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Except this study shows no difference in performance, but a 9x higher failure rate to establish an ipv6 connection.
NAT v4 addresses are no fun. IPv6 addressing is a big win there. Especially in the mobile space.
Cell phones require power. In a prolonged power outage (or in the case of my daughter, even a five minute one), I can't gaurantee there will even be a working cell phone on the premises. Wi-Fi won't work, and the femtocell won't work, either.

In my experience in a ice storm with long lasting effects, the days when all landlines were adequately powered from a central office are long gone. Your local box's smallish battery will run out no longer than a day or two (others in this discussion say 12 hours), at which time you're better off having a cell phone, which you can arrange to power in a variety of ways. And I'm appalled that after my mother switched to U-verse DSL, her home telecom is now powered through a UPS supplied by AT&T.

If you take no preparations, though, you're better off with a landline. If you're paranoid like me and my family, you have both, I pay ~$12/month for a Consumer Cellular (AT&T MVNO that doesn't suck) candybar that stays off the air most of the time, and is priceless even at 25 cents/minute in emergencies.
I was thinking about exactly this earlier today -- I'm almost suspicious about my level of compensation. I work for a reputable company doing straightforward development, but the stars aligned, so to speak, in the timing of my offer, and I'm probably making twice as much as the average programmer with my experience in my region. I'm good at stuff, but I'm not twice as valuable. I just wonder if this is going to last.
The problem with anecdote collection as a tool to compare to across eras is the pre-social media pre-internet pre-wireless world had 911 problems, but they'll never be documented and are lost in the ether. Did my deceased for 20 years grandma have problems connecting via 911 when calling an ambulance for my deceased for 30 years grandfather? Well, maybe, but who will ever know?

However in a post-social media, post-internet, post-wireless world, every anecdotal failure will be documented as highly unusual and noteworthy. All of them. Therefore there will be a societal belief that 911 never works and only fails. Kind of like all jetliner flights end in crashes, because those are the only flights anyone ever hears about.

There is also a survivorship bias in that the only reports will be anecdotal awful ones. No one other than myself will go to the effort to post that in the last five years of GPS enabled smart phones I have only called 911 precisely one time for a minor property damage vehicle accident and the transfer time couldn't have been over five seconds (although in a stressful situation everything seems to slow down...)

I suspect that when a disaster happens and 100 people try to simultaneously call it in to a 10 person call center, the fact that the 95th person to report a crashed airplane took 5 minutes is utterly irrelevant to actual incident response latency. The trucks and sirens have already been rolling for almost 5 minutes, however frustrated the caller may be.
I can't speak for Dublin where Google is based, but in Cork you have Apple's European headquarters. As a developer/Apple user you wouldn't know it was there. There isn't an Apple store in the country and all products are shipped/repaired from the UK. Since our taxes are higher and our public services worse than the UK (I used to live there) we're probably not getting a huge amount of corporate tax from the US multi-nationals but we are getting jobs which makes the politicians look good. Saying that, there are a lot of Range Rovers around, so those directly involved with the multi-nationals are getting rich though it's not really trickling down.
Yeah but the problem the parent mentions really comes to the fore when you're trying to make a Dec 15th - Jan 15th reservation (1 month) and AirBNB hosts are unwilling to do a reasonable monthly rate because the middle dates are peak times. Eventually most of these hosts will only get a reservation for the peak dates and lose out on the month reservation. (peak dates may cost a total of $800 and the reasonable monthly might be $1600 but host wants $800 + $1600 or something like that - ridiculous) Peak dates are about 10 days from Dec 22nd - Jan 1st or something. They'll use a 3x multiplier on those dates to come up with $2400 as their new monthly rate. Yeah.. right.

If the entire month was peak (like July in a popular city in Europe or something..) that would still be understandable - but you could again apply that logic to a 3 month reservation and a host arguing about how the month in the middle are peak dates.

