skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you know if its possible to somehow get the 66 to "split" a connection somehow,

For example lets say i have a 100mbit symmetric connection coming in with the 66 siting on the end of it as the home office router, can i somehow dedicate 10mbit of this to be used only by the wired network and remaining 90 available to the wireless

So if someone is downloading/uploading too much it never can use more than lets say 90% of the external wan connection
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"Romantic" is a euphemism in these things. When even apparently romantic relationships no longer result in marriage, how do you even test them anymore? About the only objective criteria is "did he pay for sex" which lets you rule out prostitution. Everything else is wishy-washy.
What a silly analysis. Japanese are not having babies so the economy is doomed. Maybe less consumption and unmitigated infinite growth is not such a bad thing.
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There are many claims that I think are incorrect, misleading or unrelated.

> According to Glenn, it is very hard to figure out what TeX code is doing, mostly due to its terseness and extreme optimization, as outlined above

The TeX source code is in literate programming, so it's not "terse" in the standard sense.

> there was no IEEE standard for floating point arithmetics;

I always suppose that the integer arithmetic was to ensure 100% portability. Every system handles integer equally (if you avoid undefined behavior), but there are lot of small incompatibilities with the floating point numbers (for example, single, double or extended precision).

> portability meant supporting almost 40 different OSes, each of them with different file system structures, different path syntax, different I/O and allocation APIs, character sets;

The original version of TeX was ASCII only, and using other character sets is always a problem. (For example, in LaTeX you must use a package like inputenc.)
Stuff like this reminds me a lot of sugary simple-carb-laden junk food. The holy grail of popular marketing is to find a way to tap into some kind of simple and probably very evolutionarily ancient "craving" or "desire" pathway in the brain. Seems like they've learned a whole collection of hacks to do this with music, and are now just cranking out manufactured pop music full of those hacks. Combined with repetition in the radio (familiarity, another cognitive bias), they can churn out predictable hits.

The question is whether people will ever get smarter and start being picky. We've seen a bit of this in food. The whole/natural/craft/whatever foods movement contains a fair amount of superstitious nonsense, but at its core it's ultimately about consumers being a lot pickier about what they eat. I think the overall effect is good -- people eating healthier food and deliberately turning down addictive nutritionally devoid junk. Maybe we'll eventually get an equivalent movement in music.
If you want to improve your user experience this should be the LAST thing you would do. I was expecting them to have a more accurate or easy to see cursor, but it's just the scrolling marquee all over again.
Care to explain "Japan's fraudulent age accounting"?
The IRS has never thought of that one.
That intro was responsible for introducing me to Orbital as well: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_(band)
And it would be any different than Bansky works...how?
I live across of it, and I have to say it has the grace you'd expect of a 60's housing project in the eastern bloc. The rendering is quite flattering.
And you should be so lucky as to get even 8 bits of dynamic range out of a LOUDNESS WARS production.
The PC's back story involves a little-known Texas connection (2008)
> We often accuse African leaders of corruption and serving western nations interests instead, but there is a clear explanation for that behavior. They behave so because they are afraid the be killed or victim of a coup. They want a powerful nation to back them in case of aggression or trouble. But, contrary to a friendly nation protection, the western protection is often offered in exchange of these leaders renouncing to serve their own people or nations’ interests.

The same arrangement prevails between the defenders democracy and smaller countries that can't defend themselves against Big Brothers.

Why do you think Uncle Sam chose to invade Iraq when the House of Saud is the real evil in the ME?
You know this'd be a fair bit less complex to implement as a USB hub, right? (for maximum lulz, a powered USB hub with one of these as it's power brick!)
Humor seems lost on this crowd... oh well
Yes. David Conroy who wrote the first couple of Mark Williams C compilers, said of yacc "It makes the hard part harder and the easy part easier".
seems like you should be able to define a qos policy to apply to frames tagged on the wireless vs wired, and apply it on the uplink.. pretty sure they do show up at individual interfaces. problem with torrent or anything is, you dont have very fine control of the incoming frames from the provider. used to run game servers, and the incoming discovery packets would fill up the inbound after a while, even if you throttled the existing clients, there wasn't much you could do.
Those are just a few of a great array of costs and it mentions nothing of the levelized cost difference.

