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Well then you could tell that Google is a failing company because many of their projects aren't successful and they are actually (immensely) profitable only on with few of them. What I meant is if you look specifically to their blog networks acquisitions they are pretty successful.
I've posted this quote before, but it seems especially relevant:

"Education is what is left after all that has been learnt is forgotten." -- James Bryant Conant
"if people had to pay for it" is the key. Once it is more expensive to support IPv4 than to adopt IPv6 for any given entity, that entity will adopt IPv6. That point is coming soon, it just happens to coincide with us running out of IPv4 addresses the way they are being allocated today.
Here's a direct link to the research paper [PDF]:

http://appanalysis.org/tdroid10.pdf
It will be fun to crawl Hackernews and find out "average score" for each language :)
Total number of accidents is only a part of the story. I would fully expect minor rear-ending types of accidents to increase, possibly substantially. On the flip side I would expect the deadly T-boning variety to decrease. The unproven assumption being that minor accidents increase, serious accidents decline.
The title of this article is misleading. There is nothing here that says how to encode video for the mobile devices. It only contains information about the video formats that the mobile devices can accept.
So, I agree with you about all of this, but it's simply orthogonal to the discussion. We are not charting a course in a vacuum, based on pure competing principles.

People have been arguing for the urgency of migrating to IPv6 for over a decade now. Not in the abstract. A decade ago was 2000, and in 2000, people were also seriously concerned about IP address depletion, and certain that we needed to imminently migrate to IPv6.

So the first thing you want to address in this argument is whether or not the Internet --- or, more precisely, the value propositions and service model of the current Internet --- is going to collapse if we don't migrate. And, no, it turns out, it's not going to collapse. It will surely be more expensive for a Fortune 100 company to hold on to a vanity /8, but most of us aren't going to notice any change in a market-driven allocation world.

To me, it follows from this that if we're going to have a usable IPv4 Internet for the foreseeable future, we have a choice:

* We can pursue IPv6 with all vigor and alacrity, forklifting out every piece of software that treats an IPv4 address as a number instead of an opaque bundle of an arbitrary number of bits, or

* We can reconsider whether a constituency in a persistent entry in the global BGP4 routing table is what it means to be a "first class citizen" of the Internet, and instead build a new city on top of the ruins of the old one, relegating IPv4 addresses (over time) to the same trash heap as MAC addresses. This isn't a pie-in-the-sky idea; CDNs and cloud providers are an immediate half-step in that direction, and overlay networks are a reasonable architectural goal for the next 5 years.

In our overlay future, we get more than just expandable addressing; we get multicast service models (which IPv6 isn't going to provide), we get true multihoming (which IPv6 isn't going to provide), we get first-class peer-to-peer routing (which IPv6 isn't going to provide), and we get ISP portability without any intervention or agreement by a nationwide telco or MSP.
Thank you for the clarification. The situation is more complex for most high-tech employees in the U.S. in any case given short-term and long-term illness benefits.
However, depending on your business, you might want to be careful. At a minimum, clamp the MTU on the server to be less than 1500. There is still a fraction of clients that will be broken by this process.

I run a small service which you can try on your website "right now" and see what happens, without affecting your users too much: http://testv6.stdio.be/
I'm surprised China managed to pull that off. Given all the intel budgets the US has, you'd think someone would have noticed before 97% were reached...
I experienced this on my recent college exam on US history. The students have to write an 2-3 page essay and risk losing 40 points out of 100 points on the exams.

I had a little outline, not as complete as other students, but when I started writing, details just flow out of me. By the end of the exam(1 hour and 15 minutes), I written 4 pages.

Then again, I got a 98 on my world history exam weeks earlier and I barely study. I taken notes over the professor's lecture though. I think I have a knack for history.
If you do decide to go the self-filed route, make sure to read up on the categories of names in terms of whether your mark is protectable. (generic, descriptive =bad; arbitrary, fanciful =good)

There's' plenty of good information here:

http://www.bitlaw.com/trademark/degrees.html
From the report:

"We found that the program cannot conclusively demonstrate that it has reduced traffic collisions, thereby increasing public safety."

It goes on to recommend that data collection be improved to answer the question of what kinds of collisions and violations are being observed, in greater detail.
Wow, who cares? So he spammed and got some notice of deletion? Whoa! I mean, the only entertaining thing about this article is the "Share on Facebook" badge the top. Mr. Big Atlantic Intellectual doesn't see the fallacy of comparing a private companie's decision about how to handle its own definition of abuse with how the laws of the U.S. work with respect to criminal matters? And Nazis? Really?
but you could never have afforded to build a bank-switched double-buffered memory system

You mean like, say, on an Apple ][.
Now write it out a hundred times!
Zombie apocalypse, for obvious reasons. The number of people considered a part of humanity is greatly reduced, making unification easier, and the goal is clear and simple - survival.

