skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good catch. At the end:

Editor's note: Adapted with permission from Potentials. December 1983, pages 26-30. Copyright 1983 IEEE.

Edit: something's not right there. That's way too early. According to https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~bwk/bwkbib.html, it's 1988 and from BYTE.
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Also remember that we're not talking about viewing video over HDMI to a high def LCD panel, we're talking about viewing over an RF cable link to a crappy little CRT display, often badly calibrated. Under perfect conditions betamax was superior to VHS, under average viewing conditions in the typical household if you'd have done a survey asking people which video signal looked better you'd be hard pressed to get people to admit that either one was noticeably superior let alone get a consistent result showing betamax to be a better choice.

It's also worth noting the costs here. In 1980 a VHS VCR cost around $800, that's $2300 adjusted for inflation. The first betamax VCRs were over $250 more expensive ($700 in today's dollars). Paying $700 more for a device which wasn't markedly superior was a sucker's bet, it's no wonder VHS was more widely adopted.
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This is a press release about a primary research finding. We need to see whether or not this study, which even the press release calls "small," will replicate or not. I would be the first person here to cheer a genuine advance in preventing or treating Alzheimer disease (I am older than most of you are), but I have learned after 2145 days of participation on Hacker News that most press releases about medical breakthroughs kindly submitted for discussion on Hacker News never replicate and don't lead to any lasting productive paths in research.

As for the lifestyle recommendations numbered in another comment here, I

(1) eat some simple carbohydrates, but have avoided obesity;

(2) eat some (but not a lot) of gluten and processed food, but especially eat plenty of vegetables and fruits (and a little bit of fish);

(3) reduce stress through means other than yoga;

(4) do not meditate, having checked the evidence on this practice and found it wanting;

(5) do not take melatonin;

(6) usually attempt to sleep 7-8 hours per night;

(7) take vitamin B12, but not usually in the form of methylcobalamin;

(8) take vitamin D3 each day;

(9) take fish oil each day;

(10) never take CoQ10;

(11) optimize my oral hygiene using an electric flosser and electric toothbrush;

(12) don't take hormone replacement therapy (I'm not a woman, and I have plenty of testosterone);

(13) fast for a minimum of 9 hours between dinner and breakfast, and for a minimum of 1 hour between dinner and bedtime;

(14) and exercise for a minimum of 30 minutes three or four times a week.

I do the most of the things on the list that have the best evidence base. I check the evidence all the time about what the latest treatment-control studies say about healthy lifestyle.

Good luck to all of you desiring to keep healthy minds for a long life. That begins with being skeptical about press releases about preliminary research findings.
Betamax lost largely on licensing, VHS was licensed very very cheaply, Beta was not.
Is there any plan to add any features for the accounting of a project?
It's interesting to see how other folks tweak their machines, but this is a highly personal thing and you're likely to break things.

The older I get, the more I leave things alone. Swim with the current.
Elon Musk: Tesla 90% autonomous in 2015
Is this why grandparent comment of yours was complaining about poor DSL speed?
>>The Model 684 would have used HK31, an alloy of magnesium, thorium, and zirconium which is no longer in use since the three percent that is thorium makes the alloy radioactive.

Nice I had no idea. There's a B-58 on display at Whiteman AFB, I thought it was production model, but maybe it's a mock up?

I love reading about these old projects, it was a different era for sure.
looks like they are using multiple radios on the same frequency and then also are able to overcome self-interference. I read an IEEE article about receiving and transmitting on the same frequency at the same time by subtracting the transmitted signal from the received to get only the signal from the remote radio. from their website " Perfect cancellation of co-channel interference "
They also mention 'beamforming'.
Multiple copies on the disk, or multiple disks could take care of that? Surely, some kind of error correction is possible to take that into account.
That actually felt like linkbait content marketing.
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I read this as "that offspring is fly."
What other medium are you going to store the data on? What are you reading it onto?

You would read from that plastic disc just like a CD or DVD, i.e. as you consume the content. This makes the throughput of any link in this chain irrelevant. (I guess except the read speed of the plastic disc)
I wish the article had a bit more technical details about the failover system used.

What's interesting is, although nowhere near useful enough to organize rapid aircraft landing, one could purchase a cheap ($10) Software Defined Radio and use something like Dump1090[1] to view all local planes.

I imagine they still had some sort of capability close to this while their machines were 'offline'.

