skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd rather like better data on the problem you describe, as it does not seem to line up with the experimental data I have so far on the interaction of AQM and packet scheduling techniques with bittorrent.

The first paper we did was: http://perso.telecom-paristech.fr/~drossi/paper/rossi13tma-b...

Which predated the development of fq_codel, which is the fair queue (flow queue) + aqm hybrid now deployed in cerowrt, openwrt, and countless other QoS systems. That paper only explored RED or SFQ, not a hybrid.

What I think the positive effects we are seeing now are several factors. 1) a "torrent" is usually on 6 flows at a time, rotating to a new flow every 15 seconds or so. 2) The additional peers trying to negotiate IS a problem at very low rates (say below 4mbit) but invisible at higher rates. 3) reducing latencies under load to under 5ms has enormous gains in bidirectional throughput, which more than compensate for losing torrent's delay based backoff mechanism, which only backs off at 100ms. Which would you rather have, 100ms latency or 5ms?

See, for example, what the fq_codel system does for verizon and comcast here:

https://www.bufferbloat.net/projects/codel/wiki/RRUL_Rogues_...

We got back 5x free bandwidth on the verizon test. And if you are experiencing 5ms worth of latency does it really matter if you have 6 torrents in the background?

(80, yes! but it's a function of your bandwidth also and... and... more testing is indicated.)

... so I haven't got around to redoing the research and writing a successor paper on it, and probably won't anytime soon. The original authors of that paper have gone off to do several papers of extensive analyses of RED vs ledbat, and I think they've largely gone off into the weeds, not that I mind having that analysis as a basis if ever we (or someone) gets around to analyzing fq_codel with some of those techniques.

Please feel free to test re torrent with a system that uses something like openwrt's qos-scripts or cerowrt's SQM system.

The conclusion of the original paper was that only classification seemed to be an answer to even further deprioritize torrent in an AQM'd and FQ'd world. (which the above systems can do also)

http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-hoeiland-joergensen-aqm-fq-...

http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-nichols-tsvwg-codel-02
Who is "everybody"? and what unit do they use?
"Keep in mind that the feature..Opera"

Thanks, I just quickly skimmed the article stopping at the code samples and didn't catch that.
Surveillance of Australian activists is about to get much, much worse
And TV sets
Doing it wrong or just doing things a different way? There are thousands and thousands of businesses out there with web site needs that just don't justify day or week rates for their maintenance partners.

I might work on 8+ different projects in any given day and receive emails/calls from 20+ clients about tasks needing to be done. It can be brutal but I don't know that it's "doing it wrong".

Over time, I could transition to clients that mean I might bill daily/weekly but none of them would be my current clients and these current clients would still need someone to provide that service at a level with finer granularity.
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Yes, that $500M could have been spent encasing every power line, transformer, and appliance in SF in 2 inches of lead.
California drought: High-bidding farmers battle in water auctions
Totally viable. Riot Games is pulling it off with League of Legends. Exact same case: money is just for skins etc. All the money in the world won't give you any unfair advantage. Oh and yes, HUGE competitive scene.
IMHO: EFF doesn't yet grok the importance of pushing out good routing protocols to the edge, and the need for mesh networking the edge together in the advent of emergency... or adversity.

CeroWrt include every mesh networking protocol available - olsr, batman, and babel, for starters. The default is babel in it's source specific variant, and it's on by default. Tinq is also in there as an optional package, and recently RTT based metrics were added to babel to make meshing over vpns saner.

I'm not sure what you mean by "secure mesh networking"?

One of the cool features (not in the current cerowrt release) of the quagga-babeld protocol implementation was the ability to securely exchange routes over an insecure medium, which not only has an implementation but is an official RFC.

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7298

I am under the impression commotion-wireless is doing something similar. If we are ever to replace BGP we need to start somewhere...
I don't see it on my end but I'm guessing it is a ligature:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typographic_ligature
Anybody have any confirmation on these layoffs and who were involved?
That's a pretty much impossible distinction to make.
It might be a holdover from "car phones", where incoming calls were charged for. Very few had them and it could be assumed that the owner had enough cash to pay for the privilege.

IIRC the US had some version of cell phones before e.g. Europe, so probably kept the same business models. The rest of the world was able to rethink the model and with the benefits of hindsight, created cell-specific phone numbers and were able to charge callers rather than phone owners the extra portion.
Question - has anyone gone whole hog on deploying containers? If so, are you using something like CoreOS or something else to deploy them?
Well, it was a bit tongue in cheek, but I was specifically answering: "I don't think the market for $70k assets that lose 90% of their value in 5 years is going to be too hot". The COE loses 100% of its value in 10 years, but you still find plenty of buyers.

