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Enabling a permanent revolution in internet architecture(dl.acm.org)
57 points by akshayn 7y ago|28 comments
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by akshayn 8y ago
> We also recommend to save the command used to generate a figure in the LaTeX file An approach I have adopted recently is Knitr[1], so this layer of indirection goes away. With knitr, my data goes directly into the paper repository, and
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by akshayn 8y ago
While HP's "The Machine" specifically appears to never have gone beyond the marketing phase, I think your excitement about the underlying technologies - silicon photonics combined with nonvolative memory combined with resourc
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by akshayn 8y ago
Often a research university will interview many candidates, give offers to/recruit many candidates, and yet find that for each individual it recruited, there was a competing university which worked better for that candidate. Usually (f
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by akshayn 8y ago
The Jacquard loom is what started [1] the punched card era. Check out this episode [2] of the podcast 99 Percent Invisible for an accessible explanation. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacquard_loom [2] https:&#x2F
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by akshayn 8y ago
As I commented here [1], one of my biggest issues with Zulip is that the mobile apps don't have a "jump to most recent" feature, and whenever I open the app I have to manually scroll past hours (or days or weeks, since I disl
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by akshayn 8y ago
My research group (at MIT) also uses Zulip for messaging. While I agree with everything jremmons said (hi john), it's important to note that their mobile apps are so bad that they're basically unusable - there's a particularl
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by akshayn 9y ago
I think this is unlikely. Part of the advantage of having built your own datapath is being able to change it on a whim; I don't see Google giving this up by agreeing to stick to some fixed specification.
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by akshayn 9y ago
You should compare this to the cost of buying an FPGA. It can be cost-effective.
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by akshayn 9y ago
"If, instead, we had identified sessions using only layer 4 data, then mobile IP would have worked perfectly." Mobile IP can still work with the current infrastructure -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_I
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by akshayn 9y ago
You may be interested in the following: Practical BFT: http://pmg.csail.mit.edu/papers/osdi99.pdf The Night Watch: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1311_05-08_mickens.pdf Generally the ide
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by akshayn 9y ago
If you want to see a Buran without hiking through the desert for 3 days, you can go to Technik Museum Speyer [1] - they also have other great air&space related exhibits (notably including an Antonov An-22 and a retired Boeing 747-200)
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by akshayn 10y ago
This is no longer true in most of the USA (and many other countries) [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_long_tailpipe
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by akshayn 10y ago
Highways (tolls) tend to be far less profitable than rail systems (ticket sales). If the US didn't like government subsidies, we wouldn't have built all these highways.
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by akshayn 10y ago
Right, it's unclear however the context of the YouTube results. If they evaluated on links bottlenecked at the edge at 128Kbps, BBR isn't really competing with Cubic anywhere. This isn't to say that BBR is "bad" - j
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by akshayn 10y ago
This is a delay-based scheme; it is unlikely to work well if competing with a drop-based aggressive scheme like TCP Cubic. As a result, while BBR is fantastic for deployment e.g. in Google's private WAN, it's unclear how well it w
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by akshayn 10y ago
They'd need to continue paying for their font license. "The biggest factor is that we have recurring costs: the sync server and the licensing fees for Ideal Sans, Vesper’s typeface." They'd need to continue paying for th
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NASA is hoping to hand ISS over to a commercial entity in the next decade(theverge.com)
1 points by akshayn 10y ago|0 comments
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by akshayn 10y ago
Unlikely - the founding editor of The Intercept is Glenn Greenwald, one of the journalists who published the original Snowden stories.
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by akshayn 10y ago
Fair enough. Ultimately, HSR has far higher bandwidth than self-driving cars - density could be achieved either by efficient land use or by a feeder network (local transit or self-driving cars). Presenting self-driving cars and HSR as mutua
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by akshayn 10y ago
This would encourage sprawl-y and inefficient land use.
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by akshayn 10y ago
As vslira alluded: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Restaurant_at_the_End_of_t...
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EgyptAir 804 Disappears Over Mediterranean(nytimes.com)
35 points by akshayn 10y ago|26 comments
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by akshayn 10y ago
Great map! Not sure if you are aware of http://www.openrailwaymap.org - although your project includes interesting snippets ("proposed for reopening", etc)
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by akshayn 11y ago
I imagine the data sources are proprietary; i.e. I as a layperson could not call some API to find the exact location of every ship in the world. So I imagine Bloomberg must negotiate for access to this data, and that's what I'm re