Of course, not all hosts are like that - yet. But if this is the shape of things to come, long term rentals are going to get harder just like the parent mentions.
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But this is not Photoshop-to-code problem. I thank the gods I have little to do with web and javascript almost every time I read something about that field.

This is Photoshop-to-another-designer-friendly-WYSIWYG-tool problem.
I enjoyed it at the time, but whenever I re-read it, I typically skip over that section.

For what it's worth, there's a huge audience for Stephenson's work, so I'm perfectly fine with him digressing in his books - I always enjoy it on a first read-through, and most of them are enjoyable during a re-read, too. No need to try to take those away to satisfy a slightly larger audience.
I remember seeing an early alpha ~2 years ago that mainly consisted of pixel transformations using sliders. Amazing to see how far Figma has come since then, shrewdly moving from a browser implementation of a subset of Photoshop features to a new collaborative experience that reduces friction on a workflow already used by many in interface design.

Best of luck to Dylan, Evan & Team!
Australia's constitution (S54 and S55) requires all appropriations bills to be only about appropriations ("supply", as we call it). Anything else in a money bill causes the entire bill to become invalid.

That and party discipline means that US-style horse-trading is much harder. There's still pork-barrelling, but it's driven by the party's assessment of which seats need to be shored up, rather than every single electorate getting bacon grease, squeaky or not.
That's true - by relocation I mean perhaps a few more miles out, as opposed to living literally adjacent to the mine next to the toxic dumps. The photos show kids clothes drying next to the open pit etc.
> If we have a labor surplus, how does a basic income solve the problem? The money has to come from somewhere. Moreover, the population will age, and as demography and technological advancement increases the (stipulated) surplus, there will be fewer and fewer sources of revenue to fund the basic income. It seems like magical thinking.

If we have a labor surplus (due to robotics) it is because we have a more efficient and wealthy economy and we can afford to pay people not to work. It's not a question of money, but of the distribution of wealth.

I'd rather see the development of an employer of last resort, though; not a basic income. FDR put people to work so: 1. They could eat. 2. They would be too busy to revolt over the fact they couldn't eat. But we still reap the benefits of his programs today. And while some of those were unconstitutional as hell, the lessons learned could be incorporated into programs that are constitutional.
There have been a couple of tools that have attempted to automate this. A quick google for "automatic PSD to HTML" will turn up many. But almost all of them produce markup that is tightly dependent on the organization of the layers in the source document. Also the elements are usually absolutely positioned and the code in general needs a ton of work to get to a good shape.

There is no reason for this to be so. This can be automated - a developer should be able to convert a design into well-written HTML and properly factored CSS (using SASS mixins) in under an hour. This should make much faster and cheaper iteration on the front-end possible.

We're building a tool to do this for Sketch - https://protoship.io. It is early days, but we've been dog-fooding it to do conversion projects ourselves and I can't imagine going back to manual HTML/CSS coding again.
Given that these particular terrorists didn't appear to use Tor, what's the point? Or are the French doing something proactive, instead of just reacting like the USA's TSA?

More likely, this is just the French "Intelligence Community" pushing for something they've wanted for a while, but haven't had a good excuse.
Right now AirBnB is still a growing business. They are trying to get as much properties on their system so they are playing fast and loose on the accuracy and quality. But once things settle down, they will start tightening the screws on all these listings kind of like how eBay did on the sellers once it finally grew up.
He has posted on at least one other occasion on mozilla's bugzilla, see this 2010 comment on another certificate-related bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=556468#c33
Nonsense.
We pay for water and electricity and gas on a usage basis.
If you pay a fixed price for such utilities, what incentive to you have to use it efficiently?