Singaporeans have the alternative of not owning a car - both public transport and taxis are highly available, cheap and very pleasant to use. If you see a car as merely a means of transport in exchange for economic value, it makes no sense to own one at current market prices (it's cheaper to take a cab every day, for example - even if you live near the airport and work in CBD, a 15km commute, that's $40/day or $80,000/10 years). Why do some Singaporeans take out 30 year mortgages for the right to drive an average sedan for 10 years?

What the COE taught me is the value of intangibles like status boost and the pleasure of driving for its own sake. This is more relevant to Tesla's target demographic than the considerations of the average second hand Toyota Corolla buyer (closer to where I would fit in, and why I'll never own a car in Singapore, no matter my net worth).
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Ask HN: How to split equity?
I am about to ship my second app and I'd like to bring in a good friend of mine who I believe can contribute a lot in many areas that need to be covered in order to build a succesful app company. How do I go about forming a mutual agreement as to how to split equity?

To explain what I've done so far:

- Developed and shipped first app.

- first app has a few thousand downloads and growing.

- put up investment for the development of second app (validated market with customers, great potential).

- invested my time for 3 months almost full time (taking care of metrics, marketing, managing developer/designer etc.)

Any more info that is needed please ask. All comments or helpful links are appreciated.
Lately I noticed that Ruby and Java both permit underscore in numeric literals.

As to why it wasn't there before, or why it isn't available everywhere, I'm not sure, but I suspect the answer is basically lexing/parsing difficulties.
Many of these sites have real visitors. Even lesser known sites can dozen around a hundred visitors to your page...which is better than nothing.
> runs well. It does get tired sometimes
Haha, that really brightened up my morning :)
There are things that are not on those lists. They're eithe ron other lists, or must meet defined criteria which are subject to administrative review.

>You're conflating two completely separate branches of government.
No, I'm really not. "court" is not unique to the judicial branch, for example, courts-marshal are conducted within the military and not under the judicial branch.

Well, that's bullshit. Sometimes you just have to own your mistakes, my friend.
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I can't speak for the flaggers, but perhaps some of them will explain.
I don't think that's what he meant. Let's say you have a document that you want to share with your friends who don't have an Owncloud account on your instance. You click on share and get a publicly accesible link like "example.myowncloud.com/ji7H2i".
I don't know if Owncloud is able to do this, but it works with pyd.io.
I don't see it either, but I do see all the fi's becoming fi ligatures. The CSS is specifically enabling it with the line:

font-feature-settings:"liga", "dlig", "onum";

(and its vendor variants) liga is standard ligatures, dlig is the "discretionary" ligatures (less standard ones like ct), and onum is old-style numerals.

EDIT: Ligatures sure are weird in monospace though. I'd personally disable it for code samples...

http://www.microsoft.com/typography/otspec/featurelist.htm

http://blog.fontdeck.com/post/15777165734/opentype-1

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/font-featur...
It would be far cheaper to build underground bunkers on Earth, or fund prevention of specific risks like this one. Building a permanently self-sufficient colony isn't just ridiculously expensive, it may not even be possible with our technology for a very long time. And it's still only a last resort. Civilization and everyone on Earth still perishes in the apocalypse.

It would take significantly more than this to wipe out humanity btw. Even the worse case scenarios, civilization still recovers eventually.
> The plural of anecdote is not data, though.

Of course it is.

What do you think data comprises? It's just an aggregation of anecdotes.
Despite being backed by Google, regardless of how
finished or unfinished Go was upon release, there
was no impending pressure that you would someday
more or less be forced to rewrite all your existing
code in it. Thus the early adopter pros and cons
were pretty clear. This is not the case with Swift.

The way I look at this issue, is that for now Swift should only be used for pet projects and the like. Simple projects that help the developer gain experience with the language.
On the other hand, if the ISP also runs a video service, they've got some very compelling reasons to do everything they can to not increase the quality of service for Netflix. They're green, and rectangular, and...
I can tell you what's wrong with 35,798: it's less than fifty, even if you don't parse it that way.

But as b6 said, some languages support grouping of digits, but they use another symbol, usually _.

Ada would be an example.
You can say it's "in vogue" these days, but C had private, public, and internal visibility (private = declared in .c file, public = declared in public .h file, internal = declared in private .h file). It's not just that you can technically accomplish this in C, but people actually use this all the time. Look at almost any library and you'll find this. Other languages have had module and library scopes for accessibility for decades as well. It's really an aberration that some languages make it so that data structures are the scope for symbol accessibility. C++'s accessibility rules are just bizarre and awkward for polyglots.
> These plasma clouds, known as coronal mass ejections (CMEs), compromised a solar storm thought to be the most powerful in at least 150 years.

