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I just can't see myself seriously considering buying an Android phone sold by, and supported by, a carrier (or, really, even a third-party manufacturer). I don't want to buy a phone with an awful, slow, gaudy interface tacked on, I don't want a phone that ships with a bunch of sponsored crap, and I don't want to discover that my carrier has no intention of providing timely software updates (if they plan on providing software updates at all).

All of this "openness" is worthless when the carriers are the bottleneck. The only serious choice for someone who knows better (at least in my opinion) is the Nexus One, which Google only sells to developers and only ships from the US. Google talks the talk about how great a job their partners are doing, but I can't imagine the Android team is happy with the current situation.

Say what you will about Apple, but my iPhone 3G is still officially supported and will be until next June. Good luck getting 3 years of updates from a carrier.
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Honestly, I've only ever seen that when they're rushing to get people boarded because of delays. Most of the time the planes are clean.
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Well, if my Latin knowledge hasn't abandoned me -um is the ending for masculine words whereas -a is used for feminine words. I suppose the proper plural of Pentium would be Pentii :p
Looks like they killed it ... all these addresses say "record not found". And, when you run a new search, you get a more standard address, e.g. search for IBM, the address is http://www.crunchbase.com/search?query=IBM
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I don't see the problem here. If they allowed anyone to submit a title without any backing from a trusted name or company, or without it already being a working title, the quality of the site would soon drop off a cliff.
This direct link to the post seems to give a page-not-found, even though I can read the post via the index page at http://gwolf.org/blog
Well, it's very simple. The "if" is the key to it. IF 1 were greater than 2 AND 2 were greater then 3, THEN 1 would be greater than three. Since neither 1>2 nor 2>3 is true, 1>3 is not required to be true by the transitivity property. If I am taller than you and you are taller than your mother, then I am taller than your mother. If either of the assumptions is broken, the conclusion does not hold.
Makes me proud to be Norwegian. Haven't seen stuff like this from our country before, let's hope this opens a flood gate of creativity and cutting edge web development!
Yes, certainly. My point was "if everyone did as Debian does, publishing software would become an enormous chore". I didn't mean to slight Gentoo/FreeBSD - or, for that matter, Red Hat or the others.
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What does "many, many decades old" mean? You do realize that there are people living in houses in Europe that have existed longer than the US has been a country, right?

You do live in disposable houses. Have you seen how a house in the US is built? The walls are made of what are called 2"x4"s [1], spaced 1.5' apart. If you've ever been to Lowes or one of those kinds of places and seen insulation you'll see why. Insulation comes in big rolls 1.5' wide. Once the insulation is in sheetrock is put on the inside and blackboard on the outside. If the home is a brick it will then have bricks laid in front of the blackboard with a strip of plastic in between because of the moisture, otherwise they just put siding on.

And that's it. When I explain this to people in Europe the reaction is always the same. First they look at me like they don't believe me, then they exclaim "so that's why they always fall over in high winds". There is a story over here about a German who build a German-style home on the east coast. When the inevitable hurricane came the only damage his home suffered was from the debris of the cheap American homes that fell apart hitting his house.

[1] It's actually 1.5"x3.5". I believe they are counting the eventual siding as part of the size.
they also did an actual demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwhG6LggOQU
Bear in mind that this planet is supposed to be in the habitable zone. There are three known planets within the solar system's habitable zone - Venus, Earth and Mars. Only one of them has any confirmed life.
Thanks! The account enables a person to save names. It is not needed to use the site, but maybe it does put people off. I'll check.

I emailed quite a few blows and other sites, but I think I never really got through. I could try again, I guess.
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Wouldn't that have the problem of people in one area wanting more expensive things than the other?
coming back after the fact and saying "I know you got a sweet deal on those IP addresses when they were going cheap but we've run out and want them back so we're going to charge you extra" isn't really going to fly. You could argue the same case with domain squatters, or real estate, but it just can't work that way. You could buy them back -- at a premium of course.
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Google Translate adds an interesting effect if you translate something into Latin. Also, "Latin" in Latin is translated as "English"
CMUCL, dealing with a similar infinitely-dynamic problem in Lisp, had a similar approach but dealt with it on a block-of-code level instead of per-function. You could declare a block to be compiled together, and any calls between functions in the block would be treated as having a promise that you'd never redef them without recompiling the whole block, so they could be statically optimized with respect to each other.