[1] https://github.com/MalcolmRobb/dump1090
Afraid some assassin is going to use this?
More likely they are hesitant to rock the boat because intelligence spending is _big_ business. There are billions of dollars of contracts at stake so even if you caught people on video clubbing baby seals there is going to be strong pressure to not kill that cash cow.
24x36 frame with foam core backing and U/V protective lens cover for just a hair under $55 ($51.05 if you monkey with the settings right, $70-ish if you want all the bells and whistles): http://www.wholesaleposterframes.com/product_info2.php

Now... That website is ugly and hard to use. I wish it wasn't, but their product is great and by far the cheapest I've found that's not junk. I've order 15 frames since I discovered them a few years back, and they're great. The frames arrive incredibly well packed. They do require assembly, but it only takes about 10 minutes to go from unpacked to wall once you've done the first one or two.

You should also note that they are metal frames (they own the factory), but they have a wide variety of finishes and are very high quality. No wood options, though.

No affiliation, just sharing the link.
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also "Turn Yourself Into Hydrogen Bomb" and "Nanomachines"
Right, or even if Mackup could add a Y/n confirmation prompt before copying that private key file over to Dropbox.
The Twilight Zone is on Amazon Prime Instant Video at the moment.. They sure were worried about the H-bomb in 1959.
I would think you can't find recent Macports complaints because nobody uses Macports. I didn't even realize it was still being updated at all. I stopped using it many years ago because it was frequently long out of date and broke in ways that I found impossible to fix without wiping everything and starting over.

I switched to Fink, which broke occasionally but I was usually able to rescue it without too much hassle.

Eventually I stopped using Fink maybe a year (or two?) ago in favor of homebrew, and have not had any serious problems since. brew's structure combined with 'brew doctor' and a vast and frequently-updated array of available packages seem to have done a pretty good job of avoiding the "can't get there from here" problems I had with fink and macports.
That would be difficult to implement in this case. How are you going to un-teach one of the team members that fire near computers is bad?
Yet we control fire to the point of not even seeing it. I'm thinking of an internal combustion engine, or the fires inside of a coal-fired power plant.

“I like to think of fire held in a man's hand. Fire, a dangerous force, tamed at his fingertips. I often wonder about the hours when a man sits alone, watching the smoke of a cigarette, thinking. I wonder what great things have come from such hours. When a man thinks, there is a spot of fire alive in his mind--and it is proper that he should have the burning point of a cigarette as his one expression.”
They both serve the same building, so they kind of have to be close together.
Just tried a random size (24x36, + 3 inch matting, other things default) and tried to match it in a German manufacturers webshop.

Prices: 180 $ (+ sales tax depending on state, correct?) vs 180 € (= 240 $, includes 19 % tax)

Options: Very similar, german site offered more detailed options for materials (neutral, since to much can be to much) and also for different mounting methods and artwork thicknesses (can be relevant depending on artwork)

I feel like you need to work on presenting why I should go with you as someone new to the market at not-that-much-better prices than an established, well-regarded company which gives me more options and information about their product. Maybe your materials or craftmanship are better, but I have no real indication that this is the case, or the difference is on a level a might care about. Right now I have you calling your competition criminals and then charging more or less the same.
Yes, definitely, but only if UE4's network model fits your game. It takes a lot of research and I'm afraid some experience also to design a real time networked action game.
This goes for all nonconventional features though, I saw for example that Cubical Drift announced last week that they underestimated their needs and will have to swap out their graphics engine mid game. Not fun stuff I'm certain .
I think there's a market in both the second and third categories. What I'm saying is that at this price point they need to put interoperability first and not expend any resources on audio playback, where they will be inevitably reinventing the wheel to no good purpose. It's a bit expensive for a toy - for not much more you could get a decent pad controller like http://www.wirerealm.com/reviews/alesis-samplepad-pro-percus...

The advantages here is that you can build a complex virtual kit plus it's totally lightweight. A lot of musicians are interested in using and abusing gestural control for a variety of reasons, from convenience to spectacle, so I do think there's a market - but the musicians most likely to be interested are the least likely to want static sample playback or need another bunch of drum samples. I don't think low-latency output is impossible given the high frame rates the Playstation Eye is able to deliver, I'm just saying they need to concentrate their efforts on the advanced features.
What about gmane.org? I don't think it has a download option but that seems like the easiest way to get programmatic access to archives like that.
To steal a line from Mulder (The X-Files)

"And they call me paranoid."

Glad my phone, and my messages are encrypted. Filevault on my laptop.
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This is in part a "which goal do people really care about?" thing like Betamax vs. VHS. In this context, we're legally only able to stop per se, not kill, and ignoring that, we care a lot more about stopping someone before they wound or kill us than killing them.

