skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An interesting point.. I had to lookup that cable broadband is an information service and thus not subject to it. CCD was also what helped break up the AT&T monopoly, so it's clear that eliminating that all together isn't a solution either because without it one company still dominated and stopped innovating/competition.

If Obama and many on HN are advocating for net neutrality, which is requiring a shift in the laws, perhaps that also means that CCD is up for change as well.

To me the heart of the matter isn't so much CCD is that ISPs would be treated as their name suggests -- simply a provider of Internet as a utility where packets go through unchanged. That they also own NBC or Hulu starts to complicate issues because their major potential is to multiply those businesses together while strangling alternatives. The opportunity is too great and allowing these mergers in the first place was a terrible idea.

The other issue is how to get them to actually compete in a meaningful way. Where I live, in SF of all places, I surprisingly have very little choice when it comes to the internet. Comcast is basically the only real choice as they blow away DSL speeds, and then that's that. No one else serves me as a consumer. And this is San Francisco! I think this is why municipalities are starting to get into the ISP business, which seems to be the only credible way to start actually giving these guys some kind of threat. That or Google fiber, but it's still pretty nascent. The US is just so big that without a meaningful way for high speeds to get distributed at a local level it's too expensive for anyone to enter. Either we need completely new technologies that allow people to enter at low cost, or we get local gov't somehow involved in facilitating basic infrastructure like water or power.
Microsoft builds a Skype Web client… for at least one version of the Web
I may have misunderstood you. I thought by "whole thing" you were referring to everything that shows up in your timeline, but seems you probably were referring to all of Twitter.
FreeBSD is not shipping any DNS servers, there is a recursive DNS resolver available in the way of unbound.

If you want a DNS server you may of course install one of your choosing from the pkg repository. I would recommend NSD if you are familiar with BIND.
Can you say Tesla Death Ray technology?

Too bad he wasn't given the credit he deserved.
The LASER as a technology was considered useless when scientists were first working on it back in the old days.
This general spine-leaf, and subsequent super-spine construction, are talked about frequently in recent networking conference talks. Using ECMP on top of OSPF/BGP are very well established ways to build super-switches to scale to super large fabrics.

I'd be really interested in the specifics that they don't describe very well regarding cable layouts and automated configuration of pods.

Also, for anybody stuck in the old paradigm of super-expensive inflexible switches from the traditional network vendors, be sure to check out the commodity stuff that was mentioned previously in this HN thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8400953
> You did it entirely wrong last time - you split it up geographically, but still had the ISPs owning the last mile infrastructure.

The last time AT&T was split up, there weren't any "ISPs".

And at that time AT&T was split into (for the telephone service parts):

1. The reduced AT&T -- long-distance and some other things

2. The "baby bells" -- local service in different geographical regions.

> Then you write a charter which requires the company which owns the cables to sell access to any ISP at the same terms and cost.

Common carrier rules were applied to AT&T's telephone lines, and DSL was also common carrier, covered under Title II until it was reclassified in 2005 (so much of the Title II hand-wringing over Open Internet rules misses the point that consumer internet in the US grew up when the lines were covered by Title II, and it manifestly did not kill innovation.)
Pretty amazed that 18F exists, and impressed -- optimistic that projects like this are going to bring government IT forward. There are some things government does relatively well; IT has never really been one of them. Maybe that can change.
Looks like COSAC data is coming in! https://twitter.com/esaoperations/status/533387528376942592

This is an instrument that does analysis on whatever samples the drill picks up. We know the drill successfully deployed earlier, so hopefully that means it picked up something and we now have the data from that!