So keep up the work on that zombie-creating parasite!
This sounds completely reasonable to me. If IPv6 is truly the right solution, then the market will gradually dial up the pain for native IPv4 and we'll switch naturally.
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The phone galley lists Androids that offer the "Google Experience" meaning Google search and apps like Maps and Gmail:
http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2010/09/introducing-google-...
Yes, let's. You first!
"red-light violators busted by the cameras have to pay a $446 citation"

Holy Sh!7 that is big fine for sneaking through a red light.

Here in Boston you have to be careful not to get rear ended when you are the first in line to stop at a red light. And don't even think of stopping on yellow -- that earned me a horn blast and finger as they zoomed around me when I first moved here.

It is not just my imagination -- as part of finishing the big dig a temporary light was mis-timed to give a green left turn arrow to one direction while at the same time the opposite direction had green ball. This went un-noticed for 3 months, everyone just assumed the other people were going through on red.
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Useful info.

Anyone care to provide the corresponding ffmpeg CLI examples?
You must be a graphic designer :-) I thought, "What does attractive have to do with professional?" and then realized you meant designed by professionals, not designed for professionals. Professionals' tools tend to look beautiful to them and ugly to everyone else. Maybe this is a step toward changing that, at least for Linux. (Except I'll still have emacs taking up at least half my screen space, with its functional but butt-ugly syntax colorization....)
well - it's also possible to scramble calls on the PSTN network, but criminals often don't avail themselves of this ability. Which is presumably also the case on the internet. Hence a 'basic' level of IP wiretapping would still be useful to crime investigators.
They didn't bow to the sceptics. They bowed to the scientific method. If you don't state how much uncertainty there is in your claims, it's as good as lying.
My first piece of advice may sound weird and a lot of people that haven't been in the situation may not get it, but either choose to try for a relationship with this woman or commit to being her friend. Trying to have it both ways may well ruin your chances at either.

Try to hang out with her outside the biking club. Since you guys share similar interests, this should not be difficult.

"Hey, there is a new band playing at <local venue we both like>, want to hit it up?" or "So there is a charity walk this weekend for <what we both support>, we should go." It is important to go somewhere non-threatening where you both have similar intentions.

Once you're there, it is easy. Ask her a lot of questions about her self (Tip: "What made you decide that?" is a decent fall back question when you have no response).

Try to make her laugh and you should smile often. Use this time to get to know her better.
That sort of thinking is what effectively killed Digg.
I have to give Wensing credit for not giving up with all circumstances it build up over time. That is one of the most important elements as a start-up founder to succeed; never ever give up.
He keeps adjusting and pivoting a little slow for my taste, but by learning and improving with each step he will lead the company to success.
His blog, which is not a typical covered media story does reflect the more common truth of what it means to take a spark of an idea to a successful company. It is a long long hard road.
Help me understand how RIB explosion is a major cost factor in IPv4, where there is a fundamental engineering incentive to dynamically allocate, but isn't in IPv6, which has as part of its value proposition the notion of everyone keeping a persistant block of addresses?
The thing is I don't see the business case for paying extra money for IE6 compatibility, at least not any serious amount. After all, Windows Update is free.
I am apt to agree. I think Arrington is TechCrunch; the dependency is akin to Apple and Jobs. Soul matters.
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Watching poster frame is not a goal, it's only one of the ways to recognize whether video is worth watching.

There may be better ways for users with impaired vision to decide whether they want to watch a video.

For sighted users poster is useful, because visual recognition is faster than reading of descriptions.

However, when user has to read some description, then reading of description of one of the frames won't necessarily be faster or more informative than reading title or description of the video itself.
Not sure on your level of technical savvy, but it would be trivial to make a website, put it behind a password, and have a simple form for their name and number.
An analogy would be traveling in the brain jungle, where your conscious mind might not be able to recall the specific routes, your foot nevertheless leave marks in the jungle that make later traveling on the same paths easier or possible.
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Realize that even in our bright and shiny IPv6 future, no top-tier provider is going to let you peer with them to publish your addresses. So long as routing is controlled by the majors, addresses are just totems.
"Romani ite domum" becomes "of the Roman go home".

Noun cases aren't quite perfect, but this is still a fantastic tool.
I was pointing out that the comparison between Scala and Clojure is between a static language and a dynamic one, the static one will almost always perform better.
My wife says I shouldn't give advise like this but I will anyways (she doesn't read hackernews).