And your examples confound velocity/energy, which at handgun velocities equal (over)penetration and greater recoil, with diameter, which per the experts I prefer increases "stopping power".

Therefore .40 S&W at 10 mm diameter is very popular (it's also a shorter, lower velocity 10 mm Auto developed after the FBI etc. realized that round had too much recoil), and the venerable 1904 .45 ACP at 11.5 mm is still quite popular. Many people like me use the latter in preference to rounds with a smaller diameter that can fit many more into a magazine.

Like hardware video formats, network effects matter, e.g. an unpopular round won't have many guns chambered for it, and gun models designed for 9 mm can generally accommodate .40 S&W. But they're not overwhelming, it's not a winner take all domain like video tapes or analog video discs turned out to be, or better than DVD digital formats. For that matter, DVD essentially defeated a lot of other digital formats, but I'm not sure if any were near its quality and other advantages.
This is prequel to "D" - some thing big on october 9: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/517486950589014016
Pretty much.

A single PoP failure should not shatter the entire system.
This is more amazing than the title makes it sound. This isn't talking about the "Father" of the fly, but a sperm that entered the egg after it was fertilized. Non-genetic inheritance... very interesting. I hope it can be replicated.
I understand what you quoted (refer to what I wrote in the second paragraph). If the problem is with the rest of the internet, why did CloudFlare quarantine the Medellín datacenter? To use an analogy, if your company's upstream phone provider redirected calls to your phone number to Siberia, what good does it do for you to quarantine Siberia?
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Also this original essay on huff post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/linda-tirado/why-poor-peoples-...

And the book (Hand to Mouth) on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Hand-Mouth-Living-Bootstrap-America/dp...
I don't like that it does this out of the box, but you can add something like the following to ~/.mackup.cfg

[applications_to_ignore]
ack
bash
git
screen
ssh
tmux
vim
Clubbing baby seals would be ideal.

Think scandalous messages, photos, habits, locations.

Blackmail. Relationship ending.

Outing sexual preferences.

Horrific shit.
Air traffic control in the US should continue to be consolidated, but with the ability to control the entire US airspace from any one control center. Redundant fiber, servers, RF gear, all that jazz (ADS-B/NextGen is going to make this much easier, as well as Iridium now deploying ADS-B receivers on their new satellites deployed).

Disclaimer: Private pilot, have sat with several controllers for ~4 hours at ZAU during an open house while they moved traffic.
My understanding is that it would not do anything to help prevent deliberate attacks on BGP. But I do think it may help limit the damage of accidental BGP misconfigurations since the routing tables are less confusing and crowded.
Agreed. The amazing thing about this outage is that there's not a failover to accommodate a complete loss of at least one major ATC office.

Time to bring in the Chaos Monkey.
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Could you elaborate on the dozens of identical systems? I haven't yet managed to find one where no one except the credit card networks can see my CC number (and I thought the tokenization spec was only released 6 months ago...)
Don't miss the link to the actual document, if you are curious.

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/document/2014/10/02/repor...
Yep, modern life has abstracted us away from experience to the point of disassociation.
They can get into the phone through the baseband. Its not safe to assume its secure vs. targeted surveillance.

A good discussion is here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7062489
The only one I can think of is Earth Class Mail https://www.earthclassmail.com/ but really, you can just set up forwarding with USPS.
honestly as tech progresses why should this not be expected or desired? automation will move into this industry in time and one would expect human intervention may only come for emergencies and handling small craft landing at smaller airfields.
I've visited the Sea Forts, well worth it if you get a chance. You used to be allowed to stay on them overnight... Actually if you know (or are) a friendly skipper, you probably could still get away with it.
Yep, that's the difference between book learning and experiential learning. Or rites of initiation. I don't know about the extreme of making everyone start their own fire, although the experience of starting a fire with a good guide / storyteller to walk someone through it is a powerful experience.

The next startup I am joining, I'm going to try convincing the whoever it is to do this kind of a thing. "Team bonding" is not a very good substitute.
+1.

I've been experimenting aggressively with different techniques for email capture (e.g. [1]) and, looking at my analytics, the exit-intent popup accounts for 47.27% of all emails.

[1]: http://rs.io/behavior-modification-techniques-if-then-rules/
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Indeed, when I'm on GNU/Linux I always set the WM to focus-follows-mouse, click-to-raise. But strictly speaking, that's an X11 thing, not a Mac/BSD/Unix/Linux thing.