Looks like that's pretty much it for the battery though, unless last minute manoeuvrings result in the potential for a recharge in the future:

https://twitter.com/Philae2014/status/533403430489178112

Edit: CONSERT data now coming in! CONSERT is an instrument to detect a radar pulse sent out by Rosetta that travels through the centre of the comet to tell us something about its internal structure. Also another ROLIS image (panorama) has been taken, though it's not clear to me if it's been transmitted yet. Very low battery now.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CONSERT

Edit: I missed this before, but it looks like Ptolemy data has been received too! This is another instrument that's supplied with samples from the drill.

http://sci.esa.int/rosetta/31445-instruments/?fbodylongid=89...
Surprised they say that synthetic diamonds are only 30-40% cheaper than natural diamonds. I was looking forward to being able to buy a diamond the size of my fist for £100. Wonder whether the lack of movement on cost is just the early players producing low supply and matching the existing natural diamond market, or whether that is a serious cost-based price.
OpenFEC
No, it's crazier than that.

One of the broken off companies reacquired them.

What is currently AT&T is really SBC. SBC acquired AT&T and adopted the AT&T name.
That's dirty. Thanks for linking it.
I'm only saying one is easier to solve (on theory) than the other.
> Also, if the batteries die, can't they just wait a few days until the ~1.5hrs/day of sunlight charges them enough to do something useful again?

The explanation I saw was that you need a set amount of energy to warm up the batteries enough to be able to charge them effectively, and 1.5 hours of weak sunlight won't be enough to hold whatever you can charge up until the next day. You'd never accumulate. (Batteries hold less at lower temperatures.)

Oh, explained better with a quote a little downthread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8609965
If only these companies would just say "plug a jack into port S, 115200 bps, 8 bit, no stop, no parity, enjoy. let us know if you do something cool"
I thought you were thinking of the Elsevier family, who started printing in 1583 (the modern Elsevier company recycled the name; see http://www.elsevier.com/about/history)
Exactly this happened to the monopoly ISP/telco up here in the Yukon, Canada.

When the CRTC announced they were slashing the prices of the telco's proposed "bulk data pipe" products by more than 70%, the telco responded by saying they were no longer going to keep expanding their fiber network to more communities, because "it wouldn't be profitable to do so given this harsh pricing scheme".

There was huge outcry, and everyone pointed out this is exactly the reason a monopoly is bad, because they can hold everyone hostage, etc. etc.

The final result? The CRTC caved, and let the ISP/Telco charge whatever they wanted for the "bulk data pipe" products.
Moaning about a scientist's sexist shirt is probably a case of misplaced priorites, but it's not like anyone is denying the existence of the landing or the spaceship, whereas here you have public figures who cheerfully deny the reality of biological evolution or climate change in order to chase votes.

It's not like anyone is going to gut the European Space Agency budget over Dr. Wossname's shirt, though.
If you're using C++, it's by definition malloc-free ;)
More like the car won’t start because the AC is off.
Yes, I am much more comfortable with software rather than hardware, so the Pi seemed like a good idea at the time. Plus I've re-purposed it a handful of times already.
Do you have any code examples?
There's a very real distinction between a real diamond and a fake diamond - demand for the product. Consumers looking for jewelry have virtually no interest in a fake diamond.
Well, you can construct the following protocol for fully untraceable communication between n nodes, numbered i \in 1...n: Divide time into intervals of size t, where t is larger than the time it takes to propagate a message of constant size s from any node to all of the remaining n-1 (e.g. by flooding). For interval j, node i = j % n always transmits a message m of size s to all other nodes with the following characteristic: m is either the output of a PRG or a message encrypted with the key for a host k to which i wishes to communicate a message, the choice of which is entirely up to i. Under this scheme - assuming previously set up authentication between every pair of nodes and an encryption scheme in which encrypted messages are indistinguishable from random data without the decryption key - any node can send a message to any other node in such a way that no one else inside or outside this network can know the contents of the message or even that the communication took place. For any node not receiving communication, the protocol would be indistinguishable of one in which all transmissions are random noise.