That's not even taking into account that numbers are often treated with a certain amount of... optimism, in these types of early stage projects.
They failed to mention that this project is close to two years behind.

The modular construction project has been such an abject failure that the other two building projects on the site have broken ground with conventional steel frame construction.
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Well, that blog does still support the assertion that Japanese people have way less sex on average. They're by far the lowest on the graphs...
G+ is a train wreck for a number of reasons, this included.

Yeah, he's not a fan of HFS+ at all. Wasn't the plan to move to ZFS prior to the Oracle acquisition of Sun? Hopefully that ends up back on track somehow.
This is why I enjoy listening to records that people like Alan Parsons have engineered (Dark Side of the Moon, Al Stewart's Year of the Cat, as well as his work with The Alan Parsons Project).

Also good are those remasters reissued by Mobile Fidelity Sound Labs. www.mofi.com

I'd probably enjoy modern pop music (even teen hits like Meghan Trainor) if it didn't all sound the same.
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Assuming the same compiler is used.
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It is paramagnetic, depending on oxygenation, so maybe.
What exactly are you referring to?

20-30 days of water, no-food is pretty mundane. You can get to a year if vitamins and minerals are supplemented. E.g. http://journalism.about.com/od/profiles/a/Fasting-For-20-Day...

Can you give a reference that would support your "lethal" statement? Because my reading and experience is contrary.
It's passive. The keyboard doesn't know it's being listened to.
I've been using their APIs in the past, they're definitely the most developer-friendly forecast service that I know of. It's good to see their hard work is paying off!
Perhaps I'm naive, but I don't see why they couldn't have the option of something like -O3 for those that wanted it.
How difficult is it to get clearance to fly a helicopter or airplane over Manhattan as they did? It seems like an unnecessary risk given the population density. For that matter wouldn't it be possible for a terrorist to get approval by creating a ruse of a legitimate (but non essential) reason?
Keep in mind that Knuth invented LR parsing, upon which LALR is based.
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> Japanese are not having babies so the economy is doomed.

Yup. That's exactly how it goes.

Our entire social structure is based on the notion that economies grow and will continue to grow, forever.

The largest component of economic growth is not gains in productivity, which is what most people think. It's simple population growth. Each additional person means an increase in consumption of goods and services, and as a consequence, an increase in production not only for the sake of that person's consumption but also through that individual's labor. That's growth.

Take away population growth and you'll have anemic growth at best and a spiraling depression at worst.
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Japan is often claimed to have "lost" a lot of seniors who have actually died but were never recorded.

The explanation for this has ranged from welfare fraud (relatives continuing to collect on the dead) to simple incompetence.

But either way AFAIK there is strong evidence that quite a large number of dead people slip through the cracks and are never marked as dead, at least for statistical purposes, which inflates life expectancies.
I so want a 2880 image of that for my desktop background.
This is inspired by vipassanā, but one technique is to not fight thoughts as they arise (which can be counterproductive), but rather to acknowledge and understand them for what they are: unreality.

So when worry arises, you might try labeling it in your mind: "Worry, worry, worry." That may sound trivial, but you may also find it calming.

Can you really be defined by a decision you once made?
Because knowing about something is not the same as being happy with it.

He didn't say, 'Oh my, I had no idea they would break things in a patch release'. What he did say was: 'Ugh.' and I agree with him.
What a rich combination of condescension and sophistry! You write as if having confidence on some subjects is the same as thinking you know the truth about them all. And you guess that those with the temerity to express the belief that, e.g., evolution is true (even when applied to H. sapiens!) are arrogant youths who don't yet understand that 300 years ago people believed lots of things that turned out to be wrong. No "real" scientist would talk that way, but don't worry, "you will mature."