Paying by usage will encourage responsible usage of a limited resource.
reddit uses Cloudflare now, so this isn't as big of an issue as it used to be. Some relevant links:

- https://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/2ftv08/hell_its_about...
- https://www.reddit.com/r/ipv6/comments/3cfqrw/cloudflare_sup...
Awesome. Rules-based programming is one of those things that isn't useful often, but when it is it can dramatically simplify a problem. It's worth learning the basic structure of how prolog solves problems and internalizing it (ie: the four-port model).
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> we have more labor than we need

It's a common misperception that that there is a fixed quantity of labor demanded, and that if more than that quantity is supplied, the result is unemployment.

People are not commodities, and the economy is not a zero-sum game. More people willing to work equals more people willing to consume, so the economy expands.

This "lump of labor fallacy[1]" was used when women joined the workforce. The worry was that with only so much work to go around, the additional workers would cause mass unemployment. But we didn't get unemployment, we got a larger economy with a higher standard of living.

The fallacy is also used to argue against immigration, with the fear that immigrants will "steal jobs". It doesn't work that way. Instead of stealing jobs, immigration expands the economy and most people are better off.

[1] http://www.economist.com/node/21547263
We don't (and shouldn't regulate it for the same reason we don't regulate the post office simply because some people misuse it. Shooting the messenger is always a bad idea.

Articles like this confuse (either deliberatly or from ignorance) the internet with the endpoints. What they really mean is some people find Facebook addicting[1], or some people find certain games addicting. Regulation is needed in many of these services that use the internet - just like any other service.

[1] also, operant conditioning != addiction
I think this is amazing technology and great work, but as a designer I worry that collaborative design that this facilitates might actually lead to a worse overall product. From my experience, design is better as a dictatorship of the best designer. I'm sure many will disagree here.
Awesome. Also, love @jennmoneydollars.
"A cell phone is always on my person"

Its one of the defining social/cultural separations of our generation. Even inside families, my wife is a member of your camp and her phone is never out of her physical possession, ever, it even charges next to her in bed, whereas I'm in the other camp and I move my phone from charger to charger and only physically carry it when I'm going out for awhile or if I'm expecting a call.

It has the virtue that in any group of people, there will always be at least one with the ankle bracelet ready for use in one second, even if the battery is nearly dead, and at least one with a fully charged phone a couple minutes away on its charger. So as a group you can get both instant response AND a full day of battery life.
I thought, it is quite clear from the graph that tcl, despite of many pessimists, is alive. It is still popular and has positive tendencies. Now, tcl 8.6 is more popular, then tcl 8.5 was (https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=tcl8.5). I understand that popcon is not perfect for such estimations, but I feel the same tendencies.
Is this what they call "native advertising"?
If you like this, I highly recommend reading Pirate Hunters. Its a quick read and tells a very interesting story.

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23164968-pirate-hunters
Why Tech Companies Are So Secretive About Self-Driving Cars
This comment is much, much funnier when I imagine Michael Scott from "The Office" saying it. Thanks for brightening my day. :D
The product looks rather cool and congrats to the team, but I have some concerns with this,
Today, after three years of silence and hard work, I finally get to announce the launch of Sigma... we’ve raised to date ($18MM)

1 - Building an online-based collaborative design tool is nothing that novel, it's all about execution. Why keep it a secret. What do you gain by keeping it stealth?

2 - $18MM to spend only to see if you got it wrong is a rather interesting approach.
ELBs are dual-stack v4/v6 by default.

That's about it though for IPv6 support on AWS. Annoyingly, Route53 supports AAAA records but their nameservers are only reachable via IPv4.
cool, but runs like a dog for me :(
LE lets you get a cert by putting stuff in DNS, but it's generally hard for a program running on your Web server to modify DNS in an automated fashion and this tool focuses on what can be automated on your Web server.
EU Briefing: ISIL/Da'esh and 'non-conventional' weapons of terror [pdf]
> NAT v4 addresses are no fun.

Everybody runs behind a NAT anyways, most systems work just find with multiple layers of NATs. I have been running an internal double NAT for months and the only reason I removed one layer from my onion was that back to mac fails badly with multiple layers of NATs.
I don't think a PDP-10 does all that well on a bandwidth comparison with a modern system, I would expect something like a Cubietruck with SATA and Gigabit Ethernet to win fairly easily.
Completely and utterly irrelevant to the issue at hand.
> "There’s nothing about a global computer network that necessitates addiction-like behaviours."

