using the word "provisioning" as domain experts do.

But to the extent MarkLogic was the major database used (I'm getting that impression the more I look into this), unfamiliarity plus all the bad management could have contributed to not procuring beefy enough infrastructure. Or helped contribute to the widespread magical thinking, i.e. an experienced Oracle DBA could say with authority "this won't work" but not have as much weight when talking about MarkLogic. And I'm sure you had at least one field engineer helping them ... or I should say trying to help them. Ditto, I'm sure, the people or contractors in/for CMS who were already using MarkLogic, assuming the ones who really knew their stuff were even consulted.

Engineers not being listened to/respected in favor of magical thinking is obviously one of the biggest problems with this project. What can you say when the integration testing is delayed for the last 2 weeks before launch, proves it can't work the week before, and launches anyway?
Network engineers in campus and enterprise environments have been building a DC network overlay for years in the form of Power over Ethernet. All of those VOIP phones, access points, and security cameras all need DC power with UPS backup and the network closet has become where that power is provided.

On our campus it's reaching the point where every switch we'll be buying will soon be PoE. I imagine many places are far ahead of us on this.

What is the max cable length of USB Pd?
Does anyone have any news articles related to a possible cause?

Also, this is less than 3 day's worth of value so far, so it might be market fluctuation.
Similar: NYC is absolutely riddled with tunnels and underground infrastructure: subways, power, sewage, and as I recall, deepest of all the projects which transport Catskills water into the city.

I seem to recall a graphic which showed these tunnels at various depths, but have been unable to find it via numerous searches.

There is a pretty cool spread at Gizmodo showing the East Side Access project for the LIRR though. The scale of this is simply staggering:

http://gizmodo.com/5985618/incredible-images-of-the-new-mass...
Publishing the program would be interesting.

And persuasive, if it's all as suggested.
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Now Amazon mocks iPad Air (and Jony Ive)
Where by "manicure the reputation of the VC-funded ecosystem" you mean "autokilling comments with the token 'circlejerk' in them". Got it.
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If Satoshi Nakamoto has over 1,000,000 BTC, why doesn't he just sell it now?
Even if he asked for a stupid $500 per 1 BTC, that'd still be a $500,000,000 payday.
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I think this very much has something to do with the no trade fee weekend at mtgox.
Except that Nick Szabo's main interest in bit gold was to stop inflation. He says flat out that "the most pernicious of which has probably been inflation" when discussing problems with money. That seems to also be a main motivation behind bitcoin was well(at least from the early proponents who seemed to be more philosophically motivated than they were by practical considerations)
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I was never in so great shape as when I worked as a dishwasher. Bike to work (8 miles, rain / shine / snow), work damned hard, close and clean up the restaurant, bike home. Of course, I was making like 50X less than I do now.

I was happy to have that job, but even happier to leave it for something that involved keyboards and air-conditioned machine rooms instead of scalding hot water and smelling like a dishrag during my "leisure time" (which was more like recuperation, actually).

I don't mind physical work, and I've done my share, but I'd rather not do much more of it. My dad grew up on a small farm in the northwest US, and that was work; he's paying for it now, in his old age.
I figured that was it, but wasn't sure. Thank you.
Something completely lost on tons of nerds seems to be that people genuinely enjoy operating their cars (and motorcycles).
I did not try to sound critical: curiosity is what drives my research as a mathematician.
There's power and wealth, and there's stability, of purpose and project if not of institutions (taking your point on Paris under advisement). Simply existing for a long time (and having a long-term vision) will get you some of the way there. What modern times offers is the ability to complete massive undertakings quickly by devoting vast resources to them all at once. What ancient times had was fewer resources but often a much, much longer time horizon. What current projects are undertaken with even a 10-20 year time horizon, let alone several centuries?
For the 6th time...
Stylometry's a real thing. It gets harder the shorter the sample is, and it's much easier to say "this text matches X's verbal tics better than it matches Y's" than to confidently point at a specific person like this post is doing. Fishing for a similarity measure that supports your desired conclusion is a risk. Identification from style (phrases, quirks, vocab size) is a thing, though.

The program or more-raw data would be interesting.
The Wirecutter does pretty extensive lists of "the best" electronic products/gadgets.

Here's their networking section:
http://thewirecutter.com/leaderboard/networking/
I don't think it's that personal in principle. There were plenty of news articles about the current generation not caring much for car ownership.
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ASUS RT-N16

Its cheap, stable and un-brickable. So much so that there is a special tomato version dedicated to this model.[1]

[1] http://www.easytomato.org/download
Site seems to be dead, I wonder why :)
The Asus N66u is highly regarded:

http://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-wi-fi-router-asus-rt-n...

I have one myself but have not loaded Tomato on it yet.
Those may be prices worth paying for some users...
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You're comparing people making political statements to people making threats of violence? Big difference, I think.
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Also, the plugin / extension ecosystem is fantastic, the editor has a lot of great features, and almost every customization I could think of was easily (or sometimes not so easily done).