I would keep it simple and ask her to go somewhere non-datish, like starbucks and get her an email. If you want to give a reason it could even to be to continue a topic of conversation you have started..

You should be thinking about making her your friend and working up to dating. This is an easier transition. Everyone needs friends and friends that are girls have many more friends that are girls; so it increases the possibility of other relationships if there is no mutual connection.
Silly.... If you can't remember what you had for lunch last Monday, why eat?
For some issues they tend to work well. For others they don't. Rothbard was a fantastic intellectual, but he suffered the same problem that many specialists do - he carried a hammer, and thought every problem was a nail. I don't see any plausible mechanism by which spontaneous order will form to address environmental issues. Additionally, it has not tended to occur historically.

(Note: I don't even intend that as a harsh criticism. Rothbard's intellectual contributions are fantastic, and his hammer worked quite well for many things. Just not everything.)
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The thing that I have always disliked about red light cameras is that it removes what I feel is the deterrent effect that a police officer has when others see a car pulled over. People slow down when they see a police car with its lights on (well, maybe not in LA, but in a lot of places, people do), and if they see it often enough in the same locations, their likelihood to speed or go through a red light is going to go down. With a red light camera, you have none of that.
For non-fiction: Remembering key concepts is a lot easier if you try to apply what you've learned to other articles, books or even the news you read.

Try to actively remember what you recently read and how it fits with what you're reading now. Which point does the author make? Does it concur with what you've read before?

Active recall and the application of recently acquired knowledge to novel ideas garantuees remembering key concepts for far longer than otherwise. Also, thinking about key concepts in connection with various topics makes your brain rewire the information and you'll remember it more easily ever after.
Ah, I love it whenever the tech media tries to weigh in on the latest music devices. It's so deliciously bizarre and surreal. Always good for a laugh.
Not surprising at all. They boil down to:

Less stress.

Get more tired.

Don't take chemistry-altering substances.

Relax.
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It is probably not a defect of memory but a difference in the way minds work. What you have done is committed the typical mind fallacy.

One example is imagination. Some people can have really vivid imagination, being able to count the strides on a tiger. Others have no ability to do imagery at all. Most are probably in-between.

In my case, I can't really impose my imagination over reality as if I am viewing a movie. Let just say they like viewing at reality and imagination every other frame.
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> How exactly would you be able to prove that your daughter caught a disease from any particular person?

Set the standard of evidence to whatever the current technology can provide. Right now I'm fine with unvaccinated people having responsibility for all outbreaks in their area.

> I think that there ought to be a law against people who think "there ought to be a law against X"

I think there ought to be a law against people who don't know the difference between civil and criminal law.
I'd venture the offender is not really in his line of work for the right reasons if he does that. Just shows what's happened to science since it's founders' times.
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And heavy things fall faster than lighter things! Right?
Oh wait, intuition can and is very often wrong. Particularly with respect to complex phenomenon such as the human immune system.
It's showing up for me in Google Translate:

http://i.imgur.com/8rPf8.png

Try http://translate.google.com instead of the Language Tools interface.
How did you get that link to work? Whenever I link to a ft.com link it brings up a request for me to subscribe to something. But your link worked fine.
If you read a book a couple more times, you'll remember a lot more.
Another point to add to this, I read many articles online every day and given the vague task of recalling these articles and what I took away from them I couldn't. But if I'm discussing a topic or listening to a talk on something everything relevant I've read feels front of mind again and allows me to draw new conclusions from what I've read that I wasn't really able to earlier without them all front on mind.

Really handy when, In a lot of topics relating to the kind of topics frequently on hacker news I can have long and insightful conversations with people where I have plenty to contribute myself.
Using a screenreader? Hrmm. I'm not sure if that'll be easy to do.
Upvotes for the phrase "... a scroll bar the size of a chickpea".
The funny thing is that I can tell more stories about shady postdocs and mediocre post-docs than I can about fantastic postdocs. Of all the journal articles with results that are mysteriously difficult to reproduce, most of them that I've come across have been from shady postdocs.

One of the reasons I shied away from academia is the nature of the workforce, and how you have to treat them to get tenure.
Interesting observation. It's very subtle, but potentially important.

As for myself, I don't think there's a big difference. I use Google Instant just to help me form my queries, because my query changes as I see the intermediate results. The paid results and the first organic results help me see if my query really is going to give me the most relevant results, otherwise I try modifying the query a little bit. When I'm done with that phase I click search, which removes the suggestion box, finalizes the results, and then I scroll down and open whatever results appear promising.
Reducing the traditional ten-button numeric keypad for entering your access code can be simplified for law enforcement use by removing nine of the buttons.