Tsk, Washington Post. I think you mean "comprised."
It's well-known that adding yourself to link directories are bad for SEO. How is this different?
Dynamic memory allocation is also banned.
Pyd.io will do that just fine. Though I would'nt use pydios sync, since I found it terrible slow. I use btsync as a sync backend and pydio as the file front end.
That opening cinematic is terrifying.
Man Allegedly Kicked Off Southwest Airlines Flight for Tweeting Complaint
> The moral of the story is that there are a huge number
> of different hardware and software configurations and
> environments to use them in

True, and it partly makes all these complaints valid for other OSes as well. I had major trouble with my MacBook connecting to my home wifi, until I bought a new router. No trouble anymore.
From 600 to 10 in three months
I have it running on my VPS and the built in sync is terribly slow for me. It's really fine as a frontend though.
I owned one of these. But, if memory serves, I think it was a DOS edition. Maybe a port? It came either on a 3.5" or 5.25" floppy, and the packaging was pretty utilitarian--black text on white, if memory serves.

At the time I figured it was just some unauthorized programmer trying to make a buck on Nintendo's back. It never occurred to me that Nintendo would license the IP.
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Would the solar storm affect only the side of the Earth facing the Sun or the entire Earth?

Thanks in advance.
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Thanks for pointing this out. There are many strong opinions on this subject guided by little more than naïve intuition. Having an opinion on the nature of the firm without reading Coase is like having an opinion on externalities without reading Coase [1].

[1]: http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/724810?uid=3739560&uid...
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There are also solutions for iPhones: send via AirDrop, email, imessage, iCloud share,
Dropbox, copy.com, etc. AirDrop works even without an Internet connection and will work that way with macs too.

It's not like it's 2003 again and the only way to share a picture or a album is with a cable.
Try a different router. This helped me a great deal.
I have a late 2012 13". It usually takes ~8 seconds to connect to an AP. Seems to depend on the AP and anecdotally it's very sensitive to the wireless channel. Maybe I just have a bad card or something.
What is the point of all these "redacted" on FB? Just type jeff spacex in FB search bar and you can see him and all his posts: https://www.facebook.com/jeff.popejoy?fref=ts. And yes, he is NDT Inspector at SpaceX as per his FB profile which is almost all public.
Knowing someone's name doesn't necessarily mean they're a good person.
"For reference, we have more than an order of magnitude more now :-) What's more amazing though is that a very small number of current servers (3-4, but that's just a guess) have as much compute and storage as these 21 racks, so we could serve 1999's traffic on just these 3-4 servers."
It would also mean that many people with chronic diseases--people you all likely know, yes?--would die because supplies of medicines would dry up rapidly, existing stocks of some drugs would spoil (insulin requires refrigeration), and further production would be offline for months or years. So yes, I'm concerned.

To the naysayers here, don't your jobs require access to electricity? How's your Node startup going to survive months or years without power? (No elevator pitches if the elevators aren't working!)
Infiniminer and Dwarf Fortress.
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“This double-CME traveled through a region of space that had been cleared out by yet another CME four days earlier,” NASA says. ” As a result, the storm clouds were not decelerated as much as usual by their transit through the interplanetary medium.”

Just curious, what exactly was cleared out? I thought the interplanetary medium is just empty space.
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The Myth of the Self-Starter
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Thank God we live in a 3 dimensional space, where things rarely collide because the space is so "big" compared lower dimensions [0].

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_walk#Higher_dimensions
The talk of Blaze, the generation numpy, in Scipy2014
Wrangling enums
http://www.microsoft.com/openness
"Microsoft has changed as a company and is becoming more open in the way that we collaborate with others."

Interesting that they lead with an apology.
TypeScript is a nice start, hopefully we'll see this fill with several more Microsoft repos in the coming months.
> There is no [...] media queries [...] involved. There is simply one highly responsive line of code.

The Koster archipelago example must be using media queries or am I missing something?
Chromium switches to BoringSSL
Beware not to fall for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window
What an astute observation.
Yes it does.

That is an implementation detail. It doesn't matter if it is does at compiler or whatever runtime is targeted.

This is called lowering in compiler design speak.
How is that an apology?
Google APIs Node.js Client
I thought this was going to be a tumblr where William Shatner critiques the actual FB posts that mention him.
In a word, yep. You wouldn't be the only one.
> we can make the number of columns depend on the available space, so that a narrow screen will have one column, a wider screen will have two columns, etc. This is all it takes to specify that the optimal line length is 15em and for the number of columns to be calculated accordingly

It looks like the columns property can take a size value, which the browser will use to work out how many columns it can fit.
If it isn't on the standard, anything goes.

There are much more compilers out there than those three.
There are no absolutes in physics (well rarely any naturally curring anyway), space still has stuff in it. Even if it's just a small rock every kilo meter, that's still a lot of rocks. 149,597,870 rocks to be exact. (Assuming the number isn't wrong.)