Not sure if that's a better or worse approach overall. It probably depends on the structure of your program. One nice feature was that the same function could be static from some perspectives and not from others--- to functions in the same compilation block it was static, but functions from outside that block that called it treated it as non-static, and would immediately get the new version if, say, that whole block were recompiled. That let you make the core code optimized by sticking it in one big compilation block, while not changing the normal dynamic Lisp semantics of the block when viewed from the perspective of any outside function.
I'm not sure this is the case. If you had said Silicon Valley or New York I might have agreed but otherwise I think there are places in Europe that pay more than much of the US. At least in Finance.
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I think the article made it clear that IPv4 is running out of addresses DESPITE using NAT heavily.

As far as reclaiming large A blocks is concerned, I read somewhere that we are exhausting addresses equivalent to an A-class block in 5 weeks. Easy to see that we are going to need a long-term solution anyhow.
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Wow, he got a lawyer to invoke Godwin's law.

Clearly he doesn't understand what the purpose of facebook is, or internet netiquette for that matter. I always felt that Facebook is in an eternal september, I guess this just supports that notion.
RIM used to be creative, BlackBerry devices used to be a game-changer - where did all that innovative thinking go? I like Apple products, but hate to see every other company just following what Apple is doing and not coming up with their own WOW concepts. I mean, the future of mobile devices can't be just the tablets, aren't there any other possibilities?

Sorry BlackBerry fans, I can't help but feel distasteful of the PlayBook.
I'd bet money that a Digg user is far more monetizable than a Reddit user.

So I'd say Revenue is the best metric to compare, but I'm skeptical Reddit will ever make much money - their users are spending all their cash on weed.
I don't think you can draw that conclusion. The Reddit guys (IMHO) have made some bad decisions (Using Amazon for a start), but that doesn't necessarily mean there are too few of them.
I play backgammon. My father-in-law introduced me to Tavli two years ago and thoroughly beat me. I decided that the next time I saw him I would win (we live on opposite sides of Europe so I don't see him as much as I'd like). I practiced backgammon and learnt how to play properly. It's better than draughts, but easier and more fast paced than chess.

You can also download it for free from http://www.gnubg.org/ or play online (also for free, reg required) at http://www.gamesgrid.com/

If any HN'ers want to play some time I'm happy to have a game. If there's enough interest I'd be happy to run a backgammon school on a sunday for people to learn the basics and a little strategy.
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I'm not joining the battle on which country is more efficient but I do think it is important that you can disconnect from work with vacation/holiday. Born in the US and now living in Europe for over 6 years I've worked in both environments. I do have to say when returning from a long vacation you are ready to hit the ground running with your batteries fully charged.
ah.that's a wise explanation .i even realised that it's just a fundamental law and not a theorem.anyways you made it clear.
You can set a few other parameters like your size, too. Unfortunately, no one else can see it. I was the biggest sperm you never saw.
I used to think there was a HackerNews community, I used to think that I was a member of it, and I used to be proud to be such.

Seeing this comment get downvoted and its parent upvoted with what I can only view as teenaged boys giggling over some smut, I see that there is no single, coherent community with a shared core of beliefs and standards. And maturity. It's a painful lesson.
I would say Yahoo is a bit overvalued, or one can say that market still thinks Yahoo can grow/recover.

It is over 2 on Price to tangible Book(I do not really count much goodwill in Yahoo brand), over 20 on P/E.

I am not a pro, so perhaps I am missing something in Yahoo.
You could hypothetically charge a small yearly fee for each IP Address owned. Of course there would be lots of financial hurdles with this approach.
The difference in house quality also has other effects. In the US the insulation is poor enough that you probably have to have either AC or heating on year round. In our house we don't even have AC (never missed it) and the temperature has to remain below 0C for a few days before we have to turn the heater on (or we can just invite a bunch of friends over).
Anybody knows how the 128 bits in the addresses are really going to be allocated? If everybody gets "lower 64-bit for a subnet," and every device simply considers that it should allow that the subnet is whatever is a slave of it, we end up using only the upper part, and then if you again give big chunks of upper 64 bits to different entities like it happened with IPv4, there's still real chance that even if the space is big it remains inefficient, especially if upper 64 bits are separated to encode some special assumptions about routing or whatever. Is there any text about this whole subject, which just doesn't brag that 128 bits is "a lot?"
Go is picking up traction with Real Companies doing Real Things. I can say that it's now being taken seriously within Google, and is being used for some production services there.