I've recently reflected that despite the internet having origins which benefited the military and scientific community, the utility it offers the average user today is just a glorified photo album.

You see it as people endlessly scroll their Facebook feed, spending very little time even paying attention to the photos they are viewing. You see it in Snapchat, where users are encouraged to narcissistic-ly document their life every few seconds. It's on Imgur (granted, that's not too surprising), Buzzfeed, and clickbait (25 Unbelievable photos taken by a skydiver). I'm sold that if you want to make a successful app or website (based on number of users, not quality of content), it needs to revolve around users taking photos...
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Even though I'm slightly embarrassed to admit it, I tried a couple of Tamagotchis when I was younger. I say try as in I constantly tried to find one that wasn't so fucking predictable.

It seems that a lot of effort was made into animations and sound and not more complex behaviour of emotions. Made the whole thing feel very sterile and bland. I feel that's pretty much what you get with state machines.

For anyone who want to look into building more dynamic AI, look into behaviour tree's. That shit is awesome once it clicks and you find yourself considering FSM deprecated.

The reason I bring this up is that I noticed the authors drawing over the states and it reminded me of http://gamedevelopment.tutsplus.com/tutorials/finite-state-m...

It doesn't take much until you realise how unmaintainable a state machine becomes with further complex behaviour.

http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/ChrisSimpson/20140717/221339/...
Ooooohhh I'm going to be the cool kid at work on Monday when I unleash this one. Thanks.
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Because tapes are much less fragile than hard disks, and I can stash a bunch of tapes in my safe deposit box and other places. As well as have many copies of my data as I keep monthly full backups for at least a year. And, hmmm, my tapes as I use them are more reliable than my Seagate enterprise disks, and that's with the latter not moving around (i.e. in all my post-mid-2011 tornado hardware, I've had two disk failures and no tape failures).

For the level of data security I want, and the tiny AT&T DSL straw I'm currently forced to use, even with things like Amazon Snowball and ever lower prices on "nearline" cloud storage, if a tape drive lasts long enough, the numbers work better for tape. And compared to the usual enterprise, I don't beat up on tape drives, they're over-engineered for my duty cycle. I also have a desire to be able to make due without monthly charges, which a cloud solution doesn't allow.

And, yeah, TB not GB. The DAT tapes I used previously were in the GB range as I vaguely recall.
If all the cellphones holders are not present and someone in the house needs 911, I'm fine with that, because that person shouldn't be in my house.
I've had Quinnipiac call me on my cell phone. Assuming the polling uses random-digit dialing, it shouldn't matter if it's a landline or cell phone, right?
My execution model is pretty simplistic. It basically does forward chaining (not backtracking which is what a real Prolog interpreter would do). The reason is that we have the core set of true terms up front, and we can just run the rules to derive more and more terms until we hit the solution, and because of the way the rules are written, we (hopefully!) won't get a combinatorial explosion of terms.

This naive execution model is described here:

https://github.com/rwmjones/libguestfs/blob/inspection-exper...

under the section "Program evaluation".
Many pistol safeties that are located near the trigger operate side-to-side. That means that it's easy, depending on which hand is holding, either to go from safe to fire or from fire to safe, but going the other direction requires using the other hand. Most shooters would prefer the safe-to-fire transition to be easy. Not all safeties on modern firearms are set up like this, however.

De-cocking mechanisms may be located on only one side, although most are on both.

I've never seen a slide release that wasn't limited to only one side. That would seem unavoidable from a physics perspective.