Of course, the issue is that latency in this scheme is O(n) and per-node bandwidth is O(1/n), with large constants. Also, it's a reasonable suspicion in practice that no one would set up this scheme and then actually have zero communication going on over it, so it still reveals that "at least one of the n nodes is talking to at least another of the n nodes".
You can find it on archive.org.

http://web.archive.org/web/20140719095843/http://www.altdev....
"Asteroids and comets rotate, but not exactly like the Earth. Because Earth is a sphere, its mass is distributed relatively evenly, so it rotates smoothly. Asteroids and comets aren’t uniformly shaped, so their rotation can be more of a tumble. NASA equates their rotation to the spin you see on a badly thrown football." (1)

Now imagine that you target landing close to the wobbling equator but eventually end somewhere closer to the wobbling south pole, and maybe even in the shadow of something bigger (that helped you stay on the comet). Less sunshine and freezing gets much more certain.

67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko has the rotation period of cca 12 hr. (2)

1) http://science.opposingviews.com/asteroids-comets-rotate-201...

2) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/67P/Churyumov%E2%80%93Gerasimen...
AI is both singular and plural. The important difference is whether there are zero or non-zero, irrespective of their relative competitions.

Human intelligence took millions of years to evolve. Sorry, but AI(s?) will develop faster.
Go would fit that definition quite nicely as well. It may be worth adding to your list of things to check out.
Awesome, thanks! I will do so :)
(I'm currently in the process of ripping Bootstrap out of an app for performance reasons and styling flexibility -- flexbox)
Reminds me of the research into French fruit flies that Palin tried to make the same political point with - http://news.sciencemag.org/policy/2008/10/french-fruit-fly-f...

I wonder if they just find it icky and are then rationalizing the politics afterwards.
> The only real distinction between a factory-made and a mined diamond is that the factory-made diamond has a lower cost to the environment and is less likely to be associated with human suffering.

That's not true. There are other differences, including impurities, amounts of isotopes, optical properties (due to the impurities).

You're right about the human suffering part.
His shirt is the kind of thing that keeps women away from science?

This all started with s.o. being offended by it while watching the original interview, but how can you come to such a conclusion based on that?
Did the female student's lecture attendance/signup rate plummet since that interview?
Is there any kind of imperial evidence that this person's shirt is making female students turn away from science?

I honestly don't understand how it's even possible to get to that conclusion. If there's s.o. interested in a specific field and (s)he witnesses a major scientific breakthrough, then the last thing on your mind would be '...but how could the person be wearing that?'.

If you're offended by it, then ask why this happened in the first place, because maybe there's an actual good explanation behind it.

For me it's in the same category as people saying they don't want anything to do with computers because Turing was gay - how does one thing have anything to do with the other?
When I was in Malaysia earlier this year, one of the more popular conspiracy theories about the downing of MH-370 was that it was an accident brought about by testing of these laser weapons by the US Navy. I wonder how likely it is that a missed target would lead to a mistake on that scale, inadvertently, ten miles away?
AT&T = KiloQuads & Byte Reversals.
Same old song.
Some day they might realize that faster service
leads to empty slots in the mux stream that they can sell.

Call in Google, they get it.

jr
Who says that laser is meant to replace projectile weapons? It's an additional weapons system that may replace or augment one of many others already installed. Kinetic energy weapons have some clear military advantages over rayguns, so total switch won't happen soon, if ever.
It's not cheap (cheap meaning $100 for a fist sized rock) to make a synthetic diamond. Factor in the lack of demand for large fake diamonds as well. Almost all fake diamonds are used in manufacturing - drills, saws, etc.
Oracle settles for $356.7m in long-running SAP piracy dispute
Rosetta is about 50km from the comet. To Rosetta's camera, Philae is about 1 pixel.
This is absolutely beautiful. I didn't know you could get an address of a label in C or to do a goto to an address from variable instead of a literal label. Is this new in C, or was it always there?
They mentioned at the google hangout yesterday that it wasn't out of the question they could wake it later again(weeks/months) when the comet is closer to the sun and receives more light and has charged up the lander.
Customers may not know which ISPs are throttling Netflix. Netflix is stuck in a bind because customers have few if any ISPs to choose from.