Unfortunately, this LE optimization also eases the effort required by the burglars.

Or requiring WEP encryption.

Or requiring that all passkeys be registered, and all be stored on an LE database, and where a nefarious user can capture hundreds or thousands of keys...
Smoke weed.
I know someone who does that, reads it so fast the first time that I don't think they fully take it in then will go back and reread if it's worth it.

Personally I like to go at a pace where I can make all the connections and take what I want from it the first time, then move onto something else.
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Yes, it's a fair point. I guess I would say it seems like this proposed law is about creating wiretappability in general services like Facebook, Skype, etc.

There's really no way to prevent people from sending privately-encrypted data over this network though. I think the government just wants the ability to catch the lazy criminals who don't avail themselves of that kind of thing.
Perhaps the real fear is the community degrading the way of Digg or Reddit? Personally, I chuckled at the comment. However the thought of HN being overrun by hordes of interwebz meme spitting, boob picture posting trolls did cross my mind. One thing that holds true for any community...don't feed the trolls.
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Maybe because it's the financial times blog instead of the actual financial times.
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There's been quite a lot of UX research on this, and the concept of "the fold" simply doesn't exist for webpages. People scroll and scan, even the least knowledgeable ones.
I thought that was supposed to be marble. Of course, to be complete, they should use only capitals and apply an emboss effect.
Google has two goals with Instant... first, they want to improve the user experience by offering inline suggestions - makes sense - I like that part.

What they're not advertising is that Google is dealing with the same decreased CTR and advertising revenue that the rest of the Internet is. In an effort to seem as user-centric as possible, they've introduced a user friendly feature with a refinement that increases the CTR on their ads.

This isn't a shocking move, it's a sign of the web to come. What's really disappointing is that Google isn't devoting more time to coming up with different ad units and testing more creative ways to encourage users to click. The online ad industry is stagnant - advertisers and publishers are scared to make changes. Google isn't any different.
If you are afraid that you don't know what your code is doing, that's reason enough right there to spent some time working on it. You should never get into that situation.
Science is very difficult, frustrating and time consuming. The reason we bother with it is that human intuition is remarkably bad at most things.

You should just admit that you are making medical decisions about complex phenomenon based on vague feelings. Why do we even bother studying immunology? Let's just ask how camworld is feeling today!
What about names? I cannot remember the names of main characters from a book I read last week.
The smallest RIP is probably Africa, and if it has /23 and if magamiako is right:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1743268

and every /48 goes to every home user, that means that you can't ever have more than 33 million home users in Africa! (512 * 64 * 1024) The 33 million limit is why for me seemed "obvious" that /48 doesn't go to "every man on Earth." Does anybody know something more exact than what's written in Wikipedia article? Some real example how the space is going to be distributed? That was why I started this thread, and sadly still most of the answers are hand-waving "it's big, don't care," even if that doesn't carry any real information.
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Funny, I send books to my Kindle wirelessly all the time in standby mode, and when I wake it, they're already there. Perhaps you're confusing standby (displaying an image, from either the ~4sec power button push or inactivity timeout) with the off setting (~15sec power button push).
Nope, I'm a programmer. I just don't like brightly colored notification icons all over my GNOME taskbar. They're distracting - looks (and discoverability, and other UI aspects) directly affect usability, I'm surprised you say you don't get that.

As a counterpoint to your argument, I'd say OS X has more professional UI designers than Windows or the Linux OSs and is generally regarded as being more usable too.
> green ball

This is the first time I've heard this term; is it common to the Northeast, or where you're from, or what?
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Lets say that there are some licensed specialists who have tools that enable them to open your car door when you have locked your keys in it. These tools are illegal for anyone but the specialists to own or carry. That legal nicety isn't sufficient protection against thieves using the same tools as the specialist.
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Check it out at http://www.activeinboxhq.com

In short, it creates a better Gmail to help you: 1) get your inbox empty, 2) ensure everything gets completed, 3) do things faster in Gmail.

At its heart, it transforms emails into a flow of actions. It uses GTD principles in Gmail for great control, and adds neat efficiency shortcuts like Previous Emails to write better replies.

This is the public beta. We have a long history... but really briefly, a hobby turned into a full-time uISV about a year ago when we received $20,000 in donations - and realized the support it had! And the potential to do something really interesting to bring emailer's peace of mind. If I can share any extra info that would be of interest, please just ask. (I don't know if that's a good or bad number for donations, but I'm really mindful that we're still in a very humble place).

Would love your fresh eyes to give that great and honest HN feedback on the website, ActiveInbox and anything else that grabs your attention :)