However, your question is a bit off-target. Most shooters, particularly early in the previous century, would learn with a rifle first, and their rifle preferences would transfer to their pistol use.
I solved most of the 6 first days in Bash. I used Lua for days 4 and 6 for performance reasons (I have working solutions in Bash too, but they are way too slow).
I didn't learn much about AirB&B, but the insight into living in New York was interesting.
I'm weighing in that the book was obsoletely obese and masturbatory. I really enjoyed the depiction of Turing though
Thanks for the heads up. They say there is both a youth element and an income element and claim the effect is present even compensating for youth. However, there are exactly zero statistics (alpha, p, confidence, nothing) to justify the conclusion.
> Rules-based programming is one of those things that isn't useful often

Not to quibble with the part of your post that you immediately qualify, but is this really true? It seems to me like it's one of the most obvious (though maybe not the most successful?) approaches to expert-knowledge systems.
Oh, interesting. Not sure where I heard that... thank you for the correction!
Right, but you don't have to in order to get 3D depth data from a point cloud.
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A number of the states in the US have a bottle deposit, which sounds like the same idea. Problem is, it is only 5 cents, where it has been for like forty years, so it is only worth collecting and trading in the bottles if your time is effectively value-less. And it's not universal, so we still get the crap thin plastic bottles, they just cost a nickel more in some places than others.

There was a Seinfeld episode involving Kramer collecting a busload of bottles in NY (with $.05 deposit) and driving them to Michigan, where there is a $.10 redemption value.
This was exactly my experience as well (especially the UX part). Moreover, when scrolling the website was freezing (Firefox on Linux Mint).
Not the author, but this in particular resonates: https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/800/1*ELwHLdoPqR8y9-CGzm...
this is better than the NYT article. i don't understand how it can consider regulation though, when the only currency onvolved is the user's attention, and they are their own federal reserves. does the web physically make us addicted, like cigarettes, to the point of unpleasantness when not indulging in the activity, or does it just form patterns pf behaviour that can be easily broken, provided one is _conscious_ of them?
Playing Cards of the South Sea Bubble, 1720 (2011)
http://tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations does have some interesting correlations too. For example,
http://tylervigen.com/view_correlation?id=28580
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ElasticLoadBalancing/latest/Deve...

Unfortunately, only ELBs in EC2 Classic support IPv6: "Load balancers in a VPC support IPv4 addresses only."
While you could certainly do the colors in an OSM template, it would not be the same. All of the labels were placed by hand, which would not be doable in OSM. He also stacked together forest layers as well as an elevation hillshade to make it pop like it does, which are raster layers and not available in the vector OSM.
There's a quote I heard somewhere: "A given speed of computer is available from Cray in 1980 for $10,000,000, from Sun in 1990 for $100,000, from Dell in 2000 for $1000, and from Oxfam in 2010 for $10."
Absolutely brilliant - I've only just had a chance to enjoy the first 15 minutes or so, and will be back for more when I have time, but thanks hugely for this immensely immersive experience. A real labour of love, but well worth it if the way I've just felt is anything to go by. I know that this will be taking up a lot of my time in the near future.
I dont believe that this would be possible even if Apple was backing such a framework, which officially is not.

You rarely see a situation where a newcomer can take from day one on any well established player, on any sector.

I still remember the buzz when Toyota was to join F1. "Experts" where predicting a championship in 3 years time, because of bigger pockets compared to others teams. Well, never happened.
Show HN: TextGlass – Browser, OS, device detection
I have a modern Epson Workforce networked printer. Windows automatically detected it via "Hi, I'm here" broadcast and installed the drivers. So did my MBPr.

Making a scan happen from the printer's tiny little touch screen works fine, both my Windows and Mac show up in the list of computers to send the scan to.

So, yeah, if a $150 printer can do it, so can everyone else.
That's a reasonable bet but so is taking the opposite side of the transaction (at a suitable price). It's not a fallacy to look for reasons why this time might be different. There are some statistics indicating something's going on, like an increase in people taking disability and in long-term unemployment. Also, it's unclear why automation isn't showing up in productivity statistics more.