What was exactly cleared out I don't know though.
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It looks like there's partial support in other browsers too (I think it's still vendor prefixed). I see columns in Chrome using the example page:

http://www.wiumlie.no/2014/css-figures/koster/prefix.html

It seems like some of the more advanced features like spanning multiple columns hasn't made its way to Chrome yet.
All 11 people...
Remembering the names of people who have done good things and sharing the stories of what they have done to inspire others to go and do the same. It is a simple premise and one that is common enough in human culture that I am not sure where the argument is coming from.

edit - you can also even apply the same technique to try and warn people of bad things. Go wild with it.
in that it's an admission that they're guilty of not being open and collaborative
started with just one.
Don't think that was us... Stack hasn't been around that long.

But in any case, Trello can certainly be used by dev teams, but it's becoming increasingly clear that dev teams are not their target audience. They're selling to artists, film-makers, students and musicians! (This is from their own landing page btw).

We think there's a lot to like about Trello, we just want to deliver a better product to better suits the intended audience. See other comments for the sorts of features that we (and other devs) feel are important.
For those interested in an in-depth analysis of the risk, Lloyd's insurance produced a detailed report last year looking at this issue:

Solar Storm Risk to the North American Electric Grid [PDF]

http://www.lloyds.com/~/media/lloyds/reports/emerging%20risk...

Summary here:

http://www.lloyds.com/news-and-insight/news-and-features/env...

Some key points:

Weighted by population, the highest risk of storm-induced power outages in the US is along the Atlantic corridor between Washington D.C. and New York City.

The total U.S. population at risk of extended power outage from a Carrington-level [estimated to occur every ~150 years] storm is between 20-40 million, with durations of 16 days to 1-2 years.

The wide variation of expected duration is is dependent on the number of transformers destroyed:

If spares are readily available, the total transportation and setup time for a large power transformer can range from a few weeks to months depending on distance and logistical issues. If new transformers need to be ordered, the lead-time is estimated to be between 5-12 months for domestic suppliers, and 6-12 months for international suppliers.
2> Get only power

Not really. the USB charging protocol requires data pins for chargers to communicate with the device about how much current it can draw. Suppose the data pins are left open, a compliant device can only draw <100mA, which is not even enough power to keep device from draining battery. Even if the data pins are shorted, I don't think it works with most apple devices, which use a different non-standard protocol.
It is this little things that made me move away from GNU/Linux as main laptop OS.

The OS is great when it works, but then those little things are always around the corner, turning weekend actions into weeks.
Could such an event be powerful enough to flip the Earth's polarity?
> Can you imagine how disastrous this would be? People would likely wake up without power, and think little of it at first. "Oh, it's a power outage. Better light some candles and wait it out." Then hours, days would pass. There would be no internet, television, or even newspapers to report what happened. We would be reduced to hearing the news from Shakespearian harriers!

> I wonder if this would cause mass revolt. What happens when you completely disable modern technology on all of earth? If this is as likely as they say it is, there needs to be some serious research into mitigation strategies not only of the immediate technological effects, but also of the sociological effects.

I really doubt it would be that terrible. It's not like electricity would have completely disappeared for ever (like in this great novel apparently called in English "Ashes, Ashes" [0]).

Important things and urgent things like communication means would quickly be operated by emergency generators, so people would immediately have information through radio (and most of the receptors are battery operated), and probably also TV, although they would probably have to go to the local townhall, hospital, school or whatever place would have a working generator to watch it.

Cars would still work so people could move around, at least while there are refined gasoline reserves, but refineries would probably be one of the first industries to get powered again anyway.

Probably for a good while there would be restrictions on electricity usage, depending on how hard existing plants would have been hit and whether they are fixable or have to be completely rebuilt, but I really don't think it would "destroy life as we know it".

I wonder how nuclear plants would handle this, though.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravage_(novel)
Any driver which supports debugfs. Proprietary drivers of course will always be problematic.

Manufacturers could always agree on some kind of debugging protocol... I'm sure we'd up with only one "standard" ;-)
SpaceX has approximately 4000 employees, if the 10% quoted in the article was accurate then I'm pretty sure that we'd hear a lot more about it. This is probably an instance of crossed wires.
I think you're pretty woefully underestimating the consequences of subjecting our frighteningly fragile electrical grid to a CME of this magnitude.
A world without certificate authorities
Is git integrated into visual studio or something?
I never thought I'd see the day where Microsoft is openly talking about open source.
I wonder if they'll be moving some of their other open (or shared) source projects to GitHub as well.

Most of them are on CodePlex today.
Someone on Reddit said: "These are not layoffs. SpaceX cut the bottom 2-5% of the company for non-excellence. Most if not all of the positions will be back-filled with more talented staff."

(Not sure if he/she works at the company)