I've also been in correspondence with one group at another company who have written close over 50k lines of Go code for their storage infrastructure. They're very happy with it. (Just rooting for a better garbage collector; it's coming.)

Despite its familiar appearance, Go represents a different approach to programming in general. One that I find personally refreshing, and it seems to be catching on.
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djb's description here: http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/ipv6mess.html is pretty good too...
Those are some pretty big assumptions. But, even if only 64 bits were used, that's still enough space for every human on earth to have 2.75 billion IPv6 addresses.
Amen. I've learned the hard way that a few pixels difference in a hitbox makes the difference between them sticking till the end or quitting in frustration from dying unfairly and leaving you a 1/5.
Apart from the obvious fact that this is a very cool finding, I have to say I love the term "Goldilocks zone". I wonder if we can misappropriate it for other uses.
Does that actually happen in the game industry? Admittedly, to some extent that's the treatment Will Wright got from EA when Maxis was acquired (they weren't 100% hands off, but he could win basically any concessions he cared enough about), but there aren't very many people with Will Wright level freedom at big studios.
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Only if there are no distribution rules in upper 64 bits, which is not going to happen. That's why I'd like to know the planned allocation process. Do you know anything about it? I posted my question to get exactly that info.
Lisp was always multi-paradigm and supported functional programming.

I'm also not sure I'd go as far as to say "restricts" as much as demarcates. Composing existing code has been vary difficult in imperative languages (practically impossible when you have to deal with things like memory management and/or threading).
> implying each device needs its own IPv4 address.

This implication is basically correct, actually. Sure, not every machine needs to be a server, but every people should have at least one. Everyone should have his own mail server. Every blogger should have his own web server. And so on. It's just a matter of basic civil liberties, like privacy and free speech, which currently aren't fully enabled, because most people don't have the amount of control they should have.

If we let giant NAT routers spread further, such control will be effectively impossible. Even for computer nerds. Even for owners of a freedom box[1].

As a side note, the correct response for security is not using giant NAT routers. It's getting rid of Windows.

[1]: http://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox
I agree. The sentence a few paragraphs in tells a very different story to the headline:

IMDb told the team that if a movie is not set up with a production company with a history of theatrically released movies, getting it listed at the early stages of development would not be possible

The reasoning didn't have much to do with it being released via bitTorrent only.
I think that people that don't need to work, but instead do it for the passion of the work are the exact type of people that should work at Valve.
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"Google CEO Eric Schmidt appears to believe that Twitter will coin money someday. Google should buy Twitter even if it thinks Twitter will never make money, merely as a way to get into the social-network business. But if Google thinks that Twitter will eventually bring home the bacon, then all the more reason to grab it."

The opposite is also true.

If Twitter will "switch on" revenue at some point in the near future perhaps it is better to wait and avoid paying at some insane pre-revenue valuation.
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how long it will be when people start making 90's style HTML websites again?
But even Hitler's sham courts gave defendants a chance to reply to the charges. Facebook justice more resembles the Taliban's.

says the US american "military expert". Fact is, the Sharia allows the accused to defend himself. I am not saying that I think the Sharia is good, but linked article contains gusting fear-mongering.
I think this kind of thinking can easily be scaled also to more abstract parts of projects than the code and infrastructure itself. A core part of the design process of any app is to decide what it will and what it won't do, and these kinds of decisions also involve how easily the decision can be reversed. For example, if one needs to change Twitter to allow arbitrary message lengths, that would probably be completely trivial, if done ahead of time, but since it is part of the core of what Twitter is, the message length limit is probably assumed in a lot of places in the code.