In that situation, if Netflix passes on ISP fees for users of that ISP, then the ISPs video offerings get more competitive. ISPs then have incentive to increase the fees even more. The outcome is that customers lose a competitor to good video services in Netflix.

On the other hand, if Netflix hides the ISP fees from their customers and averages it out to all their prices, then that essentially adds onto the costs in general and everybody's Netflix costs go up.

Currently, customers have no direct choice that they can act on which correlates to cost and thus have no feedback mechanism to correct the market to actually make it competitive.
This is by far the most sound proposed solution I've seen yet. Unfortunately the current political climate encourage M&A activity for various economic reasons and would consider such a break-up inappropriate (they didn't even float those proposals after the financial collapse which would have been wholly appropriate).
Typical Buffet deal.

1) >Interbrand estimated that the brand value of Duracell stood at $4.9 billion

2) >Duracell maintains over 25% of the global battery market share.

Duracell has both brand and volume advantage over competitors in battery business. Warren Buffett coined the term economic moat to describe the advantages companies like Duracell have.

>INVESTOPEDIA EXPLAINS 'Economic Moat'

>The wider the moat, the larger and more sustainable the competitive advantage. By having a well-known brand name, pricing power and a large portion of market demand, a company with a wide moat possesses characteristics that act as barriers against other companies wanting to enter into the industry.
He's wrong about the human suffering part - diamonds come from every continent, not just Africa. The mines in Canada and Australia aren't experiencing any human rights violations. Even the African mines are largely controlled by the major miners in the industry. The diamond industry has changed a lot in the past 10-15 years. Blood diamonds is an old and outdated stereotype.
I'm aware. I'm just curious what happened to it and if it's coming back.
That test.c file looks familiar!
No, but it's horribly unfair to ruin what is probably going to be the most important day in this guy's life.

The shirt was made by a woman who's friends with the guy anyway. He's just quirky, not sexist. We shouldn't label him as such.
"Fabric" is not a product name, so there can't be any naming clash.

The HN title does not match the article title, clearly people aren't bothering to read the article.
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> New feature: Go To Definition

Oh those poor, poor souls who have had to work in C#'s shadow.
You're referring to this OpEd piece he wrote: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/26/opinion/buffett-a-minimum-...

To quote:

"Would your reply possibly be this? “Well, it all depends on what my tax rate will be on the gain you’re saying we’re going to make. If the taxes are too high, I would rather leave the money in my savings account, earning a quarter of 1 percent.” Only in Grover Norquist’s imagination does such a response exist."

He was saying that raising top marginal tax rates would not result in rational investors withholding their capital. This is entirely consistent with the Duracell acquisition, which was tax efficient for both sides involved.

Your interpretation is completely wrong. The correct comparison would be if Buffett did not do the Duracell acquisition because he didn't want to pay capital gains on the increased value of his BRK-A holdings (which would be idiotic, and further reinforces the point he made)
I think more recent space missions use special radiation hardened Power PC processors.
2003 (I was 17); did some back-end work for http://www.darkthrone.com/
It's a GCC extension. https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Labels-as-Values.html
But the fact that very few people are skilled at it makes it hard to use in practice.
I eventually grew frustrated with Fortran II syntax and language, to the point that it drove me to a career in compilers.
We never accepted OpenSSL patches into our tree without looking at them very carefully. At least 50% of the time we would end up committing a different patch because OpenSSL had either introduced new bugs or had failed to fix the reported vulnerability.
The Y combinator causes problems with typing (it has an infinite recursive type), so I'm curious what solution they came up with.

In any case, if calling a lambda function from within itself is going to take more than a single line of straightforward code, then I'm afraid the solution still doesn't cut it for practical purposes.
I don't think so. If we are speaking of an AI that is self-aware, then code will have as much to do with its behavior as our own DNA.