I didn't mean any slight against GNU/Linux; I use it every day (and I don't mean on a phone or tablet either). But I also have used Macs for stuff that works better on a Mac, and Windows for stuff that works better on Windows. There isn't a "Best OS" period, because every use case is different. There's only "best for the job at hand".
Yes, security issues often arise as a result of misconfigured cloud instances. The question is... are you following best practices in the cloud?
The biggest problem I had with Mac OS X was it's user space unix tools. Everything GNU is ancient from before GPL3, everything BSD is crazy ancient from FreeBSD 5.. it's pretty awful.

Thus why macports for me was king. HomeBrew tried to hard to not replace your user space, though I haven't looked at it in a long while. I'm on Linux everywhere now.
Unsurprisingly, it's Bruce Kushnick making the allegations referenced in the article. Read the Word document referenced here: http://www.teletruth.org/docs/PENNCOMPLAINTFIN.doc.

Where does the $2 billion come from? It starts on page 4 of the document.

> Customers paid for a network they will never receive. We estimate that the Company received $2.1 billion from this deregulation, including an additional $1.5 billion in extra tax deductions the Company received from excessive write-offs of the still existing networks.

He gets into the real numbers starting on page 23.

The $2.1 billion is Kushnick's usual fabrication: pick a "rate of return" typical for regulated monopolies, and call all profits above that number post-deregulation as "money given to the telephone company."

Page 28+ gets into the tax angle. The basic premise of his argument is that Bell Atlantic took an unjustified accelerated depreciation on its copper phone network. He paints this as a scam: they took the write-off on the basis that they were going to replace it all with fiber, then failed to do so.

However, that wasn't actually the accounting justification for taking the write-offs.

> In such markets, the Company does not believe it can be assured that prices can be maintained at levels that will recover the net carrying amount of existing telephone plant and equipment, which has been depreciated over relatively long regulator-prescribed lives.

In other words, the accelerated depreciation was to compensate for the fact that once regulated prices were gone, the telephone plant would become less valuable. It was not predicated on replacing that plant with fiber.

At best we're talking about Bell Atlantic taking depreciation deductions faster than they should have. It's certainly not equivalent to Pennsylvania writing it a $2 billion check for fiber that was never delivered, or even giving them $2 billion in tax deductions for fiber that was never delivered. Maybe this accelerated depreciation was not proper. I'm not a tax expert. But neither is Bruce Kushnik.
Not very useful. Mobile apps are pretty trivial to clone (clone poorly, usually), and anything remotely successfully is cloned within days of popping up on the radar.

The first-mover advantage is close to zero. The lone exception are things that are intrinsically hard to clone - deep hardware-level integration, native code that stretches the limits of current platform understanding, etc.

Which doesn't apply at all to webview-powered apps. At all.
It has, or rather, it reflected the strong trend.

Aside from a few prominent figures like E.O. Wilson, I believe that gene-level selection is accepted as the norm. And group-level selection has been almost completely out of favor for generations - gene-level selection killed it. That is why this article is interesting, it might show a new shift.
not to mention that many scripts & apps often hardcode the system bash (i.e. /bin/bash) so they won't use the homebrew version
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They could easily be in separate rooms, in separate parts of the building. That seems like a minimum precaution. What if there was a normal fire? What about a normal power outage? What about a normal sprinkler system discharge?

It doesn't take a lunatic to disable 2 server racks in the same room.
Can they? For instance in love2d the mechanism for distributing a blob of assets after the fact is the same as the mechanism for distributing a blob of code after the fact. I'm not sure I can rewrite my app to be incapable of loading code from mounted archives, though I could rewrite it to not mount any archives until it's done loading code.
> In the meantime, if work and other pressures mount, it may be a good idea to go for a jog

This is not new, nor exciting advice. However I do think it's sound. Personally speaking, exercise allows me to work harder and play harder. It acts as sort of a mental refresh and barrier. If my work stress starts to evade my relaxation time, it often overlaps with me skipping out at the gym
Sounds like you've had some negative experiences with your bank. I would beware of "specialized finance firms" that have "sprung up overnight". Typically their lines are very limited and come with huge rates. I don't think there's really much complexity to technology businesses that most competent finance guys can't figure out. They are looking at your P&L and financials for some key ratios, pretty simple. Regardless of whether you're selling lawn mowers or SaaS they want to see strong cashflow. If you're trying to get a loan on MAU growth projections you're probably right.
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