I think the most difficult decisions to make in a project is what to make reversible and what to make easily changable. Abstraction often carries a cost, performance wise or otherwise.
I found the movie's funding model far more interesting than the spin about why IMDb.
+1 for Minecraft! Problem is, once you start building something there, you just can't stop until it's ready.
If he had been directed to create a Fan page instead of a regular user account, he would have been OK. Maybe Facebook needs to be more proactive in diverting new users who are promoting themselves or their works to the appropriate type of account.
As a side note, the web developer toolbar in FF (and maybe chrome, I haven't checked) is able to do this.
Again, I'm not saying Java-the-language is bad. Java can be the best tool in a programmer's toolbox for many things. But, overwhelmingly, Java schools make Java programmers that only wield the Java hammer on every nail they find.

If your first language is PHP, or ActionScript, or Perl, it is very likely that you picked it up on your own—and thus are interested in the topic of programming in general, and will continue to learn from there, picking up bits of programming theory and new languages as you go. However, if your first language is Java, you learned it in school, because that's what they taught—you didn't yearn for anything more—and then there was a big bubble of EE employers ready and waiting to insulate you from the rest of the programming universe. Straight out of school, you start work for one Java company, and then transition to another, and pretty soon you're 32 and don't know what a combinator is or how you could possibly implement something like the JVM.

Having attended one of these Java schools for a semester, I can guarantee you that no one who graduated from there will ever learn another language. They know what they know, and they're happy with that. That what they know is Java is immaterial, except that that means that only knowing Java, by Bayes' law, becomes a positively-weighted-feature in the detection of these work-a-day programmers who need to be avoided at all costs if one wants to hire in a startup.
Linking this with the IPv6 stuff currently on the front page: note that none of this would be necessary if the clients were running IPv6 (or otherwise un-NAT-ed) - the server could simply send them a UDP packet or even open a TCP connection.
Again I feel reminded of this quote: you can't con an honest man.
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Yeah, not sure what happened there. You can also see it here: http://planet.debian.org/ - as well as Lucas' post, which got completely ignored here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1739384
Thiel doesn't need the liquid money and has no reason not to signal that he values the stock extremely highly.
Indeed, a quick glance at online calculators indicates it's pretty horrific, i.e. that he'd be lucky to see more than 35% of gross, assuming that sole props get whacked for employer taxes too, which I'd expect to avoid a simple loophole.
There's a saying in Spanish (haven't read it or heard it an English) which translates to: "you can't cover the sun with a finger." It means you shouldn't pretend to be solving huge problems by, in some ways, denying them and doing too little.

However practical this solution may be (it's definitely clever), it does not really address the biggest problem--our increasing dependence on fossil fuels. It is creating more than just climatic problems (pollution, wars, etc), so why not find hacks to alleviate such "addiction" and kill many birds with one stone.

I think we should promote hacks when they address the root of a problem--otherwise you create a bigger mess in the long run, but then, would they still be called hacks?
Yup, as article commenters point out, this blog post is wrong for comparing Google VCs to a Facebook angel investor instead of comparing the Google angel investors.
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And it wasn't incorrect either. -um is the ending for neutrums (actually neutra) and -a is the plural thereof.
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No, not every registration page needs a checkbox asking if the user is a journalist. The vast majority of your users are not journalists, so do not burden them with another checkbox that they'll most likely ignore. If the issue is opting out of marketing emails, provide an opt-out checkbox. It's that simple.
Interesting post -- I've come to appreciate linuxgazette as a pretty good resource.

As a minor sidenote, I personally think 4 spaces for indentation makes the code more readable.
I quite don't see what he's complaining about. Maybe he should've properly learned about all the features of Facebook that help promoting commercial products (Fan Pages, FB Ads)..
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That is not the issue with him obviously, but a few reasons why he would sell:

a) bring liquidity to the secondary market

b) realize some of his gains and book them for his funds figures for this year

c) hedge against facebook being at its peak. so eg. if he believes that there is a 10% chance facebook is at its peak now, he can then work out what % to sell to realize max gains based on risk assessment (Thiel is after all a hedge fund manager).
The issue isn't opting out of marketing emails, its the opportunity lost from not identifying journalists correctly. There are often multi-selects / checkboxes asking if you are a 'Student/Decision Maker/Developer' (particularly for enterprise software) so adding an additional one in many cases wouldn't be superfluous.
I should write more on this, but I'm thinking the world needs a super project to solve/build together to learn to work together. Only when the world works together will the root of all problems start to fade and become solvable.