All the while, I kept using the deeply-in-muscle-memory-ingrained Vim normal mode syntax and I use and act in Emacs just like I would in Vim. There're very very few differences. (In fact, I regularly fire up vim for quick config file editing, and there's no getting used to it because it really feels the same, only looks different and has less functionality, something which I don't need when I'm quickly changing a couple of lines in a config file).

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ASUS RT-N66U is nice, didn't have a need for AC. I have that and an older Netgear WNR3500l (v1) running upstairs and down same SSID different channels. Tomato is my firmware of choice although ASUS with Merlin is pretty solid.

There were some pretty good router deal on Black Friday, be on the lookout for the ASUS on Cyber Monday I'd say.
>Once self-driving cars show a marked decrease in road accidents, insurance prices will rise.

Huh?

Edit: Just to be clear: The world you describe should see incuranse rates for self-driving cars markedly lower, with rates for driver-driven cars probably a bit lower (than current).
What jingoistic people like you don't understand is that the ability to tolerate criticism is equally important.

> You can't ask people to just eat, reproduce and die, living just above the poverty line. That is worse than poverty.
I really don't get it, so: victims of what?

I'm guessing the answer is something like "public shaming", in which case this does not make sense to me. It's like saying that a person who hits himself on the thumb with a hammer is a victim of assault and battery. They caused their own public shaming when they made a public spectacle of themselves. The tweeters just magnified it. It would have happened even without them.
None of the above.

Run pfSense on an old x86 box and you'll end up with something an order of magnitude better. As far as an access point goes I'd suggest going with ubiquiti gear if it's in your budget.
The old Netgear WNDR3700 is one of the best because of very good 2.4 GHz range and lots of RAM.
The failed stab at futurology seems relevant to judge the weight of his current prediction.
Maybe the OP was talking about the rest of the world, where trains work pretty well in general and this service might work.
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No there's always a few posters that can't stop themselves from referencing tulips or pyramids. And humans remember unpleasant things better in the short term. So there you have it, the GP isn't irrational, but possibly hasn't done a statistical survey.
And as status symbols go, they pretty much tick all the required boxes.
Most of the time you can guess the respitory by looking for it's name in the snippet.
... and while we're at it: best alternative firmware? e.g. I liked DD-WRT, but they hadn't released version in ages - and e.g. use an exploitable version of the dropbear ssh server. I'm now using OpenWRT and am happy -- but I don't have enough time to really research.
I recently bought a Linksys 1200. Works beautifully with DD-WRT. Or the Linksys 2500, if you want more power.

I can also recommend Netgear WNDR3700 if you want 5Ghz.
Many countries have currency restrictions. While you can hold foreign currency in paper format, you can't do most of the transactions as you'll need a bank account or a middle men (like Western Union).

The countries with currency restrictions will also be the countries that prohibit Bitcoin, to the extent of blocking access to the Bitcoin network from within national borders, or simply even cutting off access to the global web, as some countries are wont to do. Bitcoin is thus even worse than a normal currency, since it is entirely reliant on access to the global worldwide web.

Also, my work involves international business and finance. I can say without a doubt that you can do most of the transactions you need to do without a bank account or a middle man; cash is king across the world. Bank accounts and middlemen make things easier but outside of China and the Middle East, they are not necessary. (China and the Middle East require local co-ownership, so middlemen are a necessity. No nation requires local bank accounts unless you plan on incorporating a business--including a branch office--in that nation.)

That's like saying if you've got nothing to hide, you've got nothing to fear.

No, that's like saying that if you don't have money in real currency, then Bitcoin isn't going to do anything to change the fact that you still don't have money. It doesn't matter what currency you use if you don't have any/much of it.
In Sweden, this is partially solved by giving you a tax rebate on your commute. So people who live rurally and need to commute into a city get some money back.
This IS identifying someone...
The US rail system is excellent, actually. At moving cargo.

Rail for moving humans is extremely inefficient almost everywhere on earth.
The HIV problem in humanized mice is such a difficult problem. Even if we overcome the technical challenges of mass-producing tiny condoms, and the logistical challenges of distributing them, mice simply do not use them. The cultural and educational challenges are too great.
Physical labor is great because you don't have time to worry about anything else.

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The OpenWRT wiki[1] is a great resource for this. There you can find a Buyers' Guide[2], as well a Table of Hardware[3] with compatibility tables for vendors, models and OpenWRT versions.

I recently flashed a TP-Link TL-WR1043ND with OpenWRT and it worked like a charm. I'm planning to flash it with the Pantou[4] OpenWRT distribution so I can start running OpenFlow with real hardware.

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Why wouldn't the kill switch be in traditional, manual control cars as well?
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The ASUS RT-AC66U supports Tomato

You can find the firmware here:
http://tomato.groov.pl/download/K26RT-AC/
Depending on how the kill-switch is implemented, it might not be that big of a deal, e.g. when the kill-switch is triggered, the vehicle occupants are given a 1-minute warning before the car goes from self-driving to manual driving mode.
> these all point to Bitcoin having been the work of a cryptography enthusiast, probably a high school or college student with some extra time on his hands.