I also think that even if multiple AIs happen, they'll converge into a single one. If we would be able to connect to other people's feelings and thoughts, would we would still be able to think and act as individuals? I don't think so.

This is what I meant above - an AI will not grow in a human body to have a human-like childhood, will not receive input from the same sensors we have and will not have the same limitations that we do. For example, contrary to us, it will have an enormous memory capacity, which is interesting if you think about it, because for the human brain forgetfulness can be seen as a feature.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosmos_954

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNAP-10A

I think there's been others as well
This is why Ubuntu and other Linux distributions are still better. They actually get bugs fixed.

I sometimes have to patch the sources with change sets from HEAD or STABLE to get bug fixes.
> I just can't stomach the syntax. I may be tainted by my years of C, though.

I can't relate to this.

That's exactly my years of C that makes Go quite attractive to me. The way I see Go is that it allows me to code as close to metal as C, but without the pains of C -- headers, make file/dependencies, memory management, and more.
I spent many years myself searching for a magic pill or something to cure me of my "depression", which of course I didn't find, and all that did was reinforce my belief in my own inability to deal with life.
An example of a visual explanation I would like to see:

Suppose the length of your thumb doubles in each step then in 33 steps it would be equal to the distance from earth to the moon.

I would like to see such an animation, being able to touch the moon with my finger in 33 steps is to grow really fast.
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I haven't figured out why the government doesn't focus on spurring a large increase in competition, rather than trying to shoehorn existing monoliths into a regulatory package that nobody can seem to agree upon. Net neutrality or not, I'd like to see a lot more competition in the market, such that your average consumer has, say, three high quality fixed broadband options.

We're only going to get to universal 1gbps consumer broadband speeds in the next decade with a lot more competition.

Nothing about net neutrality will encourage the sloth telecom companies to boost speeds faster.

Google demonstrated very eloquently that with a slight prod, companies including Comcast will dramatically boost internet speed.
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Ruby on Rails: An experience report
After University, I wrote code for Convergent Technologies in San Jose. It was as part of the OS team, a thing called CTOS. All in PL/M and x86 assembler.
That language was so close to the processor chip, it had pointers (based variables) exactly as complex as the asm addressing modes and no more. It had exactly one move intrinsic that used REPNZ MOVS. It had types that corresponded to the bus width only.

I kind of regret all the brain cells I still have dedicated to that arcane stuff.
Whenever I'm finding it appropriate to do so.

I'm a computer science researcher, I have a right to that opinion and I sincerely expect this to be the most likely outcome.

I do not see anything wrong in stating it bluntly and clearly, as often as I like. I don't see anything wrong in copy-pasting my own quote.
Netflix' value proposition is constantly dropping. Now, that the API is gone, I'm not sure how would I go around their stupid limitation of 500 titles and the inability to slice and dice my queue by genre and so on. Still don't understand why I see other profiles' viewing activity as mine, too. Anyway, I really wish they hire UX experts and finally get rid of the "bug" that starts showing a movie when I want to see its deets.
Properly definable color ranges. Let's say I want to color values below 0 in blue shades, values above 0 as red shades. Pretty much none of the libraries allow anything like that (unless you jump through hoops and write ugly hacks).
The car won't start because you are wearing a personal EMP that is disabling the electronics. While older cars work fine, and some newer ones can fall back to just using analog mechanics, more and more require the electronics to work.
> Unless it actually has a count of machines with information identical to mine?

How else would it work (not assuming even distribution)? Im sure its a hash counter.
I basically agree with you, but the price is a bit misleading if you don't include the cost of the scanner. I love shooting medium format, but on my $250 Epson the results are barely better (in terms of resolution) than I get from my iPhone 4S. Getting all the detail out of a negative usually works out pretty expensive. (Wet printing is cheap way to do it but it's really time consuming.)