Well. My confidence is born of study and reflection, not youthful arrogance. In fact, I am a middle-aged scientist (a real one!). I weight my degree of confidence according to my understanding of the evidence, reserving judgment when the evidence is insufficient to justify a strong conclusion. I'd guess you strive to do the same. Indeed, I'd bet you're confident that evolution is right, and you'd probably cut creationists even less slack than I would—which makes your "knowing the truth is not possible" pablum utterly disingenuous.
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I understand that this is not an attack on DH. I have not analyzed telegram but the statement I quoted seems to indicate it would need to be able to quickly generate many DH params. That doesn't seem to be a a computationally trivial task.
http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/51129/can-you-ge...

It seems like for this attack to be realistic you would need the math underlying DH to be broken somehow. At which point I think there are many applicatons who's security would be compromised that are far more disturbing than the security of telegram.

Again I am asking for clarification because I may be misunderstanding the use of the quoted text and I have not looked at the code myself.

As I read it, this analsis seems akin to someone stating that, a wall provides no security if we lived in an alternative universe where solids could freely pass through one another. That statement maybe true but who cares, that universe wouldn't continue using walls for security measures anyways. Excuse my metaphor there, I hope it clears up what I was asking about.
As a type 1 diabetic, fasting for 20 to 30 days would likely kill me.

Stop making blanket statements.

It's offensive that you are perpetuating the false belief that all diabetics can fix their problems by simply fasting.
It would be great to have some examples.

I was also wondering about how the acquihire scenario typically works out. Is it corporate development, or some other business unit making contact?
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I love the stereotypical NYC snobbery and unapologetic narcissism at the beginning of the article. As if living in one of the boroughs with eight and a half million other people somehow makes you distinguished. The whole attitude runs entirely contrary to the point of the program, it's really baffling.
Yeah, I've seen what happens to taxis when there is no surge pricing. The dispatchers don't even pick up the phone if you call for a pickup, because there's enough business that they don't want to waste a taxi's time driving to pick you up. Not exactly an improvement.
This is great news. forecast.io is often the 2nd thing I check when I wake up, after checking email/texts.

Hopefully with more devs and support, an Android version of the app will be in the works!
There was an interview for Fstoppers a while ago, in which he gives more details about the shooting:

https://fstoppers.com/aerial/gotham-above-exclusive-intervie...
In a small plane or a helicopter?
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So, the most important works end up going where they are seen by the most people? I think that's a reasonable consequence. Much better than hiding them away on some billionaire's private property.
> Yet in a sign that tech companies are coming under increased scrutiny, British lawmakers blamed Facebook in November for failing to tell the country’s authorities about specific online threats made by two men, who later killed a soldier in London in 2013.

That seems misleading. From what I remember they were accusing Facebook not of "refusing to give them the info", but for "not warning them" about those guys' communications. So they essentially wanted Facebook to do the policing for them, because they failed to do the policing themselves.
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this is scary as hell! what about other wireless keyboards, especially the mac? I will switch to a mac keyboard if it's safe.
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Mainstream music, sure, but there will always be bands like The Flaming Lips, or My Bloody Valentine releasing records that are completely counter to this approach.

I would argue that any 'true artist' - aka one that is consumed with the perfection of their art - is not going to be swayed to produce a 'hit' no matter what the studio wants (they simply won't sign with a big label to begin with, I know plenty of musicians that feel this way and are happy on an indie label).
I'm reading Stewart Brand's book "Whole Earth Discipline" right now [1]. Prior to reading the book, I would have had a similar assumption.

Turns out that population collapse is potentially very dangerous to the environment. Why? Because a rapid collapse in population would cause economic distress and wars over resources. During economic crisis, environmental conservation tends to (unfortunately) go out the window. And war is devastating for the environment.

Anyway, Brand says the world population requires something like 2.1 kids per person to avoid a collapse in population, but is falling below that in many countries. The green movement of the 1960's was very effective at lowering population growth, averting a potential 'population bomb' that was so feared at the time.