If true, that's just embarrassing for the cryptography community. Having worked on the problem for years and then be shown up by an amateur who creates a system that hasn't been cracked despite a $multi-billion incentive to do so.
People who enjoy that are also a kind of nerds; I was one and the feeling was about the same as I get now when I switch on one of my 70s/80s computers. I changed nerd-ness as an awful lot of people died around me on motorcycles and in cars.

It's not important though; you are a menace to society if you drive yourself once robot cars are commonplace and thus you need to take your driving pleasures/status symbol to the track.
People tend to overlook Thin Clients. There is plenty of these available on Ebay, and they are mostly low-power x86 boards with one PCI slot. I am using a Maxspeed Maxterm (that's an 800 MHz VIA C3) and am very pleased with it.
Netgear lists their current models that they support for open firmware here http://www.myopenrouter.com/ - thats how I chose one.
It would be easy to sell 1,000,000 BTC without anyone noticing. It's only 100 BTC per minute for a week.
There is a mechanism in place in almost any country to regulate aviation based on location, craft capabilities, and operator certification based on supervised experience.
The official download page lists all three compilers for all major operating systems.

http://dlang.org/download.html
It's interesting and a little ironic to observe how the IETF has evolved over the last 30 years.

Time was, the IETF was more than the standardization effort for the Internet; it was also an intellectual response to the institutional standards body of the day, the CCITT/ITU-T. Where the ITU was bogged down by process, riven by commercial interests and infighting, and unapproachable by researchers, the IETF was animated by "rough consensus and working code".

Clearly, in the contest between the ITU-T (CLNP) and IETF (IP), the ITU-T lost.

Presumably, many hundreds of people were involved in telecoms standardization at ITU-T. Where do we suppose those people went? Did they just give up on their work? Or did they instead migrate to the IETF? Either way: the IETF functions more like the ITU-T today than like the IETF of 1994. "Standards" are owned by denizens of the IETF process; new functionality unknown to the Internet is specified in standards documents before it's ever implemented, or, better yet, "standardized" in opposition to working code.

I'd tentatively suggest that the IETF has served its purpose, and is now at risk of outliving it.
If you are looking for the best, regardless of price, it is probably the ASUS RT-AC68U that was released recently. See the 9-page dd-wrt thread on it here: http://www.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=177612&sid=8bfd...
which shows a few issues here and there, but that is typical of newly released models. You did say you were looking for recent ones.

If you don't have 802.11ac-capable devices and just want a cheap solid dd-wrt box, I would suggest the Asus RT-N16 or RT-N66U. The thing to look for is the amount of ram in these things. An 8M router is going to suck at running dd-wrt. See the big huge table here:

http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Supported_Devices

And pay attention to the ram column.
Ripple achieves ledger consensus without proof-of-work. Absence of proof-of-work is how it gets a new ledger (analogous to the block) every few seconds. The XRP fee destruction deflationary scheme is effectively similar to a proof-of-stake inflationary scheme, because as the total supply of XRP decreases, it benefits all XRP holders in proportion to their holdings.
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Awesome. Thanks for the story.

(btw you need to add a <meta charset="utf-8" /> or something similar to that site, some of the quotes get funky)
You could only sell it if someone was willing to buy it all-- there's no exchange that would buy $500,000,000 or more worth of Bitcoin at once.

Alternatively, he could slowly sell it off over time, but there's no way anyone could sell that much at once. Of course, he very well could be slowly selling it off right now.
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I thought it was a reference to this* when I read the title, but after reading them both I'm not sure there is any connection.

*http://i.imgur.com/fQ1ST8w.jpg
There are huge disadvantages in using old x86 boxes, like size, noise, power consumption, lack of ethernet ports and so on.

If you wanted to sensibly advise using pfsense you could point at the zrouter project http://zrouter.org/projects/zrouter/wiki/Supported_devices
Why distinguish between legal and illegal transactions? I guess the assumption is that value grounded in illegal transactions is inherently volatile due to the risk of it getting shut down?
Norway is one of the richest countries in the world. Here in LA a bunch of my neighbors have bought the Tesla S. The tax incentive on a luxury car is nice, but it is still a luxury car. I do like how hydrocarbons are the main driver of green tech in Norway.
Maybe if humanized mice practised abstinence until mice marriage they wouldn't get HIV in the first place? Then we wouldn't be spending billions of dollars trying to find them a cure.
I don't think it's lost on people discussing the subject, but it won't be able to stop this technological trend for several reasons.

Autonomous cars will be safer than human operated ones so they will at some point be cheaper to insure. This will continue until it is either unaffordable for the average person to operate their own car or outright prohibited because of safety concerns.

Driving will become a hobby which people will be able to pursue on dedicated (race)tracks.