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole_Earth_Discipline
Isn't there a problem with ZFS' memory footprint to be usable for desktop systems?
yes yes, and I want posters, I'll pay. Have you found anywhere to find them?
I have 2 of these and still pull them out to play with all the time. There us just something so tactile about the feel in your hand, especially while turning over a calculation. I collect "old mechanical technology" but these are one of the prides of my collection. There are only only a couple people in North America that can still service one.
Congrats on the news! I was one of the kickstarter contributors and love the service. Best wishes to your future growth. It's amazing to see a KS campaign blossom.
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It isn't particularly difficult for a small aircraft, provided airline traffic isn't too busy. NYC ATC is usually pretty accommodating. There are helicopters constantly buzzing the city. Note that the terror threat is very small since the payload of these light aircraft is significantly less than driving a truck full of explosives at street level. Think typically less than 1,000 lbs vs 20,000 lbs.
I would love to purchase these in high res and frame them, where can I do that?
You do realize that there is a difference between "a study suggesting something" and actual reality, right? Studies have conflicting findings all the time.

I, for one, believe there can be benefits of fasting, but I don't make the leap of: fasting might be beneficial for diabetes patiences -> thus fasting is a cure for diabetes.

It is this type of thinking which causes people to decide that vaccinations are unnecessary(and even evil) and cancer can be cured by a vegan gluten-free diet.
Additionally, a cold winter night means dense air which means more oxygen. As far as his lungs/brain are concerned, it's not 7,500 feet, it's more like 6,000 feet.
While this is true, the point was that weak magnetic fields have an effect on human cognition.
To add my example: For my first and simple compiler used in the commercial application I used yacc. The start looked simple, then I hated it. It looked to me that I invested more energy in managing to do something "the yacc way" than to actually do something. For my more recent one, much more complex, I avoided yacc using a variant of recursive descent and never came to the point to miss anything, quite the opposite.
"Quite frankly, HFS+ is probably the worst filesystem ever."

Can anyone summarize why he thinks this?
> Corporate Development, aka corp dev, is the group within companies that buys other companies. If you're talking to someone from corp dev, that's why, whether you realize it yet or not.

Can someone piece this together?

> I remember once complaining to a friend at Google about some nasty trick their corp dev people had pulled on a YC startup. "What happened to Don't be Evil?" I asked. "I don't think corp dev got the memo," he replied. [3]

Hey, Paul Graham not afraid to call out Google! Good for him.
The format is not the limitation, but audio engineers (for major studios anyway) tend to crank the volume up on CDs more often than vinyl releases. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war
EDIT: I have been downvoted. This is not really an article, it is an advertisement for AWS. Perhaps people don't like me downplaying their commercial.

The future of the cloud is not AWS. Its not in Amazon's datacenter or some other company's data center. Its not even necessarily in a server.

The servers are going to mainly go away as we transition slowly from server-based networking to content-based networking.

That means that the fundamental protocols are completely unconcerned with what server they are running on or where.

The future is things like Named-Data Networking, Ethereum, distributed apps.

As a stepping stone we might see public clouds that allow you to deploy to ANY city anywhere in the world, enabled by distributed secure data storage and other technologies like Docker and OpenStack.

There is absolutely no reason everyone should run their applications on AWS.

We will also eventually move away from vendor-specific REST APIs to systems built on open semantic interface/data definitions.
That's a fine whitelist of messaging systems to use if there ever was one!
Humans and robots have very different failure modes. The problem with robots is ensuring they gracefully recover from unexpected states, whether induced maliciously or not.

Everybody on HN should understand the difficulty of writing correct and reliable software; now add in the uncertainty of an extremely dynamic physical environment. As someone who's done a lot of computer vision, it is incredible how autonomous vehicles have managed to coalesce a set of extremely brittle techniques into something that somehow seems to work OK most(?) of the time... Even if all the software was statically proven to be correct (is that even true for any vehicle on the road today?), there will still be a fundamentally heuristic layer as input to the control system.

No, what's terrifying is how people are willing to put blind faith into a technology without considering all its implications. Realistic skepticism is entirely warranted, especially during these early phases of autonomous driving.
yes the 'thats why' is referring to the previous sentence, 'is the group within companies that buys other companies'. So he's saying 'hey this is the group that buys other companies, if you're talking to them it's because they [maybe] want to buy you'. Not really clear though.